Restricted Research - Award List, Note/Discussion Page
Fiscal Year: 2023
2285 The University of Texas at San Antonio (144173)
Principal Investigator: Walker, Kenneth
Total Amount of Contract, Award, or Gift (Annual before 2011): $ 1,522,400
Exceeds $250,000 (Is it flagged?): Yes
Start and End Dates: 9/1/23 - 8/31/26
Restricted Research: YES
Academic Discipline: ARTS
Department, Center, School, or Institute: Colfa English
Title of Contract, Award, or Gift: The Urban Bird Project
Name of Granting or Contracting Agency/Entity:
The Andrew W Mellon Foundation
CFDA: 0
Program Title: none
Note:
SAMs 1.3.1; The Urban Bird Project (UBP) at UTSA is a transdisciplinary (combining scholars in English, ethnic studies, education, and ecology) and community-engaged (embedding knowledge work within community praxis) effort whose purpose is to use humanities research on local and migratory birds to further environmental justice within San Antonio and South Texas. Thus, the goals of the UBP are to engage university and San Antonio community members in an interdisciplinary project focused on birds in order to: 1) resource efforts to reclaim environmental knowledge already existing in borderlands Indigenous and Mexican American communities; 2) train minoritized graduate and undergraduate students in transdisciplinary and community-based research methodologies; 3) create collaborative university/community partnerships where community-based research can be brought to bear on local environmental justice, and 4) to create broad public access to humanities-led programming in environmental justice. The potential impacts of the project are three-fold: 1) a transferable humanities-based curricula focused on marginalized ecological knowledge of birds; 2) faculty, student, and community researchers capable of engaging in interdisciplinarity to support community-based struggles for justice; and 3) public learning with issues critical to environmental justice policies at local, national, and international levels
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