We're pleased to recognize and offer our kudos to faculty, staff, and graduate students for their accomplishments and successes.
Faculty Awards and Recognition
September, 2005: Congratulations to Rachel Fuchs, Professor of History and Interim Director (2005-2006) of the IHR. She was selected for the 2005 CLAS Distinguished Faculty Award. The Distinguished Faculty Award recognizes professors in the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences who exemplify the college's mission. Instructional excellence, special dedication to students and performance that makes an impact in the greater community and/or a professional field are hallmarks of award recipients.
August, 2005: Congratulations to Matthew Whitaker, assistant professor of history at ASU. The Arizona Humanities Council presented him with the Dan Shilling Public Scholar Award at their annual Lorraine W. Frank Lecture in Humanities on October 28, 2005.
Special Projects
Spring 2006: IHR Partner, the Arizona Women's Heritage Trail, received a grant from the Arizona Humanities Council. The AWHT partnership will create educational tools, identify historic sites, create markers, and highlight the contributions of Arizona women.
EnterTech - The Center for Film and Media Research (FMS) is introducing a new program in the nascent field where entertainment meets technology. Peter Lehman, Director, has been interviewed for features in the New York Times (September 6, 2006) and the Arizona Republic (November 29, 2006).
Refuge and Rejection: The Humanities in the Study of Forced Migration is a multi-faceted, internet-based project on refugees from the perspective of the humanities. It provides a forum for humanities scholars interested in the study of people displaced by war, political upheaval, persecution, and natural disaster. The online format of the project allows a large community of humanities scholars to work together, while inviting a still broader audience into our common room. The web page is one component of the ASU Fellows project, "Refuge and Rejection: The Past and Present of Displaced Persons."
Faculty Publications
Culture and Redemption: Religion, the Secular, and American Literature by Tracy Fessenden (Religious Studies Department) was published by Princeton University Press (2006).
Brave New Classrooms: Democratic Education & the Internet, edited by Joe Lockard (English Department) & Mark Pegrum (Peter Lang Publishing, 2007), received partial support from IHR through a seed grant project. For additional information about the Antislavery Literature Project visit their web page.
Colorblind Shakespeare: New Perspectives on Race and Performance, edited by Ayanna Thompson (English Department), was published by Routledge (2006).
Moral Repair: Reconstructing Moral Relations after Wrongdoing by Margaret Urban Walker (Philosophy Department) was published by Cambridge University Press (2006).
Matthew Whitaker's new book, Race Work: The Rise of Civil Rights in the Urban West (University of Nebraska Press, 2005), was featured at the Western History Association.
Gender and Poverty in Nineteenth-Century Europe (Cambridge University Press) by Rachel Fuchs was published in November 2005.
Grants and Fellowships
NEH FELLOWSHIP AWARDS, 2007-2008 Awarded: November 2006 Division of Research Programs:
Sabine M. Feisst
Music History and Criticism
Arnold Schoenberg in America
Anne Feldhaus
Nonwestern Religion
The Birth of a Region: Maharashtra in the 13th Century
Summer 2007: An NEH Summer Seminar, Jewish Buenos Aires (in Spanish) will be conducted July 9-July 27, 2007, by David William Foster, Department of Languages and Literatures. The seminar location is Buenos Aires, Argentina.
Fall 2006: The ASU Fellows project, "Refuge and Rejection: The Past and Present of Displaced Persons," received a grant from the Arizona Humanities Council for a spring 2007 lecture series on "The Place of Refuge: Humanities Perspective on the Refugee Experience in Arizona."
Fall 2006: The Embryo Project, funded in part by an IHR seed grant, has been awarded a three-year, $750,000 grant by the National Science Foundation (NSF) for the project as a part of the NSF Human and Social Dynamics program.
AY 2006-2007: Congratulations to Richard Hopkins, history Ph.D. candidate. He received an International Dissertation Field Research Fellowship (IDRF) from SSRC/ACLS. He'll be in France during AY06-07. Richard is the first ASU graduate student to receive this prestigious fellowship.
Spring 2006: Claudia Mesch, Art History, received funding from the Terra Foundation for American Art for a Surrealism and the American West conference in October, 2006. This art history conference will be organized around issues of collecting, surrealist painting and surrealist photography, and addresses questions of visual culture and modernism. The conference will feature prominent scholars of modern and surrealist art, and also anthropologists, from the U.S., the U.K., and France. The Terra grant also will provide funds for the start-up of a journal, New World Surrealism. The first issue, slated for 2007, will feature the proceedings of this conference.
April, 2006: Congratulations to the IHR seed grant team of Paul Hirt, History, and Chris Lukinbeal, Geography. They received funding from the National Endowment for the Humanities for their proposal, "Interpreting America's Historic Places: Nature, Culture, and History at the Grand Canyon."
April 2006: Congratulations to the IHR seed grant team of Gwyneira Isaac, George Cowgill, and Ben Nelson, School of Human Evolution and Social Change (formerly Anthropology), Miguel Aguilera, Religious Studies, David Birchfield and Hari Sundaram, Arts, Media and Engineering, and Megha Budruk, Community Resources and Development. They received an NEH planning grant for their exhibit, “City Life: Experiencing the World of Teotihuacan.”
January, 2006: Three ASU professors have been awarded prestigious year-long fellowships from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH). The $40,000 grants will allow them to pursue special research projects that will add to scholarly knowledge or general understanding of the humanities. The awardees are Robert Bjork, professor of English and director of the Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies; Frederic Canovas, associate professor of French; and Diane Wolfthal, professor of art history.
Bjork's project is titled "The Emergence of a Discipline: The Scandinavians and Anglo-Saxon Literary Studies." Canovas' topic is "The Relationship Between the Writings of Andre Gide and the Art of Maurice Denis." Wolfthal's project title is "Hugo van der Goes: Historiography, Italian Patronage, and the Devotio Moderna."
November, 2005: David Foster received funding from the National Endowment for the Humanities to conduct a summer institute on BRAZILIAN LITERATURE: CONTEMPORARY URBAN FICTION, June 12-July 14, 2006.
Congratulations!