• URI Students, Faculty to attend Summer Institute in Public Humanities - Cherie Rowe, Rachel (Afua) Ansong, Karen Sweeting
  English, Political Science
• New Book from Joëlle Rollo-Koster - Joëlle Rollo-Koster
  History
• Jessica Frazier Awarded RI Foundation Fellowship - Jessica Frazier
  History and Gender and Women's Studies
• Joëlle Rollo-Koster Speaks About Her New Book, 2020-2021 - Joëlle Rollo-Koster
  History
• Marcus P. Nevius Awarded Clements Library Fellowship - Marcus Nevius
  History
• Nico Tracksdorf Receives Premiere National Award in Language Education - Nico Tracksdorf
  Languages
• Spring 2021 Grant Winners - Center for Humanities
  Spring 2021
• Humanities Faculty Research Grant Award 2020 - 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. […]
• Humanities Subvention Grant Award 2020 - 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 […]
• “The Winnie” Grant Winner 2020 - 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 […]
• “The Winnie”  Grant Runner Up 2020  - 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 […]
• Virtual Book Launch - Professor Mary Cappello (English) has published a new book titled LECTURE (Transit Books, 2020), a song for the forgotten art of the lecture.  Please consider joining Cappello for a virtual book launch on September 8 in conversation with Namwali Serpell at Community Bookstore (Brooklyn), and watching this Video Feature that Kirkus Reviews did in anticipation of the book’s publication.  
• UConn Wins $750,000 Mellon Grant to Expand NEHC’s Faculty of Color Working Group -   The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation has awarded a three-year grant of $750,000 to the University of Connecticut for the Humanities Institute to expand the New England Humanities Consortium (NEHC) Faculty of Color Working Group (FOCWG).  URI is among the thirteen member institutions of the consortium, and its faculty will be eligible to participate in the activities […]
• CFH Launches 2020-21 Virtual Brown Bag Series - URI’s Center for the Humanities is pleased to announce the launch of a virtual monthly brown bag series.  Our goal is to bring faculty and students together for intellectual exchange on a regular basis, and to give our scholars an opportunity to share and workshop projects they are working on.  Please click here for information […]
• URI Faculty Win NEHC Seed Grants - URI Professors Carolyn Betensky (English), Jessica Frasier (History, Marine Affairs, and Gender and Women’s Studies), Christine Mok (English), Amelia Moore (Marine Affairs) and Kendall Moore (Journalism) were all part of teams that won 2020 seed grants from the New England Humanities Consortium.  For more information, see https://nehc.uconn.edu/2020/06/11/nehc-announces-rfp-awardees/.
• Fulbright Distinguished Chair Award - Professor David Faflik (English) is the recipient of a Fulbright Distinguished Chair award, to teach 19th-century American literature and research the field of literary diplomacy by exploring Benjamin Franklin’s relationship to Brazil, at the Federal University of Minas Gerais in Belo Horizonte. Public health restrictions permitting, Professor Faflik will be in Brazil during the summer of 2021.  
• Scott Kushner’s work “Crowd Control,” 2020 Faculty Grant Winner - How does a mass of people become an audience?  Through effective crowd control, technologies that channel flows of bodies.  Scott Kushner’s project “Crowd Control: Organizing Audiences around Spectacle in the Industrial Era” uses archival evidence to show the ways that Industrial-era crowd control technologies sought to organize masses into docile audiences.  By rationalizing the masses that formed […]
• David Faflik’s “Benjamin Franklin em Brasil” 2020 Faculty Research Grant Awardee - Professor Faflik’s research on Benjamin Franklin figures as a chapter in his current book project, a historical study of the role that gifting has played in the at times unpredictable circulation of American literature.  With the funding from his Faculty Research Grant, he will spend a month-long residence at the Library Company of Philadelphia, where […]
• Congratulations Spring 2020 Grant Winners - Faculty Research Grant: David Faflik, English, “Benjamin Franklin em Brasil.” Scott Kushner, Communication Studies, “Crowd Control: Organizing Audiences around Spectacle in the Industrial Era.”    Graduate Research Grant: Rachel Afua Ansong, English, “Adinkra: Akans in the Gullah Geechee.”   Visiting Scholar Awards: Kathleen Davis, English, will bring in Honoree Jeffers (Professor of English, University of […]
• 2020 Visiting Scholar Grant Winners Announced - 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 […]
• Jessica Strubel’s Kaleidoscope of Textiles, 2019 Winnie Grant Winner - The funding from “The Winnie” Grant will support an exhibition, The Kaleidoscope of Textiles: Dress as Multidimensional Cultural Documents, which will provide opportunities in professional practice for graduate students and upper-level undergraduate students in preservation, exhibition, and storage of historic artifacts.   Specifically, students will survey regional styles of dress, fashion, and textiles housed within the University of Rhode Island’s Historic […]
• Leslie Kealhofer-Kemp’s Refocus: The Cinema of Rachid Bouchareb, 2019 Subvention Grant Winner - Refocus: The Cinema of Rachid Bouchareb, edited by Leslie Kealhofer-Kemp and Michael Gott (to be published by Edinburgh University Press in 2020), is the first book-length study of the internationally recognized director’s work. Bouchareb’s films are remarkably varied in their themes, formal elements, and narrative settings, ranging from Senegal, England, Vietnam, and Algeria, to France, Belgium, […]
• Galen Johnson’s Merleu-Ponty’s Poetic of the World, 2019 Subvention Grant Winner - Merleau-Ponty’s Poetic of the World: Philosophy and Literature, co-authored with Mauro Carbone and Emmanuel de Saint Aubert, will be published by Fordham University Press in 2020. Merleau-Ponty has long been known as one of the most important philosophers of aesthetics, yet most discussions of his aesthetics have focused on visual art.  This book corrects that balance […]
• James Haile’s The Buck, the Black and the Existential Hero, 2019 Subvention Grant Winner - The Buck, the Black and the Existential Hero (Northwestern University Press, 2020) combines philosophy, literary theory, and jazz studies with Africana studies to develop a theory of the black male literary imagination. In doing so, it seeks to answer fundamental aesthetic and existential questions: How does the experience of being black and male in the […]
• David Faflik’s Urban Formalism, 2019 Subvention Grant Winner - Urban Formalism: The Work of City Reading (Fordham University Press, 2020) radically reimagines what it meant to “read” a brave new urban world during the transformative middle decades of the nineteenth century. At a time when contemporaries in the twin capitals of modernity in the West, New York, and Paris, were learning to make sense […]