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Arts and Humanities

2009 Imagine Fund Annual Award Winners

We are proud to announce the recipients and proposals that were accepted for the 2009 Imagine Fund Annual Awards. 217 awards representing $651,000 in support for research in the arts, design, and the humanities were made in 2009.

If you have questions about the awards or the awards process, please contact Kathy Witherow at kwithero@umn.edu.

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Name Titlesort icon Campus College if at Twin Cities Campus
Michael Browne The Boat People Twin Cities Liberal Arts
Frederick Cooper The Archaeological Museum at Pyrgos Twin Cities Liberal Arts
Ryuta Nakajima The Application of Behavioral Ecology as Metaphor in Contemporary Painting: Duluth
Maria Damon Text, Textile, Exile: Meditations on Poetics, Metaphor, Net-work Twin Cities Liberal Arts
Ray Schultz Terrence McNally: A playwright who happens to be gay Morris
Wayne E. Potratz Tatara Project- Phase Three Twin Cities Liberal Arts
Barbara Martinson Sustainable surface design: reducing the use of hazardous substances in dyeing and printing Twin Cities Design
Benjamin Ibarra-Sevilla Studies in Fabrorum Geometry: Stone cutting and its application in Architecture. Twin Cities Design
Diyah Larasati Speak to the Wall: Rechoreographing History Twin Cities Liberal Arts
Daniel Brewer Spaces of War (book index), Patrial Recall (book manuscript) Twin Cities Liberal Arts
Cesare Casarino South of Eden: The Sexual Communism of Pier Paolo Pasolini Twin Cities Liberal Arts
Mark Whitlock South American Wind Band Music, iTunes U and Podcast Recording Project Duluth
Ronald Greene Soul Work: The YMCA Motion Picture Bureau and the Pastoral Mode of Film Exhibition Twin Cities Liberal Arts
David Walsh Song Literature as Drama Twin Cities Liberal Arts
Hisham Bizri Song for the Deaf Ear Twin Cities Liberal Arts
Frederick Asher Sites of the Buddha's Life Twin Cities Liberal Arts
Joyce Lyon Simultaneous Translation Twin Cities Liberal Arts
Tina Thielen-Gaffey Sharing an American Art Form - American Vocal Jazz in Western Europe Duluth
Katherine Scheil Shakespeare's Women Readers / The Afterlife of Anne Hathaway Twin Cities Liberal Arts
Richard McCormick Sex, Politics, and “Transnational” Comedy: The Films of Ernst Lubitsch—From Berlin to Hollywood Twin Cities Liberal Arts
Michael Hancher Scholarly conferences Twin Cities Liberal Arts
Julie Eckerle Romancing the Self: A Study of Early Modern Englishwomen's Life Writing Morris
Kale Fajardo Rizal in America Twin Cities Liberal Arts
Jean del Santo River of Horses: A Mulit-arts Celebration of the Horse/Human Bond Twin Cities Liberal Arts
Qadri Ismail Responsible Artistic Engagement: On the Politics of Post-90s Sri Lankan Art Twin Cities Liberal Arts
Theodore Schoen Researching Innovation in Clarinet Teaching and Equipment Duluth
Gabriela Currie Research Trip and Conference -- Republic of Armenia Twin Cities Liberal Arts
Regina Zona Research on the Art of Opera Direction Duluth
Young-Nam Kim Research on Korean traditional instruments; Hae-Gum, Geomungo, Dae-Gum, Janggo Twin Cities Liberal Arts
Lisa Channer Research on Directors for creation of 21st Century Directors Project Twin Cities Liberal Arts