Center for Humanities
Spring 2021
Category: Grants
Catherine DeCesare’s “Bermuda Prize”
On January 7, 1806, HMS Driver chased and apprehended the Ship John Jay in the mid-Atlantic on her western return passage from the East Indies. The British naval officer seized the John Jay, and escorted her to Bermuda, where the ship and her valuable cargo were condemned as a prize at the Bermuda Court of […]
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“‘Arriba las Metodistas’: Educación protestante, deportes y sufragio transnacional” explores the intersection of transnational suffrage movements, sports participation, revolutionary nationalism, and new debates about the role of Protestant education in Mexico in the 1920s and 1930s. I argue that Protestant girls’ schools helped pave the way for women’s activism by encouraging girls to play team […]
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Although there are some studies that focus on specific aspects of Metatheater in the Spanish Golden Age (mostly centered in specific comic plays), no scholar has undertaken a comprehensive examination of this topic, especially with respect to serious dramas. This collaborative volume will collect works from 14 of the most reputable international experts in the […]
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This book is concerned with the history of Latina information workers in the United States, during and after the 1973 EEOC v. AT&T case and is in production with Rutgers Press. The 1970s were impacted by the aftermath of the civil rights movements of the 1950s and 1960s, increasing legislation on affirmative action in the […]
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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) Ximena Sevilla, Multicultural Postdoctoral Faculty Fellow, History Dr. Sevilla’s project focuses on the environmental and ethnohistory of the montaña region—densely forested eastern slopes of the Andean highlands in northern Peru. […]
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Hilda Lloréns, Associate Professor, Anthropology Decolonizing Feminisms: Antiracist and Transnational Praxis, University of Washington Press. Forthcoming, Fall 2021. MotherLand brings to life the histories and testimonies of Afro-descendant women of Puerto Rico’s coastal communities, for too long marginalized in historical and anthropological accounts of the archipelago. Through life-affirming practices, Afro-Puerto Rican women challenge poverty, racism […]
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The 79 Moons of Jupiter Audio/visual performance and installation Kevin Gilmore & Jacob Richman, Part-Time Faculty, Art What would the paths of certain planets and their moons sound like as they travel across the night sky if they were given a synthesized voice and modulation based on their coordinates in space? URI Professors Kevin Gilmore […]
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LITERARY PORTRAYALS OF PALESTINIAN LIVES Mohamed Anis Ferchichi & Shanee Stepakoff, PhD Students, English Most universities offer few if any opportunities for students to learn about the past century of Palestinian lives in a way that truly engages with complexity and diversity and that fosters meaningful insight. In contrast to the methodologies most commonly used […]
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The URI Campus: A Walk Through Time Kristine Bovy, Dept. Chair, Sociology & Anthropology Catherine DeCesare, Senior Lecturer, History Rod Mather, Dept. Chair, History “The Winnie” grant will be used for curriculum development to transition the temporary one credit course, The URI Campus: A Walk Through Time, to a traditional three credit class. This team-taught […]
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