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Susan Burch earns fellowship to support National Archives research

Alison Darrow — Tue, 14 May 2013 14:16:19 +0000

Susan Burch (American Studies and Center for the Comparative Study of Race & Ethnicity) has been awarded a fellowship from the National Archives and Records Administrative through its 2013 Regional Residency Fellowship program for research at the National Archives regional facility at Fort Worth, Texas in connection with her book project titled, Dislocated: Removals, Institutions and Community Lives in American History. This is one of six fellowships funded by the Foundation for the National Archives, one fellowship at each of six regional National Archive facilities.

Roberto Pareja awarded DOE fellowship

Alison Darrow — Tue, 14 May 2013 14:15:39 +0000

Roberto Pareja (Spanish and Portuguese) has received a Department of Education Summer Library Research Fellowship in Latin American Studies at the University of Pittsburgh for research during Summer 2013 on political subjectivities in Bolivia during the 19th century and beginning of the 20th century. He will be using the resources of the renowned Eduardo Lozano [...] Continue reading →

Svea Closser awarded NSF grant for work in Ethiopia

Alison Darrow — Tue, 14 May 2013 14:15:04 +0000

Svea Closser (Sociology and Anthropology) and a colleague from Oregon State University have been awarded a grant from the National Science Foundation for a project titled “Health volunteers in rural Ethiopia: Discourses and experiences of status, motivation, and wellbeing.” Svea’s portion of this grant was awarded through NSF’s Research in Undergraduate Institutions (RUI) activity, and she plans to involve 6-10 undergraduates in this research, four of whom will participate in fieldwork in Ethiopia. This project will explore the complex issues surrounding the use of low-paid and volunteer labor to deliver health interventions in rural Ethiopia.

ESt program gets grant from Northern New England Campus Compact

Alison Darrow — Tue, 14 May 2013 14:14:24 +0000

The Environmental Studies program has been awarded a grant by the Northern New England Campus Compact for a project led by Diane Munroe, Coordinator for Community Based Environmental Studies. The grant is funded by the Environmental Protection Agency’s Environmental Education program and is intended to support NNECC’s Campuses for Environmental Stewardship efforts. The grant will fund efforts by the ES program and individual affiliated faculty to incorporate community-connected experiences focused on the topical areas of either climate change or water quality into their courses next year. Participating faculty include Molly Costanza-Robinson (Chemistry, Biochemistry and ES), Michelle McCauley (Psychology), Jeff Munroe (Geology), Jonathan Isham (Economics and ES), Rebecca Kneale Gould (Religion and ES), and Catherine Ashcraft (ES).

Brett Millier receives Fulbright Scholar award

Alison Darrow — Tue, 14 May 2013 14:13:37 +0000

Brett Millier (English & American Literatures) has received a 2013-2014 Fulbright Scholar grant in support of her appointment as a visiting professor at the University of Yaounde I in Yaounde, Cameroon. She will be teaching American Literature in the graduate program of the Department of English and advising masters and doctoral students. Continue reading →

Susan Burch awarded NEH Summer Stipend

Alison Darrow — Mon, 22 Apr 2013 12:27:23 +0000

Susan Burch (American Studies and Center for the Comparative Study of Race & Ethnicity) has been awarded a Summer Stipend grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities in support of her book project titled Dislocated: Removals, Institutions, and Community Lives in American History. Burch’s work centers on “dislocated histories” from South Dakota’s Canton Asylum, the only federal psychiatric hospital for American Indians. Individual histories of inmates and their families are inextricably tied to broader stories of forced removals; the rise of penal, medical, and disability institutions; eugenics; and contests over citizenship and American identity in the last 200 years.

Matthew Dickerson Earns NSF Supplement

Alison Darrow — Thu, 18 Apr 2013 19:30:20 +0000

Matthew Dickerson (Computer Science) has received a Supplement to his grant from the National Science Foundation that funds a project titled Teaching Computational Thinking through Multi-Agent Simulation. The additional funding will enable him to continue work on the project this summer, with special focus on disseminating the course that he’s been developing and working on [...] Continue reading →

Elizabeth Morrison receives grant for Beijing trip

Alison Darrow — Fri, 12 Apr 2013 14:42:48 +0000

Elizabeth Morrison (Religion) has received an AAS-CIAC Small Grant from the China and Inner Asia Council of the Association of Asian Studies. This grant will help to fund a library trip to Beijing during her 2013-14 leave, thus providing support for her research project titled Finding One’s Place in a Story of Decline: Medieval and [...] Continue reading →

Kathryn Morse Earns Fellowship at Harvard

Alison Darrow — Tue, 02 Apr 2013 15:40:47 +0000

Kathryn Morse (History and Environmental Studies) has been awarded a fellowship from the Charles Warren Center for American Studies at Harvard University that provides support for her 2013-14 leave. She will spend the year participating in the Center’s workshop on “The Environment and the American Past” and working on her book project titled The View from Here: Picturing America’s Environmental Past. This project uses photographs and other visual sources to draw students and scholars into historical thinking about the environment, particularly but not exclusively with regard to social inequalities as revealed through close attention to human interactions with the material world. It builds from Morse’s years of teaching environmental history with images in the Middlebury classroom, and from her recent essay, published in the June 2012 Journal of American History, There Will Be Birds: Images of Oil Disasters in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries.

Peter Nelson Awarded HUD Grant

Alison Darrow — Thu, 21 Mar 2013 19:20:10 +0000

Peter Nelson (Geography) has received funding from the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) to develop a research partnership with HUD in conjunction with his ongoing cooperative research with the Economic Research Service of USDA. This expanded collaborative effort will use American Housing Survey Micro-Data to further analyze the geography of high cost [...] Continue reading →