A Project of UNH's Culture and Sustainability Initiative (CAS)

The Sustainability Institute at UNH invites proposals from UNH College of Liberal Arts (COLA) faculty members interested in developing and implementing programming that brings a liberal arts perspective to sustainability.

Proposals may be submitted as individuals or groups, and interdisciplinary proposals involving collaboration between departments and offices that help to expand the scope and impact of the proposed program will be given special consideration.

Sustainability Institiute Faculty Fellows and staff will select awardees.

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We offer support in two areas:

Course development

• Three course development awards of $3K each for courses offered in the 2013-14 academic year: each awardee will receive $2K in course development funding during AY12-13 followed by $1K in implementation during the semester in which the course is offered.
• Proposals and syllabi due Oct 1. MORE INFORMATION AND WEBFORM
• For the development of Humanities courses that may be cross-listed with the proposed UNH Sustainability Dual Major (SDM). This is an opportunity for faculty in COLA to help highlight the humanities contributions to sustainability and to benefit from increased exchange with our colleagues in the natural, social and health sciences, as well as in engineering.

AY13-14 Awardees

• Marla Brettschneider (Political Science & Women's Studies): "Occupy Democracy: Participatory/Sustainable Democracy in Theory & Practice"
• Petar Ramadanovic (English): "Eco-criticism, Sustainability and Nature"
• Maya Ravindranath (English): "Sustainable Languages."
• Paula Salvio (Education): "Hunger and Longing in Literature and Society"
• Jeanie Sowers (Political Science) and Janet Polasky (History): “Revolutions: A Two-Semester Exploration”
• Hetty Startup (Art & Art History): "Engaged Learning through Local Material Culture"
• Reginal Wilburn (English): "Why (Black) English Matters: Sustaining the Early Language of African American Difference."

Co-curricular programming

• Awards of up to $1,000 available beginning September 15.
• Proposals accepted on a rolling basis. MORE INFORMATION AND WEBFORM
• For the development and implementation of programming that brings a liberal arts perspective to sustainability. Proposals submitted should pertain to issues that communicate the actual and/or potential relationships between the liberal arts and sustainability.

For more information, please contact Sara Cleaves (862-0172) or Sue Curry (862-3648) of the Sustainability Institute.

AY12-13 Awardees to Date

• Siobhan Senier (English): Indigenous New England annual conference
• Tom Haines (English): Sustainable Stories
• David Bachrach (History): Medieval Climate Change in Modern Methodological Perspective
• David Kaye (Theatre and Dance): Sila: Exploring Culture and Sustainability through Drama