Non-Travel Awards 2020-2021
Dana Research Assistantships
Kirk Anderson, Educational Studies/Brendan Landy ’22 to work on the project, “Trauma-Informed Pedagogy in Higher Education”
Kent Barrett, Theatre & Dance/Chakra Sokhomsan ’24 to work on the project, “Valley Traction Design”
Grant Braught, Mathematics & Computer Science/Josephine Cook ’23 to work on the project, “FarmData2 Development”
Eva Copeland, Spanish & Portuguese/Marcia Smith ’22 to work on the project, “Performing Empire: Spanish 19th Century Theatre”
Alyssa DeBlasio, Russian/Elizabeth Price ’22 to work on the project, “George Benjamin Murphy, Jr '27 and "An Afro American Journey to the Soviet Union"
Neil Diamant, East Asian Studies and Shawn Bender, Political Science/Chris Laporte ’23 & Leah Goldberg ’23 to work on the project, “Examining Institutional Inclusivity in Asian Studies”
Xiaozhou Ding, Economics/Sarah Mason ’22 to work on the project, “School Quality and Household Mobility”
Maggie Douglas, Environmental Studies/Valerie Kuppek ’21 to work on the project, “Influence of the American Toad on the Insect Community at ºìÐÓÖ±²¥app Farm”
James Ellison, Anthropology & Archaeology/Maya Peck ’22 to work on the project, “Infrastructures of Populism in Africa”
Steve Erfle, International Business & Management/Kyle Lee ’22 to work on the project, “An Interactive Math and Art Book Project”
Amy Farrell, American Studies and Women’s/Elizabeth Roy ‘24, Gender & Sexuality Studies/ to work on the project, “Gender and Fat and Girl Scouts of the USA”
Holley Friedlander, Math & Computer Science/Alex Nash ’22 to work on the project, ”Colored Partition Diagrams”
Margaret Frohlich, Spanish & Portuguese/Anna Matovic ’22 to work on the project, “More than Two Flavors: Sexual Diversity in Cuban Youth Cinema”
Azriel Grysman, Psychology/Ethan Cantor ’22 to work on the project, “Conversational Influences on Recall of Personally Meaningful Events”
Liz Lewis, Educational Studies/Kyra Ramos ’21 to work on the project, “Iterating for Inclusion: An Examination of the Literacy Development of English Learning & Migrant Youth through a Summer Writing Program”
Katie Marchetti, Political Science/Cara Dougherty ’21 to work on the projects, “Political Profile of U.S. Pagans”, “Teaching Research Methods in Political Science”
Nicoletta Marini-Maio, Italian/Jacob DeCarli ’22 to work on the project, “Assistant Editor for gender/sexuality/Italy - Online Open-Access Peer-Reviewed International Journal. (8, 2021)”
Sarah Niebler, Political Science/Sophie Ackert ’21 to work on the project, “Campaigning in PA: The Nationalization of Campaigns and Elections in a Battleground State”
Cody Nielsen, Center for Spirituality & Social Justice/ to work on the project “Policies at Private Liberal Arts Institutions Related to External Religious "Affiliates”
Tullio Pagano, Italian/Ben Faintych ’22 to work on the project, “The Dawn of the World: The Italian Italian Diaspora to South America”
Emily Pawley, History/Kathryn Stonesmyth ’22 to support the project, “Segregation in Carlisle: A Public History Storymap Project”
Matthew Pinsker, History/Amanda Sowah ’22 to work on the project, “House Divided Project”
Karl Qualls, History/Becca Kearns ’21 to work on the project, “Executive Power as a Transformative Agent for "Progress": The Case of FDR, Hitler, Mussolini, and Stalin”
Sarah St. Angelo, Chemistry & Matt Steiman, College Farm/Prerana Patil ’24 to work on the project, “Renewable Agriculture: Biogas Digestor, Compost, and Resultant Fertilizer Effects on Crop Growth and Nutritional Content”
Colin Rathbun, Chemistry/Kat Usavage ’23 to work on the project, “Developing New Bioluminescent Sensors for Monitoring Intracellular Interactions”
Dan Schubert, Sociology/Laura Whitaker ’22 to work on the projects, “HIV and the Military Metaphor in the Time of Chronic Illness and Anti-Habitus: Bourdieu, Reflexivity, and Emancipatory Practice”
Sarah St. Angelo, Chemistry/Jordan Cox to work on the project, “Silver Nanoparticle / Zinc Oxide Hybrid Nanomaterials for Pollutant Remediation”
Gregory Steirer, English/Max Abramson ’24 to work on the project, “A Material-Culture-Oriented Approach to Story Worlds”
Alyson Thibodeau, Earth Sciences/Erin Heeschen ’22 to work on the project, “Mercury anomalies at the Norian-Rhaetian Stage Boundary”
Gene Wingert, Biology/Erin Kennaly ’22 to work on the project, “Wildwood Turtle Study.”
Scholarly/Creative
Nadia Alahmed, Africana Studies to support the project, “Research for a book titled ’Black Power Movement, Palestinian Liberation and Culture of Resistance, and the Roots of Black and Palestinian Solidarity’”
Thomas Arnold, Biology to support the project, “Fund RNA-seq analyses in support of collaborative NSF proposal resubmission”
Todd Arsenault, Art & Art History to support the project, “2021 Paintings and Prints”
Qing Bai, International Business Management to support the project, “Technological Innovation and Stock Market Bubbles”
Heather Bedi, Environmental Studies to support the project, “Democratizing India’s Energy Transition”
Anthony Cervino, Art & Art History to support the project, “Antlion - an exhibition at the University of North Carolina”
Tiffany Frey, Biology to support the project, “Effect of Reduced Rab Prenylation on CD14 Trafficking and Release from Macrophages”
Ellen Gray, Music to support the projects, “Amalia Rodrigues: Live at the Olympia Theater and Tangibles, Intangibles and a Precarious South”
Karen Kirkham, Theatre & Dance to support the project, “Taitlin's Tower Play”
Jerry Philogene, American Studies to support the project, “Beyond Vodou Iconography: Luce Turnier a Feminist Modernist in Haiti”
Mirelle Rebeiz, French to support the project, “Gender Issues and Toxic Masculinity in Middle Eastern Women's Texts”
Jorge Sagastume, Spanish to support the project, “Ethics in Antonio di Benedetto's Literature”
Peter Schadler, Religion to support the project, “Narratological Discourse Between Fact and Fiction in Byzantium and Beyond”
Sarah Skaggs, Theatre & Dance to support the project, “IHowl - A Film”
Alyson Thibodeau, Earth Sciences to support the project, “Mercury Chemostratigraphy of the Norian-Rhaetian Boundary”
Amy Wlodarski, Music to support the project, “Reanimation, Trauma, and Viktor Ullmann's - Der Kaiser von Atlantis”
Megan Yost, Psychology to support the project, “Orthodox Jewish Women's Haircovering, Religiosity, and Body Image”
Megan Yost, Psychology to support the project, “Orthodox Jewish Women's Haircovering, Religiosity, and Body Image”
Rui Zhang, Psychology to support the project, “Biculturalism and Wise Reasoning”
Collaborative Student-Faculty Research
Shamma Alam, International Studies/Claire Simpson ’22 to support the project, “Economics and Domestic Violence in Developing Countries”
Qing Bai International Business Management/Kyle Lee ’22 to support the project, “Dynamic Co-Movement Between Twitter Based Economic Uncertainty and Real Estate Returns”
Scott Boback, Biology/Zoe Muller ’22 to support the project, “Sociality of Pregnant Prairie Rattlesnakes in Northern Colorado”
Maggie Douglas, Environmental Studies/Nhu Truong ’22 to support the project, “Cover Crops in a Changing Climate: Can Mixtures Reduce Water Stress?”
Jeffrey Engelhardt, Philosophy/Charlies Elder ’23 to support the project, “Misandrogyny Around the World”
Lars English, Physics & Astronomy/Emma Behta ’22 & Hillel Finder ’22 to support the project, “Synchronization Phenomena in Physical and Electronic Systems”
Azriel Grysman, Psychology/Melanie Baime ’21 to support the project, “Conversational Influences on Recall of Personally Meaningful Events”
Sherry Harper-McCombs, Theatre & Dance/James van Kuilenburg ’24 to support the project, “Collaborative Creation and Performance”
Sarah Kersh, English/Juliana Reinhart ’22 to support the project, “Michael Field Diary Transcriptions”
Emily Marshall, Economics/Trang Do ’23 to support the project, “Measuring the Size of the U.S. State Shadow Economy Using a Dynamic General Equilibrium Model with Trends”
Kristine Mitchell, Political Science & International Studies/Sadie Fowler ’22 to support the project, “Building 'Little Punjab' in West London? Southall Migrants' Experiences in their Own Words”
Colin Rathbun, Chemistry/Sammy Garcia ’23 & Kat Usavage ’23 to support the project, “Developing New Bioluminescent Sensors for Monitoring Intracellular Interactions”
Anthony Underwood, Economics/Ruby Ngo ’22 to support the project, “Teaching Reproducibility in Undergraduate Economics Courses”
Sabbatical Expense Support 2020-2021
Marcelo Borges, History to support the sabbatical project, “Emotions on the Move: Migration and Transnational Families from Southern Europe through the Lens of Personal Letters and Photographs, 1870s–1970s”
Carolina Castellanos Gonella, Spanish & Portuguese to support the sabbatical project, “The Representation of Mexican Drug Trafficking Women in Literature and Newspapers”
Daniel Cozort, Religion to support the sabbatical project, “Dharma Rain II: A Sourcebook on Buddhist Environmentalism”
Ellen Gray, Music to support the sabbatical projects, “Amalia Rodrigues: Live at the Olympia Theater” and ”Tangibles, Intangibles and a Precarious South
Lorelei Koss, Math & Computer Science to support the sabbatical project, “Dynamics of Converging Polynomials”
Luca Lanzilotta, Italian to support the sabbatical project, “Robert Ferro's and Felice Picano's Italian Journeys”
Sheela Jane Menon, English to support the sabbatical project, “Malaysian Multiculturalism: Reading Race in Contemporary Literature & Culture”
Kristine Mitchell, Political Science & International Studies to support the sabbatical project, “Culture Shift: Immigration and Transformation in Southall, London after the Second World War”
Tullio Pagano, Italian to support the sabbatical project, “Italian Travel Writers and the Re-Conquest of Argentina (1860-1915)”
Jorge Sagastume, Spanish & Portuguese to support the sabbatical project, “El silenciero, de Antonio di Benedetto: la ética del silencio” (Silence’s Guard, by Antonio Di Benedetto: The Ethics of Silence)”
Andrew Wolff, Political Science & International Studies to support the sabbatical project, “Complex European Security Governance”
Professional Development
Karen Kirkham, Theatre & Dance to attend, “Linklater Voice Workshops”
Siobhan Phillips, English to attend, “Professional Development in Creative Writing Teaching and Advising”
Teaching Projects
None
Study Groups
Jason Gavenonis, Chemistry to support the discussion about, “Incorporation of Quantitative Reasoning Concepts into First-Year Seminars”
Mireille Rebeiz, French to supports the discussion about, “Curricular Review for French and Francophone Studies”
Publication and Dissertation 2020-2021
Carlina Castellanos, Spanish & Portuguese to support the publication, “Warrior Women and Trans Warriors: Performing Masculinities in Twentieth Century Latin American Literature”
Alyssa DeBlasio, Russian to support the project, “Work on New Textbook for Advanced Russian Proficiency Through Film and Media”, the publication of, “Brill Special Series in Contemporary Russian Philosophy”, and “Pro-dvizhenie: Advanced Russian Through Film and Media”
Neil Diamant, East Asian Studies & Political Science to support the publication, “Useful Bullshit: Constitutions in Chinese Politics and Society”
Michael Fratantuono, International Business Management to support the publication, “Collaboration to Counter Fresh Water Scarcity and Promot Human Security”
Azriel Grysman, Psychology to support the project, “Narrative Characteristics of Autobiographical Memory Predict Expectations of Narrator Gender” and support the publication “Priming Feminine Typical Traits does not Change Autobiographical Memory Narrative Content”
John Henson, Biology to support the publication, “The Nanoscale Organization of the Wnt Signaling Integrator Dishevelled in the Vegetal Cortex Domain of an Egg and Early Embryo”
Ebru Kongar, Economics to support the publication of “Handbook of Feminist Economics”
Dave Kushner, Biology to support the publication, “Introducing SELEX via a Semester-Long Course Based Undergraduate Research Experience (CURE)”
Janine Ludwig, Academic Director in Breman to support the project, “1968 – Ost – West. Eine deutsch-deutsche Kultur-Geschichte. (= Book on the 1968 movement in East and West)”
Janine Ludwig, Academic Director in Bremen to support the project, “A Companion to Heiner Müller”
Nicoletta Marini-Maio, Italian to support the projects, “La nazione Winx: Coltivare la futura consumista and A Specter Is Haunting Italy: Representations of the Moro Affair in Italian Cinema, Television, and Theater”
Mariana Past, Spanish & Portuguese to support the publication, “Stirring the Pot of Haitian History”
Siobhan Phillips, English to support the publication “Benefit: A Novel”
*Project canceled by faculty member due to COVID-19 pandemic restrictions.