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

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.