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2012 Distinguished LecturerCoco Fusco, Parsons The New School for DesignImmigration has been at the center of a national debate which suggests that it is primarily a matter of protecting borders and controlling the entry of “aliens.” Other aspects of immigration are typically ignored; the question of who gets in and who we keep out generally remains overlooked. What about those would-be immigrants who try but never make it to the United States?

On Thursday, March 8, Coco Fusco, the 2012 IHR Distinguished Lecturer, will present “Migration Interrupted: Rights, Freedom, and the Controversy over U.S. Immigration Policy.” Fusco wi l l speak on the o the r s ide of immigration--those who don’t make it to the U.S. because of interference by the U.S. government or their home government.

The performative lecture will take place at 5:30 p.m., at the Katzin Concert Hall on ASU’s Tempe campus. A reception will precede the event starting at 4:30 p.m. The event, sponsored by the IHR, is free and open to the public.

Fusco is an interdisciplinary artist, writer, and the Director of Intermedia Initiatives at Parsons The New School for for Design in New York. She has performed, lectured, exhibited and curated around the world since 1988.

While “anchor baby” is usually a derogatory term referring to U.S.-born children of illegal immigrants used to “anchor” the parents in the country, Fusco proudly describes herself as an “anchor baby.” Fusco’s Cuban mother came to the U.S. in 1954 and was deported shortly after m

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Fusco was born, but Fusco’s U.S. citizenship allowed her and her mother to return to New York within a matter of weeks.

As she writes in her book English is Broken Here, her identification “as a child of diaspora, of the Cold War, of the Civil Rights movement, of the Black Caribbean, of Cuba, and of the United States” has informed her work as both a scholar and performance artist. She combines electronic media and a variety of formats, from staged multi-media performances incorporating large-scale projections and closed- circuit television to live performances streamed to the Internet that invite audiences to take part in a “chat room” and help chart the course of action. Her work is meant to provoke commentary and dialogue, to illuminate the unexplored.

Fusco’s performances and videos, including “Operation Atropos,” “Bare Life Study #1,” and “A Room of One’s

Own,” have been presented all over the world, including two Whitney Biennials (2008 and 1993), the Sydney Biennial, the London International Theatre Festival, and more. Her books include English is Broken Here: Notes on Cultural Fusion in the Americas (1995), The Bodies that Were Not Ours and Other Writings (2001), and A Field Guide for Female Interrogators (2008).

Fusco received her B.A. in Semiotics from Brown University, her M.A. in Modern Thought and Literature from Stanford University, and her Ph.D. in Art and Visual Culture from Middlesex University.

To get your free tickets for the event, visit http://ihr.asu. If you have any questions, please contact the IHR at 480-965-3000 or [email protected]. For more information on Fusco, visit http://www.thing.net/~cocofusco.

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director’s messageThe role of the Institute for Humanities Research in the New American University is to advance the humanities as a site of vital research that contributes to productive social dialogue and makes a difference in the world. The IHR generates and supports transformative, transdisciplinary, and collaborative humanities scholarship that addresses compelling social issues linking the past, present, and future.

Many things make humanities research socially relevant. The IHR is dedicated to exploring and promoting humanities scholarship that addresses public concerns. We provide an engaging intellectual climate in which humanistic knowledge, methodologies, and skills are central to the analysis and resolution of the world’s many challenges. I am pleased to be a part of the IHR, and I invite your participation. I hope you will explore our newsletter further to find out who and what we are, and what we’ve accomplished.

our visionHumanities research is not just about whether human beings can do something, but also about whether we should do it;

not just about where we are, but also about how we got here; not just about what people do, but also about what human activity means; not just about what to call something, but also about the importance of labels, language, art, and music as symbolic systems. Humanities research does not just identify what is real, but it also explores where ideas of reality come from. IHR scholars explore such issues and concepts as sustainability, human origins, immigration, and natural disasters, and utilize historical, philosophical, and creative perspectives to achieve a deeper understanding of their causes, effects, and cultural meanings.

Major IHR programs include:• IHR Fellows Program• IHR Competitive Seed Grant Program

• Events including lectures, seminars, and research workshops• Research Clusters• IHR Annual Distinguished Lecturer

In 2011-2012, the IHR celebrates it seventh year. Over those years, our major programming activities have yielded impressive results:

• Thousands of people have attended presentations by IHR Distinguished Lecturers• Research Clusters and Seed Grant projects have hosted numerous events, including conferences, seminars and

external guest speakers. This year, cluster and seed grant teams explored a wide range of topics, including social media, diaspora, immigration, humanistic aspects of post-tragedy responses, interdisciplinary approaches to emotions, and human rights.

• The annual Faculty Seminar Series has drawn together several hundred faculty members, students and community members to discuss the concerns and methodologies that characterize and distinguish humanities research.

• External proposals in excess of $4 million have been awarded since our launch. In addition, those proposals have yielded more than three successful NEH summer seminars and institutes.

• Since 2007, the IHR has devoted much time and energy to the topic Humanities and Sustainability.

Sally L. Kitch, Director


art exhibit: immigration, migration and movement


As humans, we have the pleasure of communicating ideas and experiences with each other through multiple channels. Two of the most prominent channels are the written word and the image--the former being long-favored by those working in the humanities. Images--specifically, visual art--have a powerful ability to convey ideas and experiences, and to challenge social and political norms. At the IHR, we acknowledge the potency of image, both moving and static, especially when composed through the unique and critical eye of the visual artist. For the past four years, we have curated a spring art exhibition that addresses our annual Fellows theme. This year’s exhibition will speak to the theme of [Im]migration and Movement.

As with our previous exhibitions, the art we select comes by way of an open call to artists. The submissions this year come from ten different states and two countries; from professional artists to graduate students in Masters of Fine Arts programs, to undergraduates working towards their degrees in studio art.

There are 21 artists in all, and their work offers responses to how the movement of people through immigration and migration has been the catalyst for change, innovation, growth, and cultural and national identity. Some pieces depict the diverse manner in which immigration shapes individuals and communities. Represented in the exhibition are video works, painting, photography, collage and intervention art. They characterize functions that art can play in the social and political realms. As with our past initiatives, through this exhibition we hope to inspire a dialogue about new ways of thinking and approaching issues that have shaped the human condition.

Mark EsquivelCurator for the IHR Immigration, Migration and Movement Art Exhibit

Top: Mixed Media by Brook Rosser; Middle: Altered book by Ania Gilmore; Bottom: Multimedia piece by Antuco Chicaiza

Today’s politically charged attention to immigration suggests that it is primarily a matter of protecting borders and controlling the entry of “aliens.” Other aspects of the concept are typically ignored, including the fact that the history of the human race is in some sense a history of movement--of ideas, resources, goods, and political and economic activities, as well as of populations.

Taken together [ im]mig rat ion and movement underpin global debates about nationhood, citizenship, and belonging; values and social otherness; questions of social justice; individual, national, and cultural identities; and the way in which people reinvent themselves, their cultures, and their worlds in new contexts.

The IHR conference, “[Im]migration & Movement: People, Ideas, and Social Worlds,” explores such themes from perspectives that relate to the interests of this year’s IHR Fellows, all of whom are working in one way or another on questions about immigration, migration, and

movement, broadly conceived. Fellows are interested in movement and migration in the creation of diasporas and diasporic cultures. They recognize that there are epistemologies of movement, knowledges that emerge differently from movement than from stasis. They also study population migrations both to and from various geographic areas, as well as the role of migration in constructing political and religious identities.

For more information, visit the IHR events page at http://ihr.asu.edu/news-events.

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Session 1: Migration, Movement, and Social Worlds Ruth Behar (Michigan) Alexander Henn (ASU)Session 2: Immigration, Transnationalism, and Nationhood Nancy Foner (Hunter/CUNY) Cecilia Menjivar (ASU)Luncheon Speaker: Lisa Magana (ASU)


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meet our 2011-12 fellows

ASU fellows

Leah Sarat“Shielded by the Blood of Christ:” Evangelical Migrants in Mexico and the United StatesSchool of Historical, Philosophical, and Religious Studies

Françoise MirguetFrom Land to Body: Reinterpretations of the Self in Jewish Narratives from the Hellenistic DiasporaSchool of International Letters and Cultures

Claudia Sadowski-SmithThe Experiences of Migrants from BRIC CountriesDepartment of English

Wei LiThe Experiences of Migrants from BRIC CountriesAsian Pacific Studies

Andrea BallesteroTraveling Moralities: Obligations, Materiality and Water in Ceará, Northeast BrazilSchool of Human Evolution and Social Change

ASU fellows

Sujey VegaOf Borders and Belonging: Toward a Politics of Citizenship at the Crossroads of AmericaSam Houston State University

Yajaira M. PadillaCentral Americans in the U.S.: The Politics of Belonging and Non-BelongingThe University of Kansas

visiting fellows

The IHR Fellows program provides funding for a research team or individual to engage in a year of research related to the annual theme, to share their research with the academic community, and to produce a strong application for an external grant.

The Visiting Fellows program is for scholars from other institutions of higher education in the U.S. and abroad to spend the spring semester in-residence, participating in the intellectual life of the IHR and university community. The Visiting Fellowship provides the opportunity to conduct research, collaborate with ASU faculty, and write. The Visiting Fellowship also promotes an exchange of ideas among visitors and ASU Fellows working on the annual theme. Visitors participate in weekly Fellows meetings and give public lectures and seminars on their research topics while in-residence at ASU.


The 2012-13 Fellows theme is “The Humanities and the Imagination/Imaginary.”

ASU Fellow applications are due by 11:59 p.m. on Monday, March 5. For more information on applying for IHR Fellowships, visit http://ihr.asu.edu/funding/fellows.

spring 2012 events at-a-glance

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Faculty Seminar Series - “Stolen Rhetoric”Monday, Jan. 30, 12-1:30 p.m., Social Sciences Room 109

Shakespeare SymposiumFeb. 2-3, 9 a.m.-5 p.m., Galvin Playhouse, Tempe campus

Art Exhibit Opening ReceptionFriday, Feb. 3, 1:30-4:30 p.m., Social Sciences Room 109

PCEP - Human Origins courseTuesday, Feb. 7, 1-3 p.m., Northern Trust, 2398 E. Camelback Rd., Phoenix, 85018

Feminist Studies SymposiumTuesday, Feb. 7, 3-5 p.m., Social Sciences Room 109



Humanities and Journalism SymposiumFriday, Feb. 17, 8:30 a.m.-1 p.m., Social Sciences Room 109


Seed Grant WorkshopThursday, Feb. 16, 12-1 p.m., Social Sciences Room 109

Digital Humanities RoundtableThursday, Feb. 23, 1:30-3:30 p.m., Social Sciences Room 109

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Coco Fusco Reading and Discussion GroupMonday, Feb. 27, 11:30 a.m.-1:30 p.m., Social Sciences Room 109


Distinguished Lecturer Coco FuscoThursday, March 8, 4:30 p.m. reception, Katzin Concert Hall

Fellows Symposium: [im]migration & MovementFriday, April 13, 9 a.m.-3 p.m., West Hall 135

R.S.V.P. for IHR eventsVisit http://ihr.asu.edu/news-events/events.

New events are added regularly, so check our website for the most current information.

PCEP - Human Origins courseTuesday, March 6, 1-3 p.m., Northern Trust, 2398 E. Camelback Rd., Phoenix, 85018


“The Future of Food: In the Desert and Beyond” Monday, April 2, 5:30-7 p.m., Wrigley Hall

Digital Humanities LectureMonday, Feb. 27, 2-4 p.m., Social Sciences Room 109

Multiple Voices, Multiple Histories SymposiumSaturday, Feb. 25, 8:45 a.m.-3 p.m., Memorial Union 241A

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spring 2012 events

The IHR’s Faculty Seminar Series, “Unintended Consequences: What the Humanities Could Have Told You (If Only You Had Asked),” draws faculty, students and community members together to discuss the concerns and methodologies that characterize and distinguish humanities research.

“Stolen Rhetoric,” the lecture on January 30, featured Matthew Whitaker, professor of history with SHPRS and his presentation, “One Nation Under a Groove: How Black Culture Makes American Cool,” and Keith Miller, professor in the Department of English and his topic, “Mangling Martin Luther King: How to Oppress the Poor While Hijacking Affirmative Action.”

stolen rhetoric unintended consequences: what the humanities could have told you (if only you had asked)

Diabetes of Democracy culinary presentation at ASU Farmer’s MarketMero Cocinero Karimi and his culinary comrades from “The People’s Cook” hosted an interactive cooking demonstration at the ASU Farmer’s Market on Tuesday, January 17 on the Tempe campus’ Cady Mall.

Mero Cocinero Karimi, host of The Cooking Show con Karimi & Comrades, has made it his mission to fight type 2 diabetes. His Diabetes of Democracy Project has combined performance art and interactive cooking lessons for people all over the world, using culturally specific

cuisine, stories and rituals to spark discussion on the epidemic of type 2 diabetes and share strategies for combating the disease. Karimi educates people on the complexity of food and cultural consciousness in a humorous, engaging way. In the Diabetes of Democracy Project, he explores how people can empower themselves by embracing the idea that eating healthy and together is a revolutionary act.

the color of shakespeare: the oregon shakespeare festival at ASU

multiple voices, multiple historiesexploring the intersections of the Japanese American and American Indian experiences of internment in Arizona during World War II

The IHR’s “Shakespeare Cognition Research Project: Classical Drama and Perceptions of Race” Seed Grant project partnered with the Oregon Shakespeare Festival, one of the nation’s oldest and most diverse regional classical theatres, to present a symposium investigating how audiences respond to actors of color playing Shakespearean roles. The event, “The Color of Shakespeare: The Oregon Shakespeare Festival at ASU,” was held on February 2 at the Galvin Playhouse.

The symposium featured talks by Lue Morgan Douthit, the Director of Literary Development and Dramaturgy at the Oregon Shakespeare Festival (OSF), and OSF Associate Producer Claudia Alick. Veteran OSF actors gave an acting demonstration and participated in a panel discussion about playing Shakespeare.

The IHR’s Research Cluster “American Movements: Understanding the Ideological and Institutional Basis for Japanese American and American Indian Relocations” hosted a symposium, “Multiple Voices, Multiple Histories,” on Saturday, Feb. 25. During WWII, the U.S. built ten internment camps to incarcerate Japanese American citizens, two of which were located on the reservations of the Gila River Indian Community and the Colorado River Indian Tribes. Join us in exploring the social dimensions of these two different communities and the overlapping histories of internment in Arizona.


What is lost to journalism and journalists in the current estrangement from the humanities? What is lost to consumers of journalism? The public needs the humanities’ robust set of tools and mental attitudes to help construct and decode the world-views presented, consciously and unconsciously, by journalists. The IHR presented a panel discussion on the impact of humanities on journalism and vice versa on Friday, Feb. 17.

journalism and the humanities: sources of estrangement, future prospects

Because inquiries into our origins combine ideas about causation, boundaries and chronology while linking the factual with the ethical and the empirical with the theoret ica l , the s tudy of or ig ins requires an interdisciplinary approach that draws on the humanities as well as the natural sciences.

The lectures are held from 1-3 p.m. on Tuesdays at Northern Trust, 2398 E. Camelback Road in Phoenix. Light refreshments will be provided.

For more information or to register, visit http://asufoundation.org/communityengagement/PCEP/201112courses/HumanitiesandHumanOrigins/tabid/1542/Default.aspx.

humanities and human origins: the creation of beginningspresident’s community enrichment program courses

new IHR digital humanities initiative and lecture

The Evolution of Nature: Creation, Nature and Human OriginsFebruary 7Hava Tirosh-Samuelson

Indigenous Creation Stories: Who is Mother Earth?February 14Joni Adamson

The Origins of Social Otherness: Social Stigma and DiseaseFebruary 21Rachel Scott

The Origins of Human Uniqueness: Evolution and Contemporary NeuroscienceFebruary 28Jason Scott Robert

The Origins of Race: Gendered Foundations of Racial Formation in the U.S.March 6Sally Kitch

The IHR is excited to announce the launch of its new initiative, the Digital Humanities, which integrates the use of digital tools and resources for the examination of texts, artifacts and collections that form the core of humanities-based research.

To kick-off the initiative, the IHR hosted a roundtable event on Thursday, Feb. 23 and a lecture on Monday, Feb. 27, featuring Suzan van Dijk of the Huygens Institute for Dutch History at the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences, who specializes in French and comparative literature and information technology applications in the humanities.


contemporary research in transnational feminist studiesThe IHR’s Research Cluster “Local and Global Feminisms and the Politics of Knowledge: Feminist Literacy at ASU,” hosted a symposium on the work of Professors Minoo Moallem, UC Berkeley, and Renya Ramirez, UC Santa Cruz, and its relation to contemporary knowledge being produced in women and gender studies scholarship.

Moallem is currently working on a manuscript titled, “Nation as a Transnational Commodity,” which is focused on the commodification of the nation through consumptive production and circulation of commodities such as the Persian carpet. Ramirez spoke on her current project, “The Cloud Family: The Lives and Work of Henry Roe Cloud, Elizabeth Bender Cloud, and Woesha North Cloud,” a Native feminist approach to family/tribal history.

Food justice involved every human constituency from farm worker and farmer to urban consumer, and involved competition for access to virtually every social and natural resource on Earth. Planning for a more equitable food and water future for Arizona’s rural and urban poor should be at the top of every list for social and environmental activists, for this state’s food supply is among the most vulnerable with respect to water scarcity and climate change.

The new IHR/GIOS Food Initiative will present a Jenny Norton Sustainability Lecture with Gary Nabhan, from 5:30-7 p.m. on Monday, April 2, at Wrigley Hall on ASU’s Tempe campus. Nabhan is the Kellogg Endowed Chair in Borderlands Food and Water Security at the University of Arizona Southwest Center.

the future of food: in the desert and beyond

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fall 2011 highlights

The modern image of the medieval leper--disfigured, deeply feared and socially outcast--has not only become the popular metaphor for social exclusion but also influenced our larger understanding of the disease. Yet recent research has revealed temporal and regional variation in the social response to leprosy.

“The Social Stigma of Disease: The Archaeology and Bioarchaeology of Leprosy,” an IHR Fellows symposium that took place in December 2011, brought in a panel of speakers to explore the social stigmatization of disease by considering the long-term history of leprosy: from the origins of the pathogen Mycobacterium leprae to the foundation of leprosaria in late medieval Europe to the creation of leper colonies in the 19th and 20th centuries.

“One of my larger research questions is the social construction of disease and disability, which I investigate through a case study of leprosy and leper hospitals in late medieval Ireland,” says Rachel Scott, Assistant Professor in ASU’s School of Human Evolution and Social Change in 2010-11 IHR Fellow.

“Examining the long-term history of leprosy provides a better understanding of how and why certain diseases acquire negative social meaning,” says Scott. “Many scholars have made the comparison between medieval leprosy and modern HIV/AIDS, with the hope that research on leprosy in earlier time periods will help us recognize and address the stigmatization of disease in our own society.”

symposium explores social implications of disease

award-winning book focuses on human relation to designThe IHR has named Prasad Boradkar, a highly regarded scholar of industrial design, the winner of its annual Transdisciplinary Humanities Book Award for his work “Designing Things: A Critical Introduction to the Culture of Objects.”

The award recognizes and celebrates humanities faculty authors from ASU and around the U.S. and the substantial body of transdisciplinary humanistic research reflected in their publications.

Sally Kitch, Director of the Institute, says Boradkar was selected for his ability to communicate behind-the-scenes and beneath-the-surface glimpses at some of our most familiar and iconic objects.

“Offering both an integrative and concrete look at how we shape things and how things shape our lives, Boradkar draws on philosophy, anthropology, cultural studies, business and marketing, and globalization and production in order to explore the social meaning of objects,” Kitch says.

“‘Designing Things’ provides an accessible and very readable analysis of how we think about the role of things in our everyday lives.”

Boradkar is interested in the research space that lies at the intersection of design studies, material culture studies and cultural studies. In his writing, he relies on cultural theory to understand the social significance of the designed environment.

“Though the primary output of design activity is the physical stuff we see around us, its central purpose is to help improve the human condition,” Boradkar says.

“My goal, through ‘Designing Things,’ is to enrich design studies by bringing into its scholarship a broader and more interdisciplinary conception of what things mean to people.”

Boradkar is an Associate Professor in the Herberger Institute for Design and the Arts and the Director of InnovationSpace, a transdisciplinary laboratory at ASU where students and faculty partner with corporations to design and develop human-centered product concepts that improve society and the environment.

To read the full article, visit http://ihr.asu.edu/news-events/news/award-winning-book-focuses-human-relation-design.


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How are Haitians coping one year after the earthquake? In a recent trip to Haiti, two ASU professors discovered how art plays an important role in Haitians’ lives thanks to a Seed Grant from the IHR.

“The Art of Recovery: Port-au-Prince 2010” Seed Grant symposium, held in October 2011, included a photographic exhibit of Haitian responses to the devastation engendered by the 2010 earthquake, as well as a recorded interview with the project’s Haitian correspondents and a discussion of the research project and its future prospects.

The photographs in the exhibit document a trip made to Haiti on the first anniversary of the January 2010 earthquake. They capture the stark contrasts of a country both devastated and rebuilding, grieving yet welcoming, anxious but energetic. What these photos can only hint at is the extraordinary warmth and resilience of people who

have suffered terribly and who are hoping that, despite the ruin, this could be a new beginning.

“Traumas elicit strong humanistic responses,” says Thomas Puleo, co-researcher on the project and Assistant Professor in the School of Politics and Global Studies.

“This study first grounds itself in a survey of humanistic aspects of past post-earthquake responses as well as clinical studies of post-disaster art therapy before examining the current Haitian tragedy.”

Puleo, along with co-researcher Mark Cruse, Associate Professor in the School of International Letters and Cultures, anticipate that the result of the project will be a stronger understanding of the role that humanistic activities play in post-catastrophe recovery as a form of place making.

View a narrative slideshow of the Art of Recovery seed grant project as ASU’s Research Matters website: http://researchmatters.asu.edu/videos/haiti-art-recovery.

The symposium, “Emotions In Life and Theory,” held in September 2011, concluded a year of monthly meetings for the members of the Research Cluster, “Interdisciplinary Approaches to Emotions.”

Supported by an IHR grant, the clutser brought together faculty members from more than eight ASU schools and departments, all with interest in the academic study of emotions. Over the course of the award year, the cluster members discussed topics from the infant’s emotional development to emotions in medieval art, from anger in ancient Greek sources to the study of humiliation and insults.

Barbara Rosenwein, historian of the Middle Ages and professor at Loyola University in Chicago, delivered a lecture entitled, “Emotions and Emotional Change: Theories and New Perspectives.” Starting with the example of the Huaorani people of Ecuador, Rosenwein showed that social groups tend to attribute different values to emotions by praising some and judging others as inappropriate, and how this can change over time. She surveyed how historians have accounted for this change in emotional appraisal, then expounded her own theory of emotional communities, or

social groups defined by a specific evaluation of emotions, and by particular ways to express emotions.

Jerome Neu, professor at the University of California, Santa Cruz, gave a lecture entitled, “Authenticity and the Examined Life.” He began his talk by recalling Socrates’ statement that “an unexamined life is not worth living.” He explored the nation of authenticity, wondering in particular whether the search for authenticity is compatible with the adoption of social roles. This led him to question what the authentic core of the self is: a constant unmasking process, a return to a primordial self, or a decision in the present?

Among these topics, the presenters debated the possibility of knowing (and therefore studying) the emotions of others, especially in remote historical periods or in different cultural contexts. Is the search for another person’s true emotions part of all authentic encounters? Or is it rather an impossible task, all we can have access to being the normative emotionality put forward by a community?

humanities symposium explores emotions

symposium examines art engendered by 2010 earthquake in Haiti


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2012 IHR research projects

Aloha Compadre: Transpacific Latina/o Migrations to the Hawaiian IslandsRudy P. Guevarra, Asian Pacific American Studies

American Movements: Understanding the Ideological and Institutional Basis for Japanese American and American Indian RelocationsMyla Vicenti Carpio, American Indian StudiesKaren J. Leong, School of Social Transformation

At Home in the Desert: Youth Engagement and PlaceMary Fitzgerald, School of DanceRichard Mook, School of MusicElizabeth Johnson, Public Practice, Herberger InstituteLinda Essig, School of Theater and FilmMelissa Britt, School of Dance

Diabetes and Democracy in South Phoenix: Performance, Place and the Cultural Politics of FoodTamara Underiner, School of Theater and FilmSeline Szkupinski Quiroga, School of Transborder StudiesDonna Winham, Nutrition Program, Healthy Lifestyles Research Center, College of Nursing and Health InnovationStephani Woodson, School of Theater and Film

Heritage & Memory: Sites of Transgenerational Trauma, Moral Reminders and RepairMartin Beck Matuštik, Lincoln Professor of Ethics & ReligionPatricia Huntington, School of Historical, Philosophical & Religious StudiesEric Wertheimer, Department of English, CCICS

Islamism and the Crucible of ImmigrationAbdullahi Gallab, School of Social Transformation; School of Historical, Philosophical & Religious Studies

School(ing) Girls: Localizing Transnational Gender Identities in Kenya’s MaasailandHeather Switzer, School of Social TransformationLarisa Warhol, School of Social Transformation

The Shakespeare Cognition Research Project: Classical Drama and Perceptions of RaceBradley Ryner, Department of EnglishAyanna Thompson, Department of English

Rising Souls, Singing ScorpionsBradley Ryner, Department of EnglishAyanna Thompson, Department of English

seed grants

*call for jenny norton research cluster applications

Creative Inquiry Research & Practice: Catalyst for Social ChangeHeather Lineberry, ASU Art MuseumSimon Dove, School of DanceEileen Standley, School of Dance

Imaginaires of Islamic ModernityYasmin Saikia, Center for the Study of Religion & ConflictChad Haines, Center for the Study of Religion & Conflict

*Local and Global Feminisms and the Politics of Knowledge: Feminist Literacy at ASUAnn Koblitz, Women and Gender StudiesKaren Kuo, Asian Pacific American Studies, Film and Media Studies

Social Innovation and Community DevelopmentRhonda Phillips, College of Public ProgramsLaurie Mook, College of Public ProgramsFrancisco Lara-Valencia, School of Transborder StudiesJonathan Maupin, School of Human Evolution and Social ChangeDaniel Schugurensky, School of Social Transformation

The Anticipated Journey: Transdisciplinary Teaching and Learning Understood Through a River MetaphorLaura Turchi, Department of EnglishSandra Stauffer, School of Music

research clusters

The Reverend Jenny Norton has provided funding to support an annual Research Cluster at the IHR. The Norton fund is designed to stimulate research on women in any field and on any topic. Gender scholars are encouraged to apply for the Norton award by proposing a topic that will promote research and communication among ASU scholars and enrich the intellectual climate of the university.

The Jenny Norton Research Cluster will receive an award up to $1,750 to support their activities and may include partial or full support for a visiting scholar. See the IHR website for a list of appropriate expenditures. For additional information on eligibility, procedures, and deadlines, visit http://ihr.asu.edu/funding/research-clusters.


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Former IHR Fellows were awarded a National Endowment for the Humanities collaborative grant to study places in India that are both religiously significant and environmentally sensitive.

The research project, “Mountains, Wilderness and Transformation,” brings together Anne Feldhaus, a religious studies scholar from the School of Historical, Philosophical and Religious Studies, and Megha Budruk, a natural resource social scientist from the School of Community Resources and Development.

The project addresses a vitally important need to integrate the study of ritual, devotion, aesthetics, and the religious imagination with an understanding of the economic, social, and political ramifications that form the context within which the rituals are performed, the devotion is experienced, and the religious imagination thrives.

“For some decades now, Religious Studies has been paying attention to the intersections of politics and religion. For more than a century, scholars have been interested in the social aspects of religion. I think we also need to examine seriously the economic and administrative

aspects of religious phenomena, as well as their material ties to the natural world,” says Feldhaus.

Feldhaus and Budruk have chosen four sites located along a single mountain range in western India on which to focus the study. Each site is of significance in a Hindu religious context, of interest in environmental activists and ecologists, and administered by an array of government agencies.

“Nature-based religious settings in India are facing severe pressures from increased demands placed on them, says Budruk. “Anne and I hope to capture the essence of these settings for the numerous people who interact with them. Understanding the human story attached to these places will ultimately allow for better protection of such places.

“I have been studying pilgrimage places in India for several decades now. In this project, finally, I will open my eyes to examine such places in a much broader context. We will be looking at the places not just in terms of their religious significance, but in terns of all the other kinds of meanings and interests that people bring to them,” says Feldhaus.

2009-10 IHR Fellows project awarded NEH collaborative grant to study religious and environmentally sensitive places in India

advisory board membersSally L. KitchDirector, IHR

Tracy FessendenAssociate Professor, School of Historical, Philosophical & Religious Studies

Patricia HuntingtonProfessor, Division of Humanities, Arts and Cultural Studies

Lisa AndersonAssociate Professor, School of Social Transformation

Kevin SandlerAssociate Professor, Department of English

Kent WrightAssociate Professor, School of Historical, Philosophical & Religious Studies

Lynne AspnesProfessor, School of Music

Markus CruseAssociate Professor, School of International Letters and Cultures

Peter GogginAssociate Professor, Department of English

Angel PinillosAssistant Professor, School of Historical. Philosophical & Religious Studies

April SummittAssistant Professor, School of Letters and Sciences

Marivel DanielsonAssociate Professor, School of Transborder Studies

March 5 - IHR Fellows (for ASU faculty)March 5 - Subvention

April 2 - Seed GrantsApril 9 - Research Clusters

funding opportunity deadlines


Private funding will open exciting new avenues of research to the IHR. Moreover, private donations supplement the limited financial awards now available to scholars at the onset of their projects. Investments from donors like you give faculty a competitive edge when the seek additional federal, state and foundation funding. As a result, your initial support, along with the Institute’s funding, enables scholars to multiply their research resources--and multiply their impact.

Since its inception, the IHR has supported 24 Research Clusters, 26 Seed Grants, 31 ASU Fellows and 13 Visiting Fellows. With your help, we can significantly increase those numbers and expand the valuable research taking place at ASU.

You may choose to support one of the opportunities listed below, or you may prefer to rely on an ASU development officer to guide your gift to the most promising and immediate area of need within the IHR:

• IHR Annual Book Award

• Research Clusters• Seed Grant Program• Fellows Program

• Annual Distinguished Lecturer• IHR Faculty Working Groups• Endowed Professorship

For more information on how to support the IHR, visit http://ihr.asu.edu/about/humanities/support, or call our office at 480-965-3000.

support humanities research at ASU

Institute for Humanities ResearchP.O. Box 876505Tempe, AZ 85287-6505

Tempe campus | Social Sciences Room 109 | 480.965.3000 | [email protected]

donor honor roll

Reverend Jenny NortonDr. Sally L. Kitch & Mr. Thomas D. Kitch

Dr. Joni AdamsonGwyn Williams




http://ihr.asu.edu/about/humanities/support

http://ihr.asu.edu/about/humanities/support

spring 2012 asu institute for humanities research semester report

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