PAST FRANKE FACULTY GRANTS

​2021-22

 

THE AFGHAN HERITAGE MAPPING PARTNERSHIP

Gil Stein, Near Eastern Languages & Civilizations

Supported by the U.S. State Department, the Afghan Heritage Mapping Partnership is a cultural heritage preservation project that utilizes satellite remote sensing imagery, aided by an artificial intelligence deep learning computer algorithm, to locate and document the archaeological sites in Afghanistan that are at risk of destruction.

 

EARLY BLACK CINEMA IN CHICAGO

Allyson Nadia Field, Cinema & Media Studies

Early Black Cinema in Chicago aims to provide scholarly and public access to the rich and multifaceted filmmaking endeavors of African Americans in the first decades of the twentieth century.

 

2021-24

 

REIMAGINING COSMOPOLITANISM

Dipesh Chakrabarty, South Asian Languages & Civilizations

This project reimagines cosmopolitanism for our times and develops a new set of conceptual tools and categories, including: histories and concepts; practices and instantiations; communication, connectivities, and infrastructure; crossing borders; globalism, nationalism, populism; and multiple earths.

 

2022-23

 

ENCOUNTER: EXPERIMENTS IN TRANSMEDIA STUDIES

Patrick Jagoda, Cinema & Media Studies and Heidi Coleman, Theater & Performance Studies

Encounter is a media art experiment that combines transmedia, improvisational, and live interactive performance to construct a game-like narrative.

 

2022-24

 

CULTURAL PLATFORM STUDIES

Hoyt Long, East Asian Languages & Civilizations

This investigation focuses on “attention” and “attachment” as twin poles for understanding how certain kinds of television shows travel faster and further than others, with the Netflix-produced Squid Game as the central case study.

 

2022-25

 

THE POESIA LATINA PROJECT

Rachel Galvin, English Language & Literature

This project supports videotaped interviews with contemporary Latinx poets, editors, literary leaders, and culture mavens that will be made available in a research and teaching resource on a dedicated website.

 

2023-24

 

HANNAH ARENDT: A PERIODICAL STUDIES PERSPECTIVE

Na’ama Rokem, Comparative Literature

The aim of the project is to continue to experiment with modes of cataloguing and visualizing the information about Arendt’s periodical publications, and of conceptualizing them as disparate, but connected, ecologies.

 

HISTORIES AND FUTURES OF BLACK FEMINIST FILMMAKING

Allyson Nadia Field, Cinema & Media Studies

This project will bring together an interdisciplinary group of scholars to explore the rich intersection between Black women’s filmmaking, literature, and feminist thought.

 

MONOCHROME MULTITUDES PUBLICATION

Christine Mehring, Art History

This publication will enrich and expand existing histories of the monochrome by articulating cultural, political, racial, or gendered meanings of monochrome art, emphasizing the significance of materials and media.

 

RUSSIAN ANTIWAR SABOTAGE – FACTS AND FICTIONS

Ania Aizman, Slavic Languages & Literatures

The goal of this project is to explore this transformation in Russian oppositional culture, particularly the emergent discourses and practices of sabotage among antiwar Russian groups.

 

SCHOLARSHIP IN SOUND AND IMAGE WORKSHOP

Salome Aguilera Skvirsky, Cinema & Media Studies

This workshop, attended by Skvirsky, provided training in videographic criticism, a growing interdisciplinary theory-practice area within film and media studies, with a public-facing and pedagogical dimension.