2012 Awards, Grants, and Fellowships

Barnard Hewitt Award

• Judith Pascoe, The Sarah Siddons Audio Files (University of Michigan Press, 2011), editor LeAnn Fields
• Honorable Mention: Beth Holmgren, Starring Madame Modjeska (Indiana University Press, 2011), editor Janet Rabinowitch

Helen Krich Chinoy Dissertation Research Fellowships

• Mary McAvoy, “Rehearsing Revolutions: Radical and Experimental Pedagogic Drama Experiments in U.S. Labor Colleges, 1920 and 1940”
• Caitlin Marshall, “Vocal Culture: Sovereign Sounds in Antebellum America”
• Tara Rodman, “Towards a Global Modernism: Performance in Japan, Europe, and the U.S., 1886-1937”

Distinguished Scholar Award

• David Mayer, University of Manchester

Errol Hill Award

• Bernth Lindfors, Ira Aldridge: The Early Years 1807-1833 (University of Rochester Press, 2011)
• Honorable Mention: Brandi Catanese, The Problem of the Color[blind] (University of Michigan Press, 2011)

Oscar G. Brockett Essay Prize

• Gary Jay Williams, “Edwin Booth: What They Also Saw When They Saw Booth’s Hamlet,” in Macready, Booth, Terry, Irving, Vol. VI of Great Shakespeareans (Continuum, 2011), edited by Richard Schoch
• Honorable Mention: Leo Cabranes-Grant, “From Scenarios to Networks: Performing the Intercultural in Colonial Mexico,” Theatre Journal 63 (2011), edited by Penny Farfan.

Gerald Kahan Scholar’s Prize

• Diana Looser, “A Piece ‘More Curious Than All the Rest’: Re-Encountering Pre-Colonial Pacific Island Theatre, 1769-1855,” Theatre Journal 63 (2011), edited by Penny Farfan.
• Honorable Mention: Lofton L. Durham, “Reconnecting Text to Context: The Ontology of ‘French Medieval Drama’ and the Case of the Istoire de la Destruction de Troie,” Journal of Dramatic Theory and Criticism (2011), edited by Scott Magelssen.

Research Fellowships

• Stuart Hecht, “Hull House and Its Theatre: A Legacy of Outreach and Art”
• Matthew Schifflett, “Movers and Shakers: The Rise and Fall of Charleston’s First Theatre, 1732-1740”

Targeted Research Areas Grants

• Kyounghye Kwon, “Korean Performances, Global Stages: Indigenous Memory and Cultural Diplomacy”
• Megan Lewis, “White Africans in the Spotlight: Staging Afrikaners in South African Theatrical and Public Life”

Brooks McNamara Publishing Subvention

• Amy Hughes, Spectacles of Reform: Theater and Activism in Nineteenth-Century America (University of Michigan Press, 2012), editor LeAnn Fields

Thomas Marshall Graduate Student Awards

• Kellyn Johnson, University of California, Santa Barbara
• Eero Laine, City University of New York
• Scott Wallin, University of California, Berkeley

David Keller Travel Grants

• Brian Cook, independent scholar
• Laura MacDonald, University of Groningen
• Jonathan Shandell, Arcadia University

Biennial Sally Banes Publication Prize

• Petra Kuppers, Disability Culture and Community Performance: Find a Strange and Twisted Shape (Palgrave Macmillan, 2011)
• Honorable Mention: Nadine George-Graves, Urban Bush Women: Twenty Years of African American Dance Theatre, Community Engagement, and Working It Out (University of Wisconsin Press, 2010)

Selma Jeanne Cohen Conference Presentation Award

• Virginia Preston, “The Interdisciplines Between: Dance and Theatre in the Early Modern Archives

ASTR Collaborative Research Award

• Victoria Fortuna and Susanna Tambuti, “Dance, History, Memory”

Grants for Researchers with Heavy Teaching Loads
(no applications received)

Co-Sponsored Events

• Wendy Arons, requestor, “Earth Matters on Stage” Playwrights’ Festival and Symposium
• Kimberly Jannarone, requestor, “Peer Gynt Project”
• Suk-Young Kim, requestor, “Global Theatre and Performance Studies Research Workshops”
• Tamara Underiner, requestor, “Second Conference of the Consortium of Doctoral Programs, in Theatre and Performance Studies”

Cambridge University Press Prize

Christian DuComb, "Blackface Photography and Performance Remains"