Recipients of Awards for Creative Activity
Recipients of Awards for Creative Activity Heading link
Listed below are the recipients from three rounds of the Awards for Creative Activity.
2024 Recipients Heading link
| Name | Department | Project Title |
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| Yolanda Bada Garcia | Latin American and Latino Studies | A Multilingual App: Disseminating Migrant Rights for an Inclusive Chicago |
| Brian Bauer | Anthropology | The Suspension Bridges of the Inca Empire |
| Cynthia Blair | Black Studies; History | Seeing Black Labor in Early Twenty-First Century Chicago |
| Liza Calisesi Maidens | Music | The Choral Works of Imogen Holst - A Research Trip |
| Sarai Coba-Rodriguez | Educational Psychology | Preventing Preschool Expulsion: Examining the Systems and Processes using a Sentinel Events Lens with Illinois Stakeholders |
| Jonathan Connolly | History | Thinking with Colonial Photography |
| Judith De Jong | Architecture | The Spatially Loose Metropolis |
| Claire Decoteau | Sociology | Abortion on the Move: Navigating the Fractured Reproductive Healthcare Landscape |
| Robert Difazio | Music | The Chicago Hip Hop History Project |
| Alexander Eisenschmidt | Architecture | At Home with the Collective: A Report from the Future of Housing |
| Linda Forst | Environmental and Occupational Health Sciences | Bridging Barriers in Outreach to Immigrant Farmworkers: Utilizing WhatsApp to Share Health, Legal, and Social Service Information and Co-Learn with Farmworkers |
| Adam Goodman | Latin American and Latino Studies | Spanish-Language Translation of "The Deportation Machine: America's Long History of Expelling Immigrants" |
| Rachel Havrelock | English | Future Infrastructure |
| Cedric Johnson | Black Studies; Political Science | Gordon Parks and the Postwar American City |
| Ronak Kapadia | Gender and Women's Studies | The Art of the Brown Queer Commons |
| Faheem Majeed | Art | Floating Monuments: Mecca Flats |
| Hayley Negrin | History | Fugitive Lands: Sovereignty and Slavery in the Early American South |
| Pedro Neves | Design | LEGOType: Collaborative Letterform Book Project |
| Akemi Nishida | Disability and Human Development; Gender and Women’s Studies | Mapping the needs of multiple marginalized disabled people in disasters |
| Alyson Patsavas | Disability and Human Development | Pain in Relation: Cripistemologies, Chronicity and Crip Evidence |
| Kareem Rabie | Anthropology | Everywhere in the World there is a Chinatown, in China there is a Khaliltown |
| Jennifer Reeder | Art | M as in Mary - feature length (90-120 pages) original screenplay |
| Lita Sacks | Anthropology | Paleopathology of Syndromes: The Intersection of Variation, Anomaly, and Pathology |
| Kimberlee Wilkens | Design | The Simulation Operating Room (SOR) |
| Terrion Williamson | Black Studies; Gender and Women's Studies | Black Women and Serial Murder in the American Midwest |
| Katherine Zinsser | Psychology | Enhancing Early Childhood Education through the Dissemination of Emotion-Focused Teaching Workbook |
2022 Recipients Heading link
| Name | Department | Project Title |
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| Lionel Allen Jr. | Department of Educational Policy Studies | B-Sides: Urban School Leadership and the Under-told Stories of Instructional Improvement |
| Brian Anderson | School of Design | Casting New Traditions |
| Theodore (Ted) Burdett | School of Design | This is Great Lakes Surfing: Shaping, Culture, Design |
| Kate Caldwell | Department of Disability and Human Development | Nexus Coalition |
| Liza Calisesi Maidens | Department of Music | Expanding the Choral Canon: a recording project |
| Lisa Cushing | Department of Special Education | Transition to Colleges in Illinois for Students with Learning Disabilities and Autism Spectrum Disorders from Disenfranchised Communities |
| Penelope Dean | School of Architecture | Game Plans |
| Claire Decoteau | Department of Sociology | Social Autopsy of COVID-19 in Chicago |
| Alexandra Filindra | Department of Political Science | Exposure to Political Violence and Its Effects on Political Ambition among Active and Potential Public Officials |
| Andrew Finegold | Department of Art History | Ancient Americas, Appropriated |
| Jack Henrie Fisher | School of Design | Revolutionary Subjects |
| Patrick Fortmann | Department of Germanic Studies | The Colors of the Skull: Race in German Physiognomy, Phrenology, and Cranioscopy |
| Rooshey Hasnain | Department of Disability and Human Development | Wellness through Asian American Narratives and Theater (WAANT) |
| Lewis Hsu | Department of Pediatrics | Walk in my SHOES (Sickle cell Health Outcomes Education Skits) |
| Jonathan Inda | Department of Latin American and Latino Studies | The Price of Philanthropy: The Carlos Slim Foundation and Humanitarian Politics in Mexico |
| Decoteau Irby | Department of Educational Policy Studies | The Stuck Improving Visualization Project |
| April Jackson | Department of Urban Planning and Policy | Engaging Chicago, Supporting Neighborhoods: Collaborative City Design Promoting University-Community Partnerships |
| Ronak Kapadia | Department of Gender and Women's Studies | Surviving the Long Wars - Dissemination of Scholarly Series and Art Triennial |
| Young Kim | Department of Classics and Mediterranean Studies | Classical Studies Trends in Children’s and Young Adult Literature |
| Sean Lally | School of Architecture | Night White Skies |
| Clare Lyster | School of Architecture | Future Farm Formats– Architecture’s Metabolic Adjacencies |
| Faheem Majeed | Department of Art and Art History | A Great Day in Bronzeville Project |
| Jonathan Mekinda | School of Design | Defining Chicago Design: Tracing a Metropolitan Design Ecosystem |
| Bonnie Metzgar | Department of Theatre | LIT PLAY LABORATORY |
| Ashley Muchow | Department of Criminology, Law and Justice | Public mental health facility closures and criminal justice contact in Chicago |
| Alyson Patsavas | Department of Disability and Human Development | Archiving and Amplifying Crip Pandemic Life |
| Dan Peterman | Department of Art | Artists and the Trading Floor: A dynamic Intersection of Contemporary Sculpture, Collaborative Research, and Social Engagement |
| Nathan Phillips | Department of Curriculum and Instruction | Arts Activism: Moving for Sustainability in Chicago’s First Global Water Dances |
| Paul Preissner | School of Architecture | American Framing: The Same Something for Everyone |
| Christina Pugh | Department of English | A Poetic *Lexicon* |
| Gayatri Reddy & Anna Guevarra | Gender & Women's Studies and Department of Anthropology; Department of Global Asian Studies | Evicted! The Affordable Housing Game |
| Laurie Jo Reynolds | Department of Art | We Should Not Have Laws We Are Afraid to Talk About |
| Barbara Risman | Department of Sociology | Category X Across National Boundaries |
| Kristine Schutz | Department of Curriculum and Instruction | Storybooks, Inquiry, and Art on the Urban Farm: Exploring Sustainable Food Practices with Children |
| Deborah Stratman | Department of Art | Last Things |
| Cortino Sukotjo | Department of Restorative Dentistry | Immersive Learning with AI-enhanced Virtual Standardized Patient (VSP) to Improve Dental Students’ Communication Proficiencies |
| Rebecca Teasdale | Department of Educational Psychology | Making in Chicago: Toward a Framework for Evaluating Public Library Makerspaces |
| Daria Tsoupikova | School of Design | Hummingbird: Tele-Immersive Virtual Reality Exhibition |
| Karen Underhill | Department of Polish, Russian, and Lithuanian Studies | Stempenyu, or the Jewish Paganini: Sholem Aleichem on the South Side of Chicago. Bilingual Critical Edition of the Newly Rediscovered 1905 Stempenyu Manuscript by Sholem Aleichem. |
| Nic Weststrate | Department of Educational Psychology | Queers Share This: Disseminating the LGBTQ+ Intergenerational Dialogue Project |
| Kimberlee Wilkens | School of Design | Smart Bolo :: Supplemental Oxygen Safety Device |
2020 Recipients Heading link
| Name | Department | Project Title |
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| Brian Anderson | School of Design | Designed for Speed |
| Michael Anderson | Department of Music | UIC Youth Wind Ensemble Programs |
| Andrew Baker | Department of Music | New CD of unrecorded Leo Sowerby music |
| Louis Bergonzi | School of Theatre and Department of Music | Juba: A Symphonic Play |
| Jennifer Brier | Department of History and Gender & Women's Studies | Social Justice Research Collaborative |
| David Brown | School of Architecture | The Available City -North Lawndale Collective Space Exposition |
| Joaquin Chavez | Department of History | Spanish Translation of Poets and Prophets of the Resistance: Intellectuals and the Origins of El Salvador's Civil War (Oxford University Press, 2017) |
| Jonathan Daly | Department of History | “Saved from Certain Death” to Change the Course of History: An Intellectual Biography of Richard Pipes |
| Penelope Dean | School of Architecture | Flat Out |
| Claire Decoteau | Department of Sociology | Ebola and Crisis Decision-Making |
| Christine Dunford | Department of Theatre | The Memory Ensemble™ Curriculum Manual: Increasing Reach and Impact |
| Alexander Eisenschmidt | School of Architecture | Felix Candela in Chicago: An Engineered Architecture from Mexico City to the Midwest |
| Myron Elliott | Department of Theatre | Costume Design II: Techniques of New Modern Masters (Sequel Book) |
| Stephen Engelmann | Department of Political Science | 16th Conference of International Society for Utilitarian Studies |
| Yayoi Everett | Department of Music | Contemporary Opera: Identity, Staging, and Narrative |
| Erin Freeman | Department of Theatre | Entanglement: A Quantum Physical Soap Opera |
| Lisa Freeman | Department of English | R/18: Re-Activating the Repertoire A Performance Research Collective for Restoration and Eighteenth-Century Drama |
| Dianna Frid | Department of Art | Reading the Voids: Wormholes and the transformation of text and matter |
Anna Guevarra
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Global Asian Studies Program
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Dis/Placements: Re-visioning a People’s History of Uptown, Chicago |
| Sara Hall | Department of Germanic Studies | Police Projections: Law Enforcement and the Moving Image from Caligari to M |
| Rachel Havrelock | Department of English | Chicago River Campus |
| Laura Hostetler | Department of History and Global Asian Studies Program | The Art of Imperial Ethnography: Qing Illustrations of Tributary Peoples |
| Sunyoung Kim | Department of Special Education | Project Impact |
| Maria Krysan | Department of Sociology | Two Sides of the Same Coin: Stories about Race, Place, and (not) Belonging in Chicago |
| Sean Lally | School of Architecture | ‘Local States’- 2020 Venice Architectural Biennale Installation |
| Mario LaMothe | Departments of African-American Studies and Anthropology | Lot Bò Dlo: Visualizing the Mistreatment of Haitians in US Detention Centers |
| Agustina Laurito | Department of Public Administration | The Effect of the Heroin Epidemic on Grandparent Caregiving |
| Amanda Lewis | Department of Sociology | Dissemination of Report on Racial Wealth Disparities among the Middle-Class in Chicago |
| Clare Lyster | School of Architecture | Entanglement: Meaning and Materiality of Data Infrastructure in Space |
| Patrisia Macias-Rojas | Departments of Sociology and Latin American and Latino Studies | The Politics of Bed Space: The Privatization of Migrant Detention |
| Sharon Oiga | School of Design | Chicago Design Through the Decades |
| Kim Potowski | Department of Hispanic & Italian Studies | Latino Language in the USA |
| Paul Preissner | School of Architecture | American Framing |
| Sheela Raja | Department of Oral Medicine and Diagnostic Sciences | Violence, Trauma, Toxic Stress, and Engagement in Preventive Healthcare: Creating Trauma-Informed Healthcare in Urban Communities |
| Barbara Risman | Department of Sociology | Category X: Gender Identities Beyond the Binary |
| Carrie Sandahl | Department of Disability and Human Development | Code of the Freaks: Disability Representation in American Cinema |
| Derrick Sanders | Department of Theatre | August Wilson Monologue Competition Workbook |
| Karen Su | Global Asian Studies Program | Yuki Speaks Out- Picture Book and Educational Website |
| Sandra Sufian | Department of Medical Education | Health Humanities Portrait Dissemination: Expanding Our Reach and Scope |
| Stacey Sutton | Department of Urban Planning and Policy | The State of Racial Justice for Arab Americans in Chicago |
| Zvonimir Tot | Department of Music | CD recording of the ensemble Balkan Fusion Orchestra |
| Victoria Trinder | Department of Curriculum and Instruction | Cartography, Curriculum, and Community De-Segregation: Urban Education and the Collective Analysis of Racial Justice in Folded Map™ |
| Rachelle Tsachor | Department of Theatre | Making Inclusive Theater: Shakespeare's Richard III as Disability Art |
| Daria Tsoupikova | School of Design | Multi-User Virtual Reality Storytelling: Beyond Theater |
| Elaine Jingyan Yuan | Department of Communication | The Networks of Disinformation: Understanding the (Dis)Information Ecologies in the U.S, Europe, and China |