HFF Recipients (FY22)

Recipients of Humanities Facilitating Fund awards in FY22

Principal Investigator Project Title Department

Elisabeth Anker

Ugliy Freedoms

American Studies

Douglas Boyce

Semaphore Intaglio

Corcoran School of the Arts and Design

Dana Burgess

Dana Tai Soon Burgess Proposal

Corcoran School of the Arts and Design

Michele Carlson

Who Else But Americans Can...

Corcoran School of the Arts and Design

Diane Cline

Mapping the Social Networks of Athenian Potters and Painters

Classical and Near Eastern Languages

Jamie Cohen-Cole

The Concept of Joint Attention and its Role in Human Nature

American Studies

Manuel Cuellar

“Dancing with La Manuela: Transgendering Kinesthetic Subjectivities in Arturo Ripstein’s The Place Without Limits.”

Romance, German & Slavic Languages & Literatures

Matthew Eich

Bird Song over Black Water

Corcoran School of the Arts and Design

Alexa Alice Joubin

Staging Transgender Shakespeare Onscreen

English

Xiaofei Kang

Enchanted Revolution: Ghosts, Shamans, and Gender Politics in Chinese Communist Propaganda

Religion

Kathryn Kleppinger

The Marseille Mosaic: A Transdisciplinary Study of a City at the Crossroads of Cultures

Romance, German & Slavic Languages & Literatures

Lisa Lipinski

From the Darkroom to the Gallery: Photography at the Corcoran Gallery of Art and the Corcoran College of Art and Design

Corcoran School of the Arts and Design

Melani McAlister

Third Worlding: Culture and the US Market for Solidarity in the Late Cold War

American Studies

David Mitchell

Thinking Against Homo Eugenicus: Nazi T4, Memorialization, and Disability Materialism

English

Christopher Rollston

Scribal Artifacts: Palmyrene and Nabataean Inscriptions from the Ancient Middle East

Classical and Near Eastern Languages

Heather Stebbins

Modular Synthesis Exploratory Lab

Corcoran School of the Arts and Design

Sergio Waisman

In Search of Other Leavings

Romance, German & Slavic Languages & Literatures

Gayle Wald

Democratic Rhythms: Ella Jenkins, Children's Music, and Civil Rights in America

English

Lynn Westwater

Hebrew Translation of the First Biography of the Seventeenth-Century Polemicist Sarra Copia Sulam

Romance, German & Slavic Languages

William Youmans Digitizing the Arab-American Television Collection Media and Public Affairs
Hang Zhang A Book Project on Chinese Linguistics East Asian Languagues and Literatures