Arts and Humanities All Recipients
2023-2024
| Name | Department, School/College | Project Title |
|---|---|---|
| Lauren Duquette-Rury | Sociology, College of Liberal Art and Sciences | Aesthetic Accompaniment: Translating Social Science Arguments into Sensory Experiences |
| Allana Clarke | James Pearson Duffy Department of Art, Art History and Design, College of Fine, Performing and Communication Arts | Allana Clarke: Tender |
| Stephanie Bundy | Irvin D. Reid Honors College | Detroit in Simulation |
| Yuson Jung | Anthropology, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences | Engaged Scholarship and Decolonizing Knowledge Production: Translation of Balkan Blues: Consumer Politics after State Socialism from English to Bulgarian |
2022-2023
| Name | Department, School/College | Project Title |
|---|---|---|
| Beth Fowler | Irvin D Reid Honors College | Frances Williams Preston and Gender Politics in Popular Country Music, 1958-1986 |
| Jessica Rajko | Theatre and Dance/College of Fine, Performing and Communication Arts | Embodied Archives: A Practice-Based Approach to Reengaging Dance/Technology Archives |
| Lauren Kalman | Art and Art History/College of Fine, Performing and Communication Arts | For Holding... |
| Yunshuang Zhang | Classical and Modern Languages, Literatures and Cultures/College of Liberal Arts and Sciences | A Space of the Mind: The Literati Studio in Song Dynasty Literary Culture (960-1279) |
| Walter Edwards | English/College of Liberal Arts and Sciences | African American Vernacular English in Detroit: Linguistic, Sociolinguistic and Pedagogical Issues |
| Samantha Noel | James Pearson Duffy Department of Art and Art History/College of Fine, Performing and Communication Arts | Diasporic Art in the Age of Black Power |
2021-2022
| Name | Department, School/College | Project Title |
|---|---|---|
| Anne Dugan | Classical/Modern Language/Culture, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences | Book Project: French Engagee Animation, or Tales of Social Justice |
| Andrew Guinn | Urban Studies and Planning, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences | Revisioning the Modernist City |
| Jonathan Flatley | English, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences | Like Trees |
| Megan McCullen | Anthropology, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences | Occupied Detroit Native American landscapes in an urban colonial space |
| Haiyong Liu | Classical/Modern Language/Culture, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences | The Animacy Effects in Mandarin Chinese |
| Jeremy Peters | Music, College of Fine, Performing & Communication Arts | Cohesion & collective voice: An ethnographic investigation of Icelandic popular music-making |
| Jessika Edgar | Art and Art History, College of Fine, Performing & Communication Arts | All That She Wants |
2020 - 2021
| Name | Department, School/College | Project Title |
|---|---|---|
| Adrienne Jankens | English, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences | Gatekeeping or Linguistic Justice? Investigating How an Urban Research University Views and Works with Students' Diverse Language and Literacy Practices |
| Rahul Mitra | Communication, College of Fine, Performing & Communication Arts | Trans-Media Oral Histories of BIPOC Creative Entrepreneurs' Resilience During COVID-19 |
| Elena Past | Classical/Modern Language/Culture, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences | Classical and Modern Languages, Literatures and Cultures - Ferrania and the Lives of Analog Film in the Digital World |
2019 - 2020
| Name | Department, School/College | Project Title |
|---|---|---|
| Millee Tibbs | Art & Art History, College of Fine, Performing & Communication Arts | Desert Sublime |
| Patrick Cooper-McCann | Urban Planning, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences | The Origins of the Shrinking City |
| Juanita Anderson | Communication, College of Fine, Performing & Communication Arts | Hastings Street Blues |
| Elizabeth Faue | History, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences | Voices in the Commons: Mobilizing Teachers and Nurses for Democracy in Crisis Times |
| Mary Anderson | Theatre and Dance, College of Fine, Performing & Communication Arts | Digital Audience Development as a Form of Teaching Artistry |
2018 - 2019
| Name | Department, School/College | Project Title |
|---|---|---|
| Natalie Bakopoulos | English, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences | A Little History Had to Intervene |
| Sarika Chandra | English, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences | Race After Representation |
| Beth Fowler | Irvin D. Reid Honors College | An Integrated Effort: Rock and Roll, Desegregation Movements, and Post-Civil Rights Racism |
| John Hannigan | Merrill Palmer Skillman Institute, Division of Research | Story of the Century: The Making of the Merrill Palmer Skillman Institute in Detroit |
| Yuson Jung | Anthropology, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences | The Cultural Politics of Wine: Globalization and the Transformation of the Bulgarian Wine Industry |
| Lauren Kalman | Art & Art History, College of Fine, Performing & Communication Arts | Tending the Garden |
| Marsha Richmond | History, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences | Sentinel of Science: Theo Colborn and the Discovery of Environmental Endocrine Disruptors |
2017 - 2018
| Name | Department | Project Title |
|---|---|---|
| Danielle Aubert | Art & Art History | Fredy Perlman and the Detroit Printing Co-op |
| Thomas Killion | Anthropology | Questioning Abandonment: An ethnoarchaeological study of landscape dispersal, agro-pastoral change, and community narratives in the Mediterranean highlands of Valencia, Spain |
| Barry Lyons | Anthropology | Climate Change and Evangelical Christians: Public Engagement through Film |
| Andrew Newman | Anthropology | Empire's Garden: Race, Colonial Anthropology, and Visual Experience in the fin de siècle, Paris |
| Joo Won Park | Music | Electronic Music Ensemble of Wayne State: A Large Ensemble Project |
| Krysta Ryzewski | Anthropology | Detroit Remains: Archaeologies of Community History in the Post-Industrial City |
| Petr Staroverov | English | Digital framework for disseminating linguistic and cultural data |
2016 - 2017
| Name | Department | Project Title |
|---|---|---|
| Natalie Bakopoulos | English | Of Sinners and Thieves |
| Victor Figueroa | Classical and Modern Languages, Literatures, and Cultures | Decolonial Topophilia: An Ecocritical Approach to the Poetry of Luis Palés Matos, Juan Corretjer, and Julia de Burgos |
| Haiyong Liu | Classical and Modern Languages, Literatures, and Cultures | Generic Objects in Chinese Verb-Object Compound |
2015 - 2016
| Name | Department | Project Title |
|---|---|---|
| Anne Duggan Julie Koehler | Classical and Modern Languages, Literatures, and Cultures | Nineteenth-Century Women Writing Wonder: Subverting Tradition |
| Billicia Hines | Theatre | The Voices of Morisseau, Salter, and Kelley: In their Own Words |
| Janine Lanza | History | Chopped: A Cultural History of the Guillotine |
| Millee Tibbs | Art & Art History | Mount Analogue |
2014 - 2015
| Name | Department | Project Title |
|---|---|---|
| Derek Cote | Art & Art History | Freezer Burn: Tracking the Arctic's Transformation from Cold Wasteland to Heated Battleground |
| Michaek Fuhlhage | Communication | News Gathering and the Viral Spread of Information in the Secession Crisis |
| Jamie Goodrich | English | The Babylon of Brussels: Spiritual Controversies among English Benedictines, 1609-1642 |
| Jennifer Hart | History | Accra Mobile: Mapping Mobility, Culture, and History in Contemporary Ghana |
| Kelly Jakes | Communication | Indecorous Dissent: Popular Music and Resistant in WWII France, 1940-1945 |
| Wendy Matthews | Music | Singing to Babies in Motown: The Detroit Lullaby Project |
| Alisa Moldavanova | Political Science | The Public Purpose of the Arts: Social Connectedness, Survival, and Sustainability of Arts Organizations in the Detroit Metropolitan Area |
| Tracy Neumann | History | The Urban International: Planning and Development from the Marshall Plan to Microfinance |
| Barrett Watten | English | The Day of Open Monuments: Learning from Berlin |
2013 - 2014
| Name | Department | Project Title |
|---|---|---|
| Johnathan Anderson | Music | Beyond Evergreen: Interactive Music Environments for Dance |
| Jonathan Flatley | English | Black Leninism |
| Donovan Hohn | English | After the Flood: The Ascension of Valmeyer, Illinois |
| Lauren Kalman | Art & Art History | But if the Crime is Beautiful... |
| M.L. Liebler | English | Hound Dog: A Memoir of Rock, Revolution and Redemption |
| Haiyong Liu | Classical and Modern Languages, Literatures, and Cultures | Encoding Counterfactuality in Chinese, Syntactically |
| Michele Ronnick | Classical and Modern Languages, Literatures, and Cultures | Sarah C.B. Scarborough (1851-1933): White Intellectual at a Black University |
| Anne Rothe | Classical and Modern Languages, Literatures, and Cultures | Germans in Israel: Life Histories between Interethnic Migration, Religious Conversion, and Holocaust Memory |
| Millee Tibbs | Art & Art History | Mountains + Valleys |
2012 - 2013
| Name | Department | Project Titke |
|---|---|---|
| Danielle Aubert | Art & Art History | Book Project: Life in the Vitic |
| Derek Cote | Art & Art History | Pyramiden: Visualizing the Last Moments of a Soviet Ghost Town |
| Chera Kee | English | And the Dead Shall Walk the Earth: Zombies and the Politics of the Undead |
| Elizabeth Reich | English | Hollywood's Invisible Men: Black Soldiers and the Transformation of American Cinema |
| Krysta Ryzewski | Anthropology | Unearthing Detroit: Re-Assembling the City's Cultural Heritage through Museum Collections and Community Archaeology |
| Barrett Watten | English | Learning from Berlin: Post-1945 Exhibitions and the Ruins of History |
2011 - 2012
| Name | Department | Project Title |
|---|---|---|
| Alexander Day | History | Producing the Peasant: A Cultural History of Tea Production in China, from the 1880s through the 1950s |
| Liette Gidlow | History | The Struggle for Woman Suffrage After the Nineteenth Amendment: Toward a New Narrative of Women's Citizenship in the U.S. |
| Michaek Giordano | Classical and Modern Languages, Literatures, and Cultures | A Mirror of French Renaissance Culture: The Anatomical Blazon: Comparative Literature, Descriptive Anatomy, Mannerism, Iconography, and Nominalism |
| Lauren Kalman | Art & Art History | Spectacular |
| Caroline Maun | English | Complete Poems of Charlotte Wilder |
| Elena Past | Modern and Classical Languages | On Location: Ecomedia and Italian Cinema |
| Scott C. Richmond | English | Perception: Cinema, Phenomenology, Illusion |
2010 - 2011
| Name | Department | Project Title |
|---|---|---|
| Mary Dereski Eva Powers Lisa M. Chiodo Cheryl L. Somers Erica Raglin | Institute of Environment Health Sciences Music Pediatrics Psychology Institute of Environment Health Sciences | Creative Dance Intervention for Children with a History of Lead-Poisoning |
| Sandy Meier | Art & Art History | Selfhood on the Edge: African Photography at the Indian Ocean Crossroads |
| Aaron Retish | History | In the Courts of Revolution: Vengeance, Legality, and Citizenship in the Rural Soviet Courtroom, 1917-1953 |
| Stanley Rosenthal Sandra Schemske Josephine Hazen | Art & Art History WSU Art Collection Coordinator Workshop/Demonstration Coordinator
| Arthur C. Danto: Printmaking Workshop and Demonstration, Master Print Collection and Online Exhibition |
| Eric Troffkin | Art & Art History | Lens Flare: Realization, Release, and Recapture |
2009 - 2010
| Name | Department | Project Title |
|---|---|---|
| Mary Anderson Doug Risner | Theatre Dance | Transforming Urban Centers through Community-based Performing Arts: A Qualitative Study of Teaching Artists in Dance and Theatre |
| Holly Feen-Calligan Elizabeth Barton Anthony Lake Marion Jackson Aku Kadogo | Teacher Education Center for Peace and Conflict Studies Theatre Art & Art History Black Theatre Program | ArtsCorpsDetroit - The Research Component |
| John Richardson Adrian Hatfield | Art & Art History Art & Art History | TechTown Gallery Project |
| Laura Roelofs | Music | String Project@Wayne |
2008 - 2009
| Name | Department | Project Title |
|---|---|---|
| Jeffry Abt | Art & Art History | Identity and Abstraction: The Jewish Museum of New York |
| Terrance Albrecht Steve Peters Felicity Harper Grace Serra | Karmanos Cance Institute Theatre Family Medicine Children's Hospital | Using Art to Help Families Cope with Pediatric Cancer Treatment Anxiety |
| Chris Collins | Music | The Detroit/Torino Urban Jazz Project II: Bridging Cultures and Orchestrating Collaborations |
| Marion Elizabeth Jackson | Art & Art History | The Detroit/Torino Urban Jazz Project II: Bridging Cultures and Orchestrating Collaborations |
| Christiane Joost-Gaugier Marilyn Zimmerman | Art & Art History Art & Art History | Proposal to Restore Yamasaki Moats and Gardens at W.S.U. |
| Jim Nawara | Art & Art History | Phenomena in Landscape Painting |
| Jeff Michael Rebudal Jon Anderson Cory Globke | Dance Dance Theatre | Urban Renewal Landscape: A Detroit Multi-Media Choreographic Project in Dance and Opera |
2007 - 2008
| Name | Department | Project Title |
|---|---|---|
| Lavinia Hart | Theatre | Great Lakes Michael Chekhov Consortium |
| Jennifer Olmstead | Art & Art History | Delacroix, Art and the Contest for Power in North America |
| Doug Risner | Dance | Boys and Male Youth in Dance: A Qualitative Study of Male Participation & Access in Dance Education in the U.S. |
| Laura Roelofs | Music | WSU String Project |
| Marilyn Zimmerman | Art & Art History | Woodward Avenue Online: Globalizing the Motor City's Major Artery |
2006 - 2007
| Name | Department | Project Title |
|---|---|---|
| Dora Apel | Art & Art History | War Culture: Art, Media, and Contemporary War |
| Christopher Collins | Music | The Detroit/Torino Urban Jazz Project |
| Mary Cooney | Theatre | Raise the Curtain |
| Brian Kritzman Tamara Bray Allen Batteau | Art & Art History Museum of Anthropology Institute for Information Technology and Culture | Identity Constructing Reality Constructing Identity |
| Brian Madigan Sarah Bassett | Art & Art History Art & Art History | The Numinous Image in Classical and Late Antiquity |
| Linda Simmons | Dance | The Village School |
| Terese Volk Mary Wischusen Judith Moldenhauer Sean McCann | Music Music Art & Art History Library System | WPA/DSO Music Scores: Cataloging and Digitization |