PILOT Virtual Book Manuscript Review 2021
With support from the Jerome A. Yavitz Fund, CHPS awarded one grant in a pilot program for untenured, tenure-track faculty members to receive feedback on their complete draft book manuscript from one external and one internal specialist in a virtual workshop setting.
2021
Joel Correia (Professor, Center for Latin American Studies)
Disrupting the Patrón: Unsettling Racial Geographies in Pursuit of Indigenous Environmental Justice.
Reading Groups 2019-2022
With the Robert and Margaret Rothman Endowment for the Humanities, CHPS offered an inaugural funding opportunity for reading groups in the humanities. Groups use this as an opportunity for scholarly exchange on a shared topic of interest related to the humanities.
2021-2022
Derek Burdette (Professor, Art History)
Putting Decolonial Theory Into Practice: Interdisciplinary Views of the Spanish Empire
2020-2021
Adam Stern (Professor, Comparative, Diagnostic and Population Medicine)
Human – Animal Studies Group
Christopher Busey (Professor, Teachers, Schools, and Society Program)
Black Education Research Collective
Sara Politz (Professor, Music)
Cultural Studies in the Arts Working Group
Robert Kawashima (Professor, Religion and Jewish Studies)
In Praise of Uselessness
2019-2020
Sean Adams (Professor, History)
Informal Economics in Global Perspective
Andréa Caloiaro (Professor, University Writing Program)
Can You Hear Me Now?: Podcasting for Humanities Scholarship, Teaching, and Public Engagement)
Robert Kawashima (Professor, Religion and Jewish Studies)
In Praise of Uselessness
Interdisciplinary Team-Teaching Program in the Humanities 2010-2022
From 2010-2022, the Center for the Humanities and the Public Sphere sponsored the Team-Taught Courses program in conjunction with the University of Florida Honors Program, with support from the Rothman Endowment and The Gladys Krieble Delmas Foundation, to encourage faculty members in different departments and colleges to collaborate in the classroom.
2022
Ying Xiao(Professor, Languages, Literatures, and Cultures) and Churchhill Roberts (Professor, Media Production, Management, and Technology)
Documentary, Media, and Society
2019
Anna Peterson(Professor, Religion) and Jamie Ahlberg (Professor, Philosophy)
Ethics in the Public Sphere
Trysh Travis (Professor, Women’s Studies) and Rachel Gordon (Professor, Religion)
Women and Religion in Popular US Fiction
2018
Mario Poceski (Professor, Religion) and Ying Xiao (Professor, Languages, Literatures, and Cultures)
Buddhism and Film
2017
Judith Page (Professor, English) and Victoria Pagán (Professor, Classics)
How Does Your Garden Grow
2016
Mary Watt (Professor, Languages, Literatures, and Cultures) and Mark Law (Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering)
Engineering the renaissance
Nina Caputo (Professor, History) and Robert Kawashima (Professor, Religion)
Religious Conversion
2015
Eric Kligerman (Professor, Languages, Literatures, and Cultures) and Kevin Knudson (Professor, Mathematics)
Re-framing Literature through Mathematics
Marsha Bryant (Professor, English) and Mary Eaverly (Professor, Classics)
Women Writers and Classical Myth
Peter Hirschfeld (Professor, ,Physics) and Fred Gregory (Professor, History)
Discovering Physics: The Universe and Humanity’s Place in It
Terry Harpold (Professor, English) and Alin Dobra(Professor, Computer and Information Science and Engineering)
Digital English – Data Mining and Digital Poetics
2012
Miriam Zach (Professor, Music) and Sylvie Blum (Professor, Languages, Literatures and Cultures)
Music and Texts
Robert D’Amico (Professor, Philosophy) and A. Joseph Layon (Professor, ,Anesthesiology, Surgery, and Medicine)
Medicine and Philosophy
2011
Florence Babb (Professor, Women’s Studies) and Victoria Rovine (Professor, Art and Art History)
Culture and Identity on the Global Market
2010
Nina Caputo (Professor, History) and Robert Kawashima (Professor, Religion and Jewish Studies)
Bible and Western Culture
Whitney Sanford (Professor, Religion) and Rose Koenig (Professor, Agronomy)
Foodscapes: The Science and Culture of a Meal