Su Lian Tan (Music) has received a Discovery Grant from the Opera Grants for Female Composers program to support development of her opera composition Lotus Lives. The grant was announced recently by OPERA America, the national service organization for opera, and was made possible through the generosity of The Virginia B. Toulmin Foundation. This project…Continue Reading Su Lian Tan awarded Discovery Grant from OPERA America
Tag: Faculty Grants
Cynthia Packert awarded NEH Enduring Questions grant
Cynthia Packert (History of Art & Architecture) has been awarded an Enduring Questions grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) to support the development of a new course on the topic of “Is Beauty in the Eye of the Beholder?” The proposed new course will consider selected Asian and Islamic artworks in the…Continue Reading Cynthia Packert awarded NEH Enduring Questions grant
Anne Kelly Knowles awarded Guggenheim Foundation fellowship
Anne Kelly Knowles (Geography) has been awarded a fellowship from the Guggenheim Foundation for a project titled Telling the Spatial Story of the Holocaust. This project grew from her ongoing work with the Holocaust Geographies Collaborative, an international group of geographers and historians exploring the geographical dimensions of the Holocaust with spatial methods, notably GIS…Continue Reading Anne Kelly Knowles awarded Guggenheim Foundation fellowship
Jeff Munroe awarded Franklin Grant from the American Philosophical Society
Jeff Munroe (Geology) has been awarded a Franklin Grant from the American Philosophical Society for a project titled Developing a Record of Holocene Environmental Change from an Idaho Ice Cave. The grant will cover field research expenses for Jeff and a Middlebury undergraduate to collect samples from the ice cave as well as the expense…Continue Reading Jeff Munroe awarded Franklin Grant from the American Philosophical Society
Tom and Pat Manley awarded grant from the Lintilhac Foundation
Tom & Pat Manley (Geology) have received a grant from the Lintilhac Foundation for a project titled High-Resolution Bottom Mapping of Lake Champlain. This grant provides funding to begin a long term effort to update the 2005 bottom bathymetric map of Lake Champlain using multibeam technology which Middlebury acquired with a 2011 grant from the…Continue Reading Tom and Pat Manley awarded grant from the Lintilhac Foundation
William Poulin-Deltour awarded a Whiting Foundation fellowship
William Poulin-Deltour (French) has been awarded a fellowship from the Marion and Jasper Whiting Foundation for a project titled The Debate over Same-Sex Marriage: Toward an Enhanced Understanding of Contemporary France. The grant will enable William to spend three months in Paris to study French reactions to same-sex marriage and collect ethnographic materials that he will…Continue Reading William Poulin-Deltour awarded a Whiting Foundation fellowship
David West awarded Whiting Foundation fellowship
David West (Geology) has been awarded a fellowship from the Marion and Jasper Whiting Foundation for a project titled Exploring Iceland’s Active Geology. The grant will support ten days of field investigation in Iceland that will enrich his teaching of structural geology, tectonics, and volcanic hazards in both introductory and upper-level geology courses. The experience will also…Continue Reading David West awarded Whiting Foundation fellowship
David Stoll awarded Whiting Foundation fellowship
David Stoll (Sociology/Anthropology) has been awarded a fellowship from the Marion and Jasper Whiting Foundation for a project titled Six Weeks on the US/Mexican Border. The grant will fund trips to three border regions — the Sonora Desert of Southern Arizona, the Rio Grande Valley in southeast Texas, and the Imperial Valley of Southern California. Throughout his travels…Continue Reading David Stoll awarded Whiting Foundation fellowship
Jacob Tropp awarded Whiting Foundation fellowship
Jacob Tropp (History) has been awarded a fellowship from the Marion and Jasper Whiting Foundation for a project titled Imagining the Past in the Present: Mozambique’s Complex Colonial Legacies. The grant will support a three-week trip in fall 2015 to study first-hand the complex legacies and meanings of Mozambique’s colonial past. The purpose of this…Continue Reading Jacob Tropp awarded Whiting Foundation fellowship