| AKB-298431-24 | Education Programs: Humanities Connections Implementation Grants | Florida Atlantic University | Health and Illness in South Florida: Implementing a Health Humanities Minor | 10/1/2024 - 9/30/2027 | $148,764.00 | Michael | A. | Rapoport | Clarissa | Ann | Chenovick | Florida Atlantic University | Boca Raton | FL | 33431-6424 | USA | 2024 | Interdisciplinary Studies, General | Humanities Connections Implementation Grants | Education Programs | 148764 | 0 | 148764 | 0 | A three-year project to develop five new courses and establish a new interdisciplinary minor in health humanities for undergraduates.
Florida Atlantic University’s (FAU) Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters proposes a three-year project to create an interdisciplinary minor in Health Humanities. This minor will serve as a bridge connecting the teaching of topics related to health and medicine, typically rooted in scientific and biomedical disciplines, with the methods and aims of the humanities and humanistic social sciences. Faculty and staff in the College of Arts and Letters and College of Medicine will collaborate in the implementation of the minor. The minor aims to create opportunities for dialogue between humanities and non-humanities students and for faculty, increase enrollment in humanities courses from students outside of Arts and Letters, prepare students for future education and careers related to health and medicine, and strengthen connections between FAU and the local community. |
| HB-289056-23 | Research Programs: Awards for Faculty | Michael A. Rapoport | A New Paradigm for a New Era: An Edition and Translation of Fakhr al-Din al-Razi’s Compendium on Philosophy and Logic | 8/1/2023 - 7/31/2024 | $60,000.00 | Michael | A. | Rapoport | | | | Florida Atlantic University | Boca Raton | FL | 33431-6424 | USA | 2022 | History of Philosophy | Awards for Faculty | Research Programs | 60000 | 0 | 60000 | 0 | Editing and translating leading to
a critical edition of The Compendium on Philosophy and Logic by the Muslim philosopher Fakhruddin Razi (1149?–1209).
My project aims to make available for the first time a critical edition and translation of Books I-III of the Compendium on Philosophy and Logic (al-Mulakhkhas fi l-hikma wa-l-mantiq) by Fakhr al-Din al-Razi (d. 1210). Razi was a preeminent figure in Arabic and Islamic intellectual history and, more broadly, the history of philosophy; the Compendium was perhaps his most influential work on philosophy. The lack of critical editions and translations hinders our efforts to replace a dated, prejudice-based narrative of Arabic and Islamic intellectual history. A new narrative, which is currently being researched and written by myself and colleagues, will accurately place Razi’s accomplishments, and those of other Arabic scholars, within the broader history of science and philosophy. The edition and translation will be a major resource for faculty and graduate students in such fields as Arabic and Islamic Studies, Philosophy, History and Classics. |