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. Criteria for Evaluation:Application Resources
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
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