Therese Quinn and Ronak Kapadia Awarded IH Innovation Grant

Dr. Therese Quinn (Professor and Director of the Program in Museum and Exhibition Studies) and Dr. Ronak Kapadia (Associate Professor, Liberal Arts & Sciences and Affiliated Faculty with MUSE and Art History) have been awarded a $10,000 Humanities Innovation Grant from UIC’s Institute for the Humanities. It will fund a Fall 2022 virtual Scholarly Seminar and Public Dialogue Series featuring new work in the humanities at the intersections of comparative ethnic studies, Native North American studies, and Middle Eastern studies that explores the parallels between the two longest military conflicts in US history: the “American Indian Wars” and the “Global War on Terror.”

Co-sponsored by the UIC Museum & Exhibition Studies (MUSE) and Gender & Women’s Studies (GWS) Programs, the scholarly seminar series and dialogue will comprise the public-facing component of an ongoing collaboration with the emerging Veteran Art Movement (eVAM) and a proposed National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) Dialogues on the Experiences of War grant-supported program in AY 22-23. The NEH project includes a two-semester-long graduate seminar housed in MUSE and a residency program that will culminate at the second Veteran Art Triennial and Summit at the Chicago Cultural Center and Hyde Park Art Center in Chicago in March 2023.