Fine Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences Support Program 

Division of Research & Innovation awards funding to four projects

To encourage scholarship and growth of externally funded research in the areas of Fine Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences, the Division of Research and Innovation relaunched the Fine Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences Support Program for a second year. Applicants were invited to request funding for Professional Indexing, Image Reproduction, Subvention, Open Access Book Fees, and Remote Data Access and Archival Research. 

Several applications were submitted and four proposals were funded.  The winning applicants were: 

• Dr. Keri Brondo, professor and chair of Anthropology, for professional indexing and subvention for the project “Voluntourism and Multispecies Collaboration”  
• Dr. Susan Nordstrom, assistant professor of Educational Research, for professional indexing for the project “Multispecies Qualitative Inquiry: Decentering the Human in Research”  
• Dr. Esra Ozdenerol, professor of Earth Science and director of Spatial Analysis and Geographic Education (SAGE), for open access book fees for the project “The Role of GIS in Covid-19 Management and Control”
• Dr. Lindsey Stewart, assistant professor of Philosophy, for professional indexing for the project "The Politics of Joy: Zora Neale Hurston, Spirit Work, and Black Liberation Politics"
   

All funding recipients will be required to propose an article for The Conversation, a service that creates visibility for faculty work among a national general readership audience, within one year of funding. 

For more information on the awards or this program, email researchdev@memphis.edu.