Carleton announces Curricular Innovation Grants for 2026

Curricular Innovation Grants support projects including major curricular revisions for departments or programs, curricular innovations, and individual or team proposals to work on a specific course.

21 May 2026 Posted In:
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Carleton’s Office of the Provost has announced this year’s Curricular Innovation Grants (CIG), awarded to faculty for the summer of 2026 or winter break of 2026–27 by the Faculty Curricular Planning Committee (FCPC). These grants from the Curricular Innovation Fund support projects including major curricular revisions for departments or programs, curricular innovations, and individual or team proposals to work on a specific course.

Curricular Innovation Grants

  • Stacy Beckwith (Middle Eastern languages and Judaic studies): to support work translating Spanish fiction for a new CCST course, Narrating Jewish Spain.
  • Deewang Bhamidipati (mathematics and statistics): to support the development of a Coding Theory course.
  • Kelly Connole (art and art history): for work on her project, “Next Steps with Local Clays: Formulating a More Sustainable Body.”
  • Chielo Eze (Africana studies): to support revisions to the course, Black Music, Resistance, and Freedom.
  • Katharine Hargrave (French and Francophone studies): for travel and research related to her project, “France and the Atlantic World.”
  • Yoolim Kim (linguistics): for the development of two new courses, Between Languages: Heritage Speakers and The Spoken and Written Word.
  • Jay McKinney (cognitive science): to support the development of a new Japanese philosophy course.
  • Jake Morton (classics): to support research about Judaism in the Hellenistic Greek world.
  • Sandra Rousseau (French and Francophone studies): to support travel and research for her project, “Hijab Obsession: Veiling and Unveiling in France and Tunisia.”
  • Rou-Jia Sung (biology): to support the development of activities for introductory biology students in BIO 126 to increase spaces for rightful presence in the classroom.

AI Curricular Development Grants

  • Aaron Swoboda (economics and environmental studies): to support his project, “Powering the AI Revolution: Electricity Economics, Environment, and Policy.”
  • Miaki Habuka and Lin Deng (Asian languages and literatures): to support their work on “Exploring Prompt Engineering to Develop an AI Chatbot for Intermediate Japanese Courses.”
  • Catherine Licata (cinema and media studies): to support the development of the new course, “Generative AI in Film Production: A Critical Laboratory.”

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