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UMD Professors Receive Imagine Fund Awards
DULUTH, MN – UMD professors from a variety of disciplines are recipients of the
University of Minnesota's 2013 Imagine Fund Annual Award. The fund supports
research in the arts, design, and the humanities. This year, 130 awards were given
throughout the U of M system.
The UMD professors and the titles of their research are as follows:
Alison Aune, professor, Department of Art and Design, Minnesota-Nordic Pattern
Painting: Inspirations from Norway and Sweden
David Beard, associate professor, Department of Writing Studies, Archival Research
into "The Uses of Argument"
Ann Bergeron, professor, Department of Theatre, Taiko Drumming in Japan:
Connecting to My Heritage
Evan Brier, associate professor, Department of English, Media Conglomerates and
the American Novel, 1980-1999
Paul Cannan, associate professor, Department of English, Shakespeare for
Everyone: The Publication and Reception of Shakespeare's Works, 1790–1902
Ryan Frane, associate professor, Department of Music, Recording of Original
Compositions for Jazz Trio
Rachel Inselman, associate professor, Department of Music, International Congress
of Voice Teachers Convention
Njoki M. Kamau, associate professor, Department of Women's Studies, The
Paradox of Water Development in Kenya
Eugene Koshinski, assistant professor, Department of Music, Preserving the
Xylophone Ragtime Tradition
Dana Lindaman, assistant professor, Department of Foreign Language and Lit,
Paris by Park: Les Jardins de Paris
Tracy Lipke-Perry, assistant professor, Department of Music, John Luther Adams
Residency: The Light That Fills the World
Gideon Mailer, assistant professor, Department of History, The Colonial American
Borderlands and Anglo-Scottish Federal Thought
Ronald Marchese, professor, Department of Humanities and Classics, Armenian
Identity and Religious Culture
Steven Matthews, associate professor, Department of History, The Birth of
Christmas: an Historical Inquiry
Calland Metts, instructor, Department of Music, Best Practices in Arts-integrated
Learning
Kathryn Milun, associate professor, Department of Sociology/Anthropology,
Sustainability By Design: Solar Commons
Elias Mokole, instructor, Department of Music, Jardins de Paris: Music by Marc
Berthomieu, Text by Daniel Schmitt
Ryuta Nakajima, associate professor, Department of Art and Design, The Origin of
Image Making: Behavioral Ecology of Cephalopods and Art Part.2
Chongwon Park, associate professor, Department of Writing Studies, Writing
Instruments: Past through Present
Alexis Pogorelskin, associate professor, Department of History, Biography of Lev
Borisovich Kamenev
Robert Repinski, associate professor, Department of Art and Design, Digital
Imaging and Printmaking Applications
Joellyn Rock, assistant professor, Department of Art and Design, Digital Narrative
Project: The Mysteries - Phase 2
Justin Rubin, professor, Department of Music, Cross-cultural communication and
the interpretation of contemporary music composition techniques
Rosemary Stanfield-Johnson, associate professor, Department of History, From
the 1001 Arabian Nights to Safavid Iran: The Epistle of Husniya, a Slave-Girl Scholar
Eun-Kyung Suh, associate professor, Department of Art and Design, Diaspora
experiences of Korean Adoptees in Textile
Tina Thielen-Gaffey, assistant professor, Department of Music, Musical
Explorations in Sweden, Ireland and Texas
Kate Ufema, professor, Department of Theatre, The Turkish/American Musical
Theatre Alliance
Mark Whitlock, professor, Department of Music, South American Wind Band
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