Stories of support, collaboration, research and community engagement
Emma Davis, theatre and dance lecturer, and Jason Kosnoski, associate professor of political science, recently received a $25,000 U-M Arts Initiative award to engage with Flint-native musical artist Tunde Olaniran for the creation of a public performance festival in Flint this Summer. The collaborators will work to bring together a variety of performance artists from
In January 2020, the Mellon Foundation made a $600,000 award to University of Michigan – Flint professors Daniel Birchok and Jacob Lederman, just before the emergence of the COVID pandemic. The project, entitled ‘Borders and Crossings: Exploring Global Questions at the University of Michigan-Flint,’ began with the premise that community-engaged humanities courses needed to be