Nineteen Arts & Humanities projects awarded grants to advance scholarship, research and creative pursuits
A new Research & Innovation Office (RIO) program is providing nearly $100K in combined funding to 19 projects that span disciplines ranging from music and art history to journalism and theatre and dance.
“I’m encouraged by the strong interest in RIO’s first dedicated Arts & Humanities grant program,” said Massimo Ruzzene, vice chancellor for research and innovation and dean of the institutes. “The funding will help scholars and artists forge new creative pathways toward a more connected and inclusive world."
This pilot opportunity was inspired by recognition of the essential role of the arts and humanities at CU Boulder, including inspiring deeper connections with others, welcoming multiple and diverse perspectives, and contemplating what it means to be human.
Applications for the program were submitted in May and subsequently reviewed and ranked by arts and humanities faculty based on the following criteria:
- Significance/value of the project to arts, humanities and/or humanistic social sciences
- Potential of the project to contribute to the field(s) (and potentially beyond)
- Appropriate proposal for use of funds
- How the project will impact the applicant’s career development
- Appropriate evaluation to assess the project’s success
- Qualifications of the applicant(s) and relevance of those qualifications to the project
RIO will evaluate the inaugural program’s effectiveness throughout the life of the awarded projects and anticipates offering the Arts & Humanities Grant Program in the future depending on the success of the program and availability of funding.
- Eric Coombs Esmail (Critical Media Practices): Leo Sacer: Documentary Approaches to Ecological Violence
- Celine Dauverd (History): All the Kings of the Mediterranean: The Papacy and the Conquest of North Africa, 1450-1620
- John Gilbert (Classics): Newly Discovered Fragments of Ancient Greek Tragedy
- Miriam Kadia (History): Friends in High Places: The 1988 China-Japan-Nepal Traverse of Everest
- Marina Kassianidou (Art & Art History): A Partial History of Touch: Volume I
- Thea Lindquist (Center for Research Data and Digital Scholarship): Data-Driven Analysis of the Publication Patterns and Networks of Fruchtbringende Gesellschaft Members
- Henry Lovejoy (History): MigratingSlaveryImages.orgfrom OmekaS to the RegID Content Management System
- Dimitri Nakassis (Classics): The Pylos Tablets Digital Project 2023
- Jeffrey Nytch (College of Music): Concerto for Contrabassoon and Orchestra
- Megan O'Grady (Art & Art History)
- Thomas Pegelow Kaplan (History & Program in Jewish Studies): The Language of Nazi Genocide: Book Translation Project Into Russian
- Kevin Rich (Theatre & Dance): Applied Shakespeare in Japan: Shakespeare in Japanese Education, Community and New Work
- Kelly Sears (Cinema Studies): The Lost Season
- Natasha Shrikant (Communication): Discourse Analysis of Multilingual Focus Groups with Refugees: Implications for Design of Multilingual Literacy Spaces in Denver Public Libraries
- Stephanie Su (Art & Art History): History Painting Crossing Borders: A Transnational History of Modern Art in Early 20th Century China and Japan
- Joel Swanson (ATLAS): The United States of America, Reconfigured
- Ross Taylor (Journalism): "Mango House" Documentary Film Distribution
- Michael Theodore (Composition): Fine-Tuning the Future
- Emilie Upczak (Cinema Studies): SILT Digital Exhibit