2012-2013

Midwest Faculty Seminars 2012

Name Seminar
Vernon Schubel Islam in/and the West
Juan DePascuale Islam in/and the West
Mort Guiney Islam in/and the West
Joel Richeimer Mind, Brain, and World: On Embodied Cognition
Rebecca Wolf Disgrace



Faculty Development Grants
Round One October 15, 2012

Faculty

Project Title

Amount Awarded

Ross Feller Compact Disc Recording of Original Compositions $2,500.00
Sam Pack Water Puppetry in Vietnam: A Screening at the Ho Chi Minh Film Festival $2,250.00
David Rowe Invited Participation in the 2013 Meetings of the International Studies Association $1,756.00
Marta Sierra Imaginary Geographies. Spaces of Crisis and Resistance in Latin America $1,500.00
Total Amount
Granted
- $8,006.00

Labalme Development Grants
November 12, 2012

Faculty

Project Title

Amount Awarded

Bruce Kinzer John Stuart Mill's Metropolitan Identity $5000.00
Laurie Finke Communing with Ghosts: Heritage, Tourism and the Romance of the Past $5000.00
Total Amount
Granted
- $10,000.00

Faculty Development Grants
Round 2, January 2013

Faculty

Project Title

Amount Awarded

Andrew Ross The Pleasures of Paris: Sex and Urban Culture in the Nineteenth Century $2,500.00
Sarah Blick Research Trip to East Anglia, England to Study Religious Upheaval and Baptismal Font Covers in Late Medieval Parish Churches $2,500.00
Marcella Hackbardt New York City Art Exhibitions $2,500.00
Janet McAdams In That Round Nation of Blood: Travel to Feria $1,967.00
Stephen Van Holde Consuming China: Social, Political, and Environmental Impacts of China's Consumer Revolution $2,500.00
Claudia Esslinger Multi-Screen/Multi-Vision Experiments and Exhibitions $2,500.00
Victor Rodríguez Núñez Participating in the International Conference De largo aliento.../ Le souffle long.../ The long breath..., France $1,900.00
Marta Sierra Feminine Postcards from the Ends of The World: The South and the Politics of Memory $700.00
Totals $17.067.00



Faculty Development Grants
Round Three April 9, 2013

Faculty

Project Title

Amount Awarded

Stephen Volz Tswana Studies in the Context of Southern African History $2,000.00
Peter Rutkoff After the Fall : Cyprus in the Wake of Financial Collapse $2,500.00
Ennis Edmonds Rastafari Iconography and Visual Culture in Jamaica $2,465.00
Juan DePacuale Japanese Culture and Philosophy: Participation in the Freeman Summer Institute on Japan and Research at the University of Hawaii and the East-West Center $2,500.00
Katherine Hedeen Travel to Translators' House Wales to translate contemporary Welsh poetry and lead a poetry translation course. $1,960.00
Sarah Murnen Research on the Cultural Construction of Gender $1,200.00
Kora Radella boomerang & Double-Edge Dance $2,500.00
David Rowe Participation- Joint Meetings of the Peace Science Society &International Studies Association, Budapest, $2,000.00
Kathleen Fernando FROM DISSERTATION TO BOOK: FIRST STEPS $2,500.00
Karen Snouffer Suppiles, Travel Expenses for Thress Rural-Urban Identities Projects $2,500.00
Leo Riegert Conference in Austria, Professional Seminar in Germany (Summer 2013) $2,500.00
Totals $24,625.00


TTT - Teachers Teaching Teachers 2013

Faculty

Project Title

Amount Awarded

Travis Landry Comparative World Literature Concentration $ 16,620.00
Peter Rutkoff Crossroads Faculty Seminar $ 9,000.00
Clara Roman-Odio Community-Based Research and Service Learning Summer Seminar $ 16,300.00
Daniel Hartnett Expanding and Institutionalizing Undergraduate Research in the Social Sciences and Humanities $ 13,690.00
Totals $ 55,610.00


Teachers Initiative Grants 2013

Faculty

Project Title

Amount Awarded

Galina An Middle East - Political, Cultural, Economic Aspects of the Arab Spring $4,160.00
Kathryn Edwards End to AIDS?: Biology of HIV and its Global Context $3,475.00
Claudia Esslinger Mining Popular Culture: the role of contemporary art $7,077.00
Bruce Hardy Microscopic Equipment for Teaching Archaeological Research Methods $6,851.00
Clara Roman-Odio Advancing Spanish Proficiency through Hybrid Learning $1,800.00
Marta Sierra Creative Writing and Second Language Acquisition $5,700.00
Greg Spaid Catching Up on New Developments in Digital Imaging $9,000.00
Jon Tazewell Completion of Digital Classroom computers and camera purchases for film. $21,629.00
Hideo Tomita Enhancing Student Literacy in Japanese $1,555.00
Rebecca Wolf Lighting Equipment for DRAM 243 $9,569.75
Totals $70,816.75


Newton Chun Award 2013

Jesse Matz for "Lasting Impressions: Impressionism Now" a book-length study of the legacies of Impressionism across the arts. $8,000.00

Kenyon Summer Stipend

Name Project
Mort Guiney and Juan DePascuale (shared) New Perspectives in American Studies: An Anthology
Karen Hicks Assessment of natural variation in seasonal reproduction response using next-generation sequencing technology
Vernon Schubel Teaching Humanity: Expressions of Humanism in the Islamic Tradition