Grants and Contracts

External Funding

Alternate, American Council of Learned Societies, 2009

Major Collaborative Research Initiatives Program Grant, 2006-2013
Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada
Co-applicant: Improvisation, Community, and Social Practice. 
PI:  Ajay Heble, Professor, University of Guelph, Ontario. Awarded: $2,488,619

Haynes Foundation Grant, 2005-2006
Historical Society of Southern California, Awarded: $600

Albert J. Beveridge Research Grant, 2003-2004
American Historical Association, Awarded: $665

National Park Service, Research Study Contract, 2001-2003
New Orleans Jazz National Historical Park
“A Feminist Perspective on New Orleans Jazz Women,” Awarded: $38.000

Internal Funding

Hall Center Research Fellowship, Fall 2006
Hall Center for the Humanities

University of Kansas, General Research Fund, 2005-2006
“Dance Floor Democracy: The Social Geography of Memory at the Hollywood Canteen.”Awarded: $5,888

University of Kansas, General Research Fund, 2004-2005
“Dance Floor Democracy: The Social Geography of Memory at the Hollywood Canteen.” Awarded: $5,888

Humanities Faculty Travel Grant, 2003-2004
Hall Center for the Humanities, Awarded: $720

University of Kansas, General Research Fund, 2003-2004
“Democracy on the Dance Floor: Race, Gender, and Nation at the Hollywood Canteen.” Awarded: $5,798

University of Kansas, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, 2003-2004
Principal investigator: KU Interdisciplinary Jazz Studies Group, Awarded: $15,000

University of Kansas Center for Research, 2003-2004
Principal investigator: KU Interdisciplinary Jazz Studies Group, Awarded: $15,000

University of Kansas, General Research Fund, 2002-2003
“Democracy on the Dance Floor: Race, Gender, and Nation at the Hollywood Canteen.”  Awarded: $9,702

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