Current Faculty Fellows
2024-2025 Research and Creative Projects
Each year, the David G. Pollart Center for Arts and Humanities solicits proposals from all WSU faculty for projects that advance knowledge in and public awareness of the arts and humanities. Through a competitive process, a small group of Faculty Fellows is then selected and provided with significant support to bring their projects to life. In addition to pursuing their individual projects, fellows meet monthly to share their progress and reflect on the broader work of the arts and humanities in the public sphere.
Peter Boag, Professor
Department of History,
The Art of Mountaineering: Landscape Painters and Climbing in the Cascade Range, 1865-1915
DGPCAH Funding will support travel to conduct archival research at various university libraries and archives in Washington and Oregon to collect data for this project. The project will be a major interpretation of this region and its cultural influence on the U.S. during the Gilded Age.
William Hamlin, Professor
Department of English
The Evolution of a Cultural Lexicon: God-Language in English, 1475–1700
DGPCAH Funding will support travel to the UK and Ireland to conduct research for this project. The project combines state-of-the-art Digital Humanities techniques with paleography, philology, and book history to examine the evolution of religious discourse in the English language across the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.
M.A. Miller, Assistant Professor
Department of English and Program in Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies
Life Forms at Boundaries: A Trans*- Autoethnography
DGPCAH Funding will support travel to the UC Davis Bodega Marine Lab in order to complete a series of autoethnographic observations and interviews. The project involves writing a full memoir manuscript (ten essay chapters) as well as developing a related 2025 winter semester public reading and exhibition event with EcoArts on the Palouse.
Gregory Turner-Rahman, Professor
Department of Digital Technology and Culture
Heart Mountain: An Immersive Animated Film (Proof-of-Concept)
DGPCAH fellowship will support the development of prototypes and animation techniques along with a pre-production storytelling that will eventually become the basis of a short animated film and interactive media environment that showcases the Hirahara collection of photographs housed at WSU.
Sophia Nicolle Tegart, Assistant Professor
School of Music
Cleaning Up Broken Glass: Recording, Performing, and Presenting Works for Flute and Piano by Women Composers
DGPCAH fellowship will support travel and research for this project designed to provide reference recordings and resources to flute teachers so they can teach their students works by women composers. The project will not only help shift the balance of inequity between the genders found in music but will also create lasting change within the music education system.
