2020
Research Grants
- Curtis, Edward (Liberal Arts) “Heartland Muslim: A Syrian History of the American Midwest”
- Gondola, Ch Didier (Liberal Arts) “A Win-Win Gambit? The Social Impact of ChinAfrica in Kinshasa (DR Congo) and Libreville (Gabon)”
- Horvath, Robert (Herron School of Art + Design) “Contemporary Treasures: Envisioning Meme as an Abstract Sculpture”
- Kim, Soo Hyeon (Informatics and Computing) “Empowering Rural Libraries as Sites for Youth Informal Learning Through Making”
- Kostroun, Daniella (Liberal Arts) “The Louisiana Ursulines and Patrimonial Politics in Old Regime France”
- Kryder-Reid, Elizabeth (Liberal Arts) “A Social and Environmental History of Dry Cleaning in Indianapolis”
- Lee, Jennifer (Herron School of Art + Design) “The Cult of Thomas Becket”
- Petranek, Stefan (Herron School of Art + Design) “The Future is Broken”
- Thill, Elizabeth Wolfram (Liberal Arts) “The Digital Marble Map Project”
- Tsultem, Uranchimeg (Herron School of Art + Design) “Meditation and Visualization in Mongolian Buddhist Art”
Conferences, Events, Exhibits, Speaker and Travel Grants
- Brooks-Giles, Marilee (Liberal Arts) “Feminisms and Rhetorics Conference”
- Goggin, Nan (Herron School of Art + Design) NASAD Annual Meeting
- Lehman, Sonja (Herron School of Art + Design) “The Secret Life of Paper – Helen Hiebert – Papermaker / Book Artist”
- Murtadha, Khaula (Community Engagement) “A Bluesy Night, a play written by Antiqua Chapman”
- Nelson, Elizabeth (Liberal Arts) Disability History Association
- Neuman, Nichole (Liberal Arts) Scenario Forum International Conference
- Tucker-Edmonds, Joseph (Liberal Arts) The BREATHE Conference
Summer Academy Fellows
- Haberski, Raymond (Liberal Arts) “Philanthropy and the Public Good”
- Holzman, Laura (Liberal Arts) “COVID-19 Vaccine Advocacy Innovation Lab Exhibition”
- Hyatt, Susan (Liberal Arts) “Community Arts and Working Class Communities in Thatcherite Britain: The Story of the Yorkshire Arts Circus”
- Kazembe, Lasana (Education) Proposal Development for Research-Practice Institutional Challenge Grant
- Nelson, Elizabeth (Liberal Arts) “The DDU Review: Intimacy, Disability, and the End of the Asylum”
- Thomas, Natasha (Engineering and Technology) “Decolonizing Creative Collaboration: An Arts Based Collaborative Autoethnography between a Dance-Movement Therapist and Music Therapist”
- Tsultem, Uranchimeg (Herron Art + Design) “The Invention of Selves and Communities: The Interplay of Texts, Images, and Structured Imaginative Exercises in Buddhist Cultural Productions”
- Wheeler, Rachel (Liberal Arts) “RealCV: Making the Invisible Visible”
2019
Research Grants
- Agha, Anila (Herron School of Art + Design): “Seeking Refuge – Exploring the First Phase”
- Deal, Scott (Engineering and Technology): “Plasma Festival Intermedia Arts, Indianapolis”
- Eickmeier, Valerie (Herron School of Art + Design): “Visual Journeys and Imaginary Destinations”
- Goff, Phil (Liberal Arts): “Sixth Biennial Conference on Religion and American Culture”
- Guiliano, Jennifer (Liberal Arts): “Workshop on Digital Humanities and Native American, Indigenous, and First Nations Studies”
- Herrold, Catherine (Lilly Family School of Philanthropy):”Grassroots Groups and the Revitalization of Civil Society in Palestine”
- Holzman, Laura (Herron School of Art + Design): “We’re Open, Come In: The House Life Project”
- Hsu, Timothy (Engineering and Technology): “Better Methods for Acoustic Realism in Live Performance Amplification as Inspired by Acoustic Ensembles”
Speaker and Event Grants
- Cox, Robin (Engineering and Technology): “Bang on a Can Loud Weekend Festival”
- Kostroun, Daniella (Liberal Arts): “Doing Things Differently with “Tale of Black Histories”
- Roberts, Eva (Herron School of Art + Design): “Designer Jessica Bellamy Lecture”
- Wilburn, Victoria (Health and Human Sciences): “Spirit and Place Festival: Pain & Purpose: The Intersection of Parenting and Addiction”
Travel Grants
- Agha, Anila (Herron School of Art + Design): “Itinerant Shadows – Art Exhibit”
- Baich, Tina (IUPUI University Library): “Interlending & Document Supply Conference”
- Beckman, Emily ( Liberal Arts): “Consortium for Humanities Centers and Institutes (CHCI) Health Beyond Borders Conference”
- Carstensen, Thorsten (Liberal Arts): “Asiatische Germanistentagung 2019, Sapporo, Japan”
- Ganci, Aaron (Herron School of Art + Design): “2019 AIGA National Conference”
- Haberski, Raymond (Liberal Arts): “Society for U.S. Intellectual History”
- Hsu, Timothy (Engineering and Technology): “176th Meeting Acoustical Society of America and 2018 Acoustics Week in Canada Canadian Acoustical Association”
- Hudnall, Catherine (Herron School of Art + Design): “Furniture Society Conference”
- Laucella, Pamela (Liberal Arts): “North American Society for the Sociology of Sport”
- Mullins, Paul (Liberal Arts): “Contemporary and Historical Archaeology in Theory (CHAT) annual conference”
- Nelson, Elizabeth (Liberal Arts): “National Council on Public History 2019 annual meeting”
- Prada, Josh (Liberal Arts): “Eleventh International Language Teacher Education Conference
2018
Research Grants
- Carstensen, Thorsten (Liberal Arts) “Architectural Discourses in German Literature: The Case of Paul Shcheerbart”
- Curtis Edward (Liberal) “The Political History of Muslim Americans and the Fate of the United States”
- Cusack-McVeigh, Holly (Liberal Arts) “’Valley of a Thousand Dreams’: Collaboration in Three Zulu Communities”
- Hayes, Kelly (Liberal Arts) “Intergalactic Space-Time Travelers: Envisioning the New Age in Brazil’s Valley of the Dawn”
- Minor, Kyle (Liberal Arts) “Creating Films through Community Engagement to Address the Opioid/HIV Crisis in Austin, Indiana”
- Mullins, Paul (Liberal Arts) “Digital Heritage and Gentrification: The Histories of Racial Displacement and Urban Transformation on Indianapolis’ Downtown Canal”
- Mullins, Paul (Liberal Arts “Revolting Things: An Archaeology of Repulsive Materiality”
- Robertson, Jean (Herron School of Art & Design) “Toward a Global History of Art”
- Robinson, Cory (Herron School of Art & Design) “Exploring the Digitally Handmade: New Methods in Furniture Design”
- Tucker Edmonds, Joseph (Liberal Arts)”The Other Black Church: Alternative Christianities, Democracy, and the Struggle for Freedom”
- Vogt, Wendy (Herron School of Art & Design) “Lives in Transit: Economies of Violence, Intimacy, and Care along the Migrant Journey in Mexico”
Travel Grants
- Bourus, Terri (Liberal Arts) “Conference: Remarking the Text, King’s College London”
- Carstensen, Thorsten (Liberal Arts) “Das Wort sei gewagt: Ein Symposium zum Werk von Peter Handke”
- Cox, Robin (Engineering and Technology) “Solo Concerts at Virginia Tech University and Rutgers University”
- Cox, Robin (Engineering and Technology) “New York City Electroacoustic Music Festival”
- Friesen, Amanda (Liberal Arts) “Annual Meeting of the Society for the Scientific Study of Religion”
- Thorington Springer, Jennifer (Liberal Arts) “Conference: Caribbean Studies Association”
- Wheeler, Rachel (Liberal Arts) “Conference: Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture”
- Zhang, Xin (Liberal Arts) “National Conference of the Association for Asian Studies”
Speaker and Event Grants
- Coleman, Martin (Liberal Arts) “Society for the Advancement of American Philosophy Annual Meeting”
- Goff, Phil (Liberal Arts) “Fifth Biennial Conference on Religion and American Culture”
- Hyatt, Susan (Liberal Arts) “Exit Zero Documentary Screening and Discussion: Deindustrialization in Chicago and Indianapolis”
- Schneider, William (Liberal Arts) “Lecture by Pulitzer Prize Winning Historian David Oshinsky, NYU”
2017
- Carstensen, Thorsten (Liberal Arts), “German Literature, Modernism, Architecture, Visual Culture”
- Demirel-Pegg, Tijen (Liberal Arts), “Understanding the Backfire Puzzle in the Arab Spring: Variations in Outcomes in Egypt, Morocco and Bahrain”
- DiCamilla, Frederick (Liberal Arts), “The Mediating Function of Metaphor and Myth to Construct an Ideological Framework for the Position of the US in the World: The Christopher, Powell, and Kerry hearings for Secretary of State”
- Drews, Michael (School of Engineering and Technology), “Big Robot Composition and Performance Documentation”
- Guiliano, Jennifer (Liberal Arts), “Reflections on the R*dskins: The History and Significance of a Team and its Traditions”
- Horvath, Robert (Herron School of Art and Design), “Contemporary Digital Narratives for the Homoerotic Trope”
- Jain, Andrea (Liberal Arts), “Doing Yoga: Acts of Resistance and Acts of Complicity”
- Johnson, Jennifer (IUPUI University Library), “3D Scanning for Digital Libraries and Museums: Developing National Standards”
- Kaufman-McKivigan, Jack (Liberal Arts), “Frederick Douglass and the Role of Oratory in African American”
- Kryder-Reid, Elizabeth (Liberal Arts), “Tracing Race and Class on the Indianapolis Landscape”
- Thorington Springer, Jennifer (Liberal Arts), “Audre Lorde: Feminisms, Intersectionality, and Global Vision”
- Yoon, Ayoung (Informatics and Computing), “Building Capacity for Inclusiveness through Connections with Community Archives”
2016
- Agha, Anila (Herron School of Art and Design), “Crossing Boundaries”
- Cramer, Kevin (Liberal Arts), “German Labor and German Love: The Gustav Adolf Association, Philanthropy, and Public Religion, 1832-1945”
- Goff, Philip (Liberal Arts), “Fourth Biennial Conference on Religion and American Culture”
- Hyatt, Susan (Liberal Arts), “From Public to Private Housing: The Transformation of the Welfare State in Post-Thatcher England”
- Johnson, Daniel (Liberal Arts), “A Virtual Geo-Humanities Exploration of a Mississippian Village for Descendent, Public, and Academic Stakeholders”
- Labode, Modupe (Liberal Arts), “The Historical Intersection of Mass Incarceration and Mental Health in Indiana”
- Lewis, C. Thomas (Informatics and Computing), “Participatory Filmmaking to Confront HIV Stigma”
- Pollock, Caitlin (University Library), “Strange Fruit: A Digital Exploration of the Anti-Lynching Campaign of Ida B. Wells”
- Riede, Danielle (Herron School of Art and Design), “Material Landscape: Residency & Exhibition in Berlin”
- Robertson, Jean (Herron School of Art and Design), “Art and the Digital World”
- Wheeler, Rachel (Liberal Arts), “Singing for the Spirits: Exploring the Role of Music in Identity Formation in an Eighteenth-Century Mohican-Moravian Community”
- Witkowski, Gregory (Lilly Family School of Philanthropy), “Hoosier Philanthropy: Understanding the Past, Planning the Future”
- Zulaica Hernandez, Iker (Liberal Arts), “Current Research on Spanish Demonstratives”
2015
- Bingham, Dennis (School of Liberal Arts), “The Films of Bob Fosse”
- Bourus, Terri (School of Liberal Arts), “The Tragedies of Mr. Arden of Fevershame”
- Deal, Scott (School of Engineering and Technology), “Heartland Fusion: New Electro-Acoustic Works”
- Ganci, Aaron (Herron School of Art and Design), “Understanding the Role of Visual Communication Design in Digital Production Environments”
- Goff, Philip (School of Liberal Arts), “In the Year of Our Lord 1844: Murder, Mayhem, and Melancholy in American Religion”
- Hayes, Kelly (School of Liberal Arts), “Intergalactic Space-Time Travelers: Envisioning the New Age in Brazil’s Valley of the Dawn”
- Hong, Young-Bok (Herron School of Art and Design), “Migrating For a Better Life: Rethinking Social Service Design From a People Centered Perspective”
- Hudnall, Catherine (Herron School of Art and Design), “Blurring the Lines Between Furniture Design and Sculpture: Explorations in New Mechanisms and Technologies”
- Kaufman-McKivigan, John R. (School of Liberal Arts), ”Symposium: Frederick Douglass’s The Heroic Slave and the American Revolutionary Tradition”
- King, Juliet (Herron School of Art and Design), “Art Therapy is a Brain Based Profession”
- Kostroun, Daniella (School of Liberal Arts), “The Abuse and Misuse of Marie Madeleine Hachard : A Cautionary Tale from the Frontiers of History”
- O’Bryan, Ann (University Library), “The Literacy Practices of African American Pioneers in the 19th Century Frontier”
- Petranek, Stefan (Herron School of Art and Design), “The American Society of Human Genetics Public Art Initiative”
- Riede, Danielle (Herron School of Art and Design), “Color Bleed: Investigation of Textile Pigmentation Techniques”
- Rossing, Jonathan P. (School of Liberal Arts), “‘Yes, and…Articulating Principles of Comic Improvisations with Scarpino, Philip V. (School of Liberal Arts), “Anthropocene Rivers: A Comparative Environmental History of the Ohio River and Tyne River”
- Smith, Benjamin D. (School of Engineering and Technology), “Big Tent: An Immersive Inter-media Performance Environment”
- Staum, Sonja (University Library), “Al-Mutanabbi Street Starts Here Digital Collection”
- Wang, Jing (School of Liberal Arts), “Research on Materials Development, Selection and Adaptation for Learners of Chinese as a Foreign Language”
2014
- Carstensen, Thorsten (School of Liberal Arts), “Reading Goethe after Hitler: German Studies in the GDR”
- Deal, Scott (School of Engineering and Technology), “New Works Project”
- Drews, Michael (School of Engineering and Technology), “Death of the Mechanical Man”
- Holzman, Laura (School of Liberal Arts), “Pictures for the City: Shaping Philadelphia’s Image for the 21st Century”
- Horvath, Robert (Herron School of Art and Design), “Figurative Porcelain Sculptures”
- Huang, Edgar (Informatics and Computing), “First Generation of Chinese Medical Educators: Lost Stories”
- Jacobson, Marc (Herron School of Art and Design), “Multiple Dualities: Bridging Abstraction and Representation”
- Musgrave, Megan (School of Liberal Arts), “The Re-Invention of Childhood: Children’s Literature in the Age of Consumerism”
- Riede, Danielle (Herron School of Art and Design), “Sustainable Growths: Painting with Recycled Materials
- Robbins, Kevin (School of Liberal Arts), “The Most Artful and Inventive Press Barons of Modern Paris: Fanny Laure Rothchild and Samuel S. Schwarz, Organizing Mass Media for the Advancement of Satirical and Radical Modern Art, 1890-1920”
- Scarpino, Philip (School of Liberal Arts), “Rivers of the Anthropocene: A Comparative Historical Analysis of the Ohio and Tyne Rivers”
- Subramanian, Janani (School of Liberal Arts), “South Asians on American Network Television”
- Zulaica-Hernandez, Iker (School of Liberal Arts), “The Interplay of Referring Expressions, Information Structure and Rhetorical Distance: Evidence from Spanish”
2013
- De Tienne, Andre (School of Liberal Arts), “Digital Redesign of Scholarly Editions: A Collaboration between Humanities and Informatics Researchers”
- DiCamilla, Frederick (School of Liberal Arts), “The Mediating Function of Metaphor and Myth in Constructing the Role of America in the World: The Hilary Clinton Hearings for Secretary of State”
- Engel, Emily (Herron School of Art and Design), “Pictured Politics: Visualizing Colonial History in South American Civic Portrait Collections”
- Kaufman-McKivigan, John (School of Liberal Arts), “Symposium: Rediscovering the Life and Times of Frederick Douglass”
- Kryder-Reid, Elizabeth (School of Liberal Arts), “Symposium: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Art, Race, and Civic Space”
- Lee, Flounder (Herron School of Art and Design), “documenta XIII, Bewegter Wind-Environmental Art”
- Monroe, Elizabeth (School of Liberal Arts), “Legal Practice in Local and Appellate Courts in the Early National Period”
- Petranek, Stefan (Herron School of Art and Design), “The Genetic Portrait Project”
- Robbins, Kevin (School of Liberal Arts), “The Messy History of ‘The Butter Plate’: Radical New Media, Police Action to Contain Popular Visual Protests, and the Internationalization of a Graphic Arts Community in Modernizing Paris, 1900-1914”
- Shaker, Genevieve (School of Liberal Arts), “Faculty and the Public Good: The Philanthropic Meaning of Academic Work”
- Wood, Elizabeth (School of Liberal Arts), “Interpreting the Family Museum”
2012
- Anton, Marta (School of Liberal Arts), “Traditional and Alternative Methods of Evaluating Second Language Proficiency and Programs with Particular Emphasis on Spanish”
- Bodenhamer, David (School of Liberal Arts), “Spatial Narratives and Deep Maps: Explorations in the Spatial Humanities”
- Brant, Herbert (School of Liberal Arts), “Strange Bedfellow”: Argentine Homoerotic Fiction and National Politics”
- Deal, Scott (School of Liberal Arts), “Big Robot DVD Project”
- Hong, Youngbok (Herron School of Art and Design), “The eDemocracy Plaza”
- Horvath, Robert (Herron School of Art and Design), “Exploration of Sculptural Formation in Porcelain”
- Kelly, Jason (School of Liberal Arts), “In the Wake of Abolition: Citizenship in the British Atlantic, 1807-1921”
- Kovacik, Karen (School of Liberal Arts), “Calling Out to Yeti: Preliminary Travel for an Anthology of Polish Women Poets”
- Mullins, Paul (School of Liberal Arts), “Historical Archaeology, Globalization, and Consumer Society in Northern Europe, 1600-1900”
- Petranek, Stefan (Herron School of Art and Design), “Genetic Portraits”
- Robertson, Jean (Herron School of Art and Design), “Art in the 21st Century: Issues and Trends Taking Shape”
- Robinson, Cory (Herron School of Art and Design), “Beyond Vernacular”
- Setser, Meredith (Herron School of Art and Design), “Coalescence/Diaspora”
- Shepherd, Susan (School of Liberal Arts), “Language Use in the Kenyan Deaf Community: A Linguistic Model for Access to Healthcare”
- Streekstra, Holly (Herron School of Art and Design), “Budapest, Hungary”
- Thorington Springer, Jennifer (School of Liberal Arts), “Voices from the Margins: Constructing Radical Subjectivities”
- Van Wyke, Ben (School of Liberal Arts), “The Nida Institute School for Translation Studies”
2011
- Deal, Scott (School of Engineering and Technology), “Auksalaq Telematic Production”
- Streekstra, Holly (Herron School of Art and Design), “Apparatus, Gimmicks, Automata, and Ephemera”
- Robinson, Cory (Herron School of Art and Design), “Wood Transformed: Introduction of CAD, CNC Fabrication, and Digital Rendering into the Furniture Maker’s Studio”
- Riede, Danielle (Herron School of Art and Design), “Not So Pseudo: Scientific Method and Installation”
- Goodine, Linda (Herron School of Art and Design), “Everglades Still-Life Project”
- Morrison, David (Herron School of Art and Design), “The Human Hand Redefined: 17th Century Technology of Stone Lithography United with 21st Century Digital Technology”
- Hoegberg, David (School of Liberal Arts), “J.M. Coetzee and the Critics”
- Kostroun, Daniella (School of Liberal Arts), “Jansenist Women and Public Opinion in France, 1680-1750”
- Labode, Modupe (School of Liberal Arts), “The Busing Project: Oral Histories of Busing for Desegregation in Indianapolis”
- Wheeler, Rachel (School of Liberal Arts), “Revolutions in Faith: Five Generations of a Mohican-Moravian Family, 1740 1815”
- Davis, Thomas (School of Liberal Arts), “Tensions in Large Scale Religious Philanthropies: A Symposium”
- Hayes, Kelly (School of Liberal Arts), “Religious Pluralism South of the Border: New Religious Movements in Brazil”
2010
- Baker, Lesley (Herron School of Art and Design), “Image to Clay”
- Agha, Anila (Herron School of Art and Design), “Rights of Passage”
- Eickmeier, Valerie (Herron School of Art and Design), “Fragile Planet/Visual Expressions”
- McDaniel, Craig (Herron School of Art and Design), “Spellbound: Creative Representations of Spirituality”
- Robertson, Jean (Herron School of Art and Design), “Researching New Visual Art in the Twenty-First Century”
- Richardson, Mark (Herron School of Art and Design), “Glass Casting Techniques”
- Winship, Andrew (Herron School of Art and Design), “Dreams of Arcadia: The Mythic Midwest”
- Goodine, Linda (Herron School of Art and Design), “Everglades Still-life Project”
- Hyatt, Susan (School of Liberal Arts), “Change Agents in a Time of Political Upheaval: An Oral History of Britain’s Community Development Projects”
- Kovacik, Karen (School of Liberal Arts), “Beyond Trauma: Translating Post-Communist Representations of Poland in Agnieszka Kuciak’s Distant Lands”
- Wheeler, Rachel (School of Liberal Arts), “Revolutions in Faith: Five Generations of a Mohican-Moravian Family, 1740 – 1815”