In AY 2024-25, the Bates Faculty Development Fund awarded $209,904 to 49 faculty working on 57 projects/activities. The average grant to each faculty was $4,284, while the average for each project/activity was $3,683 (both averaged to the nearest dollar).

Christopher Agbonkhese, Digital and Computational Studies: Improving Health Data Usability Through Automation

Jessica Anthony, English: Carol Fost

Shreya Arora, Earth and Climate Sciences: Earthquake Risk Assessment of Sierras Pampeanas in Argentina through paleoseismic investigation

Lauren Ashwell, Philosophy: Participation in Workshop on the History and Philosophy of the Olympic Games

Pavel Bačovský, Politics: Further exploration of the nexus of hobbies and politics

Laura Balladur, French and Francophone Studies: Colonial Scars: Artists from the Rift in The Democratic Republic of Congo

Frances Bell, History: In a State of Flight: Mobility, Freedom, and the Law in the Haitian Revolutionary Diaspora, 1791-1830

Raluca Cernahoschi, German and Russian Studies: Conference Presentation “Cinderella in the Mountains: Gender and Alpine Space in Stefan Zweig’s Novel Fragment Rausch der
Verwandlung” and Technological Support for Long-Term Scholarly Project (Reading and Writing Tablet) and The Carpathians in the Romanian Novel: A Distant Reading

Mike Dacey, Philosophy: Indexing for Seven Challenges for the Science of Animal Minds

Amy Douglass, Psychology: Testing the Impact of Delay on Multiple Tests of Eyewitness Memory

Michel Droge, Art and Visual Culture: Green Printmaking Refresher Course

Ian-Khara Ellasante, Gender and Sexuality Studies: Material Support for “Home Places: Stories of Knowing and Finding Home”

Glen Ernstrom, Biology: Genetic analysis of neurotransmitter release

Brian Evans, Theater and Dance: AAC&U Conference Presentation Support & Tuition Support for Gallaudet University’s ASL 101 & 102 Course

Baltasar Fra-Molinero, Hispanic Studies: El espacio negro de la alegría en Sor Teresa Chicaba: Black Space of Joy in Sister Teresa Chicaba: Mystical Vision and Writing)
mística y escritura

Yun Garrison, Psychology: Community-Engaged Research with Korean Transgender and Nonbinary Adults without College Degrees on Vocational Experiences and Community-Engaged Research: Ka Bogso

Lisa Gilson, Politics: Toni Morrison on the Limits of Confrontation in Black Political Resistance

Meredith Greer, Mathematics: Mathematical Epidemiology Textbook: Continued Promotion

Rebecca Herzig, Gender and Sexuality Studies: Support for Travel to International Conference

Brett Huggett, Biology: Cavitation bubble manometry at Bates College and Request for Research/Teaching Equipment

Jakub Kazecki, German and Russian Studies: Participation in the 12th Biennial Summer Film Institute at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, June 22-28, 2025

Stephanie Kelley-Romano, Rhetoric, Film, and Screen Studies: Decoloniality/Conspiracy

Callie Kimball, Theater and Dance: The Story of Perseverance Farm

Keiko Konoeda, Asian Studies: Piloting and documenting the effects of a multilingual program “Teaching Our Tongues” and Conference presentation at AAAL (American Association of Applied Linguistics) 2025

Jacob Kraus, Biology: Influence of Body and Fur Properties on Habitat Suitability for Black-and-White Snub-Nosed Monkeys (Rhinopithecus bieti)

Su Langdon, Psychology: It’s High Time: Substance Use in College Students

Zhenzhen Lu, Asian Studies: The Vernacular World of Pu Songling–proofing & indexing

Nathan Lundblad, Physics: Next-generation laser system for ultracold atomic physics experiments

Christine Martinez, Environmental Studies: Teaching Critical Ecological Awareness in Hispanic and Iberian Studies

Kalin McDannell, Earth and Climate Sciences: Uncovering the origin of an elevated continental passive margin (Baffin Island, Canada)

Rafael Mello, Politics: The Institute for Qualitative and Multi-Method Research

Alison Melnick Dyer, Religious Studies: Talking Gender and Liberation: Buddhist Nuns in Conversation at Sakyadhita 2025

Cristina Morales Segura, Hispanic Studies: From New England to Spain: Women Travelers at the End of XIX Century: The diaries of Anna P. Dixwell

Curtis Morrill, Economics: Mandatory Minimum Sentences and Plea Bargaining Outcomes

Lillian Nayder, English: Dickensian Brotherhoos: Exploring Fraternal Social Networks

Charles Nero, Rhetoric, Film, and Screen Studies: The Commet/Poppea and Attend CLA and CAAR Conferences

Ozgur Ozkan, Politics: Explaining Persistent Kurdish Underrepresentation in Turkey’s Officer Corps (1848-2016)

Stephanie Pridgeon, Hispanic Studies: Aging as Rewriting: Liliana Heker’s Noticias sobre el iceberg

Erica Rand, Gender and Sexuality Studies: Supplementary Funds for Fall 2024 Conference Travel and Skating Away from the Binary: Action Research

Daniel Riera-Crichton, Economics: Research in Public Policy and Economic Measurement

Michael Rocque, Sociology: Bring Maturity to the Finish Line

Paul Schofield, Philosophy: Homelessness After Grants Pass

Daniel Slane, Biology: Comparison of stress-induced genomic changes in legume plants

Mara Tieken, Education: Indexing Educated Out

Benoit Vallee, Latin American and LatinX Studies: Book manuscript workshop at Global Dominicanidades II, and roundtable paper presentation at the Latin American Studies
Association (LASA) Congress

Justine Wiesinger, Asian Studies: Performing Disaster: the 3.11 Earthquake, Tsunami, and Nuclear Meltdown in Theater and Film book project

Peter Wong, Mathematics: Workshop in algebraic topology, Amargosa-Brazil

Sally Wood, Theater and Dance: Pushing Boundaries, Material Worlds, Devising with object puppetry

Liang Wu, Anthropology: The 4th Propulsion Revolution: Implications and Ramifications of Maritime Law, Marine Policy, and Industrial Relations in Shipping
Decarbonization and The 4th Propulsion Revolution: Implications and Ramifications of Maritime Law, Marine Policy, and Industrial Relations in Shipping Decarbonization – Professional Website Development

In AY 2023-24, the Bates Faculty Development Fund awarded $230,239 to 48 faculty working on 56 projects/activities. The average grant to each faculty was $4,797, while the average for each project/activity was $4,111 (both averaged to the nearest dollar).

Kathryn Anderson, Biology: Marine Climate Change Ecology: Impacts of Salinity and Thermal Variability on Trophic Interaactions

Áslaug Ásgeirsdóttir, Politics: Presenting at an annual conference

Senem Aslan, Politics: Emotional Motives of AKP Voters in Turkey

Myron Beasley, American Studies: Continuum: Live Art Performance and EPI Conference, Accra, Ghana

Jonathan Cavallero, Rhetoric, Film, and Screen Studies: Second Responders and Television Directors, Race, and Gender and The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance

Jeremy Cornelius, English: Contagious Animality: Species, Disease, and Metaphor in Early Modern English Literature and Culture

Michel Droge, Art and Visual Culture: Raising Awareness of the Deep Sea- Conferences, Presentations, Exhibitions, and Public Engagement

Timothy Dugan, Theater: (Re) Immersion Into Craft-Part II: NAAT and Philly Fringe

Francesco Duina, Sociology: The Social Acceptance of Inequality

Brian Evans, Dance: Busking for Reparations

Gina Fatone, Music: NVivo Transcription

Baltasar Fra-Molinero, Hispanic Studies: New Perspectives on El valiente negro en Flandes

Yun Garrison, Psychology: National Multicultural Conference and Summit and The Development of 5R Posttraumatic Growth Model

David George, Hispanic Studies: Tracing the Influence of Japonisme in Benito Pérez Galdós’s Literature: A Study of Japanese Export Ceramics in British Collections

Carolina González Valencia, Art and Visual Culture: El High School (working title) Script

Meredith Greer, Mathematics: Mathematical Epidemiology Textbook, Version 1: Completion and Promotion

Leshui He, Economics: Incorporating Generative AI into a First-Year Seminar Course

Rebecca Herzig, Gender and Sexuality Studies: Editorial Support for Fourth Book

Sue Houchins, Africana: African Literature Association and College Language Association

Lindsey Houck, Neuroscience: Beyond Boundaries: Examining the Boundary Extension in Immersive Virtual Reality

Brett Huggett, Biology: Archival Preservation of a Life’s Work: Digitization of the Monumental Work of Zimmermann and Tomlinson’s Optical Shuttle Method

Jen Hughes, Anthropology: Viking Futures Book and Film Editing Project

Kyla Pasha, Religious Studies: Unexpected Jamaats: Uncentering Cisgendering Masculinity in Congregational Muslim Prayer

Therí Pickens, English: 2 Poetry Projects

Melinda Plastas, Gender and Sexuality Studies: Torn Apart: Loss, Grief, and Resilience in the Age of Commercialized Tobacco

Stephanie Pridgeon, Hispanic Studies: Absorption Narratives: Jewishness, Blackness, and Indigeneity in the Cultural Imaginary of the Americas

Erica Rand, Art and Visual Culture and Gender and Sexuality Studies: American Studies Association Conference attendance

Mary Rice-DeFosse, French and Francophone Studies: Travel to the 24th International George Sand Colloquium

Daniel Riera-Crichton, Economics: Measuring Economic Activity with Satellite Data and Income Tax in LAC

Haley Schilling, Philosophy: UCLA Workshop on Law, Ethics, and Political Theory

Paul Schofield, Philosophy: Philosophy and Homelessness

Caroline Shaw, History: Beyond Sticks and Stones: The Strange History of Reputation and its Defense in Modern Britain c. 1750-2015

Senia Sheydvasser, Mathematics: Research in Additive Number Theory

Anelise Shrout, Digital and Computational Studies: Aiding Ireland: The Great Famine and the Rise of Transnational Philanthropy and Pathologizing Immigration

Daniel Slane, Biology: Influence of Stress and the Plant Hormone Strigolactone on Plant Genome Structure

Ryan Williams, Politics: Public Opinion, Offender Race, and Support for Problem-Solving Courts and Building the US Court of Claims Database

Sally Wood, Theater: Richer, safer stage combat experience

In AY 2022-23, the Bates Faculty Development Fund awarded $174,095 to 40 faculty working on 44 projects/activities. The average grant to each faculty was $4,246 with the average for each project/activity being $4,048 (both averages rounded to the nearest dollar).

Myron Beasley, American Studies: Remembering Malaga: Oral History + Handmade Books

Jonathan Cavallero, Rhetoric, Film, and Screen Studies: Intersecting Identities in Who’s the Boss?: Italian-American Ethnicity, Working-Class Identity, and Hypermasculine Performance and Disney 100 and Middlebury New Filmmakers Festival

Raluca Cernahoschi, German and Russian Studies: Participation in Summer Institute “Hidden Figures: Blackness and Black Experiences in DEFA and East Germany”

Sara Chari, Mathematics: Joint Mathematics Meeting Conference

Michael Dacey, Philosophy: Philosophy of Animal Minds and Behavior Association Meeting, Madrid

Raquel de Castro Portes, Earth and Climate Sciences: Evolution of Soil Erosion Rates in a Deforested Watershed in the Northern Hardwood Forest, Hubbard Brook Experimental Forest and Assessing the Magnitude of Erosion Processes on Sloping Organic Soils across Lithologies in Southeast Alaska

Amy Douglass, Psychology: Support for Fulbright Research Grant

Michel Droge, Art and Visual Culture: Octomess-Octopuss and Microbial Ecosystem Services at Seamounts

Steve Engel, Politics: The Thirteenth Amendments’ Emancipatory Responsibilities: Implications for LGBTQ Equality

Yun Garrison, Psychology: The Conceptualization and Measurement of Psychotherapist Noonchi

Wesley Gillis and Nathan Lundblad, Physics: Gamma-Ray Spectroscopy Lab for Physics Teaching and Research

Carolina González-Valencia, Art and Visual Culture: How to Clean a House in Ten Easy Steps

Leshui He, Economics: Outsourced Legal Advice and Sponsorship of Employment Visas

Lindsay Houck, Neuroscience: The Influence of Emotion on Spatial Boundary Distortions

Brett Huggett, Biology : Archival Preservation of a Life’s Work: Digitization of the Monumental Work of Zimmermann and Tomlinson’s Optical Shuttle Method and Developing a New Method for Measuring Plant Hydraulics

Erin Hyde Nolan, Art and Visual Culture: Portrait Atlas: The Migration of Photographs Across the Ottoman-Atlantic

Todd Kahan, Psychology: Target-Mask Similarity Affects Both Object Substitution Masking and Object Recovery

Callie Kimball, Theater: New Play Development

Tristan Koepke, Theater: Choreographing Queer Hauntologies

Jennifer Koviach-Côté, Chemistry/Biochemistry: Synthesis, Anti-Oxidant, and Anti-Bacterial Studies of Phenylpropanoid Glycosides

Michael Rocque, Sociology: Code of the Seas: Pilot Study A Proposal for the Bates Faculty Development Fund

Michael Sargent, Psychology: Race, Self-Investment, and Free Speech

Paul Shea, Economics: Lethality and Deterrence in Affairs of Honor

Kate Snyder, Psychology: Teaching for Closure in Psychology Courses: Taking the Long View

Asha Tamirisa, Music: ROCK MUSIC: An All-Ages Friendly Electronic Sound Installation for Make Music Portland

Heidi Taylor, Sociology: Mapping Grief through Art: A Sociological Analysis of “Grief Landscapes”

Mara Tieken, Education: Educated Out: The Hidden Geography of College Opportunity

Justine Wiesinger, Asian Studies: Dragging a Wide Net: Contemporary Expansive Drag in the Tokyo Area

Peter Wong, Mathematics: Undergraduate Conference in Algebraic Topology at UFRB-Armagosa, Brazil and Research Collaboration at the Chennai Mathematical Institute, India and Nielsen Theory and Related Topics Conference

In AY 2021-22, the Bates Faculty Development Fund awarded $177,951 to 40 faculty working on 43 projects/activities. The average grant to each faculty was $4,449 with the average for each project/activity being $4,138 (both averages rounded to the nearest dollar).

Ali Akhtar, Religious Studies: Asian-American Women in Tech and the Rise of a New Asian Feminism in America

Krista Aronson, Psychology: The Diverse BookFinder: Supporting Bates Student Research Experiences

Shreya Arora, Earth and Climate Sciences: Paleoseismic and Geomorphic Investigation along Northwest Himalaya, India and Investigating the Source of Landslides in Maine

Laurie Baker, Digital and Computational Studies: Factors Influencing Catch Intention in the Chilean Industrial Longline Fishery and Increasing Accessibility and Inclusive Knowledge Exchange in the R Programming Community

Laura Balladur, French and Francophone Studies: Colonial Scars

Lori Banks, Biology: Preclinical Development of a Novel Anti-Viral Target

Lori Banks and Colleen O’Loughlin, Biology and Chemistry/Biochemistry: Isothermal Titration Calorimeter

Myron Beasley, American Studies: Digital Humanities Summer Institute and SIT Faculty Conference Africa Rising: Hip-Hop, Politics, and Religion in Senegal

Patti Buck, Education: Supporting Restorative Practice Implementation at Lewiston Middle School

Jonathan Cavallero, Rhetoric, Film, and Screen Studies: Scouting Films for the Bates Film Festival and the Representation of Italian-American Ethnicity in The Godfather Video Games

Matthew Côté, Chemistry and Biochemistry: Optical Harmonic Generation Microscope and Spectrometer: Completing and Expanding the Re-Design

Raquel de Castro Portes, Earth and Climate Sciences: Evolution of Soil Erosion Rates and Chemical Weathering on Recent Post-Glacial Landscapes in Southeast Alaska and Soils and Landscape Evolution of SE Alaska and New England

Carrie Diaz Eaton, Digital and Computational Studies: Social Justice and Computational Modeling

Amy Douglass, Psychology: The Impact of Eyewitness Evidence on Plea Decisions

Gina Fatone, Music: Vocality in Instrumental Music Transmission

Leshui He, Economics: Featured in the News: From the Attention Aura to Competing Complements

Rebecca Herzig, Gender and Sexuality Studies: Archival Research: Geneaologies of “Academic Freedom”

Jen Hughes, Anthropology: Viking Futures Data Management and Transcription Project and Viking Futures: Iceland and Outer Spaces Ethnographic and Video Documentary Project

Maho Ishiguro, Music: Decolonizing Ethnomusicology: Amplifying the Voices of Art Practitioners

Todd Kahan, Psychology: Is the Alerting-Congruency Interaction That is Seen in Experiments with Stimulus-Response Motor Associations Moderated by a Concurrent Working-Memory Load?

Emily Kane, Sociology: Maximum Feasible Participation and the Non-Profit Industrial Complex: A Content Analysis of Community Action Agency Mission Statements

Jennifer LaCosse-Bannon, Psychology: Psychological Experiences of ESL Students in Higher Education

Susan Mangan, Psychology: Best Practices in Boosting Well-Being in a Diverse Emerging Adult Population

Christine McDowell, Theater and Dance: Digital Drawing for Theater and Dance Pedagogy and Design

Alison Melnick, Religious Studies: The Tibetan Nun Mingyur Peldron: A Woman of Power and Privilege, and Book Publication Costs

Meryleen Mena, Anthropology: Laboring for Black Lives: Black Brazilian Women Activism in Sao Paolo

Hiroya Miura, Music: Two Concerts of Composition and Residency

Lillian Nayder, English: Corporeal Dickens: An Embodied Life

Hailey Otis, Rhetoric, Film, and Screen Studies: Travel to RSA Biennial Conference

Erica Rand, Gender and Sexuality Studies: Skating for Social Justice On and Off the Ice

Mary Rice-DeFosse, French and Francophone Studies: Leadership at the 23rd International George Sand Conference

Daniel Riera-Crichton, Economics: Fiscal Policy in Emerging Markets

Michael Rocque, Sociology: Index for Fitting the Facts of Crime: An Invitation to Biosocial Criminology

Josh Rubin, Anthropology: Virtual Book Symposium for Possibility Spaces and Possible Things: User Research and Playtesting at the Cutting Edge of Video Games

Subhshri Sahu, Biology: Deciphering the Role of Dilp8 in Nutrient Sensitive Stage of Oogenesis in Adult Drosophila Melanogaster

Eshita Samajpati, Earth and Climate Sciences: Late Oligene Magma Evolution of Izu Bonin Marina Arc from Volcanic Minerals and Lava Flows at DSDP Site 448

Anelise Shrout, Digital and Computational Studies: Aiding Ireland, Saving Ourselves

Nivedhitha Subramanian, Economics: Marriage, Households, Women’s Labor Supply in Developing Countries

In AY 2020-21, the Bates Faculty Development Fund awarded $84,381.50 to 19 faculty working on 20 projects/activities. The average grant to each faculty was $4,441, with the average for each project/activity being $4,219 (both averages were rounded to the nearest dollar).

Ryan Bavis, Biology: Monitoring Body Temperature in Unrestrained Animals with Microchip Transponders

Myron Beasley, American Studies: Remixing and Remembering Malaga

Patti Buck, Education: Restorative Practice Youth Leadership in Lewiston

Todd Carmody, English: Work Requirements: Race, Disability, and the Print Culture of Social Welfare

Katie Dobkowski, Biology: Foundation Species and Their Interactions in a Changing Ocean

Tim Dugan, Theater and Dance: (Re)Immersion Into Craft

Ian Khara Ellasante, Gender and Sexuality Studies: Open Access Publishing Fee for “Radical Sovereignty, Rhetorical Borders, and the Everyday Decolonial Praxis of Indigenous Peoplehood and Two-Spirit Reclamation”

Carla Essenberg, Biology: Publication Fees

Brett Huggett, Biology: Training Course in Dendrochronology at the University of Arizona

Emily Kane, Sociology: Maximum Feasible Participation and the Non-Profit Industrial Complex: A Content Analysis of Community Action Agency Mission Statements

Stephanie Kelley-Romano, Rhetoric, Film and Screen Studies: Women and Addiction

Jiyoung Ko, Politics: Nationalism and Shared Democratic Identity

Hiroya Miura, Music: Virtual Orchestra for Orchestration and Soundtrack Composition

Lillian Nayder, English: Letters of Frederick and Augustus Dickens

Clarisa Pérez-Armendáriz, Politics: Return-Migrants, Mayoral Elections, and Criminal Violence

Erica Rand, Gender and Sexuality Studies: Publication of the co-edited volume entitled Leisure, Racism, and National Populist Politics and Travel Funding for Up Against the Cis/Trans Binary

Michael Retelle, Earth and Climate Sciences: Marine Climate Reconstruction from annually resolved Early Holocene Arctica islandica, Svalbard, Norwegian High Arctic

Josh Rubin, Anthropology: Indexing “Animated by Uncertainty” Manuscript

Michael Sargent, Psychology: Race, Politics, and Sports: Replications and Extensions

In AY 2019-20 the Bates Faculty Development Fund awarded $102,034.51 to 32 faculty working on 37 projects/activities. The average grant to each faculty was $3,189, with the average for each project/activity being $2,758 (both averages were rounded to the nearest dollar). 

Jessica Anthony, English: Association of Writers and Writing Programs Travel

Krista Aronson, Psychology: The Diverse Bookfinder: Supporting Bates student research experiences

Myron Beasley, American Studies: Fishing in Cayes-Jacmel: Negotiating Global Warming, Markets, and Identity among a Fishing Cooperative; and Performance, Art, and Politics

Helen Boucher, Psychology: “Other affirmation” as an alternative to self-affirmation: Spending money and meaning

Jonathan Cavallero, Rhetoric, Film, and Screen Studies: 1990s American Cinema and John Fante

Jane Costlow, Environmental Studies: Subvention funds to support the publishing Heart-Pine Russia: Walking and Writing the Nineteenth-Century Forest in Russian 

Susan Dewsnap, Art and Visual Culture: International Ceramic Residency, Medalta, Alberta, Canada

Alice Doughty, Geology: INQUA conference

Stephen Engel, Politics: Dignity’s Limits

Carolina González Valencia, Art and Visual Culture: The Cleaning Writer-UnionDocs Early Production Labs

Joshua Goodman, Psychology: Feasibility and Acceptability of a Community-Based Peer to Peer Support Program to Promote Supportive Parenting for Parents of Transgender Youth

Meredith Greer, Mathematics: Open Access publishing fee for “Emergence of oscillations in a simple epidemic model with demographic data” 

Rebecca Herzig, Gender and Sexuality Studies: Archival Research for an article on Norman O. Brown

Beverly Johnson, Geology: The Bates Initiative on Climate Adaptation and Resilience 

Jennifer Koviach-Côté, Chemistry and Biochemistry: Travel associated with serving on the Executive Committee of the Carbohydrates Division of the  National American Chemical Society

Lynne Lewis, Economics: Travel associated with serving as a board member for the Association of Environmental and Natural Resource Economists

Jacob Longaker, Politics: Positionality, Intersectionality, and Policy Implementation 

Calvin Mako, Geology: Quantifying the geologic record of strain localization in the Norumbega fault zone, central Maine

Christine MacDowell, Theater and Dance: Autocad training

Trian Nguyen, Art and Visual Culture: Yao Ritual Masks: Meaning and Significance

Therí Pickens, English: Conference attendance and Subvention costs to support copy editing for an issue of the College Language Association Journal, where she served as guest editor

Stephanie Pridgeon, Spanish: Revolutionary Visions and Syncretic Spaces 

Erica Rand, Gender and Sexuality Studies: Hip Checks: Support for Travel and Writing and Indexing for The Small Book of Hip Checks: On Queer Gender, Race, and Writing

Josh Rubin, Anthropology: Deep Clues: The Politics of Video Game Player Research 

Adriana Salerno, Mathematics: Joint Mathematics Meetings

Thomas Sapsford, Classical and Medieval Studies: The Chorus Ancient and Modern, Curriculum Development Trip

Michael Sargent, Psychology: Race, Politics, and Sports

Caroline Shaw, Politics: Beyond Sticks and Stones: The Strange History of Reputation and its Defense in Modern Britain

Asha Tamarisa, Music: ARTIFACT

Nathan Tefft, Economics: Informing Government Policies that Affect Risky Behaviors and Population Health

Kati Vecsey, Theater and Dance: The Post-Communist Condition: 30 Years After the Wall

Peter Wong, Mathematics: Research at the Chennai Mathematical Institute