2022-2023

Theme: "Fear and Fragility in the COVID-19 Era"

The world as we know it today seems more developed and advanced than the world we knew a century ago. However, this world harbors many fears and fragilities, some of which have shaped our collective reality in new and previously unthought ways. We are living through a COVID-19 pandemic and the augmented reality it has created; there is elevated social distress that yields social uprisings and instability along with political polarization. Anxiety grows while we wait for the definition of what will be the "new normal". 

Recipients
 

Lauren Duquette-Rury - Associate Professor, Sociology
"Naturalizing Under Threat: Citizenship in the Age of Immigration Enforcement"

Lauren Kalman - Associate Professor, Fine Art (Core Studio, Metalsmithing, Ceramics, Sculpture), Elaine L. Jacob Endowed Chair

"To Have or To Hold"

Shirin Montazer - Associate Professor, Sociology
"Fear in the time of COVID-19: The Effect of the Pandemic on the Mental Health of Employed Adults in the U.S."

Jessica Moorman - Assistant Professor, Communication
"Living Singlehood: The Values & Strategies Sustaining Black Women in Contemporary Singlehood"

Pradeep Sopory - Assistant Professor, Communication
"Discourse of Violence, Anger, Fear, and Fragility: Mapping Metaphor Use at the Intersection of the COVID-19 Pandemic and Elections in India"

Sarah Swider - Associate Professor Affiliated Faculty Center for Chinese Studies, University of Michigan-Ann Arbor, Sociology
"Love's story: Legitimizing, legislating and liminal-love among unmarried binational relationships during a global pandemic"