Each year, UNCG’s Humanities Network and Consortium (HNAC) offers 4-6 $100-300 project development mini-grants for UNCG faculty members in the humanities (tenure track or mon-tenure track).
The HNAC Mini-Grants are designed to help pay for research expenses related to publications, exhibitions, grant writing, or other project development/completion expenses. For 2020-21, three faculty members were selected to receive the grants. Read about their research and projects below.
Frances Bottenberg (Philosophy)
The mini-grant will support enrollment in the Virtual Dementia Tour, a leading empathy-based and awareness-raising workshop for those caring for people with dementia, which will critically inform Bottenberg’s essay “Using Virtuality to Simulate the Experience of Living with Dementia: Moral Prospects and Pitfalls.”
Meredith Powers (Social Work)
With the help of mini-grant funds, the “Service and Bravery Commemorative Garden” (SBC Garden) will be established in Greensboro to honor military service members and veterans who are transgender, gender non-conforming and non-binary. Powers expects that establishing the SBC Garden will foster opportunities for individual and collective contemplation, reflection, healing, care, and growth as community members are invited to enjoy the garden, as well as opportunities to assist in maintaining it. The final location will be decided by a steering committee of those being honored by the memorial and allies.
Alyssa Gabbay (Religious Studies)
The mini-grant will support editorial assistance for “The New Moon of Perfection and Other Prefaces,” a volume which will consist of scholarly translations and critical editions of the fourteenth-century Indo-Persian poet Amir Khusraw Dihlavi’s prefaces to his books of poetry (under contract with Murty Classical Library of India, Harvard University Press).
