For fourth year, faculty projects are funded through Arts and Humanities Initiative

Funding for AHI comes from an annual appropriation from the Iowa legislature that has been added to the UI’s base budget as an ongoing commitment to the advancement of work in the arts and humanities.

This year’s award winners are:

Tom Aprile, art and art history, The Hairdo Alphabet, $7,441

Douglas Baynton, history, Disability and American Immigration Policy, $6,000

Stephen Bloom, journalism and mass communication, Americana: The Renegade Confederates, $7,500

Art Borreca, theatre arts, Dramaturgical Work on Fugitive Cant, a play by Naomi Wallace, $6,000

Diana Cates, religion, Religious Ethics and the Problem of Genetic Guilt, $5,000

Ronald Cohen, art and art history, Journals of the Rococo, $6,934

Corey Creekmur, English, The International Film Musical, $10,000

Alice Davison, linguistics, Word Order in Discourse Contexts: A Grammatically Annotated Text in Hindi, $5,652

David Depew, communication studies, A History of the Philosophy of Biology, $3,500

Richard DePuma, art and art history, Excavations at Crustumerium, $7,500

Michael Eckert, music, Composition for Six Players, $5,000

Laurel Farrin, art and art history, Embryonic Paintings and Drawings, $7,500

Elena Gavruseva, linguistics, Crosslinguistic Investigations in Child Grammars, $5,000

Christine Getz, music, Counter-Reformation Music and Worship at the Royal Ducal Chapel of Santa Maria della Scala in Milan, $7,500

David Gompper, music, Clarinet Quintet, $7,250

Laura Gotkowitz, history, From Purity of Blood to Indigenous Social Movements: Cultural Race, Racism, and the Meanings of Mestizaje in the Andes and Central America, $10,000

John Kimmich-Javier, journalism and mass communication, Shadows of Remembrance: Photographs from the Pilgrimage Route of Santiago, $7,100

Leslie Loveless, occupational and environmental health, A. M. Wettach Book and Exhibit, $6,600

Tonglin Lu, Asian languages and literature, Independent Films in China at the Turn of the Millennium, $6,129

Mac Marshall, anthropology, Jubilee: Revisiting and Reconnecting with Global Micronesians, $5,247

James McPherson, creative writing, An Exploration, in Fictional and Factual Terms, of the Life and Times of John A. Bingham, $6,500

Christopher Merrill, International Writing Program, Lost and Found: The Art of Translation, $10,000

Christine Ogren, planning, policy, and leadership studies, The State Normal School Experience: A History, $5,000

Christine Pawley, library and information science, Reading in Cold War Wisconsin, $7,500

Mark Peterson, history, Boston and the Problem of Slavery in the Atlantic World, $6,211

Katrina Sanders, planning, policy, and leadership studies, “Stealin’ A Meetin’ ”: Black Catholic Clergy in the Civil Rights Movement, $7,500

Janine Sawada, religion, The Depiction of Religious Deviance in the Japanese Press of the 1890s, $5,000

Johanna Schoen, history, “A Great Thing for Poor Folks”: Birth Control, Sterilization, and Abortion in Public Health and Welfare, $7,201

Katherine Tachau, history, Bible Lessons for Kings: Scholars and Friars in 13th-century Paris and the Creation of the Bibles Moralisees, $3,000

Annette-Barbara Vogel, music, “Entartete Musik”: Reclaiming the Masterworks of Hans Gal, $7,500

Sasha Waters, cinema and comparative literature, Life in These Small Hollows, $7,500

Susan Chrysler White, art and art history, Mixed Media Prints, $7,500

Rachael Marie-Crane Williams, art education, The Status and Praxis of Arts Education/Programming in Public Residential Detention Facilities for Juvenile Offenders, $7,500

Bryon Winn, theatre arts, The Silent Scream of Martha Hersland, $25,000