Congratulations to U-M faculty Audrey Bennett and Clare Croft, both of whom have been awarded grants by the National Endowment for the Humanities.
Audrey Bennett (Professor of Art and Design and Communication and Media) was awarded the grant for a project titled "I Don't See What You Mean: Broadening Participation Through Co-created Inclusive Digital Museum Audio." The research project, led by Alison Eardley and Audrey Bennett, is a pilot study to rigorously evaluate a series of workshops for inclusive co-created audio description at the Smithsonian Museum, working with diverse blind, partially blind, and sighted audiences in the United Kingdom and the United States.
Clare Croft (Associate Professor of American Culture and of Women's and Gender Studies) was awarded the grant for a project titled "Her Disruptions: The Performances of Jill Johnston." The project chronicles Jill Johnston’s life as a performer, activist, and writer, examining her merging of writing and embodiment to expand the category of “woman” beyond more conservative definitions forged by liberal feminism.
About the National Endowment for the Humanities: Created in 1965 as an independent federal agency, the NEH supports research and learning in history, literature, philosophy, and other areas of the humanities by funding selected, peer-reviewed proposals from around the country.
