Awards and Grants
I have been fortunate to receive a range of direct support for my work both from inside the university and from external funding sources. In the past three years, I have received external funding from the National Endowment for the Humanities, The MacArthur Foundation and Adobe Systems; internally, I have received repeated funding from the USC Provost’s Arts & Humanities and Technology Enhanced Learning initiatives, as well as the James H. Zumberge Research and Innovation fund. My teaching efforts have been recognized with a nomination by the USC Parents Association and with the 2009 Provost’s Teaching with Technology award.
Awards and Grants
Related Content Database Inc., Principle Investigator $35,000 to support MovieTagger, a “method and system for parsing and richly tagging every movie ever made,” 2010
National Endowment for the Humanities, Co-Principle Investigator with Tara McPherson, Holly Willis and David Theo Goldberg $240,000 to support the NEH/Vectors/University of California Humanities Research Institute (UCHRI), summer institute “Broadening the Digital Humanities” at UC Irvine, 2010
USC Provost’s Office, Arts and Humanities Initiative, Visions & Voices: Code Word Processing, $3950 for a two-day workshop on using the dynamic visualization language Processing for scholarly applications, spring 2010
USC Provost’s Office, Technology Enhanced Learning/Teaching with Technology grant, Principle Investigator $19,750 to develop Mobile Commons, a handheld application that makes the contents of the Critical Commons database available for mobile users, 2009-10
USC Provost’s Office, Teaching With Technology Award $5000 to recognize innovation in the use of pedagogical technology, spring 2009
National Endowment for the Humanities, Co-Principle Investigator with Tara McPherson and Holly Willis $200,000 for the NEH/Vectors/IML institute “Broadening the Digital Humanities” at USC, summer 2009.
MacArthur Foundation, Digital Media and Learning Initiative, Principle Investigator $61,000 for Critical Commons, 2008-09
MacArthur Foundation, Co-Principle Investigator with Mimi Ito, $40,000 for 24/7: A DIY Video Summit, 2008
USC Provost’s Arts and Humanities Initiative: Visions & Voices: Co-recipient with Mimi Ito, $25,000 for 24/7: A DIY Video Summit, 2008
Adobe Systems: Principle Investigator, $10,000 to support the Design | Technology | Theory series, investigating emerging modes of design and technology-driven research 2007
Visions & Voices: USC Provost’s Arts and Humanities Initiative: Co-recipient with Anne Balsamo, Perry Hoberman and Anne Friedberg, $86,000 for TransFormations: Art, Technology, Cognition, Perception, 2006-07
USC Provost’s Technology Enhanced Learning Seed Grant, Principle Investigator $35,000 to develop a virtual campus for the School of Cinematic Arts, 2006-07
Nominated for USC Parents Association and Office for Parent Programs Teaching and Mentoring Award, Fall 2006
James H. Zumberge Faculty Research & Innovation Fund: Principle Investigator $24,000 for research project Open Source Scholarship: Exploring Innovations in Digital Research, Publication and Pedagogy, 2006-07
Roski School of Fine Arts Faculty Arts Initiative: Co-recipient with Holly Willis $5000 to establish Blur+Sharpen screening series for digital media, 2002
Steve Anderson is an Assistant Professor of Interactive Media and Director of the Ph.D. program in Media Arts & Practice in the USC School of Cinematic Arts. He is the author of Technologies of History: Visual Media and the Eccentricity of the Past (Dartmouth 2011), co-Editor of the interdisciplinary online journal Vectors and creator of the fair use advocacy site Critical Commons. A scholar-practitioner working at the intersection of media, culture and technology, his research interests include historiography, the theory and history of emerging technologies, documentary and experimental film and video, and interactive media design.