CURRENT FRANKE FACULTY GRANTS

2024-26

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ENVIRONMENT AND ENERGY IN LATIN AMERICA

Victoria Saramago, Romance Languages & Literatures

This project explores electricity, cultural production, and environmental humanities in Latin America through archival research and public engagement in Brazil and Argentina.

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KEEPING HOUSE: ARCHAEOLOGIES OF LIVABILITY

Catherine Kearns, Classics

This comparative study of ancient Mediterranean households explores how everyday practices of consumption and sustainability shaped modes of living across diverse ecological and cultural contexts.

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LOVE/MUSIC: PROBLEMATICS OF A RELATIONSHIP

Martha Feldman, Music

This international, interdisciplinary project brings music scholars together with scholars in other disciplines to shine a critical light on the underexamined relationship between love and music through collaborative workshops, teaching, and research.​

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2025-26

 

THE ART OF DYING

Maria Anna Mariani, Romance Languages & Literatures

This collaborative project investigates how modern accounts of dying can serve as a secular revival of the medieval ars moriendi, offering insights for palliative care and medical education.

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ON COZINESS

Tina Post, English Language & Literature

This project investigates the aesthetic and affective category of “coziness,” including the often-unspoken role that racial difference plays in its shaping—by examining coziness in British contexts.

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SOUNDING BOB DYLAN: A WEB-BASED PUBLIC HUMANITIES PROJECT

Steven Rings, Music

​This mobile-first website will offer rich audio-visual content, interactive analysis, and expert commentary to create an accessible, engaging hub for exploring Bob Dylan’s music.

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2026-29

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POETRY AND THE PRACTICE OF HEALING

Sarah Nooter, Classics and Theater & Performance Studies

This collaborative project brings together the work of poetry and the work of medicine by exploring areas of intersection in the corporeality that underlies both: orality and literacy, hand and touch, breath and pulse, history and physical, rupture and repair.