{"id":4297,"date":"2018-12-11T13:08:37","date_gmt":"2018-12-11T18:08:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/mhc\/?page_id=4297"},"modified":"2020-08-04T12:14:47","modified_gmt":"2020-08-04T16:14:47","slug":"fall-2017-faculty-grant-awardees","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/mhc\/research\/fall-2017-faculty-grant-awardees\/","title":{"rendered":"Fall 2017 Faculty Grant Awardees"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"DonAffectivity and Imagination<\/em><\/strong>
\nLecturer in Philosophy Don Beith combines resources from German Idealism and transcendental phenomenology to study the relationship between our affective, emotional lives and our imaginative faculties, habits, and possibilities. Following his new book\u00a0The Birth of Sense<\/em><\/a>,\u00a0<\/em>Beith\u2019s new research challenges contemporary assumptions in cognitive science, biology, and psychology by showing how our imaginative and affective lives are deeply intertwined. Funding from MHC will allow Beith to present his important research at National conferences.<\/p>\n

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Susan H. Brawley<\/a>\u00a0 (Marine Sciences)<\/strong>
\n\""Spineless"Public lecture by Sylvia Earle.<\/strong>
\n<\/em>Our friends over in Marine Sciences reached out for support to bring the accomplished marine biologist,\u00a0Dr. Sylvia Earle<\/a>\u00a0to campus to give a large-scale public lecture at the Collins Center for the Arts. Noting that Earle is, in addition to a very accomplished scientist, a humanist\u2014she has published\u00a0children books as well as books<\/a>\u00a0about the strong link between humanity and the oceans\u2014we were happy to support this outspoken ambassador for our oceans!<\/p>\n

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Susan Camp<\/a>\u00a0(Art)<\/strong>
\n\"GourdsHarvesting Identity<\/em><\/strong>
\nSusan Camp\u2014who has been teaching printmaking and sculpture at the University of Maine since 2001\u2014pairs up with artist \/middle school educator Adele Drake to help middle school students and community members to grow gourds in moulds made from casts of their faces. By creating organic, three-dimensional self-portraits to be used as serving vessels in a celebratory meal, students, educators, and community members open a dialogue about identity, nutrition, and food issues in relation to agriculture, food insecurity, history and cultural traditions. We are proud to join the Maine Arts Commission in supporting this important work<\/p>\n

Ryan Dippre<\/a>\u00a0(English, Director of College Composition)<\/strong>
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\nFunds from McGillicuddy Humanities Center will go to support a series of \u201cDine and Discuss\u201d meetings for the\u00a0Maine Council for English Language Arts<\/a>\u00a0(MCELA). These meetings will help Maine\u2019s K-12 teachers keep up to date with pedagogical best practices and support community conversations.<\/p>\n

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Philip B. Edelman<\/a>\u00a0(Music and Music Education<\/strong>)
\n\"SPAProfessor\u00a0Edelman\u2019s MHC pre-performance lecture.<\/em>
\nAssistant Professor of Music Education Philip B. Edelman\u2019s research is working to raise 91르적\u2019s profile in the field of music education, as he contributes to current practices in the fields of music education, pre-service teacher training, and music perception and cognition.\u00a0With support from the School of Performing Arts and the McGillicuddy Humanities Center he will be traveling to Atlanta to present not one by\u00a0three\u00a0<\/em>research projects at the 2018 conference of the National Association for Music Education.<\/p>\n

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Michael Howard<\/a>\u00a0(Philosophy)<\/strong>
\n\"BasicImage credit to:\u00a0Marc van der Chijs.<\/a><\/em>
\nNational coordinator for the US Basic Income Guarantee Network and co-editor of the international journal,\u00a0Basic Income Studies,\u00a0<\/em>91르적 Philosophy professor Michael Howard continues to deepen his expertise on the increasingly compelling idea of a \u201cuniversal basic income.\u201d Last year he presented his research in Sweden with our support, this year he\u2019s heading to Ontario to the North American Basic Income Guarantee Congress where he will chair sessions, introduce speakers, and speak on automation and basic income.<\/p>\n

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Zachary Rockwell Ludington<\/a>\u00a0(Modern Languages and Classics)<\/strong>
\n\"ZacharyModern Typography at Rare Book School<\/strong>
\n<\/em>Ludington is an expert on the modernist avant-garde in Spain\u2014specifically the poet-printers of the Generation of 1927 and\u00a0Ultraism<\/em><\/a>.\u00a0<\/em>Yet to deepen his understanding of the way these innovative writers used typography to make collages, violate \u201cthe Gutenbergian grid,\u201d and mix various typefaces in a single poem, this summer he will travel to Charlottesville, VA to study \u201cThe History of 19th and 20th<\/sup>\u00a0Century Typography\u201d through the\u00a0Rare Book School<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Susan Pinette (Modern Languages and Classic, Franco-American Programs)<\/a><\/strong>
\n\"SusanThe Story of Workers, Trees, and Communities.<\/em><\/strong>
\nPartnering with the Maine Folklife Center, community partners\u00a0Claire Bolduc<\/a>\u00a0and Mark Hardison, New Media and others, this project will host a reunion of the Maine Woodsmen Association\u2014a now defunct group that led an unprecedented strike in October 1975, shutting down the state\u2019s paper industry for an entire two weeks. Many of the people involved in this labor action are now in their 70s and 80s. The reunion will serve as a \u201cdigitization day,\u201d with the goal of gathering stories and materials relevant to the strike. Pinette and community partners, along with 91르적 students, then plane to build a bilingual, sustainable online portal of primary source materials relevant to the study of the Maine Woodsmen\u2019s Association. The website will host videos, transcribed notebooks, and digitized scrapbooks documenting this landmark moment, in hopes of encouraging scholarship on borderlands, labor, ethnicity, literary studies, French, and linguistics.<\/p>\n

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Liam Riordan<\/a>\u00a0(History)<\/strong>
\n\"Liam\u00a0Faculty Reading and Writing Group<\/em><\/strong>
\nInterdisciplinarity and collaboration are central to the Humanities. To that end, former Center director Liam Riordan has recruited faculty across several disciplines to read and discuss James C. Scott\u2019s 2017 Yale UP book\u00a0Against the Grain: A Deep History of the Earliest States<\/a><\/em>\u2014<\/em>which explores how the human move from a hunter gatherer to an agricultural existence may have been predicated on subjugation and the control of reproduction. Faculty participants plan to author and share short writings that come out of this common reading experience.<\/p>\n

Judith Rosenbaum<\/a>\u00a0(Communications and Journalism)<\/strong>
\n\"JudithSocial Media, Digital Culture, and Politics: Reaching Across Borders<\/em><\/strong>
\nAssistant Professor Rosenbaum\u2014a new member of the Communications and Journalism faculty\u2014is already an important scholar in the study of social media. If your curious about the impact of Facebook and Twitter on our culture, you may want to add her brand new book,\u00a0Constructing digital cultures: Tweets, trends, race, and gender<\/em><\/a>, to your Amazon shopping cart! With the aid of funds from the MHC Rosenbaum will travel to the Netherlands, where she did her doctoral work, to share her findings with faculty, graduate students, and interested members from the community through a series of symposia and research meetings dedicated to her work.<\/p>\n

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Philip Silver<\/a>\u00a0(Music)<\/strong>
\nJames Simon \u2013 A Collaboration Concert in Amsterdam, Holland<\/em><\/strong>
\n\"csm_james_simon_at_piano_\"\u00a0Photo from Prof. David Bloch on the \u201cMusic and the Holocaust\u201d website<\/a>.<\/em>
\nThrough a concert performance\u2014scheduled for March 12, 2018\u2014Professor Silver will continue his effort to bring the works of composers whose lives and careers were catastrophically affected by Nazi racial policies to public attention. This concert of the music of Berlin-born composer, pianist, and lecturer James Simon, will be an historic event: the first devoted solely to his works. Trapped in Holland after the Nazi invasion, Simon survived under increasingly dire conditions. In early April 1944 he was arrested and sent to Terezin Concentration Camp north of Prague. Then, on October 12, 1944 Simon was transported to Auschwitz and murdered upon arrival. According to an article published in a German emigre newspaper in New York, a witness stated that while in the cattle car on the journey to \u201cthe East\u201d he was seen, sitting on his suitcase, scribbling musical ideas on a piece of paper.<\/p>\n

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William S. Yellow Robe, Jr.<\/a>\u00a0 and\u00a0Margaret Lukens<\/a>\u00a0(English, Theatre, Native American Programs)<\/strong>
\nNative Tribal Theatre and Native Tribal Playwriting Development<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

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