Summer 2023
Alyssa Cole (Professor, African American Studies)
Movement Before the Movement: Black Women’s Defense of Medical Facilities in Kansas City
Movement Before the Movement: Black Women’s Defense of Medical Facilities in Kansas City is a history of Black women’s support of the medical profession in the West during the early twentieth century. While discussing medical institutions and history, the project focuses on women’s role in creating the micro-Black hospital movement and developing the Black medical profession. The work contributes to our understanding of the community’s role in maintaining public health.
Juliana Restrepo Sanin (Professor, Political Science)
Violence against Women in Politics in Latin America
With the global increase in the number of women in national parliaments, reports of violence against them have become more common. Violence against women in politics, as this problem is known, represents a threat to gender equality and democracy. This project investigates this problem in Latin America, where activists have demanded an end to this form of violence. The project relies on interviews with participants from across the region and archival documents. The findings demonstrate that democratic reforms adopted in Latin America have unintentionally facilitated attacks but have also given women important tools to protect their rights.
Summer 2022
Rodrigo Borges (Professor, Philosophy)
Knowledge After Gettier: The Place of Knowledge in Contemporary Philosophy
Rachel Gordan (Professor, Religion)
Becoming The Y: The Story of the 92nd Street Young Men’s Hebrew Association
Paul Gutierrez (Professor, Political Science)
Incorporating America, 1763-1823: The Settler Colonial and Revolutionary Origins of the Modern Corporation in America
Fernanda Bretones Lane (Professor, History)
Shores of Asylum: Fugitivity, Empire, and Slavery in the Colonial Caribbean
Anton Matytsin (Professor, History)
A History of History: The Académie des inscriptions and the Remaking of the Past
Paola Uparela (Professor, Spanish)
Well-Being for the (Re)production of the Indigenous Population: Las Casas’s Remedies (1516) in Guaman Poma’s Good Government (1615)
Velvet Yates (Professor, Classics)
Learning to Carve an Ancient Greek Sculpture: The 3-Caliper Method
Summer 2021
Ingrid Kleespies (Languages, Literatures, and Cultures)
The Necessary Man: Petr Chaadaev and the Invention of Russian Literature
Summer 2020
Bonnie Ernst (Sociology & Criminology)
‘We Were All Feminists’: Punishment, Resistance, and Women’s Rights in the Age of Mass Incarceration
Fiona McLaughlin (Languages, Literatures, and Cultures)
In Pursuit of Trans-Saharan Literacies: Vernacular Writing in Senegalese Qur’anic Schools
Victor Del Hierro (English)
Decolonizing Cartography: Creating a Participatory Mapping Interface of the Mexico/US Border
Lauren Pearlman (History)
The Security State: The Rise of Private Security Industries in Post-World War II America
2019–2020
Velvet Yates (Classics)
The ‘Chain-Saw’ in Archaic Greek quarries on Naxos and Paros
Rae Yan (English)
Correspondences on the Human Frame: Anatomy, Literature, and Form in the Victorian Era
Delia Steverson (English)
African American Literature and Disability: Toward a Black Critical Disabilities Studies Approach
Nina Caputo (History)
A Jew in the Margins: Petrus Alfonsi and the Figure of the Medieval Convert
2018–2019
Robert Chauca (Spanish and Portuguese Studies)
Missionary Polemics and the Making of Early Modern Amazonian Knowledge
Margaret Butler School of Music
The Operatic Prima Donna and Celebrity Culture
Jessica Harland-Jacobs (History)
The Catholic Question and the British Empire, 1710s-1830s
Vassiliki (Betty) Smocovitis (Biology and History)
Masuo Kodani, Genetics, and the Japanese American Experience
Bryce Henson (Center African American Studies)
Race, Gender, and Bahian Hip-Hop Cultures
Esther Romeyn (Center for European Studies)
Holocaust memory and migration politics in the Netherlands
2017–2018
Robert Kawashima (Religion and Center for Jewish Studies)
The Pentateuch: An Interpretation
Vandana Baweja (Architecture)
Tropical Architecture in Australia
Shifra Armon (Spanish and Portuguese Studies)
Staging Curiosity: Skepticism, and Science on the Spanish Stage, 1650-1750
Jorge Valdes Kroff (Spanish and Linguistics)
Spanish-English bilingual speakers and how they use linguistic cues present in prior speech to anticipate upcoming code-switches into English in conversation
2016–2017
Jodi Schorb (English)
Life Writing and the Eighteenth-Century Erotic Imaginary
Jennifer Rea (Classics)
Perpetua’s Journey: Faith, Gender, and Power in the Roman Empire
Evan Hart (Center for African American Studies)
Building an Inclusive Movement: the National Black Women’s Health Project and the Battle for Health, 1981-1994
Michelle Campos (History)
Unmixing the Holy City, and an accompanying multi-media GIS project, Jerusalem 1905
Hélène Blondeau (Literatures, Languages, and Cultures)
Comparing the role of French in Montreal and Brussels and the impact that historical developments, contemporary migrations, and multicultural contact have had on the two local varieties of French
2015–2016
Velvet Yates (Classics)
Men’s Cosmetics in Plato and Xenophon
Ying Xiao (Languages, Literatures & Cultures)
China in the Mix: Cinema, Popular Music, and Multilingualism in the Age of Globalization, 1984-2010
Stephanie A. Smith (English)
STILL ICE
Ann Whitney Sanford (Religion)
Be the Change: Food, Community and Sustainability in America
Richard Kernaghan (Anthropology)
Semblance in Terrain: On the Legal Topographies of Postwar
Donna Cohen (Architecture)
The architectural work of Donald Judd
2014–2015
<Peter Westmoreland (Philosophy)
Giving Philosophy a Hand: Left and Right in Swordplay, Brains, and Lived Experience
Ana de Prada Pérez (Spanish and Portuguese Studies)
Bilingualism in Minorca, Spain
Maya Stanfield-Mazzi (Art + Art History)
How Amerindian artisans visually articulated Catholicism through church textiles and embroidery after the Spanish conquest
Kevin Marshall (Theatre and Dance)
Gator Tales
Ben Hebblethwaite (Languages, Literatures, and Cultures)
The linguistic contact between vernacular French and Arabic through rap music created by French Muslims
Margaret Butler (Music)
Opera in the Age of Reform: Traetta, Parma, and the Rhetoric of Innovation
Alexander Burak (Languages, Literatures, and Cultures)
Anthology of previously untranslated works of cutting-edge Russian cultural and social thinkers: Aleksandr G. Dugin, Vladimir Pozner, and the rock band Pussy Riot
2013–2014
Robert Wagman (Classics)
Beliefs of Modern Greece (BMG)
Jennifer Rea (Classics)
Empire Without End: Science Fiction, Fantasy and the Augustan Poets
Robert Kawashima (Religion)
The Archaeology of Ancient Israelite Knowledge
Eleni Bozia Classics
UF Digital Epigraphy and Archaeology Project
2012–2013
Galina Rylkova (Languages, Literatures and Cultures)
Creative Lives: The Art of Being a Successful Russian Writer
Conor O’Dwyer (Center for European Studies and Political Science)
Culture Clash: Internationalization, Europeanization, and Gay Rights in Postcommunist Europe
Shifra Armon (Spanish and Portuguese Studies)
A Compass for Conduct: Performing Masculinity in Early Modern Spain
2011–2012
Mary Watt (Department of Languages, Literatures & Cultures)
The less familiar side of the enigmatic explorer Christopher Columbus
Mark Thurner (History)
Museums and Modernity
Mario Poceski (Languages, Literatures & Culture and Religion)
The Records of Mazu Daoyi and the Making of Classical Chan Literature
Guolong Lai (Art and Art History)
How the art, architecture, and significant places of early China have been preserved and curated in modern China
Ingrid Kleespies Russian (Languages, Literatures & Cultures)
A Nation Astray: Nomadism and National Identity in Russian Literature
2010–2011
Richard Wang Languages, Literatures & Cultures
Princely patronage of Daoism during the Ming dynasty (1368-1644)
Amy Abugo Ongiri (English)
Radical movements in the sixties and seventies: the Black Panther Party and the Symbionese Liberation Army
Ana Margheritis (Political Science)
The political dimension of transnational migration
Dragan Kujundzic (Center for Jewish Studies)
Documentary on J. Hillis Miller
Todd Hasak-Lowy (Hebrew Language and Literature)
Israeli films dealing with the 1982-2000 conflict in Lebanon
Youssef Haddad (Languages, Literatures & Cultures)
Comparative syntax of South Asian languages: Assamese