{"id":150294,"date":"2019-06-12T08:18:40","date_gmt":"2019-06-12T12:18:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/?post_type=school-college-post&#038;p=150294"},"modified":"2019-06-13T10:24:09","modified_gmt":"2019-06-13T14:24:09","slug":"scharp-2019","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/2019\/06\/scharp-2019\/","title":{"rendered":"OVPR Announces Inaugural Arts &#038; Humanities Awards"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Office of the Vice President for Research (OVPR) recently announced recipients of the inaugural Scholarship and Collaboration in Humanities and Arts Research (SCHARP) Program. Provided in partnership with the Humanities Institute (UCHI), SCHARP awards aim to support innovative works of scholarship and creative activities in the arts and humanities that have the potential to transform a field of study, impact the common good, or chart a new direction in scholarly, creative, or artistic development.<\/p>\n<p>Seven SCHARP grants were awarded in two categories after a highly selective competition.<\/p>\n<h3>SCHARP Breakthrough Award &#8211; $50,000<strong><br \/>\n<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p><strong>Jason Chang, <\/strong>History<br \/>\n<em>Expressing the Transpacific Borderlands<\/em><\/p>\n<h3>SCHARP Development Awards &#8211; $8,000<strong><br \/>\n<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p><strong>Emma Amador, <\/strong>History<br \/>\n<em>Boricua Welfare Rights: Organizing for Economic Justice in the Puerto Rican Diaspora<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Amanda Crawford, <\/strong>Journalism<br \/>\n<em>&#8220;The Sky is Crying: the Sandy Hook Shooting and the Fight for Truth&#8221; &#8211; A Nonfiction Book Project<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Stephen Dyson, <\/strong>Political Science<br \/>\n<em>Politics and Popular Culture<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Sue Huang, <\/strong>Digital Media and Design<br \/>\n<em>Expanding Social Practice Art: Exploring Intersections of Food and Data<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Vincent Tycer, <\/strong>Dramatic Arts<br \/>\n<em>Gate Keeper<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Hendrikus van der Hulst, <\/strong>Linguistics<br \/>\n<em>The Dance of Movement:\u00a0 A Study of Meaningful Movement Across Art Forms and Academic Disciplines<\/em><\/p>\n<p>For more information about SCHARP, visit <a href=\"https:\/\/ovpr.uconn.edu\/services\/research-development\/internal-funding-opportunities\/scharp\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">the program website.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em>Follow UConn Research on <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/na01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com\/?url=https%3A%2F%2Ftwitter.com%2FUConnResearch&amp;data=02%7C01%7C%7C2190cc806094420bf3b008d61efc1d08%7C17f1a87e2a254eaab9df9d439034b080%7C0%7C0%7C636730465490725996&amp;sdata=x7toGyDgv%2FVxj1VaaW1ggPWSf9nnmNcoeDxG0WIca5I%3D&amp;reserved=0\"><em>Twitter<\/em><\/a><em> &amp; <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/na01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com\/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.linkedin.com%2Fcompany%2Fuconnresearch&amp;data=02%7C01%7C%7C2190cc806094420bf3b008d61efc1d08%7C17f1a87e2a254eaab9df9d439034b080%7C0%7C0%7C636730465490725996&amp;sdata=7hid3FG3d5m%2BFMFp%2Fm2NAw2dtSadVPfpn5nuLzc%2BkrY%3D&amp;reserved=0\"><em>LinkedIn<\/em><\/a><em>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>OVPR SCHARP awards aim to support innovative works of scholarship and creative activities in the arts and humanities.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":127,"featured_media":150303,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_crdt_document":"","wds_primary_category":0,"wds_primary_series":0,"wds_primary_attribution":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2226,2076,1914],"tags":[],"magazine-issues":[],"coauthors":[2140],"class_list":["post-150294","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-clas","category-research","category-sfa"],"pp_statuses_selecting_workflow":false,"pp_workflow_action":"current","pp_status_selection":"publish","acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-05-11 07:54:27","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/150294","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/users\/127"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=150294"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/150294\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/media\/150303"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=150294"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=150294"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=150294"},{"taxonomy":"magazine-issue","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/magazine-issues?post=150294"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=150294"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}