HUMANITIES FOCUS GRANT
AWARDS
Division of Education Programs
Announced: July 2001
ALABAMA
Miles College, Birmingham (Outright: $11,912)
Contact: Robert Cassanello, (205) 929-1674
Project: Incorporating Global History
Description: A planning effort involving faculty members
in the Division of Social and Behavioral Science to infuse the history
curriculum with global themes and topics.
University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa (Outright: $24,857)
Contacts: B. Joyce Stallworth and Elizabeth K. Wilson,
(205) 348-1415
Project: Alabama: Focus on Civil Rights
Description: A professional and curriculum development
for teachers from a high school in Holt, Alabama, concentrating on the
history of the Civil Rights Movement and its impact on the state of Alabama
and the nation.
CALIFORNIA
California State University, Dominguez Hills (Outright:
$25,000)
Contact: Joyce Johnson, (310) 243-3935
Project: A Centennial Celebration of Black Arts and Culture:
The Harlem Renaissance Revisited
Description: A project including two symposia on the
Harlem Renaissance and a yearlong series of faculty meetings to develop
diaspora-related curricula.
California State University, Northridge (Outright: $25,000)
Contacts: Lisa Abend and Jeffrey Auerbach, (818) 677-2577
Project: Global Encounters: Introducing World History
to California State University, Northridge
Description: A series of workshops and related activities
designed to support the development of new survey course on modern world
history.
Claremont Graduate University, Claremont (Outright: $25,000)
Contact: Ann Taves, (909) 626-3521
Project: Understanding Islam
Description: A series of three workshops (comprised of
guest lecturers, faculty seminars, and assigned readings) aimed at enhancing
faculty knowledge of Islam.
San Francisco State University, San Francisco (Outright:
$25,000)
Contact: Paul K. Longmore, (415) 338-3382
Project: Greater San Francisco Bay Area Inter-University
Consortium on Disability Studies
Description: A consortium among three San Francisco Bay
Area universities as a first step in the creation of cooperative Disabilities
Studies programs.
University of Judaism, Los Angeles (Outright: $24,999)
Contact: Lois Oppenheim, (310) 440-1256
Project: Integrating the Jewish Perspective in a Liberal
Arts Core Curriculum
Description: The development of three new courses integrating
Jewish perspectives into the institutions Liberal Arts core curriculum.
DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA
Gallaudet University, Washington, DC (Outright: $24,985)
Contact: Dirksen Bauman, (202) 651-5401
Project: Deaf Studies Curriculum Development Project
Description: A series of panel discussions and follow-up
sessions among Gallaudet faculty and outside scholars to prepare for the
launching of a graduate program in Deaf Studies.
FLORIDA
School District of Lee County, Fort Myers (Outright:
$24,952)
Contact: Brenda Sims Palmer, (941) 461-5322
Project: Dunbar: A Microcosm of Communities in Transition
Description: A series of five seminars and a summer institute
on communities in transition for eleven language arts and social studies
teachers at Dunbar High School.
ILLINOIS
DePaul University, Chicago (Outright: $24,900)
Contact: Jacqueline Taylor, (773) 325-4580
Project: Critical Race Theory in the Humanities
Description: A seminar on critical race theory which
will engage faculty drawn from across DePaul University in reading and
discussion designed to challenge unexamined assumptions about race and
the humanities.
Newberry Library, Chicago (Outright: $25,000)
Contact: Tobias Higbie, (312) 255-3568
Project: Work and Community History Workshop
Description: A workshop on work and community history
for secondary school teachers and librarians at the Newberry Librarys
Scholl Center for Community and Family History.
University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign (Outright: $25,000)
Contact: Peter Fritzche, (217) 244-2075
Project: The Undergraduate History Core in a Global Age
Description: A yearlong faculty seminar series on nine
themes in global and transnational history.
University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign (Outright: $24,998)
Contact: Paul Zeleza, (217) 333-6335
Project: Curricular Development Seminar in African Studies
Description: A faculty study program focusing on African
studies and the changing intellectual and disciplinary contexts for research
and teaching in the field.
INDIANA
Ball State University, Muncie (Outright: $24,701)
Contact: Kenneth Hall, (765) 285-8709
Project: World History Community Outreach Project
Description: A series of professional development seminars
and curriculum development workshops on world civilizations for twelve
teachers from Indiana.
IOWA
Kirkwood Community College, Cedar Rapids (Outright: $24,986)
Contact: John Wortman, (319) 398-5411
Project: Journey to the East: Encounters with Chinese
Philosophy, Film, and Fiction
Description: A one-year faculty development project engaging
Kirkwood faculty with visiting scholars to explore the conflicts between
tradition and modernism in China through the lenses of film, literature,
and philosophy.
MARYLAND
Community College of Baltimore, Baltimore (Outright:
$24,339)
Contact: Linda Zeidman, (410) 780-6392
Project: Womens Studies in Community Colleges
Description: A faculty study project for thirteen faculty
members on the three campuses of the Community College of Baltimore County
to recent scholarship in womens studies.
Prince Georges Community College, Largo (Outright:
$25,000)
Contact: Alicia Juarrero, (301) 322-0948
Project: Aristotle and a World of Wonder
Description: A yearlong faculty seminar to explore Aristotles
works and contributions to Western thought.
MASSACHUSETTS
Five Colleges, Inc., Amherst (Outright: $25,000)
Contact: Neal Salisbury, (413) 585-3726
Project: The American Revolution and American Peoples:
A Comparative Inquiry
Description: A series of workshops for teachers from
four western Massachusetts school districts on new approaches to the American
Revolution.
MONTANA
Montana State University, Billings (Outright: $25,000)
Contact: St. John Robinson, (406) 657-2966
Project: Cultural Survival of Native Americans Through
Religion, Art and Story
Description: A series of faculty seminars on Native American
cultural survival in North America and Latin America.
Piegan Institute, Browning (Outright: $25,000)
Contact: Lori Falcon, (406) 338-3518
Project: Blackfeet Language and History
Description: A series of seminars and discussion sessions
identifying up-to-date humanities resources to be integrated into an experimental
language immersion program on the Blackfeet Indian Reservation.
Salish Kootenai College, Pablo (Outright: $24,590)
Contact: Gerald D. Slater, (406) 675-4800
Project: Salish Culture Leadership Project
Description: A four-quarter Salish Cultural Leadership
training program to educate twelve new cultural leaders in Salish language,
culture, and customs.
NEW HAMPSHIRE
University of New Hampshire, Durham (Outright: $25,000)
Contact: Brigette Bailey, (603) 862-3795
Project: American Studies Focus Grants
Description: A faculty study project with visiting scholars
to explore new scholarship and to develop a new American studies major.
NEW YORK
Bard Graduate Center for Studies in the Decorative Arts, Design
and Culture, New York (Outright: $25,000)
Contact: Elizabeth Barlow Rogers, (212) 501-3064
Project: Landscape as Cultural Expression
Description: Planning activities aimed at identifying
strategies and resources for strengthening the humanities content of a
new program in Garden History and Landscape Studies at the Bard Graduate
Center.
Theatre for a New Audience, New York (Outright: $25,000)
Contact: Jennifer Donello, (212) 229-2819
Project: Scholars and Teachers: In-Depth Staff Development
on Teaching Shakespeare
Description: A series of six workshops on Shakespeare's
Cymbeline for thirty teachers at Meyer Levin Intermediate School, a performing
arts middle school in Brooklyn.
University of Rochester, Rochester (Outright: $25,000)
Contact: Nancy P. Chin, (716) 275-9780
Project: Narrative in Medical Education: Integrating
Humanities Understanding in the Patient Interview
Description: The re-design of a core introductory course
in clinical medicine at the institutions medical school in order
to integrate humanistic texts and methods of narrative analysis.
NORTH CAROLINA
Davidson College, Davidson (Outright: $24,500)
Contact: Jonathan Berkey, (704) 894-2529
Project: Cultures and Civilizations
Description: A faculty development seminar to involve
a group of teachers in the introduction of a new two-semester sequential
course on history and civilizations to be offered in the Humanities Program
at Davidson College.
Mars Hill College, Mars Hill (Outright: $24,959)
Contact: Carol B. Boggess, (828) 689-1189
Project: Rethinking Regionalism and Regional Studies
at Mars Hill College
Description: A series of seminars and workshops designed
to explore new interdisciplinary approaches to regionalism, particularly
in southern Appalachia, and to review and revise the Regional Studies
Program.
NORTH DAKOTA
Lake Region State College, Devils Lake (Outright:
$25,000)
Contact: Sam A. Johnson, (701) 662-1527
Project: Native Voices: A Study of Native American Life
and Literature
Description: A yearlong exploration of Native American
works of literature, undertaken by school teachers in Devils Lake,
with faculty members at nearby Lake Region State College and several guest
authors.
OHIO
Bowling Green State University, Bowling Green (Outright:
$25,000)
Contact: Lucy Long, (419) 372-7862
Project: Food and Food Traditions: A Humanities Perspective
Description: A faculty study project of a variety of
humanities perspectives on food and foodways.
RHODE ISLAND
Brown University, Providence (Outright: $25,000)
Contact: Wanni W. Anderson, (401) 863-7588
Project: Northwest Alaska High School Development Project
Description: Workshops for Inupiaq Eskimo teachers and
Euro-American teachers from the Northwest Arctic School District to introduce
a new collection of regional folktales as high school instructional materials.
UTAH
University of Utah, Salt Lake City (Outright: $24,993)
Contact: Rebecca Horn, (801) 581-5294
Project: The Reorientation of Latin American Studies
at the University of Utah
Description: A yearlong faculty seminar to study Latin
America diaspora communities and future institutional directions for Latin
American studies.
VIRGINIA
George Mason University, Fairfax (Outright: $24,596)
Contact: Marion Deshmukh, (703) 993-2149
Project: Teaching Historical Literacies: Using Primary
Sources as Learning Tools in Western Civilization
Description: A faculty development project to consider
how best to teach the discovery, analysis, and interpretation of primary
sources as part of a redesigned Western Civilization core course.
University of Virgnia, Charlottesville (Outright: $25,000)
Contact: Johanna Drucker, (804) 243-8861
Project: Digital Humanities Curriculum Development
Description: A series of faculty seminars to develop
a Masters of Arts degree in Digital Humanities.
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