Complete List of 2007 Grants
- Environmental Studies materials, including films and monographs
- Overseas purchasing by Latin American Studies faculty
- Films for the Latin American Studies collection
- 19 video set of Pioneers of Psychotherapy
- Monographs and video for for the Alcohol Screening and Brief Intervention Project, a collaborative project between the Counseling Department and WFU Baptist Medical Center
- Multicultural children’s literature
- Pickering & Chatto publications about eminent Victorians, by their contemporaries
- Books and DVDs on the Middle East-South Asia academic field
- Retrospective purchasing of books and DVDs on the East Asia academic field
- Monographs in the areas of molecular biophysics, bioinformatics, drug discovery, computational biophysics, and nanotechnology
- Major classical ballets on DVD
- CDs for a core jazz recordings collection
- CDs and scores in the area of contemporary classical music
- Anthropology and archaeology monographic titles with an emphasis on archaeological methods particularly excavation and laboratory analysis of pots, stone tools, and soils
- Materials in multiple formats for Performance Art/Theory and as a foundation/preparation for an upcoming creativity conference to be held in Spring 2009
- Replacement old VHS and DVD film editions with the newer, high quality productions from The Criterion Collection
- Filling in the gaps in the dance video collection
- Purchase of the Gale 19th Century U.S. Newspapers (digital archive)
- Materials in the area of cultural interaction in the pre-modern Mediterranean and Atlantic worlds
- A data set on approximately 10 board meeting proposals per company for each of 3,700 companies, and the voting records of 7,000 mutual funds on each of those proposals, to support research centering on issues of corporate governance and transparency, as well as shareholder activism and voting characteristics
- Primary source material from 1880 – 1940 supporting investigation into the roles of religion, biology, and economics in the rise of the eugenics movement of the early 20th century
- Materials to support a multi-format, multidimensional class examining the cultures of 4 indigenous peoples of the Pacific Rim across a wide range of issues
- Books and DVDs in the areas of disabilities studies, theology and disabilities, and special education
- Filling in gaps in the interdisciplinary teaching and research areas of the African Diaspora religions, African American culture, ethnography of religion, and religion in American culture
- Books focusing on Arabic language and dialects, grammar; linguistics; literature in the original Arabic and in English translation, women in Islam, and Sufism. Films will include movies in Arabic filmed in a variety of Arabic-speaking countries and reflecting a variety of time periods, themes, and perspectives as well as movies in English about various facets of the Arabic-speaking world
- Materials in the field of modern Hinduism; feminism and South Asian culture; women and religion; postcolonial theory and the study of religion and politics; and art and architecture in India
- Documentary films on eating disorders and other health issues confronted by college students
- Films examining how Media deals with issues of war and terrorism that would be applicable across many disciplines