CARI Director And UA Professor, Rebecca Salzer, received a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities in February of 2021. Her funded project aims to create an online resource to increase accessibility to recordings of works by Black choreographers. This is Salzer’s second NEH grant for her project. Read more about this award and Salzer’s research here.

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Congratulations to CARI Fellow, Dr. Catherine Roach, for being UA’s SEC Achievement Award Winner. The program recognizes one individual from each SEC university for their teaching accomplishments, scholarly contributions and discoveries. Dr. Roach is recognized for her excellence in pursuing new research frontiers, experimenting with different writing mediums and finding new audiences. To read more about Dr. Roach’s research and career as a professor of Gender and Cultural Studies at UA, click here. In addition to her award, Catherine has also […]

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The University of Alabama’s Collaborative Arts Research Initiative has announced its newest cohort of faculty fellows. The 2021–2022 faculty fellows, chosen from a large and competitive applicant pool, are: Sarah Bryant, Library & Information Studies Andrew Raffo Dewar, New College and Music Amanda Koh, Chemical & Biological Engineering Jeremy Levine, Journalism & Creative Media Claudia Romanelli, Modern Languages & Classics Erin Stoneking, Gender & Race Studies Elizabeth Tavares, English These fellows will participate in a collaborative arts research community for […]

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Congratulations to the first funded Joint Pilot for Arts Research projects, co-sponsored by CARI, the Alabama Life Research Institute, and the Office of Research and Economic Development! The funded projects include: “Instruments of Culture and Agents of Change: Performing Arts Training as a Vehicle for Empowerment and Wellbeing among Alabama Youth,” which includes Dr. Courtney Helfrecht, assistant professor of anthropology; Dr. Stephanie McClure, assistant professor of anthropology; Dr. Alexis Davis-Hazell, assistant professor of music; and Alvon Reed, assistant professor of […]

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The University of Alabama’s Collaborative Arts Research Initiative has announced its 10 inaugural faculty fellows and several new initiatives to engage faculty across campus. The 2019-21 faculty fellows, chosen from a large and competitive applicant pool, are: Robin Behn, English, College of Arts and Sciences Julia Brock, history, College of Arts and Sciences Julia Cartwright, geological sciences, College of Arts and Sciences Hilary Green, gender and race studies, College of Arts and Sciences Jamey Grimes, art and art history, College […]

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