News from Princeton University
Princeton University Center awards grants to study
cultural policy
Date: June 2, 2003
Princeton, N.J. – The Center for Arts and Cultural Policy
Studies has selected two Mellon Foundation Doctoral Fellows in
Cultural Policy and six Mellon Foundation Research Affiliates
in Cultural Policy to receive grants for the 2003/2004 academic
year.
Since 1998, with support from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation,
the Center has been making awards every year to graduate students
at Princeton and area universities to support research and writing
on topics germane to cultural policy. The Center awards $15,000
doctoral fellowships to students who are writing a dissertation
on some aspect of cultural policy and $4,000 project grants to
students who are working on smaller projects related to arts and
culture in America. Over the last 5 years, more than 25 grants
have been awarded to students working in a variety of disciplines,
including architecture, sociology, anthropology, English, politics,
public policy, music and history.
This year, doctoral fellowships were awarded to Gabriel Rossman,
department of sociology, and Thierry Rigogne, department of history.
Rossman is studying the effects of media ownership on content
in newspapers, movies and on radio stations. Rigogne is completing
a dissertation on the book trade in eighteenth-century France,
focusing on the geography of publishing and the effects of censorship
and regulation.
Five project grants were awarded to Princeton graduate students
– Meredith Bostwick, School of Architecture; Ted Coffey,
department of music; Hannah McLaughlin, department of English;
Maria McMath, department of anthropology; and Yue Zhang, department
of politics. One grant was made to Rutgers University student
Steven Holochwost, department of music. In the area of architecture,
Bostwick is studying planning and design at historic black colleges
and universities, while Zhang is analyzing preservation policies
in Beijing, Paris, and Chicago in order to understand the tensions
between modernization and traditional culture. McLaughlin is examining
the economics of publishing and the relationship between amateur
and academic history; and McMath is writing on hip-hop in France
and the interaction of art, politics, and racial identity. Finally,
two affiliates are studying contemporary music composition and
its dissemination to audiences. Coffey is examining several case
studies of innovative techniques for connecting new music to audiences;
and Holochwost is studying how cultural policy can aid in the
dissemination of contemporary classical music.
The Princeton University Center for Arts and Cultural Policy
Studies was created to improve the clarity, accuracy and sophistication
of discourse about the nation's artistic and cultural life. Its
programs and activities are designed to create an infrastructure
of well-trained scholars who have access to regularly collected
information about cultural organizations, activities and providers
and who produce timely research and analysis on key topics in
arts and cultural policy.
For more information, please contact:
Steven Tepper
Deputy Director of the Princeton University Center for Arts and
Cultural Policy Studies
609-258-5662
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