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CLA Imagine Fund Award Winners 2009
217 Imagine Fund awards representing $651,000 in support for research in the arts, design, and the humanities were made in 2009. CLA faculty received 150 of them. See a list of all University Imagine Fund award winners.
| Njeri Githire |
Consuming Passions: Consumption, Encounter and Gender in Caribbean and Indian Ocean Women’s Writings |
| Walt Jacobs |
Diasporic Ghost Stories |
| Bianet Castellanos |
Indigenous Boarding Schools in Yucatan, Mexico, 1960-1980 |
| Kale Fajardo |
Rizal in America |
| Roderick Ferguson |
On the Aesthetic Education of Black Queer Life |
| Lary May |
Foreign Affairs: Global Hollywood and America's Culture Wars |
| Gloria Raheja |
Logan County Blues: Frank Hutchison in the Sonic Landscape of the Appalachian Coalfields |
| Peter Wells |
Design, Decoration, and Culture Change: A New Approach to the Roman Colonization of Europe |
| Karen-Sue Taussig |
The Life Sciences and Human Being and Becoming at the Beginning of the 21st Century |
| Martha Tappen |
Ecavations at the Dmanisi Site, Georgia, Southern Caucasus |
| Stuart McLean |
The Society of the Living and the Dead |
| William Beeman |
Opera Culture in Central Europe In Hard Economic Times |
| Jean Langford |
Conceptualizing Animal Trauma: An Ethnography of Trans-Species Psychology |
| Gilbert Tostevin |
Creating 3D Models for the Animation of 48,000 year old Bohunician stone tool technology |
| Wayne E. Potratz |
Tatara Project- Phase Three |
| James Henkel |
Photographs with Books |
| Diane Katsiaficas |
Artistic exchange between Minnesota and Uruguay |
| Jan Estep |
Artist book: "Reasons to be Nice/Why Should I be Nice?" |
| Andréa Stanislav |
Dubai: Futuristic Utopia/Dystopia |
| Lynn Lukkas |
The Pendulum |
| Mark Pharis |
2009-10 Solo Exhibits |
| Joyce Lyon |
Simultaneous Translation |
| Thomas Rose |
Past in the Present |
| Ali Momeni |
Interactive Real-time Audio Programming Meets the Laptop Musician |
| Jenny Schmid |
The Nihilists, The Libertines and The Hedonists |
| Christine Baeumler |
An Amazonian Menagerie in an Age of Transition |
| Alexis Kuhr |
An Exhibition of Paintings and Works on Paper |
| Thomas Lane |
China Exchange in Ceramic Arts |
| Diane Willow |
Listening to the Silent Landscape of the Everyday |
| Jerald Krepps |
Digital Allusion Tactile Reality |
| Frederick Asher |
Sites of the Buddha's Life |
| Catherine Asher |
The Shrine of Shahul Hamid: Engendering Harmony across India's Communities |
| Jennifer Marshall |
Machine Art, 1934: The Stuff of American Modernism (First Book, Illustration Costs) |
| Michael Gaudio |
Prosper Thou Our Handyworks: Prints and Protestant Devotion at Little Gidding, 1625-1642 |
| Gabriel Weisberg |
The Lost Siegfried Bing: Archives and Documents |
| Frederick Cooper |
The Archaeological Museum at Pyrgos |
| Robert Silberman |
Bertil Vallien and Ulrica Hydman-Vallien Exhibition |
| Jane Blocker |
The Prosthetic Work of History |
| Joseph R Allen |
Classical Chinese Literature in the Modern World |
| Guriqbal Sahota |
Belief after Enlightenment: Religion, Literature, and Politics in Late Modern Society |
| Louis Mendoza |
A Journey Across Our America: Immigration and the Latinoization of the United States |
| S. Douglas Olson |
Classical Commentary Writers Workshop V |
| George Sheets |
Indo-European Study at LSA Summer Institute |
| Philip Sellew |
Coptic Texts of Ritual Power |
| Alex Jassen |
Preparation of Indices for Forthcoming Monograph Scripture and Law in the Dead Sea Scrolls (Cambridge University Press) |
| Bernard M. Levinson |
Legal Revision and Religious Renewal in Ancient Israel: A German Translation |
| Spencer Cole |
Book manuscript: Cicero and the Rise of Deification at Rome |
| Alan Gross |
Creating Meaning in 19th Century British Geology |
| Arthur Walzer |
History of Rhetoric |
| Ronald Greene |
Soul Work: The YMCA Motion Picture Bureau and the Pastoral Mode of Film Exhibition |
| Laurie Ouellette |
A Cultural History of Legality on U.S. Television |
| Hisham Bizri |
Song for the Deaf Ear |
| Cesare Casarino |
South of Eden: The Sexual Communism of Pier Paolo Pasolini |
| Timothy Brennan |
Postcolonial Empires: Writing Resistance? |
| John Mowitt |
Birmingham Calling: Radio and the Emergence of Cultural Studies |
| Keya Ganguly |
Cinema, Emergence, and the Films of Satyajit Ray |
| Shaden Tageldin |
Disarming Words: Empire and the Seductions of Translation in Egypt |
| Ray Gonzalez |
The Sound of Walls: Bilingual Changes on the U.S.-Mexican Border |
| Tony Brown |
German Language Enhancement |
| Omise'eke Natasha Tinsley |
Desiring the Blue Lagoon: Sea Crossings and Fluid Identities in Caribbean Literature |
| Ellen Messer-Davidow |
New Interdisciplinary Courses |
| Qadri Ismail |
Responsible Artistic Engagement: On the Politics of Post-90s Sri Lankan Art |
| Michael Hancher |
Scholarly conferences |
| Evelyn Ch'ien |
The Edges of Language:: Contours of Emotion in a Post-Symbolic Age |
| Genevieve Escure |
Contact languages |
| Paula Rabinowitz |
The Demotic Ulysses: How Pulp Fiction Brought Modernism to Main Street |
| Katherine Scheil |
Shakespeare's Women Readers / The Afterlife of Anne Hathaway |
| Maria Damon |
Text, Textile, Exile: Meditations on Poetics, Metaphor, Net-work |
| Siobhan Craig |
Ecce Homo: The Body of Cinema |
| Lois Cucullu |
Outing Maurice: Researching and Preparing a Critical Edition of E. M. Forster’s Gay Novel |
| Charles Sugnet |
Cinema on Both Sides of the Sahara |
| Daniel Brewer |
Spaces of War (book index), Patrial Recall (book manuscript) |
| Mary Frances Brown |
Imaginary Courts: The Romances of Antiquity and the Construction of Court Culture in the Twelfth Century |
| Juliette Cherbuliez |
Disappearing Medea: Literature and its Exceptions |
| Susan Noakes |
The Merchants of Avignon: survey of neglected archive and conference attendance |
| Amy Kaminsky |
Jews, Gender, and Modernity in Argentina |
| Jigna Desai |
Abnormal Brains or Neuro-normativity?: Feminist and Critical Disability Perspectives on Autism |
| Arun Saldanha |
Ink and Ocean: Jan Huygen van Linschoten's Itinerario and Dutch geographical exploration |
| Richard McCormick |
Sex, Politics, and “Transnational” Comedy: The Films of Ernst Lubitsch—From Berlin to Hollywood |
| Charlotte Melin |
With or Without: Reading Postwar German Women Poets |
| Poul Houe |
Faces as Facts of Fiction |
| Monika Zagar |
Hamsun conference and research in Oslo |
| Rembert Hueser |
Beethoven From Scratch |
| Michael Lower |
Fighting for the Enemy: The Mercenary between Christianity and Islam |
| Kathryn Reyerson |
Identity and Encounter: The Shifting Identities of Merchants within the Medieval Mediterranean World |
| Patricia Lorcin |
Colonizing Science: Polytechnician and Military Physicians in France, Indochina and Madagascar |
| Thomas Wolfe |
Language Training and Research in Slovenia |
| Ruth Karras |
Quasi-Marital Unions in Medieval Europe |
| Mary Jo Maynes |
A Story without a Hero? European Girlhood and Female Selfhood in the Age of Nascent Liberalism, 1750-1850 |
| Giancarlo Casale |
Curiosity and Intolerance: The Paradox of Early Modernity |
| Erika Lee |
Angel Island: Immigrant Gateway to America |
| Andrew Gallia |
Political and Religious Ideals on Roman Coinage |
| Sarah Chambers |
Émigrés and Citizens: Shifting Borders and Identities during South American Independence from Spain |
| Ann Waltner |
Chinese Families in World Historical Context |
| Malinda Lindquist |
When I Was Young: African American Girls and Boys in the Era of Jim Crow |
| Helena Pohlandt-McCormick |
The McGregor Museum’s Photographic Collection: Memory and Photography in a Landscape of Genocide |
| Christopher Isett |
Childhood wellbeing in late imperial China |
| J.B. Shank |
Before the "Arts and Sciences:" The Practice of Mathematics in Early Modern Europe, 1500-1750 |
| Patrick McNamara |
The Cosmic Body: Disability & Race in Mexican History |
| Hiromi Mizuno |
Politics of Belonging: The History of Population in Poswar Japan |
| Hooi Ling Soh |
Form, Interpretation and Distribution of Nominal Expressions in Two Classifier Languages: A Comparative Study of Hmong and Vietnamese |
| Nancy Stenson |
Language Contact in Ireland |
| Mark Pedelty |
Music as Environmental Communication: Participatory Action Research and Pedagogy |
| Dona Schwartz |
On the Nest |
| Catherine Squires |
Radio Literacy Project at Gordon Parks High School, St. Paul |
| Matthew Bribitzer-Stull |
Anthology of Music for Classroom Performance and Analysis |
| David Baldwin |
CD Recording of Twelve Grand Artistic Studies for trumpet by August Saint-Jacome (1874) |
| Guerino Mazzola |
Gestural Composition Contest |
| Douglas Geers |
Inanna: Experimental Multimedia Theater |
| Keitha Hamann |
Historical Development of Junior High School Music Curriculum in the Early 20th Century |
| Alex Lubet |
Creating Inclusive Communities |
| Michael Cherlin |
Recent chamber music |
| Kelley Harness |
Intermedio: The History of an Italian Musical Genre |
| Gabriela Currie |
Research Trip and Conference—Republic of Armenia |
| Karen Painter |
Mozart’s Genius: Virtue and Instrumental Music |
| David Damschroder |
Harmony 1750-1850 |
| David Walsh |
Song Literature as Drama |
| Sumanth Gopinath |
New Music Unboxed |
| Young-Nam Kim |
Research on Korean traditional instruments; Hae-Gum, Geomungo, Dae-Gum, Janggo |
| Peter Mercer-Taylor |
Mendelssohn's Elijah, 19th-Century Hymnody, and the Bodleian Library |
| John Anderson |
Recording Music of Joao Guilherme Ripper |
| Immanuel Davis |
Baroque Flute study and performance |
| Tom Ashworth |
A Recorded Collection of Diverse Solo Repertoire for the Trombone and Euphonium |
| Jean del Santo |
River of Horses: A Mulit-arts Celebration of the Horse/Human Bond |
| Naomi Scheman |
Index for Shifting Ground: Knowledge & Reality, Transgression & Trust |
| Sarah Holtman |
Agency, Citizenship and Cosmopolitanism: An Account of Justice in Institutions, Laws and Attitudes |
| Michelle Mason |
Re-evaluating the Reactive Attitudes |
| Jasper Hopkins |
Coincidentia Oppositorum in Nicholas of Cusa's Sermons |
| Roy Cook |
Philosophical Reflections on Comics |
| Gail Peterson |
A Case Study of Recovery from Autism: A Documentary Film |
| Teresa Gowan |
Addiction and the Neoliberal Self: Between the "Higher Power" and "Personal Responsibility" |
| Fernando Arenas |
Between Emigration and Citizenship: Cultural Imaginings of the Cape Verdean Diaspora in Portugal |
| Carol Klee |
Dialect Contact in Peru: Variation and Change in Contemporary Limeño Spanish |
| Luis Ramos-Garcia |
The Independent Peruvian Theater Movement in times of War |
| Sonja Kuftinec |
The New Chautauqua: Oregon Shakespeare Festival's Emergent Community-Based Vision |
| Diyah Larasati |
Speak to the Wall: Rechoreographing History |
| Ananya Chatterjea |
Intersecting Performance and Social Justice: A creative collaborative research project |
| Carl Flink |
Field Songs - A Collaboration with Roots Rock Band The Jinnies |
| Cindy García |
Performance and Migration: Playwriting Latina-ness in "How to Make it to the Dance Floor" |
| Margaret Werry |
“Changing States and National Museums in the Global Pacific.” |
| C. Lance Brockman |
Documenting Historic Scenic Art |
| Michal Kobialka |
Liturgical representational practices and modern construction of performance/drama |
| Lisa Channer |
Research on Directors for creation of 21st Century Directors Project |
| Mathew LeFebvre |
Costume Designs For New York Based The Acting Company |
| Marcus Dilliard |
Light Emitting Diodes: Applications in Stage Lighting Technology |
| Joan Smith |
Rehearsal and recording of music and text to create dance, "Ophelia." |
| Bernadette Longo |
Edmund Berkeley Biography |
| Donald Ross |
Travel in the US West 1775-1830s |
| John Logie |
The Differences Between "g" and "i" (and their consequences for communicators) |
