Collaborative Arts Research Initiative

Religious Studies scholar Merinda Simmons and filmmaker Brandon Colvin use the latter’s new film, THE WORLD DROPS DEAD, and a handful of other cinematic texts to explore and articulate how religious practices, spaces, relationships, and perspectives provide unique and powerful contexts for narrative filmmaking. Join CARI on Wednesday, April 24 at 4:00pm in Maxwell Hall for this FREE cross-disciplinary discussion.

The University of Alabama’s Collaborative Arts Research Initiative has announced its newest cohort of faculty fellows. The 2024-2026 faculty fellows, selected from a large and competitive applicant pool, are: These faculty members will participate in a collaborative arts research community for two years beginning in August of 2024. The CARI Faculty Fellowship aims to help faculty diversify and expand the impact of their work and develop new interdisciplinary research. The creative lab and collaborative meeting space in Maxwell Hall serves […]

Former CARI Fellow and Professor of Book Arts Sarah Bryant was recently featured alongside her collaborator, David Allen, ecologist and Middlebury College biology professor, in an interview with the Alabama Digital Humanities Alliance. Together, they discuss their interdisciplinary project, called “Acts of Translation,” which addresses the communication and conversion of information across disciplines with the outcome of data-driven art. You can watch the full interview by visiting the Alabama Digital Humanities Center website.

Former CARI Fellow Dr. Amanda Koh was recently featured in an interview with the Alabama Digital Humanities Center, during which she speaks about her work in UA’s Koh Laboratory and specifically about the development of a wearable device that helps singers measure their breath while singing. You can watch the full interview by visiting the Alabama Digital Humanities Center website.

Congratulations to CARI Fellows Erin Stoneking (assistant professor of Gender and Race Studies), Claudia Romanelli (associate professor of Italian), Yolanda Manora (associate professor of English), and former CARI Fellows Luvada Harrison (assistant professor of Musical Theatre/Voice), and Robin Behn (professor of English) on this National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) grant ($10,000) for The Dotts Johnson project to support the further development of their original musical The Moods of Dotts Johnson in Song. The grant, in part, supported a three-day script workshop […]

The University of Alabama’s Collaborative Arts Research Initiative has announced its newest cohort of faculty fellows. The 2023–2025 faculty fellows, chosen from a large and competitive applicant pool, are: These fellows will participate in a collaborative arts research community for the next two years. The CARI Faculty Fellowship aims to help fellows diversify the impact of their work and to develop new interdisciplinary research. The creative lab and collaborative meeting space in Maxwell Hall serves as a place for these faculty […]

Congratulations to CARI Fellow Jennifer Feltman (associate professor, Art and Art History) and her co-PIs Alexandre Tokovinine (associate professor, department of anthropology) and Jeremiah Stager (cultural resources assistant, Office of Archaeological Research) on this Multi-Year National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) Collaborative Research Grant ($249,000) in support of Notre Dame in Color: Interpreting the Layers of Polychromy on the Sculptures of the Cathedral of Paris Using 3D Modeling. 

Congratulations to Brittany VandeBurg, Associate Professor, Department of Criminology & Criminal Justice; Jonathan Cumberland, Assistant Professor, Department of Art & Art History; Susan Dewey, Professor, Department of Criminology & Criminal Justice on being funded through the Joint Pilot for Arts Research for Disrupting Domestic Violence: Engaging the Visual Arts for Raising Awareness and Empowering Victims.  Thank you to the College of Arts and Sciences Diversity Committee and the Office for Research and Economic Development for co-sponsoring this opportunity.

Dr. Julia Cartwright, a NASA-funded planetary scientist in the Department of Geological Sciences at UA and a CARI fellow, has been collaborating with visual artist Rebecca Rutstein, to create an art exhibition inspired by Dr. Cartwright’s work to better understand the Solar System through the study of meteorites. An expert in cosmochemistry, Dr. Cartwright uses chemical analyses and petrological techniques achieved through high-resolution microscopy to investigate meteorites from localities including Mars, the Moon and the Asteroid Belt, at different scales. […]