UF INTERNALLY FUNDED FACULTY AWARDS
The following faculty have received major research awards from internal University of Florida funding competitions.
2022-2023
| Name | Project Title | Award |
|---|---|---|
| Dionne Champion (Center for Arts in Medicine) | Racial Justice through Community-and Culturally-Responsive Research | UF Racial Justice Research Fund UF Office of Research |
| Jacque Micielli-Voutsinas (School of Art + Art History) | Heritage as Healing: Critical Museum Studies and the Praxis of Reconciliation | UF Racial Justice Research Fund UF Office of Research |
| Craig Smith (School of Art + Art History) & Ben Wise (Department of History) | Stigma and Storytelling: Negotiating the Contemporary Folk Devil | UF Research Opportunity Seed Fund UF Office of Research |
| Porchia Moore (School of Art + Art History) Victoria Gerson (School of Art + Art History) Rachel Silveri (School of Art + Art History) | Research in West Africa Research in Brazil Research in United Kingdom | Global Fellows Program UF International Center |
FACULTY SCHOLARSHIP ENHANCEMENT FUND (SEF)
The UF Office of Research supports the Arts Scholarship Enhancement Fund competition as a way of stimulating new or existing research activity in the humanities, particularly that which may lead to extramural funding. Applicants may propose to initiate new projects or to develop or complete ongoing projects, but applications should be conceptualized in such a way that a specific goal can be reached during the tenure of the award.
2023-2024
| Name | Project Title & Description |
|---|---|
| Alex Springer (Theatre + Dance) | “Parts” / Part lll: screendance This SEF is intended to further support the collaborative choreographic research and filming of a dance-theatre performance piece called “parts.” This work addresses and interrogates white heteronormative hegemonies dominating postmodern dance performance by attempting to detangle abstraction from whiteness. |
| Anthea Behm (Art + Art History) | Reverse Enlightenment This SEF will contribute to the beginning stages of research and development for a new video work that engages the theories of the antifascist philosopher, Theodore Adorno. Reverse Enlightenment asks if we can return to Adorno’s thought and concerns to find the artistic resources to help reverse our current course and avoid another century of catastrophe. |
| Antoine Williams (Art + Art History) | Black Fusionist Society This SEF will be used to produce an edited volume focused on scholarship by a diverse range of emergent design scholars with personal immigration stories, facilitate a multi-session writing workshop, and document the collaborative writing process for the volume. |
| Colleen Rua (Theatre + Dance) | Disaster and the Body This SEF will be used to produce a CD featuring the work of lesser-known American viola works, centered around two works for viola and piano composed by African-American composer Adolphus Hailstork. |
| Derek Burdette (Art + Art History) | Miraculous Celebrity: The Señor de Ixmiquilpan and Colonial Piety in Mexico City (1545- 1845) This SEF is intended to assist in the completion of Dr. Burdette’s book which recounts the history of the life-sized crucifix known as the Señor de Ixmiquilpan. It chronicles the statue’s biography over time to demonstrate how it, and other miraculous images, figured into the development of colonial piety and politics in Mexico City. |
| Dionne Champion (Center for Arts in Medicine) | The Spirit of the Baobab Tree: A Study of Radical Healing through Community-Based Dance This SEF is to support the study of the dance-making process in a community arts center by working with artists and youth to re-stage “The Spirit of the Baobab Tree,” a Black history youth dance production. The project seeks to document the process to better understand dance-making as a resource for radical healing and well- being. |
| Elizabeth Johnson (Theatre + Dance) | The Dance of Everyday Movement: A Framework for Integration This SEF will be used to further the development of the co-authored book, which elucidates an emergent movement analysis system while introducing a way to observe and analyze movement in diverse contexts. |
| Evan Mitchell (Music) | American Century This SEF will be used to produce a CD recording featuring solo piano works, many of which have been rarely been recorded. American Century brings greater recognition to superb repertoire, often by composers from marginalized groups. |
| Jemmie Robertson (Music) | Latin America Music Outreach Project This SEF will cover research-related travel expenses incurred during four upcoming international trips for invited performances and teaching at numerous festivals in South America and Central America. |
| Jesus Fuenmayor (Art + Art History) | Vital and Veiled: The Art of Valerie Brathwaite and José Gabriel Fernández This SEF furthers the development of the publication for a fully illustrated catalog for the University Galleries. |
| Julia Morrisroe (Art + Art History) | The Confederate Scrolls This SEF supports the large scale-drawing installation that makes visible the sheer volume of confederate monuments, their geographical distribution and the structural racism that keeps these monuments in place. |
| Maya Stanfield-Mazzi (Art + Art History) | Travel Support for Research on Nature Imagery in Andean Painting This SEF furthers a project aimed at exploring why eighteenth-century Andean painters showed a new interest in depicting the natural world, especially specific species of plants and animals, in works with Catholic themes. |
| Michelle Tillander (Art + Art History) | Visual Knowledge Building: Art Instruction to Develop Analytic and Critical Thinking in a Medical Curriculum. This SEF provides support for ongoing collaborative research to help develop clinical reasoning and humanistic analysis in art education and veterinary education to improve observation skills and diagnosis. |
| Rachel Carrico (Music) | Footwork! Dancing the Politics of Pleasure at the New Orleans Second Line This SEF will support the completion of Dr. Carrico’s forthcoming book featuring the first in-depth study of dance in New Orleans’s parading traditions and the dance’s critical role in liberation, identities, and place-making. |
| Scott Lee (Music) | Greetings from Florida: Postcards from Paradise This SEF is to assist in the recording of an album that explores the theme of Florida as a perceived “utopia.” |
| Silvio Dos Santos (Music) | Heitor Villa Lobos and Imagined Indigenismo in Brazilian Music This SEF will cover research-related travel expenses incurred during a three-week travel to Rio de Janeiro to conduct archival research at the Villa-Lobos Museum in order complete a book project on the music of the seminal Brazilian composer Heitor Villa-Lobos. |
2022-2023
| Name | Project Title & Significance |
|---|---|
| Meghan Moe Beitiks (Art + Art History) | HOOD TALES: The Annotated Text This SEF is for the publication of HOOD TALES, a creative collaboration between Dr. Beitiks and Kenya (Robinson). |
| Xan Burley (Theater + Dance) | parts This SEF is intended to further collaborative choreographic research through the dance-theatre performance piece called parts, a work addressing questions and problems about narrative and abstraction in postmodern dance performance, heteronormative signification of bodies onstage, and choreocinematic approaches to movement creation. |
| Dori Griffin (Art + Art History) | Visualizing Immigration This SEF will be used to produce an edited volume focused on scholarship by a diverse range of emergent design scholars with personal immigration stories, facilitate a multi-session writing workshop, and document the collaborative writing process for the volume. |
| Lauren Hodges (Music) | Underrepresented Composer CD Project This SEF will be used to produce a CD featuring the work of lesser-known American viola works, centered around two works for viola and piano composed by African-American composer Adolphus Hailstork. |
| Hyo Kang (Digital Worlds) | Virtual Reality Research Platform for Social Scientists This SEF is intended to further research to develop a user-friendly virtual reality (VR) research platform for non-technical users (targeting social scientists). |
| Guolong Lai (Art + Art History) | In Search of Traditions: Modernization and Heritage Conversation in Modern China This SEF is to support the publication of Dr. Lai’s second monograph to be submitted to the University of Chicago Press as an interdisciplinary study of heritage conservation in China in the last hundred years. |
| Shannon Lowe (Music) | Commissioning of “Concerto for Bassoon and String Orchestra” by Dr. Elizabeth Goode This SEF will be used to commission a concerto for bassoon and string orchestra that is high quality while being musically and technically accessible to most players. |
| Rich Pellegrin (Music) | Solo Improvisations, Volume II This SEF will be used to produce the fifth commercial recording by Dr. Pellegrin, featuring solo performances of original compositions on the piano. |
| Markus Santoso (Digital Worlds) | ‘My Teeth Family’: Interactive AR-Enhanced Comic Book to Improve Oral Health Literacy Among Indonesian Children This SEF is to produce an interactive comic book using augmented reality (AR) to promote oral literacy for Indonesian children. |
| Rachel Silveri (Art + Art History) | “It Was Yesterday, Dada”: Women’s Histories of the Avant-Garde This SEF furthers a book project examining how women models, muses, and patrons wrote histories of the French avant-gardes, narratives that challenge and refashion our dominant accounts of early twentieth-century art. |
| Craig Smith (Art + Art History) | Sonic Landscapes for Expanded Mental Health Care in the Addiction Medicine Clinic This SEF supports the creation of a unique “sonic landscape” installed at the 2022 Biennial International Art Exhibition called Personal Structures, taking place in Venice Italy over a seven-month period. |
| Augusto Soledade (Theater + Dance) | Oxowusi Film Project This SEF furthers a project aimed at transposing choreography created for the stage into a dance film, investigating the interdisciplinary elements of dance and film to apply Afro-fusion concepts. |
| Fatimah Tuggar (Art + Art History/ AI in the Arts) | Creation Reactions: Light Cream Pods This SEF will cover research-related travel expenses related to creating an artwork in Creation Reactions: Light Cream Pods, commissioned for the 15th Sharjah Biennale in the United Arab Emirates. |
| Danielle VanTuinen (Music) | “Working Title” Histoire Courtes CD Recording This SEF will support the production of a CD recording featuring entirely new works created from and during the COVID19 pandemic, featuring an all-female percussion and low brass duo. |
| Sergio Vega (Art + Art History) | Vesuvius This SEF is to produce a series of photographs displaying the interior of Mount Vesuvius’ crater, Pompeiian murals, Herculaneum and Stabiae, and the street shrines of Naples to be presented in exhibitions in Paris and Cologne. |
2021-2022
| Name | Project Title & Significance |
|---|---|
| Kenneth Broadway (Music) | Visiting Artist at the University of York This SEF was used to facilitate Dr. Broadway’s residence as a guest artist in percussion performance at the University of York in the United Kingdom in September 2021. |
| Richard Heipp (Art + Art History) | “Museum Studies, The Paintings of Richard Heipp, 40 Years at UF,” Exhibition Catalog This SEF was used to fund a retrospective of Dr. Heipp’s artworks over the last 40 years using the production of a catalog. |
| Jonathan Helton (Music) | The Helton-Thomas Duo Piazzolla Project This SEF was used to facilitate the touring performances of compositions by Astor Piazzolla (to celebrate his 100th birthday) by the ensemble, the subsequent recordings (and production of CDs), and touring in both Argentina and the USA for live performance of said compositions. |
| Elizabeth Johnson (Theater + Dance) | Strengthening Dance Kinesiology Pedagogy This SEF enabled Associate Professor Johnson to participate in an Embodied Anatomy and Kinesiology Course to enhance the design of a new course, DAN 2701: Dance Kinesiology, in the School of Theater and Dance. |
| Will Kesling (Music) | Choral Performances of Ariel Ramirez This SEF was used to produce a recording, live performance, and musical scores for three works by Argentine composer Ariel Ramirez, performed by the University of Florida Concert Choir. |
| Randolph Lee (Music) | Echoes of Zion Recording Project This SEF was used to complete a high-quality recording project (featuring Dr. Lee on trumpet along with band and piano), paying homage to early Latter-Day Saint Brass Bands. |
| Sean Miller (Art + Art History) | (H)our Art School: 60 Art Lessons in 60 Minutes by 60 Artists (A Project by Chip Lord, Jack Massing, and Sean Miller) This SEF supported the production of an educational video about art featuring 60 different artists speaking for a minute (to total one hour), with each artist responding to the previous artist. |
| Jemmie Robertson (Music) | Northern Latitudes Recording Project This SEF was used to complete a CD recording project of performances by Dr. Robertson featuring selections that were recently composed, commissioned, and/or unrecorded in the instrumentation proposed for this recording. |
| Jack Stenner (Art + Art History) | Data Practice This SEF was awarded to replace a dated fast-access data storage system (RAID) and to purchase two large-scale hard drives, necessary for the continued advancement of research practice. |
| Kristen Stoner (Music) | World Premiere Performances and Masterclass Presentation at the Festival Internacional de Flautistas in Lima, Peru This SEF was used to support travel to Lima, Peru, for Dr. Stoner to perform and teach as an invited Guest Artist at the 37th Festival International de Flautistas, the longest-running international annual flute festival in the world. While in Peru, Dr. Stoner performed the world premiere of a Peruvian composition and continued her research into contemporary flute music by Latin American composers. She presented a solo recital, a concerto performance with orchestra, multiple chamber music performances, and a masterclass for students of the Conservatorio Nacional del Peru. |
| Steven Thomas (Music) | The Helton-Thomas Duo Piazzolla Project This SEF was used to facilitate the touring performances of compositions by Astor Piazzolla (to celebrate his 100th birthday) by the ensemble, the subsequent recordings (and production of CDs), and touring in both Argentina and the USA for live performance of said compositions. |