Category: Summer Grants

The Office of the Provost and Academic Affairs is pleased to congratulate our Stetson teacher-scholar faculty on the submission of proposals for innovative scholarship, research and creative inquiry. The following Summer Grants Program projects were recommended by the Professional Development Committee to the Provost for their outstanding potential and dedication to Stetson’s mission of teaching, research, and artistic development:

Khushbu Mishra “Do Remittances Reshape Household Expenditures? Evidence from Nepal” 

Joshua Rust “Kurt Lewin’s notion of biological genidentity: what makes a caterpillar and a butterfly stages of the same organism?” 

Mayhill Fowler “War Stories: Theater on the Frontlines of Socialism” 

Chaz Underriner “Moving”  

Sean Kennard “Video Recording of Chopin’s 24 Preludes” 

Kevin Taylor, “The effects of deal complexity on entrepreneur sentiment during early-stage fundraising” 

Corie Charpentier, “The impact of light pollution on coastal larvae” 

J. Anthony Abbott, “Creating a Geodatabase of William Bartram’s Travels in Florida” 

Asal Johnson, “Epidemiology of COVID-19 in Florida Communities and Counties in Florida, 2020-2021” 

Teresa Carmody, “Raptured” 

Rachel Core, “The Social Construction of Two Epidemics in China: Tuberculosis and COVID-19” 

Michael Eskenazi, “How Much Do Readers Know About Their Eye Movement Behavior?” 

Mary Ellen Oslick, “Building ESOL Networks (Project BEN) as pathways of change: Innovative Professional Development for Teachers of ELs and Teacher Candidates” 

Chesya Burke, “In Service to the White Creator: The Black Maid Archetype in Ann Petry’s The Street and Kathyrn Stockett’s The Help” 

Paul Sibbald, “Study of Organic Chemical Reaction Mechanisms Using Computational Methods.” 

Kelly Smith, “Public Health Retrenchment: Vaccine Exemption Laws in the US States” 

Raisa Ankeny, “Building ESOL Networks (Project BEN) as pathways of change: Innovative Professional Development for Teachers of ELs and Teacher Candidates” 

Giovanni Fernandez, “Liquidity Needs, Emergency Funds, and Tax-Efficient Withdrawal Rates” 

Joseph Woodside, “Global Supply Chain Digitization and Innovation in the COVID-19 Era” 

Matthew Imes, “Determinants of Female Board Director Power” 

Nicole Mottier, “Threat Multiplier: War, Foodways and Agroecologies in Modern Mexico” 

Peter Smucker, ““Appalachian Folk Music, the Supernatural, and Social Encounters in Kentucky Route Zero.” 

Stuart Michelson, “Individual Financial Literacy and Financial Planning” 

Matthew Shannon, “Characterization of Atomic Level Interactions Between Proteins and Small Molecules Probed by  Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (NMR) Spectroscopic Methods” 

Carol Azab, “YOU SAY BLACK LIVES MATTER- Do service providers walk the talk?”- Examining racial discrimination bias in service recovery” 

Jon-Michael Carrick, “Unicorn Founders Database” 

Jamie Clark, “Hear Her Voice”  

Rajni Shankar-Brown, “Creating Justice: Artivism for Civil and Human Rights” 

Congratulations to all award recipients!

The Office of the Provost and Academic Affairs is pleased to congratulate our Stetson teacher-scholar faculty on the submission of proposals for innovative scholarship, research and creative inquiry. The following Summer Grants Program projects were recommended by the Professional Development Committee to the Provost for their outstanding potential and dedication to Stetson’s mission of teaching, research, and artistic development:

Carol Azab, “Towards a better understanding of binge-watching behavior- because almost everybody is doing it“

Sean Beckmann, “The presence of tick-borne pathogens and the prevalence of co-infection in prairie dwelling rodents” 

Judith Burnett, “Inua Partners in Hope: Curriculum Development and Expansion of Psychosocial services in Naivasha, Kenya – Evaluation and Post-Graduate Programming“

Dengke Chen, “Animation Encapsulates Art Form Progression of Ancient Chinese Art in Mo Gao Caves,China“

Terence Farrell, “The Effects of an Invasive Pentastome Parasite on Snake Health“

Thomas Farrell, “Scribal Responses to Dialect Features in the Reeve’s Tale”

Jesse Fox, “Spirituality and Avoiding Difficult Emotions: Working With Spiritual Bypass”

Melissa Gibbs, “Nutrient contributions of armored catfish in Volusia Blue Spring”

Juanne Greene, “To Tweet or Not to Tweet: Understanding Executives Propensity to Utilize Social Media as a Strategic Disclosure Tool”

Kelly Hall, “The Effectiveness of Artificial Intelligence in Employee Feedback Processes”

Sidra Hamidi, “Constructing Distinctions: Nuclear and Non-Nuclear States in Global Politics” 

Matthew Imes, “Corporate Boards,Gender Diversity, and Debt Maturity”

Luca Molnar, “Complicating Victimhood Narratives: Three Women as Symbols in Obstetrics“

Nicole Mottier, “TBA”

Timothy Murphy, “Business-based Information Literacy: Undergraduate Perceptions of Concepts and Practice in Library Instruction Sessions“

Erin Nickell, “Show and Tell: Juror Perceptions of Audit Partner Characteristics and the Role of Visual Aids in Courtroom Testimony” 

Yohann Ripert, “Decolonizing Diplomacy: West Africa and The United States: 1960-81“

Tara Schuwerk, “Making Sense of Nature: Communication and Sustainability in the Food System“

Rajni Shankar-Brown, “Examining Turnover and Supporting the Wellbeing of PreK-12 Educators in High-Poverty Public Schools”

Jean Smith, “Investigating Protein Aggregation Evolution in Fungal Species”

Joseph Woodside, “Healthcare Robotics: Autonomous Learning Models for Clinical Decision-Making“

Petros Xanthopoulos, “A minimum variance ensemble clustering algorithm based on modern portfolio theory“

John York, “Computational Modeling of Ethylene Binding to the Copper Ion in the Ethylene Receptor Protein (ETR1)” 

Daniil Zavlunov, “Opera in Russia during the Reign of Nicholas I (1825-1855): A Cultural History [Phase III]“

Congratulations to all the awardees!

The Office of the Provost and Academic Affairs is pleased to congratulate our Stetson teacher-scholar faculty on the submission of proposals for innovative scholarship, research and creative inquiry. The following Summer Grants Program projects were recommended by the Professional Development Committee to the Provost for their outstanding potential and dedication to Stetson’s mission of teaching, research, and artistic development:

Fazal Abbas, Mathematical Modeling of Blood Flow in Human Artery thorough Bifurcation

Isabel Botero, When non-family firms use a family language as part of their brand: Exploring the family business brand effect

Teresa Carmody, Archive: A Novel-Essay

John Carrick, The Stetson Unicorn List

Su Young Choi, Gifting Food/Money as Movement Media

Rachel Core, “Tuberculosis Patients’ Experiences in Shanghai before and after Socialist Health Reform”

Roslyn Crowder, How Does the Plant-based Compound Genistein Kill Lung Cancer Cells?

Joel Davis, Shakespeare’s Muse of Fire: The life and works of Sir Philip Sidney

Michael Eskenazi, Intentional and Incidental Word Learning: The Importance of Context

Sarah Garcia, tDCS for the Treatment of Anxiety in Young Adults

Sharmaine Jackson, The Unmaking of a Gangbanger

Christopher Jimenez, Pinpointing ‘Global’ Discourse through Large-scale Computational Analysis of Global Anglophone Literature

Asal Johnson, Social Epidemiology of Bladder Cancer in Florida, 2000-2014

Lynn Kee, Shaping the iridescent green structural color of marine bacteria biofilms

Sean Kennard, CD Recording published by Delos: Sonatas for Cello and Piano by Samuel Barber and Sergei Rachmaninoff

Eric Kurlander, Shanghai as East Asian “Solution” to the Nazi “Jewish Question”

John Lychner, Achieving “Flow” in Musical Experiences— Employing the concepts and approaches of Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi in Music Rehearsals and Performances

Karen Merritt, Recording project: Songs of Occitania

Daniel Plante, ShakeDown: A New Ultra Efficient Distributed Denial of Service Attack

Yohann Ripert, “Transatlantic Diplomacy Between Senegal and the United States: 1960-81”

Kelly Smith, Laboratories of Bureaucracy: How Bureaucrats Learn Across States

Charles Underriner, Moving

The Office of the Provost and Academic Affairs is pleased to congratulate our Stetson teacher-scholar faculty on the submission of proposals for innovative scholarship, research and creative inquiry. The following Summer Grants Program projects were recommended by the Professional Development Committee to the Provost for their outstanding potential and dedication to Stetson’s mission of teaching, research, and artistic development:

Robert Askew, The Impact of Rehabilitation Therapy on Post-Stroke Recovery

Carol Azab, Positive Frontline Employees in Service Recovery – Does it Matter?

Teresa Carmody, Archive: A Novel-Essay

Dengke Chen, A Comparative Study and Virtual Representation of Construction Technique and Traditional Carpentry of Dong and Han’s Wooden Architecture

Su Young Choi, Gifting Food/Money as Movement Media: Expanding a Practice Approach to Alternative Media Studies

Rachel Core, Tuberculosis Patients’ Experiences in Shanghai Before and After Socialist Health Reform

Randall Croom, Its’ Written All Over Your Face: Facial Hair and Competence Related Perceptions

Heather Evans-Anderson, A Co-Culture Model System to Examine Endothelial-Cardiomyocyte Interactions

Mayhill Fowler, Theater on the Frontlines of Socialism: Researching Soviet Military Theater in Ukraine

Deborah Goldring, Proactive Re-Branding and the Influence of Marketing Intermediaries

Kelly Hall, The Effects of Implicit Goal Strivings, Task Characteristics, and Mentoring on Meaningful Work

Chris Jimenez, Pinpointing “Global’ Discourse through Large-Scale Computational Analysis of Global Anglophone Literature

Asal Johnson, Racial Segregation and Lung Cancer Outcomes by Patient Characteristics in Florida

Lynn Kee, Shaping the Iridescent Green Structural Color of Marine Bacterial Biofilms

Sean Kennard, CD Recording of 20^th Century American Piano Music

Eric Kurlander, Before the Final Solution: A Global History of the Nazi “Jewish Question”

Danielle Lindner, Psychometric Evaluation of the Self-Objectification Beliefs and Behaviors Scale in College Men

John Lychner, Developments in Education, Specifically Music Education, for Students from Migrant Families

Karen Merritt, A Phonetic Study: Preparing Performance Aids for Songs in the Languedoc Dialect

Stuart Michelson, Perceived versus Actual Investor Sophistication: A Behavioral Study

Emily Mieras, “The Gold-Panner, the Textile Worker, and the Piney Woods Hoteliers: History, Memory, and the Creation of Tourist and Business Destinations in Georgia and South Carolina

Khushbu Mishra, Gender and Willingness to Pay for Insured Loans: Empirical Evidence from Ghana

Mary Pollock, Gerald Durrell and the Little Ones of God (Chapters 3 & 4)

Leila Roach, Exploration and Expansion of Mental Health Services in Bhutan

Benjamin Tanner, Sediment Archive of Seagrass Dynamics in Mosquito and Indian River Lagoons

Chaz Underriner, Mimesis, Murakami, and Multimedia Art: Parallel Worlds in Performance

Kirsten Work, How Do Fish Assemblages Differ in North Temperate, South Subtropical, and Arid West Spring Habitats?

John York, Understanding the Binding of Zinc, Mercury, and Cadmium to Sulfur-Containing Compounds: Implications for Human Health and Disease

Daniil Zavlunov, The Afterlife Of Tselostnyä-Analiz (Holistic Analysis): Topic Theory in Soviet Musicology

The Office of the Provost and Academic Affairs is pleased to congratulate our Stetson teacher-scholar faculty on the submission of proposals for innovative scholarship, research and creative inquiry. The following Summer Grants Program projects were recommended by the Professional Development Committee to the Provost for their outstanding potential and dedication to Stetson’s mission of teaching, research, and artistic development:

Carol Azab, “So you have an accent, you must be…” – The Influence of Customers’ Accent on Service Provider Service Recovery

Cynthia Bennington, Pollinator dynamics in a human-modified landscape: a multi-year study

Pamela Cappas-Toro, Critical Approaches to Teaching Spanish and Lantin(a/o) American Studies in Prison

Dengke Chen, Preserving Miao Cultural Heritage: A Virtual Reconstruction and Retrofit of a typical Diao Jiao House

Randall Croom, Beggars Can’t Be Choosers: Effects of Mutual Attraction on Organizational and Individual Employment Choice and Other Organizational Outcomes

Roslyn Crowder, How Does the Plan-base Compound Genistein Kill Lung Cancer Cells?

Joel Davis, A Working Critical Text of the 1593 Arcadia

Michael Eskenazi, Intentional and Incidental Work Learning: The Importance of Context

Terence Farrell, The Effect of Supplemental Feeding on Pregnant Pigmy Rattlesnakes (Sistrurus miliarius)

Thomas Farrell, The Canterbury Tales Project, Phase II: Link 2, the Reeve’s Tale, Link 3, the Cook’s Tale

Song Gao, Evaluating Impact of Ship Emissions on Air Quality in Central Florida

Laura Gunn, Biostatistical Projects in Public Health Studies

Kelly Hall, Developing Leaders via Reflection: The Role of Feedback Format and Feedback Reactions

Melinda Hall, The Ethical Implications of Risk Communication in Public Health Contexts

Sharmaine Jackson, The Unmaking of a Gangbanger: The role of krump dancing in breaking cycles of violence

Grace Kaletski, The Value of Knowledge Practices in Student Learning: A Comparative Analysis of Faculty Perspectives on the Framework for Information Literacy for Higher Education

Holley Lynch, Mechanics of Collective Cell Migration across Systems

Stuart Michelson, Assessment of Financial Planning for University Faculty

Nicole Mottier, Blood 0n the Borderlands: A History of Ciudad Juárez Organized Crime, 1920s-2010s

Mary Ellen Oslick, Developing an instrument to accurately capture in-service and preservice teacher knowledge of children’s literature

Melissa Parks, Field Trip and Literature Guide

Joshua Rust and Steven Smallpage, Political Trust and the Fate of Liberalism

Sven Smith, An Organizational Analysis of Our State Courts

Peter Smucker, Expanding CUP-Space: Combinatorial Extensions of the Complement Union Property

Benjamin Tanner, Paleoenvironmental Record of Isolated Wetlands in the Ocala National Forest

John Tichenor, Benefit Corporations: A New Way of Doing Good Business?

Nancy Vosburg, Murder in Minorca: Detecting an Unusual Hybrid Series in Spanish Crime Fiction

Jamison Walker, Heldentenor training project in Germany and Austria

John York, Understanding the Binding of Gold Compounds to Sulfur: Applications to Pharmaceuticals and Pollution Reduction

The Office of the Provost and Academic Affairs is pleased to congratulate our Stetson teacher-scholar faculty on the submission of proposals for innovative scholarship, research and creative inquiry. The following Summer Grants Program projects were recommended by the Professional Development Committee to the Provost for their outstanding potential and dedication to Stetson’s mission of teaching, research, and artistic development:

Cynthia Bennington and Peter May, Pollinator dynamics in a human-modified landscape

Jon Carrick, Global SME Case Series

Valrie Chambers, Potential Tax Implications of Family Travel Allowances on NCAA

Rachel Core, The Tuberculosis Clinic at Three Critical Junctures

Paul Croce, William James’s Theory of Attention and his Psychology of Philosophizing

Roslyn Crowder, Killing Lung Cancer: An Examination of Naturally Occuring Plant-Based Compound Genistein

Christopher de Bodisco, Mitigating the Impacts of Climate Change: A Case Study Approach

Ana Eire, An Anthology of Contemporary Galician Poetry

Mayhill C. Fowler, The Military-Entertainment Complex in the USSR

Alan Green, Stages of Growth and Economic Development: Providing a Framework for Analysis

Asal Mohamadi Johnson, The Effects of Racial Segregation on Breast Cancer Stage at Diagnosis, Treatment and Survival Among Black Women

Grace Kaletski, The Value of Knowledge Practices in Student Learning: Faculty Perceptions of ACRL’s Framework for Information Literacy for Higher Education at Stetson University

Eric Kurlander, Modern Germany: A Global History, 1500-present

Danielle Lindner, Deconstructing Body Image Disturbance

Dejan Magoc, The 5-2-1-0 Childhood Program in the DeLand Community

Richard Medlin, Chronic Fatigue Syndrome in Children and Adolescents

Stuart Michelson, The Behavioral Relationship Between Personality Type and Investor Risk Preferences

Nicole Mottier, The Persistence of Moneylending in Mexico

Lynn Musco, Dark Matter

Mary Ellen Oslick, Literacy Across the Content Areas with the 2016 Orbis Pictus Award

Jelena Petrovic, Safe Border Crossers, Proper Citizens, and Eastern Others: Serbian News Coverage of refuge Crisis in Europe

Douglas Phillips, A Coda – Repertoire, Commissions, and Premieres: Gary Green and the Frost Wind Ensemble’s Last Years Together (2012-2015)

Mary Pollock, Gerald Durrell’s Animal Tales: A New Biography

Joshua Rust, Traditional Authority, Loyalty, and Social Ontology

Matt Wilson, 2015 NCAA Division I Power 5 Conference Men’s and Women’s Basketball Coaching Contracts: A Comparative Analysis of Incentives for Athletic and Academic Team Performance

Joseph Woodside, Transforming Healthcare Provider and Patient Power Dynamics-Exploring the Impact of Mobile Healthcare

Daniil Zavlunov , Opera in Russia during the Reign of Nicholas I (1825-1855): A Cultural History (Phase II)

The Office of the Provost and Academic Affairs is pleased to congratulate our Stetson teacher-scholar faculty on the submission of proposals for innovative scholarship, research and creative inquiry. The following Summer Grants Program projects were recommended by the Professional Development Committee to the Provost for their outstanding potential and dedication to Stetson’s mission of teaching, research, and artistic development:

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

William R. Nylen, Political Oppositions in Mozambique: Irrational Democratic Activism

Megan B. O’Neill, Points of Significance: Learning in a Writing Intensive Curriculum

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 

The Office of the Provost and Academic Affairs is pleased to congratulate our Stetson teacher-scholar faculty on the submission of proposals for innovative scholarship, research and creative inquiry. The following Summer Grants Program projects were recommended by the Professional Development Committee to the Provost for their outstanding potential and dedication to Stetson’s mission of teaching, research, and artistic development:

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 King, “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 Sulfer Impurities from Petroleum Fuels Using metal Complexes.”