Dickinson Non-Travel Awards 2007-2008
Dana Research Assistants -- Academic Year 2007-2008
William Bellinger /Benjamin Rafetto (fall 07) - Ke Zhou (spg 08) - support for his research project, 鈥淢easurement and Analysis of the Income Density (Income Per Acre) Patterns of Small Towns.鈥
Miguel Centellas/Juliana Horwath - support for his research project, 鈥淏olivian Political Parties Database.鈥
Neil J. Diamant/Caitlin C. Steirman - support for his research for completing his book manuscript for final submission to the press, 鈥淟ike Donkeys Killed After Grinding the Wheat: Veterans, Military Families and the Politics of Martial Citizenship and Patriotism in China.鈥
Carol Ann Johnston/Tom Elrod - support for her research project, 鈥 鈥楬eavenly Perspective鈥: Thomas Traherne and Seventeenth-Century Visual Tradition.鈥
Thomas Nadelhoffer/Tatyana Matveeva - support for his research project, 鈥淢ultiple Tasks and Titles,鈥 (to include editing a moral psychology anthology for Blackwell Press, working on a book manuscript entitled The Uses (and Abuses) of Intuitions in Philosophy, organizing the third installation of the On-line Philosophy Conference, and conducting a series of studies on moral cognition).
Matthew Pinsker/John Dickinson, John Osborne/Joanne Williams, Jim Gerencser/James Chapnick - support for their research project, 鈥淗ouse Divided.鈥
Meagen Pollock/John J. Davidson - support for her research project, 鈥淧etrographic and Geochemical Study of Icelandic Crust.鈥
Fall 2007:
Amy Wlodarski/Sara Yester - supports continuation of her summer research project, 鈥淩econsidering the Arts in German Democratic Republic: An Interdisciplinary Conference (October 25-27, 2007).鈥
Spring 2008:
Marcello Borges/Anabella Atach/Elitsa Gosheva/Elizabeth Stokely -to support research for his project 鈥淧atagonia Mosaic Virtual Museum and Resource Center.鈥
James Ellison/Kaitlin Irvin - to support his research for your project, 鈥淗ereditary Status Groups and Neoliberal Reforms in Ethiopia.鈥
Christopher Lemelin/Mariana Past/Megan Browndorf - to support research for their project, 鈥淓ditorial Assistant for Sirena: Poetry, Art, Criticism.鈥
Karl D. Qualls/Andrea Dominquez/Evan Sparling - to support his research project, 鈥淓xiled Spanish Youth in the USSR, 1937-51.鈥
Cotten Seiler/James Watson-Krips - to support research for his project, 鈥淭he Impact of Automobility on Chinese Society, 1920-Present.鈥
Vanessa Tyson/Layne Feldman - to support research for her project, 鈥淩esearch on the Congressional Women鈥檚 Caucus.鈥
Adis Vila/Kirsten Midura - to support her research project, 鈥淩ole of state governments in attracting and regulating foreign direct investment.鈥
2007 Fall Projects
Professional Development:
Jennifer Halpin, Environmental Studies鈥 to assist with expenses associated with her Professional Development project, 鈥淥rganic Bee-Keeping Workshop.鈥Teaching:
Jennifer Halpin, Environmental Studies鈥攖o assist with expenses associated with her Teaching project, 鈥淪ustainable Systems Comparison: United States and Venezuela.鈥Scholarly/Creative:
Richard Abrams, Psychology鈥攖o assist with expenses associated with his Scholarly project, 鈥淪emantic and Orthographic Elements of Unconscious Priming.鈥
Dan Cozort, Religion鈥 to assist with expenses associated with his project, 鈥淔emale Buddhas.鈥
Ward Davenny, Art & Art History鈥攖o assist with expenses associated with his Scholarly project, 鈥淧hotographic Research and Presentation.鈥
Barbara Diduk, Art & Art History鈥 to assist with expenses associated with her Scholarly project, 鈥淭he Vase Project.鈥
Anne Murtagh, Psychology鈥攖o assist with expenses associated with her Scholarly project, 鈥淎ttention and Memory Study.鈥
Meagen Pollock, Geology鈥攖o assist with expenses associated with her Scholarly project, 鈥淧reliminary Petrographic and Geochemical Analyses of Icelandic Crust.鈥
Victoria Sams, English鈥攖o assist with expenses associated with her Scholarly project, 鈥淒ocumentary Theatre Article Research/Tamasha Theater Company Article Research.鈥
J. A. (Andy) Skelton, Psychology鈥攖o assist with expenses associated with his Scholarly project, 鈥淓valuating Health Accessibility Measures.鈥
Gregory J. Smith, Psychology鈥攖o assist with expenses associated with his Scholarly project, 鈥淐lass of 2011: The Transition to College Study.鈥
2008 Winter/Spring Projects
Professional Development:
Lynn Helding, Music鈥 to support her 鈥淪inging Voice Specialist Apprenticeship鈥 with Dr. Anat Keidar at her New York City clinic.Jim Hoefler, Political Science鈥攖o support his project, 鈥淎dvanced European Bioethics Course.鈥
Scholarly:
Sandra Alfers, German鈥攖o support her project 鈥淧oetry from Theresienstadt: Work and Life of Gertrud Kantorowicz (1876-1945).鈥
Michael Fratantuono, IBM鈥攖o support his project, 鈥淐ase Study: The Peace Medical Company.鈥
Marcus Key, Geology鈥攖o support his project, 鈥淩adiocarbon Dating of Jaw Sample from Archeological Site in Virginia.鈥
Hemlata Mistry, Biology鈥攖o support her project 鈥淯ncovering the Lineage and Axonal Projections of Neurons Expressing Hb9, Lim3 or Islet Transcription Factors in the Embryonic Central Nervous System of Drosophila melanogaster.
Creative:
Dan Cozort, Religion鈥攖o support his project, 鈥淔emale Buddhas.鈥
Karen (Lordi) Kirkham, Theatre & Dance鈥攖o support her project, 鈥淗andcart鈥檚 鈥極edipus at Colonus鈥.鈥
Robert Pound, Music鈥 to support his project, 鈥淚ncidental Music to Support Professor Kirkham鈥檚 NYC Production of Oedipus at Colonus.鈥
Dana Research Assistants 鈥 Spring 2008
Marcello Borges, History鈥 to support research for his project 鈥淧atagonia Mosaic Virtual Museum and Resource Center.鈥
James Ellison, Anthropology鈥 to support his research for your project, 鈥淗ereditary Status Groups and Neoliberal Reforms in Ethiopia.鈥
Christopher Lemelin, Russian 鈥 to support research for their project, 鈥淓ditorial Assistant for Sirena: Poetry, Art, Criticism.鈥
Karl D. Qualls, History鈥攖o support his research project, 鈥淓xiled Spanish Youth in the USSR, 1937-51.鈥
Cotten Seiler, American Studies鈥攖o support research for his project, 鈥淭he Impact of Automobility on Chinese Society, 1920-Present.鈥
Sabbatical Supplements 鈥 2008-09
Marcello Borges, History Using immigrant letters, he plans to examine migratory strategies and transnational practices among Portuguese families during the late nineteenth and early twentieth century. In particular, he will focus on 鈥渃all letters鈥 sent by Portuguese migrants to ask family members to join them abroad. His analysis will consider these letters as both a rich source to write a sociocultural history of migration from a family and gendered perspective, and as products of popular writing with their own form, style, and conventions.David Commins, History He plans to research and write on the modern Islamic reform tendency known as Salafiyya. The tendency has evolved and changed shape from its emergence in the 1700s to the present. He will work on a unifying conceptual framework to explain the specific forms Salafi Islam has assumed at different historical stages.
Publications/Dissertations 2007-08
Scott Boback, Biology鈥攖o support his project, 鈥淎 Test of Reproductive Power in Snakes.鈥
Ann Hill, Anthropology/Minglang Zhou, East Asian Studies鈥攖o support their project, 鈥淭he Challenge of Inequality: Perspectives on China鈥檚 Affirmative Action Policies for Minority Education.鈥
Carol Loeffler, Biology鈥攖o support her project, 鈥淢orphological Analysis of Shooting Star Populations (Dodecatheon, Primulaceae) in Pennsylvania.鈥
Marc Mastrangelo, Classical Studies鈥攖o support his book project, The Roman Self: Prudentius and the Poetics of the Soul.
Nancy Mellerski, French & Italian/David Kranz, English & Film Studies鈥攖o support their project, 鈥淚n/Fidelity: Essays on Film Adaptation.鈥
Meagen Pollock, Geology鈥 to defend her dissertation in Durham, NC.
Cotten Seiler, American Studies鈥攖o support his project, 鈥淩epublic of Drivers: A Cultural History of Automobility in the United States.鈥
Edward Webb, Political Science and International Studies鈥 to defend and deposit his dissertation: 鈥淐ivilizing Religion: Jacobin Projects of Secularization鈥 and microfilm and copyright fees.
Blake Wilson, Music鈥攖o support his project, 鈥淪inging Poetry in Renaissance Florence: The 鈥楥antasi Come鈥 Tradition, ca. 1375-1550.鈥
Sabbatical Expenses Support Spring 2008
Catherine A. Beaudry, French & Italian鈥 to support her project, 鈥淛eanne Guyon: Swallow of Blois Final Research for Chapters 4 and 5, 鈥楯eanne Before the French Inquisition鈥, and 鈥楾he Swallow Sends the Message Forth鈥.鈥
R. Leon Fitts, Classical Studies鈥 to support his project, 鈥淧ublication of Excavations: Lease Rigg, N. Yorkshire Moors; Kirk Sink; Gargrave; Airedale; Yorkshire.鈥
Michael K. Heiman, Geography and Environmental Studies鈥 to support his project, 鈥淎 Comparative Assessment of US and European Renewable Energy Policy (including research and manuscript preparation).鈥
Marc Mastrangelo, Classical Studies鈥 to support his project, 鈥淎 Commentary on the Psychomachia of Prudentius (in collaboration with Professor Francese).鈥
Sabbatical Expenses Support 2008-09
Marcello Borges, History鈥攖o support his project 鈥淚mmigrant Letters: Migratory Strategies and Transnational Practices in the Correspondence of Portuguese Migrant Families, 1870s-1920s.鈥
David Commins, History鈥攖o support his project 鈥淔rom Wahhabi to Salafi.鈥
Mara Donaldson, Religion鈥攖o support her project, 鈥淭he Hero Revisited.鈥
Amy Farrell, American Studies鈥攖o support her project, 鈥淔at Shame: Stigma, Fatness and American Culture,鈥 in particular the chapter entitled 鈥淔eminism and Fat.鈥
Lorelei Koss, Mathematics & Computer Science鈥攖o support her project 鈥淒ynamics of the Elliptic Function 脙 + b.鈥
David Kushner, Biology鈥攖o support his project 鈥淰irus-host interaction in brome mosaic virus and in vivo evolution of turnip crinkle virus satellite C RNA.鈥
Sylvie Toux, Toulouse鈥攖o support her projects, 鈥淐urriculum Development for Study Abroad鈥 and 鈥淭he Memory of a Village: Three Portraits of Centenarians.
Jessica Wahman, Philosophy鈥攖o support her project, 鈥淩esearching and Writing a Monograph that Challenges Psychological Reductionism by Appealing to George Santayana鈥檚 Ontology and Theory of Knowledge.鈥
Summer 2008 Study Groups
Jeremy Ball, History/Kim Lacy Rogers, History/Amy Wlodarski, Music鈥攖o support their study group to: 鈥溾ead the theoretical and historical literature from the South African history, the history of the Civil Rights movement in Mississippi, and the ethnomusicology of social movements and musical protest鈥esign and finalize lesson plans.鈥
Stephen Erfle, International Business and Management鈥攖o support an INBM study group: Curricular Reform. (Also extended to Summer 2009 to complete final part of the project.)
Sharon O鈥橞rien, American Studies/Susan Rose, Sociology鈥攖o do intensive reading and course development for the South Asian Diaspora Mosaic.鈥
Amy Witter, Chemistry鈥攖o support a Chemistry study group to discuss curricular issues with all members of the department and consider any appropriate changes to the Chemistry curriculum.
Student-Faculty Research - Summer 2008
Lars English/Mara Anderson 鈥10 - Nonlinear Localization and Pattern Formation in Two-Dimensional Electrical Lattices
Kristi J. Humphreys/ Yurina Shim 鈥09 - Investigating the Interactions of Mononuclear Copper Compounds with Biomolecules
John Henson/Rachel Jones '10 - Structural and Molecular Characterization of a Newly Isolated Bacteriophage Virus
Mary (Missy) Niblock/ Elizabeth Jeffress 鈥09 - Characterization of Central Chemoreceptors in the Mouse Cerebellum
Jeffrey Niemitz/ Courtney Haynes 鈥09 - Nutrient and Trace Element fluxes from Legacy Sediment Release: Implications for the environmental degradation of the Chesapeake Bay
Brett Pearson Physics & Astronomy/ Zachary Carson 鈥10 - Biological Imaging with Ultrafast Lasers
Julie Vastine/ Danielle Cioce 鈥08 and Jack Treichler 鈥08 - Burma Environmental Curriculum Development and Implementation
Dana Research Assistants 鈥 Summer 2008
Steve Erfle/Michael Geosits '09 , Conversion of course materials to Excel 2007.
Sherry Harper-McCombs/Paige Meredith '09 , Design and construction of costumes for 3 productions.
Karen Kirkham/Erin C. Ryan '09 , Assistant Director/Dramaturg/Stage Manager Pendragon Theater.
Matthew Pinsker, John Osborne, and Jim Gerencser/Anna Lovett '10 , House Divided Project.
Jorge R. Sagastume/Rachel Warren '09 , Semana Po茅tica VII.
Todd Wronski/Megan Nussle '09 , One-person play on the life and writings of William Saroyan.
Summer Projects 鈥 2008
Scholarly:
Todd Arsenault, Art & Art History 鈥攖o support an exhibition of his paintings at Galeria Fucares in Almagro, Spain.
Alex Bates, East Asian Studies 鈥攖o support his project, 鈥淥saka Literary Modernism and Representations of the Great Kanto Earthquake.鈥 His award letter will include a caveat that his report for this award and all future proposals should include more detail to explain the project.
Neil Diamant, Political Science 鈥 to support his project, 鈥淟ike Donkeys Killed after grinding the Wheat: Veterans, Military Families and the Politics of Patriotism in China.鈥
Barbara Diduk, Art & Art History 鈥攖o support her project, 鈥淐eramic Sculpture.鈥
Marie Helweg-Larsen, Psychology 鈥攖o support her project, 鈥淢oralization, Risk Perceptions, and Smoking Cessation in Denmark.鈥
Karen Kirkham, Theatre & Dance 鈥攖o support her project, 鈥淒irecting for Pendragon Theater.鈥
Sarah McGaughey, German 鈥攖o support her project, 鈥淪tylizing the Interior: Contemporary Housing Design and Style in Hermann Broch鈥檚 Die Schlafwandler.鈥 Her award letter will include a caveat that she should use language for a lay audience in future proposals.
Todd Wronski, Theatre & Dance 鈥攖o support his project, 鈥淚n My Case an Exception Should be Made: An Audience with William Sarovan.鈥
Professional Development:
Scott Boback鈥 to support his project, 鈥淲orkshop: Beginning a Research Program in the Natural Sciences at a Predominantly Undergraduate Institution.鈥
Robert Dean鈥攖o support his project, 鈥淎ttendance of Introduction to ArcGIS I& II.鈥
Sherry Harper-McCombs鈥攖o support her project, 鈥淔elt face making 鈥 felt as a non-traditional mask making medium.鈥
Cotten Seiler鈥攖o support his project, 鈥淔utures of American Studies Institute, Dartmouth College.鈥
Summer Scholar Awards:
Pauline Cullen鈥攖o support her project, 鈥淓uropean Union Social NGOs and the Citizens Initiative.鈥
Carol Ann Johnston鈥攖o support her project, 鈥 鈥楬eavenly Perspective鈥: Thomas Traherne and Seventeenth-Century Visual Traditions.鈥
Sinan Koont鈥攖o support his project, 鈥淯rban Agriculture in Cuba.鈥
Elizabeth Lee鈥攖o support her project, 鈥淭he Grotesque Body Meets Modern Medical Science: Ivan Albright Paints in Post-WWI America.鈥
Minglang Zhou鈥攆or his project, 鈥淕uest-Editing an Issue of Chinese Education & Society on the Topic of Language Harmony in China.鈥