The Office of Grants and Contracts congratulates Albert and Lena Keiser Assistant Professor of Art and Digital Studies, Joelle Dietrick, and Associate Professor of the Practice in Digital Studies, Owen Mundy, on an Immersive Scholar Residency from North Carolina State University Libraries, funded by the Mellon Foundation.

The $25,000 award contributed to the development of “Tally Saves the Internet,” a free, web-based game which alerts users to webpage data tracking, allowing players to battle and block capture of their online actions and protect their data privacy. Development of Tally offered experiential learning opportunities for several Davidson student researchers. Professors Dietrick and Mundy previewed the game at the October 2020 Immersive Scholar Symposium hosted by North Carolina State University.

The digital and creative efforts of Professors Dietrick and Mundy have been recognized and funded through organizations such as the National Endowment for the Arts, Fulbright, North Carolina Arts Council, Center for Long-Term Security at the University of California at Berkeley, MacDowell Colony, Resilient Network, Bacca Foundation, Pollock-Krasner Foundation and Davidson College.

Four recent Guggenheim Fellowship winners will provide a panel discussion of how they approached the grant competition, plus Q&A with participants. The featured panelists will be Myriam J.A. Chancy, Hartley Burr Alexander Chair in the Humanities at Scripps College; John Cort, Professor Emeritus of Asian and Comparative Religions at Denison University; Pradip Malde, Professor of Art at the University of the South; and Philip Metres, Professor of English at John Carroll University. 

This webinar should be useful for faculty at liberal arts colleges who are interested in applying for the Guggenheim Fellowship in 2020 (or further into the future) and would like a sense of how colleagues at liberal arts colleges have approached the competition. The Guggenheim is a fairly unusual fellowship, so this webinar may provide some helpful insights even for faculty who are seasoned grant applicants.

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Three recent American Council of Learned Societies’ Fellowship winners (Eduardo Moncada, assistant professor of political science at Barnard College; Christina Neilson, associate professor of Renaissance and Baroque art history at Oberlin College; and Brent Rodríguez-Plate, professor of religious studies and media studies at Hamilton College–project abstracts available at the links) will provide a panel discussion of how they approached the grant competition, plus Q&A with participants.

This webinar should be useful for faculty at liberal arts colleges who are interested in applying for the ACLS Fellowship and would like a sense of how colleagues at liberal arts colleges have approached the competition. The next two rounds of the ACLS Fellowship are restricted to untenured faculty members who earned their PhDs no more than eight years ago. All of our panelists received the award as untenured faculty, which we hope will make their advice particularly relevant to this year’s applicant pool.

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The Office of Grants and Contracts congratulates Director and Curator of the Van Every/Smith Galleries, Lia Newman, on a grant from the Associated Colleges of the South (ACS) through the COVID-19 Emergency RFP Round, to provide digital access to the college’s permanent art collection.

The collection includes over 3,900 works by such artists as Rembrandt, Picasso, Matisse, de Kooning, Motherwell, Bearden, Kollwitz, and Hockney, and only a small number are highlighted on the Galleries’ web site. The ACS grant will allow the creation of an expanded online database so that students and faculty who have current needs related to the collection can have access to the artworks.

While the short-term goal is access for courses that are being taught online due to COVID-19, having the expanded permanent art collection online will be a resource to faculty and students both at Davidson and other ACS schools beyond the period of the pandemic.

The Van Every/Smith Galleries play a fundamental role in the pedagogical life of Davidson College and the surrounding community. The Galleries provide a challenging forum for the on-going presentation, interpretation, and discussion of primarily contemporary artworks in all media, nurturing individual thinking, developing visual literacy, and inspiring a lifelong commitment to the arts.