Grants and Fellowships awarded by the Center for the Humanities and listed below have been funded from the generous donations of URI alumni and friends to the Center’s URI Foundation endowments.
Grants Awarded, 2023-24
Humanities Faculty Research Grant Award
Joy Ellison, Gender & Women’s Studies, “Disabled and Transgender: The History of an American Movement”
Annu Palakunnathu Matthew, Art & Art History, “SHELTERED: The Italians Who Saved the Escaped Indian Prisoners”
Luis Viquez Cordoba, Music, “Purchase of Orchestral Conducting Critical Editions/Music Scores for Study”
Michael Ortiz, History, “The People’s Olympiad and the Spanish Civil War”
Kyuhyun Han, History, “Seeing the Forest Like a State: Forest Management, Wildlife Conservation, and Center-Periphery Relations in Northeast China, 1949-1988″
Humanities Faculty Subvention Grant Award
Peter Covino, English, “What Sex is Death: Selected Poems of Dario Bellezza”
Michelangelo La Luna, Italian, “Dante a Harvard: Commentary on the Divine Comedy by Falso Boccaccio”
Christine Mok, English, “Once in the Countryside: A Collection of Play by Lloyd Suh,” edited by Christine Mok
James Haile III, Philosophy/English, “The Dark Delight of Being Strange: Stories”
David Faflik, English, “Plus Minas: Brazil’s Beautiful Game in Crisis Times”
Sarah Eron, English, “Routledge Companion to Eighteenth-Century Literatures in English”
Humanities Graduate Research Grant Award
Michael Stutz, English, “This Peculiar Language: Talking ‘Race’ in the Postwar Literary Marketplace”
Payton Becker, Textile, Fashion Merchandising, and Design, “Investigation of Ancient Egyptian Textiles”
Adrián Montero Moya and Moé Takamatsu, Music, “Hashi”
Humanities Graduate Conference Travel Grant
Holly Allen, English, “I May Be the Next: Fear of the Queer in ‘The Thing on the Doorstep’ by H.P. Lovecraft”
Aidan Barlow-Diemer, History, “Trauma, Memory, and Identity: Connection Through Conflict”
Leanne Oden, English, “Into the Heart of Silence: Human-Agent Interaction in Woolf’s Between the Acts“
Nancy Olivares, Music, “Bridging Borders Through Music: Support for Attending NOI+F”
Eve Potvin, English, “The Dame, the Cross-Dresser, and Rochester: Deception and Trans Perception in Jane Eyre“
Grants Awarded, 2022-23
Humanities Faculty Research Grant Award
Rachel Walshe, Theater, “Lost and Found: Shakespeare’s Children”
Kathleen McIntyre, Gender & Women’s Studies/Honors Program, “Protestantismo, usos y costumbres y el PRI en Oaxaca; 1977-2006”
Catherine Sama, Modern & Classical Languages and Literatures, “Voices of the Women in the Italian Resistance: Three Stories of Partnership with the U.S. Office of Strategic Services”
Erin L. McCutcheon, Art & Art History, “Centering the Artist/Mother: Women’s Activism and Artistic Practice in Mexico City”
Christine Zozula, Sociology, “Gluttons for Punishment: Towards a Politics of True Crime”
Humanities Faculty Subvention Grant Award
Iñaki Pérez-Ibáñez, Modern & Classical Languages and Literatures, “Critical Edition of the Play Fuego de Dios en el querer bien by Calderon”
Ashish Chadha, Film/Media, “Postproduction for Fragmentary Discourse on Nothingness”
Susan Hannel, Textiles, Fashion Merchandising, and Design, “The ‘Roaring’ Twenties and African Wildlife in Fashionable Dress”
Humanities Graduate Research Grant Award
Yiping Zhang, Education, “Students’ Foreign Language Anxiety in the Chinese Flagship Program”
“The Winnie” Grant Award
Vilde Aaslid & Samuel Hollister, Music/Music History & Conductor of URI Symphony Orchestra, “The Emilie Mayer Project”
Grants Awarded, 2021-22
Humanities Faculty Research Grant Award
Marcus Nevius, History, “The Revolution from Below: A Story of Race and Slavery in the Old Dominion, 1760s to the 1790s”
Manuba Takasawa, Music, “Music Behind the Barbed Wire: Musical and Cultural Activities in the Manzanar War Relocation Center and Other Japanese Internment Camps”
Humanities Faculty Subvention Grant Award
Alan Verskin, History, “Diary of a Black Jewish Messiah: The Sixteenth-Century Journey of David Reubeni through Africa, the Middle East, and Europe”
Annu Palakunnathu Matthew, Art and Art History, “ReVision: Exhibition at the Newport Art Museum”
Nicolai Petro, Political Science, “The Tragedy of Ukraine: What Classical Greek Tragedy Teaches About Conflict”
Humanities Graduate Research Grant Award
Andrew Simmons, Pre-Health Professions & Honor Program, “‘Fewer and Better Doctors:’ Medical Admission in the United States, 1900-1970”
Jiangping Cai, Education, “The Lived Experience of Multilingual Learners in a Higher Education Language Program”
Sue Yon Kim, English, “The Silenced Other: Narratives of Undocumented Asian Americans”
Rebecca Sobus, History, “Under Guard: A Cast Study of the S.S. Black Point and U-853 for the Production of Comprehensive War Memorials”
“The Winnie” Grant Award
Linda Welters, Susan Jerome, and Rebecca Kelly, Textiles, Fashion Merchandising, and Design, “Every Quilt Tells a Story”
Grants Awarded, 2020-21
Humanities Faculty Research Grant Award
David Faflik, English, “Plus Minas: Profiles in Brazil’s Beautiful World”
Kathleen McIntyre, Honors/Gender and Women’s Studies, “‘Arriba las Metodistas’: Educación protestante, deportes y sufragio transnacional”
Catherine DeCesare, History, “Bermuda Prize”
Ximena Sevilla, History, “On the Edge of the Wild: Representations of Peru’s Montaña Region and its Indigenous Peoples, an Enduring Borderland between the Andean and Amazonian Worlds (1543-1880)”
Humanities Subvention Grant Award
Melissa Villa-Nicholas, Library and Information Studies, “Latinas on the Line: Invisible Information Workers in Telecommunications”
Ignacio Perez-Ibanez, Modern and Classical Languages and Literature, “Metatheater in the Spanish Golden Age”
Grants Awarded, 2019-2020
Graduate Research Grants
Rachel Afua Ansong, English, “Adinkra: Akans in the Gullah Geechee.”
William Bowen, English, “Information Literacy and Ethics in the Age of Technological Disruption.”
Stephen Luce, History, “The Battle for Providence: How the Portuguese, English, Spanish and Africans Fought for Control of Providence Island, 1629-1670.”
Katherine Williams-O’Donnell, Textiles, Fashion Merchandising and Design, “The 1697 Quilt Blocks: An Object’s Life and History.”
Faculty Research Grants
David Faflik, English, “Benjamin Franklin em Brasil.”
Scott Kushner, Communications Studies, “Crowd Control: Organizing Audiences around Spectacle in the Industrial Era.”
Faculty Subvention Grants
David Faflik, English, Urban Formalism: The Work of City Reading.
James Haile, Philosophy, The Buck, the Black, and the Existential Hero: Refiguring the Black Male Literary Canon, 1850 to Present.
Galen Johnson, Philosophy, Merleau-Ponty’s Poetic of the World: Philosophy and Literature.
Leslie Kealhofer-Kemp, Languages, ReFocus: The Films of Rachid Bouchareb.
Alan Verskin, History, A Vision of Yemen: The Travels of a European Orientalist and His Native Guide.
The Winnie
Jessica Strubel, Textiles, Fashion Merchandising and Design, The Kaleidoscope of Textiles: Dress as Multidimensional Cultural Documents
Visiting Scholars
At the invitation of Professor Kathleen Davis, English, Honoree Jeffers (Professor of English, University of Oklahoma) will speak as part of URI’s annual “The Caged Bird Sing” Poetry Contest and Festival in Fall 2020.
Professor Ignacio Perez-Ibanez, Languages, has arranged for Professor Miguel Zugasti (Professor of Literature, Universidad de Navarra) to speak at URI’s international conference on Hispanic Golden Age theater in May 2021.
Professor Ryan Trimm, English, will bring in Lewis Gordon (Professor of English, University of Connecticut) to speak about “A Philosophical Look at Black Music” during the 2020-21 academic year.
Grants Awarded, 2018-2019
Faculty Research Grants
Erik Loomis, History, “The Making of the Pacific Northwest, 1960 to the Present.”
Ignacio Perez, Modern and Classical Languages and Literature, “Study of Guillen de Castro’s works: Establishing a Reliable Corpus and Thematic Analysis.”
Catherine Osbourne DeCesare, History, “Trying Times and Trials: The Ship of John Jay Navigates the Challenges of Global Trade and War.”
Ann Terry, Art and Art History, “Archaeological Fieldwork at Ancient Arsinoë (Polis-tes-Chrysochou) in Cyprus.”
Faculty Subvention Grants
Marcus Nevius, History, “city of refuge”: Slavery and Petit Marronage in the Great Dismal Swamp, 1763-1856.
Kathleen M. McIntyre, Gender and Women’s Studies, “Protestantism and State Formation in Postrevolutionary Oaxaca.”
Junior Faculty Summer Stipend
Christine Mok, English, Disorientations: Performance and Racial Form in Asian America.
James Haile III, Philosophy, Jean-Paul Sartre and the Black Aesthetic.
Graduate Research Grants
Afua Rachel Ansong, English, “Adinkra: Decoding the Colors of our Skins Through Cultural Displacement of Enslaved Africans.”
Serap Hidir, English, “Captivity Narrative Archival Research.”
Austin Rojas, History, “Let Sleeping Dogs Lie: The English Conquest of Jamaica.”
Katherine Canfield, Marine Affairs, “Tourism and Justice on Catalina Island: Perceptions of Power, Burdens, and Decision-Making.”
The Winnie
Jessica Frazier, Marine Affairs, History, and Gender and Women’s Studies, and Amelia Moore, Marine Affairs, “Public Memory, Place, and Belonging: Unearthing the Hidden History of the Native and African American Presence on Block Island.”
Grants Awarded, 2017-2018
Faculty Research Grants
David Faflik, English, for his project Passing Transcendental: Harvard, Heresy, and the Modern American Origins of Unbelief.
Jessica Frazier, History, Marine Affairs, and GWS, for her project “Equality, Development, and Peace: The Global Women’s
Movement, 1970-2000.”
Erik Loomis, History, for his project, “The Making of the Modern Pacific Northwest, 1960 to the Present.”
Naomi Mandel, English, for her project Hack: Game: Code.
Christine Mok, English, for her project “Impossible Stages: Asian American Poetics, Politics, and the Novel.”
Ann Terry, Art and Art History, for her project “Archaeological Fieldwork at Ancient Arsinoë (Polis-tes-Chrysochou) in Cyprus.”
Faculty Subvention Grants
Molly Hall and Kara Watts, English, for their edited collection, Affective Materialities: Reorienting the Body in Modernist Literature.
Julie Keller, Sociology and Anthropology, for her project, Milking in the Shadows: Migrants and Mobility in America’s Dairyland.
Ryan Trimm, English, for his book Heritage and the Legacy of the Past in Contemporary Britain.
Jean Walton, English, for her book Mudflat Dreaming: Waterfront Battles and the Squatters who Fought them in 1970s Vancouver.
Graduate Research Grants
Miranda DiCenzo, Textiles, Fashion Merchandising, and Design, for her project, “Feminism and Fashion of the Twentieth Century: A Material Culture Study.”
The Winnie
Ronald Onorato, Art and Art History, “Virtual House, Virtual Neighborhood.”
Runner-Up: Linda Welters, Textiles, Fashion Merchandising, and Design, for her project, “Digitization of URI’s Historic Textile and Costume Collection.”
Visiting Scholar Grants
Hilda Lloréns, Sociology and Anthropology, for the visit of filmmaker Damien Sainz.
Michelangelo La Luna, Modern and Classical Languages, for the visits of Associate Professor Alessandra Di Maio and Dacia Maraini.
Grants Awarded, 2016-2017
Faculty Research Grants
Erik Loomis, History, “The Making of the Modern Pacific Northwest, 1960 to the Present.”
Marcus Nevius, History, “‘city of refuge’: Petit Marronage and Slave Economy in the Great Dismal Swamp, 1790-1860.”
Christian Gonzales, History, “Antislavery Thought among Native Americans in the Early United States.”
Scott Kushner, Communications, “High-Tech Tickets: How Access to Culture Started to Compute.”
James Ward, History, Modern Expropriation as a Voyage on the Danube: A History of Inner Logics.
Travis Williams, English, “Race, Color, Genre: The Recent Screen History of Much Ado About Nothing.”
Faculty Subvention Grants
Lars Erikson, French, French for Engineering.
Jessica Frazier, History and Gender and Women’s Studies, Women’s Antiwar Diplomacy during the Viet Nam War Era.
Graduate Student Research Grants
Molly Hall, English, “Writing Home from World War I: The Dark Pastorals of the British Modernist Novel.”
Catherine Winters, English, “Giving Voice.”
Wesley Hale, History, German Warships and Sailors at the End of the First World War.
Danielle Sanfilippo, English, “The Skipping King: Aristocratic Masculinity and Effeminacy in Early Modern Literature.”
Visiting Scholar Grants
Robert Dilworth, Art and Art History, To support the honoraria for the presentations in the exhibit “Invisible Bodies, Disposable Cloth: Rhode Island and Slavery, 1783-1850’s.”
Galen Johnson, Philosophy, for the visit of Professor Rajiv Kaushik, participating in the “Arts and Phenomenology Today Conference.”
Travis Williams, English, and Valerie Karno, English, for the visit of N. Katherine Hayles and her talk “Contesting the Meaning of Meaning: Cognitive Technologies, Cognitive Humans, Cognitive Others.”
Grants Awarded, 2015-2016
Faculty Research Grants
Ronald Onorato, Art and Art History, George Champlin Mason Jr., the Colonial Revival and Preservation in American Architecture.
Joëlle Rollo Koster, History, “Popes and Intruders: A History of the Great Western Schism (1378-1417).”
Erik Loomis, History, “From Timber Capital to Portlandia: The Transformation of the Pacific Northwest, 1960-2010.”
Evelyn Sterne, History, “The House of David: A Tale of Faith and Folly in Twentieth-Century America.”
Robert van Horn, Economics, “The Contributions of Businesspersons to the Development of Economics.”
Faculty Subvention Grants
Joëlle Rollo-Koster, History, Death in Medieval Europe: Death Scripted and Death Choreographed.
Mary Cappello, English, Life Breaks In: A Mood Almanack.
Graduate Student Research Grants
Anna Rose Keefe, Textile, Merchandising, and Design, The origins of feather pereline capes popular in America and Europe during the mid-nineteenth century.
Alanna Casey, Marine Affairs, “Incorporating Historical Perspective into Climate Change Assessments of Coastal Cultural Heritage.”
J. Raúl Cornier, Textile, Merchandising, and Design, “Hanky Panky: The Cultural Impact of the Hanky Code.”
Kara Watts, English, “Modernism’s Charming Aesthetics.”
Visiting Scholar Grants
Linda Welters, Textiles, Merchandising, and Design. For the visit of Dr. Tanisha Ford of the University of Massachusetts-Amherst, and her talk “Liberated Threads: Black Women, Style, and the Global Politics of Soul.”
Grants Awarded, 2014-2015
Faculty Research Grants
Rob Widell, History, Alabama’s Attica: Johnny ‘Imani’ Harris, the Atmore-Holman Brothers, and the Origins of the ‘New Jim Crow.’
Blaire Gagnon, Textiles, Fashion Merchandising, and Design, Rhode Island Sampler Statewide Survey.
Faculty Subvention Grants
Naomi Mandel, English, Disappear Here: Violence After Generation X.
Leslie Kealhofer-Kemp, Languages, Muslim Women in French Cinema: Voices of Maghrebi Migrants in France.
Kim Hensley Owens, Writing and Rhetoric, Writing Childbirth: Women’s Rhetorical Agency in Labor and Online.
Galen Johnson, Philosophy, Merleau-Ponty’s Poets and Poetics.
Graduate Student Research Grants
Amy Foley, English, Faulkner’s Phenomenology: “Lived” Spaces in Fictive Southern Architecture.
Michele Meek, English, A Dangerous Girl or a Girl in Danger?: Shifting Sexual Agency in Narratives about Amy Fisher.
Brittany Hirth, English, Absurdity and Artistry in Twentieth-Century American War Literature.
Rachel May, English, The Vanishe- Yesterday: 1798-1952.
Johanna Tower, Textiles, Fashion Merchandising, and Design, “Fresh and Fashionable Goods”: The Account Books of Elijah Boardman, Connecticut Merchant, 1784-1811.
Visiting Scholar Grants
Leslie Kealhofer-Kemp, Assistant Professor of French. For the visit of Professor Michael Gott of Cincinnati University, and his talk ““Small Nation, Big Markets: The Mobility of French-Language Cinema from Belgium.”
Jody Lisberger, Associate Professor of Gender and Women’s Studies. For the Ocean State Summer Writing Conference.
Adam Roth, Associate Professor of Communication. For the visit of Dr. Brenton Malin, of the University of Pittsburg, and his talk “What is it Like to be a Bat Watching Television?”
David Faflik, Assistant Professor of English. For the visit of Branka Arsić and her talk “Swamps, Leaves, Galls: Thoreau on Disease and Decay.”
Mary Hollinshead, Associate Professor of Art and Art History. For the visit of Kristina Golubiewski-Davis of the University of Minnesota’s Anthropology Department for her talk “Cutting Edge Technology and Prehistoric Swords: Reconstructing Past Networks.”
Carolyn Betensky, Associate Professor of English. For the visit of Dr. Robert A. Ferguson, Professor of Law, Literature, and Criticism at Columbia University, and his talk: “The American Prison: Cruel, But Not Unusual Punishment.”
Grants Awarded, 2013-2014
Faculty Research Grants
Leslie Kealhofer-Kemp, Professor of Languages, Muslim Women in French Cinema: Voices of Maghrebi Migrants in France.
Erik Loomis, Professor of History, “Empire of Timber: Labor Unions and the Pacific Northwest Forests.”
Ashish Chadha, Professor of Film, “Archiving Indian 8mm/Super 8 Home Movies.”
David Faflik, Professor of English, “Passing Transcendental: Harvard, Heresy, and the Modern American Origins of Nonbelief.”
Josie Sigler Sibara, Professor of English, The Flying Sampietrini: A Novel.
Robert Widell, Professor of History, “Sustaining ‘The Movement’ in the Age of Reagan: The Southern Organizing Committee for Social and Economic Justice.”
Faculty Subvention Grants
Nancy Caronia, Lecturer and Graduate student in Writing and Rhetoric, Effects: Essays on Memoir, Teaching, and Culture in the Work of Louise DeSalvo.
Naomi Mandel, Professor in English, Disappear Here: Violence After Generation X.
Sarah Eron, Professor of English, Inspiration in the Age of Enlightenment.
Visiting Scholar Grants
Linda Welters, Professor of Textiles, Fashion Merchandising, and Design. For the visit of Jonathan Faiers, lecturer in fashion theory at Winchester School of Art, University of Southampton, in England, and his talk: “Dressing Dangerously: Dysfunctional Fashion on Film.”
Zoila Castro and Susana de los Heros, Professors of Hispanic Studies. For the visit of Salvadorean writer Horacio Castellanos and his talk “Fiction and Reality: Literature’s Fight Against Violence and Politcal Turmoil.”
Michelangelo La Luna, Languages. For the visit of Dacia Mariani on URI’s International Women’s Day.
Graduate Student Research Grants
Anna Brecke, English, Elizabeth Braddon, Working Culture and the OED.
Kim Evelyn, English, At Home in the Diaspora: Domesticity and Nationalism in Postwar and Contemporary Caribbean Fiction.
Sarah Kruse, English, “The Color of Grammar: Cendrars’ Poèm Simultané, Stein’s Tender Buttons, and Wittgenstein’s Color.”
Jenna Teachout, History, The Commercialization of Taste: The Consumer Revolution in Newport, Rhode Island.
Abigail Casavant, History and Underwater Archealogy, “Unearthing Coffin Ships: 19th Century Irish Immigrant Shipwrecks of the Atlantic.”
Grants and Fellowships Awarded, 2012-2013
Faculty Research Grants
Mark Conley, Professor of Music, “Choral Music and Human Rights: Manda Wilderness Community Trust Choral Festival.”
Peter Covino, Professor of English, “Dario Bellezza: Selected Poems.”
David Faflik, Professor of English, “Strong Reading: Culture, Class, and the Lost U.S. Metropolis.”
Naomi Mandel, Professor of English, Disappear Here: Violence After Generation X
Sabbatical Fellowships
Kim Owens, Professor of Writing and Rhetoric, “Education en Caja/ Education Boxed Up.”
Andrea Rusnock, Professor of History, “The Birth of Vaccination: An Environmental History.”
Catherine Sama, Professor of Languages, “Correspondence of an Eighteenth Century Venetian Artist.”
Travis Williams, Professor of English, “Dimension and Degree; Literature, Rhetoric, and Mathematics in the Age of Shakespeare.”
Faculty Subvention Grants
Mary Hollinshead, Professor of Art and Art History, “The Last Steps of Shaping Ceremony.”
Annu Palakunnathu Matthew, Professor of Art and Art History, “Re-Generations-An Open Wound.”
Junior Faculty Fellowships
Jennifer Jones, Professor of English, “Beyond Repair:Wordsworth, Consolation, Romanticism.”
Visiting Scholar Grants
Bridget Buxton, History. For the visit of Dr. John Hale, University of Louisville, Kentucky and his talk, “Dragons of the North: the World of Viking Longships.”
Mary Capello, English. For the visit of Dr. Barrie Jean Borich, Assistant Professor of Creative Writing at DePaul University, for the talk “A Reading and Discussion of The Body Geographic with Barrie Jean Borich.”
Travis Williams, English and Andrea Rusnock, History. For the visit of Dr. Ann Blair, Henry Charles Lea Professor of History at Harvard University, and her talk: “Methods of Working Among Early Modern Scholars.”
Graduate Research Grants
Beazley Kanost, English, “Whose Cool? Directing ‘Truth’s’ Authority Across Gender and Race in Portrait of Jason.”
Megan Martinelli, Textiles, Fashion Merchandising, and Design, ‘”Would Live Like Ancient Greeks”: The Art and Life of Raymond Duncan.'”
Grants and Fellowships Awarded, 2011-2012
Faculty Research
Erik Loomis, Professor of History. “Empire of Timber: Work and Nature in the Pacific Northwest Forest.“
Ron Onorato, Professor of Art and Art History. “George Champlin Mason Jr., the Colonial Revival and Preservation in American Architecture.”
Robert Van Horn, Professor of Economics. “Constructing Conditions for Success: Laying the Institutional Foundations of the Postwar Chicago School of Antitrust.”
Joëlle Rollo-Koster, Professor of History. Avignon and its Papacy (1309-1417): Popes, Institutions, Society and Culture (Rowman and Littlefield Press 2015).
Evelyn Sterne, Professor of History. Blue state Bible Belt: Evangelical Christians in Twentieth-Century New England.
Margaret Ordonez, Textiles, Fashion Merchandising and Design. Electron Microscopic Analysis of Classic Period Maya Textiles.
Bridget Buxton. History. “Israel Coast Exploration Project.”
Sabbatical Fellowships
Carolyn Betensky, Professor of English, “Translation of Les Mysteres de Paris (from the French).”
Annu Palakunnathu Matthew, Professor of Art and Art History, “Expanding Re-Generations.”
Faculty Subvention Grant
Martha Elena Rojas, Professor of English, “Diplomatic Letters: Becoming a Nation Among Nations.”
David Faflik, Professor of English. Boarding Out: Inhabiting the American Urban Literary Imagination, 1840-1860 (Northwestern University Press, 2012).
Zahra Meghani, Professor of Philosophy. “Migrant Women Workers: Ethical and Political Issues.”
Travis Williams, English. “The Earliest Printed Arithmetic Book”
Junior Faculty Fellowships
Gina Valentino, Professor of English, “Hustling: Work, Survival, and U.S. Literature in the New Economy.”
Pamela Warner, Professor of Art and Art History. Richard Beaupre Junior Faculty Fellowship. Realist Aesthetics: The Goncourt Brothers and the Language of Materialism.
Karen de Bruin, Professor of Languages/French. Shannon Chandley & Tom Silvia Junior Faculty Fellowship. Sibyll Disobedience: “Superior Woman” in the Early Nineteenth Century.
Visiting Scholar Grants
Kathleen Davis, English. For the visit of Dr. Lisa Lampert-Weissig, Professor UC San Diego, and her talk “Reading the Palimpsest of Race: Medieval Traces in Modern Discourse.”
Kim Evelen and Michael Becker, English. For the visit of Dr. Timothy Brennan at the 5th annual URI Graduate Student Conference.
Graduate Research Grants
Sarah Naomi Campbell, History, “Queering Trans/Feminism.”
Rebekah Greene, English, “Books, Hats, Spoons, and Buttons: Property at Work in the Novels of Robert Louis Stevenson.”
Rosaleen M. Keefe, English, “‘AnInternal Sense of Beauty’: Tolerance, the Study of Rhetoric, and Vernacular Poetry in 18th Century Scotland.”
Andrew J. Ploeg, English. Mark & Donna Ross Graduate Research Grant. “BecomingUndecidable: Conceptualizing the Numinous Through Space, Movement, and Novelty.”
Mihaela P Harper, English. James Duffy Graduate Research Grant. “Ethical Anomie: Thinking, Writing, Living.”
Grants and Fellowships Awarded, 2011-2012
Faculty Research Grants
Grants and Fellowships Awarded, 2010-2011
Faculty Research Grants
Robert Weisbord, Professor of History, David and Tracey Maron Faculty Research Grant. “Racial Questions in the Modern Olympics: The Case of South Africa.”
William Krieger, Professor of Philosophy, Mark and Donna Ross Faculty Research Grant. “URI Program at Akko: Ethics, Epistemology, and Underwater Archaeology.”
Megan Echevarria, Professor of Spanish, Richard Beaupre Faculty Research Grant. “Analysis of the Abraham Lincoln Brigade Archives.”
Robert Dilworth, Professor of Art and Art History, ‘Telling Without Words: A Visual Narrative of One Town’s Changing Generation.’
Bridget Buxton, Professor of History. Eric Roiter Faculty Research Grant. “Israel Coast Exploration Project.”
Eve Sterne, Professor of History. Jabour Family (care of Paul Jabour) Faculty Research Grant. Blue State Bible Belt: Evangelical Christians in Twentieth-Century New England.
Faculty Sabbatical Fellowships
Linda Welters, Professor of Textiles, Merchandising, and Design, Lori Merola Faculty Sabbatical Fellowship. “Dress, Identity, and Place.”
Wendy Roworth, Art and Art History. “Angelica Kauffman and Painting History: Essays on an Enterprising Artist”
Subvention Grants
Carolyn Betensky, Professor of English, Shannon Chandley and Tom Silvia Subvention Grant. Feeling for the Poor: Bourgeois Compassion, Social Action, and the Victorian Novel.
Susana de los Heros, Professor of Spanish, James Duffy Subvention Grant. “On Language Ideologies in the Spanish Speaking World: The Symbolic Power of Standard Spanish vs. Regional Varieties of Spanish and its Impact on Educational Settings.”
Jeremiah Dyehouse, Professor of Writing and Rhetoric, “‘A Textbook Case Revisited’: Visual Rhetoric and Series Patterning in the American Museum of Natural History’s Horse Evolution Displays.”
Junior Faculty Fellowships
Karen De Bruin, Languages. Sibyll Disobedience: “Superior Woman” in the Early Nineteenth Century
Pamela Warner, Art and Art History. Realist Aesthetics: The Goncourt Brothers and the Language of Materialism
Visiting Scholar Grant
Carolyn Betensky, English. For the visit of Dr. Martha Vicinus, Eliza M. Mosher Distinguished University Professor of English,
Women’s Studies and History University of Michigan and her talk “‘An Aesthetic Pessimist’: The Poet and Essayist A. Mary F. Robinson (1857-1944).”
Kim Evelyn and Michael Becker, English. For the visit of Dr. Timothy Brennan as the keynote for the URI Graduate Student Conference.
Travis Williams, English. For the visit of Dr. Paul Alpers, Professor of English, Emeritus UC Berkley, Professor in Residence Smith College, and his talk “Phi Beta Kappa Public Lecture: Paradise Lost In our Time.”
Graduate Student Research Grants
Donald T. Rodrigues, English, “‘The Phoenix and Turtle’: Shakespeare’s Fuzzy Apocalypse.”
Grants and Fellowships Awarded, 2009-2010
Faculty Research Grants
Michelangelo La Luna, Professor of Italian, Mark and Donna Ross Faculty Research Grant. “Girolamo De Rada’s Correspondence with Angelo De Gubernatis.”
Faculty Subvention Grants
Pamela Warner, Professor of Art and Art History, Lori Merola Faculty Research Grant. “Interior Portraiture and Masculine Identity in France, 1780-1914.”
Faculty Sabbatical Fellowships
Joelle Rollo-Koster, Professor of History, Eric Roiter Faculty Sabbatical Fellowship. “Empty See: Avignon during the Great Western Schism (circa 1370-circa 1420).”
Mary Hollinshead, Professor of Art and Art History, Tom Silvia and Shannon Chandley Faculty Sabbatical Fellowship. “Auxiliary Supports in Roman Sculpture.”
Fellowships in the Humanities for Junior Scholars
Travis Williams, Assistant Professor of English, Mark and Donna Ross Junior Scholars Fellowship. “Studies in Early Modern Literature, Rhetoric, and Mathematics.”
Visiting Scholar Grants
Galen Johnson, Philosophy. For the visit of Prof. Duane Davis of the University of North Carolina – Asheville and his talk, “Dwelling and Dwellings in the Face of Modernity: Merleau-Ponty and Heidegger.”
Ryan Trimm, English. For the annual Ocean State Summer Writing Program.
Bryna Wortman, Theater. For the visit of playwright Laura Marks.
Grants and Fellowships Awarded, 2008-2009
Faculty Sabbatical Fellowships
Jean Walton, Professor of English, Women’s Studies, and Film Media, “The Modern Peristaltic Subject: Bodies, Systems, Flows.”
Robert C. Manteiga, Professor of Hispanic Studies, Comparative Literature, and Film Media, “The Eye and the Lens: The Cinematic World of Julio Medem.”
Marie Jenkins Schwarz, Professor of History, “Secrets of the Slave Quarter: Intimate Relationships in Antebellum America.”
Karen Stein, Professor of English and Women’s Studies, “Reading, Learning, Teaching Toni Morrison.”
Faculty Research Grants
Timothy S. George, Associate Professor of History, “Toruku: Mountain Dreams, Chemical Nightmares.”
Joelle Rollo-Koster, Professor of History, “The People of Curial Avignon.”
Alain-Philippe Durand, Department of Modern and Classical Languages and Literatures, “Jorge Amado and Albert Camus: Formative Literary Visions and Prewar Politics.”
Travis D. Williams, Assistant Professor of English, “Literary Form in early Modern English Mathematics.”
Catherine Sama, Professor of Italian and Film Media, “Rosalba Carriera: Correspondence and Diary of an 18th Century Venetian Artist.”
Mary Cappello, Professor of English, “Swallow: Foreign Bodies, their Ingestion, Aspiration, and Extraction in the age of Chevalier Jackson.”
Martha E. Rojas, Assistant Professor of English, “Diplomatic Letters: Innovating Custom in the Early Republic.”
Graduate Research Grants
John Hodgkins, English, “The Drift: Rethinking the Dynamics of Adaptation.”
Matthew Ortoleva, Writing and Rhetoric, “Rhetorics of Place and Ecological Relationships: The Rhetorical Construction of Narragansett Bay.”
George Steele, English and Film Media, “(Re)Scoring the Silent Film: Music, Modernism, Affect.”
Subvention Grants
Mary Cappello, Professor of English, “Swallow: Foreign Bodies, their Ingestion, Aspiration, and Extraction in the age of Chevalier Jackson.”
Galen A. Johnson, Professor of Philosophy, “The Retrieval of the Beautiful: Thinking Through Merleau-Ponty’s Aesthetics.”
Fellowships in the Humanities for Junior Scholars
Jennifer Jones, English, “Virtual Romanticism: Artifice, Artificiality, and the Age of Wordsworth.” Deferred until Fall 2009.
Visiting Scholar Grants
Catherine Sama, Italian and Film Media. For the visit of Professor Antonia Arslan.
Mary Hollinshead, Art History. For the visit of Robert L. Hohlfelder, Professor of History, University of Colorado, and his talk, “An Architectural Revolution Beneath the Sea: Building Harbors in the Roman Empire.”
Annu Matthew, Art. For the visit of Hasan Elahi, Assistant Professor at the CADRE Laboratory for New Media School of Art and Design, San Jose State University, and his talk, “Exploring Borders Between Society and Technology, a South Asian Perspective.”
Naomi Mandel, English. For the visit of Dr. Robert Coover, Visiting Professor of Literary Arts At Brown University, and his talk “Robert Coover Reading from his Work.”
Carolyn Betensky, English. For the visit of Dr. Elaine Freedgood, Professor of English New York University Visiting Professor of English at Brown U, and her talk, “That People Might Be Like Things and Live.”
Judith Tolnick Champa, Fine Arts. For the visit of painter and thinker Arnold Mesches and his talk, “In the heat of vulnerability: the trajectory of a career.”
Grants and Fellowships Awarded, 2007-2008
Faculty Sabbatical Fellowships
Robert G. Weisbord, Professor of History, “Black Power and the 1968 Mexico City Olympics.”
Evelyn Sterne, Associate Professor of History, “Blue State Bible Belt: Evangelical Protestantism in Twentieth-Century New England.”
Lars O. Erickson, Associate Professor of French and Director of URI’s French International Engineering Program, “Global Engineers: Forging a New Professional Identity at the Universit de Technologie de Compigne.”
Ryan S. Trimm, Assistant Professor of English and Film Studies, “Cultural Value: Transacting Worth in Postimperial Britain.”
Faculty Research Grants
Jennifer Jones, Assistant Professor of English, “Wordsworth and Italy: Inscription, Graffiti, and the Art of Nature.”
Wendy Roworth, Professor of Art and Art History, “Salvator Rosa’s Fortuna and the Fortunes of Salvator Rosa.”
Joelle Rollo-Koster, Professor of History, The People of Curial Avignon
Timothy George, Professor of History, Toroku: Mountain Dreams, Chemical Nightmares
Fellowships in the Humanities for Junior Scholars
Jeremiah Dyehouse, Assistant Professor in the College Writing Program, “Rhetorical Strategy in the American Museum of Natural History’s Halls of Vertebrate Evolution.”
Visiting Scholar Grant
Ben Anderson, Art and Art History. For the visit of Albert Chong, University of Colorado, Boulder, and his talk “The Flight Trilogy.”
Manabu Takasawa, Music. For the visit of Dr. Susan Pickett, Catherine Chism Professor of Music at Whitman College.
Ann Suter, Languages. For the visit of Dr. Georgia Karamitrou-Mentessidi.
Alain-Philippe Durand and Naomi Mandel, English. For the visit of Chris Cleave, a British novelist, and his four presentations and workshops in creative writing.
Stephen Barber and Jennifer Jones, English. For the visit of Professor Julie A. Carlson, Professor of English at the University of California, Santa Barbara.
Stephen Barber and Jennifer Jones, English. For the visit of Professor David L. Clark.
Naomi Mandel, English. For the visit of Dr. Marco Abel, Professor, University of Nebraska, and his talk “Violence, Affect, Ethics: Thinking the Ethics of Violence as the Violence of Ethics.”
Faculty Subvention Grants
John Peterson, Professor of Philosophy, Aquinas: A New Introduction
Ric McIntyre, Honors Program and Professor of Economics, for the founding of the undergraduate literary journal The Independent Scribe and the indexing ofAre Worker Rights Human Rights?
Graduate Student Grants
Christopher Jazwa, History, “Temporal Changes in Prehistoric Landscape Usage along the Southern Rhode Island Coast.”
Shawn M. Edge, History, “Barrels and Bibles: Conflict and Compromise between Whalemen and Missionaries in the Sandwich Islands, 1820-1860.”
Blair H. Walker, Textiles, Fashion Merchandising and Design, “Livery in Newport’s Gilded Age.”
Deborah Marie Vorse, Textiles, Fashion Merchandising and Design, “Reflections of Modernism: Textiles from the Tirocchi Dressmaking Shop, 1915-1947.”
Alisa Augenstein, History, “Construction of Perfection; the history, theory, modern employment, and re-use of domed structures” (Sponsor: Prof. Mary Hollinshead, Art and Art History).
Gretchen Cohenour, English, “Early Gothic Novels and Gendered Spaces” (Sponsor: Prof. Josie Campbelll, English).
Sarah Moore, Textiles, Fashion Merchandising and Design, “Fashion Blogs, Fashion Cities: New Media and the Cultural Geography of Fashion” (Sponsor: Prof. ?bbey Lillethum, Textiles, Fashion Merchandising, and Design).
Bryna Siegel, English, “Persistence, Resistance, and Change: Toward a Critical Praxis for Researched Writing” (Sponsor: Prof. Libby Miles).
Aaron Tillman, English, “Magical American Jew: Fantasy and the Portrayal of Ethnicity in Contemporary Jewish American Short Fiction and Film” (Sponsor: Prof. Naomi Mandel).
Grants and Fellowships Awarded, 2006-2007
Faculty Sabbatical Fellowships
E. Rae Ferguson, Associate Professor of History, “The Lives and Works of African American Performers in New York City, 1950-1980.”
Cheryl Foster, Professor of Philosophy, Nature in the Novels of Jane Austen.
David Gitlitz, Professor of Modern and Classical Languages and Literatures, “The Lost Minyan.”
Naomi Mandel, Assistant Professor of English, “Visions of Violence, Ethical Work.”
Nicolai N. Petro, Professor, Department of Political Science, “Will East Meet West, The Role of Orthodox Politics in the New Europe.”
Andrea Rusnock, Associate Professor of History and Director of Graduate Studies, “The Birth of Vaccination.”
Catherine M. Sama, Associate Professor of Italian and Film Media and Modern and Classical Languages and Literatures, “Women Shaping Culture in Eighteenth-Century Venice.”
Faculty Research Fellowships
Travis D. Williams, Assistant Professor of English, “Mathematical Enargeai: Mental Vision and the Rhetorical Function of Early Modern Mathematical Notation.”
Judith Swift, Professor of Communication Studies and Theatre, “Voices of Katrina: Speaking in the Aftermath.”
Alain-Philippe Durand, Associate Professor of French, Film Media, and Comparative Literature, “The French Jorge Amado.”
Jean Walton, English
Faculty Subvention Grants
Catherine Sama, Professor of Italian, and Wendy Roworth, Professor of History
Graduate Student Grants
Piotr A. Skuza, English, “Technologies of Identity.”
Claire E. Reynolds, English, “National Crisis and the Nexus of Class, Race, and Gender in American Literature.”
Visiting Scholar Grants
Stephen Wood, Communications
Barbara Pagh, Art
Judith Tolnick, Art
Laurie Carlson, English