Published: May 3, 2024 • By Chris Yankee

The Research & Innovation Office (RIO) Arts & Humanities Grant Program announced nearly $95,000 in combined funding听蹿辞谤听17 projects听exploring topics in disciplines from Asian languages and environmental design to composition and Classics.

The RIO Arts & Humanities Grant Program is inspired by recognition of the essential role of the arts and humanities at 彩民宝典, including inspiring deeper connections with others, welcoming multiple and diverse perspectives, and contemplating what it means to be human. 听

Applications for the program were requested by April 15 and subsequently reviewed and ranked by arts and humanities faculty based on the following criteria:

  • Significance/value of the project to arts, humanities and/or humanistic social sciences
  • Potential of the project to contribute to the field(s) (and potentially beyond)
  • Appropriate proposal for use of funds
  • How the project will impact the applicant鈥檚 career development
  • Appropriate evaluation to assess the project鈥檚 success
  • Qualifications of the applicant(s) and relevance of those qualifications to the project

2024 Arts & Humanities Grant Awardees

  • Project: Digital Man'y艒sh奴': Mapping Japan's Oldest Poetry Collection
    Awardee: Marjorie Burge (Asian Languages & Civilizations)
  • Project:听Undesigning the Sustainability Narrative: Exploring the Underrepresentation of Women in Sustainable Design through a Multicultural and Regional Lens / In-Depth Interviews with Female Leaders in Biomaterial and Sustainable Design Labs to Address Gender Disparities in Sustainable Design
    Awardee: Caitlin Charlet听(Environmental Design)
  • Project: Review, Reinterpret, Reimagine: Improving Archiving Practices of Western Colonial-era Photographs of Southeast Asia (1850s-1950s) in American Academic Libraries
    Awardee: Lauren Collins (Center for Asian Studies)
  • Project: Intimacy Coordinator (Controlled Environment)
    Awardee: Molly Valentine Dierks听(Art and Art History)
  • Project:听Mauna Kea: Where Sky and Land Meet
    Awardee: Christian Hammons (Anthropology / Critical Media)
  • Project: Jake Heggie and the Rise in Prominence of American Opera in the 21st Century
    Awardee: Leigh Holman (Voice)
  • Project: Studying Greek and Italian Material Culture from an Iron Age Hillfort Site on the Island of Bra膷, Croatia
    Awardee: Sarah James (Classics)
  • Project:听Capturing Collectives Memories of the Disappeared with Artificial Intelligence
    Awardee: Tomas Laurenzo Coronel (Critical Media Practices)
  • Project:听Vessels at the Tank
    Awardee: Grace Leslie (College of Music / ATLAS)
  • Project:听Fossilgrams for the Revolution
    Awardee: Jeanne Liotta (Cinema Studies & Moving Images)
  • Project:听Resonance of Change: Anthony R. Green's Saxophone Concerto
    Awardee: Nathan Mertens (College of Music)
  • Project:听The Western Argolid Regional Project, 2024 Study Season
    Awardee: Dimitri Nakassis听(Classics)
  • Project:听The Audacity of Pleasure: Race, Aesthetics, and the Politics of Feeling Good
    Awardee: Crystal Nelson (Art and Art History)
  • Project:听Keywords for a Black Ecology
    Awardee: Omedi Ochieng (Communication)
  • Project:听True Mirror
    Awardee: Jeanne Quinn (Art and Art History)
  • Project:听Electronic Music Production for Development and Premiere of DETECTIVE CONVENTION with Slagwerk Den Haag at the Gaudeamus Muziekweek Festival in Utrecht, The Netherlands
    Awardee: Annika Socolofsky (Composition)
  • Project:听Why is Silicon Valley Talking About the Antichrist?
    Awardee: Benjamin Teitelbaum (Musicology / International Affairs)