Penn State Institute for the Arts and Humanities

Grants, Residencies, and Other Funding Opportunities

Individual Faculty Grants

Recipients

July-December 2009
Jennifer Boittin (French, Francophone Studies and History) ~ a book project titled The Colonial Women of Interwar France
Bonnie Collura (Visual Art) ~ a mixed media sculptural installation titled The Prince Project: Wicked
Larry Gorenflo (Landscape Architecture) ~ a project titled Identifying Persisting Ancient Human Landscapes in the Basin of Mexico: Priorities for Research and Conservation
Matthew Kenyon (Visual Art) ~ a project titled The Biological Can Power the Digital: Physical Bodies and Online Consumer Culture
Hannah Kliger (Communications and Jewish Studies/Abington) ~ a book project titled History beyond Trauma: The Recovery of Meaning in Holocaust Narratives
Martina Kolb (German) ~ a book project titled Expressionist Realms of Transference: Gottfried Benn's Inner Emigration
Janet Lyon (History) ~ a book project titled The Perfect Hostess: Salons and Modernist Sociability
January-June 2008
Michael Christofferson (History/Behrend College) ~ a book project titled François Furet (1927-1997): A Revolutionary Historian
Sharon Dale (Art History/Behrend College) ~ a book project titled The Incorrigible Pope? Baldassare Cossa, the Resolution of the Great Schism and the Fabrication of Villany
Lyn Elliot (Film) ~ a short film project titled Starting Now
Dale Harrow (Visual Art) ~ a sculptural installation titled The Baroque Beaver Dam
Mark Morrisson (English) ~ a book project titled Ithell Colquhoun Papers at the Tate: British Surrealism and Occult Science
Robert Nairn (Music) ~ a CD project titled A Recording of Works by Australian Composers for the Double Bass
July-December 2007
Lisa Bontrager (Music) ~ a CD project for two French horns and a piano
Peter Campbell (Theatre/Berks) ~ a performance project titled iph.then
Jennifer Mittelstadt (History) ~ a book project on the American military welfare state, 1968-2005
Adam Rome (History) ~ a book project on Earth Day 1970
Aaron Rubin (Classics and Ancient Mediterranean Studies) ~ a book project on the linguistic description of the Mehri language
James Thurman (Visual Arts) ~ a new body of art work for a cross-cultural exchange exhibition that will feature creative works from the fields of fine art jewelry and metalsmithing by American and Japanese artists
Monique Yaari (French) ~ a book project on the Surrealist group of Bucharest, Romania, 1940-1947
Paul Youngquist (English) ~ a book project on Black Romanticism
January-June 2007
Michael Kiernan (English) ~ an edition of Francis Bacon’s Historie of the Raigne of King Henry the Seventh and other works of the 1620s
Neil Korostoff (Landscape Architecture) ~ a project on sustainable heritage tourism and the cultural landscape of Westray and Sanday, Orkney, U.K.
Chika Okeke-Agulu (Art History) ~ an exhibition titled “PostAfricanism” for the African Pavilion, Venice Biennale, 2007
Sherry Roush (Italian) ~ a book project on the motivations for ghost storytelling in the Italian Renaissance
Mary Saunders (Music) ~ a project to develop a set of pedagogical aids for use by teachers of singing and by serious students of musical theatre singing
Mrinalini Sinha (History) ~ a book project on Imperial Citizenship
Aaronette White (Women’s Studies and African and African American Studies) ~ a project on the history of the Southern Africa Women’s Ex-Freedom Fighters Networking Committee (1997-2002)
July-December 2006
William Cobb (English) ~ a novel-in-progress, “The Birdist”
Ken Graves (Visual Arts) ~ a photographic project titled “The Body in Water”
Vera Mark (French) ~ a book project titled “Memories of Rural French World War II Collaborationism”
Jean Sanders (Visual Arts) ~ a new body of artwork titled “Moments in a Tonglin Prayer”
Rachel Teukolsky (English) ~ a book project titled “Mapping Late-Victorian Counterculture: Sexual Dissidence and the Geographic Imaginary”
January-June 2006
Vincent Benitez (Music Theory) ~ a book project on Messiaen’s opera Saint François d’Assise
Kim Cook (Music) ~ a project to record cello concertos by Russian composers with the Volgograd Symphony
David Gissen (Architecture) ~ a project titled “Atmospheres of Late-Modernity: Restructuring Air in the Restructuring City”
Julia Kasdorf (English/Women’s Studies) ~ an anthology: Broken Land: Poems of Brooklyn
Cristin Millett (Visual Arts) ~ a project to create “Teatro Virtuale,” a virtual anatomy theater
Simone Osthoff (Visual Arts) ~ a project entitled “Suplemento Dominical do Jornal do Brazil, 1956-1960: Art, Design, and Critical Theory in the Era of Bossa Nova”
July-December 2005
John Bowman (Visual Arts) ~ a study of the changing face of the trans-national art community in Prague as it emerges in a changing Czech society; an exhibition to be shown at the Zamecky Palace in Prague
Jonathan Burgoyne (Spanish, Italian, and Portuguese) ~ a project on the manuscript transmission and reception of Flores de filosofia
Patrick Cheney (English) ~ a comprehensive edition of the entire body of Spenser’s work according to modern scholarly standards
Greg Eghigian (History) ~ a comparative study of how liberal, fascist, and socialist states interacted with emerging psychological sciences to define and manage the individual
Paul Lavy (Art History) ~ a study of the early art and political history of mainland Southeast Asia
Marcy North (English) ~ an analysis of the relationship between manuscript production resources such as scribal labor and the literary choices of poetry collectors
January-June 2005
Paul Chidester (Visual Arts) ~ to create ten new landscape paintings for a solo exhibition in London
Brian Curran (Art History) ~ concentrated research and writing for a book project titled “Past, Present, and Place in Italian Renaissance Art” during a three-month residency at the American Academy in Rome
Tonia Woods Horton (Landscape Architecture) ~ to conduct fieldwork and site-based research at the National Park Service Intermountain Support Office in Santa Fe and at two proposed case study sites: Washita Battlefield and Sand Creek Massacre
Alexander Huang (Comparative Literature) ~ to collect materials on the conception and reception of Taiwanese and Chinese transcultural performances of Shakespeare from 1900 to 2005
Dennis Schmidt (Philosophy) ~ research at the Schiller Archives in Marbach, Germany for a memoir of German philosopher Hans-Georg Gadamer
Stephanie Springgay (Art Education) ~ research on women’s intersubjective understandings of embodied space through community engaged art
Maurice Stroemel (Theatre) ~ site visits for a research project on theatre in colonial America
July-December 2004
Dan Berman (Classics and Ancient Mediterranean Studies) ~ an interpretation on the way the play Seven against Thebes by Aeschylus represents Athenian and Greek culture
Caru Bowns (Landscape Architecture) ~ a systematic collection of source materials and the development of a Geographic Information System database able to reveal and explain spatial issues of land use in Cherokee Georgia
Charlotte Holmes (English) ~ a creative prose book on the paintings and life of Finnish artist Helene Schjerfbeck
Anthony Kaye (History) ~ an integration of the theory and findings of human geography with a rigorous history of the ideology of slaves
Sophia McClennen (Comparative Literature/Spanish/Women’s Studies) ~ the first full-length study in English of Ariel Dorfman, a novelist, playwright, poet, essayist, journalist, and human rights activist
Bénédicte Monicat (French) ~ the creation of an electronic database of 19th-century French texts written by women for girls
Richard Nichols (Theatre) ~ co-translation of four plays by a leading contemporary South Korean playwright and director
Catherine Rios (Humanities and Communications/Penn State Harrisburg) ~ a 35mm narrative short “coming of age” film project
Greg Smits (History) ~ an examination of the rhetoric of national and group identities within the Ryukyu Islands from the time of their annexation through the early years of the second Sino-Japanese war
Chris Staley (Visual Arts) ~ creation of a new body of ceramic art works for installation in a one-person exhibit at the List Gallery
Maria Truglio (Italian) ~ an examination of Italian children’s literature from the late nineteenth century through the end of World War II
January-June 2004
Micaela Amato (Visual Arts) ~ to produce a new body of creative works titled “Ants and Luminous Insects”
Lyn Elliot (Media Studies/College of Communications) ~ to produce a short narrative film, “Lost and Found,” from her own original screenplay
Cecil Giscombe (English) ~ a literary project that investigates geographical space and its relation to surface transport, particularly rail service
Lonnie Graham (Visual Arts) ~ to arrange a body of work titled “A Conversation with the World” for exhibition and to produce an accompanying catalogue of photographs
Arnold Markley (English/Penn State Delaware County) ~ publication of a completed book titled Stateliest Measures: Tennyson and the Literature of Greece and Rome
Steven Smith (Music) ~ to present three piano recitals in Australia and New Zealand
Adam Sorkin (English/Penn State Delaware County) ~ translation into English of Luminita Mihia Ciobab’s The Lost Country, tales of the Romania Roma