Ten researchers from Michigan State University have received Humanities and Arts Research Program (HARP) Production Awards for Session II, to advance research leading to creative and performance projects or activities in the arts and humanities. The call for submissions closed Jan. 22, 2026, and submissions were announced Apr. 1, 2026. HARP supports humanities and arts scholarship and creative activity across MSU through funding made possible by the MSU Research Foundation.
The following projects were selected for funding through the HARP Production Award program.
Humanities Research
- LeConte Dill | African American and African Studies | College of Arts and Letters | Waiting for a Rainbow
- Nareman Amin | Religious Studies | College of Arts and Letters | Is God for Revolution? Affect, Youth and Islam in Post-2011 Egypt
- Eric Aronoff | Residential College in the Arts and Humanities | Permission Fees/Imaging Cost for Archival Documents from Octavia E. Butler Papers for Chapter in "Culture's Futures: Science Fiction, Form and the Problem of Culture" (Palgrave, forthcoming), | "Captivity, Conversion, Culture: Octavia E. Butler's Genre-tic Engineering of Ethnography and Science Fiction in the Xenogenesis Trilogy"
- Silvia Tita | Department of Art, Art History, and Design, | College of Arts and Letters Legal Visuality: Exegesis, Ambiguity, and Dissimulation of the Donation of Constantine in the Early Modern Period
- Juliet Guzzetta | Department of English, | College of Arts and Letters | Italian Feminisms: Transnational Praxes for Today and Tomorrow
Exhibition and Performance
- Patti Spinner | Department of Linguistics, Languages, and Cultures | College of Arts and Letters | Expansion of ESL Song Library
- Anthony Stanco | Jazz Studies | College of Music | In the Groove: Live at The Alluvion (CD)
- Peter Johnston | Department of English | College of Arts and Letters | MAGIC TOWN: a feature documentary film
- Guy Yehuda | Woodwind Department | College of Music | Forbidden Music
- João Filipe Fernandes Castanheira Beira | Department of Art, Art History, and Design | College of Arts and Letters | FullDome 360 audiovisual performance
Faculty interested in pursuing future Human Animal Partnership Research Grant (HARP), Discretionary Funding Initiative (DFI), or Strategic Partnership Grant (SPG) funding opportunities can learn more about current internal funding programs and application requirements on the Research and Innovation Internal Funding webpage.