In September 2012, grants (totalling $10,387) were awarded for the following projects:

Public reading and class visits by Nahid Rachlin

Eric Goodman (ENG)

Medical Humanities Symposium: The Politics and Poetics of Medical Bodies

Steve Nimis (CLS)

Cynthia Klestinec (ENG)

Lecture by Cynthia Wu

Anita Mannur (ENG)

2013 Speaker Series on "Gender, Science, and Technology: A Humanities Perspective"

Kimberly Hamlin (AMS & HST)

Jose Amador (LAS)

Lecture by Ramon Gutierrez

Damon Scott (AMS & GEO)

Elena Jackson Albarran (HST & LAS)

Lecture by Chris Nealon

chris cheek (ENG)

Andrew Hebard (ENG)

Cindy Klestinec (ENG)

Three day visit by Angie Cruz

Shelly Jarrett Bromberg (SPO & POR)

Prior Award Recipients

April 2012

In April 2012, grants (totalling $23,529) were awarded for the following projects:

Fall 2012 Indigenous Speakers Series

Leighton Peterson (ATH)

Sandra Garner (AMS)

Asian/Asian American Cinema

Nalin Jayasena (ENG)

LuMing Mao (ENG/AAS)

21st Century Poetics Praxis

cris cheek (ENG)

Cathy Wagner (ENG)

Public Reading by Ismet Prcic

Margaret Luongo (ENG)

International French-Language Comics Conference

Mark McKinney (FRE)

Lectures/student engagement with Dr. Jack Zipes, German folklore & fairy-tales scholar

Todd Cessaratto (GREAL)

Precious Knowledge documentary screening and panel discussion

Elena Jackson Albarran (HST/LAS)

MU Libraries, Digital Humanities Working Group and Center for Digital Scholarship—Half-day symposium on implications, practices, uses of Digital Humanities & digital collections

Arianne Hartsell-Gundy (MUL)

Katie Gibson (MUL)

Jody Perkins (MUL)

Jenny Presnell (MUL)

Elias Tzoc (MUL)

Music, Jewish Studies, History—Three-day conference, “Music & Power in Russia”

Rebecca Mitchell (HST)

Eight speakers for colloquium series

Keith Fennen (PHL)

Ghandi Lecture by Doug Allen

S.S. Rama Rao Pappu (PHL)

Midwest Society for Women in Philosophy Annual Meeting

Gaile Polhaus (PHL)

Talk by Lou Charnon-Deutsch

Charles Ganelin (SPN)

Teacher Ed, English—Funding to bring Dr. Cynthia Selfe to campus to give keynote address for Digital Expo 2012

Paula Saine (EHS)

Heidi McKee (ENG)

12th Race, Class, Gender, Sexuality Intersectionality Symposium

Madelyn Detloff (ENG/WGS)

January 2012

In January 2012, grants (totalling $15,634) were awarded for the following projects:

Classics—Lecture by Peter Burian (Duke University) at Undergraduate Classics Conference

Deborah Lyons (CLS)

Classics, French, Spanish, and German, Russian and East Asian Languages—Averroes Project: "The Alexander Legend: Global Premodern Humanities": Daniel Selden Lecture

Steve Nimis (CLS)

Anna Klosowska (FRE)

Valerie Wilhite (SPN)

Elizabeth Gergman (GREAL)

English—Public reading and class visit by South African Poet Laureate Keorapetse Kgositsile

Eric Goodman (ENG)

English—Lecture/attendance at grad seminar by Pamela Long

Cynthia Klestinec (ENG)

European Area Studies—Lecture by Larry Wolff (idea of Europe Lecture Series)

Darcy Donahue (SPN/WGS)

Nicole Thesz (GREAL)

French & Italian, Jewish Studies—Two lectures by Dr. Omar Kamil on Arab-Jewish relations

Sven-Erik Rose (FRN)

History—The Eurasian Steppes at the Crossroads of Cultures

Daniel Prior HST)

Journalism—Robert McChesney Lecture

Patricia Gallagher Newberry JRN)

Philosophy—Harris Lecture: Samuel Weber

Keith Fennen (PHL)

Philosophy—Lecture by Amy Alen: The Necessity of Madness and the Possibility of History

Keith Fennen (PHL)

Spanish & Portuguese—Lecture by Frances Aparicio, Northwestern University

Robert DiDonato (SPN)

Spanish & Portuguese—Symposium related to The Summer Institute “The Ohio Hispanic/Latino Community”: Liliana Rojas-Guyler, Maria Lang, Lorena Mora-Mowry

Darcy Donahue (SPN/WGS)

Katie Fowler-Cordova (SPN)

September 2011

In September 2011, grants (totalling $21,378) were awarded for the following projects:

American Studies— Third Nature Symposium

Peggy Shaeffer (AMS)

English— Campus visits and fiction readings by Jaimy Gordon and Mark Weingardner

Eric Goodman (ENG)

English and Asian/Asian American Studies—Lectures on new directions in transnational approaches to Asian/ Asian American Studies

Anita Mannur (ENG/AAS)

Julie Minich (ENG)

English/Early Modern Collective—“Shakespeare’s Sex” lecture by Valerie Traub (U Mich)

James Bromley (ENG)

English and Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies—Campus visit/discussion with Michael Cobb, author of God Hates Fags: The Rhetorics of Religious Violence

Andrew Hebard (ENG)

Madelyn Detloff (ENG/WMS)

English—Performance by Frida Kahlo of the Guerilla Girls

Theresa Kulbaga (ENG)

Journalism—Panel discussion to mark 30th anniversary of the Society of Professional Journalists

Patricia Gallagher Newberry (JRN)

Philosophy—philoSOPHIA Conference

Elaine Miller (PHL)

Emily Zakin (PHL)

Philosophy—Presentation of paper by Eduardo Mendieta (Stony Brook University)

Keith Fennen (PHL)

Presentation of paper by Vanessa Rumble (Boston College)

Keith Fennen (PHL)

April 2011

In April 2011, grants (totalling $10,542.75) were awarded for the following projects:

Anthropology — Indigenous Speakers Series

Leighton Peterson (ATH)

Art — Class Visit and Lecture by Kristina Paulsen

Pepper Stetler (ART)

Art; Architecture & Interior Design; History, Spanish & Portuguese; Latin/o American & Caribbean Studies — Exhibit and Talks on In Cortés' Shadow: From Vera Cruz to Mexico City

Gerardo Brown-Manrique (ARC)
Carla Pestana (HST)
Shelly Jarrett Bromberg (SPN)
Edward Montgomery (ART)

English — Sixties Extravaganza

Eric Goodman (ENG)
Steven Lansky (ENG)

English and Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies — Public Visit and Class Visit by Amina Gautier

Madelyn Detloff (WMS)
Eric Goodman (ENG)

German, Russian, and East Asian Languages and Theatre — Lectures and Workshop with R. David Valayre

Howard Blanning (THE)
John Jeep (GREAL)
Elizabeth Mullenix (THE)
Nicole Thesz (GREAL)

Miami University Libraries — Events in Connection with Let's Talk about It: Making Sense of the Civil War

Arianne Hartsell-Gundy (MUL)
Jenny Presnell (MUL)
Kimberly Tully (MUL)
Elias Tzoc (MUL)

Philosophy — Lecture by Vanessa Rumble

Keith Fennen (PHL)

Western College Memorial Archives — Book on Freedom Summer Memorial

Jacqueline Johnson (MUL)

January 2011

In January 2011, grants (totalling $11,226.50) were awarded for the following projects:

Classics — Undergraduate Classics Conference

Deborah Lyons (CLS)

Comparative Media Studies — Series of Lunch Workshops

Ron Becker (CMS)
Nicole Staroielski (CMS)

Early Modern Studies Collective — Meeting Support

Cindy Klestinec (ENG)

English — Lecture

Martha Schoolman (ENG)
Cindy Klestinec (ENG)

English — Public Readings

Eric Goodman (ENG)

Journalism Program — Lecture

Patricia Newberry (JRN)

Philosophy — Lecture & Reading

Elaine Miller (PHL)

Philosophy, French, English — Lecture

Keith Fennen (PHL)
Claire Goldstein (FRN)
Cindy Klestinec (ENG)

Spanish & Portuguese — Presentation & Discussion

Maria Auxiliadora Álvarez (SPN)

Spanish & Portuguese and Latin American Studies — Class Visit & Lecture

Raul Ianes (SPN & LAS)
Kerry Hegarty (SPN & LAS)

October 2010

In October 2010, grants (totalling $28,436) were awarded for the following projects:

Averroes Project

Elizabeth Bergman (GREAL)
Anna Klosowska (FRE)
Steve Nimis (CLS)
Valerie Wilhite (SPN)

American Cultures Seminar Research Cluster

Andrew Hebard (ENG)
Anita Mannur (ENG)

Artist's Talk and Exhibition by Heather Ault

Kelly Quinn (AMS)

Fiction Reading by Padgett Powell

Margaret Luongo (ENG)

Lecture on Race in Cuba by Pedro Pérez Sarduy

Peter Rose (CLS)

Lectures in Contemporary Anthropology — Indigenous Speakers Series

Leighton C. Peterson (ATH)

Lecture and Symposium by Cameroonian Philosopher Charles Romain Mbele

John M. Cinnamon (ATH)
Cyril K. Daddieh (BWS)

Lecture in Sports Studies by Susan Birrell

Mary McDonald (KNH)

Poetry Readings by Jerome Rothenberg, Julie Patton and Allen Fisher

Cathy Wagner (ENG)
cris cheek (ENG)

Possible Futures for Minority Studies Research Cluster

Gaile Pohlhaus (PHL)
Julie Minich (ENG)

Readings, Workshops, and Lectures by Writer Manfred Flugge

Mila Geneva (GREAL)
Sven-Erk Rose (FRE)
Nicole Thesz (GREAL)

Symposium — Disease and Development in the Global City

Amanda Kay McVety (HST)
José Amador (LAS)

Symposium — South Asian Masculinities

Liz Wilson (REL)

April 2010

In April 2010, grants (totalling $16,060) were awarded for the following projects:

Asian and Asian American Studies — Lecture

LuMing Mao (ENG)

English — Public Reading

Eric Goodman (ENG)

English — Public Reading & Class Visits

Eric Goodman (ENG)

English — Lecture

Cynthia Klestinec (ENG)

English, Digital Humanities — Lecture

Laura C. Mandell (ENG)

Philosophy — Lecture

Elaine Miller (PHL)

Philosophy — Lecture

Elaine Miller (PHL)

Spanish & Portuguese, Latin American Studies — Symposium

Darcy Donahue (SPN)
Shelly Jarrett Bromberg (SPN)
Beatriz Celaya-Carrillo (SPN)
Paula Gandara (SPN)
Ken Wireback (SPN)

Women's Studies Program — 10th Race, Class, Gender, Sexuality Symposium

Madelyn Detloff (WMS, ENG)

February 2010

In February 2010, grants (totalling $32,100) were awarded for the following projects:

Classics, Black World Studies — Lecture Series
(with the Teagle Foundation)

Denise McCoskey (CLS)

Comparative Religion Lecture

Scott Kenworthy (REL)

English — Visit by Chris Baker & Pasuk Phongpaichit of Thailand

Susan J. Morgan (ENG)

English, Architecture & Interior Design — Project on Poetics and Performance of Space

Chris Cheek (ENG)
Mary Ben Bonham (ARC)

English, Digital Humanities, Interactive media Studies — Launching 18thConnect

Laura C. Mandell (ENG)

GREAL — Presentations by Martina Liedke

Ruth Sanders (GREAL)

History — Lecture by Ben Jealous, President of the NAACP

Tatiana Seijas (HST)

Spanish & Portuguese, History — GREAL Lecture

Robert DiDonato (SPN)
Charlotte A. Goldy (HST)
Mila Ganeva (GREAL)

MU Society of Professional Journalists Symposium

Erin Bowen (Miami Student)
Patricia Newberry (JRN)

Spanish & Portuguese, Latin American Studies, English, Anthropology, Black World Studies — Lecture

Shelly Jarrett Bromberg (SPN/LAS, Hamilton)
Jose Amador (LAS)
Juan Carlos Albarran (LAS)
Julie Minich (ENG)
Christina Leza (LAS/ATH, Middletown)
Helane Androne (BWS/ENG, Middletown)

October 2009

In October 2009, grants (totalling $30,112.26) were awarded for the following projects:

Asian and Asian American Studies Program Working Group

LuMing Mao (ENG)

Averroes Project

Elizabeth Bergman (GREAL)
Anna Klosowska (FRE)
Steve Nimis (CLS)
Valerie Wilhite (SPN)

Darwin, Lincoln, Poe Symposium

Nancy Solomon (ZOO)
Muriel Blaisdell (HST)
Kimberly Hamlin (AMS & HST)
Kevin Armitage (Western)

Department of English Speaker

Katharine Gillespie (ENG)

Department of Spanish and Portuguese Speaker

Charles Ganelin (SPN)

Early Modern Studies Collective

Renee Baernstein (HST)

Finding Freedom Summer in Oxford, Ohio

Mary Jane Berman (CAWC)

Latin American Studies, Miami University Hamilton Multicultural Center, MUH Dean's Office

Shelly Jarrett Bromberg (SPN, Hamilton)

Possible Futures for Minority Studies Research Cluster

Gaile Pohlhaus (PHL)
Julie Minich (ENG)

Preserving (Literary) History Speakers

Laura Mandell (ENG)

Women's Studies Program

Madelyn Detloff (WMS & ENG)

Writer in Residence Program

Gretchen Ziolowski (GREAL)
Mila Ganeva (GREAL)

21st Century Poetic Praxis Initiative

Maria Alvarez (SPN)
Tammy Brown (BWS & HST)
Cris Cheek (ENG)
William R. Hoe (ENG)
Catherine Wagner (ENG)