Humanities Graduate Research Grant
Jiangping Cai (Education)
Category: Grants
“‘Fewer and Better Doctors:’ Medical School Admission in the United States, 1900-1970”
Humanities Graduate Research Grant
Andrew Simmons (Pre-Health Professions and Honors Program)
“Diary of a Black Jewish Messiah: The Sixteenth-Century Journey of David Reubeni through Africa, the Middle East, and Europe”
Humanities Subvention Grant
Alan Verskin (History)
“The Revolution from Below: A Story of Race and Slavery in the Old Dominion, 1760s to the 1790s”
Humanities Faculty Research Grant
Marcus Nevius (History)
“Every Quilt Tells a Story”
“The Winnie”
Linda Welters, Susan Jerome, and Rebecca Kelly (Textiles, Fashion Merchandising, and Design)
“Under Guard: A Case Study of the S.S. Black Point and U-853 for the Production of Comprehensive War Memorials”
Graduate Research Grant
Rebecca Sobus (History)
“Music Behind the Barbed Wire: Musical & Cultural Activities in the Manzanar War Relocation Center & Other Japanese Internment Camps”
Faculty Research Grant
Manabu Takasawa (Music)
“The Tragedy of Ukraine: What Classical Greek Tragedy Teaches About Conflict”
Faculty Subvention Grant
Nicolai Petro (Political Science)
“ReVision: Exhibition at the Newport Art Museum”
Faculty Subvention Grant
Annu Palakunnathu Matthew (Art & Art History)
David Faflik’s “Plus Minas: Profiles in Brazil’s Beautiful Game”
Against the backdrop of a public health crisis that has cost more than two million people (and counting) their lives, football, or “soccer,” remains the world’s most popular spectator sport, and Brazilians lay claim to having perfected, if not invented, what locals call the “beautiful game.” It would be easy to dismiss professional footballers’ COVID-era […]
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