$100,000 in RIO funding will support twenty Arts & Humanities projects
The Research & Innovation Office (RIO) has awarded $100,000 in combined funding to 20 projects through its Arts & Humanities Grant Program. Funded proposals span a wide range of disciplines—including Art, Music, Ethnic Studies, and Sociology—and reflect the depth and diversity of research and creative work at CU Boulder.
The RIO Arts & Humanities Grant Program is inspired by recognition of the essential role of the arts and humanities at CU Boulder, including inspiring deeper connections with others, welcoming multiple and diverse perspectives, and contemplating what it means to be human.
Applications for the program were requested by April 14 and subsequently reviewed and ranked by arts and humanities faculty based on the following criteria:
- Significance/value of the project to arts, humanities and/or humanistic social sciences
- Potential of the project to contribute to the field(s) (and potentially beyond)
- Appropriate proposal for use of funds
- How the project will impact the applicant’s career development
- Appropriate evaluation to assess the project’s success
- Qualifications of the applicant(s) and relevance of those qualifications to the project
2025 Arts & Humanities Grantees
- Thora Brylowe (English): Rag Paper and its Transatlantic Ecologies, 1770-1860
- Emmanuel David (Women & Gender Studies): Art and Materiality in the Philippine Diaspora
- Nickoal Eichmann-Kalwara (Center for Research Data & Digital Scholarship): Enhancing the Index of Digital Humanities Conferences
- Steven Frost (Media Studies): Threads of Resistance: Sampling Labor Histories Through the Lowell Mill Textile Archives
- Jennifer Ho (Ethnic Studies): CHCI Colorado River Grant Project: Water Commons: The Living Legacy of the Colorado River
- Thomas Pegelow Kaplan (History): Modern German-Jewish Life in Ego-Documents – A Research Initiative of the Open University of Israel, the Center for Research on Antisemitism of the Technical University Berlin, and CU Boulder
- John Keller (Astrophysical and Planetary Sciences): Draw the Stars
- Zannah Matson (Environmental Design): Mine-o-polis: A Board Game about Mining and Extractive Capital
- Adrienne Merritt (Germanic and Slavic Languages and Literatures): Living With Ghosts—Documenting the Spectral Colonial Landscape in Bremen and Cologne, Germany
- Megan O'Grady (Art & Art History): Witches: A Legacy
- Nicholas Perna (Voice): Adaptation of Singers Respiratory Plethysmography at Altitude
- Kevin Rich (Theatre and Dance): Connecting Colorado's K-12 Schools with Shakespeare
- Hillary Rosner (Journalism): Studies in Nature: Lichen
- Yumi Roth (Art & Art History): We Are Coming (Yankton)
- Shawhin Roudbari (Environmental Design): Dark Papers: Advancing Forms of Design Justice Discourse
- Teri Rueb (Critical Media Practices): Confluences: mobile app-based site-specific soundwalk and web site archive
- Kelly Sears (Cinema Studies & Moving Image Arts): The Dimming
- Sterling Tanner (College of Music): University of Colorado Boulder Trombone Octet – 2025 International Trombone Festival
- Molly Todd (Sociology): Maré de Dentro: Art, Culture, and Politics in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
- Yvona Trnka-Amrhein (Classics): The Contents of "The New Euripides" Grace