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

Engen-Wedin, Nancy Teaching, Learning and TeacherEducation/Lied Center forPerforming ArtsThe Teaching Artist Initiative (Nebraska)$50,000 Dana Foundation1/1/09 – 2/28/11Nancy Engen-Wedin, lecturer in theDepartment of Teaching Learning andTeacher Education and ArtsREACHcoordinator with the Lied Center forPerforming Arts, is using funding from theDana Foundation to support the NebraskaTeaching Artist Initiative. This program helpscommunity and teaching artists plan artist residencies for K-12students in Nebraska’s rural school districts.Graybill, AndrewHistory* A Mixture of So Many Bloods:A Family Saga of the American West$50,400 NEH8/1/10 – 7/31/11Andrew Graybill, associate professor ofhistory, has been awarded a prestigiousNational Endowment for the HumanitiesFellowship to support completion of his book,A Mixture of So Many Bloods: A Family Sagaof the American West, to be published in2012. The book follows five members of threegenerations of a mixed-blood Montana family from approximately1850 to 1950. Peoples of mixed ancestry spoke English andindigenous languages and helped smooth relations between nativepeoples and Anglo newcomers. After about 1870, with the arrivalof more white settlers and the development of mining and loggingindustries, many mixed-blood people were marginalized andpushed onto reservations. Using federal records, archived personalpapers, newspaper stories and clippings and catalogs frommuseum exhibits, Graybill has been able to recreate the history ofone remarkable family, which in turn tells the story of the evolvingAmerican frontier.Kooser, TedEnglishAmerican Life in Poetry Project$204,300 Poetry Foundation1/1/05 – 12/31/10The Poetry Foundation, in partnership withthe Library of Congress, supports theAmerican Life in Poetry project, an initiativeof Ted Kooser, the 2004-2006 Poet LaureateConsultant in Poetry to the Library ofCongress. American Life in Poetry is a freeweekly column for newspapers and onlinepublications featuring a poem written by a contemporary Americanpoet, chosen by Kooser, with a brief introduction written by Kooser.The sole mission of this project is to promote poetry. The PoetryFoundation funds the project, with administrative support providedby the UNL English department, where the project office is located.arts and humanities $50,000 or more87