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2003-20042003-2004 HUMANITIES CENTER the Humanities Center YNATWAYNE STATE UNIVERSITY ADVISORY BOARD 2003-2004 IRVIN D HUMANITIESBringing Humanists Together for Collaborative Research CENTER 2147 Old Main 4841 Cass Avenue Detroit, MI 48202 Tel: 313 577.5471 Fax: 313 577.284 www.research.wayne.edu/hum AANNUAL RREPORT 2003-20042003-2004 HUMANITIES CENTER The Humanities Center YNATWAYNE STATE UNIVERSITY ADVISORY BOARD 2003-2004 IRVIN D. REID, PRESIDENT Nancy S. Barrett Our Mission NANCY S. BARRETT, PROVOST & SENIOR VP FOR Provost Ex Officio ACADEMIC AFFAIRS Walter F. Edwards Director BOARD OF GOVERNORS 2003-2004 Dora Apel Assistant Professor RICHARD BERNSTEIN Art & Art History EUGENE DRIKER Anne Duggan DIANE L. DUNASKISS Assistant Professor Romance Language & Literatures ELIZABETH HARDY PAUL HILLEGONDS Mary Garrett Associate Professor PAUL E. MASSARON, CHAIR Communication Bringing Humanists Together ANNETTA MILLER Heidi Gottfried for Collaborative Research JACQUELINE E. WASHINGTON, VICE CHAIR Associate Professor College of Urban, Labor, & Metropolitan Affairs Suzanne Hilgendorf Assistant Professor THE HUMANITIES CENTER German & Slavic Languages aims to foster interdisciplinary and intra-disciplinary studies in the Kristine Miranne humanitites and arts through themed and unthemed competitions, seminars, Director Skillman Center for Children forums, and research discussions among groups of faculty and graduate stu- dents at Wayne State University and through the ideas of invited visiting David Moxley Professor professors. The Center seeks to promote excellence in humanistic and cre- School of Social Work ative endeavors through rigorous peer review of proposals submitted by fac- John Richardson ulty and students for funding through its various programs, and to involve Assistant Professor departments, programs, and other centers and institutes at the University in Art & Art History collaborative efforts to advance humanisitic and artistic work. Through these Maria Roti PhD Candidate activities, the Center aims to become a site of innovation and excellence in Anthropology the humanities and arts with a strong commitment to interdisciplinary or Michael Scrivener trans-disciplinary study in the arts and humanities. Professor English Diane Sybeldon 2003-2004 ANNUAL REPORT TABLE OF CONTENTS Librarian University Libraries DIRECTOR’S MESSAGE 3 Barrett Watten 10TH ANNIVERSARY RECEPTION & CONFERENCE 4-5 Associate Professor English LIST OF AWARDEES, 1993-2003 6-7 STEERING COMMITTEE RESIDENT SCHOLARS 8-10 Dedria Bryfonski INNOVATIVE PROJECTS 11 Gale Publishing EDWARD M. WISE DISSERTATION FELLOWSHIP 12 Mildred Jeffrey (deceased) Governor Emeritas, BROWN BAG COLLOQUIUM SERIES 13-21 Wayne State University RANT ENTORS UNUSCULUM GRANTS G M & M 22 Karin McClow-Orr GRADUATE STUDENT TRAVEL AWARDS 23 Michigan Humanities Council ACULTY ELLOWS ONFERENCE Guy Stern F F C 24-25 Distinguished Professor of German & Slavic Studies, Wayne State WORKING GROUPS 26-28 University VISITING SCHOLARS & OTHER ACTIVITIES 29 Margaret Bruni Assistant Director, Detroit Public A LOOK AHEAD 30-31 Library 2 Left: Humanities Center Director, Dr. A Message From the Director Walter F. Edwards 1993-2003 Overview This year’s message is excerpted from an address given by the Director ture each other’s work. So far we have housed and funded 55 such on the occasion of the Humanites Center’s 10th Anniversary Reception, scholars. We initiated our Tuesday Brown Bag colloquia in 1997 November 13, 2003: and it has grown exponentially each year. By the end of 2004 year Dear colleagues and friends of the Humanities Center, we will have hosted 152 Brown Bag presentations. The Innovative After a decade of serving the Humanities Center, I’m proud of the Project competition was added in 1999, and so were our Working accomplishments of the Center yet humble that I have had the privi- Groups program, our Visiting Scholars program and our Gradu- lege of being its Director throughout its history so far. Thus, we pause ate Travel program. In 2001 we added our Honors Thesis support at this historical moment, the Center’s 10th anniversary, to reflect on program and in 2002 we added the Grant Mentoring program. this last decade. Any successful enterprise owes its achievements, at least in part, The Center’s journey began in the spring of 1993 when I was an to its leadership. The Center is no exception. From its inception, the associate dean of the Graduate School and Garrett Heberlien was Center had been led by its advisory boards: multi-disciplinary VP for Research and Dean of the Graduate School. I recall poignantly panels of twelve faculty and graduate students drawn from humani- the morning in May when Gary walked into my office and asked me ties and related departments across the campus. With their guid- if I’d like to take on the task of writing up a draft charter for a new ance, the Center has been able to demonstrate that it is a partner Humanities Center. Gary, a biologist, had been given this strange with colleges and departments in supporting the work of human- assignment by President David Adamany who wanted a charter writ- ists at Wayne State. Our board members have helped the Center ten almost immediately. Dr. Adamany had put together an endow- garner the support of faculty, chairs and deans in all the relevant ment fund of some M$2.5, and wanted to use the earnings to support departments and colleges, and from the administration. The breadth a Humanities Center that would encourage interdisciplinary work of that support is evident in this audience. Through the intellectual across the traditional humanities, and would forge alliances between rigor with which they review proposals, the boards have helped to humanists and scholars in the social, natural and medical sciences. characterize the Center as a prestigious academic institution whose I worked on the charter; Gary and the President piloted the applica- grants are won only through the submission of excellent proposals. tion through the Senate and Board of Governors. And on a Novem- Finally, I wish to salute the contributions that the humanities ber day in 1993 our Center was officially born. continue to make to our civilization. The theologian Daniel Maguire In the beginning, the Center was just a funding agency, operating asserted that humanists are “the midwives of new consciousnesses, out of my office in the Graduate School and providing summer fel- the heralds of suppressed or previously unsuspected human possi- lowships to faculty doing interdisciplinary work based on annual bility”. The humanities are the mirror which shows us the reflec- themes identified by our advisory board. However, it was immedi- tion of our experience. Through the humanities we revive and insis- ately clear that faculty saw the need for the Center’s mission. This tently maintain our capactiy to feel, affirm and rejoice over our was evident from the surprisingly strong response to our very first dignity and worth. Through the humanities we carry on a discourse faculty fellowship competition in 1994 on the theme “Constructing about our societies, we actively contemplate and negotiate mean- Identity from Above and Below: Urban, Transnational, and National ings and values. Through the humanities we explore the most cen- Perspectives”. A total of 34 faculty sent in proposals; we funded 15 of tral aspects of our humanity: our minds, feelings, and our culture. these projects, and we were on our way. To date we have awarded It is because of the importance of humanities that Centers such as grants totaling some $800,000 to fund 102 projects. ours are crucial to our academic and intellectual infrastructure. This Since 1994 we have had an annual spring conference that show- Humanities Center seeks and has sought, via systematic encour- cases the research and art accomplished by our grant recipients, and agement, to provide the experimental, interactive, interdisciplinary a fall symposium on an interdisciplinary theme. Through these gath- culture that is supportive of the humanities and arts, and we shall erings we have further explored the annual themes and also such continue to do so. In this gathering of friends I wish to ask for your topics as “The Humanities and Civic Engagement”, “The Notions of continued support for the humanities and the Humanities Center Beauty and Truth”, “The Meaning of Citizenship;” and “The Hu- at WSU. In a complex university like ours where many excellent manities and Social Change.” These conferences and symposia have programs are competing for support, it is important that you let featured our own faculty and students along with distinguished schol- your voices be heard in support of the Center. In the poem “The ars who have been keynote speakers. Our keynoters have included Second Coming”, W.B. Yeats observed that in our contemporary Arnold Rampersaud, Bell Hooks, David Hickey, Patricia Williams, society, “The best lack conviction while the worse are full of pas- Eric Foner, Nancy Leiberman-Kline, Donna Haraway, Thomas sionate intensity”. I’d like to encourage you to reverse that para- Sugrue, Emilio Vergara, Henry Louis Gates Jr. and Elaine Scarry. digm and be passionately intense about your support of the Center In 1994-95 the Center added its doctoral dissertation fellowship, wherever and whenever the opportunity presents itself. And so I which has now become the Edward Wise Dissertation Fellowship. ask you to raise your glasses: “To the humanities, to the arts, to Since then we have awarded 19 doctoral students some $114,000. In you, and to the future!” 1997, the Center moved into Old Main and introduced our Resident Thank you! Scholars program which allows us to have humanists from different disciplines working in the same place with the opportunity to nur- 3 10th Anniversary Celebration The Humanities and Social Change TENTH ANNIVERSARY RECEPTION AND TENTH ANNIVERSARY CONFERENCE 10 Years of Excellence EXHIBITION, NOVEMBER 13, 2003 NOVEMBER 14, 2003 On the evening of November 13, 2003, the The next day, November 14th, the halls of Old Main outside the offices of the Cen- Center’s Tenth Anniversary Conference took ter were filled with faculty, students, and sup- place in McGregor Hall, with keynote lectures porters of the Center gathered to celebrate the given by Henry Louis Gates, Jr.
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