OVPR Research & Creative Grant Recipients

Research & Creative Grant Recipients

Charles O. Anderson

College/School: College of Liberal Arts
Department: Theater and Dance
Project Title: (Re)current Unrest

2018

David G. Quinto-Pozos

College/School: College of Liberal Arts
Department: Linguistics
Project Title: Pilot Study of Bilingual Vocabulary & Reading Development in Deaf Children

2018

Javier Auyero

College/School: College of Liberal Arts
Department: Sociology
Project Title: A Collective Political Ethnography of Everyday Life in Poor Conservative Texas

2017

Kenneth Greene

College/School: College of Liberal Arts
Department: Government
Project Title: Is Vote Buying Effective? Challenges of Machine Politics in Modern Emerging Democracies

2017

Geraldine Heng

College/School: College of Liberal Arts
Department: English
Project Title: Early Globalities: The Interconnected World, 500-1500 CE

2017

Adam Rabinowitz

College/School: College of Liberal Arts
Department: Classics
Project Title: The University of Texas Histria Multiscalar Archaeological Project (UT-HMAP)

2017

Juliet A Hooker

College/School: College of Liberal Arts
Department: African and African Diaspora Studies
Project Title: Global Black Protest and Democratic Futures

2016

Rebecca J Lewis

College/School: College of Liberal Arts
Department: Anthropology
Project Title: Male Social Bonds in Primates: Physiology and the Role of Females

2016

Gabriela Polit

College/School: College of Liberal Arts
Department: Spanish and Portuguese
Project Title: Unwanted Witnesses. Journalists and Conflict in Contemporary Latin America

2016

Deborah Ann Bolnick

College/School: College of Liberal Arts
Department: Anthropology
Project Title: Assessing the Epigenetic Effects of Social Inequalities and Violence in the Pre-Hispanic Americas

2015

Kelly S. McDonough

College/School: College of Liberal Arts
Department: Spanish and Portuguese
Project Title: Indigenous Knowing in the Sacred City: Fiscales, Ritual Life, and Culture-Keeping in Cholula

2015

Xiaobo Lu

College/School: College of Liberal Arts
Department: Government
Project Title: Fiscal Capacity and Political Development: China and Beyond

2014

Sandro Sessarego

College/School: College of Liberal Arts
Department: Spanish and Portuguese
Project Title: Chocó Spanish: Casting Light on its Grammar and History

2014

Rachel Wellhausen

College/School: College of Liberal Arts
Department: Government
Project Title: Sovereign Development: Native American Tribes and Economic Globalization

2014

Andreana Haley

College/School: College of Liberal Arts
Department: Psychology
Project Title: Exploring the neural mechanisms of cognitive enhancement related to acute bouts of exercise

2014

Rebecca Torres

College/School: College of Liberal Arts
Department: Geography and the Environment
Project Title: Immigration Policy, National Security and Children's Rights: Impacts of Repatriation of Unaccompanied Migrant Children from Mexico and Central America

2014

Darrell Glenn Creel

College/School: College of Liberal Arts
Department: Anthropology
Project Title: Neutron Activation Analysis of Whole Mimbres Pottery Vessels

2013

Hongjoo Joanne Lee

College/School: College of Liberal Arts
Department: Psychology
Project Title: Novel treatment for attentional deficits in Parkinson's disease

2013

Christen Anne Smith

College/School: College of Liberal Arts
Department: Anthropology
Project Title: Remembering Beatriz Nascimento: Rethinking the Concept of Quilombo, Blackness, Gender and Belonging in Brazil and the Americas

2013

Sofian Merabet

College/School: College of Liberal Arts
Department: Anthropology
Project Title: Carlton Hotel Beirut Archives Project

2012

Robert G. Moser

College/School: College of Liberal Arts
Department: Government
Project Title: The Political Geography of Russian Elections: Ethnicity, Economics, and the Contours of Electoral Manipulation and Competition

2012

Alison R. Preston

College/School: College of Liberal Arts
Department: Psychology
Project Title: Neurobiological development of memory and reasoning

2012

David Mark Schnyer

College/School: College of Liberal Arts
Department: Psychology
Project Title: The contribution of sleep-wake cycles to behavioral and neural changes associated with memory performance in elderly adults

2012

Rajka Smiljanic

College/School: College of Liberal Arts
Department: Linguistics
Project Title: Speech Recognition in Noise for Children with Cochlear Implants

2011

Javier Auyero

College/School: College of Liberal Arts
Department: Sociology
Project Title: In Harm's Way: Violences in Chain at the Urban Margins in Argentina

2011