COHFA faculty receive awards

The following faculty members in the College of Humanities and Fine Arts have been awarded funding in the 2010-2011 Dean’s Fund for Scholarship Awards for their projects:

• Philip Whalen, associate professor of history, will research “A Provincial Perspective: Burgundian Workers at the 1900 Paris Exposition” in Dijon, France, this summer to discover what skilled workers expected, thought and retained from visiting the 1900 Paris Exposition.

• Carolyn Dillian, assistant professor of archaeology/anthropology, will establish a “Geologic Samples Database” to help create an elemental fingerprint of raw materials that were used prehistorically and historically in South Carolina’s Lowcountry.

• Steve Earnest, associate professor of theatre, will travel to Reykjavik, Iceland, to investigate the relationship between the National Theatre School and the Icelandic Theatre System in support of a project on “Contemporary Icelandic Theatre.”

Also, Ron Green, assistant professor of religious studies, received an Honorable Mention and partial funding for travel to Korea to research some of the defining historical events, people, places and practices of modern Korean Buddhism in a project entitled “Orthopraxy in Modern Korean Buddhism.”