Seed Money in the Arts and Humanities

The ten winning applicants will use their seed money in a variety of ways: travel to archival collections overseas and around the United States; ethnographic work; and payment for research assistance, such as translation, computer coding and transcription.

• Susan Cahn, professor, Department of History: “Borderlines of Power: Women and Borderline Personality Disorder.”
• Laura Garofalo, associate professor, Department of Architecture: “The Seamless Seam: Enclosure as Ornament.”
• Walter Hakala, assistant professor, Department of English: “Words, Verses, and the World: Multilingual Vocabularies and Indo-Persianate Learning in South Asia.”
• David Herzberg, associate professor, Department of History: “The Other Drug War: Prescription Drug Abuse in American History.”
• Frederick Klaits, assistant professor, Department of Anthropology: “Respect and Responsibility: Blessings and Black Sexual Politics in Buffalo’s Charismatic Churches.”
• Miriam Paeslack, assistant professor, Arts Management Program: “Contemplating the Past through the Present: Italian Fascist Architecture in Artistic Discourse.”
• Deborah Reed-Danahay, professor, Department of Anthropology: “Being French in London: Social Space, the EU, and Privileged Migration.”
• Stephanie Rothenberg, associate professor, Department of Art: “Reversal of Fortune.”
• Jasmina Tumbas, assistant professor, Department of Art: “A Matter of Decision: Experimental Art in Hungary and Yugoslavia, 1968-1989.”
• Paul Vanouse, professor, Department of Art: “Labor.”

Awardees also will participate in HI’s annual External Grant Writing Workshop, in which a senior faculty member with a strong record of obtaining grants offers advice on writing outstanding fellowship applications and participants share their proposed grant applications for critique.

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