Awards
Students Awards
ASTRA Award Recipients - Deadline 03/14/08
Recipient |
Department |
Project |
Ann Miles |
Anthropology |
Struggles with Chronic Illness and Suffering |
Kristina Wirtz |
Anthropology |
Realizing performances in Cuban popular religion and folklore |
Anthony Ellis |
English |
Abstraction Theatre: In-class performances and discussion of Shakespeare's comedies |
Scott Slawinski |
English |
Sally Wood: The life and work of Maine's first gothic novelist |
Nora Faires |
History |
Researching the American Woman's Club of Toronto |
Angela M. Moe |
Sociology |
Travel funding for Midwest Sociology Society Conference |
Marioloa Perez de la Cruz |
Spanish |
La Guerra Civil Espanola en el cine |
Patricia M. Montilla |
Spanish |
Bilingualism and Pan-Hispanic Unity in Rosario Ferre's Language Duel |
Charlotte Thralls |
English |
Attend Annual Convention of College Composition and COmmunication and Annual Conference of Assoc. Teachers of Technical writing. |
ASTRA Award Recipients - Deadline 12/14/07
Recipient |
Department |
Project |
Jonathan Bush |
English |
A Gateway to Graduate Study in Rhetoric and Writing Studies |
Chad Edwards |
Communication |
Two new research initiatives of research/teaching program: Kids Communicating and Sch. Of Commun Survey and Experimental Research Lab. Request for equipment. |
Jaimy Gordon |
English |
Travel reimbursement to Fine Arts Work Center in Massachusetts where she will be one of 8 jurors who select the 4 Writing Fellows for 2008-2009. |
Lynne Heasley |
History |
Archival research for book project examining central role of the Great Lakes in N.A. environmental history. Main theme is the "paradox of abundance." |
Sarah Hill |
Anthropology |
Visit to New Orleans to document the process of clean-up and debris removal from Hurricanes Katrina and Rita. Interviewing of residents of the surrounding landfills. |
Jane-Jane Lo |
Math |
Three-day workshop, May 20-22 in Chicago on Hierarchical Linear and Non-linear Modeling. |
| Irma Lopez |
Spanish |
Tres decadas de creacion y cambio: la sociedad y la novelistica femenino (El Boom Femenino Mexicano lit. conf. in Cork, Ireland Jan 18-20, 2008 |
Vincent Lyon-Callo |
Anthropology |
Editorial Board Meetings in Chicago, IL, Baltimore, MD, and Riverside, CA for the journal Rethinking Marxism. Essential planning for international conferences. Dr. Lyon-Callo is the lead organizer planning the next international conference for fall of 2009. |
Eli Rubin |
History |
2-day conference; Rubin the organizer with three other colleagues; 12/5-6/2008; "Writing East German History; What Difference Does the Cultural Turn Make?" Keynote speaker, Sandrine Kott of U of Geneva, Switzerland. |
W. F. Santiago-Valles |
Africana Studies |
Translation costs for a new anthology which will be one of the textbooks for AFS 4860/ANT 4720: Slavery and Resistance, and for other courses in Slavery Studies. Co-editor is requesting $5,000 from Wayne State in Detroit [total cost estimated $10,500]. |
Udaya Wagle |
Public Affairs and Administration |
Income and Wealth Inequality in Nepal, 1996 and 2004: Changes and Socio-demographic Determinants |
ASTRA Award Recipients - Deadline 9/22/07
Recipient |
Department |
Project |
| Fritz Allhoff |
Philosophy |
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Elizabeth Bradburn |
English |
Theory of Mind and Literature Conference |
Paul Clements |
Political Sci. |
Rawisian Program Analysis of the Grameen Bank |
Olivia G. Gabor-Peirce |
Foreign Languages |
Kentucky Foreign Language Conference |
Emily Hauptmann |
Political Sci. |
Association for Political Theory Conference |
Gunther Hega |
Political Sci. |
Purchase of a Statistical analysis package, STATA |
Jon Holtzman |
Anthropology |
M. Mead Film Fest. & Am. Museum of Natural History |
Priscilla A. Lambert |
Political Sci. |
American Political Sci, Assn, annual Conf. |
Jennifer A. Machiorlatti |
Communication |
Apple Prof. Training - Faculty Develop't |
Jacinda Swanson |
Political Sci. |
American Political Sci, Assn, annual Conf |