Tag: Faculty Grants

Anne Knowles (Geography) Receives Two Grants

Anne Knowles (Geography) has received a National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Stipend to support her work on a book titled Holocaust Geographies. This book is the culmination of an international, multi-disciplinary collaboration between nine geographers and historians developing new approaches for studying the Holocaust with geographical methods.  Anne and a colleague Texas State University,…Continue Reading Anne Knowles (Geography) Receives Two Grants

Leticia Arroyo Abad: Summer Fellowship

Leticia Arroyo Abad (Economics & IPE) was awarded the Department of Education Summer Library Research Fellowship in Latin American Studies at the University of Pittsburgh. This grant will allow her to continue her research on Latin American historical inequality. In particular, this project evaluates the impact of colonial institutions on inequality in Peru….Continue Reading Leticia Arroyo Abad: Summer Fellowship

Molly Costanza-Robinson receives Mellon Faculty Career Enhancement Funds

Molly Costanza-Robinson (Environmental Studies and Chemistry & Biochemistry), with co-coordinators at Vassar and Furman, has received funding through the Mellon Foundation’s Faculty Career Enhancement program for an inter-institutional project titled Sustainability in Europe: The Limits of Possibility. This award provides funding for a diverse group of 18 faculty from Vassar, Denison, Furman, DePauw, Claremont-McKenna, and…Continue Reading Molly Costanza-Robinson receives Mellon Faculty Career Enhancement Funds

Jon Isham – Faculty Development Funding

Jon Isham (Economics) has been selected to participate this summer in a faculty seminar at Transylvania University in Kentucky, funded by the University’s Bingham Program for Excellence in Teaching. The seminar, titled Twenty-first Century Liberal Education: A Contested Concept, will involve faculty from liberal arts colleges around the country. The award covers all costs of…Continue Reading Jon Isham – Faculty Development Funding

John Maluccio – NSF Funding

John Maluccio (Economics) and colleagues from the University of Colorado and the Paris School of Economics have been awarded a grant from the National Science Foundation for a research project titled Effects of Social Transfer Programs on Cognitive, Social, and Economic Outcomes. This project will determine the effects of the Nicaraguan Conditional Cash Transfer (CCT)…Continue Reading John Maluccio – NSF Funding

Amy Morsman – short-term fellowship

Amy Morsman (History) has been awarded a short-term fellowship for research at the Massachusetts Historical Society in Boston (the Malcolm and Mildred Freiberg Fellowship for research in African-American history). She will be working on her project titled North of Reconstruction: Race, Gender, and Reform in the Postbellum North and will be visiting the archives at…Continue Reading Amy Morsman – short-term fellowship

Sam Liebhaber – NEH Fellowship

Sam Liebhaber (Arabic) has been awarded a fellowship from the National Endowment for the Humanities to support his academic leave in 2011-2012, during which he plans to complete work on a book project titled, Bedouin Without Arabic: Language, Poetry and the Mahra of Southeast Yemen. His goal is to create the first monograph-length analysis of the endangered Mahri…Continue Reading Sam Liebhaber – NEH Fellowship

Timothy Billings: Mellon Funding for Inter-institutional Faculty Career Enhancement Initiative

Timothy Billings (English & American Literatures), together with co-organizers at Scripps and Vassar, has received funding through the Mellon Foundation’s Faculty Career Enhancement grant for an inter-institutional initiative titled 21st Century Shakespeare. This project provides funding for a group of Literature and Theatre faculty from Scripps, Vassar, DePauw, Denison, Furman, Harvey Mudd, Rhodes, and Middlebury…Continue Reading Timothy Billings: Mellon Funding for Inter-institutional Faculty Career Enhancement Initiative