Faculty Internal Grants Awarded 2010-2011
The following faculty received internal grant awards between August 2010 and July 2011 and reflect the faculty appointment at that time.
Aburto Guzmán, Claudia, Associate Professor of Spanish
Mellon Faculty Innovation Fund—Awarded May 2011
Approaching Latin America through Its Material Culture
Ambrose, William, Professor of Biology
Bates Faculty Development Fund—Awarded December 2010
Climate-driven synchrony between lacustrine sediments and bivalve growth chronology
Aronson, Krista, Associate Professor of Psychology
Bates Faculty Development Fund—Awarded December 2010
The Story Book Project: Expanding and Enhancing an Extended Contact Intervention to Reduce Prejudice in Young Children
Ásgeirsdóttir, Áslaug, Associate Professor of Politics
Bates Faculty Development Fund—Awarded December 2010
Delineating Maritime Boundaries
Austin, Rachel Narehood, Professor of Chemistry
Bates Faculty Development Fund—Awarded December 2010
Development of a First Year Seminar, The Chemistry of Color
INBRE Student-Faculty Research Grant–Awarded February 2011
Lead Binding to Metallothioneins
Baker, Pamela, Helen A. Papaioanou Professor of Biological Sciences
Bates Faculty Development Fund—Awarded December 2010
Measuring periodontal disease susceptibility by differential gene expression
Bavis, Ryan, Associate Professor of Biology
Bates Faculty Development Fund—Awarded December 2010
Assessing Activity-Dependent Development of the Carotid Body
INBRE Student-Faculty Research Grant–Awarded February 2011
Postnatal Growth and Critical Periods of the Developing Carotid Body
Boggia, Rachel, Visiting Assistant Professor of Dance
Bates Faculty Development Fund—Awarded May 2011
Quantum Choreography
Boucher, Helen, Assistant Professor of Psychology
Bates Faculty Development Fund—Awarded May 2011
Self-Concept Clarity and World View Defense
Cernahoschi, Raluca, Visiting Instructor of German
Bates Faculty Development Fund—Awarded May 2011
Research & Pedagogy in/on East-Central Europe
Corlett, William, Professor of Politics
Mellon Faculty Innovation Fund—Awarded May 2011
Ecologies of Excess
Corrie, Rebecca, Phillips Professor of Art and Visual Culture
CBB Mellon Collaborative Faculty Enhancement Grant—Awarded April 2011
Medieval Miseries: Responses to Hard Times
Costlow, Jane, Professor of Environmental Studies
Bates Faculty Development Fund—Awarded December 2010
The Forest in 19th Century Russian Culture
Bates Faculty Development Fund—Awarded May 2011
Association for the Study of Literature and the Environment
Creighton, Margaret, Professor of History
Bates Faculty Development Fund—Awarded December 2010
The Elephant and the Rainbow: Power, Shock, and Protest at America’s First Modern Fair
Summer Research Apprenticeship Grant–Awarded February 2011
The 1901 World’s Fair
Dellachiesa, Alejandro, Instructor in Economics
Bates Faculty Development Fund—Awarded May 2011
Toward a Less Food Insecure World: Developing an Economic Tool to Fully Assess the Effects of Conservation Agriculture as a New Farming Technology
Dhingra, Lavina, Professor of English
Bates Faculty Development Fund—Awarded May 2011
Naming Jhumpa Lahiri: Essays on the Interpreter of Maladies, The Namesake, and Unaccustomed Earth
Dilley, Carol, Associate Professor of Dance
Mellon Faculty Innovation Fund—Awarded May 2011
Arts across the Curriculum: A Performing Arts Model
Douglass, Amy, Associate Professor of Psychology
Bates Faculty Development Fund—Awarded December 2010
Post-Identification Feedback Meta-Analysis
Duina, Francesco, Associate Professor of Sociology
Bates Faculty Development Fund—Awarded December 2010
What’s Next? Discovering the Cultural Underpinnings of Life Transitions
Eusden, Dykstra, Professor of Geology
Bates Faculty Development Fund—Awarded May 2011
Exhumation and Paleotopography of the Presidential Range, NH from Apatite Fission Track Ages
Fatone, Gina, Assistant Professor of Music
Freeman Foundation Grant for the Study of East Asia—Awarded October 2010
Cross-currents in Bronze: Spring Performance of Experimental and Contemporary Asian Music
Bates Faculty Development Fund—Awarded May 2011
Arabic Music Retreat at Mount Holyoke College
Faure, Laura, Director of Dance Festival
Mellon Faculty Innovation Fund—Awarded May 2011
Arts across the Curriculum: A Performing Arts Model
Federico, Sylvia, Associate Professor of English
Mellon Faculty Innovation Fund—Awarded May 2011
Traditions in the Undergraduate Classroom
Fra-Molinero, Baltasar, Associate Professor of Spanish
Bates Faculty Development Fund—Awarded December 2010
The Literary Work of Raquél Ilombé
George, David, Lecturer in Spanish
Bates Faculty Development Fund—Awarded May 2011
Blasco Ibanez’ “Japoneries”: Traces of Pierre Loti in a Novelist’s Tour of the World
Godfrey, Mollie, Visiting Instructor in English
Bates Faculty Development Fund—Awarded May 2011
Futures of American Studies Institute
Greer, Meredith, Associate Professor of Mathematics
Mellon Faculty Innovation Fund—Awarded May 2011
Mathematical Modeling of Gloetrichia echinulata
Hachad, Naima, Visiting Instructor in French
Bates Faculty Development Fund—Awarded May 2011
The Reception and Cultural Transition of the Work of Lalla Essaydi
Houchins, Sue, Associate Professor of African-American Studies
CBB Mellon Collaborative Faculty Enhancement Grant—Awarded April 2011
Imagining the Geography of Disapora
Imber, Margaret, Associate Professor of Classical and Medieval Studies
Bates Faculty Development Fund—Awarded December 2010
Rome on Trial
Jayawant, Pallavi, Associate Professor of Mathematics
Mellon Faculty Innovation Fund—Awarded November 2010
Departure from Normality for Tournament Matrices
Mellon Faculty Innovation Fund—Awarded May 2011
Departure from Normality for Tournament Matrices
Kahan, Todd, Associate Professor of Psychology
Bates Faculty Development Fund—Awarded May 2011
The Dorsal Visual Processing Pathway Using Continuous Flash Suppression: Further Explorations of a Newly Developed Priming Technique
Kleckner, Nancy, Associate Professor of Biology
INBRE Student-Faculty Research Grant–Awarded February 2011
The Role of Glutamate in the Modulation of the Standard Pattern of Feeding in the Pond Snail, Helisoma trivolis
Mellon Faculty Innovation Fund—Awarded May 2011
Enhancement of Research Productivity via Curriculum Development Support in Sensory Biology
Koviach-Côté, Jennifer, Associate Professor of Chemistry
INBRE Student-Faculty Research Grant–Awarded February 2011
Synthesis and Radical Scavenging Activity of Phenylpropanoid Glycosides
Kuritz, Paul, Professor of Theater
Bates Faculty Development Fund—Awarded May 2011
Filming Amy’s Wish by James Caputo
Lundblad, Nathan, Assistant Professor of Physics
Summer Research Apprenticeship Grant–Awarded February 2011
Ultracold Atoms with a Magneturoptical Trap
Malcolmson, Cristina, Professor of English
Bates Faculty Development Fund—Awarded May 2011
Edward Herbert’s Amazon
Maurer-Fazio, Margaret, Betty Doran Stangle Professor of Applied Economics
Bates Faculty Development Fund—Awarded December 2010
Audit Study of the Hiring Practices of Chinese Firms, Part II
Maurizio, Lisa, Associate Professor of Classical and Medieval Studies
Bates Faculty Development Fund—Awarded December 2010
Delphic Oracles
Summer Research Apprenticeship Grant–Awarded February 2011
Classical Mythology in Context
Melvin, Karen, Assistant Professor of History
Bates Faculty Development Fund—Awarded May 2011
Building Colonial Cities of God
Mellon Faculty Innovation Fund—Awarded June 2011
Common Enemies: Colonial Mexico, Global Catholicism and the Muslim Other
Mills, Dan, Lecturer in the Humanities and Director of the Bates College Museum of Art
Freeman Foundation Grant for the Study of East Asia—Awarded February 2011
Developing and Connecting Contemporary Chinese Arts Initiatives at Bates during the 2011-2012 Academic Year
Morris, Elke, Senior Lecturer in Art and Visual Culture
Bates Faculty Development Fund—Awarded December 2010
Improvement of Technical Skills in Photography and Photographic Project in California
Nayder, Lillian, Professor of English
Bates Faculty Development Fund—Awarded December 2010
Fanny and Letitia: A Novel; 105th Annual Dickens Fellowship Conference
Nero, Charles, Professor of Rhetoric
Bates Faculty Development Fund—Awarded December 2010
Telling Stories: Sources of American Cinematic Whiteness
Nguyen, Trian, Associate Professor of Art and Visual Culture
Bates Faculty Development Fund—Awarded December 2010
The Burning Monk: A Study of Thich Quang Duc’s Self-Immolation, His Life, and His Impact on the Modern History of Vietnam
Freeman Foundation Grant for the Study of East Asia—Awarded February 2011
Development of a New Course: Arts in Japan
Okrent, Mark, Professor of Philosophy
Bates Faculty Development Fund—Awarded May 2011
Instrumental Norms and the Institution of Semantic Meaning
Pérez-Armendáriz, Clarisa, Assistant Professor of Politics
Summer Research Apprenticeship Grant–Awarded February 2011
Changed in Migration: Do International Moves Create or Simply Liberate Political Agency?
Perkins, George, Visiting Associate Professor of Economics
Bates Faculty Development Fund—Awarded May 2011
Curriculum Development in Social Justice
Pettway, Matthew, Assistant Professor of Spanish
Bates Faculty Development Fund—Awarded May 2011
Carnival, The Virgin, and the Saints: The Subversive Transculturation of 19th Century Cuban Literature
Plastas, Melinda, Visiting Assistant Professor of Politics
Bates Faculty Development Fund—Awarded May 2011
Gender and Tobacco in a Transnational Context
Rand, Erica, Professor of Art and Visual Culture and Women and Gender Studies
Bates Faculty Development Fund—Awarded December 2010
Cutting Edges: Keeping Up with My Field of Origin and a New Sports Studies Collaboration
Bates Faculty Development Fund—Awarded May 2011
Red Nails, Black Skates: Gender, Cash, and Pleasure On and Off the Ice
Read, Kirk, Associate Professor of French
Bates Faculty Development Fund—Awarded May 2011
The Reception and Cultural Translation of the Work of Lalla Essaydi
Reidy, Michael, Lecturer in Theater and Technical Director
Bates Faculty Development Fund—Awarded December 2010
Summer Design Studio: Practice and Engagement
Retelle, Michael, Professor of Geology
Bates Faculty Development Fund—Awarded May 2011
Climate Change of the Last Two Millenia in Glacial Lake Sediment Records from Linnevatnet, Svalbard, Norwegian High Arctic
Riera-Crichton, Daniel, Assistant Professor of Economics
Bates Faculty Development Fund—Awarded May 2011
Co-author visits and journal fees
Salerno, Adriana, Assistant Professor of Mathematics
Mellon Faculty Innovation Fund—Awarded November 2010
Creating a Network to Diversify Faculty Recruitment in Mathematics
Sandler, Jennifer, Visiting Assistant Professor of Education
Bates Faculty Development Fund—Awarded December 2010
Course Development: Grassroots Organizing for Urban Educational Change
Sargent, Michael, Associate Professor of Psychology
Mellon Faculty Innovation Fund—Awarded November 2010
Resources for Diverse Faculty Recruitment and Searches
Schomburg, Susan, Assistant Professor of Religious Studies
Bates Faculty Development Fund—Awarded December 2010
Pulivalam Shrine Site Festival Observations
Seeley, William, Visiting Assistant Professor of Philosophy
Bates Faculty Development Fund—Awarded May 2011
Penn Neuroscience Bootcamp: Curriculum and Professional Development
Stefko, Katerine, Director of the Muskie Archives
Bates Faculty Development Fund—Awarded December 2010
Bound to Art: Illustrated Books from the Edmund S. Muskie Archives and Special Collections Library
Strong, Sarah, Professor of Japanese Language and Literature
Freeman Foundation Grant for the Study of East Asia—Awarded October 2010
Guest lecturer, Ariane Mandell
Bates Faculty Development Fund—Awarded December 2010
Ainu Spirits Singing
Freeman Foundation Grant for the Study of East Asia—Awarded February 2011
Support for Bates Taiko Club Practice and Performance
Webster, Jonathan, Visiting Assistant Professor of Mathematics
Summer Research Apprenticeship Grant–Awarded February 2011
Common Index Divisors: Their Historical Development