Awards granted in February 2005
The Committee on Faculty Awards and Grants met on Tuesday, February 17, 2005 to consider proposals submitted for the annual competition. The members of the committee are Ray Albert (NB. Deans of GSAS and SWSR alternate every 3 years); Maria Luisa Crawford; Marisa Golden; Jim Martin (chair); Imke Meyer (representing Committee on Appointments); and Nona Smith ex officio. The Committee has approved funding as follows:
Leslie Alexander for secondary analysis of a series of open-ended questions asked of clients with severe mental illness and their case managers. $3,000
Elizabeth Allen for publication costs around using the Cyrillic alphabet in her new book. $5000
Cynthis Bisman to support a comparative study on “The meaning of Values in Social Work. $1500
David Cast to cover travel costs to England for research on realism in English painting. $2200
Carol Hager to support research in England for her current book project on citizen participation, land-use planning, and community. $3,000
Christiane Hertel to cover research and travel expenses on a study on the dialectic of Rococo and Enlightenment in the area of Chinoiserie. $2840
Toba Kerson to support travel, research, and translation of Indian films depicting seizures and epilipsy portrayals. $2250
Homay King to support preparation of a manuscript on “Effaced Figures: Authorship and the American Cinema.” $1608
Karl Kirchway for travel to Saipan, India and Cambodia to research their cultures and religions for use in a book of poetry. $5,000
Deepak Kumar to purchase a mobile workstqation for robotics research and education. $4600
Peter Magee for geochemical characterization analysis of late prehistoric Arabian and Iranian ceramics. $3500
Elizabeth McCormack for purchase of a Evan-Lavie valve to enable conducting Metastable-stae production for spectroscopy. $2850
Kalala Ngalamulume to support archival research in France and Senegal for his manuscript on the social history of leisure in colonial Saint-Louis-du-Sengegal. $4000
Melissa Pashigian for travel costs to Vietnam to do research on transnational movement of persons and donor gametes as people seek reproductive assistance overseas. $2500
H. Rosi Song for research in Spain on the complexity of analyzing the visual and discursive representation of Latin American immigrants. $4680
Thomas Vartanian to support research on the effects of neighborhood conditions on economic, educations, and social outcomes. $1500