Faculty Internal Grants Awarded 2009-2010

The following faculty received internal grant awards between August 2009 and July 2010.

Aburto Guzmán, Claudia, Associate Professor of Spanish
Bates Faculty Development Fund – Awarded December 2009
Support for the Integration of Photographic Works and Scholarly/Artistic Production

Aburto Guzmán, Claudia, Associate Professor of Spanish
Mellon Faculty Innovation Fund – Awarded March 2010
Cross-Cultural Awareness through Poetry

Aburto Guzmán, Claudia, Associate Professor of Spanish
Mellon Faculty Innovation Fund – Awarded   March 2010
Latin America on Campus

Ambrose, William, Professor of Biology
Bates Faculty Development Fund – Awarded December 2009
Chronology of Raised Beaches on Rolfsøya, Norway

Ambrose, William, Professor of Biology
Mellon Faculty Innovation Fund – Awarded March 2010
Assessing Temperature and Chemistry in Prehistoric Penobscot Bay

Ambrose, William, Professor of Biology
INBRE Student-Faculty Grants – Awarded January 2010
Long Term Changes in Near Shore Gulf of Maine Ecosystems Using State-of-the-Art Techniques in Molecular Paleobiology

Andrucki, Martin, Charles A. Dana Professor of Theater
Mellon Faculty Innovation Fund – Awarded December 2009
The Politics of Memory in Eastern and Central Europe

Ásgeirsdóttir, Áslaug, Associate Professor of Politics
Bates Faculty Development Fund – Awarded December 2009
Delimitation of Maritime Boundaries: The Role of Political, Economic and Geographic Factors in Reaching a Fair Distribution

Ásgeirsdóttir, Áslaug, Associate Professor of Politics
Mellon Faculty Innovation Fund – Awarded December 2009
The Politics of Memory in Eastern and Central Europe

Austin, Rachel, Professor of Chemistry
INBRE Student-Faculty Grants – Awarded January 2010
Lead Biochemistry: Interaction with Metallothionein

Baker, Cynthia, Associate Professor of Religious Studies
Bates Faculty Development Fund – Awarded April 2010
Jew

Baker, Pamela, Helen, Papaioanou Professor of Biological Studies
Mellon Faculty Innovation Fund – Awarded March 2010
Psychology/Public Health GEC: Diversity and Public Health

Balladur, Laura, Visiting Assistant Professor of French
Mellon Faculty Innovation Fund – Awarded March 2010
Cross-Cultural Awareness through Poetry

Barry, Ronald, Lecturer in Biology
Bates Faculty Development Fund – Awarded December 2009
Publication of Research on Survival and Winter Diet of the Appalachian Cottontail (Sylvilagus obscures)

Beasley, Myron, Assistant Professor of African American Studies and American Cultural Studies
Bates Faculty Development Fund – Awarded December 2009
The Sisterhood of the Good Death

Beasley, Myron, Assistant Professor of African American Studies and American Cultural Studies:
Mellon Faculty Innovation Fund – Awarded April 2010
Material Culture Working Group

Beasley, Myron, Assistant Professor of African American Studies and American Cultural Studies
Whiting Teaching Fellowship – Awarded March 2010
Reciting Sites: Death, Rituals and Performance in the African Diaspora

Bourque, Bruce, Senior Lecturer in Anthropology
Mellon Faculty Innovation Fund – Awarded March 2010
Assessing Temperature and Chemistry in Prehistoric Penobscot Bay

Browne, Dennis, Associate Professor of Russian
Mellon Faculty Innovation Fund – Awarded December 2009
The Politics of Memory in Eastern and Central Europe

Buck, Patricia, Associate Professor of Education
Bates Faculty Development Fund – Awarded December 2009
Student Research Apprenticeship Grant – Awarded January 2010
Gauging Impacts of Refugee Women’s Secondary-School Completion

Carnegie, Charles, Professor of Anthropology
Bates Faculty Development Fund – Awarded December 2009
Exploring St. Francis Xavier University’s Connections with Jamaica Welfare and Role in the Development of the Cooperative Movement in Eastern Canada

Carnegie, Charles, Professor of Anthropology
Mellon Faculty Innovation Fund – Awarded   March 2010
Latin America on Campus

Cernahoschi-Condurateanu, Raluca, Lecturer in German
Mellon Faculty Innovation Fund – Awarded March 2010
Cross-Cultural Awareness through Poetry

Cernahoschi-Condurateanu, Raluca, Lecturer in German
Mellon Faculty Innovation Fund – Awarded December 2009
The Politics of Memory in Eastern and Central Europe

Chirayath, Heidi, Associate Professor of Sociology
Mellon Faculty Innovation Fund – Awarded July 2010
Arts in the Liberal Arts at Bates: Building a Collaborative

Corlett, William, Professor of Politics
Bates Faculty Development Fund – Awarded December 2009
Ecologies of Excess

Corrie, Rebecca, Phillips Professor of Art and Visual Culture
Mellon Faculty Innovation Fund – Awarded April 2010
Material Culture Working Group

Costlow, Jane, Professor of Russian
Mellon Faculty Innovation Fund – Awarded March 2010
Siberian Perspectives on Indigenous Cultures

Costlow, Jane, Professor of Russian
Mellon Faculty Innovation Fund – Awarded December 2009
The Politics of Memory in Eastern and Central Europe

Creighton, Margaret, Professor of History
Mellon Faculty Innovation Fund – Awarded April 2010
Material Culture Working Group

Dauge-Roth, Alexandre, Professor of French
Phillips Fellowship – Awarded October 2009
Personal and National Reconciliation in Post-Genocide Rwanda: The New Challenge for Survivors

Decker, Craig, Professor of German
Mellon Faculty Innovation Fund – Awarded December 2009
The Politics of Memory in Eastern and Central Europe

Dilley, Carol, Associate Professor of Dance
Bates Faculty Development Fund – Awarded December 2009
Building, Maintaining, and Performing Repertory, Spring 2010

Dilley, Carol, Associate Professor of Dance
Bates Faculty Development Fund – Awarded December 2009
Untyping Traditions – Dance in Sri Lanka

Dilley, Carol, Associate Professor of Dance
Mellon Faculty Innovation Fund – Awarded July 2010
Arts in the Liberal Arts at Bates: Building a Collaborative

Douglass, Amy, Associate Professor of Psychology
Bates Faculty Development Fund – Awarded April 2010
Course Development:  Psychology of Religion

Duina, Francesco, Associate Professor of Sociology
Student Research Apprenticeship Grant – Awarded January 2010
Institutions and the Economy

Eusden, J. Dykstra, Professor of Geology
Bates Faculty Development Fund – Awarded December 2009
Publication Costs for Printing the Book and Accompanying Map: The Presidential Range: Its Geologic History and Plate Tectonics

Fatone, Gina, Assistant Professor of Music
Freeman Foundation Grant for the Study of East Asia – Awarded December 2009
Production of Wayang Golek (Rod-Puppet Theater from West Java

Federico, Sylvia, Assistant Professor of English
Bates Faculty Development Fund – Awarded December 2009
Clerks of Venus: Chaucer, Walsingham, and the Classicist Mode

Fra-Molinero, Baltasar, Associate Professor of Spanish
Bates Faculty Development Fund – Awarded April 2010
Spain’s Discourse on Africa: Casa África

Fra-Molinero, Baltasar, Associate Professor of Spanish
Bates Faculty Development Fund – Awarded December 2009
Translation of an Eighteenth-Century Hagiography of Sor Teresa Chicaba

Fra-Molinero, Baltasar, Associate Professor of Spanish
Mellon Faculty Innovation Fund – Awarded   March 2010
Latin America on Campus

George, David, Lecturer in Spanish
Bates Faculty Development Fund – Awarded December 2009
A Dual and Contradictory Spirit: Vicente Blasco Ibañez and Taishō Japan

Greer, Meredith, Associate Professor of Mathematics
Bates Faculty Development Fund – Awarded April 2010
Hosting a Foreign Collaborator for New Work in Mathematical Ecology

Hall, Joseph, Associate Professor of History
Bates Faculty Development Fund – Awarded December 2009
Locating the Lost Colony

Hall, Joseph, Associate Professor of History
Mellon Faculty Innovation Fund – Awarded March 2010
Latin America on Campus

Henry, Joshua, Visiting Assistant Professor of Chemistry
Bates Faculty Development Fund – Awarded December 2009
Developing a Technique for the Study of the Organic Functionalization Layers of Semiconducting Nanocrystals

Herzig, Rebecca, Professor of Women and Gender Studies
Bates Faculty Development Fund – Awarded December 2009
Conference Participation in Tokyo

Herzig, Rebecca, Professor of Women and Gender Studies
Mellon Faculty Innovation Fund – Awarded April 2010
Material Culture Working Group

Houchins, Sue, Associate Professor of African American Studies

Bates Faculty Development Fund – Awarded December 2009
Translation of an Eighteenth-Century Hagiography of Sor Teresa Chicaba

Houchins, Sue, Associate Professor of African American Studies
CBB Mellon Collaborative Faculty Enhancement Grant – Awarded 2009
Imagining the Geography of the Diaspora

Hughes, James, Thomas Sowell Professor of Economics
Bates Faculty Development Fund – Awarded December 2009
The ‘Dis-Integration’ of American Horse Racing

Johnson, Beverly, Associate Professor of Geology
INBRE Student-Faculty Grants – Awarded January 2010
Long Term Changes in Near Shore Gulf of Maine Ecosystems Using State-of-the-Art Techniques in Molecular Paleobiology

Kane, Emily, Whitehouse Professor of Sociology
Student Research Apprenticeship Grant – Awarded January 2010
Rethinking Gender and Sexuality in Childhood

Koviach-Côté, Jennifer, Associate Professor of Chemistry
INBRE Student-Faculty Grants – Awarded January 2010
Synthesis and Radical Scavenging Activity of Phenylpropanoid Glycosides

Lawson, T. Glen, Professor of Chemistry
Bates Faculty Development Fund – Awarded April 2010
Supporting Cell Culture Work in Dana Chemistry

Lawson, T. Glen, Professor of Chemistry
Phillips Fellowship – Awarded October 2009
Regulation of Protein Concentrations in Picornavirus-Infected Cells: The Role of Protein Ubiquitylation and Proteasome Activity in Picornavirus Replication

Lewis, Lynne, Professor of Economics
Bates Faculty Development Fund – Awarded December 2009
Travel to the World Congress of Environmental and Resource Economists

Lin, Hong, Professor of Physics
Bates Faculty Development Fund – Awarded December 2009
Fast Transverse Dynamics of a Novel Semiconductor Laser with Optical Feedback

Lindkvist, Heather, Visiting Instructor in Anthropology
Mellon Faculty Innovation Fund – Awarded March 2010
Psychology/Public Health GEC: Diversity and Public Health

López, Francisca, Professor of Spanish
Bates Faculty Development Fund – Awarded December 2009
Travel to Professional Meetings

López, Francisca, Professor of Spanish
Mellon Faculty Innovation Fund – Awarded   March 2010
Latin America on Campus

López, Francisca, Professor of Spanish
Mellon Faculty Innovation Fund – Awarded March 2010
Cross-Cultural Awareness through Poetry

Low, Kathryn, Professor of Psychology
Mellon Faculty Innovation Fund – Awarded April 2010
Material Culture Working Group

Low, Kathryn, Professor of Psychology
Mellon Faculty Innovation Fund – Awarded March 2010
Psychology/Public Health GEC: Diversity and Public Health

Lundblad, Nathan, Assistant Professor of Physics
Student Research Apprenticeship Grant – Awarded January 2010
Building an Ultracold Atomic Physics Experiment

Malcolmson, Cristina, Professor of English
Bates Faculty Development Fund – Awarded April 2010
Race and Gender in the Early Royal Society

Maurer-Fazio, Margaret, Betty Doran Stangle Professor of Applied Economics
Bates Faculty Development Fund – Awarded December 2009
Audit Study of Chinese Hiring Practices

Maurer-Fazio, Margaret, Betty Doran Stangle Professor of Applied Economics
Student Research Apprenticeship Grant – Awarded January 2010
Labor Force Participation of China’s Rural Women and the Elderly

Maurizio, Lisa, Associate Professor of Classical and Medieval Studies
Bates Faculty Development Fund – Awarded December 2009
Delphic Oracles

McDowell, B. Christine, Assistant Professor of Theater
Freeman Foundation Grant for the Study of East Asia – Awarded December 2009
Cultural Stages: Exploring the Fusion of Asian and Western Theater Styles

McDowell, B. Christine, Assistant Professor of Theater
Mellon Faculty Innovation Fund – Awarded April 2010
Material Culture Working Group

Melvin, Karen, Assistant Professor of History
Bates Faculty Development Fund – Awarded May 2010
Building Colonial Cities of God Image Permissions

Melvin, Karen, Assistant Professor of History
Mellon Faculty Innovation Fund – Awarded   March 2010
Latin America on Campus

Miao, Li-ping, Visiting Instructor in Chinese
Bates Faculty Development Fund – Awarded December 2009 
Attending Conferences and Workshops on Teaching Chinese

Miura, Hiroya, Assistant Professor of Music
Bates Faculty Development Fund – Awarded December 2009
Passage – Collaborative Installation

Nayder, Lillian, Professor of English
Bates Faculty Development Fund – Awarded December 2009
Fanny and Letitia: A Novel

Nayder, Lillian, Professor of English
Bates Faculty Development Fund – Awarded April 2010
The Other Dickens: Publication and Permissions Funding

Nguyen, Trian, Associate Professor of Art and Visual Culture
Bates Faculty Development Fund – Awarded April 2010
Vietnamese Folk Art:  Knowledge and Wisdom of the Past

Nicoletti, Joseph, Lecturer in Art and Visual Culture
Bates Faculty Development Fund – Awarded December 2009
Catalog for Joseph Nicoletti: A Retrospective

Ofuji, Keiko, Lecturer in Japanese
Freeman Foundation Grant for the Study of East Asia – Awarded December 2009
The Annual Mochi-tsuki Event

Ofuji, Keiko, Lecturer in Japanese
Freeman Foundation Grant for the Study of East Asia – Awarded December 2009
Support for CBB (Colby, Bates, Bowdoin) Japan Fair at Bates College 2010

O’Higgins, Dolores, Euterpe B. Dukakis Professor of Classical and Medieval Studies
Bates Faculty Development Fund – Awarded April 2010
Scholarship of the Eighteenth-Century Irish Poor

Ortiz, María, Visiting Assistant Professor of Spanish
Mellon Faculty Innovation Fund – Awarded March 2010
Latin America on Campus

Ortiz, María, Visiting Assistant Professor of Spanish
Mellon Faculty Innovation Fund – Awarded   March 2010
Latin America on Campus

Osucha, Eden, Assistant Professor of English
Mellon Faculty Innovation Fund – Awarded July 2010
Arts in the Liberal Arts at Bates: Building a Collaborative

Palin, Karen, Lecturer in Biology
Mellon Faculty Innovation Fund – Awarded March 2010
Psychology/Public Health GEC: Diversity and Public Health

Parakilas, James, James L. Moody, Jr. Family Professor of Performing Arts
Mellon Faculty Innovation Fund – Awarded December 2009
The Politics of Memory in Eastern and Central Europe

Parakilas, James, Professor of Music and James L. Moody Jr. Family Professor of Performing Arts
Phillips Fellowship – Awarded October 2009
The Spell of Music: A Biomusicological Study of Music and Consciousness

Pérez-Armendáriz, Clarisa, Assistant Professor of Politics
Mellon Faculty Innovation Fund – Awarded   March 2010
Latin America on Campus

Pieck, Sonya, Assistant Professor of Environmental Studies
Mellon Faculty Innovation Fund – Awarded March 2010
Latin America on Campus

Plastas, Melinda, Visiting Assistant Professor of Politics
Bates Faculty Development Fund – Awarded December 2009
Bates Faculty Development Fund – Awarded April 2010
Gender and Smoking in a Transnational Context

Rand, Erica, Professor of Art and Visual Culture and Women and Gender Studies
Bates Faculty Development Fund – Awarded December 2009
Oh Right, Policing Feminity

Rand, Erica, Professor of Art and Visual Culture and Women and Gender Studies
Mellon Faculty Innovation Fund – Awarded April 2010
Material Culture Working Group

Retelle, Michael, Professor of Geology
Bates Faculty Development Fund – Awarded December 2009
Chronology of Raised Beaches on Rolfsøya, Norway

Rice-DeFosse, Mary, Professor of French
Faculty Development Fund – Awarded December 2009
Louise Colet and Lyric Voice: The Masculine Context

Rice-DeFosse, Mary, Professor of French
Mellon Faculty Innovation Fund – Awarded March 2010
Cross-Cultural Awareness through Poetry

Richter, James, Professor of Politics
CBB Mellon Collaborative Faculty Enhancement Grant – Awarded November 2009
Civil Society in the New Authoritarianisms: Comparing State and Society in Russian and China

Richter, James, Professor of Politics
Mellon Faculty Innovation Fund – Awarded December 2009
The Politics of Memory in Eastern and Central Europe

Riera-Crichton, Daniel, Assistant Professor of Economics
CBB Mellon Collaborative Faculty Enhancement Grant – Awarded November 2009
Annual CBB Economic Conference

Schlax, Paula, Associate Professor of Chemistry
Bates Faculty Development Fund – Awarded April 2010
Supporting Cell Culture Work in Dana Chemistry

Scottham, Krista, Associate Professor of Psychology
Mellon Faculty Innovation Fund – Awarded June 2010
Extending the Extended Contact Hypothesis

Skinner, Jonathan, Assistant Professor of Environmental Studies
Bates Faculty Development Fund – Awarded December 2009
The Spoils of the Park

Strong, Sarah, Professor of Japanese Language and Literature
Bates Faculty Development Fund – Awarded April 2010
Acquisition of Two Photographs to Illustrate Forthcoming Book

Vecsey, Katalin, Lecturer in Theater
Mellon Faculty Innovation Fund – Awarded December 2009
The Politics of Memory in Eastern and Central Europe

Wenzel, Thomas, Charles A. Dana Professor of Chemistry
Bates Faculty Development Fund – Awarded December 2009
Chiral NMR Shift Reagents

Wong, Peter, Professor of Mathematics
Bates Faculty Development Fund – Awarded December 2009
The Role of Sangaku in Traditional Japanese Mathematics during Edo Period

Yang, Shuhui¸ Professor of Chinese
Freeman Foundation Grant for the Study of East Asia – Awarded December 2009
Hiring a New Chinese Language Learning Associate from China

Yang, Shuhi, Professor of Chinese
Mellon Faculty Innovation Fund – Awarded March 2010
Cross-Cultural Awareness through Poetry