Past Winners

Graduate Student Summer Research Stipend Grant

2006-2007

Mary Jennifer Fox
Pd .D. in Literature
Advisor: Charles Barber
Komnenian Visual Theory: Edition, Translation, Commentary

Sean Mannion
English
Advisor: David Thomas
Discourse of Legitimation: Literature of British India, 1870-1930

Maggie Nerio
English
Advisor: Jesse M. Lander
They Say that Miracles are Past: Staging the Supernatural in Shakespeare's England

Michael Perdriel
Art, Art History, and Design
Advisor: Paul Down
Design Strategies Toward Improved Living Conditions in Under-served Communities: A Manual Washing Machine

Marion Christina Rohrleitner
English
Advisor: Javier Rodzíquez
Journeys of Love and Death Across The Texas-Mexico Border: Analyzing Transnational Formations of Identity, Violence, and Hope

2005-2006

Maria Guadalupe Arenillas
Romance Languages and Literatures
Advisor: Maria Rosa Olivera-Williams
Changes in Urban Rhetoric: Buenos Aires, Argentina, and Santiago, Chile

Sarah Boyd
Psychology
Advisor: Kathleen Eberhard
Face to Face Conversation Research Project

Julianne Bruneau
English
Advisor: Dolores Frese
Exploring Geoffrey Chaucer's Allegory of the Mother Tongue

Rebecca Bryant-Fritz
Sociology
Michael Welsh
Regional Variations in the Enforcement of Hate Crime Statutes: Local Impacts on Policy Implementation

Brian Kakas and Christian de Leon
Art, Art History and Design
Advisor: William Kremer
Research Project - Plaster Mold Making Techniques for the Construction of Large -Scale Sculptural Ceramic Forms

Ryan Kreager
Psychology
Advisor: Darvia Narvaez
Triune Ethics: A New Moral Psychological Theory

Cosmina Menghes
Political Science
Advisor: George Lopez
The Future of Peacekeeping and Peacemaking: Civil-Military Cooperation in Conflict and Post conflict Reconstruction

Daniel Lynwood Smith
Theology
Advisor: David E. Aune
The Testament of Solomon in the Context of Ancient Mediterranean Magic

2004-2005

Cara Fernandez Anderson
Political Science
Advisor: Dan Lindley
Propaganda, Public Diplomacy, and Information Operations

James Barham
History & Philosophy of Science
Advisor: Phillip Sloan
Program of Liberal Studies/Program in History & Philosophy of Science

Bradley C. Gregory
Theology
Advisor: Gary Anderson
Metaphors of Sin

Matthew Larner
Sociology
Advisor: David Hachen
Local Area Study of Temporary Help and Staffing Agencies

Sarah MacMillen
Sociology
Advisor: Andrew J. Weigert
Sympathy, Empathy, Civil Society and Hope: Israel-Palestine

Carl A. Neblett
Sociology
Advisor: Erika Summers-Effler
A Grounded Theory of Oppositional Consciousness

Marion Christina Rohrleitner
English
Advisor: Kate Baldwin
Authenticating Nations: Cultural Fictions of U.S. and Soviet Women During The Cold War

Shannon Drysdale Walsh
Political Science
Advisor: George Lopez
A "Rights-Resolution" Framework for Understanding Peace Processes and Improving Human Rights Conditions

April Wilkin
Art - Photography
Advisor: Martina Lopez
The Mourning of Memory