We are extremely pleased to announce the following recipients of our proposal development grants. These grants will support the planning and development of projects in May and June 2017.
Argentine Afrikaners: Interrogating Hybridity in a Unique Diasporic Community
This project will examine the practices of a unique settlement in Patagonia, Argentina, which presents an exceptional situation of cultural and linguistic contact between Afrikaans and Argentine-Spanish communities. By studying the archive of oral narratives both for their linguistic structures and in terms of their ideological content, the team will determine the nature and extent of linguistic hybridity between Afrikaans and Spanish in individual speakers. To preserve cultural history and language, the team will also create a multilingual archive and website (in English, Spanish, and Afrikaans) that would provide access to open-source applications containing video and sound clips, transcripts, and the history of the community.
PI: Nicholas Henriksen, Assistant Professor, Romance Languages & Literatures
Team Members: Andries Coetzee, Associate Professor, Linguistics, Lorenzo Garcia-Amaya, Assistant Professor, Romance Languages & Literatures, Ryan Szpiech, Associate Professor, Romance Languages & Literatures, Paulina Alberto, Associate Professor, History, & Romance Languages & Literatures, Katharine Jenckes, Associate Professor, Romance Languages & Literatures; Graduate students, including two close collaborators and one IT assistant (TBD); Undergraduate students: Mallory Fuller, Ella Deaton, Meghan Samyn
The Gabii Digital Publication Collaboratory
This project is grounded in the publication of a series of “next generation monographs” reporting the results of excavations in the ancient Latin city of Gabii led by Dr. Nicola Terrenato and sponsored by the Kelsey Museum of Archaeology since 2007. Using these monographs as examples, the project will pair disciplinary experts with information scientists, scholars of rhetoric and composition, technologists, librarians and publishers from Michigan Publishing (including University of Michigan Press) to investigate the ways in which users engage with digital publications and improve the practice of digital publication in the humanities.
PI: Nicola Terrenato, Esther B. Van Deman Professor of Classical Studies
Team Members: Naomi Silver, Associate Director, Sweetland Center for Writing, David Stone, Associate Research Scientist, Kelsey Museum of Archaeology, Kentaro Toyama, W. K. Kellogg Professor of Community Information, School of Information, Charles Watkinson, Associate University Librarian (Publishing), University Library; Graduate students: Zoe Jenkins, Classical Studies, Matthew Naglak, Classical Studies, Tyler Johnson, Classical Studies, Adrienne Raw, English Language and Literature, and one member from the School of Information TBD)
On the Emergence and Development of Three Atlantic Creoles: A Linguistic and Historical Perspective on Haitian, Sranan and Cape Verdean
This project will examine a set of early creole texts written in the 16th and 18th centuries and the historical context in which they were written. Specifically, the team will bring together historians and linguists to study the earliest written records of Haitian Creole, (a French-based creole), Sranan Creole (an English-based creole) and Cape Verdean Creole (a Portuguese-based creole), and draw a fuller picture of the linguistic and historical insights that these texts have to offer in addressing the following questions: What did a given creole look like in the early stages of development? Who were the original founding populations and what were the languages in contact? Who were the early agents of creolization: adults and/or children? What was the socio-historical context in which the creole developed?
PI: Marlyse Baptista, Professor, Linguistics and DAAS
Team Members: Sarah Thomason, Professor, Linguistics, Jean Hébrard, Professor, History/Humanities Institute, Graduate Students: Ariana Bancu, Linguistics, Yourdanis Sedarous, Linguistics, Andrew Walker, History; Undergraduate Students: Naomi Gottschalk, Linguistics
As she transitions to her new Fulbright position, Libby reflected on the impact of her Collaboratory work: “I fully believe that my experience as the Speech Production Lab Manager and my experience overseeing research as part of the Collaboratory Project gave me an edge in securing both Fulbright awards. Next year, I will be responsible for mentoring a group of ETAs while also fulfilling my own teaching and training duties, work that essentially parallels the type of work that I performed as a leader and member of the Collaboratory team. I gained and honed skills such as leadership and mentorship, balancing multiple workloads, and working on multifaceted projects as part of a large team during my time in the Collaboratory especially. These skills were extremely helpful while working as an ETA, and are essential abilities for any Fulbright position. I feel immensely fortunate to have received a second award and am grateful to the Collaboratory for what I learned and experienced while working alongside such a large team. I can confidently say that I wouldn’t be in the position I am today without all that I gained while being a member of the Speech Lab and the Collaboratory.”
