2022-23 Year in Review Magazine

Year in Review Impact as Connection

GLOBAL ARTS + HUMANITIES DISCOVERY THEME

2022-2023 Year in Review Thematic Impact as Connection

The Global Arts + Humanities Discovery Theme broadens understandings of impact to better align with collaborative research practices. This Year in Review spotlights “Impact as Connection” and the interdependencies that advance social change and illuminate the ethics of reciprocity, restoration, reflexivity and empowerment that undergird it.

Wendy S. Hesford

Hesford is a professor of English and an Ohio Eminent Scholar. She is committed to enhancing Ohio State’s capacity for cross-disciplinary collaborations, particularly those foregrounding the impact of the arts and humanities in driving social change and cross-cultural understandings.

Letter from the faculty director On Possibility

This year, the Global Arts + Humanities Discovery Theme (GAHDT) launched a collaborative book series with the Wexner Center for the Arts and The Ohio State University Press. Each volume in this cross-disciplinary series – On Possibility: Social Change and the Arts + Humanities – will align with the annual theme of GAHDT’s signature Society of Fellows program

On Possibility seeks to harness the energy of cross-disciplinary collaborations by generating a space for productive alignments, intersections, contrasts and critiques across the arts and humanities. The first volume, Human Rights on the Move (forthcoming) features scholars, artists and

practitioners whose work engages human rights themes, such as global migration, mass incarceration, environmental degradation and exclusive and violent claims to the category of the human. Contributors to this volume (re)envision the “human” in human rights discourse and turn to the integrated arts and humanities to imagine otherwise – to envision possibilities of well-being beyond just surviving.

Yet, the transformative power of the integrated arts and humanities is perpetually diminished by those who would censor the critical content of public and higher education. Recent legislative efforts coincide with attacks on advances in human rights

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that emerged from decades of struggle against systems of oppression. At stake are not only teachers’ and students’ rights as knowing subjects and as producers of knowledge. At stake is academic freedom, civic engagement and the democratization of knowledge. At stake are opportunities to imagine otherwise.

Critical humanistic thinking and creative practices are essential to a healthy, deliberative democracy and to imagining more sociallyjust and sustainable communities and environments. Imagining otherwise is about expanding our disciplinary orientations and political imaginations and requires forging connections informed by an ethics of reciprocity and deep reflexivity.

Among GAHDT’s interventions in 2022 is Imagined Futures. Directed by Professor Danielle Foster-Lussier (Music), Imagined Futures leverages integrated arts and humanities to empower graduate students and their mentors to imagine and pursue diverse career paths.

The initiative formed a community of practice comprised of faculty, staff and graduate students to examine and develop new professional pathways; integrate practical training supporting these paths into existing curricula; and develop mentorship strategies that support students as they identify potential careers.

The Difficult Subjects: K-12 Teaching Institute, directed by

Associate Professor Hasan Kwame Jeffries (History), brings together elementary, middle and high school teachers from Central Ohio for an exploration of multidisciplinary approaches to teaching difficult subjects: American slavery and climate justice.

Sustainable social change requires investment in local communities and praxis-based processes. This 2022-23 Year in Review magazine spotlights GAHDT initiatives that exemplify the vital role of the integrated arts and humanities in fostering social belonging, democratic outlooks and possibilities of imagining otherwise.

CrossDisciplinarity

The Global Arts + Humanities provides meaningful structural and material support for cross-disciplinary research and communities of practice. As our guiding principle, cross-disciplinarity is an umbrella term that encompasses the following approaches:

Guiding Principles

Mission

The Global Arts + Humanities

Discovery Theme is the gateway to the integrated arts and humanities at Ohio State. Our mission is to invest in cross-disciplinary collaborations that amplify the transformative power of the arts and humanities to respond to critical societal challenges to drive social change.

Core Goals

RESEARCH Build intellectual community and capacity across the university through crossdisciplinary research and creative practices that respond to critical societal challenges.

STUDENT ENGAGEMENT Deepen student engagement in the arts and humanities through cross-disciplinary research, experiential learning and professional development.

SOCIAL CHANGE Strengthen the university’s capacity for transformative, community-engaged partnerships through arts and humanities methods, orientations and interventions.

NATIONAL RECOGNITION Increase Ohio State’s national recognition as a leading landgrant institution and its distinction for excellence in integrated arts and humanities through crossdisciplinary collaborations.

MULTIDISCIPLINARITY incorporates different disciplinary perspectives and methods, which are brought together to address a common problem or issue.

INTERDISCIPLINARITY integrates theoretical frameworks, methods and skills from the involved disciplines throughout the research process.

TRANSDISCIPLINARITY creates new conceptual, theoretical, methodological and translational innovations that move beyond disciplinespecific approaches to address a common problem or issue.

TIMELINE

Pilot projects

2015 Provost announces Discovery Theme in liberal arts

2016 OAA awards $1.1M non-recurring cash grant to ASC Division of the Arts and Humanities

2016 Eleven two-year pilot projects funded

2017 Migration, Mobility and Immobility Project selected for ongoing investment

2018 Faculty director appointed

2018 Strategic planning process begins

2018 Faculty advisory committee formed

2018 Two additional pilot projects, Livable Futures and Public Narrative Collaborative, chosen for investment

Faculty-driven areas of investment

2018 Discovery Theme external program review

2018 Program manager hired

2018 Division-wide faculty retreat identifies four areas of research inquiry: Im/Mobility, Methods and Practices, Livability, and Community

2018 Launch of Arts Creation and Discovery Field School grants and Graduate Team Fellows program

2019 Program coordinator hired

2019 Strategic plan approved by OAA

2019 Launch of two special initiative grants: Indigenous Arts and Humanities; and Race, Ethnicity and Social Justice

TIMELINE

Building distinction + capacity

2018— GAHDT faculty cluster hiring program

2020 Three faculty fellows appointed to lead strategic development and Methods Amplifier

2020 K-12 Teaching Institute launched

2020 Society of Fellows Program launched

2020 Development of Innovative Interventions Grants Program for COVID-19

2020 Matching Grants on Racial Justice announced

2020 Development of cross-disciplinary assessment and impact tools

2021 Graduate Professional Development Program launched

2021 Strategic plan for 2019-2024 released

Developing sustainable partnerships

2021 Launch of book series, On Possibility: Social Change and the Arts and Humanities, in collaboration with the Wexner Center for the Arts and The Ohio State University Press

2022 Launch of Imagined Futures: Graduate Professional Development Initiative with the Office of Career Diversity and Graduate School

2022 Launch of Difficult Subjects community of practice on climate justice with the Byrd Polar and Climate Research Center and Sustainability Institute

2023 Programming collaboration with Ohio Prison Education Exchange Program

CAPTION: Student participants create their own zines at

GAHDT’s “Community Archives: Zine Making for Social

Justice and Comunidad” workshop on April 5, 2023.

Points of Pride

By the numbers

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engagement and experiential learning in the arts and humanities.

Grants support women faculty and staff

Two-thirds of our research monies support the research and creative practices of women faculty and staff.

Grants support underrepresented groups

A third of our grant monies support the research and creative practices of faculty and staff from underrepresented or marginalized communities.

Grants invested in community-engaged projects

Nearly half of grants amplify community projects that embrace diverse perspectives and advance the transformative power of public-facing, partner-engaged work.

NEW COLLABORATIONS: On Possibility book series

In collaboration with the Wexner Center for the Arts and The Ohio State University Press, each volume in this cross-disciplinary series –On Possibility: Social Change and the Arts + Humanities – will align with the annual theme of GAHDT’s Society of Fellows program.

CAPACITY BUILDING: Launch of Imagined Futures

The Imagined Futures: Graduate Professional Development Initiative leverages integrated arts and humanities to empower graduate students and their mentors to imagine and pursue diverse career paths.

CAPACITY BUILDING: Difficult Subjects Institute expands

The Difficult Subjects: K-12 Teaching Insitute’s Community of Practice on Climate Justice provides multi-disciplinary perspectives and resources for students and teachers to understand the effects of climate change.

RECOGNITION | Director Wendy S. Hesford wins President and Provost’s Award for Distinguished Faculty Service

This award recognizes faculty contributions to the development and implementation of university policies and programs while continuing to teach and pursue scholarship.

RECOGNITION | Design for Social Change Award

Graphic Design USA selected GAHDT’s 2021-22 Year in Review magazine, designed by Communications Coordinator Breanne LeJeune, as a winner in the category of Design for Social Change.

Impact Connection

as Connection

As a land grant institution, Ohio State is dedicated to building, nurturing and sustaining connections that strengthen teaching and learning communities and partnerships — foregrounding the institution’s shared values of inclusion, care, integrity and respect.

In alignment with these values, the Global Arts + Humanities Discovery Theme is working to foster collaborations that address cross-disciplinary research and creative practices. This Year in Review magazine spotlights the interconnections and interdependencies that advance social change and illuminate the ethics of reciprocity, restoration and empowerment that undergird it.

Ryan Schmeising

Senior Vice Provost for External Engagement

“A comprehensive landgrant university, Ohio State is positioned to bring together expertise from multiple disciplines to co-create potential solutions and advance opportunities with our partners. The Global Arts + Humanities Discovery Theme, through its multiple programs, is critical to the university achieving its goal of forging strong connections with communities, better serving Columbus, the region, the state and the world.”

Custer Edwards

Head of Learning & Public Practice at the Wex and co-editor of “On Possibility,” a collaborative book series, with GAHDT

Connection as Reciprocity and Care

“Social change is a commitment to a long body of work. We cannot be sustainable in our efforts without understanding this. And to truly care about this work, it takes time – time for others, and time for oneself. It means holding and being respectful of a multiplicity of truths and experiences, it means having a reflexive eye towards complexities and often harms and injuries that come with living.”

Fostering qualitative connections requires a relational orientation that foregrounds reciprocity and deep reflexivity about operations of power and exclusion in knowledge production. It requires a sense of shared purpose to forge, at times, imperfect solidarities that nurture conditions for cocreation. A relational orientation also means enacting a sustained ethic of care — for self and for the community of practice — because the work of social change is hard, ongoing and carries a substantive emotional load. It centers well-being and prioritizes self-reflection and long-term commitment.

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collage of gelatin silver prints and cut paper with graphite, 11x14”, 2020, by Dionne Lee. Lee was a GAHDT Post-MFA Researcher from 2021-23.

Connection as Restoration and Repair

Social trust and accountability are integral to relationship building and can serve as reparative mechanisms for healing, bridging differences and addressing the legacies of social inequity. Well-nourished social networks can center marginalized voices and diverse perspectives and widen access to knowledge and resources. Social trust requires an acknowledgement of personal and institutional histories and an understanding of the historical context of contact and collaboration. It requires active listening, clarity of expectations and intentions, a practice of cultural humility and acknowledgement of the expertise of all partners.

CAPTION: Photograph of Momar Ndiaye and two other dancers performing “Ambiguous Constellation” at the Tanzhaus NRW Festival in Germany.

“As a choreographer, videographer and dancer whose research focuses on the hybrid body in a globalized world, I believe in dance as one of the most efficient tools for community building, as seen in African societies. We must be able to constitute a support system for each other to dance together.

Ndiaye was hired through GAHDT’s cluster hiring program and is co-editing the first volume of On Possibility, a book series collaboration between GAHDT and the Wexner Center for the Arts.

Assistant Professor (Dance)

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Harry Kashdan

Postdoctoral Researcher (2019-21)

“Cooking, eating, and drinking became practices of spiritual survival, ways of breaking out of the isolation of lockdown by connecting with our communities, identities, and heritages through our kitchens.”

Resilient Kitchens and the COVID Food Archive were supported through GAHDT’s 2020 Special Grants Initiative.

Connection as Empowerment

Empowerment is the process by which an individual or community gains a greater sense of agency and self-determination. It helps reduce inequality, increase resilience and bolster a sense of belonging in one’s community. It upends vectors of power – nurturing in people the “power to do” instead of furthering the “power over.” Empowered individuals and communities are more likely to challenge existing power structures and advocate for their own rights and those of others – enabling broader social and political participation which drives lasting change.

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Professor of Slavic Studies (GAHDT cluster hire)

CAPTION: (Large, right) Story from The COVID Food Archive website. (Small, right) Cover of Resilient Kitchens book.

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Connection as Critical Reflexivity

Critical reflexivity is a methodological orientation that moves beyond the exigent and instrumental. It embeds a keen awareness of the ethical and processual in every stage of research. To facilitate this process and cultivate shared purpose, GAHDT has developed a tool called collabORATE, which helps cross-disciplinary teams: Promote disciplinary selfawareness.

Translate disciplinary assumptions and practices. Create new conceptual, methodological and theoretical innovations.

Amplify the ability of researchers to reach wider audiences.

“collabORATE is a card-based game that is reflexive and generative, creative and logical. Using this tool, a team can radically advance potential collaborations and knowledge exchanges. By foregrounding, backgrounding, choosing and eliminating cards, a team can elucidate steps in their process, thereby cultivating common ground between team members.”

Susan Van Pelt Petry was a Faculty Fellow in the Arts (2019-21) who — in collaboration with GAHDT leadership and staff — led the development of the collabORATE tool.

Who We Are

Leadership

LISA FLORMAN | Office of Academic Affairs Vice Provost for the Arts

WENDY S. HESFORD | English Faculty Director

HASAN KWAME JEFFRIES | History Director of Difficult Subjects: K-12 Teaching Institute

DANIELLE FOSLER-LUSSIER | Music Director of Imagined Futures: Graduate Professional Development Initiative

LEIGH BONDS | University Libraries Faculty Fellow

MYTHELI SREENIVAS | History and Women’s, Gender and Sexuality Studies Faculty Fellow

Staff Members

PUJA BATRA-WELLS Program Manager BREANNE LEJEUNE Communications Coordinator

ERIN ALLEN Graduate Assistant

EILEEN HORANSKY Graduate Assistant

Advisory Committee

VERA BRUNNER-SUNG | Theatre, Film and Media Art

VÍCTOR ESPINOSA | Sociology (Newark campus)

BENJAMIN McKEAN | Political Science

GUISELA LaTORRE | Women’s, Gender and Sexuality Studies

MOMAR NDIAYE | Dance

KRIS PAULSEN | History of Art

SÉBASTIEN PROULX | Design

RYAN SKINNER | Music

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Faculty Cluster Hires

The Global Arts + Humanities Discovery Theme’s cluster-hired faculty members bring expertise in racial justice and community engagement; the transnational circulation of cultural forms; global migration, justice and art activism; and transnational migration. These colleagues build on the scholarly community already in place and advance our commitment to diversity.

JESSICA DELGADO | Associate Professor

Departments of History and Women’s, Gender and Sexuality Studies

Delgado specializes in the history of women, gender, sexuality, religion and race in Latin America; colonial Catholicism; materiality of devotion; and the intersection between social and spiritual status. She is the author of Troubling Devotion: Laywomen and the Church in Colonial Mexico, 1630-1770

VICTOR ESPINOSA | Assistant Professor

Department of Sociology (Newark campus)

Espinosa is a sociologist, ethnographer and curator who researches the intersection of art and transnational migration. He is the author of several books; most recently Performances of Suffering in Latin American Migration: Heroes, Martyrs, and Saints, co-authored with Ana Elena Puga.

PHILLIP GLEISSNER | Assistant Professor

Department of Slavic and East European Languages and Cultures

Gleissner specializes in the cultures and literatures of socialist Eastern Europe, with an emphasis on print media in the Soviet Union, Czechoslovakia and the GDR. He has authored several books, most recently Resilient Kitchens, co-authored with Harry Eli Kashdan.

NYAMA McCARTHY-BROWN | Associate Professor

Department of Dance

McCarthy-Brown’s research and creative practice is grounded in social justice and community engagement. Much of this research is presented in her book, Dance Pedagogy for a Diverse World: Culturally-Relevant Teaching in Theory, Research and Practice

MOMAR NDIAYE | Assistant Professor

Department of Dance

Ndiaye has worked with choreographers from Africa, Europe, Asia and America. Since 2010, he has danced for Andreya Ouamba in the Dakarbased company, Premier Temps. With his company, Cadanses, he has toured several staged contemporary dance works.

ASHLEY SMITH-PURVIANCE | Assistant Professor

Departments of African and African American Studies and Women’s, Gender and Sexuality Studies

Smith-Purviance studies how educational policies and institutions shape and reproduce harmful inequalities for Black women and girls. At the intersection of state violence and school discipline, her work examines forms of punishment, anti-Blackness, and gender-based violence.

LYN TJON SOEI LEN | Assistant Professor

Department of Women’s, Gender and Sexuality Studies

Tjon Soei Len’s scholarly interests include contract theory and feminist legal theory as they relate to gender inequality and global justice. This research is presented in her book, Minimum Contract Justice: A Capabilities Perspective on Sweatshops and Consumer Contracts

Post-MFAs and Postdocs

The Global Arts + Humanities’ Post-MFA and Postdoctoral Researcher Program fosters cross-disciplinary exchange with the goal of facilitating their entry into tenuretrack positions in the academic marketplace and the public arts and humanities. The program includes a strong mentoring component and also offers a series of formal and informal professional development opportunities.

VAN MY TRUONG | Postdoctoral Researcher

Imagined Futures

Truong is the recipient of an ACLS Emerging Voices Fellowship whose work explores migrant memory in contemporary culture. Truong explores allegories of migrant boat crossings and brings together a multidisciplinary, cross-cultural, trans-historic, transoceanic archive of migrant culture.

BRETT ZEHNER | Postdoctoral Researcher

Department of Comparative Studies

Zehner is a scholar of performance studies and new media who researches emerging technologies of resistance. Their work explores the ubiquitous emergence of predictive media in the form of machine learning and aims to provide a conceptual genealogy of racial capitalism and automated systems.

KIO ZHU | Post-MFA Researcher

Department of Design

Zhu explores moving images and texts, while engaging and evaluating emerging technologies such as blockchain, computer vision and machine learning. Zhu’s works range from data-driven animation, video installation, live performance to interactive web platform, speculative design and more.

Society of Fellows Faculty

Multidisciplinary inquiry is built on the strength of disciplinary foundations and comparative skills. The Society of Fellows fosters a multidisciplinary community that supports the synthesis and translation of knowledge across disciplines to critically engage the annual thematic.

This year’s theme, Archival Imaginations, asks how the study of existing, emergent or imagined archives can help us to better understand critical societal challenges. It highlights how dominant configurations of historical memory reveal the incompleteness of the record, enabling more diverse understandings of the past, present and future. Archival Imaginations considers historical records as well as social practices. The theme aims to engage modes that expand existing archives and compel the creation of new ones. The 2022-23 program was faciliated by GAHDT Director Wendy S. Hesford and Faculty Fellow Mytheli Sreenivas.

FRANCO BARCHIESE | Departments of Comparative Studies & African and African American Studies Labor History, Social Death and the Birth of the Black Worker

This project is a critical methodological intervention on labor history’s assumption that in the anti-Black archive one can find a transparent record of Black workers’ subjectivity, an assumption that ironically fulfills the institutionalized desires underpinning the archive itself.

HARMONY BENCH | Department of Dance Dance as Embodied Knowledge and Archive

This project builds on print archives of African American choreographer Katherine Dunham — with collaborator Kate Elswit — on the project, Dunham’s Data: Katherine Dunham and Digital Methods for Dance Historical Inquiry.

MELISSA CURLEY | Department of Comparative Studies Collection, Preservation and Display of Human Body Fragments in Modern Japan

This project explores the collection, preservation and display of human body fragments in modern Japan and how temples borrow tactics of recordkeeping and display from museums to frame body parts as historical and scientific artifacts or artworks.

ALCIRA DUEÑAS | Department of History (Newark campus)

Building Empire from the Native Village

This project generates a decolonizing intervention in Latin American history by placing colonial Indigenous Andeans as archive makers that advance critical approaches to cultural memory and enable the production of alternative historical narratives.

MOLLY FARRELL | Department of English

New World Calculation — The Making of Numbers in Colonial America

This project investigates colonial archives and attendant vales of historical taxonomies and classification systems in the context of 17th- and 18thcentury colonialism. Whereas historians have traced mathematical practices, Farrell approaches numeracy as self-expression.

BRIAN HARNETTY | School of Music

Archival Performances — Sonic Archives, Listening and Socially-Engaged Art

Harnetty’s project, Words and Silences, builds on the archival records of Trappist monk, writer, theologian, activist and scholar Thomas Merton, and prompts listeners to experience archival work as a moment of encounter.

JULIA KEBLINSKA | Department of East Asian Languages and Literatures

Pulpy Socialisms: Trashy Archives and the Emergence of Postcolonialism

This project is a media archaeology focusing on the transition from late socialism to early postsocialism in Poland and China through “pulpy archives:” informal collections of cheap texts and obsolete media objects.

CRYSTAL PERKINS | Department of Dance Cookbook Project

This project is an ancestral evocation, living archive, communal design and intergenerational strategy wrapped within dance-making practices that hopes to protect and sustain Black women’s presence in the world.

JOE PONCE | Department of English

Unmaking Exceptionalisms: Contending Empires, Nations and Sexualities in Asian American Literature

This project considers the relation of Asian American literary works to historical archives, interviews and testimonies documenting the Nanjing massacre, Japanese “comfort women” system, Chinese Cultural Revolution and Vietnam War.

MICHELLE WIBBELSMAN | Department of Spanish and Portuguese

Kawsay Ukhunchay Andean and Amazonian Indigenous Art and Cultural Artifacts Research Collection

This project imagines what libraries and knowledge banks would look like if they included Indigenous art as text alongside book holdings. It seeks to advance decolonial rethinking and restructuring of archives by including Indigenous meaning-making traditions.

Society of Fellows Graduate Team Fellows

The Graduate Team Fellowship Program prepares graduate students in the arts and sciences with an opportunity to gain cross-disciplinary mentorship embedded in a collaborative ecology. To date, the GTF program has supported 40 interdisciplinary scholars.

This one-of-a-kind program provides students for a newly evolving job market – one highly dependent on networks, technology and a collaborative ethos. Graduate fellows meet monthly with GAHDT faculty mentors, engaging in cross-disciplinary dialogues that provide opportunities for carefully-honed and translatable research descriptions, job talks and public-facing contributions.

This experience builds tolerances for varying academic perspectives, fostering in graduate students a receptivity towards network-based insight building. This fellowship encourages agility in methods and modes, creativity of mind and practice, and intellectual grit.

This year’s program mentors are Society of Fellows Faculty member Harmony Bench (Dance) and Leadership Faculty Fellow Leigh Bonds (University Libraries).

ANDREA ARMIJOS ECHEVERRÍA

PhD Student, Department of Spanish and Portuguese

Project Title: Wills, Lawsuits, Numbers, and Strategies: Portraits of the Lives of Indigenous Women from the Real Audiencia de Quito (16th-17th centuries)

NOAH BUKOWSKI

PhD Student, Department of English

Project Title: Multiple Ontologies of Medical Malpractice: Disability, (Inter)Dependence, Pain and Trauma

LORNA CLOSEIL

PhD Student, Department of Women’s, Gender and Sexuality Studies

Project Title: Tending to Our Kitchen Tables: Toward a Black Feminist Archival Ethos

EMILY KANIUKA

PhD Student, Department of Dance

Project Title: DIY Til’ I Die — Embodied Lineages of American Hardcore Punk

ISHMAEL KONNEY

MFA Student, Department of Dance

Project Title: W)gb3j3k3: Making Contemporary Dance a Communal Experience Through Storytelling

MARIAH MARSDEN

PhD Student, Department of English

Project Title: Rural Print Culture in the Ozarks — A Folkloristic Inquiry

CAMILLE SNYDER

MFA Student, Department of Design

Project Title: Imagining Sexual and Reproductive Futures Together

DAMAYANTI TIWARI

PhD Student, Department of Linguistics

Project Title: Language in the Belly of the Narmada

Society of Fellows Undergraduate Research Apprentices

The Global Arts + Humanities’ Undergraduate Research Apprenticeships are competitive research grants that provide upper-level students the opportunity to be mentored through multidisciplinary approaches to Archival Imaginations, to build an intellectual cohort around this theme and to produce research/ creative responses to inquiries impelled by these engagements.

Award recipients develop their own research and creative projects, and participate in group mentoring sessions and Digital Dialogue webinars. Apprentices also collaborate with GAHDT Communications Coordinator, Breanne LeJeune, to translate their research for a public audience; student webpages are available at go.osu.edu/sof-undergraduate.

This year’s program mentor is Society of Fellows faculty member Michelle Wibbelsman (Spanish and Portuguese).

ANGELA CIAROCHI

Majors: Dance and Communications

Project Title: Dance Like a Man?: Investigating Masculine Aesthetics in Contemporary Dance through Archival Analysis and Embodied Practice

LAUREN DAHLER

Majors: International Relations, Diplomacy and Public Management

Project Title: Dialogue and Beadwork as Archive of Community Peacebuilding: A Case Study in Lira, Uganda

EMILY LAY

Major: Music (Performance track)

Project Title: History Keeping Through Lived Traditions in Pow Wow Music and Dance

CAMERON LOGAR

Major: Biochemistry

Project Title: The Details in the Devils — Plural Meanings in Diablada Performance and Archival Presentation

RHEANNA VELASQUEZ

Major: Neuroscience (Molecular/Cellular)

Project Title: Exploring Experiences, Attitudes and Access to Hospice and Palliative Care

Project Directory

Arts Creation Grants

Exhibition and Education Lab at the Pizzuti Collection of the Columbus Museum of Art (2019)

Kris Paulsen (History of Art)

Into the Void (2019)

Tom Dugdale (Theatre, Film and Media Arts) • Paul Sutter (Columbus-based Composer)

La Sape: Transgression or Assimilation (2022)

Kathryn Logan (Dance) • Momar Ndiaye (Dance)

#MentalHealthDance2U (2019)

Nena Couch (Dance) • Valarie Williams (Dance)

Micro-Residency Program (2022)

Tanya Berger-Wolf (TDAI) • Kelly Kivland (Wexner Center for the Arts) • Kris Paulsen (History of Art)

• Amy Youngs (Art)

Monuments of Scioto Valley (2022)

Beth Blostein (Architecture) • Jacob Boswell (Architecture) • John Low (Comparative Studies) • Bart Overly (Architecture) • Justin Parscher (Architecture)

Performing Afghanistan (2019)

Leslie Ferris (Theatre, Film and Media Arts) • Kevin McClatchy (Theatre, Film and Media Arts) • Janet Parrott (Theatre, Film and Media Arts) • Alam Payind (Theatre, Film and Media Arts)

Weather Reports You (2019)

Daniel Roberts (History) • Jeanine Thompson (Theatre, Film and Media Arts)

The Woods (2019)

Marc Ainger (Music) • Kyoung Lee Swearingen (Design) • Scott Swearingen (Design)

Centers + Institutes Grants

Advancing Instructional Redesign on-Demand (2020)

Joy Balta (Medicine) • Dir. Kay Halasek (Michael V. Drake Institute) • Melinda Rhodes-DiSalvo (Michael V. Drake Institute) • David Sovic (Michael V. Drake Institute)

Archiving Black Performance: 3x3 (2023)

Crystal Perkins (Dance) • Valarie Williams (Dance)

Archiving Black Performance: Memory, Embodiment and Stages of Being (2020)

Adélékè Adéèko (African and African-American Studies Community Extension Center) • Crystal Perkins (Dance) • Valarie Williams (Dance) • Dir. Larry Williamsom Jr. (Hale Black Cultural Center)

Armed Conflicts and Im/Mobility (2023)

Dir., Angela Brintlinger (Center for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies) • Yana Hashamova (Department of Slavic and East European Languages and Cultures) • Dir., Dorothy Noyes (Mershon Center for International Security Studies)

Asian Futures: A Collaborative Proposal (2019)

Dir. Katherine Borland (Center for Folklore Studies) • Dir. Pranav Jani (South Asian Studies) • Dir., Namiko Kunimoto (Center for Ethnic Studies) • Asst. Dir., Rick Livingston (Humanities Collaboratory) • Dir. Harvey Miller (Center for Urban and Regional Analysis) • Mytheli Sreenivas (History) • Dir. Hugh Urban (Center for the Study of Religion) • Max Woodworth (Geography)

Building Capacity for the Internship Program at the Wexner Center for the Arts (2020)

Dionne Custer-Edwards (Wexner Center for the Arts) • Karen Simonian (Wexner Center for the Arts) co-Interim Executive Dir., Kelly Stevelt (Wexner Center for the Arts)

Building Inclusivity Across and Beyond the Ohio State Community (2023)

Program Dir., Pranav Jani (Asian American Studies) • Dir., Namiko Kunimoto (Center for Ethnic Studies)

Program Dir., Paloma Martinez-Cruz (Latino/a Studies) • Asso. Dir., Leila Vieira (Center for Ethnic Studies)

Program Dir., Elissa Washuta (American Indian Studies)

Environmental and Social Justice Arts and Humanities (2020)

Dir., John Brooke (Center for Historical Research) • Dir., Elena Irwin (Sustainability Institute) • Asst. Dir., Rick Livingston (Humanities Collaboratory) • Dir., Piers Norris Turner (Center for Ethics and Human Values) • Interim Executive Dir., Beverly Vandiver (Kirwin Institute)

Expanding Accessibility at the Wex (2023)

Tracie McCambridge (Director of Art & Resilience, WCA) • Helyn Marshall (Accessibility Manager, WCA)

Experimental Archaeology and Medieval-Renaissance Worlds (2019)

Dir., Chris Highley (Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies)

Hiphop Studies in Queer Black Feminism Conference (2020)

Elaine Richardson (Teaching and Learning) • Dir., Larry Williamson Jr. (Hale Black Cultural Center)

Intercultural Competence for Global Citizenship (2020)

Dir., Janice Aski (Center for Languages, Literatures and Cultures)

K’acha Willaykuna: Andean and Amazonian Indigenous Art and Humanities (2020) Dir., Maria Palazzi (ACCAD) • Dir., Scott Schwenter (Center for Latin American Studies)

Living Well, Dying Well (2019)

Dir., Katherine Borland (Center for Folklore Studies) • Melissa Curley (Comparative Studies) • Hannibal Hamlin (English) • David Staley (Humanities Collaboratory) • Dir., Hugh Urban (Center for the Study of Religion)

Revisioning Folklore Studies in the Academy and the Public Square (2020)

American Folklore Society • Dir., Katherine Borland (Center for Folklore Studies)

Toward a Digital Humanities Support Network (2020)

Leigh Bonds (OSU Libraries) • Matt Lewis (Translational Data Analytics Institute) • Dir., Maria Palazzi (ACCAD)

• David Staley (Humanities Collaboratory)

Toward Truth and Reconciliation: Present-Day Indigenous Peoples in Ohio (2020)

Asso. Dir., Marti Chaatsmith (Newark Earthworks Center) • Stephen Gavazzi (Human Sciences) • Asst. Dir., Rick Livingston (Humanities Collaboratory) • Dir., John N. Low (Newark Earthworks Center) • Brian Snyder (InFACT)

Tuning to Our Environment (2023)

Tanya Calamoneri (Dance) • Dir., Maria Palazzi (ACCAD)

Summer Institute Grants

GAHDT Fellows at the DMAC Institute (2020)

Scott DeWitt (English) • John Jones (English) • Liz Miller (English)

Global and Popular Music Summer Youth Camp (2020)

Eugenia Costa-Giomi (Music) • Richard Palese (Music)

Ohio State to Community Dance-Intensive Pipeline (2020)

Nyama McCarthy-Brown (Dance)

Summer Dance Intensive (2023)

Nyama McCarthy-Brown (Dance)

Summer Translation Collaborative (2023)

Dir., Patricia Sieber (T&I Program) • Dir., Ying Zhang (Institute for Chinese Studies)

Voices of Franklinton (2020)

Susan Melsop (Design) • Sébastien Proulx (Design)

Community-Engaged Projects

Anti-Racism and Social Justice Education in the Performing Arts (2021)

Nyama McCarthy-Brown (Dance) • Crystal Michelle Perkins (Dance) • Mindi Rhoades (Teaching and Learning)

¡Aquí se Habla Español! Public Outreach at COSI in Spanish (2019)

Kathryn Campbell-Kibler (Linguistics) • Leslie C. Moore (Linguistics) • Laura Wagner (Psychology)

Be the Street (2019)

Katherine Borland (Comparative Studies) • Moriah Flagler (Theatre, Film and Media Arts)

Being Black / Becoming Black (2021)

Adéléke Adéeko (African and African American Studies / English) • Kwaku Korang (Comparative Studies)

Drug Prevention at High Schools in the Epicenter of the Opiate Epidemic (2019)

Linda Mizejewski (Women’s, Gender and Sexuality Studies) • Alina Sharafutidinova (City of Columbus Department of Public Safety / Ohio Department of Mental Health and Addiction Services)

Equity Framework at the Wexner Center for the Arts (2021)

Dionne Custer-Edwards (Wexner Center for the Arts) • Kelly Stevelt (Wexner Center for the Arts)

Fostering Racial Justice: Teacher Professional Development and Student Learning (2021)

Yana Hashamova (Slavic and East European Languages and Cultures) • Caroline T. Clark (Teaching and Learning)

Linden Murals of Empowerment: Public Art for Racial Justice (2021)

Njeri Kagotho (Social Work) • Guisela Latorre (Women’s, Gender and Sexuality Studies) • Rebecca Persons (Social Work)

Public Narrative Collaborative (2019)

Lisa Florman (History of Art) • Sarah Iles Johnston (Classics) • Jim Phelan (English) • George Rush (Art)

Experiential Learning: Discovery Field Schools

Border Issues and Activism in Ohio (2021)

Faculty Leaders: Stephanie Aubry (Spanish and Portuguese) • Katherine Borland (Comparative Studies and Center for Folklore Studies)

Dance Brazil (2018)

Faculty Leaders: Daniel Roberts (Dance) • Crystal Michelle Perkins (Dance)

Dancing Connections and Communities (2019)

Faculty Leader: Nyama McCarthy-Brown (Dance)

Defining the Color Line: Race, Democracy and the Enslaved Community at James Madison’s Monteplier (2018, 2019, 2020)

Faculty Leader: Hasan Kwame Jeffries (History)

Experimental Cinema in New York City (2019)

Faculty Leaders: Roger Beebe (Art) • Erica Levin (History of Art)

Human Rights on the Ground in New York City (2022)

Faculty Leader: Amy Shuman (English)

Livable Futures’ Field School (2019, 2021)

Faculty Leaders: Thomas Davis (English) • Mary Thomas (Women’s, Gender and Sexuality Studies)

Ohio Folklore Field School Course (2019, 2021)

Faculty Leaders: Katherine Borland (Comparative Studies and Center for Folklore Studies) • Cassie Patterson (Center for Folklore Studies)

Graduate Professional Development Grants

Anti-Racism in the Arts (2021)

Department of Dance

Award term: Three semesters

Archiving Black Performance (2021)

Department of Dance

Award term: Two semesters

Creatives at Barnett Center (2023) Barnett Center

Award term: Two semesters

English Undergraduate Studies Program (2022)

Department of English

Award term: Three semesters

Environmental History Center (2023)

Department of History

Award term: Three semesters

Lord Denney’s Players (2023)

Department of English

Award term: Two semesters

Narrative Journal (2022)

Department of English

Award term: Three semesters

Ohio Prison Education Exchange (2022)

Departments of Women’s, Gender and Sexuality Studies & African and African American Studies

Award term: Three semesters

Picturing Black History: A Partnership with Getty Images (2021, 2022)

Department of History

Award term: Two semesters per award

Promusica Columbus (2021, 2022, 2023)

School of Music

Award term: Two semesters per award

Socially-Responsible Learning and Community Engagement (2022, 2023)

Department of Arts Administration, Education and Policy

Award term: Three semesters per award

T&I Education, Language Access and Social Change (2021)

Department of East Asian Languages and Literature

Award term: Three semesters

Matching Funds for Ohio State’s Seed Fund for Racial Justice

Arts-Based Anti-Racist Initiatives in High Schools (2020)

Kelly Stevelt (Wexner Center for the Arts) • Big Walnut High School • Joni Boyd Acuff (Arts, Administration, Education and Policy)

Increasing Black Women in Ohio Elected Office (2021)

Wendy Smooth (Women’s, Gender and Sexuality Studies; Political Science)

Hidden Figures Revealed: Dynamic History and Narratives of Black Mathematicians at The Ohio State University (2020)

Ranthony A.C. Edmonds (Mathematics)

Racial Pathways (2021)

Stephanie Dodd (Ohio Campus Compact) • Clayton Hurd (Ohio Campus Compact) • Richard Kinsley (Ohio Campus Compact) • Zoë Plakias (Agricultural, Environmental and Development Economics) Maurice Stevens (Comparative Studies)

Using a STEAM Model to Develop Access Pipeline for Middle Grade Students in Columbus Metro Schools (2021)

Melvin Pascall (Food and Science Technology) • Nick White (Department of English)

Open Grants

Bringing the Border to Columbus: A Virtual Symposium (2019)

Victor Espinosa (Sociology) • Danielle Schoon (Sociology / Anthropology)

Collaboration for Humane Technologies (2019)

Peter K. Chan (Design) • Norah Zuniga Shaw (ACCAD / Dance)

Collaborative Gaming Platform for Disabled Children and Their Families (2019)

Asimina Kiourti (Electrical Engineering) • Kyoung Lee Swearingen (Design) • Scott Swearingen (Design)

Susan Thrane (Nursing)

The Global Mediterranean (2019)

Bob Holub (Germanic Languages and Literatures) • Dana Renga (French and Italian) • Barry Shank (Comparative Studies)

How the Arts and Humanities Can Benefit Our Wellbeing (2019)

Elizabeth B. -N Sanders (Design) • Paul Reitter (German) • Yvette Shen (Design)

Khasi Interfaces (2019)

Mark Bender (East Asian Languages and Literature) • John Low (Newark Earthworks Center)

Livable Futures (2019)

Thomas Davis (English) • Jennifer Suchland (Women’s, Gender and Sexuality Studies / Slavic and East European Languages and Cultures) • Mary Thomas (Women’s, Gender and Sexuality Studies) • Norah Zuniga Shaw (ACCAD / Dance)

Migration, Mobility and Immobility (2019)

Theodora Dragostinova (History) • Danielle Fosler-Lussier (Music) • Yana Hashamova (Slavic and East European Languages and Cultures)

• Paloma Martinez-Cruz (Spanish and Portuguese)

• Ryan Skinner (Music)

Uses of Narrative Theory (2019)

Katra Byram (German)

• Robin Judd (History)

• Jim Phelan (English)

Special Initiatives Grants

COVID-19 Grants

Audiences and Online Reception: Before and After COVID-19 (2020)

Harmony Bench (Dance)

• Yana Hashamova (Slavic and East European Languages and Cultures)

• Hannah Kosstrin (Dance)

• Danielle Schoon (Near Eastern Languages and Cultures / Sociology)

COVID Conversations: Life in a Time of Corona (2020)

Katherine Borland (Comparative Studies)

Cultural Presentation and the Mardis Gras Indians of New Orleans (2020)

Virginia Cope (English) • Tiyi Morris (African and African American Studies)

Dance in the Time of COVID-19 (2020)

Nyama McCarthy Brown (Dance)

Designing a Post-Pandemic Return to Campus (2020)

Rebekah Matheny (Design) • Stephanie Orr (Office of Distance Education and eLearning)

Designing for Public Health: Humanities and Arts Leading Transformation During COVID-19 (2020)

Adame Fromme (Design)

• Hazal Gumus-Ciftci (Design) • Rebekah Matheny (Design) • Susan Melsop (Design) • Will Nickley (Design) • Sébastien Proulx (Design)

Documenting of Latinas/os/x in Ohio Stories During COVID-19 Through Performed Storytelling (2020)

Palo Pinillos Chávez (Spanish and Portuguese) • Elena Foulis (Spanish and Portuguese)

Investigating Human Dignity in Practice During the COVID-19 Crisis (2020)

Melissa Guadron (English) • Christa Teston (English)

Measuring Artists’ Challenges and Resilience After COVID-19 (2020)

Elizabeth Cooksey (Sociology) • Rachel Skaggs (Arts, Administration, Education and Policy)

Muted, Isolated and Displaced by Social Distancing (2020)

Eugenia Costa-Giomi (Music) • Crystal Perkins (Dance)

Pandemic Collaborative (2020)

Diane Brogan-Habash (Medicine) • Julia Nelson Hawkins (Classics) • Jennifer Olejownik (Medicine / Ohio Department of Mental Health and Addiction Services) • Elizabeth Weinstock (EquitasHealth / Columbus Veteran’s Administration / Franklin Correctional Center)

Pandemic Pedagogies: Precursors, Paradigms and Portents (2020)

Jim Harris (History) • Thomas McDow (History)

Poetry and COVID-19: A Collaboration Between Creative Writers and Environmental Scientists (2020)

Zoë Brigley Thompson (English)

Political Discourses During COVID-19 and the Impact on International Education (2020)

Zhiguo Xie (East Asian Languages and Literatures) • Cindy Xinquan Jiang (Office of International Affairs)

Quarantine Cookbook: Documenting Migrant Food Networks Under COVID-19 (2020)

Philip Gleissner (Slavic and East European Languages and Cultures) • Harry Kashdan (University of Pennsylvania)

Recovery Project: Actions of Survival, Archival of Resilience (2020)

Amrita Dhar (English) • Sona Kazemi Hill (English) • Margaret Price (English)

Talking in the Clinic: Barriers and Facilitators of Chronic Disease Adherence (2020)

Seuli Bose Brill (Medicine) • Gabriella Modan (Linguistics) • Nathan Richards (English)

Virtual Field Lab (2020)

Lauren McInroy (Social Work) • Maria Palazzi (Design)

What does Religion Sound Like in the Age of COVID-19 (2020)

Lauren Pond (Center for Study of Religion) • Isaac Weiner (Comparative Studies)

Indigenous Arts and Humanities

Ancient Indigenous Monuments and Modern Indigenous Art (2019)

Christine Ballengee Morris (Arts, Administration, Education and Policy) • Marti Chaatsmith (Newark Earthworks Center)

Indigenous Ohio: Ohio State and Native Arts: Humanities Past and Present (2019)

Cheryl Cash (Comparative Studies) • John N. Low (Comparative Studies) • Stephen Gavazzi (Human Sciences)

K’acha Willaykuna: Andean and Amazonian Indigenous Art and Humanities (2019)

Elvia Andia Grageda (Spanish and Portuguese) • Alcira Dueñas (History) • Pamela Espinosa de los Monteros (Spanish and Portuguese) • Richard Fletcher (Arts, Administration, Education and Policy) • Megan Hasting (Center for Latin American Studies) • Eric J. Johnson (OSU Libraries) • Guisela Latorre (Women’s, Gender and Sexuality Studies) • Michelle Wibbelsman (Spanish and Portuguese)

Race, Ethnicity and Social Justice Grants

Ohio State Prison Education Exchange Project (2019)

Tiyi Morris (African and African American Studies) • Mary Thomas (Women’s, Gender and Sexuality Studies)

Transformative Access Projects: Moving from Inclusion to Equity (2019)

Evelyn Hoglund (Speech and Hearing) • Margaret Price (English) • Maurice Stevens (Comparative Studies)

Collaborators

College of Arts and Sciences

College of Education and Human Ecology

College of Engineering

College of Medicine

College of Public Health

College of Social Work

Moritz College of Law

Knowlton School of Architecture

School of Environment and Natural Resources

School of Music

Office of Distance Education and eLearning

Office of Diversity and Inclusion

Office of International Affairs

STEAM Factory

Thompson Library Special Collections

University Archives

University Libraries

Urban Arts Space

Humanities Collaboratory

Kirwan Institute

Advanced Computing Center for the Arts and Design

Barnett Center for Integrated Arts and Enterprise

Center for Bioethics

Center for Ethics and Human Values

Center for Ethnic Studies

Center for Folklore Studies

Center for Human Resource Research

Center for Languages, Literatures and Cultures

Center for Latin American Studies

Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies

Center for the Study and Teaching of Writing

Center for the Study of Religion

Melton Center for Jewish Studies

Middle East Studies Center

Multicultural Center

Newark Earthworks Center

DESIS Lab

Department of African-American and African Studies

Department of Anthropology

Department of Art

Department of Arts, Administration, Education and Policy

Department of Astronomy

Department of Classics

Department of Comparative Studies

Department of Dance

Department of Design

Department of East Asian Languages and Literatures

Department of Education Studies

Department of Electrical Engineering

Department of English

Department of Evolution, Ecology and Organismal Biology

Department of French and Italian

Department of Geography

Department of Germanic Languages and Literatures

Department of History

Department of History of Art

Department of Linguistics

Department of Mathematics

Department of Near Eastern Languages and Cultures

Department of Philosophy

Department of Political Science

Department of Psychology

Department of Slavic and Eastern European Languages and Cultures

Department of Sociology

Department of Spanish and Portuguese

Department of Speech and Hearing Science

Department of Theatre, Film and Media Studies

Department of Women’s, Gender and Sexuality Studies

Albany Park Theatre Project (Chicago)

Bexley City Schools

City of Columbus Public Safety

CleanTurn Enterprises (Columbus)

Columbia University (New York City)

Columbus City Schools

Columbus Museum of Art

Columbus School for Girls

Columbus Veteran’s Association

Common Ground Relief (New Orleans)

Cornell University

COSI

Equitas Health

Franklin Correction Center

Freedom Center Cincinnati

Greater Columbus Arts Council

Indian Institute of Technology Madras

King’s College (London)

London School of Economics

Michigan State University

Montpelier Estate (Virginia)

Ohio Arts Council

Ohio Department of Mental Health and Addiction

Ohio Humanities Council

Olentangy Schools

Our Lady of Guadalupe Center (Columbus)

Reconstruction Inc. (Philadelphia)

Sokolow Foundation

Southern Poverty Law Center

Tulane University

University of Cape Town

Watch Me Grow (Columbus)

Westland Flea Market (Columbus)

Wexner Center for the Arts

WYSO (NPR affiliate for greater Dayton)

YMCA of Central Ohio (Columbus)