The Internal Funding Initiatives (IFI) programs supported by the Office of the Vice President for Research are composed of the Arts & Humanities Initiative (AHI), the Biological Sciences Funding Program (BSFP), the Mathematical & Physical Sciences Program (MPSFP) and the Social Sciences Funding Program (SSFP). Over the past 12 years, more than 400 faculty and staff members were awarded in excess of $6 million dollars to support research and scholarly activity.
Listed below are the Arts & Humanities Initiative award recipients and project titles from the past three years.
Spring 2012
Art & Art History
Laurel Farrin, Associate Professor
Transport
Brenda Longfellow, Associate Professor
Spolia, Memory and Identity in Roman Imperial and Late Antique Fountains
Cinema & Comparative Literature
Sabine Golz, Associate Professor
The Cantor of Swabia: Music and Resistance in Nazi Germany
Steve Ungar, Professor
Critical Mass: Social Documentary in France
Sasha Waters Freyer, Associate Professor
What Has Been From Time Immemorial
Educational, Policy & Leadership Studies
Katrina Sanders, Associate Professor
The Rise and Fall of Black Catholic Education in a Changing South, 1886-1976
English
Claire Fox, Associate Professor
American Journals and the International Surrealist Movement
Robin Hemley, Professor
NonfictioNOW 2012
Marie Kruger, Associate Professor
Therapeutic Commodities: Apartheid, Trauma and Visual Culture in the New South Africa
History
Jeff Cox, Professor
Re-thinking Secularization
Jacki Rand, Associate Professor
Violence Against Native Women in the Intersection of Shifting Kinship Structures, Alien Legal Forms, and Tribal Self-Determination
Omar Valerio-Jimenez, Assistant Professor
The Latino Midwest
Journalism & Mass Communication
Meenakshi Gigi Durham, Professor
TechnoSex: Technologies of the Body, Mediated Corporealities, and the Quest for the Sexual Self
Music
Robert Cook, Assistant Professor
Voice and Ecology in the Music of George Crumb
Katherine Eberle Fink, Professor
In this Moment: Women and their Songs
Christine Getz, Associate Professor
Canonizing San Carlo: Preaching, Meditation and Memory in Polyphony for the Feast of San Carlo Borromeo
Kenneth Tse, Associate Professor
Spanish Escapade
Marian Wilson Kimber, Associate Professor
Women, Music, and the Spoken Word in the Jerry Tarver Elocution, Rhetoric, and Oratory Collection
Philosophy
Greg Landini, Professor
True Whenever Significant: Typical Ambiguity in Principia Mathematica
Spanish & Portuguese
Amber Brian, Assistant Professor
Colonial Economy of Letters
Theatre Arts
Loyce Arthur, Associate Professor
Caribbean Carnival and Community Arts Education Project
Spring 2011
African-American Studies
Venise Berry, Associate Professor
Visual Framing and the Internet: HIV/AIDS and African American Youth
Art & Art History
Monica Correia, Associate Professor
Tableware Collections
Sue Hettmansperger, Professor
Painting as Artifact
Anita Jung, Associate Professor
New Media in Printmaking
Cinema & Comparative Literature
Corey Creekmur, Associate Professor
Project Director, Comics, Creativity, and Culture: Interdisciplinary and International Perspectives
Ana Merino, Associate Professor, Spanish & Portuguese
Project Co-Director, Comics, Creativity, and Culture: Interdisciplinary and International Perspectives
Rachel Williams, Associate Professor, Teaching and Learning
Project Co-Director, Comics, Creativity, and Culture: Interdisciplinary and International Perspectives
Russell Valentino, Professor
The Iowa Review Enhanced Access Project
Dance
Rebekah Kowal, Associate Professor
The World Dances Through Manhattan: Dance Imports in a Globalizing World, 1943-1960
English
Florence Boos, Professor
Preparation of Texts for the Morris Online Edition
Jonathan Wilcox, Professor
The Letter Made Flesh: An Extreme Material Reading of the Word in Anglo-Saxon Culture
History
Elizabeth Heineman, Associate Professor
Kindertransport: A Family History
Jennifer Sessions, Assistant Professor
The Spirit of Conquest: Colonial Violence in Nineteenth-Century France
Library & Information Science
Jennifer Burek Pierce, Assistant Professor
Rest and a Change of Scene: American Women on Illness and Recovery in the Long Nineteenth Century
Music
Nicole Esposito, Assistant Professor
Flauturas: Reaching New Heights
Lawrence Fritts, Associate Professor
Economies of the Senses
Stephen Swanson, Professor
Animal Songs compact disc recording
Philosophy
David Stern, Professor
Transcribing and editing Wittgenstein's lectures, Cambridge 1930-33, from the notes of GE Moore
Religion
Richard Turner, Professor
Afro-Atlantic Religion: Malcolm X, John Coltrane, and the Sixties
Rhetoric
Naomi Greyser, Assistant Professor
On Sympathetic Grounds
State Archaeologists Office
John Doershuk, PhD
Mapping Ancient Burial Mounds
Teaching and Learning
Kathryn Whitmore, Professor
Investigating the Poetry of Voice in Linguistically Diverse Second Graders: Artmaking and Bookmaking
World Languages, Literature and Culture
Jennifer Feeley, Assistant Professor, Asian & Slavic Language and Literature
Visions of the Future: Global SF Cinema
Waltraud Maierhofer, Professor, German
Digital Edition: Illustrations in Editions of Goethe's Collected Works During His Lifetime
Adriana Mendez Rodenas, Professor, Spanish & Portuguese
Humboldt’s Route: The Orinoco as Narrative and Geographical Threshold
Spring 2010
Anthropology
Erica Prussing, Assistant Professor
Indigenous epidemiologies: Health statistics as moral discourse
Art & Art History
Julie Hochstrasser, Associate Professor
The Dutch in the World
Sarah Kanouse, Assistant Professor
Fishing for Nature: Race, recreation, warmongering and other un/comfortable, in/compatible land uses
Barbara Mooney, Associate Professor
Breaking the Prairie: Architecture, Material Culture, and the Transformation of the Early Midwest
Cinema & Comparative Literature
Leighton Pierce, Professor
Temporal Transactions (Agency of Time part 3)
Communication Studies
Kembrew McLeod, Associate Professor
Chic-A-Go-Go: A Documentary About Music, Media Making, and Public Access TV
Creative Writing
Lan Chang, Professor
The Future of Reading and Writing: The Iowa Writers' Workshop 75th Anniversary Conference
English
Harilaos Stecopoulos, Associate Professor
Telling America's Story: U.S. Writers and Cultural Diplomacy, 1945-2009
Michael Hill, Assistant Professor, English
The Ethics of Swagger
History
Michaela Hoenicke-Moore, Assistant Professor
Varieties of American Patriotism: Nationalism and Foreign Policy from the New Deal to the Cold War
H. Penny, Associate Professor
The German Love Affair with American Indians
Johanna Schoen, Associate Professor
Bringing Abortion to America: Susan Hill and the National Women's Health Organization
Music
Anthony Arnone, Assistant Professor
Cello CD of unrecorded works by living composers
Benjamin Coelho, Associate Professor
CD Recording - Musical Offering, Music for Solo Bassoon and Choir
Scott Conklin, Assistant Professor
Contemporary Masterworks and New Standards for the Violin
David Gompper, Professor
L'IcôneSt. Nicholas
Christine Rutledge-Russell, Associate Professor
Research Support for the Iowa Festival of Baroque Music and Dance
Ksenia Nosikova, Associate Professor
Recording of the first CD of Complete Sonatas for Solo Piano by Robert
Kenneth Tse, Associate Professor
Great American Saxophone Concerto
Women’s Studies
Ellen Lewin, Professor
Out in Spirit: An Ethnography of a Black LGBT Pentecostal Denomination
World Languages, Literature and Culture
Glenn Ehrstine, Associate Professor, German
Vienna 1529: The Ottoman Siege in Popular Discourse
Rosemarie Scullion, Associate Professor, French & Italian
Censorship in the Republic: Cinema, Society and Culture in Postwar France
Kathleen Newman, Associate Professor, Spanish & Portuguese
Contemporary Argentine and Spanish Cinemas: Residual Authoritarianism in Transnationalized Democracies