University of Arkansas Humanities Center Announces Spring Funding Awardees

The University of Arkansas Humanities Center is happy to announce the selection of recipients for its spring funding competitions, including consultant funds, outreach incentive funds and publishing subventions.

Keep an eye on the UAHC website funding tab for information on upcoming competitions.

The selection committee found the following best fit the competitions and the research mission of the center.

PUBLISHING SUBVENTION GRANTS

These funds will help in the acquisition of images, rights, maps and other materials for publication. Recipients include:

• Professor Todd Cleveland, Department of History
  • Mobilities: African Labor, Social ascension, and Tourism in Colonial Mozambique, c. 1890-1975
  • Under Contract: Cornell University Press
• Professor Yajaira M. Padilla, Department of English
  • From Threatening Guerillas to Forever Illegals: U.S. Central Americans and the Politics of Non-belonging 
  • Under Contract: University of Texas Press
• Professor Fernando Riva, Department of World Languages, Literatures, and Cultures
  • The Development of Magic in the Iberian Peninsula in the Middle Ages
  • Under Contract: University of Toronto Press
• Professor Richard Sonn, Department of History
  • Modernist Diaspora: Immigrant Jewish Artists in Paris, 1900-1945
  • Under Contract: Bloomsbury Press

CONSULTANT FUNDS

These funds support hiring editors or consultants for manuscripts, proposals and grant competitions. Recipients include:

• Professor Erika M. Almenara-Avalos, Department of World Languages, Literatures and Cultures
  • Book manuscript: The Language of the In-Between: Travestis, Post-hegemony, and Writing in Contemporary Chile and Peru.
• Professor Rachel ten Haaf, Department of World Languages, Literatures and Cultures
  • Book Proposal: The Architecture of Cinematic Dissent: Critical realism and film on the Iberian Peninsula
• Professors Ryan Calabretta-Sajder, Kathleen Condray and Linda Jones, Department of World Languages, Literatures and Cultures
  • Grant Application: "Mapping Unheard Migrant Voices in Arkansas"

OUTREACH

These funds facilitate the spread of humanities research into the larger regional community. Recipients include:

• Professor Bryan Hurt, Department of English 
  • This award will support two live-reading events that will coincide with the release of two issues of the on-campus, graduate-student-run literary magazine, The Arkansas International. These events, presented at both a local venue and livestreamed online, will reach to out the journal's established national and international audience as a unique celebration of global literature.
• Professor Valandra, School of Social Work and African and African-American Studies 
  • This award will help support a speaker, choir and refreshments for the May 15 Project Dedication and Award Ceremony at Fayetteville Public Library for the Washington County Community Remembrance Project. The project is a partnership with the Equal Justice Initiative to remember and memorialize victims of racial terror lynching and brings together interdisciplinary faculty from across the university.

About the University of Arkansas Humanities Center: The University of Arkansas Humanities Center, in the Fulbright College of Arts and Sciences, promotes cross-disciplinary research and inquiry in the humanities, sponsors programs that engage humanities scholars and the wider public in conversations about critical topics, and fosters a strong role for the humanities in an increasingly global society.