Office of Research & Creative Scholarship

Month: May 2024

Emerson awarded three grants from National Endowment for the Arts

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On May 22, 2024

In External Grant Awards, Faculty News, Faculty Spotlight

Emerson College has been awarded three Grants for Arts Projects awards from the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) to support Emerson Contemporary, ArtsEmerson and HowlRound Theatre Commons. 

Grants for Arts Projects provides funding opportunities to strengthen the nation’s arts and cultural ecosystem. It is the National Endowment for the Arts’ largest grants program for organizations, with grants ranging from $10,000 to $100,000. In July 2023, the NEA received 2,129 eligible applications. Emerson’s three projects are among the 1,135 projects across America totaling more than $37 million that were selected during this second round of Grants for Arts Projects fiscal year 2024 funding.

This is the first time the college has received three awards in the same funding round, and it is the first NEA grant received by Emerson Contemporary.

Leonie Bradbury
Distinguished Curator-in-Residence, Emerson Contemporary

Emerson Contemporary was awarded its grant in the Media Arts category, for the purpose of supporting an exhibition series showcasing underrepresented artists in new media and digital art, and related public programming. The exhibitions will feature both New England and national and international artists, and examine themes such as the climate crisis, loss, collective trauma, and rituals of mourning. Each exhibition will include robust public program activities, intentional educational outreach and community engagement initiatives for Greater Boston.

Ronee Penoi
Interim Executive Director of the Office of the Arts & ArtsEmerson Director of Artistic Programming

ArtsEmerson was awarded its grant in the Presenting & Multidisciplinary Works category for the purpose of supporting the presentation of multidisciplinary works and related activities at ArtsEmerson. It will support the presentation of works by Theater Mitu and Beth Morrison Projects, which disrupt the narrative of the racialized prison system and reimagine our shared future as communal radical action.

Jamie Gahlon
Associate Vice President, Office of the Arts & Director and Co-Founder of HowlRound Theatre Commons

HowlRound Theatre Commons was awarded its grant in the Theater category for the purpose of supporting HowlRound’s Latinx Theatre Commons Carnaval of New Latinx Musicals, which will evolve the canon by developing three to six new works of musical theater by, for, and about Latine communities. The Carnaval will invite Latine and allied decision-makers and scholars to witness, engage with, and become advocates for the featured artists and pieces.

For more information on the projects included in the National Endowment for the Arts grant announcement, visit arts.gov/news.

Faculty Team Awarded NEH Humanities Connections Grant

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On May 20, 2024

In External Grant Awards, Faculty News, Faculty Spotlight

The National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) has awarded Emerson College a NEH Humanities Connections Planning Grant to develop a new interdisciplinary undergraduate major in climate and sustainability communication.

On April 16, the NEH announced $26.2 million for 238 humanities projects nationwide. These awards will support the preservation of historical collections, humanities exhibitions and documentaries, scholarly research, and curriculum projects. Emerson’s grant fits into the last category. The Humanities Connections program seeks to expand the role of the humanities in undergraduate education by encouraging partnerships between humanities faculty and their counterparts in other areas of study. This year, the Humanities Connections program received 106 applications and made 18 awards totaling $1.7 million.

Emerson received $49,978 to further develop an interdisciplinary, dynamic, and experiential undergraduate major in climate and sustainability communication. Four Emerson faculty representing the Marlboro Institute, the School of Communications and the School of the Arts are overseeing this one-year project which will bring together faculty from across the college to work on curriculum development and experiential learning in relation to communication around climate and sustainability, as well as student focus groups that will convene this fall. The project will culminate in the submission of a new major proposal to the Undergraduate Curriculum Committee next spring.

The four faculty co-project directors are Nejem Raheem, Professor and Chair of the Marketing Communication department, Jon Honea, Associate Professor in the Marlboro Institute, Rituparna Mitra, Assistant Professor and postcolonial scholar in the Marlboro Institute, and Christine Casson, senior writer-in-residence in the department of Writing, Literature and Publishing.

Nejem Raheem
Professor and Chair, Marketing Communication

Jon Honea
Associate Professor, Marlboro Institute and Director of the Honors Program

Rituparna Mitra
Assistant Professor, Marlboro Institute

Christine Casson
Senior Writer-in-Residence, Writing, Literature and Publishing

This award is a significant recognition in the realm of the humanities. The National Endowment for the Humanities, an independent federal agency created in 1965, supports research and learning in history, literature, philosophy, and other areas of the humanities by funding selected, peer-reviewed proposals from across the U.S.

This is not the first time Emerson has received an NEH grant. However, it is the College’s first Humanities Connections grant in support of major curriculum development. This award recognizes the connectivity of the humanities and the liberal arts to Emerson’s historic strengths in communications and the arts.

Three Emerson faculty awarded Whiting Travel Fellowships

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On May 17, 2024

In Faculty News, Faculty Spotlight

Three Emerson College faculty were awarded Marion and Jasper Whiting Foundation fellowships, funding their travel for research that will contribute to their courses and teaching. The Marion and Jasper Whiting Foundation provides travel fellowships to New England university and college professors to study abroad and improve and enhance the quality of their instruction. This year, the foundation received 104 applications and awarded 46 fellowships. Since 2013, the Whiting Foundation has awarded fellowships to 16 Emerson faculty. This year’s Emerson fellows received approximately $7,000 in travel funding each.

Nejem Raheem
Professor and Chair, Marketing Communication

Nejem Raheem is a professor in the department of Marketing Communication. The Whiting Fellowship will support his project “Bringing the Tribunal de las Aguas to New Mexico.” In Spain, he will visit the Tribunal de las Aguas, affiliated irrigation systems, and the Universitat Politecnica in Valencia. In New Mexico he will visit the University of New Mexico, the Taos Pueblo, and the New Mexico State University’s Sustainable Agriculture Center in Alcalde. This project will contribute to the first-year interdisciplinary seminar in Sustainability Communication.

Korbett Matthews
Associate Professor and BFA Program Director, Visual and Media Arts

Korbett Matthews is an Associate Professor and documentary filmmaker in the Department of Visual and Media Arts. As part of his project “A Baltic Poetic Documentary Study” professor Matthews will travel to Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania to conduct research and screenings at The Eye Filmmuseusm, The Estonian Film Institute, The Latvian Film Center, The Lithuanian Film Center, The Baltic Audiovisual Archival Council and the National Film School of the Latvian Academy of Culture in order to understand the current state of documentary in the region and gain in-depth expertise of the Baltic Poetic movement and how the language of that new wave has helped shaped a new generation of documentary storytellers and artists.

Catherine Nguyen
Assistant Professor, Writing, Literature and Publishing

Catherine Nguyen is an assistant professor in the department of Writing, Literature and Publishing. The Whiting Fellowship will support her project “New Sites of the Vietnamese Diaspora: The Vietnamese in Germany.” She will travel to Germany to explore and learn more about the Vietnamese diaspora in Germany, collect and gather research materials and connect with Vietnamese German cultural producers. This project is part of her new research work as well as part of a new course she is designing called “Creating the Vietnamese Diaspora: Literature, Film, and Art.”

Norman and Irma Mann Stearns Distinguished Faculty Award: 2024-25 Recipients

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On May 17, 2024

In Faculty News, Faculty Spotlight, Internal Grant Announcements

The Office of Research and Creative Scholarship is pleased to announce the recipients of this year’s Norman and Irma Mann Stearns Distinguished Faculty Award. Established by the late Dr. Norman Stearns and Emerson alumna Irma Mann Stearns ’67, this award honors a full-time tenured or tenure-track faculty member in recognition of outstanding scholarly or creative achievement. A $3,000 award is presented annually to at least one applicant. Funding may be used to enhance an ongoing project or for the development of a new scholarly or creative endeavor. Travel is strongly encouraged to be a part of the project activity.

Adam Franklin-Lyons
Associate Professor, Marlboro Institute

Adam-Franklin Lyons is an Associate Professor in the Marlboro Institute. A former member of the Marlboro College faculty, Dr. Franklin-Lyons is interested in almost anything Medieval. He will use the Mann Stearns award to travel to Spain to gather a collection of 360-degree photos from strategic lookouts used during the medieval period, as part of his project entitled “Visualizing Networks of Medieval Communication: Photographs and Maps of Medieval Lookout Points.” The result will be an interactive map demonstrating the connections and limits of urban communication in the fourteenth-century Crown of Aragon.

Malic Amalya
Assistant Professor, Visual and Media Arts

Malic Amalya is an Assistant Professor in the department of Visual and Media Arts whose films attend to the emotional impact of attachment and estrangement, and the corresponding political repercussions of alliances and enmities. Professor Amalya will use the Mann Stearns award to support the production of a new film, “New Earth: a 16mm Experimental Documentary Film about the Mythos of Flight” Currently in development, “New Earth” critically examines cultural metaphors, values, doctrines, and practices connected to colonialism and flight. The Mann Stearns award will support travel to Florida to film the Kennedy Space Center, including a SpaceX rocket launching.

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