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5 Faculty Awarded New Frontiers Travel Grants

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Five faculty members in the School of Liberal Arts received New Frontiers Exploration Travel Fellowship grants of $2,500 each. The grants were awarded as part of the 2009 New Frontiers in the Arts and Humanities Program, the goal of which is to help faculty members to expand their work into disciplinary or interdisciplinary frontiers that promise new insights into the human condition or pursue innovative directions in artistic creativity.

  1. Jon Eller, Center for Ray Bradbury Studies in the Institute for American Thought/English, for a project entitled "Center for Ray Bradbury Studies On-Line Archive." Eller will travel to Los Angeles to find, identify and photocopy Bradbury’s remaining manuscripts and correspondence files establish the two database components of the on-line archive.
  2. Jason Kelly, History, "In the Wake of Abolition: Citizenship in the British Atlantic, 1807-1921. This grant helps support travel to libraries, archives and records offices in the United Kingdom, to explore the consequences the legacy of transatlantic slave trade had for changing notions of British and imperial citizenship. This project will lead to scholarly articles and, eventually, a book-length manuscript.
  3. Kim Lovejoy, English, "Linguistic Diversity in Written Texts. Lovejoy will visit writing programs at University of Akron, Governor’s State University, Syracuse University, and University of New Mexico, where language-sensitive writing curricula are being used, to examine the impact of research in language diversity on writing instruction in linguistically diverse classrooms.
  4. Elizabeth Monroe, History, "Settling New Frontiers to Eliminate Slavery." Monroe will visit libraries and archival collections in Virginia, North Carolina, and Florida to examine documentation on three reforms of the 1820, which were intended to reduce or end slavery by peaceful means. Monroe’s research will focus on Wirtland, a Florida plantation owned by US Attorney General William Wirt, where an alternative labor system was used. Her research will lead to a lengthy scholarly article.
  5. Jennifer Thorington Springer, English, "Under Siege: Local Culture in the Age of Globalization." Thorington Springer will visit Barbados to conduct ethnographic research into the question of how and to what extent U.S. popular culture has been appropriated by or integrated into Barbadian national culture. She plans to disseminate her work via a conference presentation and a journal article in the near future, then turn the project into a monograph.

Published on: April 14, 2009