Awards for the 2004-05 academic year
Donald Barber
Funds supporting a summer research project near Cape Lookout, North Carolina examining geomorphological, sedimentological and geophysical characteristics of the barrier islands and beach ridges. ($3,026)
Peter Brodfuehrer
Funding for expenses associated with pursuing a new research focus in environmental toxicology and development of a new research program in that area. ($5,000)
Linda Caruso Haviland
Support for gathering oral histories from alumni about dance at Bryn Mawr from the 1930s through the present. ($1,310 from the Madge Miller)
Timothy Harte
An award for summer travel to Russia for archival research necessary to revise his doctoral thesis on “The Aesthetics of Speed” for publication. ($3,000 from the Alice Hardenberg Clark Fund)
Carola Hein
Funding for travel to Europe to initiate new research that builds upon her prior work and will allow publication of a book on Polycentrism in Germany. ($4,700)
Youngmin Kim
was provided with funding to pursue research in Japan on the philosophical ideas of major thinkers during the Ming dynasty. ($,2000 from the Alice Hardenberg Clark Fund and $3,000 from the Faculty Research Fund)
Christine Koggel
Funding to support research needed for the upcoming publication of a textbook on “Moral Issues in Global Perspective.” ($2,500)
Natasha Lee
Support for a project on the novel of the 18th century and the incorporation of new scientific postulations in the writings of the French Enlightenment. ($3,390)
Peter Magee
For research at Tell Abraq in the United Arab Emirates and in Australia on the emergence of economic complexity and adaptive processes in prehistoric Arabia. ($4,500)
William Malachowski
Funding to support development of a submicromolar inhibitor of IDO, a factor in the growth of cancer cells, through synthesization of four chemical derivatives. ($4,000)
Gary McDonogh
Travel funding to allow the exploration the impact of the upcoming Barcelona Forum 2004 on cultural diversity, sustainability, and peace. ($4,750)
Anjali Thapar
Support for experiments to determine whether the pervasive effects of stereotyping on perception, judgment, and action are in encoding or in response processes. ($1,800)
Arlo Weil
Funds were awarded for travel to Spain and Wales to examine the cause and effect relationships between the formation of curved mountain belts and the geodynamical interactions of the Earth’s interior. ($5,000)
Awards for the 2003-04 academic year
Juan Arbona
Funds supporting a book project that will examine the impact of government encouraged micro-enterprises (as a means of reducing poverty and promoting development) on the political organization of the poor and their influence on political life. ($4025, from the Alice Hardenberg Clark Fund)
Madeline Cantor
Support for a new choreography based on two anthologies, "Fearless Girls, Wise Women and Beloved Sisters" and "Troubador's Storybag." ($2000)
Anne Dalke
Funds for preparation of a manuscript for publication; "Minding the Light: Essays in Friendly Pedagogy." ($1000, from the Madge Miller Fund)
Helen Grundman
For continued work on determining which Hilbert modular varieties within dimensions three, four, five, and six are rational. ($1800)
Timothy Harte
To fund archival work in Russia necessary for the transformation of a doctoral dissertation, "Modern Motion: The Cult of Speed in Russian Avant-Garde Poetry, Painting and Film" into a book. ($3,000)
Christiane Hertel
For travel to and research in Germany on the relationship between the artistic style of Rococo and the intellectual movement of the Enlightenment in 18th-c Germany, particularly between the monumental and decorative visual culture of Germany. ($3000)
Carola Hein
Monies to support the reproduction of images and the editing of a book on architectural and plannings visions for the unifying of Europe as a background and commentary on the development of the European Union and its headquarters cities. ($4000, from the Madge Miller Fund)
Homay King
Assistance with preparation of a book manuscript based on the dissertation "Effaced Figures: Authorship and the American Cinema", which theorizes a new methodological approach to filmic authorship. ($3035, from the Madge Miller Fund)
Dale Kinney
Support to fund a study of the geometrical principles employed in the design and construction of twelfth-century church basilicas in Rome, in relation to the fourth-century basilicas they are believed to imitate. ($5000)
Gary McDonogh
For systematic study of developments resembling American suburbs in form, location, consumption, and auto-dependency as important parts of contemporary European cities such as Toulouse, France. ($4500)
Melissa Pashigian
To fund travel to northern Vietnam to study how morality is formed through biological process that is infused with feelings of sentiment and what are the consequences of technological and human intervention within local cultural context. ($5000, from the Alice Hardenberg Clark Fund)
Sanford Schram
Funding for a study that will examine whether families leaving welfare since welfare reform are likely to suffer social and economic hardships at relatively high rates. ($3000)
Rosi Song
For support of research in Spain to examine the intrinsic relationship between literature and the history of political consciousness as articulated by Spanish intellectuals, during and after the Franco dictatorship. ($3878)
Awards for the 2002-03 academic year
Madeline Cantor
Funds to support a project in narrative dance for the Bryn Mawr College Dance Outreach Program. ($1,700)
Christiane Hertel
A book project examining the relationship between the artistic styles of Rococo and the intellectual movement of the Enlightenment in 18th century Germany. ($3,300)
Toba Kerson
A project to examine the portrayal of seizures in film and the inherent biases depicted in those portrayals. ($3,164)
Gary McDonogh
The examination of visual and verbal elements within Barcelona's tradition of local humor magazines as "archives" of alternative public spheres. ($4,100)
Paul Neuman
Support for experiments in activity anorexia where scheduling of eating and exercise result in weight loss similar to anorexia. ($2,800)
Michael Noel
Seed money for a project to study the border between classical and quantum physics in an atomic system using a variety of electromagnetic fields. ($5,000)
Thomas Vartanian
A project to study the effects of neighborhood conditions on economic and social outcomes as well as their effect on the likelihood of death for residents. ($5,000)
Arlo Weil
Support for a field project in Western Europe that will reveal the chronological development of one of Earth's most unique and highly curved mountain belts. ($4,710)
Awards for the 2001-02 academic year
Donald Barber
A coupled ocean-atmosphere circulation model study of past climate change by analyzing marine sediment sources with radiogenic isotopes ($3,980)
Karen Greif
A project designed to obtain detailed information concerning the pattern of development of synaptic vesicle proteins in rat sympathetic neurons. ($3,000)
Carola Hein
Looking at the translation of the "chaotic city" in Japan and their multi
functional neighborhoods for a new understanding of design and transformation of urban areas. ($3,250)
Theresa Jen
Incorporation of the methodologies of the Child Language Data Exchange System (CHILDES) into her study of connotative meanings in Chinese and US English through interviews ($2,250)
Deepak Kumar
Purchase of a computer platform for conducting computational learning experiments on two robots by building the hybrid intelligent entites embodied in small mobile robots ($3,500)
Mark Lord and Hiroshi Iwasaki
Technical and equipment support for the "Last Monday Series," an ongoing project designed to create a unique context in which new works can be performed ($3,970)
Kalala Ngalamulume
An examination of ways in which French medical authorities sought to fight plague in Senegal between 1914 and 1920 using oral and written data ($5,000)
Scott Redenius
An analysis of data from 1881
1883 to determine why interest rates varied widely between regions of the United States at that time and why those differentials can not be accounted for by costs ($2,860)
Kenneth Richman
This project proposes a theory of what it means for an individual to be healthy and explores the ethical implications of this theory for medical care ($2,137)
Juana Rodriguez
A new project examining the impact and implications of diverse strategies for representing sexual difference by looking at the way in which queer sexualities and genders are represented in mainstream Latino media ($4,750)
Marc Ross
An examination of conflict conceptualization, mobilization of political support, constructive political solutions at the intersection of culture and politics in the conflict over Jerusalem's Holy sites ($2,808)
Katherine Rowe
A study to determine how early modern performance practices conditioned affective experience, shaping the way consumers came to name their emotions, interpret them, and understand them as social and political currency ($1,800)
Marc Schulz
Examination of the expression and regulation of negative emotions in marital interactions as they relate to the basic elements of emotion, gender differences in emotions, and the connections between emotions and physical and psychological well-being ($3,490)
Michael Tratner
To support archival research on a new book project entitled "Movies and Mass Politics" to determine the stylistic consequences of political commitments in collectivist, Hollywood, and modernist films ($1,000)
Sharon Ullman
Preparation of the manuscript Sexual Borderlands: Constructing an American Sexual Past intended to incorporate pivotal questions of race and sexuality and their intersections in the history of sexuality ($2,500)