One of Provost Duerk's major goals is to enhance the University of Miami’s reputation for scholarly excellence as well as competitiveness for external funding to support research and creative scholarship. The University of Miami Fellowship in the Arts & Humanities was established to support faculty in the Arts and Humanities, with the ultimate goal of elevating both individual faculty careers and the University’s scholarly reputation. The Fellowship in the Arts & Humanities is intended to provide support for the startup of new projects as well as for advancement of existing projects.
Application Resources
Criteria for Evaluation:
- Prospect that the work will result in successful applications for external funding/support (where applicable), relevant peer-reviewed activity, or juried evaluation
- Scholarly, scientific, and/or creative merit of the proposal
- Appropriateness of methodology
- Clarity of presentation
- Qualifications, experience, productivity, and promise of the applicant(s)
- Stewardship of the resources provided by previous A&H Fellowships (if applicable)
- Appropriateness of the proposal for collaborative work (if applicable)
2023 Fellowship Awardees
| Awardee |
Department |
Project Title |
| Bridget Arce |
Modern Languages & Literatures |
La bamba rebelde: Son Jarocho and the Sounds of Dissent |
| Michael Bernath |
History |
In a Land of Strangers: Northern Teachers in the Slave South, 1790-1865 |
| Jeffrey Buchman |
Vocal Performance |
Augmented Reality in Opera: Mamah Borthwick in the Bardo |
| Margaret Cardillo Fronefield |
Cinematic Arts |
Jane The First Documentary |
| Richard Chappell |
Philosophy |
Why Not Effective Altruism? |
| Heather Diack |
Art & Art History |
Sinking Feeling: Art on the Shores of Climate Catastrophe |
| Kathryn Freeman |
English |
From Aphra Behn to Jane Austen: Women's Writing and the Birth of Modernity in the Long Eighteenth Century |
| Matthew Scott Heerman |
History |
Carried Back: Captivity and Belonging in the Age of Atlantic Emancipations |
| Dorothy Hindman |
Theory & Composition |
Exploring Klangkörper and Kinetic Sculpture: the premiere of Dorothy Hindman’s Untitled VIII for percussionist at the Museum Tinguely, Basel, Switzerland |
| Barbara Leibell |
Cinematic Arts |
Abbas Karimi: Paralympic Refugee in the Water |
| Brian Lynch |
Studio Music & Jazz |
A Jazz Work Exploring Distance, Interaction And Chance Through Hybrid Performance |
| Alfred Martin |
Cinematic Arts |
On the Black Hand Side: Black Fandoms and Cultural Politics |
| Rafael Padron |
Instrumental Performance |
Raices |
| Marysol Quevedo |
Musicology |
Sounds of the ICAIC: Music and Sound in Cuban Revolutionary Cinema |
| Jyotika Ramaprasad |
Journalism and Media Management |
Indian Journalists at Risk: WJS Phase III |
| Justin Ritzinger |
Religious Studies |
Enchanting Modernism |
| Shouraseni Sen Roy |
Geography & Regional Sciences |
Responses to the Impacts of Climate Change in the Indian Sundarban Delta |
| Rafal Sokolowski |
Cinematic Arts |
RIVER - a film about transgender identity and conversion therapy |
| Lindsay Thomas |
English |
The Algorithmic Middlebrow: Efficiency, Length, and the Problem of the Novel |
| Robyn Walsh |
Religious Studies |
Popularizing Jesus: The Gospels as Roman Literature |
