Professional Development Grant Awards 2015-2016 Professor Matthew Borushko Department of English $3500 for the second project: Romanticism Against History $367.00 Seminar/Institute “Romantic Forms/Forums” Professor Richard Capobianco Department of Philosophy $2500 for the project: Heidegger and Whitman Professor Scott Cohen Department of English $4000 for the project: Researching the connections between modernism’s global face and the territorial imagination in the twentieth century Professor Katie Currul-Dykeman Department of Sociology & Criminology $4000 for the project: Lethality Assessment in Domestic Violence Cases: Local Responses Professor William Ewell Department of Political Science $3500 for the project: Structural Partisan Advantages in the American Political System Professor Jared Green Department of English $3800 for the project: The Blue Octavo Notebooks Professor Ruby Gu Department of Physics $2000 Seminar/Institute: Institute of Optics at the University of Rochester Professor Christopher Ives Department of Religious Studies $3980 for the project: Buddhist Virtue Ethics as a Resource for Environmental Ethics Professor Adam Lampton Department of Visual and Performing Arts $5000 for the project: Macao, “City of Dreams”, an exhibition Professor Jegoo Lee Department of Business Administration $2000 Seminar/Institute: Strategic Management Society Annual Conference in Berlin, Germany
Professor Ed McGushin Department of Philosophy $2000 Seminar/Institute: Affiliated Scholars Program at the Boston Psychoanalytic Society and Institute Professor Michael Salé Department of Business Administration $4000 for the project: A study on reducing the risk of creating defects when performing maintenance tasks in legacy software by utilizing a change heuristic Professor Cheryl Schnitzer Department of Chemistry $2000 Seminar/Institute: Summer Short Course Series at the Institute of Optics at the University of Rochester Professor Karen Teoh Department of History $4500 for the project: From Girls’ Schools to Gambling Enterprises: Unexpected Transnationalisms and the Chinese Diaspora, 1800-1960’s
2014-2015 Professor Antonio Barbagallo Department of Foreign Language $2000 for the project: Ladino or Judeo-Spanish: an Endangered Language Professor Amra Brooks Department of English $3225 for the project: Creative Nonfiction Memoir Professor Anthony Celano Department of Philosophy $3500 for the project: The Teaching of the Nicomachean Ethics in Medieval Universities Professor Piyush Chandra Department of Economics $2000.00 for travel expenses to China. Professor Lincoln Craton Department of Psychology $3500 for the project: Taking Studies of Harmony Perception Online Professor Nathaniel DesRosiers Department of Religious Studies $5000 for the project: Aphrodisias: City of Gods
Professor Sarah Gracombe Department of English $3037 for the project: “Thy people shall be my people’?: Ruth, Conversion, and National Belonging, 1800-1940” Professor Richard Gribble, C.S.C. Department of Religious Studies $3600 for the project: Initial investigation into a biographical study of Archbishop Edward Heston, CSC Professor Christopher Ives Department of Religious Studies $3560 for the project: The Mobilization of a Religion: Buddhist Responses to Climate Change Professor David Kinsey Department of Visual and Performing Arts $3000 for the project: Commercial Gallery Exploration and Representation Professor Shari Lowin Department of Religious Studies $2000.00 for Seminar/Institute: European Association if Biblical Studies Workshop Professor Gregory Maniero Department of Biology $1500.00 for Seminar/Institute: North American Comparative Immunology Workshop Professor Ann Marie Rocheleau Department of Sociology and Criminology $4000 for the project: Reducing the Need and Use of Punitive Segregation in the City of New York Department of Correction Professor Gregory Shaw Department of Religious Studies $3000 for the projects: Non-dualism in Iamblichean Theurgy Article-Title: Demon est Deus Inversus: Honoring the D(a)emonic in Iamblichen Theurgy Book-Title: Platonic Tantra: Theurgists of Late Antiquity Professor Christopher Wetzel Department of Sociology and Criminology $2000 for the project: The Dynamics of Gaming Legalization
2013-2014 Professor Antonio Barbagallo Department of Foreign Language $2500 for the project: Interviewing and recording a Sephardic community in Turkey, in Salonika (Greece), in Italy and at least one Sephardic community in U.S., comparing their spoken and written language with several 15th and 16th Century Spanish texts.
Professor Bronwyn Bleakley Department of Biology $5000 for the project: Role of hormone signaling in coordinating cooperative antipredator behavior in guppies, Poecilia reticulata? Professor Matthew Borushko Department of English $3000 for the project: Writing and research on current book project, Shelley’s Romantic Nonviolence: Aesthetics and Politics in an Age of Revolution Professor Richard Capobianco Department of Philosophy $1500 for the project: Manuscript/Two Essays for the Oxford University Lexicon on Heidegger/Seminar in Italy Professor Scott Cohen Department of English $2500 for the project: From Postcolonial to Global London Professor William Ewell Department of Political Science $4000 for the project: A Political History of the Appropriations Process Professor David Kinsey Department of Visual and Performing Arts $4000 for the project: “Exhibitions” Professor Shari Lowin Department of Religious Studies $5000 for the project: Scripture and Sex in Andalusian Hebrew Poetry Professor Edward McGushin Department of Philosophy $5000 for your project: Deconstruction and The Courage of the Truth in Derrida and Foucault Professor Daria Valentini $3000 for the project: To write and publish an article that would significantly add to the existing research about women and writing in Italy. Professor James Wadsworth Department of History $4010 for the project: “James Richards and his Account Book, Weymouth, MA., 1692-1710 Professor Candace Walters Department of Visual and Performing Arts $5000.00 for your project: Solo Exhibition, Clark Gallery, Lincoln, MA, January 2014
Professor Christopher Wetzel Department of Sociology $4500 for the project: Project 1: One Spirit, One Nation: How a Fragmented Tribe Became a National Community Project 2: Students in Action: Changing Forms and Foci of Engagement in Era of Globalization
2012-2013 Professor Karen Anderson Department of Education $5000 for the project: Rubric for mathematics lesson plans: Creation and reliability Professor Antonio Barbagallo Department of Foreign Language $2500 for the project: Interviewing and recording a Sephardic community in Greece and at least one Sephardic community in U.S., comparing their spoken and written language with several 15th and 16th Century Spanish texts. Professor Matthew Borushko Department of English $5000 for the project: Shelley’s Romantic Nonviolence: Aesthetics a and Politics in an Age of Revolution Professor Richard Capobianco Department of Philosophy $3000 for the project: Heideggar’s Way of Being Professor William Ewell Department of Political Science $5000 for your project: The Political and Economic Determinants of Supplemental Appropriations Professor Sarah Gracombe Department of English $4850 for the project: Rewriting Ruth in the Nineteenth Century Professor Jared Green Department of English $5000 for the project: Ozone Days Professor Christopher Ives Department of Religious Studies $3960 for the project: East Asian Buddhist Pilgrimage to Sacred Mountains: A Resource for Environmental Ethics Professor David Kinsey Department of Visual and Performing Arts $5000 for the project: R & F Encaustic Pigment Sticks
Professor Angela Paradise Department of Communication $5000 for the project: Project 1: An Examination of Students’ Perceptions of Social Media Use in Academics Project 2: Exploring the Impact of Community-Based Learning on Students’ Civic Engagement, Critical Thinking, and Commitment to Media Literacy Education Professor Rose Perkins Department of Psychology $3000 for the project: Merlino-Perkins Father-Daughter Relationship Inventory, Spanish Translation: Construction, Reliability, Validity and Implications for Counseling and Research Professor Laura Thiemann Scales Department of English $5000 for the project: Crowdsourcing Authority in Spiritualist Narrative, Chapter Two of book project, Speaking in Tongues: Mediumship and American Narrative Voice
2011-2012 Professor Elizabeth Belanger Department of History $5000 for the project: Uneasy Origins: Women and Urban Development in Chicago and St. Louis Professor Matthew Borushko Department of English $2500 for the project: Shelley’s Romantic Nonviolence: Aesthetics and Politics in an Age of Revolution Professor Carole Calo Department of Visual and Performing Arts $2500 for the project: “Creative Engagement: College, Art, and Community.” Professor Scott Cohen Department of English $2500 for the project: Humanities in Action Professor Kathleen Currul-Dykeman Department of Sociology and Criminology $3500 for the project: Produce a publishable piece concerning the class “Victimology and the Courts” Professor William Ewell Department of Political Science $3000 for the project: Presidential Influence in Congressional Appropriations Professor David Kinsey Department of Visual and Performing Arts $4800 for the project: “Intaglio Printmaking: Non Toxic Mediums and Processes”
Professor Patricia Leavy Department of Sociology and Criminology $2500 for the project: Fiction as Qualitative Research Professor Shari Lowin Department of Religious Studies $3500 for the project: Ibn Milh, Ibn Gabirol, and Samuel the Nagid: On Scripture and Sex in Medieval Hebrew and Arabic Poetry (3 articles) Professor Sean Mulholland Department of Economics $1400 for the project: Seminar: Acton University Professor Monique Myers Department of Communication $5000 for the two projects: China’s One Child Policy: Intended and Unintended Consequences and Spiritual Communication: Spiritualism, Wicca, and Women Professor Bettina Scholz Department of Political Science $2500 for the project: Exploring Partiality in Cosmopolitanism through the example of Diasporic Associations Professor Karen Teoh Department of History $3350 for the project: Learning Diaspora: Women’s Education and the Overseas Chinese, 1850-1960’s Professor Daria Valentini Department of Foreign Language $2500 for the project: Write and publish an article from a paper delivered at a conference – “Italy from Without” Professor Christopher Wetzel Department of Sociology and Criminology $2500 for the project: Social Worth and the Common Wealth: A Social History of Gaming Legalization