Recipients of Awards for Creative Activity
Recipients of Awards for Creative Activity
Listed below are the recipients from three rounds of the Awards for Creative Activity.
2024 Recipients
| Name | Department | Project Title |
|---|---|---|
| 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
| Name | Department | Project Title |
|---|---|---|
| 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
| Name | Department | Project Title |
|---|---|---|
| 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 |