This award encourages faculty to engage in crossdiciplinary conversation throughout the span of their careers. Through this award, faculty at the rank of full professor can bring to their research the expertise of a faculty member from another discipline. Each chooses a collaborating faculty member--of any rank and may belong to any department, discipline, or field other than the applicant's own--with whom she or he would value regular conversation and guidance.

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Scott Noegel (Professor, Near Eastern Languages and Civilization)

Image, Representation, and Religion in the Ancient Near East
Noegel's project seeks to provide vocabulary and methodological frameworks that currently inform the discipline of Art History, build upon current research on religious cosmologies and representation in the ancient Near East, making full use of a digital image archive of more than ten thousand images, and will result in an undergraduate course on the subject of "Ancient Near Eastern Art." Noegel will work in conjunction with Assistant Professor Margaret Laird (Art History), whose expertise in art and archeology of the ancient world will bring invaluable vocabulary and methodological frameworks to Noegel’s project.

Ruby Blondell (Classics)

"Dangerous Beauty: Containing Helen of Troy"
Blondell's project examines Helen of Troy as a figure of power and danger, more specifically, as an embodiment of the threat posed by female sexuality. She will use this award to draw upon Sandra Joshel's (History) expertise in feminist and screen theory in order to assist with her project for the Society of Scholars.