Faculty receives New Frontiers grants

About three dozen faculty members from IU campuses received New Frontiers in the Arts and Humanities grants for 2010.

The awards allow faculty to expand their work into new disciplinary or interdisciplinary areas.

The program began its second five-year cycle with funding from the IU President’s Office during the 2009-10 school year. The grants have overall supported more than 400 projects by IU faculty.

“Since its inception, the New Frontiers program has fostered ground-breaking research, scholarship and creative activity in the arts and humanities,” IU President Michael McRobbie said in an IU press release.

Funding will be provided for projects such as “Tendrils: Modular Organic Systems,” the design of interactive building systems for constructing sculptural objects.

Another project is “Disappearing Acts: The End of White Criminality in the Age of Jim Crow,” by Khalil Muhammad, assistant professor of history. The book examines political and cultural shifts that affect how “native-born white and European criminality transformed black male criminality.”