Grants

CELIA provides a limited number of seed grants to faculty to help them develop or pilot projects relating to collaborative and innovative approaches to education and/or leadership in the arts. Grants provide up to $2,500 in research support, and are typically for one or two semesters. For more information, please contact Dr. Hank Dahlman, Director.

Application

CELIA Seed Grant Application (DOCX)

Seed Grant Awards

Arvind Elangovan

Associate Professor, History

Recognition Year: 

2020

Arvind Elangovan, Ph.D., has been teaching in the Department of History since earning his Ph.D. in history from the University of Chicago in 2012.

Pramod Kantha

Associate Professor, Political Science

Recognition Year: 

2020

Pramod Kantha, Ph.D., is an associate professor of political science in the School of Public and International Affairs at Wright State University in Dayton, Ohio.

Alpana Sharma

Professor and chair of English

Recognition Year: 

2020

Alpana Sharma is professor and chair of English at Wright State University in Dayton, Ohio. She received her Ph.D.

Benjamin Montague

Associate Professor of Photography

Recognition Year: 

2015-16

Benjamin Montague is an Associate Professor in Photography at Wright State University. He received his MFA from the University of Delaware and his BA from Marlboro College.

Tracy Longley-Cook

Associate Professor of Photography

Recognition Year: 

2014-15

Tracy Longley-Cook (b. 1973, Coronado, California) has her BFA and MFA in photography from the University of Washington (1997), and Arizona State University (2007), respectively.

Alpana Sharma

Professor of English and Women’s Studies and Graduate Director of English

Recognition Year: 

2014-15

Alpana Sharma is Professor of English and Women’s Studies and Graduate Director of English at Wright State University in Dayton, Ohio. She received her Ph.D.

Steven Bognar

Recognition Year: 

2013-14

The Dayton Art Institute has partnered with the Dayton Visual Arts Center (DVAC) and WYSO 91.3 to present the exhibition Reinvention Portraits: Photographs by Julia Reichert & Steven Bognar and the Reinvention Collaborative, on view June 30 – September 29.

Shengrong Cai

Recognition Year: 

2013-14

Voices from Multiple Perspectives: International Students’ Academic English Proficiency Development when Transitioning from English Language Programs to Academic