2024-2025 Faculty Advancement Fund Recipients
The Office of Research and Creative Scholarship thanks the Faculty Development and Research Council for their contribution of time in service to review this year’s applications and develop their recommendations. Congratulations to the following recipients of this year’s Faculty Advancement Fund Grant:
Amy Beecher, Department of Visual and Media Arts: Lifestyle Pictures: An Interdisciplinary Gallery Exhibition Combining Performance and Image
Dana Edell, Department of Performing Arts: The ART (Anti-Racism Theater) Project – Performance & Research
Cara Moyer-Duncan, Marlboro Institute: Cinemas of Resistance: Documentary Filmmaking and Social Change in South Africa
Thato Mwosa, Department of Visual and Media Arts: Rewind Back: A Short Narrative Film that Explores Gender, Sexual and Cultural Identity in an African Immigrant Family
Sharifa Simon-Roberts, Department of Communication Studies: An Ethnographic Study on the Migration of Venezuelans in Trinidad and Tobago
Malic Amalya, Department of Visual and Media Arts: “New Earth:” a 16mm Experimental Documentary Film about the Mythos of Flight
Kyanna Sutton, Department of Writing, Literature and Publishing: Black Girls In Cyberspace: Conversations with Gen Z Women on Techno-Digital Life, Culture, and Identity
Hanadi Elyan, Department of Visual and Media Arts: Palestinian Refugees in Narrative Film: Research in refugee camps for the development of a screenplay
Sariva Goetz, Department of Performing Arts: A Historical Timeline of Female and Non-Binary Broadway Conductors
Yasser Munif, Marlboro Institute: Autonomous Politics in the Arab World since 2011
Tushar Mathew, Department of Performing Arts: A Good Neighbor: Developing an original storytelling experience for people’s homes that aims to strengthen bonds between neighbors
Catherine Nguyen, Department of Writing Literature & Publishing: New Sites of the Vietnamese Diaspora
Illana Toeplitz, Department of Performing Arts: Building a Transatlantic Theatrical Bridge: Globalizing Emerson’s Musical Theatre Stages in Guildford, London and at the Edinburgh Fringe
Amber Vistein, Department of Visual and Media Arts: Mud Be My Calvary: A Multimedia Chamber Opera examining the Intersections of Land, Climate, and Social Justice in 19th Century Boston
Gabrielle Demeestere, Department of Visual and Media Arts: Casting “Terra”: a mentorship in casting a narrative feature film
Eric Hogue, Department of Marketing Communication: Impact on Nashville Home Broadband offerings when Google entered the market in the home broadband industry
The Faculty Advancement Fund Grant (FAFG) supports the scholarly and creative activities of the full‐time tenured and tenure-track faculty members. The Fund was established to enable the professional work of Emerson’s faculty in its efforts to sustain academic excellence in teaching, research/creative activity, and service. The Faculty Advancement Fund Grant supports proposals deemed likely to substantially improve the quality of research, publication, creative activities, teaching, and service that advance the mission of the College and the careers of its faculty.