Imagine Fund, Annual Faculty Research Grant
The Imagine Fund provides competitive financial support for research and scholarship in the arts, humanities, and design and was established through a generous gift from the McKnight Foundation. The Imagine Fund includes three awards: Annual Faculty Research Grants, Special Events Grants, and the Arts, Humanities, and Design Chair Award.
The Annual Faculty Research Grants are awarded and administered directly through participating arts, humanities and design colleges and campuses. The Special Events grants are centrally awarded through the Institute for Advanced Study, and the Arts, Humanities and Design Chair Award is awarded by the Provost Office.
The Imagine Fund at Work
This Star Tribune article celebrates Prof. Hennefeld's project and bringing feminist silent film stars to light. An Imagine Fund grant made possible a screening of these films at Trylon Cinema.
2025-2027 Awards
Department: Sociology
Proposal: Public Education Quagmire and Refugee Families The Somali Experience in Minnesota
Department: Immigration History Research Center
Proposal: Dark Waters: Centering Black Experiences in U.S. Immigration History
Department: Art
Proposal: Us, Becoming
Department: Theatre Arts & Dance
Proposal: An Ocean Away, a new play and film about Ukrainians in Minnesota
Department: Theatre Arts & Dance
Proposal: The Mother - A Punk Rock Musical for Our Times
Department: Theatre Arts & Dance
Proposal: Dollmaking and Decolonization: Networking our Futures in Tepotzlán
Department: Music
Proposal: Measuring Joy: Reevaluating Music Education Assessment for Social Justice
Department: Art
Proposal: Ruby: Portrait of a Black Teen in an American Suburb
Department: Art
Proposal: Method/Practice
Department: History
Proposal: Valuating Damages: Critical History of Green Ammonia
Department: American Studies
Proposal: Erotic City: Minneapolis, Prince, and the Porn Wars
Department: Theatre Arts & Dance
Proposal: Producing 'call and response', an interdisciplinary performance project, at the Red Eye Theater
Department: Art
Proposal: Baby Witch: An Animation and Printmaking Project
Department: Art
Proposal: Drifters in the Intimate Immensity of Change
Sophia Beal, Spanish & Portuguese Studies
Bianet Castellanos, American Studies
Sarah Chambers, History
Ananya Chatterjea, Theatre Arts & Dance
Anna Clark, History
Roy Cook, Philosophy
Michael Goldman, Sociology
Michal Kobialka, Theatre Arts & Dance
Rachmi Diyah Larasati PhD, Gender, Women & Sexuality Studies
Mai Na Lee, History
Hanne Levinson, Classical and Near Eastern Religions and Cultures
Kym Longhi, Theatre Arts & Dance
Alice Lovejoy, Cultural Studies & Comparative Literature
Michael Bennett McNulty, Philosophy
S Douglas Olson, Classical and Near Eastern Religions and Cultures
Laurie Ouellette, Communication Studies
Sonali Pahwa, Theatre Arts & Dance
Arun Saldanha, Geography, Environment & Society
Suvadip Sinha, Asian and Middle Eastern Studies
Polly Szatrowski, Linguistics
Igor Tchoukarine, History
Eva von Dassow, Classical and Near Eastern Religions and Cultures
Amit Yahav, English
Tetsuya Yamada, Art
Mathew Zefeldt, Art
Hassan Abdel Salam, Sociology
Hakim Abderrezak, French and Italian
Sinem Casale, Art History
Lisa Channer, Theatre Arts & Dance
Juliette Cherbuliez, Consortium for the Study of the Premodern World
Sivan Cohen Elias, Music
Penny Edgell, Sociology
Ofelia Ferran, Spanish & Portuguese Studies
Carl Flink, Theatre Arts & Dance
Njeri Githire, African American & African Studies
Jessica Gordon-Roth, Philosophy
Sarah Holtman, Philosophy
Michael Lower, History
Matthew Rahaim, Music
Gabriela Spears-Rico, Chicano & Latino Studies
Bula Wayessa, African American & African Studies