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Collaborative Research Fellowships for Rice Faculty
The Humanities Research Center awards up to three teaching-release fellowships per year to Rice faculty, aimed at fostering collaborative research initiatives and providing faculty the time and resources to write grants for new intellectual endeavors, sponsored or co-sponsored by the HRC. For example, fellows may develop proposals for major grants to the Rockefeller Foundation or Ford Foundation, or may apply for institutional programs like the Mellon Foundation's Sawyer Seminars. Collaboration can occur between Rice faculty or between Rice faculty and faculty from other institutions.
Congratulations to the 2008-09 Collaborative Research Fellow:
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Marcia Brennan, Spring 2009
Associate Professor of Art History. “The Arts of Transformation: Museums and the Medical Humanities.” Dr. Brennan’s project promotes a collaborative partnership between Rice University, the Museum District and the Texas Medical Center. Dr. Brennan will organize the 2008-09 biennial Menil-Rice lecture series sponsored by the Department of Art History and the Menil Collection, and featuring distinguished speakers to explore the nexus of embodiment, creativity, trauma, diagnosis, medicine, healing, reflection, and transformation. The project fosters integrative, transdisciplinary scholarship incorporating the fields of Art History, Museum Studies, and the Medical Humanities.
Photograph by Tommy LaVergne |
2007-2008 Collaborative Research Fellows
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Alexander X. Byrd
Assistant Professor of History. “Two Schools: Race and Society in the Urban South Since Brown.” Dr. Byrd will organize an investigation of two high schools in Houston, Yates High School and Sharpstown High School, through a multi-year seminar open to undergraduate and graduate students at Rice, TSU, HBU, and UH, as well as influential persons in the Third Ward and Sharpstown communities. The collaborative seminar and working group, called “Since Brown,” will produce a physical and digital archive documenting transformations of these schools and their neighborhoods. |
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Robert E. Englebretson
Assistant Professor of Linguistics. “Grammatical Resources for Interactional Practices: A Cross-Linguistic Survey of Subject Ellipsis and Expression in Conversation.” In collaboration with Marja-Liisa Helasvuo (Department of Finnish, University of Turku, Finland), Dr. Englebretson will explore the relationship between language form and language function by means of a cross-linguistic investigation of subject expression and ellipsis as observed in corpora of naturally occurring conversational data from English, Finnish, and Colloquial Indonesian. His initiative brings together methodologies from Conversation Analysis and Discourse-Functional Linguistics. Two conversely-related questions inform the research: How do the grammatical resources of a particular language facilitate or constrain the options that speakers have for pursuing micro-level social actions in conversation? And, how do the micro-level social actions that speakers pursue in conversation in turn serve to shape and motivate the grammatical systems that have developed in particular languages?
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