Current Faculty Fellows
2025-2026 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.
Talea Anderson, Digital Collections Librarian
WSU Libraries
Faux: A History of Meat Replacements Through 25 Recipes
DGPCAH funding will be used for purchasing of photography equipment, fees for copyright permissions, and travel to Zürich and the Pyrénées-Orientales region of France for archival and interview-based research. This project will result in a book proposal that is part of an evolving book project focusing on the history of vegetarianism.
César Haas, Assistant Professor
School of Music
2025 Brazilian Jazz Festival
DGPCAH funding will be used to support the travel and honorarium of collaborators and performers to WSU where they will perform concerts, lead workshops, and record music as part of the Brazilian Jazz Festival. This project aims to make the Brazilian Jazz Festival an annual event at WSU, ultimately promoting a richer understanding of Brazilian music and enriching students’ cultural awareness and knowledge of a musical culture that is integral to the jazz idiom.
Erin Hvizdak, Humanities Libraries
WSU Libraries
Reframing Collections: Art, Race, and Gender in New Orleans, 1830-1940
DGPCAH funding will be used to support travel to archival repositories in both Louisiana and France. The project will result in a book chapter and proposal about the intersections of race, gender, and art in New Orleans (1830-1940), focusing on how provenance research reveals historical erasures of the recognition of women and people of color in the Southern U.A. art world.
Brenna Miller, Assistant Professor
Department of History
Teaching Southeastern Europe in World History: “Identity, Diversity, and Upheaval: A View from the Intersection of Europe, Russia, and the Middle East, 1870-1970
DGPCAH funding will be used for summary salary to support the research and writing of a two-week teaching module that includes student readings, primary sources, instructor guides, in-class activities, and final assessments; this module will be published with History for the 21st Century. This project will offer world history instructors and students a fresh perspective on key topics in world history from 1870 to 1970 from the lens of southeastern Europe, encouraging students to reflect on popular notions of where history happens, who drives it, and how everyday people experience it. and it will be published with History for the 21st Century.
Linda Russo, Professor
Department of English
Plant Companion Field Guide
DGPCAH funding will be used for a production of a “First Series” of prints based on five native plants prevalent in and around Pullman, honoraria for the visual artists and cultural consultants, and a course release to allow for more time dedicated to the field guide. This project will result in an artful scientifically informed series of prints, including original poems, botanical illustrations, and cultural information, that will serve as a laypersons’ field guide to plants native to the Palouse Prairie.
