Grant and Fellowship Awards
Grants and Fellowships awarded by the Center for the Humanities and listed below have been funded from the generous donations of URI alumni and friends to the Center's URI Foundation endowments.
Fellowships Awarded, 2009-2010
Faculty Sabbatical Fellowships in the Humanities for 2009-2010
- Joelle Rollo-Koster, Professor of History, “Empty See: Avignon during the Great Western Schism (circa 1370-circa 1420).”
- Mary Hollinshead, Professor of Art and Art History, “Auxiliary Supports in Roman Sculpture.”
Fellowships in the Humanities for Junior Scholars 2009-2010
- Travis Williams, Assistant Professor of English, “Studies in Early Modern Literature, Rhetoric, and Mathematics.”
Fellowships Awarded, 2008-2009
Faculty Sabbatical Fellowships in the Humanities for 2008-2009
- Jean Walton, Professor of English, Women’s Studies, and Film Media, “The Modern Peristaltic Subject: Bodies, Systems, Flows.”
- Robert C. Manteiga, Professor of Hispanic Studies, Comparative Literature, and Film Media, “The Eye and the Lens: The Cinematic World of Julio Medem.”
- Marie Jenkins Schwarz, Professor of History, “Secrets of the Slave Quarter: Intimate Relationships in Antebellum America.”
- Karen Stein, Professor of English and Women’s Studies, “Reading, Learning, Teaching Toni Morrison.”
Faculty Research Fellowships in the Humanities for 2008-2009
- Timothy S. George, Associate Professor of History, “Toruku: Mountain Dreams, Chemical Nightmares.”
- Joelle Rollo-Koster, Professor of History, “The People of Curial Avignon.”
- Alain-Philippe Durand, Department of Modern and Classical Languages and Literatures, "Jorge Amado and Albert Camus: Formative Literary Visions and Prewar Politics."
- Travis D. Williams, Assistant Professor of English, “Literary Form in early Modern English Mathematics.”
- Catherine Sama, Professor of Italian and Film Media, “Rosalba Carriera: Correspondence and Diary of an 18th Century Venetian Artist.”
- Mary Cappello, Professor of English, “Swallow: Foreign Bodies, their Ingestion, Aspiration, and Extraction in the age of Chevalier Jackson.”
- Martha E. Rojas, Assistant Professor of English, “Diplomatic Letters: Innovating Custom in the Early Republic.”
Graduate Research Fellowships in the Humanities for 2008-2009
- John Hodgkins, Department of English, “The Drift: Rethinking the Dynamics of Adaptation.”
- Matthew Ortoleva, Department of Writing and Rhetoric, “Rhetorics of Place and Ecological Relationships: The Rhetorical Construction of Narragansett Bay.”
- George Steele, Department of English and Film Media, “(Re)Scoring the Silent Film: Music, Modernism, Affect.”
Subvention Grants in the Humanities for 2008-2009
- Mary Cappello, Department of English, “Swallow: Foreign Bodies, their Ingestion, Aspiration, and Extraction in the age of Chevalier Jackson.”
- Galen A. Johnson, Department of Philosophy, " The Retrieval of the Beautiful: Thinking Through Merleau-Ponty’s Aesthetics."
Fellowships in the Humanities for Junior Scholars 2008-2009
- Jennifer Jones, Department of English, "Virtual Romanticism: Artifice, Artificiality, and the Age of Wordsworth." Deferred until Fall 2009.
Visiting Scholar Grants in the Humanities 2008-2009
- Catherine Sama, Professor of Italian and Film Media
- Mary Hollinshead, Professor of Art History
- Annu Matthew, Professor of Art
- Naomi Mandel, Professor of English
- Carolyn Betensky, Professor of English
Fellowships Awarded, 2007-2008
Faculty Sabbatical Fellowships in the Humanities for 2007-2008
- Robert G. Weisbord, Professor of History, “Black Power and the 1968 Mexico City Olympics.”
- Evelyn Sterne, Associate Professor of History, “Blue State Bible Belt: Evangelical Protestantism in Twentieth-Century New England.”
- Lars O. Erickson, Associate Professor of French and Director of URI’s French International Engineering Program, “Global Engineers: Forging a New Professional Identity at the Université de Technologie de Compiègne.”
- Ryan S. Trimm, Assistant Professor of English and Film Studies, “Cultural Value: Transacting Worth in Postimperial Britain.”
Faculty Research Grants in the Humanities for Fall, 2007
- Travis D. Williams, Assistant Professor of English, “Mathematical Enargeai: Mental Vision and the Rhetorical Function of Early Modern Mathematical Notation.”
- Judith Swift, Professor of Communication Studies and Theatre, “Voices of Katrina: Speaking in the Aftermath.”
- Alain-Philippe Durand, Associate Professor of French, Film Media, and Comparative Literature, “The French Jorge Amado.”
Faculty Research Grants in the Humanities for Spring, 2008
- Jennifer Jones, Assistant Professor of English, “Wordsworth and Italy: Inscription, Graffiti, and the Art of Nature.”
- Wendy Roworth, Professor of Art and Art History, “Salvator Rosa’s Fortuna and the Fortunes of Salvator Rosa.”
Fellowships in the Humanities for Junior Scholars 2007-2008
- Jeremiah Dyehouse, Assistant Professor in the College Writing Program, “Rhetorical Strategy in the American Museum of Natural History’s Halls of Vertebrate Evolution.”
Graduate Student Fellowships in the Humanities for Fall 2007
- Christopher Jazwa, History Department, “Temporal Changes in Prehistoric Landscape Usage along the Southern Rhode Island Coast.”
- Shawn M. Edge, History Department, “Barrels and Bibles: Conflict and Compromise between Whalemen and Missionaries in the Sandwich Islands, 1820-1860.”
- Blair H. Walker, Department of Textiles, Fashion Merchandising and Design, “Livery in Newport’s Gilded Age.”
- Deborah Marie Vorse, Department of Textiles, Fashion Merchandising and Design, “Reflections of Modernism: Textiles from the Tirocchi Dressmaking Shop, 1915-1947”
Graduate Student Fellowships in the Humanities for Spring, 2008
- Alisa Augenstein, History Department, “Construction of Perfection; the history, theory, modern employment, and re-use of domed structures” (Sponsor: Prof. Mary Hollinshead, Art and Art History)
- Gretchen Cohenour, English Department, “Early Gothic Novels and Gendered Spaces” (Sponsor: Prof. Josie Campbelll, English)
- Sarah Moore, Department of Textiles, Fashion Merchandising and Design, “Fashion Blogs, Fashion Cities: New Media and the Cultural Geography of Fashion” (Sponsor: Prof. Åbbey Lillethum, Textiles, Fashion Merchandising and Design)
- Bryna Siegel, English Department, “Persistence, Resistance, and Change: Toward a Critical Praxis for Researched Writing” (Sponsor: Prof. Libby Miles)
- Aaron Tillman, English Department, “Magical American Jew: Fantasy and the Portrayal of Ethnicity in Contemporary Jewish American Short Fiction and Film” (Sponsor: Prof. Naomi Mandel)
Fellowships Awarded, 2006-2007
Faculty Sabbatical Fellowships in the Humanities
- E. Rae Ferguson, Associate Professor, Department of History, “The Lives and Works of African American Performers in New York City, 1950-1980”
- David Gitlitz, Professor, Department of Modern and Classical Languages and Literatures, “The Lost Minyan”
- Naomi Mandel, Assistant Professor, Department of English, “Visions of Violence, Ethical Work”
- Nicolai N. Petro, Professor, Department of Political Science, “Will East Meet West? The Role of Orthodox Politics in the New Europe”
- Andrea Rusnock, Associate Professor and Director of Graduate Studies, Department of History, “The Birth of Vaccination”
- Catherine M. Sama, Associate Professor of Italian and Film Media, Department of Modern and Classical Languages and Literatures, “Women Shaping Culture in Eighteenth-Century Venice”
Graduate Student Fellowships in the Humanities
- Fall 2006
- Piotr A. Skuza, English, “Technologies of Identity”
- Spring 2007
- Claire E. Reynolds, English, “National Crisis and the Nexus of Class, Race, and Gender in American Literature”