Grants Awarded 2019-2020

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2019-2020

Team

  • Joi Dallas, Residential Life Coordinator, Co-head
  • Allison Mills, College Archivist, LITS
  • Gabrielle Gary, Associate Director of Affinity Programs, ARD
  • Janina Calle, ’21, Digital Project Assistant
  • Aaliyah Joseph, ’22, Digital Project Assistant
  • Claudia Carew-Lyons, ’23, Digital Project Assistant
  • Rihana Oumer, ’21, Digital Project Assistant

Timeline

November 2019-December 2020

Description

This grant enabled student researchers to conduct research and collect oral histories with alumni and other members of the ºÚÁÏÉçÇø community in order to preserve the history of Perry House, which served as a vibrant community center for Black students at ºÚÁÏÉçÇø from 1972 until 2015.

Team

  • Vanessa Davies, Provost’s Office, Project lead
  • Alice McGrath, Digital Scholarship Specialist, LITS, Technical coordinator
  • Allison Mills, College Archivist, LITS, Consultant
  • Andrea Samz-Pustol, Ph.D. candidate in Archaeology, Digital Scholarship Graduate Assistant
  • Cindy Chea, ’22, Digital Scholarship Summer Fellow
  • Hilana El-Mekkoussi, ’21, Digital Scholarship Summer Fellow
  • Peyton Moriarty, ’21, Digital Scholarship Summer Fellow
  • Tino Nguruve, ’22, Digital Scholarship Summer Fellow
  • Elizabeth Zhao, ’22, Digital Scholarship Summer Fellow

Timeline 

May 2020-December 2020

Description

Grant supported research and development of a digital exhibit on the history of two conferences on race relations organized by ºÚÁÏÉçÇø students in 1924 and 1931.

Investigating the Confluence of Embodied Learning and Technology: A Research and Curriculum Design

Team

  • Alice Lesnick, Education Program, ºÚÁÏÉçÇø, Faculty Co-Lead
  • Emile Sorger, Founder, Institute for the Art of Movement, Community Partner Co-Lead

Timeline 

January-December 2020

Description

This grant supported development of a blended learning module for embodied yoga pedagogy in collaboration with the Institute for the Art of Movement.

  • Alice McGrath, Digital Scholarship Specialist, LITS, Project director
  • Kristin Jensen, University of Virginia Library, Book Traces project co-lead
  • Andy Stauffer, Professor of English, UVA, Book Traces project co-lead
  • Emily Elmore, ’20, Digital Scholarship Project Assistant
  • Catherine Lin, ’23, Digital Scholarship Project Assistant
  • Vy Pham, ’22, Digital Scholarship Project Assistant

Timeline

September 2019-May 2020

Description

The grant supported ºÚÁÏÉçÇø’s participation in Book Traces, a multi-institution research project surveying reader markings in library books, as well as creation of a digital exhibit to share interesting examples of ºÚÁÏÉçÇø Library books.

Building Digital Resources for the Revitalization of an Endangered Indigenous Language

Team

  • Kate Riestenberg, Postdoctoral Fellow, ºÚÁÏÉçÇø, Project Manager
  • Kevin Connelly, Language Revitalization Consultant, Onondaga Nation, Project Director
  • Andy Alm, Independent Online Communication Consultant, Mentor
  • Additional programmer, TBD
  • Praxis Independent Study student, TBD
  • Katherine Anderson, Swarthmore Linguistics/CS major, to assist programmers on XML parsing issue and other website tasks

Timeline

Summer 2020

Description

This grant supported continued work on a project developing resources for linguistic study and language education for an endangered indigenous language.

Digital Microscope for 205 Canaday Library

Team

Timeline

Spring 2020

Description

This grant supported the purchase of a digital microscope to enhance classroom demonstration, research, and photography of artifacts in ºÚÁÏÉçÇø’s Special Collections.

Adding Subtitles to Arabic Films for Teaching

Team

  • Manar Darwish, Arabic Program and MEST Program
  • Victoria Karasic, Educational Technology Specialist, LITS
  • Arleen Zimmerle, Research & Instruction Librarian, LITS
  • Menna Khaliel, ’22, Digital Project Assistant
  • Esther Kim, ‘22, Digital Project Assistant
  • Angie Mohammad, ’22, Digital Project Assistant

Timeline

Summer 2020 – Fall 2020

Description

This project grant supported the creation of English subtitles for Arabic language films for classroom use, the Library’s collection of films, and potentially the community at large.

Reimagining Sites of Energy Conflict in Germany

Team

  • Carol Hager, Professor of Environmental Studies & Political Science on the Clowes Professorship in Science & Public Policy, Project director
  • Alice McGrath, Digital Scholarship Specialist, LITS
  • Emily Shein ’21, Digital Scholarship Project Assistant

Timeline

Summer 2020

Description

This grant supported the continuation of a project analyzing the long-term influence and memorialization of three cases of conflict over nuclear power in Germany as represented in German newspapers.

Team

  • Laura Surtees, Research and Instructional Services and Carpenter Library, LITS, Research Lead
  • Molly Kuchler, Graduate student in Classics, Tech Lead
  • Alice McGrath, Digital Scholarship Specialist, LITS, Consultant
  • Vimbai Mawoneke ’21, Undergraduate Research Assistant
  • Mira Yuan ’21, Undergraduate Research Assistant

Timeline

Summer 2020 – Fall 2021

Description

This Digital ºÚÁÏÉçÇø Project Grant enabled the team to create polychromatic 3D models to project onto classical sculpture models in Carpenter Library in order to restore historically accurate pigmentation and challenge misconceptions about the whiteness of ancient sculpture.

Diverse and Inclusive Graduate Social Work Education: A Primer for Teaching Research to Masters-Level Students

Team

  • Tamarah Moss, Assistant Professor of Social Work
  • John Edwards, ºÚÁÏÉçÇø GSSWSR, Graduate Student Research Intern
  • To be determined, ºÚÁÏÉçÇø, Undergraduate Student Research Intern
  • David Consiglio, Director of Assessment, Learning Spaces and Special Projects, LITS

Timeline

Spring 2020 – Spring 2021

Description

This grant supported the development, implementation, and assessment of an online primer for research-informed practice in Social Work.

Preserving Histories of Perry House, Cohort 2

Team

  • Joi Dallas, Residential Life Coordinator, Co-head
  • Allison Mills, College Archivist, LITS
  • Gabrielle Gary, Associate Director of Affinity Programs, ARD
  • Claudia Carew-Lyons, ’23, Digital Project Assistant
  • Rihana Oumer, ’21, Digital Project Assistant

Timeline

Fall 2020

Description

This grant supported continued development of , an effort to gather and preserve oral histories and other documents that memorialize ºÚÁÏÉçÇø’s Perry House.

Internationalizing Language Instruction in Post-Colonial Education Work: Dagbani Language Curriculum and Repository Development

Team

  • Alice Lesnick, Professor and Associate Dean for Global Engagement
  • Chanelle Wilson, Assistant Professor of Education
  • Sabea Evans, Africana Studies Program Assistant
  • LTT Fellows (TBD)

Timeline

Summer 2020

Description

This grant supported the creation of multimedia and multimodal tools for Dagbani language learning in collaboration with Dagomba educators and community members in Dalun, Ghana.