Arts and Humanities Initiative awardees named

Funding for AHI comes from an annual appropriation of $400,000 from the Iowa Legislature that has been added to the University’s base budget as an ongoing commitment to the advancement of work in the arts and humanities.

This year’s award winners are:

Mary Adamek and Daniel Moore, music, A Percussion-based Protocol for Music Therapists, $10,000

Judith Aikin, German, A Life in Song: Completion of Three Initial Studies on a Seventeenth-Century Woman Poet, $3,600

Janet Altman, French & Italian, Letter Books in France, 1539-1900: The Cultural History of a Genre, $5,000

Loyce Arthur and Ralph Hall, theatre arts, The University of Iowa Music Conference 2001, $10,000

Isabel Barbuzza, art & art history, Art/Book Project, $7,000

Gregory Barnett, music, Tonal Design in Late Seventeenth-Century Music, $4,380

Ashley Dawson, English, Mediated Transition: Popular Media and the National Public Sphere in Post-Apartheid South Africa, $3,150

Shari DeGraw, Center for the Book, Metal Typecasting for Letterpress Printing: Learning to Operate the Monotype Casting Machine for Casting and Setting Lead Type, $2,800

Delbert Disselhorst, music, Nineteenth-Century German Organbuilders in Latvia, $3,000

James Enloe, anthropology, Food Sharing and Social Organization in Prehistoric Hunter/Gatherers, $4,675

James Galvin, Writers’ Workshop, Poetry, $5,000

Lawrence Fritts, music, Sue Hettmansperger, art & art history, Walter Seaman, mathematics, Principia, $20,000

Gary Frost, UI Library, Application of Sewn Board Technique to Book Conservation Practice, $4,290

John Garcia, classics, Homer, Parry, and the Intellectual History of Tradition, $5,000

Elizabeth Heineman, history, Intimate Crossings: Mixed Couples in the Postwar Germanys, $5,000

Sara Levine, English, On Conversation, $5,000

Cynthia Lewis, curriculum & instruction, Critical Engagement: Multicultural Texts in a Rural Context, $5,000

Alan MacVey, Erik Ehn, and Eric Forsythe, theatre arts, A New Theatre Piece: When the Angels of Heaven Saw the Daughters of Man, $18,600

Susan Lohafer, English, Frank Conroy, creative writing, Fiction 2000, $10,000

Philip Lutgendorf, Asian languages & literature, Victoria Rovine, Museum of Art, Devi Darshan, $10,000

Roberta Marvin, music, Verdi and the Victorians, $5,000

Mercedes Niño-Murcia, Spanish & Portuguese, The Lettered Countryside: Vernacular Literacy in the Andes, $5,000

Judith Pascoe, English, Fossils as Collectible Objects, $5,000

Carlos-Eduardo Pineros, Spanish & Portuguese, Uncovering the Phonological System of Palenquero, $5,000

Joanna Ploeger-Tsoulos, communication studies, Institutional Rhetoric in the National Laboratory System, $5,000

Catherine Ringen, linguistics, Vowel Harmony and Voice Assimilation in Optimality Theory, $5,000

Scott Schnell, anthropology, Assessing the Fictionalized Ethnography of a Japanese Novelist, $3,000

T.M. Scruggs, music, Musical Innovation and Renovation of Meaning in Catholic Liturgy: A Comparative Study of Latin American Folk Masses in Central America and Brazil, $5,125

Shelton Stromquist, history, Sombartian Conversations: Revisiting the Comparative Study of Labor and Socialist Politics in the Early Twentieth Century, $4,780

Glenn Storey, classics/anthropology, Preliminary Investigations at the Archaeological Site of Gangivecchio, Sicily, $3,100

Downing Thomas, French & Italian, Early French Opera and the Waning of Absolutism, $4,924

Steve Thunder-McGuire, art & art history/curriculum & instruction, Adding Something Known to Something Seen, $3,702

Thomas Williams, philosophy, Moral Vice, Cognitive Virtue: Jane Austen on Jealousy and Envy, $1,050

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