Seventeen Arts & Humanities projects receive grants to advance scholarship, research and creative interests
The Research & Innovation Office (RIO) Arts & Humanities Grant Program announced nearly $95,000 in combined fundingڴǰ17 projectsexploring topics in disciplines from Asian languages and environmental design to composition and Classics.
The RIO Arts & Humanities Grant Program is 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 requested by April 15 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
2024 Arts & Humanities Grantees
- Marjorie Burge (Asian Languages & Civilizations): Digital Man'yōshū': Mapping Japan's Oldest Poetry Collection
- Caitlin Charlet (Environmental Design, CMCI): Undesigning the Sustainability Narrative: Exploring the Underrepresentation of Women in Sustainable Design through a Multicultural and Regional Lens
- Lauren Collins (Center for Asian Studies): Review, Reinterpret, Reimagine: Improving Archiving Practices of Western Colonial-era Photographs of Southeast Asia (1850s-1950s) in American Academic Libraries
- Molly Valentine Dierks (Art & Art History): Intimacy Coordinator (Controlled Environment)
- Christian Hammons (Anthropology, Critical Media Practices): Mauna Kea: Where Sky and Land Meet
- Leigh Holman (Voice, College of Music): Jake Heggie and the Rise in Prominence of American Opera in the 21st Century
- Sarah James (Classics): Studying Greek and Italian Material Culture from an Iron Age Hillfort Site on the Island of Brač, Croatia
- Tomas Laurenzo Coronel (Critical Media Practices, CMCI): Capturing Collective Memories of the Disappeared with Artificial Intelligence
- Grace Leslie (College of Music, ATLAS): Vessels at the Tank
- Jeanne Liotta (Cinema Studies): Fossilgrams for the Revolution
- Nathan Mertens (College of Music): Resonance of Change: Anthony R. Green's Saxophone Concerto
- Dimitri Nakassis (Classics): The Western Argolid Regional Project, 2024 Study Season
- Crystal Nelson (Art & Art History): The Audacity of Pleasure: Race, Aesthetics and the Politics of Feeling Good
- Omedi Ochieng (Communication, CMCI): Keywords for a Black Ecology
- Jeanne Quinn (Art & Art History): True Mirror
- Annika Socolofsky (College of Music): Electronic Music Production for Development and Premiere of "Detective Convention" with Slagwerk Den Haag at the Gaudeamus Muziekweek Festival in Utrecht, The Netherlands
- Benjamin Teitelbaum (Musicology, International Affairs): Why is Silicon Valley Talking About the Antichrist?