Arts, humanities research grants awarded to 27 faculty

By Jayne Spencer

An initiative to provide funding for IU faculty research projects in the arts and humanities was announced by IU President Myles Brand during his 2000 State of the University address. In the speech, which focused on the importance of the arts and humanities, Brand committed $4 million in funding the following four years. The funds are targeted for, but not limited to, IU professors in liberal studies fields. Recipients represent the second round of the initiative’s grant awards.

Recipients by campus, their disciplines and their research topics are listed below:

IU Bloomington

Steven Ashby, Labor Studies: "Messengers of Struggle: The Staley Workers and the Fight for a New American Labor Movement."

Stephen Bokenkamp, East Asian Languages and Cultures: "Medieval Daoism and the Family."

Fritz Breithaupt, Germanic Studies: "The Ego-Effect of Money."

Wendy Calman, Fine Arts: "Ties."

Matthew Christ, Classical Studies: "Cowards, Traitors and Cheats: The Other Athenians."

Deborah Cohn, Spanish and Portuguese: "Creating the Boom’s Reputation: The Promotion of Latin American Literature in and by the U.S."

Jonathan Elmer, English: "Not One: Chief Logan’s Legacies in the American Archive."

Michelle Facos, Fine Arts: "Symbolist Art."

Mary Favret, English: "Invisible Violence: War in Romanticism."

Robert Fulk, English: "Klaeber’s `Beowulf:’ A New Edition."

Paul Gutjahr, English: "Charles Hodge: A Study in Influence."

Jeffrey Hass, Music: "Musical Composition for Large Orchestra with Electronics."

Gretchen Horlacher, Music: "Building Blocks: Repetition and Continuity in Stravinsky’s Music."

Audrey McCluskey, Afro-American Studies: "Lucy Craft Laney and the Discourse of Black Activist Educators."

Jacques Merceron, French and Italian: "Parody, Sainthood and Hagiography in Medieval and Early Renaissance French Literature (1200-1550)."

Jonathan Sheehan, History: "The Enlightenment Bible: Translation, Scholarship, Culture."

Dror Wahrman, History: "The Making of the Modern Self in 18th-Century England."

Daniel Walker, History: "The Huff Creek/Jasper County Oral History Project."

IUPUI

Dennis Bingham, English: "Film Biography, or Biopics, in the Post-Studio Era."

Wietse de Boer, History: "The Education of the Senses: Theories and Practices of Perception in Renaissance and Baroque Italy."

Laurence Lampert, Philosophy: "Plato’s Presentation of Socrates’ Turn."

Obioma Nnaemeka, Liberal Arts: "Mariama Ba: Writing Gender, Culture and Empire."

Nancy Marie Robertson, History: "White Women and the Politics of Christian Sisterhood: Race and the YMCA, 1906-1946."

Robert F. Sutton Jr., Liberal Arts: "Athenian Vase Painting."

IU East

Edwina Helton, English: "Constructions of Literacy in 19th-Century English Etiquette and Education Manuals for Children and Young Adults."

IU Kokomo

Jon Kofas, Social and Behavioral Sciences, "Talons of the Eagle: U.S.-Greek Relations, 1950-2000."

IU Northwest

Eva Mendieta, Modern Languages: "Latinos in the Midwest: A Sociolinguistic Perspective from Northwest Indiana."

To read about the way Indiana University is cultivating a liberal arts tradition, see today's Viewpoint by Myles Brand.
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