RESEARCH, SCHOLARSHIP & CREATIVITY STRATEGIC PARTNERSHIPS
PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS ARHU faculty maintain close relationships and hold leadership positions with:
“Art Journal,” College Art Association: Jordana Moore Saggese, editor-in-chief
Labor and Working Class History Association: Julie Greene, president
A new partnership with the American Institute of Physics (AIP) will help uncover stories of scientific discovery while illuminating complex social issues faced by both humanists and scientists. A $1 million pledge from AIP will establish an endowed professorship in the history of natural sciences and support the appointee’s humanistic and scientific research through a partnership with AIP’s Center for History of Physics. Dean Bonnie Thornton Dill will help lead a project called the Humane Metrics for the Humanities and Social Sciences that will develop and implement new methods for assessing the nature and quality of scholarship in the humanities and social sciences. The initiative, now in its second phase, is funded by a $695,000 grant from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation to Michigan State University to continue building the framework allowing scholars to tell more textured and compelling stories about the impact of their research. The Michelle Smith Collaboratory for Visual Culture expanded its ongoing collaboration with the Riversdale House Museum in Riverdale Park, Maryland. Student-led education and community projects included 3D digitization of objects in the museum collection to create a digital scavenger hunt for children, an augmented reality initiative and an accessibility project for those unable to climb stairs. With an $800,000 grant from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, the college will transform an existing digitization platform developed in collaboration with Harvard Law School into a complete digital text production pipeline to expand access to a vast trove of literature from the pre-modern Persian and Arabic world.
SCHOLARSHIP
College Band Directors National Association, Eastern Division Conference: Michael Votta, president
Intersectional Qualitative Research Methods Institute: Ruth Zambrana, president-elect
Digital Art History Society: Meredith J. Gill, vice-president for membership
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Linda Aldoory, associate dean for research and programming, is the health communication lead on a $140,000 subcontract of a $12 million grant from the Centers for Disease Control project with Prince George’s County Health Department to develop and implement tailored health messaging to reach underserved communities. Clare Lyons recieved a 2018-19 National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship to support the completion of her book “Sex in an Eighteenth-Century AngloOceanic World,” which examines changing ideas about sexuality and gender in the English-speaking world of the 1900s. Rachel Singpurwalla, assistant professor of philosophy, received a $20,000 grant from the Maryland Catalyst Fund New Directions Program to study the idea of “civic friendship” in ancient Greek philosophy and what it might teach us about the current heightened division and civic conflict in the U.S.
Co-edited by Associate Professor of History Julie Taddeo, “Conflicting Masculinities: Men in Television Period Drama” is a collection of essays exploring the complex male characters in period dramas and why they have such broad appeal to 21st-century audiences. Robyn Muncy, professor of history, curated “Rightfully Hers: American Women and the Vote,” an exhibit at the National Archives, which celebrates the 100th anniversary of the ratification of the 19th Amendment that gave women the right to vote.
