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CLA Imagine Fund Award Winners 2011

151 Imagine Fund awards representing $755,000 in support for research in the arts, design, and the humanities were awarded in December, 2010, for the 2011 academic year. CLA faculty received 88 of them. See a list of all 2011 University Imagine Fund award winners.

African American and African Studies

Njeri Githire Consuming Passions: Consumption Encounter and Gender in Caribbean and Indian Ocean Women's Writings

American Studies

Bianet Castellanos Rethinking Remittances among Maya Immigrants in Southern California
John Wright The Worlds of James McCune Smith: Science, Race Elevation, and the Brotherhood of Chess
Tracey Deutsch The Julia Child Project
Lary May Culture and Politics: Global Hollywood since 1950

Anthropology

William Beeman The Role of Opera in Post-Socialist Germany
David Lipset A Sinking Canoe: Fieldwork on the Cultural Geography of the Murik Lakes in the Midst of Rising Sea-Levels
Gloria Raheja Logan County Blues: Frank Hutchison in the Sonic Landscape of the Appalachian Coalfields
David Valentine Futures in Space: Imagination, Temporality, and Modernity

Art

Christine Baeumler Pollinator Playground
David Feinberg Voice to Vision VII: The Children of a Saboteur
Diane Katsiaficas An exhibition and further research about water systems
Jerald Krepps Color Intaglio: Fluid Approaches
Thomas Lane Exploring the Memorial Porcelain Vessel in a Digital Age
Lynn Lukkas Temporal Properties of the World
Clarence Morgan Printmaking and Serial Abstraction
Wayne E. Potratz Tatara project: Phase Four
Thomas Rose The Chinese Pictures
Diane Willow Touching

Art History

Catherine Asher Hindu architecture in 17th – 19th century India
Jane Blocker The Prosthetic Work of History
Matthew Canepa Iran between Alexander and Islam: he Global Idea of Kingship in the Hellenized and Iranian Near East, Central and South Asia
Frederick Cooper Temple at Perivolia & Byzantine site at Mofitza
Robert Silberman Ian Hamilton Finlay and Camouflage

Asian Languages & Literature

Joseph R Allen Illustrations for Forthcoming Book

Chicano Studies

Louis Mendoza Minnesotano Oral History Project

Classical and Near Eastern Studies

Alex Jassen Priests, Prophets, and Kings: New and Renewed Models of Leadership in the Dead Sea Scrolls and Ancient Judaism
George Sheets Legal History Conferences on the Ius Commune

Communication Studies

Rosita Albert Understanding and Ameliorating Ethnic Conflicts Worldwide
Alan Gross Science and the Internet:A New Era of Scientific Communication
Susanne Jones A communication-based theory of emotional support
Laurie Ouellette Sitcoms and Citizenship

Cultural Studies & Comparative Literature

John Archer Building in Conflict
Hisham Bizri Migration
Timothy Brennan In Search of the Universal: Hegel and World Literature
Cesare Casarino Sex and the South: Pasolini, Gramsci, Subalternity
Alice Lovejoy The Army and the Avant-Garde: Art Cinema in the Czechoslovak Military
Keya Ganguly Revolutionary Nostalgia: Aurobindo Ghosh and Anti-Colonial Thought
Shaden Tageldin The Agon of Comparative Literature

English

Frederick Cooper Handbook of Greek Architecture
Maria Damon Text, Textile, Exile: Meditations on Poetics, Metaphor, Net-work: Travel for Collaborative Work
Qadri Ismail Art, War and the Other
Paula Rabinowitz Global Proletarian Femme: A Transnational Consideration of Asia-Pacific and US and Australasian Proletarian Film and Literature
Jani Scandura Obsolescence and Suitcases
Omise'eke Natasha Tinsley Water, Shoulders, Into the Black Pacific

French & Italian

Hakim Abderrezak Literary and Cultural Representations of Western Mediterranean Migrations: A Book Project
Daniel Brewer Partial Recall: Memory Spaces of the French Eighteenth Century (book)
Bruno Chaouat Respondent in a panel dedicated to Claude Lanzmann's Holocaust film
Juliette Cherbuliez The Medean Presence in Early Modern Literature
Mary Franklin-Brown Discourses of Encyclopedism in the Scholastic Age/Aesthetics, Ideology, and the Invention of Romance
Betsy Kerr A Corpus-based Study of Semantic Anglicisms in Contemporary Metropolitan French
Susanna Ferlito A Nineteenth-Century Patient's Voice: the case of Cristina di Belgioioso's Letters to Dr. Paolo Maspero
Christophe Wall-Romana Research for a book titled: Cinematic Affect in Literature and Philosophy

Gender, Women & Sexuality Studies

Amy Kaminsky Mirta Kupferminc, Argentine Jewish artist

German, Scandinavian & Dutch

Ruth-Ellen Joeres How We Write: Scholarly Writing and the Power of Form
Anatoly Liberman Sardinian and Italian Bibliography
Richard McCormick Sex, Politics, and "Transnational" Comedy: The Films of Ernst Lubitsch--From Berlin to Hollywood
Charlotte Melin German Literature and Ecology Studies
Monika Zagar International Adoption in Literature: Scandinavian Source Data Collection

History

Sarah Chambers Émigrés and Citizens: Migrations and Identities during South American Independence from Spain
David Chang Native Hawaiians and Global Geography in the 19th Century
Anna Clark Imperial Scandals in Modern Britain
Tracey Deutsch The Julia Child Project
Sarah-Jane Mathieu Race on the Line: The Black Press in France, 1919-1939
Patrick McNamara The Cosmic Body in Mexico: Disability, Race & Aesthetics
Jeffrey Pilcher Comparing National Cuisines in the Americas
Ann Waltner The Map and Music of Matteo Ricci

Journalism & Mass Communication

Dona Schwartz On the Nest: Portraits of Empty Nester
Mark Pedelty The Sound of Flowers: A Film Soundtrack

Linguistics

Nancy Stenson Language Contact in Ireland: the Book

Music

Thomas Ashworth Recording of Jazz Repertoire, as Solo Trombonist with Piano, Bass and Drums
David Baldwin CD recording: Mozart and Bach
Matthew Bribitzer-Stull Anthology of Music for Analysis and Performance
David Damschroder Harmony in Chopin
Sumanth Gopinath The Oxford Handbook of Mobile Music Studies
Keitha Hamann Junior High School Music Curriculum: Historical Perspectives
Peter Mercer-Taylor Hymnody as American Conduit to the Classical Tradition
Adriana Zabala Trip for Salzburg International Concerts Performance

Philosophy

Valerie Tiberius Wisdom and What Matters

Sociology

Teresa Gowan It Works If You Work It: Addiction Narratives and Neoliberal Imaginaries of the Self
Enid Lynette Logan Your Cool, Hip, Black Friend: College-Student Perspectives on Race, Gender and the 2008 Presidential Election

Spanish & Portuguese

Fernando Arenas Between Migration and Citizenship: Cultural Imaginings at the Borderlines of Africa and Europe
Michelle Hamilton Visions and Delights: 15th-Century Jewish Philosophy and the Spanish Literary Tradition
Luis Ramos-Garcia Research on Alternative Colombian Theater: 25 Years of Resistance

Theatre Arts & Dance

Lisa Channer Three Festivals: Pure Research on European Dance-Theatre trends
Ananya Chatterjea Arts against gender violence: performance and social justice
Marcus Dilliard 2011 Prague Design Quadrennial and USITT Study Tour
Megan Lewis Performing Africa Research Residency
Joan A Smith Theatrical set for new dance work, "When We Last Spoke."

Writing Studies

Richard Graff Sites of Rhetorical Performance in Ancient Greece
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