OVPR Research & Creative Grant Recipients

Research & Creative Grant Recipients

Catherine Harrison Echols

College/School: College of Liberal Arts
Department: Psychology
Project Title: Non-Linguistic Social Cues in Language Input to Low-SES Children

2011

Francisco Gonzalez-Lima

College/School: College of Liberal Arts
Department: Psychology
Project Title: Neurogenetic Basis of Bipolar Depression

2011

W. Todd Maddox

College/School: College of Liberal Arts
Department: Psychology
Project Title: The Effects of Pressure on Dual Processing Models of Decision Making

2011

Jennifer Miller

College/School: College of Liberal Arts
Department: Geography and the Environment
Project Title: Developing a spatially explicit framework to analyze animal movement and interaction: a case study using brown hyena in Northern Botswana

2011

Sharmila Rudrappa

College/School: College of Liberal Arts
Department: Sociology
Project Title: Outsourcing Labor: Explaining India's Dominance in Transnational Surrogacy

2011

Timothy Schallert

College/School: College of Liberal Arts
Department: Psychology
Project Title: Rat 50-kHz ultrasonic reward-related vocalization in response to first-time amphetamine exposure predicts the development of conditioned anticipatory vocalization with repeated treatment

2010

Yvon Delville

College/School: College of Liberal Arts
Department: Psychology
Project Title: Corticotropin Releasing Hormone and Social Behavior

2009

Fred Valdez Jr.

College/School: College of Liberal Arts
Department: Anthropology
Project Title: Culture Contact and Culture Change: The Emergence of Maya Civilization

2008

Douglas Biow

College/School: College of Liberal Arts
Department: French and Italian
Project Title: Research on Leonardo Fioravanti's Rare Sixteenth-Century Books

2008

Bruce II Buchanan

College/School: College of Liberal Arts
Department: Government
Project Title: How Americans Judge Presidents

2008

Janet Davis

College/School: College of Liberal Arts
Department: American Studies
Project Title: The Gospel of Kindness: Animal Welfare and the Making of Modern America, 1866-1940

2008

Frank Guridy

College/School: College of Liberal Arts
Department: History
Project Title: From Students to Subjects: Afro-Puerto Ricans at Tuskegee I the Age of Empire

2008

Tracie M. Matysik

College/School: College of Liberal Arts
Department: History
Project Title: Women on Nietzsche, Gender, and Sexuality: European Women's Intellectual and Activist Writings

2008

Julia Mickenberg

College/School: College of Liberal Arts
Department: American Studies
Project Title: The New Woman Tries on Red: Russia in the American Feminist Imagination, 1917-1945

2008

Mary Neuburger

College/School: College of Liberal Arts
Department: History
Project Title: Inhaling Modernity: Tobacco Production, Commerce, and Consumption in Nineteenth and Twentieth Century Bulgaria

2008

Faegheh Shirazi

College/School: College of Liberal Arts
Department: Middle Eastern Studies
Project Title: The Commodification of Islam: Do Dolls Have to Wear the Hijab (Veil)?

2008

Jennifer Beer

College/School: College of Liberal Arts
Department: Psychology
Project Title: Social Influences on Decision-Making: A Gene-Hormone-Brain Approach

2007

Jonathan Brown

College/School: College of Liberal Arts
Department: History
Project Title: Cuba, the United States, and the Secret War for Latin America, 1959-1967

2007

Jason Brownlee

College/School: College of Liberal Arts
Department: Government
Project Title: The Political Economy of Hereditary Succession in Egypt

2007

Sally H. Clarke

College/School: College of Liberal Arts
Department: History
Project Title: The Environment and Corporate Responsibility: Law, Science, and Economics at Environmental Defense

2007

Sheldon Ekland-Olson

College/School: College of Liberal Arts
Department: Sociology
Project Title: Justifying the Violation of Universal Moral Imperatives

2007

George Gavrilis

College/School: College of Liberal Arts
Department: Government
Project Title: Courts, Conflict, and Democracy: Judiciaries and Anti-Terror Laws in Turkey

2007

Laurie Beth Green

College/School: College of Liberal Arts
Department: History
Project Title: Urban Health Conflicts: Struggles over Race, Rights, and Public Health in the Urban South

2007

Edward Kirk

College/School: College of Liberal Arts
Department: Anthropology
Project Title: Habitat Acoustics of Malagasy Forests: A Comparative Study of Excess Attenuation, Background Noise, and Lemur Vocal Adaptations

2007

Huaiyin Li

College/School: College of Liberal Arts
Department: History
Project Title: Village China under Socialism and Reform: A Micro History, 1950-2005

2007