Spring 2024 Faculty Grant Awardees

The McGillicuddy Humanities Center notified faculty recipients of its funding decisions for the Spring 2024 Faculty Research Awards cycle. MHC Faculty Grants provide up to $5,000 to UMaine faculty (including lecturers and adjunct instructors) for financial support of research, community engagement, or innovative teaching proposals. This year’s recipients were:

Anthony Sutton, assistant professor of Native American studies and food systems, was awarded an MHC faculty grant for the project “Building Campus Culture with Wabanaki Values.” Sutton will use MHC funding to aid in programming related to Native American Heritage month in November 2024, including drum groups and a community meal to highlight Wabanaki growers that will take place during the during the flag raising that marks the beginning of Native American Heritage month observations.

Dan Sandweiss, professor of anthropology and climate studies, has received an MHC grant for a translation project on “The History and Archaelogy of El Nino in Peru.” The Center will support the translation into Spanish of a series of scholarly articles stemming from a previous 2021 MHC grant that documented (and translated into English) the first recorded accounts of an El Niño event in Peru, in 1578.

Laura Artesani, professor in the School of Performing Arts Division of Music, will use an MHC facuty grant to support travel to and performance at the Northeast Regional Tuba Euphonium conference. The conference will be held at George Mason University in Fairfax, VA on May 24/25, 2024. Artesani will be joined by David Stern, the tuba and euphonium instructor in the School of Performing Arts, a past collaborator on several occasions, most recently at a faculty recital this past January.