The Program in the Study of Imagination is pleased to announce a Graduate Student Grant Competition. PSI GSG are intended to fund Northwestern student projects that explore and inform our understanding of the imagination as the engine behind intellectual and artistic creativity. Three grants of $2000 each will be awarded in the three areas of history, performance and technology of the imagination. We invite proposals for projects that investigate the history and/or the uses of the imagination, with topics ranging from early modern art to artificial intelligence; these may be scholarly articles, performances, exhibitions, scientific experiments or may take other forms. Students are welcome to propose projects that would normally fall outside of their regular program of study; for example, a student of history or computer science may propose the production of a short film, while a student of music performance might plan a publishable article drawing on archival research.

For more information and for guidelines, see Graduate Student Grant Description.

The Program in the Study of Imagination offers modest research grants to NU faculty as well. Grants are made to projects with a demonstrable connection to the study of the imagination as carried out by PSI.

Grant recipients include:

Davide Stimilli,
Assistant Professor,
Department of French and Italian
Research on Aby Warburg, conducted at the Warburg Institute, London
"Per monstra ad sphaeram: Unpublished Writings 1923-1925,"
Grant term: September 2001

For more information about PSI research support, please contact psi@northwestern.edu.