About the Internal Funding Initiatives grant program
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Current IFI Awardees
March 2016 Awardees
Arts & Humanities Initiative (AHI) Awardees
IFI Archives
The Office of the Vice President for Research and Economic Development
is pleased to present the following Arts & Humanities Initiative (AHI) awardees
March 2017
Charlotte Adams, Associate Professor, Dance
Arts & Humanities Initiative Standard Grant
The Cougar Project
Florence Boos, Professor, English
Arts & Humanities Initiative Standard Grant
Pilot Project to Upgrade the William Morris Archive for Database Searching and Mobile Device Display
Glenn Ehrstine, Associate Professor, German
Arts & Humanities Initiative Standard Grant
Devotional Spectatorship in the Alsfeld Passion Play (1501)
Michael Gibisser, Assistant Professor, Cinematic Arts
Arts & Humanities Initiative Standard Grant
Headroom Screening Series
Stephen Lensink, Associate Director, Office of the State Archeologist
Arts & Humanities Initiative Major Project Grant
Expanding Iowa’s Historic Indian Location Database
Glenn Penny, Professor, History
Arts & Humanities Initiative Standard Grant
Beyond Colonial Questions: Being German in Guatemala from the 1880s through the 1980s
Jonathan Wilcox, Professor, English
Arts & Humanities Initiative Major Conference Grant
Performance, Culture, and the Book: A Conference Honoring the Work of Claire Sponsler
December 2016
Jennifer Buckley, Assistant Professor, English
Major Conference Grant
The Future of the Avant-Garde: Dada Archives
Daniel Fine, Assistant Professor of Digital Media in Performance, Theatre Arts and Dance
Arts & Humanities Standard Grant
Traditional Disciplinary Silos: Creating New Multi-Model Transdisciplinary Art and Performance
Christopher Merrill, Professor and Director, International Writing Program
Major Project Grant
Next Horizons: The IWP at 50
Daniel Miller, Assistant Professor, School of Art & Art History - Dimensional Practice/Sculpture
Arts & Humanities Standard Grant
Floodwaters
Kathleen Newman, Associate Professor, Spanish and Portuguese
Arts & Humanities Standard Grant
Argentine Silent Film (1923-1935)
Lisa Schlesinger, Associate Professor, Theatre Arts
Arts & Humanities Standard Grant
Iphigenia: Story of a Refugee
March 2016
Kathy Lavezzo, Associate Professor, English
Arts & Humanities Standard Grant
Remappings: Christians and Jews in Early England
Adriana Rodenas Mendez, Professor, Spanish & Portuguese
Arts & Humanities Standard Grant
Mythologies of Return: Revisiting Ana Mendieta's Rupestrian Sculptures
Michael Sakamoto, Assistant Professor, Dance
Arts & Humanities Standard Grant
Blind Spot
Christine Shea, Assistant Professor, Spanish & Portuguese
Arts & Humanities Standard Grant
Multilingual Language Production
Jon Winet
Art & Humanities Standard Grant
Power
December 2015
Mériam Belli, Associate Professor, History
Arts & Humanities Standard Grant
Transient Deaths: Funerary Practices and Culture in a Global Perspective
Diana Cates, Professor, Religious Studies
Major Project Grant
Attributes and Practices of Nursing Units that Contribute to Nurse Thriving and Strong Job Satisfaction: A Pilot Study at athe University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics
Kembrew McLeod, Professor, Communication Studies
Arts & Humanities Standard Grant
Transcriptions and Image Rights for NEH Book: The Pop Underground
Michael Moore, Associate Professor, History
Arts & Humanities Standard Grant
Pope Formosus, Political Theology, and the End of Carolingian World Order
Jacki Rand, Associate Professor, History
Major Project Grant
Iowa Native Spaces: A Collaborative Digital Mapping Project
Steven Ungar, Professor, Cinematic Arts
Arts & Humanities Standard Grant
Hiroshima Mon Amour: A Film in History
Marian Wilson Kimber, Associate Professor, Music
Arts & Humanities Standard Grant
Female Composers at the White House: Phyllis Fergus’s Advocacy for Women in American Music
September 2015
Colin Gordon, Professor, History
Major Project Grant
Segregation, Homeownership, and the Black-White Wealth Gap
Jiyeon Kang, Assistant Professor, Communication Studies
Arts & Humanities Initiative Standard Grant
Vernacular Civilities: Chinese International Students in the U.S. and South Korea
Robert C. Ketterer, Professor, Classics
Arts & Humanities Initiative Standard Grant
Ancient history and the Ottomans in Italian opera, 1650-1830
March 2015
Sabine Golz, Associate Professor, German
Arts & Humanities Initiative Standard Grant
Documentary "The Cantor of Swabia"
Carol MacVey, Lecturer, Theatre Arts
Arts & Humanities Initiative Standard Grant
The Seagull: a Film
Luis Martin-Estudillo, Associate Professor, Spanish & Portuguese
Arts & Humanities Initiative Standard Grant
Spanish Culture and the Rise of Euroskepticism (1939-2014)
Christine Ogren, Associate Professor, Educational Policy and Leadership
Arts & Humanities Initiative Standard Grant
Summers Off: A History of American Teachers' Other Three Months
HG Penny, Professor, History
Major Project Grant
German Iowa in the Global Midwest
Christine Shea, Assistant Professor, Spanish & Portuguese
Major Conference Grant
From Signal to Words in Bilingual/Second Language Acquisition
December 2014
Carrie Figdor, Associate Professor, Philosophy
Arts & Humanities Initiative Standard Grant
Mechanisms of dehumanization by cognitively impaired subjects in virtual Milgram conditions
Christine Getz, Professor, Music
Arts & Humanities Initiative Standard Grant
Virtual Travel in Filippo Lomazzo’s Music Prints
Julia Oliver Rajan, Lecturer, Spanish & Portuguese
Arts & Humanities Initiative Standard Grant
Mobility and Language Change in the Coffee Zone of Puerto Rico: The Impact of Globalization in Isolated Communities
Phillip Round, Professor, English/AINS
Arts & Humanities Initiative Standard Grant
"Cultural Shorthand: Early Native Writing and the Practice of Sovereignty"
Omar Valerio-Jimenez, Associate Professor, History
Arts & Humanities Initiative Standard Grant
Collective Memories of the U.S.-Mexican War
Darrel Wanzer-Serrano, Assistant Professor, Communication Studies
Arts & Humanities Initiative Standard Grant
Possession: Crafting Americanity in Congressional Debates over Puerto Rico, 1897-1917
September 2014
Clar Baldus, Clinical Associate Professor, Teaching & Learning
Major Project Grant
Creativity and Aging: Preserving Iowa's Artistic Legacy
Jennifer Kayle, Associate Professor, Dance
Arts & Humanities Initiative Standard Grant
Paint Your House Green
Rebekah Kowal, Associate Professor, Dance
Arts and Humanities Initiative Grant Standard Grant
Dancing the World Smaller: Importing Dance in Mid-Century America
Glenn Penny, Professor, History
Arts & Humanities Initiative Standard Grant
Networked Spaces: German Schools in Latin America since the 1880s
Jeff Rich, Assistant Professor, Art & Art History
Arts & Humanities Initiative Standard Grant
The Watershed Project: The Tennessee River
March 2014
Maria Jose Barbosa, Professor, Spanish and Portuguese
Major Conference Grant
Construing Brazil in the United States
Jennifer Buckley, Assistant Professor, English
Arts & Humanities Initiative Grant
Action, Scene, and Voice: Twenty-first Century Dialogues with Edward Gordon Craig
Paul Dilley, Assistant Professor, Classics and Religious Studies
Arts & Humanities Initiative Grant
Mani at the Court of the Persian Kings: A New Perspective on the Religions of Pre-Islamic Iran
Judy Polumbaum, Professor, Journalism and Mass Communication
Major Project Grant
Depicting Post-Revolutionary China: The Photojournalism of Wang Wenlan
Richard Priest, Associate Professor, History
Major Conference Grant
Energy Cultures in the Age of the Anthropocene
Miriam Thaggert, Associate Professor, English
Arts & Humanities Initiative Grant
Riding Jane Crow: Gender and the Railroads in African American Culture
Stephen Voyce, Assistant Professor, English
Arts & Humanities Initiatives Grant
Fluxus Digital Collection
October 2013
Stephen Berry, Associate Professor, Journalism and Mass Communication
Arts & Humanities Initiative Standard Grant
Harry Scott Ashmore: A Southern Liberal Journalist on the Road to Little Rock
Blaine Greteman, Assistant Professor, English
Arts & Humanities Initiative Standard Grant
Shakeosphere: The Early Modern Social Network
Paul Kalina, Assistant Professor, Theatre Arts
Major Project Grant
Mask and Jazz Production
David Stern, Professor, Philosophy
Arts & Humanities Initiative Standard Grant
Research on new Wittgenstein manuscripts in Cambridge, England
Rachel Williams, Associate Professor, Gender, Women’s & Sexuality Studies
Arts & Humanities Initiative Standard Grant
Run Home If You Don’t Want to Be Killed: The Detroit Riot of 1943