Congratulations to the recipients of the Center for the Humanities Spring 2025 grants.
“Risk in the Anglo-Atlantic World: The American Ship John Jay, HMS Driver and the Napoleonic Wars” - Humanities Subvention Grant
Catherine DeCesare (History)
“Segregation Games: Boston, Busing, and the Making of Red Sox Nation” - Humanities Subvention Grant
David Faflik (English)
“Afroindigenization: Submerged Indigeneities in the Afrospora” - Humanities Subvention Grant
Catherine John-Camara (Africana Studies)
“Inventing Ecosystems: The Rhetoric of Science in an Ecological Age” - Humanities Subvention Grant
Madison Jones (Professional & Public Writing/Natural Resources Science)
“SHELTERED: The Italians Who Saved the Escaped Indian Prisoners of War during WWII” - Humanities Subvention Grant
Annu Palakunnathu Matthew (Art & Art History)
“The Money Pit: Renovations of Pamplona’s Theater in 1664” - Faculty Research Grant
Iñaki Pérez-Ibáñez (Spanish/Teacher Education)
“Plays in Place” - Faculty Research Grant
Rachel Walshe (Theater)
“Looking Back, Learning Forward” - Faculty Research Grant
Rob Widell (History)
“Beyond Vocab and Grammar: How Emotions Affect Success and Retention in Language Learning” - Faculty Research Grant
Yiping Zhang (Chinese)
“Phantom of the Black Earth” - Graduate Conference Travel Grant
Soph Green (English)
“Psychosocial Tensions in Virginia Woolf’s Work” - Graduate Conference Travel Grant
Amy Helminen (English)
“Converging Dys/Utopias in Octavia Butler’s Parable of the Sower - Graduate Conference Travel Grant
Nina Sannes (English)
“Poetry and Blindness: Empathetic Reading Through Russell Brakefield” - Graduate Conference Travel Grant
Olivia Thomakos (English)