The IAAR Awards 11 Faculty Grants

The Institute of African American Research awarded 11  grants to UNC-CH faculty engaged in projects focusing on topics in African American or African diaspora studies.

The following faculty grants were awarded:

Course Development Grants:

• Dr. Omid Safi, Department of Religious Studies
  Course Title: Martin Luther King, Jr. and the Prophetic Tradition

Working Group Grants:

• Dr. Jina Valentine, Assistant Professor, Department of Art
  Working Group Title: Future Plan & Program

Publication Grants:

• Dr. William Ferris, Professor, Department of History, and Senior Associate Director, Center for the Study of the American South
  Project Title: Southern Voices: Writers, Artists and Musicians

• Dr. Lyneise Williams, Assistant Professor, Department of Art
  Project Title: Representing Black Latin Americans in Paris

Research Grants:

• Dr. Kenneth (Andy) Andrews, Associate Professor, Department of Sociology
  Project Title: Lawyers, Litigators and Social Change in the Southern Civil Rights Movement

• Dr. Kia Caldwell, Associate Professor, Department of African and Afro-American Studies
• Project Title: The Cultural Politics of Race and Health in Twenty-First Century Brazil

• Dr. Joanne Hershfield, Professor, Department of Women’s Studies
  Project Title: Mama C: Urban Warrior in the African Bush

• Dr. Priscilla Layne, Assistant Professor, Department of Germanic and Slavic Languages and Literatures
  Project Title: “Schwarz ist in”: Racial Fetishism, Sexuality and Black Masculinity in Lothar Lambert’s 1 Berlin Harlem

• Dr. Walter Rucker, Associate Professor and Associate Chair, Department of African and Afro-American Studies
  Project Title: (Per)Forming Diaspora: Constructions of Gold Coast Identity in the Early Modern Black Atlantic

• Dr. Tanya Shields, Assistant Professor, Department of Women’s Studies
  Project Title: Sings of Sycorax

• Dr. Angela Thrasher, Assistant Professor, Department of Health Behavior and Health Education
  Project Title: Development of a Life Course Discrimination Scale for Older African Americans