The College of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences has announced its faculty research fellowships for the summer and upcoming academic year. The complete list can be found below.
CAHSS Research Fellowships: These fellowships, available to tenured associate professors and full professors, support outstanding research and creative activity by permitting release time for one semester to focus on scholarship. Preference is given to associate professors preparing for promotion review in subsequent academic years. Recipients for 2015-16 are:
- Terry Bouton, History: “Foreign Founders: How European Financiers Helped Write the U.S. Constitution”
- Kathy O’Dell, Visual Arts: “The Dot: A Small History of a Big Point”
- Michele Osherow, English: “Staging Shakespeare at the Folger”
- Elaine Rusinko, Modern Languages, Linguistics, & Intercultural Communication: “Andy Warhol’s Mother”
CAHSS Dean’s Research Awards: These grants, new in spring 2015 and to be available twice each year, are awarded through a competitive process and recommended by the faculty members who comprise the CAHSS Research Advisory Committee. The inaugural recipients are
- Linda Baker, Psychology: “What Factors Contribute to the Academic Success of College Students with a Reading Disability”
- Piotr Gwiazda, English: “Translation of Zero Visibility: Poems by Grzegorz Wroblewski”
- Tyson King-Meadows, Political Science & Africana Studies: “Racial Priming and Support for Congressional Action to Address Income Inequality”
- Susan McDonough, History: “Vile Sluts and Gassy Whores: Prostitutes in the Medieval Mediterranean”
- Susan McCully, Theatre: “Production of Kerrmoor – a new play by Susan McCully”
- Calla Thompson, Visual Arts: “Interviews with Lesbian and Gay Activists Regarding 1981 Riots and Aftermath”
MIPAR/CAHSS Summer Faculty Research Fellowships:
- Amy Froide, History: “Eighteenth Century England’s Charitable Corporation: A Cautionary Tale of Microfinance, Fraud, and Government Bailouts”
- Nancy Miller, Public Policy: “Facilitators and Barriers to State Provision of Medicaid Community-based Long-term Services and Supports for Children, Youth and Adults with Significant Mental Health Conditions”
Dresher Center for the Humanities/CAHSS Summer Faculty Research Fellowships:
- Michael Nance, Philosophy: “Anarchy, Legitimacy, and Economic Planning in Fichte’s Jena Political Philosophy”
- Piotr Gwiazda, English: “Translation of Zero Visibility: Poems by Grzegorz Wróblewski”
- Nicoleta Bazgan, Modern Languages, Linguistics, & Intercultural Communication, “Parisiennes: City Women in French Cinema”
Center for Innovation, Research, and Creativity in the Arts (CIRCA)/CAHSS Summer Faculty Research Fellowships:
- Brian Kaufman, Music: “El Sistema and Music for Social Change”
- Peggy Re, Visual Arts: “Design, Desire and Consumption: Contemporary American Textiles, Contemporary American Wallpaper and American Containers and Packaging”
Imaging Research Center/CAHSS Summer Faculty Research Fellowships:
- Kate Brown, History: “Mapping Contours of Community”
- Matt Baker, Geography & Environmental Systems, and Tim Nohe, Visual Arts: “Urban Forest Stewardship Projects”
- Lisa Moren, Visual Arts, and Marcus Zupan, Engineering, “Monuments Baltimore”
Hrabowski Innovation Grants:
- Nicole King, American Studies, and Bill Shewbridge, Media & Communication Studies: “Baltimore Stories: Emerging Media Across the Curriculum”
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