13 New Fine Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences Projects for 2025

FAHSS Support Program encourages the growth of externally-funded research

The Division of Research & Innovation recently called for submissions to the 2024-2025 Fine Arts, Humanities, & Social Sciences Support Program to encourage the growth of externally funded research through the production of scholarly and creative works. The program provides funding for professional indexing grants, image reproduction funds, subvention grants, field work and archival research grants up to $2500.

Professional indexing grants support the creation of comprehensive indexes for scholarly works and image reproduction funds provide financial assistance for the reproduction of visual materials, facilitating their inclusion in publications or presentations. Subvention grants offer financial support to offset publication costs, and field work & archival research grants provide funding to support researchers in conducting on-site investigations and accessing archival materials.

The 2025 projects funded:

Professional Indexing Grants

Selina Makana, History

Beyond the Battlefield: Women and the Nation in Twentieth Century Angola

Vania Barraza Toledo, World Languages and Literatures

Professional Indexing Grant for A Companion to Chilean Cinema

Subvention Grants

Kimberly Patterson, Music

Performance at International Music Festival in Frutillar, Chile

J. Elliott Casal, English

"It is important to consult" a linguist: Verb-Argument Constructions in ChatGPT and human experts’ medical and financial advice

Field Work & Archival Research Grants

Bryna Bobick, Art and Design

Rejuvenate the Art Education Curriculum

Thomas Hrach, Journalism and Strategic Media

Trust in Media: What U.S. Newspaper Industry Can Learn From its German counterparts

Jie Gao, Interdisciplinary Studies; Hsiang-te Kung, Earth Sciences; and Yaowen Dong, History

Discovering the History of East Asian Studies in the United States: A Documentary Exploration

Elja Roy, Communication and Film

Amar Bose: The Sound and the Silence

Kathryn Hunt, Architecture

Learning from Mass Timber in Scandinavian Architecture

Andrew Donnelly, English

History of Reconstruction in Arkansas Research Trips to Starkville, Fayetteville, & Washington

SunAh Laybourn, Sociology

The Other Side of Jim Crow: Japanese Americans, HBCUs, and Racial Belonging After WWII

Verner Mitchell, English

Black Writers Answer the Call: The WWII Writings of Alston Anderson, Lucia M. Pitts, and William Gardner Smith

Ewelina Boczkowska, Music

Film Music Research in Poland and the Czech Republic

For more information on these projects, contact research@memphis.edu.