{"id":25,"date":"2013-12-10T10:27:25","date_gmt":"2013-12-10T15:27:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/humanities\/?page_id=25"},"modified":"2026-01-03T17:02:24","modified_gmt":"2026-01-03T17:02:24","slug":"recents","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/humanities\/grants\/recents\/","title":{"rendered":"Previous Grant Winners"},"content":{"rendered":"

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.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

Grants Awarded, 2025-2026<\/h3>\n

Humanities Faculty Research Grant Award<\/h3>\n

Afia Ansong<\/strong>, Africana Studies<\/em>, “Pa-Gya: A 20th Century Ghanaian Poetry Anthology”<\/a><\/p>\n

Kyuhyun Han<\/strong>, History<\/em>, “Seeing the Forest Like a State: PRC Environmentalism, Wildlife Conservation, and Center-Periphery Relations in Northeast China, 1949-1990s”<\/a><\/p>\n

Chris Henderson<\/strong>, Public Relations\/Sports Media and Communication<\/em>, “Pleasurable Labors: A Queer Oral History of National Women’s Soccer League Fandom”<\/a><\/p>\n

I\u00f1aki P\u00e9rez-Ib\u00e1\u00f1ez<\/strong>, Spanish\/Teacher Education<\/em>, “Theater, Gender, and Epidemic in Seventeenth-Century Pamplona: The Contract Dispute of Francisco de la Calle and Jer\u00f3niam Coronel”<\/a><\/p>\n

Bailey Thomas<\/strong>, Gender & Women’s Studies<\/em>, “The Language of Survival: Recovering Audre Lorde’s Berlin Dialogues” <\/a><\/p>\n

Luis Viquez<\/strong>, Orchestral Studies & Music, <\/em>“The Humanistic Power of Gesture in Music: Arturo Toscanini, His Art, His Battons”<\/a><\/p>\n

Humanities Faculty Subvention Grant Award<\/h3>\n

William Stark<\/strong>, Modern & Classical Languages & Literatures<\/em>, “Artificial Savages in a Transcultural Landscape”<\/a><\/p>\n

Humanities Graduate Research Grant Award<\/h3>\n

Kiera Codey<\/strong>, History<\/em>, “An ‘Outburst of Irish Feeling’: Fascism in the Irish Free State”<\/a><\/p>\n

Graduate Conference Travel Grant Award<\/h3>\n

Holly Allen<\/strong>, English<\/em>, “One Tangle of Shadows: Ezra Pound’s Homage to Sextus Propertius<\/em>, Harriet Monroe’s Poetry, and a Message Against Nationalism and Traditional Translation”<\/a><\/p>\n

Grants Awarded, 2024-2025<\/h3>\n

Humanities Faculty Research Grant Award<\/h3>\n

I\u00f1aki P\u00e9rez-Ib\u00e1\u00f1ez<\/strong>, Spanish\/Teacher Education<\/em>, “The Money Pit: Renovations of Pamplona’s Theater in 1664”<\/a><\/p>\n

Rachel Walshe<\/strong>, Theater<\/em>, “Plays in Place”<\/a><\/p>\n

Rob Widell<\/strong>, History<\/em>, “Looking Back, Learning Forward”<\/a><\/p>\n

Yiping Zhang<\/strong>, Chinese<\/em>, “Beyond Vocab and Grammar: How Emotions Affect Success and Retention in Language Learning”<\/a><\/p>\n

Afua Ansong<\/strong>, Africana Studies<\/em>, “A Woman Called Ghana”<\/a><\/p>\n

Chris Henderson<\/strong>, Public Relations\/Sports Media and Communication<\/em>, “Pleasurable Labors: A Queer Oral History of National Women’s Soccer League Fandom”<\/a><\/p>\n

Madison Jones<\/strong>, Professional & Public Writing and Natural Resources Science<\/em>, “Inventing Ecosystems: The Rhetoric of Science in an Ecological Age”<\/a><\/p>\n

Humanities Faculty Subvention Grant Award<\/h3>\n

Catherine DeCesare<\/strong>, History<\/em>, “Risk in the Anglo-Atlantic World: The American Ship John Jay<\/em>, HMS Drive<\/em> and the Napoleonic Wars”<\/a><\/p>\n

David Faflik<\/strong>, English<\/em>, “Segregation Games: Boston, Busing, and the Making of Red Sox Nation”<\/a><\/p>\n

Catherine John Camara<\/strong>, Africana Studies<\/em>, “Afroindigenization: Marasa Consciousness in the Afrospora”<\/a><\/p>\n

Madison Jones<\/strong>, Professional & Public Writing\/Natural Resources Science<\/em>, “Inventing Ecosystems: The Rhetoric of Science in an Ecological Age”<\/a><\/p>\n

Annu Palakunnathu Matthew<\/strong>, Art & Art History<\/em>, “SHELTERED: The Italians Who Saved the Escaped Prisoners of War during WWII”<\/a><\/p>\n

Joy Ellison<\/strong>, Gender & Women’s Studies<\/em>, “Forgotten Feminists: Midwestern Trans Movements (1945-2000)”<\/a><\/p>\n

Leah Heilig<\/strong>, Professional & Public Writing<\/em>, “Rhetorics and Tactics of the Antiwork Movement: Writing the Great Resignation”<\/a><\/p>\n

Humanities Graduate Research Grant Award<\/h3>\n

Ricky Mather<\/strong>, History<\/em>, “Medical History of Gunshot Wounds During the First World War”<\/a><\/p>\n

Graduate Conference Travel Grant Award<\/h3>\n

Soph Green<\/strong>, English<\/em>, “Phantom of the Black Earth”<\/a><\/p>\n

Amy Helminen<\/strong>, English<\/em>, “Psychosocial Tensions in Virginia Woolf’s Work”<\/a><\/p>\n

Nina Sannes<\/strong>, English<\/em>, “Converging Dys\/Utopias in Octavia Butler’s Parable of the Sower<\/em>“<\/a><\/p>\n

Olivia Thomakos<\/strong>, English<\/em>, “Poetry and Blindness: Empathetic Reading Through Russell Brakefield”<\/a><\/p>\n

Richard M. McGee<\/strong>, History<\/em>, “The Devil Drives their Money: Reframing Atlantic Witchcraft with an Economic Lens”<\/a><\/p>\n

Leanne Oden<\/strong>, English<\/em>, “Conjunctural Analysis: Three Guineas<\/em> by Virginia Woolf and British Cultural Studies”<\/a><\/p>\n

Grants Awarded, 2023-24<\/h3>\n

Humanities Faculty Research Grant Award<\/h3>\n

Joy Ellison<\/strong>, Gender & Women’s Studies<\/em>, “Disabled and Transgender: The History of an American Movement” <\/a><\/p>\n

Annu Palakunnathu Matthew<\/strong>, Art & Art History<\/em>, “SHELTERED: The Italians Who Saved the Escaped Indian Prisoners”<\/a><\/p>\n

Luis Viquez Cordoba<\/strong>, Music<\/em>, “Purchase of Orchestral Conducting Critical Editions\/Music Scores for Study”<\/a><\/p>\n

Michael Ortiz<\/strong>, History, <\/em>“The People’s Olympiad and the Spanish Civil War”<\/a><\/p>\n

Kyuhyun Han<\/strong>, History<\/em>, “Seeing the Forest Like a State: Forest Management, Wildlife Conservation, and Center-Periphery Relations in Northeast China, 1949-1988″<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

Humanities Faculty Subvention Grant Award<\/h3>\n

Peter Covino<\/strong>, English<\/em>, “What Sex is Death: Selected Poems of Dario Bellezza”<\/a><\/p>\n

Michelangelo La Luna<\/strong>, Italian<\/em>, “Dante a Harvard: Commentary on the Divine Comedy by Falso Boccaccio”<\/a><\/p>\n

Christine Mok<\/strong>, English<\/em>, “Once in the Countryside: A Collection of Play by Lloyd Suh,” edited by Christine Mok<\/a><\/p>\n

James Haile III<\/strong>, Philosophy\/English<\/em>, “The Dark Delight of Being Strange: Stories”<\/a><\/p>\n

David Faflik<\/strong>, English<\/em>, “Plus Minas: Brazil’s Beautiful Game in Crisis Times”<\/a><\/p>\n

Sarah Eron<\/strong>, English<\/em>, “Routledge Companion to Eighteenth-Century Literatures in English”<\/a><\/p>\n

Humanities Graduate Research Grant Award<\/h3>\n

Michael Stutz<\/strong>, English<\/em>, “This Peculiar Language: Talking ‘Race’ in the Postwar Literary Marketplace”<\/a><\/p>\n

Payton Becker<\/strong>, Textile, Fashion Merchandising, and Design<\/em>, “Investigation of Ancient Egyptian Textiles”<\/a><\/p>\n

Adri\u00e1n Montero Moya and Mo\u00e9 Takamatsu<\/strong>, Music<\/em>, “Hashi”<\/a><\/p>\n

Humanities Graduate Conference Travel Grant<\/h3>\n

Holly Allen<\/strong>, English<\/em>, “I May Be the Next: Fear of the Queer in ‘The Thing on the Doorstep’ by H.P. Lovecraft”<\/a><\/p>\n

Aidan Barlow-Diemer<\/strong>, History<\/em>, “Trauma, Memory, and Identity: Connection Through Conflict”<\/a><\/p>\n

Leanne Oden<\/strong>, English<\/em>, “Into the Heart of Silence: Human-Agent Interaction in Woolf’s Between the Acts<\/em>“<\/a><\/p>\n

Nancy Olivares<\/strong>, Music<\/em>, “Bridging Borders Through Music: Support for Attending NOI+F”<\/a><\/p>\n

Eve Potvin<\/strong>, English<\/em>, “The Dame, the Cross-Dresser, and Rochester: Deception and Trans Perception in Jane Eyre<\/em>“<\/a><\/p>\n

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Grants Awarded, 2022-23<\/h3>\n

Humanities Faculty Research Grant Award<\/h3>\n

Rachel Walshe<\/strong>, Theater, <\/em>“Lost and Found: Shakespeare’s Children”<\/a><\/p>\n

Kathleen McIntyre<\/strong>, Gender & Women’s Studies\/Honors Program, <\/em>\u201cProtestantismo, usos y costumbres y el PRI en Oaxaca; 1977-2006\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n

Catherine Sama<\/strong>, Modern & Classical Languages and Literatures,<\/em> \u201cVoices of the Women in the Italian Resistance: Three Stories of Partnership with the U.S. Office of Strategic Services\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n

Erin L. McCutcheon<\/strong>, Art & Art History, <\/em>\u201cCentering the Artist\/Mother: Women\u2019s Activism and Artistic Practice in Mexico City\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n

Christine Zozula<\/strong>, Sociology, <\/em>\u201cGluttons for Punishment: Towards a Politics of True Crime\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n

Humanities Faculty Subvention Grant Award<\/h3>\n

I\u00f1aki P\u00e9rez-Ib\u00e1\u00f1ez<\/strong>, Modern & Classical Languages and Literatures, <\/em>“Critical Edition of the Play Fuego de Dios en el querer bien<\/em> by Calderon” <\/a><\/p>\n

Ashish Chadha<\/strong>, Film\/Media, <\/em>\u201cPostproduction for Fragmentary Discourse on Nothingness\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n

Susan Hannel<\/strong>, Textiles, Fashion Merchandising, and Design,<\/em> \u201cThe \u2018Roaring\u2019 Twenties and African Wildlife in Fashionable Dress\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n

Humanities Graduate Research Grant Award<\/h3>\n

Yiping Zhang<\/strong>, Education<\/em>, “Students’ Foreign Language Anxiety in the Chinese Flagship Program”<\/a><\/p>\n

“The Winnie” Grant Award<\/h3>\n

Vilde Aaslid & Samuel Hollister<\/strong>, Music\/Music History & Conductor of URI Symphony Orchestra, <\/em>“The Emilie Mayer Project”<\/a><\/p>\n

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Grants Awarded, 2021-22<\/h3>\n

Humanities Faculty Research Grant Award<\/h3>\n

Marcus Nevius<\/strong>, History, <\/em>“The Revolution from Below: A Story of Race and Slavery in the Old Dominion, 1760s to the 1790s”<\/a><\/p>\n

Manuba Takasawa<\/strong>, Music, <\/em>“Music Behind the Barbed Wire: Musical and Cultural Activities in the Manzanar War Relocation Center and Other Japanese Internment Camps”<\/a><\/p>\n

Humanities Faculty Subvention Grant Award<\/h3>\n

Alan Verskin, <\/strong>History, <\/em>“Diary of a Black Jewish Messiah: The Sixteenth-Century Journey of David Reubeni through Africa, the Middle East, and Europe”<\/a><\/p>\n

Annu Palakunnathu Matthew<\/strong>, Art and Art History, <\/em>“ReVision: Exhibition at the Newport Art Museum”<\/a><\/p>\n

Nicolai Petro<\/strong>, Political Science, <\/em>“The Tragedy of Ukraine: What Classical Greek Tragedy Teaches About Conflict”<\/a><\/p>\n

Humanities Graduate Research Grant Award<\/h3>\n

Andrew Simmons<\/strong>, Pre-Health Professions & Honor Program<\/em>, “‘Fewer and Better Doctors:’ Medical Admission in the United States, 1900-1970”<\/a><\/p>\n

Jiangping Cai<\/strong>, Education<\/em>, “The Lived Experience of Multilingual Learners in a Higher Education Language Program”<\/a><\/p>\n

Sue Yon Kim<\/strong>, English, <\/em>“The Silenced Other: Narratives of Undocumented Asian Americans”<\/a><\/p>\n

Rebecca Sobus<\/strong>, History, <\/em>“Under Guard: A Cast Study of the S.S. Black Point and U-853 for the Production of Comprehensive War Memorials”<\/a><\/p>\n

“The Winnie” Grant Award<\/h3>\n

Linda Welters, Susan Jerome, and Rebecca Kelly<\/strong>, Textiles, Fashion Merchandising, and Design,<\/em> “Every Quilt Tells a Story”<\/a><\/p>\n

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Grants Awarded, 2020-21 <\/h3>\n

Humanities Faculty Research Grant Award<\/h3>\n

David Faflik<\/strong>, English, \u201cPlus Minas: Profiles in Brazil\u2019s Beautiful World\u201d<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n

Kathleen McIntyre<\/strong>, Honors\/Gender and Women’s Studies<\/em>, \u201c\u2018Arriba las Metodistas\u2019: Educaci\u00f3n protestante, deportes y sufragio transnacional\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n

Catherine DeCesare<\/strong>, History<\/em>, \u201cBermuda Prize\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n

Ximena Sevilla<\/strong>, History<\/em>, “On the Edge of the Wild: Representations of Peru\u2019s Monta\u00f1a Region and its Indigenous Peoples, an Enduring Borderland between the Andean and Amazonian Worlds (1543-1880)”<\/a><\/p>\n

Humanities Subvention Grant Award<\/h3>\n

Melissa Villa-Nicholas<\/strong>, Library and Information Studies<\/em>, \u201cLatinas on the Line: Invisible Information Workers in Telecommunications\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n

Ignacio Perez-Ibanez<\/strong>, Modern and Classical Languages and Literature<\/em>, \u201cMetatheater in the Spanish Golden Age\u201d<\/a> <\/p>\n

Hilda Llor\u00e9ns<\/strong>, Anthropology, Decolonizing Feminisms: Antiracist and Transnational Praxis, University of Washington Press.<\/a><\/em><\/header>\n
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“The Winnie” Grant Winner<\/strong><\/h3>\n

Kevin Gilmore & Jacob Richman, <\/strong>Art, The 79 Moons of Jupiter<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n

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“The Winnie” Grant Runner Up<\/strong><\/h3>\n<\/header>\n

Kristine Bovy<\/strong>, Sociology & Anthropology<\/em>, Catherine DeCesare<\/strong>, History<\/em>, Rod Mather<\/strong>, History, The URI Campus: A Walk Through Time<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/header>\n<\/div>\n<\/header>\n

“The Winnie” Grant Runner Up<\/strong><\/div>\n
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Mohamed Anis Ferchichi & Shanee Stepakoff, PhD Students,<\/strong> English<\/em>, Literary Portrayals of Palestinian Lives<\/a><\/em><\/span><\/div>\n

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Grants Awarded, 2019-2020<\/h3>\n

Graduate Research Grants<\/u><\/h3>\n

Rachel Afua Ansong<\/strong>, English<\/em>, \u201cAdinkra: Akans in the Gullah Geechee.\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n

William Bowen, <\/strong>English<\/em>,<\/strong> “Information Literacy and Ethics in the Age of Technological Disruption.”<\/a>  <\/p>\n

Stephen Luce, <\/strong>History,<\/em> \u201cThe Battle for Providence: How the Portuguese, English, Spanish and Africans Fought for Control of Providence Island, 1629-1670.” <\/a><\/p>\n

Katherine Williams-O’Donnell<\/strong>, Textiles, Fashion Merchandising and Design<\/em>, “The 1697 Quilt Blocks: An Object\u2019s Life and History.”<\/a><\/p>\n

Faculty Research Grants<\/h3>\n

David Faflik<\/strong>, English<\/em>, \u201cBenjamin Franklin em Brasil.\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n

Scott Kushner<\/strong>, Communications Studies,<\/em> \u201cCrowd Control: Organizing Audiences around Spectacle in the Industrial Era.\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n

Faculty Subvention Grants<\/u><\/h3>\n

David Faflik<\/strong>, English<\/em>, Urban Formalism: The Work of City Reading. <\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

James Haile<\/strong>, Philosophy<\/em>, The Buck, the Black, and the Existential Hero: Refiguring the Black Male Literary Canon, 1850 to Present.<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

Galen Johnson<\/strong>, Philosophy<\/em>, Merleau-Ponty\u2019s Poetic of the World: Philosophy and Literature.<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

Leslie Kealhofer-Kemp<\/strong>, Languages,<\/em> ReFocus: The Films of Rachid Bouchareb.<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

Alan Verskin<\/strong>, History<\/em>, A Vision of Yemen: The Travels of a European Orientalist and His Native Guide.<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

The Winnie<\/strong><\/p>\n

Jessica Strubel<\/strong>, Textiles, Fashion Merchandising and Design, The Kaleidoscope of Textiles: Dress as Multidimensional Cultural Documents<\/i><\/a><\/p>\n

Visiting Scholars<\/u><\/h3>\n

At the invitation of Professor Kathleen Davis, <\/strong>English<\/em>, Honoree Jeffers (Professor of English, University of Oklahoma) will speak as part of URI\u2019s annual \u201cThe Caged Bird Sing\u201d Poetry Contest and Festival in Fall 2020.<\/p>\n

Professor Ignacio Perez-Ibanez, <\/strong>Languages<\/em>, has arranged for Professor Miguel Zugasti (Professor of Literature, Universidad de Navarra) to speak at URI\u2019s international conference on Hispanic Golden Age theater in May 2021.<\/p>\n

Professor Ryan Trimm, <\/strong>English<\/em>, will bring in Lewis Gordon (Professor of English, University of Connecticut) to speak about \u201cA Philosophical Look at Black Music\u201d during the 2020-21 academic year.<\/p>\n

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Grants Awarded, 2018-2019<\/h2>\n

Faculty Research Grants<\/h3>\n

Erik Loomis<\/strong>, History<\/em>, \u201cThe Making of the Pacific Northwest, 1960 to the Present.\u201d<\/p>\n

Ignacio Perez<\/strong>, Modern and Classical Languages and Literature, <\/em>“Study of Guillen de Castro\u2019s works: Establishing a Reliable Corpus and Thematic Analysis.”<\/p>\n

Catherine Osbourne DeCesare<\/strong>, History<\/em>, “Trying Times and Trials: The Ship of John Jay Navigates the Challenges of Global Trade and War.”<\/p>\n

Ann Terry<\/strong>, <\/em>Art and Art History,<\/em> “Archaeological Fieldwork at Ancient Arsino\u00eb (Polis-tes-Chrysochou) in Cyprus.”<\/p>\n

Faculty Subvention Grants<\/h3>\n

Marcus Nevius,<\/strong> History<\/em>, \u201ccity of refuge\u201d: Slavery and Petit Marronage in the Great Dismal Swamp, 1763-1856<\/em>.<\/p>\n

Kathleen M. McIntyre<\/strong>, <\/em>Gender and Women’s Studies,<\/em> “Protestantism and State Formation in Postrevolutionary Oaxaca.”<\/p>\n

Junior Faculty Summer Stipend<\/h3>\n

Christine Mok, <\/strong>English<\/em>, Disorientations: Performance and Racial Form in Asian America.<\/em><\/p>\n

James Haile III, <\/strong>Philosophy<\/em>, Jean-Paul Sartre and the Black Aesthetic<\/em>.<\/p>\n

Graduate Research Grants<\/h3>\n

Afua Rachel Ansong<\/strong>, English<\/em>, \u201cAdinkra: Decoding the Colors of our Skins Through Cultural Displacement of Enslaved Africans.\u201d<\/p>\n

Serap Hidir<\/strong>, English<\/em>, \u201cCaptivity Narrative Archival Research.\u201d<\/p>\n

Austin Rojas<\/strong>, History<\/em>, \u201cLet Sleeping Dogs Lie: The English Conquest of Jamaica.\u201d<\/p>\n

Katherine Canfield<\/strong>, Marine Affairs,<\/em> “Tourism and Justice on Catalina Island: Perceptions of Power, Burdens, and Decision-Making.”<\/p>\n

The Winnie<\/h3>\n

Jessica Frazier, <\/b><\/strong>Marine Affairs, History, and Gender and Women\u2019s Studies<\/em>, <\/b><\/strong>and Amelia Moore, <\/b><\/strong>Marine Affairs<\/em>, \u201cPublic Memory, Place, and Belonging: Unearthing the Hidden History of the Native and African American Presence on Block Island.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Grants Awarded, 2017-2018<\/h2>\n

Faculty Research Grants<\/h3>\n

David Faflik<\/strong>, English<\/em>, for his project Passing Transcendental: Harvard, Heresy, and the Modern American Origins of Unbelief<\/em>.<\/p>\n

Jessica Frazier<\/strong>, History<\/em>, Marine<\/em> Affairs<\/em>, and GWS<\/em>, for her project \u201cEquality, Development, and Peace: The Global Women\u2019s
\nMovement, 1970-2000.\u201d<\/p>\n

Erik Loomis<\/strong>, History<\/em>, for his project, \u201cThe Making of the Modern Pacific Northwest, 1960 to the Present.\u201d<\/p>\n

Naomi Mandel<\/strong>, English<\/em>, for her project Hack: Game: Code<\/em>.<\/p>\n

Christine Mok<\/strong>, English<\/em>, for her project \u201cImpossible Stages: Asian American Poetics, Politics, and the Novel.\u201d<\/p>\n

Ann Terry<\/strong>, Art and Art History<\/em>, for her project \u201cArchaeological Fieldwork at Ancient Arsino\u00eb (Polis-tes-Chrysochou) in Cyprus.\u201d<\/p>\n

Faculty Subvention Grants<\/h3>\n

Molly Hall and Kara Watts<\/strong>, English<\/em>, for their edited collection, Affective Materialities: Reorienting the Body in Modernist Literature<\/em>.<\/p>\n

Julie Keller<\/strong>, Sociology and Anthropology<\/em>, for her project, Milking in the Shadows: Migrants and Mobility in America\u2019s Dairyland<\/em>.<\/p>\n

Ryan Trimm<\/strong>, English<\/i>, for his book Heritage and the Legacy of the Past in Contemporary Britain<\/i>.<\/p>\n

Jean Walton<\/strong>, English<\/em>, for her book Mudflat Dreaming: Waterfront Battles and the Squatters who Fought them in 1970s Vancouver. <\/em><\/p>\n

Graduate Research Grants<\/h3>\n

Miranda DiCenzo<\/strong>, Textiles, Fashion Merchandising, and Design<\/em>, for her project, \u201cFeminism and Fashion of the Twentieth Century: A Material Culture Study.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Winnie<\/h3>\n

Ronald Onorato<\/strong>, Art and Art History<\/em>, \u201cVirtual House, Virtual Neighborhood.\u201d<\/p>\n

Runner-Up: <\/strong>Linda Welters<\/strong>, Textiles, Fashion Merchandising, and Design<\/em>, for her project, \u201cDigitization of URI\u2019s Historic Textile and Costume Collection.\u201d<\/p>\n

Visiting Scholar Grants<\/h3>\n

Hilda Llor\u00e9ns<\/strong>, Sociology and Anthropology<\/em>, for the visit of filmmaker Damien Sainz.<\/p>\n

Michelangelo La Luna<\/strong>, Modern and Classical Languages<\/em>, for the visits of Associate Professor Alessandra Di Maio and Dacia Maraini.<\/p>\n

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Grants Awarded, 2016-2017<\/h2>\n

Faculty Research Grants<\/strong><\/h3>\n

Erik Loomis, <\/strong>History<\/em>, \u201cThe Making of the Modern Pacific Northwest, 1960 to the Present.\u201d<\/p>\n

Marcus Nevius,<\/strong> History<\/em>, \u201c\u2018city of refuge\u2019: Petit Marronage and Slave Economy in the Great Dismal Swamp, 1790-1860.\u201d <\/em><\/p>\n

Christian Gonzales<\/strong>, History<\/em>, \u201cAntislavery Thought among Native Americans in the Early United States.\u201d<\/p>\n

Scott Kushner<\/strong>,<\/a> Communications<\/em>, \u201cHigh-Tech Tickets: How Access to Culture Started to Compute.\u201d<\/p>\n

James Ward<\/strong>, History<\/em>, Modern Expropriation as a Voyage on the Danube: A History of Inner Logics.<\/em><\/p>\n

Travis Williams<\/strong>, English,<\/em> \u201cRace, Color, Genre: The Recent Screen History of Much Ado About Nothing.<\/em>\u201d<\/p>\n

Faculty Subvention Grants<\/b><\/h3>\n

Lars Erikson<\/strong>, French<\/em>, French for Engineering.<\/em><\/p>\n

Jessica Frazier<\/strong>, History and Gender and Women\u2019s Studies<\/em>, Women\u2019s Antiwar Diplomacy during the Viet Nam War Era.<\/em><\/p>\n

Graduate Student Research<\/b> Grants<\/h3>\n

Molly Hall, <\/strong>English<\/em>, \u201cWriting Home from World War I: The Dark Pastorals of the British Modernist Novel.\u201d<\/p>\n

Catherine Winters<\/strong>, English<\/em>, “Giving Voice.”<\/p>\n

Wesley Hale<\/strong>, History<\/em>, German Warships and Sailors at the End of the First World War.<\/em><\/p>\n

Danielle Sanfilippo<\/strong>, English<\/em>, \u201cThe Skipping King: Aristocratic Masculinity and Effeminacy in Early Modern Literature.”<\/em><\/p>\n

Visiting Scholar Grants<\/h3>\n

Robert Dilworth<\/strong>, Art and Art History,<\/em> To support the honoraria for the presentations in the exhibit “Invisible Bodies, Disposable Cloth: Rhode Island and Slavery, 1783-1850’s.”<\/p>\n

Galen Johnson<\/strong>, Philosophy<\/em>, for the visit of Professor Rajiv Kaushik, participating in the “Arts and Phenomenology Today Conference.”<\/p>\n

Travis Williams<\/strong>, English<\/em>, and Valerie Karno<\/strong>, English<\/em>, for the visit of N. Katherine Hayles and her talk “Contesting the Meaning of Meaning: Cognitive Technologies, Cognitive Humans, Cognitive Others.”<\/p>\n

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Grants Awarded, 2015-2016<\/h2>\n

Faculty Research Grants<\/strong><\/h3>\n

Ronald Onorato<\/strong>, Art and Art History<\/em>, George Champlin Mason Jr., the Colonial Revival and Preservation in American Architecture.<\/em><\/p>\n

Jo\u00eblle Rollo Koster<\/strong>, History<\/em>, “Popes and Intruders: A History of the Great Western Schism (1378-1417).”<\/p>\n

Erik Loomis<\/strong>, History<\/em>, \u201cFrom Timber Capital to Portlandia: The Transformation of the Pacific Northwest, 1960-2010.\u201d<\/p>\n

Evelyn Sterne<\/strong>, History<\/em>, \u201cThe House of David: A Tale of Faith and Folly in Twentieth-Century America.\u201d<\/p>\n

Robert van Horn<\/strong>, Economics<\/em>, “The Contributions of Businesspersons to the Development of Economics.”<\/p>\n

Faculty Subvention Grants<\/b><\/h3>\n

Jo\u00eblle Rollo-Koster<\/strong>, History<\/em>, Death in Medieval Europe: Death Scripted and Death Choreographed.<\/em><\/p>\n

Mary Cappello<\/strong>, English<\/em>, Life Breaks In: A Mood Almanack<\/em>.<\/p>\n

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Graduate Student Research<\/b> Grants<\/h3>\n

Anna Rose Keefe<\/strong>, Textile, Merchandising, and Design<\/em>, The origins of feather pereline capes popular in America and Europe during the mid-nineteenth century.<\/em><\/p>\n

Alanna Casey<\/strong>, Marine Affairs<\/em>, \u201cIncorporating Historical Perspective into Climate Change Assessments of Coastal Cultural Heritage.\u201d<\/p>\n

J. Ra\u00fal Cornier<\/strong>, Textile, Merchandising, and Design<\/em>, \u201cHanky Panky: The Cultural Impact of the Hanky Code.\u201d<\/p>\n

Kara Watts<\/strong>, English<\/em>, \u201cModernism\u2019s Charming Aesthetics.\u201d<\/p>\n

Visiting Scholar Grants<\/h3>\n

Linda Welters<\/strong>, Textiles, Merchandising, and Design.<\/em> For the visit of Dr. Tanisha Ford of the University of Massachusetts-Amherst, and her talk \u201cLiberated Threads: Black Women, Style, and the Global Politics of Soul.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Grants Awarded, 2014-2015<\/h2>\n

Faculty Research Grants<\/strong><\/h3>\n

Rob Widell<\/strong>, History<\/em>, Alabama’s Attica: Johnny ‘Imani’ Harris, the Atmore-Holman Brothers, and the Origins of the ‘New Jim Crow.’<\/em><\/p>\n

Blaire Gagnon<\/strong>, Textiles, Fashion Merchandising, and Design,<\/em> Rhode Island Sampler Statewide Survey.<\/p>\n

Faculty Subvention Grants<\/b><\/h3>\n

Naomi Mandel<\/strong>, English<\/em>, Disappear Here: Violence After Generation X.<\/em><\/p>\n

Leslie Kealhofer-Kemp<\/strong>, Languages<\/em>, Muslim Women in French Cinema<\/i>: Voices of Maghrebi Migrants in France<\/i>.<\/p>\n

Kim Hensley Owens<\/strong>, Writing and Rhetoric<\/em>, Writing Childbirth: Women’s Rhetorical Agency in Labor and Online.<\/i><\/p>\n

Galen Johnson, <\/strong>Philosophy<\/em>, Merleau-Ponty’s Poets and Poetics.<\/em><\/p>\n

Graduate Student Research<\/b> Grants<\/h3>\n

Amy Foley, <\/strong>English, Faulkner’s Phenomenology: “Lived” Spaces in Fictive Southern Architecture<\/em>.<\/p>\n

Michele Meek, <\/strong>English, A Dangerous Girl or a Girl in Danger?: Shifting Sexual Agency in Narratives about Amy Fisher.<\/em><\/p>\n

Brittany Hirth, <\/strong>English, Absurdity and Artistry in Twentieth-Century American War Literature<\/em>.<\/p>\n

Rachel May, <\/strong>English, The Vanishe- Yesterday: 1798-1952.<\/em><\/p>\n

Johanna Tower, <\/strong>Textiles, Fashion Merchandising, and Design, “Fresh and Fashionable Goods”: The Account Books of Elijah Boardman, Connecticut Merchant, 1784-1811.<\/em><\/p>\n

Visiting Scholar Grants<\/h3>\n

Leslie Kealhofer-Kemp<\/strong>, Assistant Professor of French. For the visit of Professor Michael Gott of Cincinnati University, and his talk “\u201cSmall Nation, Big Markets: The Mobility of French-Language Cinema from Belgium.\u201d<\/p>\n

Jody Lisberger, <\/strong>Associate Professor of Gender and Women’s Studies. For the Ocean State Summer Writing Conference.<\/p>\n

Adam Roth,<\/strong> 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?”<\/p>\n

David Faflik<\/strong>, Assistant Professor of English. For the visit of Branka Arsi\u0107 and her talk \u201cSwamps, Leaves, Galls: Thoreau on Disease and Decay.\u201d<\/p>\n

Mary Hollinshead, <\/b>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.”<\/p>\n

Carolyn Betensky<\/strong>, 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.”<\/p>\n

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Grants Awarded, 2013-2014 <\/b><\/h2>\n

Faculty Research Grants<\/b><\/h3>\n

Leslie Kealhofer-Kemp<\/strong>, Professor of Languages, Muslim Women in French Cinema<\/i>: Voices of Maghrebi Migrants in France<\/i>.<\/p>\n

Erik Loomis<\/strong>, Professor of History, \u201cEmpire of Timber: Labor Unions and the Pacific Northwest Forests.\u201d<\/i><\/p>\n

Ashish Chadha<\/b>, Professor of Film, \u201cArchiving Indian 8mm\/Super 8 Home Movies.\u201d<\/p>\n

David Faflik<\/b>, Professor of English, \u201cPassing Transcendental: Harvard, Heresy, and the Modern American Origins of Nonbelief.\u201d<\/p>\n

Josie Sigler Sibara<\/b>, Professor of English, The Flying Sampietrini: A Novel<\/i>.<\/p>\n

Robert Widell<\/b>, Professor of History, \u201cSustaining \u2018The Movement\u2019 in the Age of Reagan: The Southern Organizing Committee for Social and Economic Justice.\u201d<\/p>\n

Faculty Subvention Grants<\/b><\/h3>\n

Nancy Caronia<\/b>, Lecturer and Graduate student in Writing and Rhetoric, Effects: Essays on Memoir, Teaching, and Culture in the Work of Louise DeSalvo<\/i>.<\/p>\n

Naomi Mandel,<\/b> Professor in English, Disappear Here: Violence After Generation X<\/i>.<\/p>\n

Sarah Eron<\/b>, Professor of English, Inspiration in the Age of Enlightenment<\/i>.<\/p>\n

Visiting Scholar Grants<\/b><\/h3>\n

Linda Welters<\/b>, 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: \u201cDressing Dangerously: Dysfunctional Fashion on Film.\u201d<\/p>\n

Zoila Castro<\/b> and Susana de los Heros<\/b>, Professors of Hispanic Studies. For the visit of Salvadorean writer Horacio Castellanos and his talk \u201cFiction and Reality: Literature\u2019s Fight Against Violence and Politcal Turmoil.\u201d<\/p>\n

Michelangelo La Luna<\/strong>, Languages. For the visit of Dacia Mariani on URI’s International Women’s Day.<\/p>\n

<\/b>Graduate Student Research<\/b> Grants<\/h3>\n

Anna Brecke<\/strong>, English, Elizabeth Braddon, Working Culture and the OED.<\/i><\/p>\n

Kim Evelyn<\/strong>, English, At Home in the Diaspora: Domesticity and Nationalism in Postwar and Contemporary Caribbean Fiction<\/i>.<\/p>\n

Sarah Kruse<\/strong>, English, \u201cThe Color of Grammar: Cendrars\u2019 Po\u00e8m<\/i> Simultan\u00e9<\/i>, Stein\u2019s Tender Buttons, and Wittgenstein\u2019s Color.\u201d<\/p>\n

Jenna Teachout<\/strong>, History, The Commercialization of Taste: The Consumer Revolution in Newport, Rhode Island<\/i>.<\/p>\n

Abigail Casavant<\/b>, History and Underwater Archealogy, \u201cUnearthing Coffin Ships: 19th<\/sup> Century Irish Immigrant Shipwrecks of the Atlantic.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Grants and Fellowships Awarded, 2012-2013<\/h2>\n

Faculty Research Grants<\/strong><\/h3>\n

Mark Conley<\/strong>, Professor of Music, \u201cChoral Music and Human Rights: Manda Wilderness Community Trust Choral Festival.\u201d<\/p>\n

Peter Covino<\/strong>, Professor of English, \u201cDario Bellezza: Selected Poems<\/em>.\u201d<\/p>\n

David Faflik<\/strong>, Professor of English, “Strong Reading: Culture, Class, and the Lost U.S. Metropolis.”<\/p>\n

Naomi Mandel<\/strong>, Professor of English, Disappear Here: Violence After Generation X<\/em><\/p>\n

Sabbatical Fellowships<\/strong><\/h3>\n

Kim Owens<\/strong>, Professor of Writing and Rhetoric, \u201cEducation en Caja\/ Education Boxed Up.\u201d<\/p>\n

Andrea Rusnock<\/strong>, Professor of History, \u201cThe Birth of Vaccination: An Environmental History.\u201d<\/p>\n

Catherine Sama<\/strong>, Professor of Languages, \u201cCorrespondence of an Eighteenth Century Venetian Artist.\u201d<\/p>\n

Travis Williams<\/strong>, Professor of English, \u201cDimension and Degree; Literature, Rhetoric, and Mathematics in the Age of Shakespeare.\u201d<\/p>\n

Faculty Subvention Grants<\/strong><\/h3>\n

Mary Hollinshead<\/strong>, Professor of Art and Art History, \u201cThe Last Steps of Shaping Ceremony<\/em>.\u201d<\/p>\n

Annu Palakunnathu Matthew<\/strong>, Professor of Art and Art History, \u201cRe<\/em>-Generations-An Open Wound.\u201d<\/p>\n

Junior Faculty Fellowships<\/strong><\/h3>\n

Jennifer Jones<\/strong>, Professor of English, \u201cBeyond Repair:Wordsworth, Consolation, <\/em>Romanticism<\/em>.\u201d<\/p>\n

Visiting Scholar Grants<\/h3>\n

Bridget Buxton<\/strong>, History. For the visit of Dr. John Hale, University of Louisville, Kentucky and his talk, \u201cDragons of the North: the World of Viking Longships.\u201d<\/p>\n

Mary Capello, <\/strong>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.”<\/p>\n

Travis Williams<\/strong>, English and Andrea Rusnock<\/strong>, 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.”<\/p>\n

Graduate Research Grants<\/strong><\/h3>\n

Beazley Kanost<\/strong>, English, \u201cWhose Cool? Directing \u2018Truth\u2019s\u2019 Authority Across Gender and Race in Portrait of Jason<\/em>.\u201d<\/p>\n

Megan Martinelli<\/strong>, Textiles, Fashion Merchandising, and Design, ‘”Would Live Like Ancient Greeks”: The Art and Life of Raymond Duncan.'”<\/p>\n

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Grants and Fellowships Awarded, 2011-2012<\/h2>\n

Faculty Research<\/h3>\n

Erik Loomis<\/strong>, Professor of History. “Empire of Timber: Work and Nature in the Pacific Northwest Forest.“<\/strong><\/p>\n

Ron Onorato<\/strong>, Professor of Art and Art History. “George Champlin Mason Jr., the Colonial Revival and Preservation in American Architecture.”<\/p>\n

Robert Van Horn<\/strong>, Professor of Economics. “Constructing Conditions for Success: Laying the Institutional Foundations of the Postwar Chicago School of Antitrust.”<\/p>\n

Jo\u00eblle Rollo-Koster<\/strong>, Professor of History. Avignon and its Papacy (1309-1417): Popes, Institutions, Society and Culture <\/em>(Rowman and Littlefield Press 2015).<\/p>\n

Evelyn Sterne<\/strong>, Professor of History. Blue state Bible Belt: Evangelical Christians in Twentieth-Century New England<\/em>.<\/p>\n

Margaret Ordonez<\/strong>, Textiles, Fashion Merchandising and Design. Electron Microscopic Analysis of Classic Period Maya Textiles<\/em>.<\/p>\n

Bridget Buxton<\/strong>. History. “Israel Coast Exploration Project.”<\/p>\n

Sabbatical Fellowships <\/strong><\/h3>\n

Carolyn Betensky<\/strong>, Professor of English, “Translation of Les Mysteres de Paris (from the French).”<\/p>\n

Annu Palakunnathu Matthew<\/strong>, Professor of Art and Art History, “Expanding Re-Generations.”<\/p>\n

Faculty Subvention Grant <\/strong><\/h3>\n

Martha Elena Rojas<\/strong>, Professor of English, “Diplomatic Letters: Becoming a Nation Among Nations.”<\/p>\n

David Faflik<\/strong>, Professor of English. Boarding Out: Inhabiting the American Urban Literary Imagination, 1840-1860 <\/em>(Northwestern University Press, 2012).<\/p>\n

Zahra Meghani<\/strong>, Professor of Philosophy. “Migrant Women Workers: Ethical and Political Issues.”<\/em><\/p>\n

Travis Williams<\/strong>, English. “The Earliest Printed Arithmetic Book”<\/p>\n

Junior Faculty Fellowships<\/strong><\/h3>\n

Gina Valentino<\/strong>, Professor of English, “Hustling: Work, Survival, and U.S. Literature in the New Economy.”<\/p>\n

Pamela Warner<\/strong>, Professor of Art and Art History. Richard Beaupre Junior Faculty Fellowship. Re<\/em>alist Aesthetics: The Goncourt Brothers and the Language of Materialism.<\/em><\/p>\n

Karen de Bruin<\/strong>, Professor of Languages\/French. Shannon Chandley & Tom Silvia Junior Faculty Fellowship. Sibyll Disobedience: “Superior Woman” in the Early Nineteenth Century.<\/em><\/p>\n

Visiting Scholar Grants<\/strong><\/h3>\n

Kathleen Davis<\/strong>, 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.\u201d<\/p>\n

Kim Evelen and Michael Becker<\/strong>, English. For the visit of Dr. Timothy Brennan at the 5th annual URI Graduate Student Conference.<\/p>\n

Graduate Research Grants <\/strong><\/h3>\n

Sarah Naomi Campbell<\/strong>, History, “Queering Trans\/Feminism.”<\/p>\n

Rebekah Greene<\/strong>, English, “Books, Hats, Spoons, and Buttons: Property at Work in the Novels of Robert Louis Stevenson.”<\/p>\n

Rosaleen M. Keefe<\/strong>, English, “‘AnInternal Sense of Beauty’: Tolerance, the Study of Rhetoric, and Vernacular Poetry in 18th Century Scotland.”<\/p>\n

Andrew J. Ploeg<\/strong>, English. Mark & Donna Ross Graduate Research Grant. “Becoming<\/em>Undecidable: Conceptualizing the Numinous Through Space, Movement, and Novelty.”<\/p>\n

Mihaela P Harper<\/strong>, English. James Duffy Graduate Research Grant. “Ethical Anomie: Thinking, Writing, Living.”<\/p>\n

Grants and Fellowships Awarded, 2011-2012<\/h2>\n

Faculty Research Grants<\/strong><\/h3>\n

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Grants and Fellowships Awarded, 2010-2011<\/h2>\n

Faculty Research Grants<\/strong><\/h3>\n

Robert Weisbord<\/strong>, Professor of History, David and Tracey Maron Faculty Research Grant. \u201cRacial Questions in the Modern Olympics: The Case of South Africa.”<\/p>\n

William Krieger<\/strong>, Professor of Philosophy, Mark and Donna Ross Faculty Research Grant. “URI Program at Akko: Ethics, Epistemology, and Underwater Archaeology.”<\/p>\n

Megan Echevarria<\/strong>, Professor of Spanish, Richard Beaupre Faculty Research Grant. “Analysis of the Abraham Lincoln Brigade Archives.”<\/p>\n

Robert Dilworth<\/strong>, Professor of Art and Art History, ‘Telling Without Words: A Visual Narrative of One Town’s Changing Generation.’<\/p>\n

Bridget Buxton<\/strong>, Professor of History. Eric Roiter Faculty Research Grant. \u201cIsrael Coast Exploration Project.”<\/p>\n

Eve Sterne<\/strong>, Professor of History. Jabour Family (care of Paul Jabour) Faculty Research Grant. Blue State Bible Belt: Evangelical Christians in Twentieth-Century New England<\/em>.<\/p>\n

Faculty Sabbatical Fellowships<\/strong><\/h3>\n

Linda Welters<\/strong>, Professor of Textiles, Merchandising, and Design, Lori Merola Faculty Sabbatical Fellowship. “Dress, Identity, and Place.”<\/p>\n

Wendy Roworth<\/strong>, Art and Art History. “Angelica Kauffman and Painting History: Essays on an Enterprising Artist”<\/p>\n

Subvention Grants<\/strong><\/h3>\n

Carolyn Betensky<\/strong>, Professor of English, Shannon Chandley and Tom Silvia Subvention Grant. Feeling for the Poor: Bourgeois Compassion, Social Action, and the Victorian Novel.<\/em><\/p>\n

Susana de los Heros<\/strong>, 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.”<\/p>\n

Jeremiah Dyehouse<\/strong>, 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.”<\/p>\n

Junior Faculty Fellowships<\/h3>\n

Karen De Bruin<\/strong>, Languages. Sibyll Disobedience: “Superior Woman” in the Early Nineteenth Century<\/em><\/p>\n

Pamela Warner<\/strong>, Art and Art History. Realist Aesthetics: The Goncourt Brothers and the Language of Materialism<\/em><\/p>\n

Visiting<\/strong> Scholar Grant<\/h3>\n

Carolyn Betensky<\/strong>, English. For the visit of Dr. Martha Vicinus, Eliza M. Mosher Distinguished University Professor of English,
\nWomen\u2019s Studies and History University of Michigan and her talk \u201c\u2018An Aesthetic Pessimist\u2019: The Poet and Essayist A. Mary F. Robinson (1857-1944).\u201d<\/p>\n

Kim Evelyn and Michael Becker<\/strong>, English. For the visit of Dr. Timothy Brennan as the keynote for the URI Graduate Student Conference.<\/p>\n

Travis Williams<\/strong>, 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.”<\/p>\n

Wendy Roworth<\/strong>, Art and Art History. For the visit of filmmakers Ellen Weissbrod and Melissa Powell and the film screening of their work A Woman Like That<\/em>, a documentary on artist Artemisia Gentileschi (1593-1652).<\/div>\n

Graduate Student Research Grants<\/strong><\/h3>\n

Donald T. Rodrigues<\/strong>, English, “‘The Phoenix and Turtle’: Shakespeare’s Fuzzy Apocalypse.”<\/p>\n

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Grants and Fellowships Awarded, 2009-2010<\/h2>\n

Faculty Research Grants<\/strong><\/h3>\n

Michelangelo La Luna<\/strong>, Professor of Italian, Mark and Donna Ross Faculty Research Grant. “Girolamo De Rada’s Correspondence with Angelo De Gubernatis.”<\/p>\n

Faculty Subvention Grants<\/h3>\n

Pamela Warner<\/strong>, Professor of Art and Art History, Lori Merola Faculty Research Grant. “Interior Portraiture and Masculine Identity in France, 1780-1914.”<\/p>\n

Faculty Sabbatical Fellowships<\/strong><\/h3>\n

Joelle Rollo-Koster<\/strong>, Professor of History, Eric Roiter Faculty Sabbatical Fellowship. \u201cEmpty See: Avignon during the Great Western Schism (circa 1370-circa 1420).\u201d<\/p>\n

Mary Hollinshead<\/strong>, Professor of Art and Art History, Tom Silvia and Shannon Chandley Faculty Sabbatical Fellowship. \u201cAuxiliary Supports in Roman Sculpture.\u201d<\/p>\n

Fellowships in the Humanities for Junior Scholars<\/strong><\/h3>\n

Travis Williams<\/strong>, Assistant Professor of English, Mark and Donna Ross Junior Scholars Fellowship. \u201cStudies in Early Modern Literature, Rhetoric, and Mathematics.\u201d<\/p>\n

Visiting Scholar Grants<\/strong><\/h3>\n

Galen Johnson<\/strong>, Philosophy. For the visit of Prof. Duane Davis of the University of North Carolina \u2013 Asheville and his talk, \u201cDwelling and Dwellings in the Face of Modernity: Merleau-Ponty and Heidegger.\u201d<\/p>\n

Ryan Trimm<\/strong>, English. For the annual Ocean State Summer Writing Program<\/em>.<\/p>\n

Bryna Wortman<\/strong>, Theater. For the visit of playwright Laura Marks.<\/p>\n

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Grants and Fellowships Awarded, 2008-2009<\/h2>\n

Faculty Sabbatical Fellowships<\/strong><\/h3>\n

Jean Walton<\/strong>, Professor of English, Women’s Studies, and Film Media, “The Modern Peristaltic Subject: Bodies, Systems, Flows.”<\/p>\n

Robert C. Manteiga<\/strong>, Professor of Hispanic Studies, Comparative Literature, and Film Media, “The Eye and the Lens: The Cinematic World of Julio Medem.”<\/p>\n

Marie Jenkins Schwarz<\/strong>, Professor of History, “Secrets of the Slave Quarter: Intimate Relationships in Antebellum America.”<\/p>\n

Karen Stein<\/strong>, Professor of English and Women’s Studies, “Reading, Learning, Teaching Toni Morrison.”<\/p>\n

Faculty Research Grants<\/strong><\/h3>\n

Timothy S. George<\/strong>, Associate Professor of History, “Toruku: Mountain Dreams, Chemical Nightmares.”<\/p>\n

Joelle Rollo-Koster<\/strong>, Professor of History, “The People of Curial Avignon.”<\/p>\n

Alain-Philippe Durand<\/strong>, Department of Modern and Classical Languages and Literatures, “Jorge Amado and Albert Camus: Formative Literary Visions and Prewar Politics.”<\/p>\n

Travis D. Williams<\/strong>, Assistant Professor of English, \u201cLiterary Form in early Modern English Mathematics.\u201d<\/p>\n

Catherine Sama<\/strong>, Professor of Italian and Film Media, \u201cRosalba Carriera: Correspondence and Diary of an 18th Century Venetian Artist.\u201d<\/p>\n

Mary Cappello<\/strong>, Professor of English, \u201cSwallow: Foreign Bodies, their Ingestion, Aspiration, and Extraction in the age of Chevalier Jackson.\u201d<\/p>\n

Martha E. Rojas<\/strong>, Assistant Professor of English, \u201cDiplomatic Letters: Innovating Custom in the Early Republic.\u201d<\/p>\n

Graduate Research Grants<\/strong><\/h3>\n

John Hodgkins<\/strong>, English, “The Drift: Rethinking the Dynamics of Adaptation.”<\/p>\n

Matthew Ortoleva<\/strong>, Writing and Rhetoric, “Rhetorics of Place and Ecological Relationships: The Rhetorical Construction of Narragansett Bay.”<\/p>\n

George Steele<\/strong>, English and Film Media, “(Re)Scoring the Silent Film: Music, Modernism, Affect.”<\/p>\n

Subvention Grants<\/strong><\/h3>\n

Mary Cappello<\/strong>, Professor of English, “Swallow: Foreign Bodies, their Ingestion, Aspiration, and Extraction in the age of Chevalier Jackson.”<\/p>\n

Galen A. Johnson<\/strong>, Professor of Philosophy, “The Retrieval of the Beautiful: Thinking Through Merleau-Ponty’s Aesthetics.”<\/p>\n

Fellowships in the Humanities for Junior Scholars<\/strong><\/h3>\n

Jennifer Jones<\/strong>, English, “Virtual Romanticism: Artifice, Artificiality, and the Age of Wordsworth.” Deferred until Fall 2009.<\/p>\n

Visiting Scholar Grants<\/strong><\/h3>\n

Catherine Sama<\/strong>, Italian and Film Media. For the visit of Professor Antonia Arslan.<\/p>\n

Mary Hollinshead<\/strong>, 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.”<\/p>\n

Annu Matthew<\/strong>, 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.”<\/p>\n

Naomi Mandel<\/strong>, 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.”<\/p>\n

Carolyn Betensky<\/strong>, English. For the visit of Dr. Elaine Freedgood, Professor of English New York University Visiting Professor of English at Brown U, and her talk, \u201cThat People Might Be Like Things and Live.\u201d<\/p>\n

Judith Tolnick Champa<\/strong>, Fine Arts. For the visit of painter and thinker Arnold Mesches and his talk, “In the heat of vulnerability: the trajectory of a career.”<\/p>\n

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Grants and Fellowships Awarded, 2007-2008<\/h2>\n

Faculty Sabbatical Fellowships<\/h3>\n

Robert G. Weisbord<\/strong>, Professor of History, “Black Power and the 1968 Mexico City Olympics.”<\/p>\n

Evelyn Sterne<\/strong>, Associate Professor of History, “Blue State Bible Belt: Evangelical Protestantism in Twentieth-Century New England.”<\/p>\n

Lars O. Erickson<\/strong>, 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.”<\/p>\n

Ryan S. Trimm<\/strong>, Assistant Professor of English and Film Studies, “Cultural Value: Transacting Worth in Postimperial Britain.”<\/p>\n

Faculty Research Grants<\/h3>\n

Jennifer Jones<\/strong>, Assistant Professor of English, “Wordsworth and Italy: Inscription, Graffiti, and the Art of Nature.”<\/p>\n

Wendy Roworth<\/strong>, Professor of Art and Art History, “Salvator Rosa’s Fortuna and the Fortunes of Salvator Rosa.”<\/p>\n

Joelle Rollo-Koster<\/strong>, Professor of History, The People of Curial Avignon<\/em><\/p>\n

Timothy George<\/strong>, Professor of History, Toroku: Mountain Dreams, Chemical Nightmares<\/em><\/p>\n

Fellowships in the Humanities for Junior Scholars<\/h3>\n

Jeremiah Dyehouse<\/strong>, Assistant Professor in the College Writing Program, “Rhetorical Strategy in the American Museum of Natural History’s Halls of Vertebrate Evolution.”<\/p>\n

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Visiting Scholar Grant<\/strong><\/h3>\n

Ben Anderson<\/strong>, Art and Art History. For the visit of Albert Chong, University of Colorado, Boulder, and his talk \u201cThe Flight Trilogy.\u201d<\/p>\n

Manabu<\/strong> Takasawa<\/strong>, Music. For the visit of Dr. Susan Pickett, Catherine Chism Professor of Music at Whitman College.<\/p>\n

Ann Suter<\/strong>, Languages. For the visit of Dr. Georgia Karamitrou-Mentessidi.<\/p>\n

Alain-Philippe Durand and Naomi Mandel<\/strong>, English. For the visit of Chris Cleave, a British novelist, and his four presentations and workshops in creative writing.<\/p>\n

Stephen Barber and Jennifer Jones<\/strong>, English. For the visit of Professor Julie A. Carlson, Professor of English at the University of California, Santa Barbara.<\/p>\n

Stephen Barber and Jennifer Jones<\/strong>, English. For the visit of Professor David L. Clark.<\/p>\n

Naomi Mandel<\/strong>, 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.”<\/p>\n

Faculty Subvention Grants<\/h3>\n

John Peterson<\/strong>, Professor of Philosophy, Aquinas: A New Introduction<\/em><\/p>\n

Ric McIntyre<\/strong>, Honors Program and Professor of Economics, for the founding of the undergraduate literary journal The Independent Scribe <\/em>and the indexing ofAre Worker Rights Human Rights?<\/em><\/p>\n

Graduate Student Grants<\/h3>\n

Christopher Jazwa<\/strong>, History, “Temporal Changes in Prehistoric Landscape Usage along the Southern Rhode Island Coast.”<\/p>\n

Shawn M. Edge<\/strong>, History, “Barrels and Bibles: Conflict and Compromise between Whalemen and Missionaries in the Sandwich Islands, 1820-1860.”<\/p>\n

Blair H. Walker<\/strong>, Textiles, Fashion Merchandising and Design, “Livery in Newport’s Gilded Age.”<\/p>\n

Deborah Marie Vorse<\/strong>, Textiles, Fashion Merchandising and Design, “Reflections of Modernism: Textiles from the Tirocchi Dressmaking Shop, 1915-1947.”<\/p>\n

Alisa Augenstein<\/strong>, History, “Construction of Perfection; the history, theory, modern employment, and re-use of domed structures” (Sponsor: Prof. Mary Hollinshead, Art and Art History).<\/p>\n

Gretchen Cohenour<\/strong>, English, “Early Gothic Novels and Gendered Spaces” (Sponsor: Prof. Josie Campbelll, English).<\/p>\n

Sarah Moore<\/strong>, 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).<\/p>\n

Bryna Siegel<\/strong>, English, “Persistence, Resistance, and Change: Toward a Critical Praxis for Researched Writing” (Sponsor: Prof. Libby Miles).<\/p>\n

Aaron Tillman<\/strong>, English, “Magical American Jew: Fantasy and the Portrayal of Ethnicity in Contemporary Jewish American Short Fiction and Film” (Sponsor: Prof. Naomi Mandel).<\/p>\n

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Grants and Fellowships Awarded, 2006-2007<\/h2>\n

Faculty Sabbatical Fellowships<\/h3>\n

E. Rae Ferguson<\/strong>, Associate Professor of History, “The Lives and Works of African American Performers in New York City, 1950-1980.”<\/p>\n

Cheryl Foster<\/strong>, Professor of Philosophy, Nature in the Novels of Jane Austen<\/em>.<\/p>\n

David Gitlitz<\/strong>, Professor of Modern and Classical Languages and Literatures, “The Lost Minyan.”<\/p>\n

Naomi Mandel<\/strong>, Assistant Professor of English, “Visions of Violence, Ethical Work.”<\/p>\n

Nicolai N. Petro<\/strong>, Professor, Department of Political Science, “Will East Meet West, The Role of Orthodox Politics in the New Europe.”<\/p>\n

Andrea Rusnock<\/strong>, Associate Professor of History and Director of Graduate Studies, “The Birth of Vaccination.”<\/p>\n

Catherine M. Sama<\/strong>, Associate Professor of Italian and Film Media and Modern and Classical Languages and Literatures, “Women Shaping Culture in Eighteenth-Century Venice.”<\/p>\n

Faculty Research Fellowships<\/h3>\n

Travis D. Williams<\/strong>, Assistant Professor of English, \u201cMathematical Enargeai: Mental Vision and the Rhetorical Function of Early Modern Mathematical Notation.\u201d<\/p>\n

Judith Swift<\/strong>, Professor of Communication Studies and Theatre, \u201cVoices of Katrina: Speaking in the Aftermath.\u201d<\/p>\n

Alain-Philippe Durand<\/strong>, Associate Professor of French, Film Media, and Comparative Literature, \u201cThe French Jorge Amado.\u201d<\/p>\n

Jean Walton<\/strong>, English<\/p>\n

Faculty Subvention Grants<\/h3>\n

Catherine Sama<\/strong>, Professor of Italian, and Wendy Roworth<\/strong>, Professor of History<\/p>\n

Graduate Student Grants<\/h3>\n

Piotr A. Skuza<\/strong>, English, “Technologies of Identity.”<\/p>\n

Claire E. Reynolds<\/strong>, English, “National Crisis and the Nexus of Class, Race, and Gender in American Literature.”<\/p>\n

Visiting Scholar Grants<\/h3>\n

Stephen Wood<\/strong>, Communications<\/p>\n

Barbara Pagh<\/strong>, Art<\/p>\n

Judith Tolnick<\/strong>, Art<\/p>\n

Laurie Carlson<\/strong>, English<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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