CHFA External Grant Activity in the Past Year
Arlene Avakian, for the Women, Gender, Sexuality Studies Department
Mellon Mutual Mentoring (M3) Team Grant
Janna Baty, Music and Dance
Marion and Jasper Whiting Foundation
“A Study of the Vocal Music of Heitor Villa Lobos and Conversational Portuguese”
Rajesh Bhatt, Linguistics
National Science Foundation Grant, multi-year
“CRI: CRD Collaborative Research: A Multi-Representational and Multi-Layered Treebank for Hindi/Urdu”
Shmuel Bolozky, Judaic & Near Eastern Studies
U.S. Department of Education sub-grant (07-10)
National Middle East Language Resource Center
Brian Bunk, History
National Endowment for the Humanities
“Pride and Passion: The African American Baseball Experience—A Traveling Exhibition for Libraries”
James Cathey, Kyle Frackman, Sherrill Harbison, and Skyler Arndt-Briggs, for the Scandinavian Studies Working Group in GSS, Languages, Literatures & Cultures
Coordinating Committee for Nordic Studies Abroad
(Samarbetsnämnden för Nordenundervisning i utlandet) Grant (with Eric Einhorn from Political Science)
Andrew Donson, Languages, Literatures & Cultures
Spencer Foundation
“Youth in the Fatherless Land: War Pedagogy, Nationalism, and Authority in Germany, 1914-1918”
Laura Doyle, English
American Council of Learned Societies
“Untold Returns: A Postcolonial Literary History of Modernism”
Milan Dragicevich, Theater
Collaborative Grant from Serious Play
To Produce Original Production of Milosovic at the Hague
Harley Erdman, Theater
Association of Classical Hispanic Theater
Chamizol National Memorial in El Paso Texas
To Tour Tirso de Molina’s Marta la Piadosa to the Siglo de Oro Spanish Drama Festival International in El Paso in March 2010
Fred Felman, Philosophy
National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Fellowship
“A Philosophical Study of the Value and Nature of Happiness”
Tanya Fernando, English
U.S. Department of Education Undergraduate International Studies and Foreign Language Program Grant
Curriculum Development through 5-College African Studies Council
Kyle Frackman, Languages, Literatures & Cultures
Cultural Event Ambassadorship Grant
Thord-Gray Memorial Grant for Scandinavian Cultural
Programming, American-Scandinavian Foundation
Lyn Frazier, Linguistics
National Institutes of Health Grant, multi-year
“Processing Ellipsis”
Olga Gershenson, Judaic & Near Eastern Studies
International Research & Exchanges Board Grant and Individual
Advanced Research Opportunities Fellowship
National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship
“The Holocaust in Soviet and Russian Cinema”
Peter Gizzi, English
University of Iowa
Distinguished Visiting Writer
Lisa Green, Linguistics
Old Dominion Fellow of the Humanities Council and the
Linguistic Program, Princeton
Alice Harris, Linguistics
Guggenheim
Ruth Jennison, English
Mellon Research Fellowship
Research at Harry Ransom archive, University of Texas Austin
Miliann Kang, Women, Gender, Sexuality Studies
Center for Research on Families Fellowship
“Second generation Asian American women's work-family Arrangements”
Ford Foundation Grant
“Asian Immigrant Women Workers in the Nail Salon Industry”
Angelika Kratzer, Linguistics
European Research Council sponsored at Institute Jean Nicod
Context and Content
Laetitia La Follette, Art History
Marion and Jasper Whiting Foundation
“Modeling Adaptation: The Process of Romanization in Southern France”
Shona Macdonald
Individual Artist Fellowship, Pollock Krasner Foundation, NY, NY, 2009
Ernest May, Music
Springfield Public Schools
“Connecting through Music”
Elizabeth Mazzocco, Languages, Literatures & Cultures
Mellon Research Grant (06-10)
“Hindi and Arabic: Expanding Opportunities for Independent Learners”
United States Department of Education Research Grant (06-09)
“Cultural Talk: Islamic Worlds”
United States Department of Education Research Grant (05-09)
“Expanding African Languages and African Studies at the Five Colleges”
International Research and Studies Division of the
United States Department of Education (09-11)
"CultureTalk: Exploring Critical Languages and Cultures."
John McCarthy and Joe Pater, Linguistics
National Science Foundation Grant, multi-year
“Investigations in Optimality Theory: Typology, Learning, and Modeling”
Gilbert McCauley, Theater
Community Foundation of Western Massachusetts
Multicultural New Play & Puppetry Grant
Marla Miller, History
Patrick Henry Fellowship, Washington College
Melissa Mueller, Classics
Center for Hellenic Studies
Fellowship
Max Page, Architecture
Fulbright Foundation
Research and Teaching in Argentina
Christopher Potts, Linguistics
Army Research Office Multidisciplinary University Research
Initiative Grant (07-10)
“Computational Linguistics: Situation Understanding Bot Through Language and Environment”
National Science Foundation Grant (07-10)
“Expressive Content and the Semantics of Contexts”
Jane Rausch, History
Fulbright Foundation
Research in Columbia
Timothy Rohan, Art History
Kluge Center Fellow at the Library of Congress U.S. Indonesian Society Travel Grant
Research on the Paul Rudolph Archive
Marion and Jasper Whiting Foundation
Modern and Traditional Architecture in Southeast Asia
Jordana Rosenberg, English
Ahmanson-Getty Fellowship at UCLA
“Cultures of Communication, Theologies of Media in Early Modern Europe and Beyond”
Amilcar Shabazz, Afro-American Studies
University of Massachusetts Lowell
“Reading New England: Using Digital Resources to Explore the Souls of Black Folk”
Susan Shapiro, Judaic & Near Eastern Studies
Fellowship for the Hadassah-Brandeis Gender Institute
Gender and Jewish Thought
Posen Foundation Grant (04-10)
Research on Jewish Secularism
Jonathan Skolnik, Languages, Literatures & Cultures
Leo Baeck Institute/Center for Jewish History Career Development Fellowship
Mellon Mutual Mentoring Micro Grant
Reiko Sono, Languages, Literatures & Cultures
Toshiba International Foundation
“Treasured Tales”
Margaret Speas and Thomas Roeper, Linguistics
National Science Foundation Grant (06-09)
“Recursion: Structural Complexity in Language and Cognition”
Catherine Stanton, History
National Park Service
“Ethnographic Study of Polish Americans and their Associations with the St Joseph Hall, Salem Maritime National Historic Site”
Rex Wallace, Classics
Gladys Krieble Delmas Foundation
“Etruscan Texts Project”
Barbara Zecchi, Languages, Literatures & Cultures
Institute Ramon Lull Grant (06-09)
“Instruction of Catalan Language, Literature and Culture at UMass”
Enhua Zhang, Languages, Literatures & Cultures
Harvard Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies
Fellow