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Grants Spotlight

On this page, we spotlight recent grant and fellowship recipients, listed by department. Congratulations to these and all grant winners in CHFA!

Department of Afro-American Studies

Grants Received 2007-present

Manisha Sinha

Charles Warren Fellowship

Department of Art

(Studio Art, Architecture + Design, Art History)

Grants Received 2005-present

Jeanette Cole

PMYR Grant for Professional Development 2007

Susan Jahoda

Five-College Faculty Seminar in Photography, Amherst, MA, 2007-9
Travel Grant to Russia and Siberia, Trust for Mutual Understanding, New York, 2007
Research Literacy Fellowship, Commonwealth College, University of Massachusetts Amherst, 2007-8
TEACHnology Fellowship, University of Massachusetts Amherst 2004

Laetitia La Follette

Professional Development Award, Center for Teaching, University of Massachusetts Amherst
Visiting scholar, Univ. de Paris VII (France)
Professional Presentation Grant, College of Humanities and Fine Arts, University of Massachusetts Amherst
PMYR Research award, Provost’s Office, University of Massachusetts Amherst
NEH summer award to attend NEH seminar on Roman religion (American Academy in Rome)
Professional Development Grant in Instructional Technology, President’s Office, University of Massachusetts Amherst

Pat Lasch

The National Academy Museum, New York, The Speyer Sculpture Award 2005

Shona Macdonald

Illinois Arts Council Finalist Award 2005
Mellon Mutual Mentoring Grant, UMass 2008
Cora Bliss Taylor Fellow, Ox-Bow Artist Residency, Saugatuk, MI, Summer 2007
Healey Faculty Reseach Grant 2007
Healey Faculty Reseach Grant 2009

Mario Ontiveros

Visioning Grant, College of Humanities and Fine Arts
Diversity Grant, University of Massachusetts, Amherst

Max Page

Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship
Research Leadership in Action Grant
Howard Foundation Fellowship
Fulbright Fellowship, Argentina

Timothy Rohan

United States Indonesia Society Travel Grant
The Society of Architectural Historians' Scott Opler Fellowship for New Scholars
Kluge Research Fellowship, The Library of Congress, Washington D.C.
Faculty Research Grant, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
Research fellowship, Canadian Centre for Architecture, Montreal
Research grant, Graham Foundation for Advanced Studies in the Fine Arts

Monika Schmitter

Faculty Research Grant 2005

Stephen Schreiber

UMass President's Office, Creative Economy Grant
Modest cash and in kind matching grants provided by Western Mass AIA (100) and local firms
UMass Research Leadership in Action Grant, 2007
Matching grants provided by ACSA, Weyerhauser, Vectorworks, and others
Autodesk, renewal of unlimited seat license for Autodesk software

Sara Pedigo (MFA ’07)

Joan Mitchell

Annie Varnot (MFA ’02)

Pollack Krasner

Classics Department

Grants Received 2006-present

Rex Wallace

Delmas Foundation Grant

Melissa Mueller

Center for Hellenic Studies grant

Department of English

Fellowships and Grants received, 2005-present

Nick Bromell

Community Service Learning Faculty Fellow

Stephen Clingman

Visioning Grant, College of the Humanities and Fine Arts

Suzanne Daly

With Ruth Jennison, Five College Faculty Seminar in Marxist and Post-Colonial Literature

Jane Degenhardt and Asha Nadkarni

Mellon Mutual Mentoring Micro Grant

Laura Doyle

American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS) Fellowship

Martin Espada

Guggenheim Fellowship

Tanya Fernando

Faculty Research Grant/Healey Grant
Diversity Grant, General Education Council
Mellon Mutual Mentoring Micro Grant
U.S. Department of Education UIS-FL grant

Peter Gizzi

Guggenheim Fellowship
Distinguished Visiting Writer, University of Iowa

Stephen Harris

National Endowment for the Humanities Digital Editing Grant

Anne Herrington

National Writing Project grant
College of the Humanities and Fine Arts Grant
National Writing Project Outreach grant

Noy Holland

National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship

Ruth Jennison

Faculty Research Grant
Mellon Foundation Research Fellowship at Harry Ransom Center UTexas/Austin
With Suzanne Daly, Five College Faculty Seminar in Marxist and Post-Colonial Literature

Arthur Kinney

Visioning Grant, College of the Humanities and Fine Arts

Sabina Murray

Guggenheim Fellowship

Lisa Olstein, Dara Wier, and Noy Holland, grant winners for the Juniper Initiative for Literary Arts and Action

National Endowment for the Arts grant
Massachusetts Cultural Council/Organizational Support grant
Massachusetts Cultural Council/Creative Schools grant (with Mohawk Trail school district)
Community Foundation of Western Massachusetts grant
Massachusetts Foundation for the Humanities grant
New England Foundation for the Arts grant
21st Century After School Programs grant
Amherst Local Cultural Council grant
Heath Local Cultural Council grant
Rowe Local Cultural Council grant
Shelburne Local Cultural Council grant
Buckland Local Cultural Council grant
Ashfield Local Cultural Council grant

Jordana Rosenberg

Whiting Foundation Grant
Ahmanson-Getty Postdoctoral Fellowship

Janine Solberg

Faculty Grant for Teaching
Mellon Mutual Mentoring Micro Grant 08-09

Jenny Spencer

5 College Faculty Seminar on Performance Studies grant

Adam Zucker

Lilly Teaching Fellowship

Department of History

Grants Received 2005-present

Joyce Averech Berkman

Fulbright Distinguished Professor of American Studies, Free University, 2005-2006

Marla Miller

Patrick Henry Fellowship, Starr Center, Washington College

Jon Olsen

Mellon Mutual Mentoring Grant

Jane Rausch

Fulbright Fellowship

Department of Judaic and Near Eastern Studies

Grants Received 2005-present

Aviva Ben-Ur

American Council of Learned Societies/SSRC/NEH International and Area Studies Fellowship (2007-2008)
Memorial Foundation for Jewish Culture Fellowship (2007-2008)
Sid and Ruth Lapidus Fellowship, American Jewish Historical Society (2007)
Touro National Heritage Trust Fellow, John Carter Brown Library, Brown University (2003-2004)
American Academy for Jewish Research Publication Subvention for Remnant Stones (2004)

Jay R. Berkovitz

Lady Davis Visiting Professorship, Hebrew University, Jerusalem (2007)
Center for Teaching, Teaching Grant, University of Massachusetts (2007)
Periodic Multi-Year Review Research Grant, University of Massachusetts (2007)
Visiting Research Fellow, Van Leer Institute, Jerusalem (2007)
Fellow, Brandeis Summer Israel Seminar (2005)
Visiting Research Fellow, Van Leer Institute, Jerusalem (2005)
Faculty Research Grant, University of Massachusetts (2005)

Shmuel Bolozky

Sub-grants derived from two four-year Title VI grants awarded to Brigham Young University by the U.S. Department of Education for a National Middle East Language Resource Center (2002-2006, 2007-2011)

Olga Gershenson

IARO Fellowship, The International Research and Exchanges Board (2008-2009)
Faculty Research Grant, Research Council, University of Massachusetts-Amherst (2008-2009)
IREX grant
NEH Summer Institute Fellowship, The New York Public Library, New York, NY (June 21-July 12, 2008)
Diversity Grant Award towards a development of a General Education Council, University of Massachusetts-Amherst (2007-2008 and 2008-2009)
Fellowship in the Interdisciplinary Seminar in the Humanities and Fine Arts, University of Massachusetts-Amherst (2006-2007)
Summer Research Laboratory Associate, Russian-Jewish Workshop, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, IL (2006)
Israel Studies Summer Institute Fellowship. Brandeis University, Waltham, MA (2005)
Faculty Research Grant, University of Massachusetts-Amherst (2005-2006)

Susan E. Shapiro

Visiting Scholar in Gender and Jewish Thought, Hadassah-Brandeis Gender Institute, Brandeis University (Spring 2009)
Richard and Susan Masters Visiting Professor, Pontifical Gregorian Institute, Rome, Italy (Spring 2008)
Visiting Scholar, Martin Marty Institute for the Advanced Study of Religion, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL (Winter, 2008)
Primary Investigator, Posen Foundation Grant from the Center for Cultural Judaism (2004-2009 - renewed through 2010)
Fellow, Interdisciplinary Seminar in the Humanities and Fine Arts (ISHA), Seminar on “Religious Politics,” University of Massachusetts (2005-2006)
Fellow, Interdisciplinary Seminar in the Humanities and Fine Arts (ISHA), Seminar on “Marriage and its Alternatives,” University of Massachusetts (2004-2005)
Fellow, Kahn Liberal Arts Institute Seminar on “Marriage and Divorce: Culture, Law and the State,” Smith College (Fall 2004; 2006-2007)

James E. Young

Fellow, Interdisciplinary Seminar in the Humanities and Arts, University of Massachusetts Amherst (2008-09)

Department of Literatures, Languages, and Cultures

Grants Received 2004-present

Barton Byg

National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship
Max Kade Foundation, Inc., grants (multiple)
DAAD (German Academic Exchange Service) grant
DEFA Foundation grants (multiple)

Andy Donson

Spenser Foundation year-long fellowship

Kyle Frackman (PhD student in LLC; lecturer beginning fall 08)

Swedish Institute Summer Stipends (multiple)
Conference Grant, American-Scandinavian Foundation
Conference Grant, Consulate General of Sweden
Conference Grant, German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD)
Conference Grant, Max Kade Foundation
Conference Grant, Graduate Dean, UMass Amherst
Roth Endowment Grant for Scandinavian Studies
Grant for Undergraduate Swedish Book Awards, Consulate General of Sweden
OIT Computer Grant (5 computers) to the Language Program in German & Scandinavian Studies
Cultural Event Ambassadorship Grant, Swedish Institute
Grants for Books and Teaching Materials, Swedish Institute

Julie Candler Hayes

National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship
National Humanities Center residential fellowship

Elizabeth Mazzocco

Andrew W. Mellon Foundation research grant
U.S. Department of Education International Research and Studies program research grant
U.S. Department of Education Undergraduate International Studies and Foreign Language Program research grant

Catherine Portuges