Congratulations to all Summer Grant recipients.
Summer Grants 2015
Jon Carrick – Global SME Resources Database (G-SMERD) Development
Wingyan Chung – Examining the Evolution of Twitter User Networks: The Case of U.S. Immigration Reform
Rachel Core – Institutional Change and Tuberculosis Control in Rural Shanghai, 1958-2003
Laura Crysel – Being the “Catcher in the Rye”: What is the Harm in Challenged Books
Joel B. Davis – The Countess of Pembroke’s Arcadia at the Huntington Library
Leigh DeLorenzi – The Research and Development of Gatekeeping Software for Counselor Educators
Michelle DeMoss – Case Analysis: Environmentally Sustainable Marketing Practices
Joshua Eckroth – Self-Reflective Intelligent Software Agents: Towards a More General Approach
Mayhill C. Fowler – After Empire?: Russia, Ukraine, and the Crisis of Post-Soviet Culture
Melinda Hall – Public Health and Risk Prevention: Bodies that Matter, Bodies that Don’t
Asal Mohamadi Johnson – Treatment and Survival Disparities in Lung Cancer: The Effect of Racial Residential Segregation
Eric Kurlander – Hitler’s Monsters: A Supernatural History of the Third Reich, 1919-1945 (with particular emphasis on Wartime Archival Sources, Published Primary Works, and Photo Archives)
Philip C. Lucas – Shiva Temples of the Five Elements in Tamil Nadu and Andhra Pradesh, India: a Documentary Film
Craig W. Maddox – Voice Spectrography Application in the Teaching of Singing: A Website with Video, Audio, & Spectrographic Examples of Vocal Exercises Demonstrated by Multiple Voice Types and Multiple Levels of Development
Jason Martin -The Positive Effects of Transformational Leadership in Academic Libraries: A Qualitative Study
Emily Mieras – Nostalgia, History, and Place Marketing in National Main Street Center Communities
Nicole Mottier – Monitoring Financial Morality and Development through Debt in 1920s Mexico
Megan B. O’Neill – Points of Significance: Learning in a Writing Intensive Curriculum
William R. Nylen – Political Oppositions in Mozambique: Irrational Democratic Activism
Elisabeth Poeter – The Culture of ‘Völkerschau’ in Imperial Germany
Stephen Robinson – Arrangement and Compact Disc Recording of the Song Cycle Die schöne Müllerin by Franz Schubert, for voice and guitar
Rajni Shankar-Brown – More Than Not Having a Home: Unpacking Homelessness Through the Eyes of Children
Alexis N. Walker – Solidarity’s Wedge: How America’s Federalized Labor Law Divides and Diminishes Organized Labor in the United States
Nathan Wolek – Hosting a Jamoma developers’ workshop at Stetson
Daniil Zavlunov – Opera in Russia during the Reign of Nicholas I (1825-1855): A Cultural History
Summer 2014
Christopher Bell – The Ritual Evolution of the Tibetan Buddhist Protector Deity Dorje Shugden
Gary Bolding – Vaselina Springs and the Arkie DeLeons: A Southern Gothic Rock Soap Opera
Rosalyn Crowder – Developing a Transfection Protocol to Improve Jurkat T Cell Transfection Efficiency
Kimberly Flint-Hamilton – Sankofa: Go Back and Fetch It. Part III
Mayhill Fowler – Beau Monde: State and Stage on Empire’s Edge, Russian and Soviet Ukraine, 1916-1941
Melissa Gibbs – Have Reproductive Patterns Changed in an Invasive Armored Catfish Inhabiting Volusia Blue Spring
Alan Green – Contracts, Property Rights, and Economic Development: a Theoretical and Empirical Investigation
Laura Gunn – Public Health Research Projects for Completion
Melinda Hall – Uses of Disability in Horror Film and Fiction
Jamil Khader – The Part of No Part: (Re)Theorizing the Palestinian Subject
Michael Kin – Behavioral Effects of Gustatory Cortex Microstimulation in Conscious Rats
Katya Kudryavtseva – The Afterlife of Kazimir Malevich’s Suprematism
Jason Martin – Academic Librarians’ Perceptions of Transformational and Transactional Leadership in Academic Library Leaders
Leander Seah – Conceptualizing Chinese Identity: China, the Nanyang, and Trans-Regionalism
Rajni Shankar-Brown – Using Bioecological Systems Theory to Understand Family Homelessness: Critical Perspectives for Educators
Paul Sibbald – Development of A Synthetic Pathway to Novel 3-Substituted Indolizines
Margaret Venzke – Essays on Ottoman Land Administration in the 16th Century: A View from the Older Islamic Provinces, Eastern Anatolia and Syria
Nancy Vosburg – (Re)Collecting the Past: Historical Memory in Spanish Literature and Culture
Rebecca Watts – Personhood on the Plantation: Interpreting Slaves and Slavery at Public Plantation Sites
Matt Wilson – NCAA Division I Women’s Basketball Coaching Contracts: A Comparative Analysis of Incentives for Athletic and Academic Team Performance
John York – Removal of Sulfur Impurities from Petroleum Fuels Using metal Complexes