2010 Major Sponsored Program and Faculty Awards - Office of ...

Arts and Humanities Awards$50,000 or moreActive awards in 2010* Indicates new in 2010Awakuni-Swetland, Mark Anthropology/Ethnic StudiesOmaha and Ponca Digital Dictionary$348,800 NEH9/1/08 – 8/31/11Walter, KatherineCenter for Digital Researchin the Humanities/LibrariesMark Awakuni-Swetland, assistant professorof anthropology, and colleagues are creatinga comprehensive Omaha and Ponca digitaldictionary that will be available online fornative communities, students, researchersand the public. The National Endowment forthe Humanities funds this work through ajoint NEH-National Science Foundation-Smithsonian Institution“Documenting Endangered Languages” initiative. It’s also a “Wethe People” project, a special NEH recognition for model projectsadvancing the study, teaching and understanding of Americanhistory and culture. This project will provide extensive informationon the Omaha and Ponca language and will be far more robustand usable than existing resources.Behrendt, StephenEnglishThe Aesthetics of British Romanticism, Then and Today$124,498 NEH10/1/09 – 9/30/10Stephen Behrendt, professor of English,received support from the NationalEndowment for the Humanities to offer a fiveweeksummer seminar for college teacherscalled “the Aesthetics of British Romanticism,Then and Today.” Participants examined thefactors that influenced literary judgments inRomantic-era Britain (c. 1780-1835) leading to the marginalizationor exclusion of women, working-class writers and others, andultimately sanctioning a limited and unrepresentative “canon” ofwriters. The seminar explored the complex relations among art,culture, class and socio-political rhetoric through historical andmodern perspectives that consider “art” as a negotiated groundamong its producers, consumers and commentators.86arts and humanities $50,000 or more