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Previous Library Enhancement Program Winners

2021 – 2022

Álvaro Luís Lima (Professor, Art History)

Collection Enhancement in Animal Studies

Robin Wright (Professor, Religion), Richard Conley (Professor, Political Science), Dr. Ginessa Mahar (Anthropology Librarian, Smathers Libraries), Rachel Hartnett (Ph.D. Student, English)

Collection Enhancement in Indigenous Studies

Brianna Anderson (Ph.D. Student, English), Brandon Murakami (Ph.D. Student, English), and Brittany Kester (Education Librarian, Smathers Libraries)

Decolonizing the Children’s Literature Archives: Multicultural Picture Books

Hélène Blondeau (Professor, Languages, Literatures and Cultures), Rori Bloom (Professor, Languages, Literatures and Cultures), and Dr. Hélène Huet (European Studies Librarian, Smathers Libraries)

Francophone Comics: Reimagining Contemporary Culture

2020 – 2021

Ali Mian (Professor, Department of Religion), Megan Daly (Classics, Philosophy, and Religion Librarian, Smathers Libraries)

Collection Enhancement in Islamic Studies

Rachel Carrico (Professor, School of Theatre + Dance), Sarah Politz (Professor, School of Music), and Alan Asher (Music Librarian, Smathers Libraries)

Multimedia Resources for Dance and Ethnomusicology

2019 – 2020

Leah Rosenberg (Professor, English), Pamela Gilbert (Professor, English), Rae X. Yan (Professor, English), and Jessica Harland Jacobs (Professor, Department of History)

Bridging Caribbean and Victorian Studies: The Morant Bay Rebellion as Boundary Object

Vasudha Narayanan (Professor, Religion), Jonathan Edelmann (Professor, Religion), and Megan Daly, (Classics, Philosophy, and Religion Librarian, Smathers Libraries)

Hindu Traditions

2018-2019

Christopher Smith (Professor, Languages, Literatures, and Cultures)

Japanese Comics, Animation, and Manga 1950-1980s

2017-2018

Najwa Al-Tabaa (Ph.D. Student, English)

Comics and Visual Rhetoric

2016 – 2017

Terje Ostebo (Professor, Religion)

Global Islam

Francesc Morales (Ph.D. Student, Spanish & Portuguese Studies)

Modern Spanish Terrorism

Lisa Iglesias (Professor, Art + Art History)

Artists of Color and from Under-Represented Communities

Vandana Baweja (Professor, Architecture)

cities in Cinema

2015 – 2016

Najwa Al-Tabaa (Ph.D. Student, English)

Comics: Theoretical Texts

Eleni Bozia (Professor, Classics)

Digital Humanities

Barbara Mennel (Professor, English and Languages, Literatures and Cultures)

Turkish German Female Filmmakers

2014 – 2015

Dr. Jack Kugelmass (Professor, Center for Jewish Studies) and Dr. Rebecca Jefferson (Curator, Isser and Rae Price Library of Judaica; Professor, Center for Jewish Studies)

Forverts (The Forward): Yiddish-language Daily Newspaper in New York City

Alessia Colarossi (Professor, Languages, Literatures, and Cultures) and Debora Amberson (Professor, Languages, Literatures, and Cultures)

Italian Resources: Literary Modernism, Contemporary Cinema, Immigrant Literature and Contemporary Cultural Studies

2013 – 2014

Dr. Eric Segal (Education Curator of Academic Programs, Harn Museum of Art) and Ivy Chen (Bishop Studies Center Manager, Harn Museum of Art)

Art and Culture

Malini Johar Schueller (Professor, English)

Asian American Studies

Elisabet Liminyana Vico (Professor, Spanish & Portuguese Studies) and Ana de Prada Pérez (Professor, Journalism)

Catalan Linguistics and Cultural Studies

Dr. Jack Kugelmass (Professor, Center for Jewish Studies) and Dr. Rebecca Jefferson (Curator, Isser and Rae Price Library of Judaica; Professor, Center for Jewish Studies)

Buenos Aires Yiddish daily Di prese

2012 – 2013

Jill Sonke (Professor, School of Theatre and Dance; Director, Center for the Arts in Medicine)

Interdisciplinary Medical Humanities Collection

Jason Steuber (Cofrin Curator of Asian Art, Harn Museum of Art), Lourdes Santamaría-Wheeler (Museum & Special Projects Coordinator, Digital Library Center), and Allysa Browne Peyton (Curatorial Associate of Asian Art, Harn Museum of Art)

Digital Preservation of a 17th-century Korean Gilt-wood Bodhisattva in the Harn Collection

2011 – 2012

Leah Rosenberg (Professor, English)

Early Caribbean Literature and Periodicals in the Digital Library of the Caribbean (dLOC) and UF Digital Collections (UFDC)

Barbara Mennel (Professor, English and Languages Literatures, and Culture)

Film and Media Resources (FMR)

2010 – 2011

Gonda Van Steen (Professor, Center for Greek Studies)

Modern Greek

Rebecca Nagy (Director, Samuel P. Harn Museum of Art)

What is the Good Life?

Sean MacDonald (Professor, Languages, Literatures, and Cultures) and Richard Wang (Professor, Languages, Literatures, and Cultures)

Language and Culture of China

Howard Louthan (Professor, History)

Central and Eastern Europe

2009 – 2010

Andrea Sterk (Professor, History)

Medieval and Early Modern Studies

Benjamin Hebblethwaite (Professor, Languages, Literatures, and Cultures)

Haitian Creole Culture

Michelle Campos (Professor, History)

History, Languages, and Cultures of the Middle East

Brenda Chalfin (Professor, Anthropology and Center for African Studies)

African Studies: Architectural, Planning, and Housing Records from Ghana’s Midcentury Planned City of Tema