Innovative Projects
2006-2007
The following projects were awarded funds for the 2006-2007 academic year:
Juanita Anderson - Communication
"Cinematic Senegal"
Pamela DeLaura - Art and Art History & Evan Larson - Art and Art History
"VISUAL BIOGRAPHIES, Students from the D.P.S. Catherine Ferguson Academy"
Ljiljana Progovac - English
"Rudimentary Grammar in the Evolution of Human Language"
Barrett Watten - English, Carla Harryman - English, & Charles J. Stivale - Romance Languages and Literatures
"Revisioning Authors: Colloquia on Modernist and Postmodern Authorship"
2005-2006
The following projects were awarded funds for the 2006-2007 academic year:
Ellen Barton - Linguistics, Eugenia Casielles - Romance Languages and Literatures,
& Kate Paesani - Romance Languages and Literatures, Ljiljana Progovac - Linguistics
"The Syntax of Nonsententials: Multidiciplinary Perspectives"
John Corvino - Philosophy
"How to Be a Humean Moral Realist"
Gwen Gorzelsky - English
"How Literate Practices Promote Individual and Social Change"
Lavinia Hart - Theatre, Stephen Stone - Dance, & Chris Collins - Music
"An Interdepartmental Approach to Brian Friel's Theatrical Masterpiece, 'Translations'"
Lisabeth Hock - German and Slavic Studies
"Melancholy and German Women Writers (1800-1917)"
Terese Volk - Music
"Work with the Detroit Symphony Orchestra doing historical research on the Works Progress Administration (WPA) Music Project from the 1930s"
2004-2005
Each of the following Individuals were awarded funds to use towards their research projects.
Dora Apel - Art & Art History
"War Culture: Essay on Art and Contemporary War"
Debra Jozefowicz-Simbeni - Social Work & Holly Feen-Calligan - Education
"Art from the Hearth: Using Art Therapy and Social Work in Helping Homeless Children Tell their Stories"
Kypros Markou - Music
"New Musical Composition Combining Traditional Instrumental Ensemble with Electronic Instruments"
David Moxley - Social Work & Olivia - Washington Nursing
"The Women of the 'Telling My Story' Project"
Carol Vernallis - Communication
"The Music Video Project: Producing Work Inside and Outside of the Genre"
Barrett Watten - English
"Diasporic Avant Gardes"
2003-2004
Each of the following Individuals were awarded funds to use towards their research projects.
Barrett Watten - English, Johnathan Flately - English & Carla Harryman - English
Global Poetics: A Reading and Lecture Series
Michele Ronnick - Classics, Greek & Latin
Toward a Virtual Reconstruction of a 19th- Century Black Scholar's Library
Donald Haase - German & Slavic Studies & Anne E. Duggan - Romance Languages & Literature
Creative Storytelling and the Urban Child: Pilot Program
Olivia Washington - Nursing
Telling My Story Project
Dora Apel - Art & Art History
Exhibition on Imagery of Lynching
Gina DeBlase - Education & Mary Cooney - Theatre
Opening the Curtain on Process Drama and the Teaching of Language Arts
Christopher Collins - Music & M.L Leibler - English & American Studies & Mark Ferguson - German & Slavic Studies
Jazz & Conspiracy: American through European Eyes
Christian Kreipke - Graduate Assistant, Psychiatry & Behavioral Neurosciences & Anca Vlasopolos - English
Evanescence Held Fast