risa_michiwaki – Office of Research & Creative Scholarship

The Office of Research and Creative Scholarship congratulates recipients of the 2024 Presidential Fund for Curricular Innovation (PFCI). The following faculty members have been accepted:

Naa Amponsah Dodoo

Associate Professor, Marketing Communication

Jonathan Kitt

Assistant Professor, Performing Arts

Mason Richards

Los Angeles/Affiliated Faculty, Visual and Media Arts

Sharifa Simon-Roberts

Assistant Professor, Communication Studies

Kyanna Sutton

Assistant Professor, Writing, Literature and Publishing

Internationalization, diversity, equity, and inclusion are strategic priorities for Emerson. Inclusive approaches to curriculum development and equitable pedagogical practices help ensure that learning experiences at Emerson are designed to foster student success in a culturally diverse and global society.

In 2024, the Presidential Fund for Curricular Innovation will support faculty participation in a Faculty Development Seminar in Ghana. The purpose of this seminar is to provide an intensive short-term faculty development experience that builds on Emerson’s capacity for international education and the internationalization of the curriculum. Faculty selected for the Seminar will spend 10 days in Ghana in July, 2024.

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.

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Presidential Fund for Curricular Innovation(PFCI): Faculty Development Seminar in Ghana 2024 Recipients

2024-2025 Faculty Advancement Fund Recipients