Graduate Research Grant Recipients Fall 2010 - Present

2011-2012

  • Berin Golonu, Visual and Cultural Studies
    The award covered expenses for Golonu's research project examining photography as a mode of communication in the construction of social knowledge within and about the Middle East and Turkey.
  • Alicia Inez Guzman, Visual and Cultural Studies
    Guzman was awarded funding for her project “Land Art, Landscape and Place in New Mexico: An Interview with Lucy Lippard.”
  • Kyoung-Lae Kang, Visual and Cultural Studies
    Research grant to cover work on the project "Between Two Deaths: Cinematic memory of ‘Comfort Women’ in Contemporary Korea."
  • Sohl Lee, Visual and Cultural Studies
    Lee's grant covered costs to research her project “Why the Shiny, Pointy High Heels? A Feminist Ethics towards North Korean Female Tour Guides.”
  • Alex Marr, Visual and Cultural Studies
    Marr used his grant towards his research project “Looks Like Home: Two Centuries of Modeling Native Houses in North American Visual Culture.”
  • Jenevive Nykolak, Visual and Cultural Studies
    Award covered research expenses for the project “Impersonating History: David Wojnarowicz’s ‘Arthur Rimbaud in New York, 1978-79.’"
  • Kristen Wilmott, Warner School of Education
    Award covered research for “A Qualitative Exploration of Female Faculty Experiences with Gender, Tenure, and Work-Life-Family Stability” and expenses to present at the 2012 National Association of Student Personnel Administrators (NASPA) annual conference in Phoenix, AZ”.
  • Lina Zigelyte, Visual and Cultural Studies
    Grant covered costs for archival work on sexuality and gender in Lithuania and Poland (1928-1939).

2010-2011

  • Alexandra Alisauskas, Visual and Cultural Studies
    Awarded funding to cover research for her work, "Deforming the 'Homo Sovieticus:' Artistic Re-imaginations of the Subject in the Late Soviet Period."
  • Catherine Bailey, English 

    Funding for travel to speak on "Creative subjectivity and a more democractic citizenship."
  • Kristi Castleberry, English
    
Covered costs of travel to the UK to present her paper, "Written on the River: Malory's Elaine of Astolat and Embodied Authority" at the 23rd Triennial Congress of the International Arthurian Society.
  • Rachel Chaffee
    
Award for travel to Florida to present her work, "Girls and Science: Urban middle school girls' perspectives, positioning and activism in science when conversations about identity and discrimination are explicity nurtured."
  • BJ Douglass, Warner School

    This award is for research costs associated with the qualitative dissertation study, "Theory in Action: Exploring Student's Engagment with a Graduate Course on LGBTQ Issues in Education and Human Development."
  • Kristen Emery
, Warner School
    Funding for travel to Cambridge, MA to perform a literature review in order to "explore how female faculty historically and are presently negotiating the performance of gender and navigating the process of balancing their personal and professional lives."
  • Michelle Finn, History
    
Funding to cover travel expenses to Houston, TX to present her paper "That's Why the Lady is a Vamp: Feminism and Race in American Popular CUlture, 1920-1940" at the Organization of American Historians Annual Meeting.
  • Berin Golonu, Visual and Cultural Studies
    Funding for research conductecd in Berlin, Germany. Berlin's coursework focuses on female artists from Middle Eastern countries and Turkey who have built homes and careers in the Western world.
  • Amanda Graham, Visual and Cultural Studies
    Awarded funding to travel to the Brooklyn Academy of Music Archives for research for her dissertation, "Movement: Lucinda Childs and the Postfeminist Choreographer's Response."
  • Kyoung-Lae Kang, Visual and Cultural Studies
    Travel expenses covered for trip to the Korean Film Archive in Seoul as part of research for her project "Articulation Through Spectatorial Violence: The Case of 'My Sassy Girl' and Films Adapted from Internet Novels in Korea."
  • Gloria Kim, Visual and Cultural Studies
    Award to fund research for her project, "Transmissions: Public Health Campaigns and AMbient Media in the Era of Global Health Under U.S. Health Security."
  • Erin Leary, Visual and Cultural Studies
    Recieved funding for her project, "The Domino Affect: Craft, Consumption and Community."
  • Sohl Lee, Visual and Cultural Studies
    Award to cover travel expenses to Coventry, UK to present her paper "Searching for the Political Art of Mixrice: Ethnicity, Gender, and the New South Korean Identity."
  • Lucy Mulroney, Visual and Cultural Studies
    
Funding to return to the Andy Warhol Museum and Archives in Pittsburgh, PA to examine materials brought to light during her previous visit. Lucy's ongoing project is titled "Going Public: Andy Warhol and the Process of Publication."
  • Shota Ogawa, Visual and Cultural Studies
    Award for travel to Japan to conduct an artist interview and archival research. Shota's work "explores the dynamic relation between history of the so-called zainichi Koreans... and the concept of 'zainichi Korean cinema.'" Also travelled to Milwaukee, WI to present "Life After Death in Nagisa Oshima's Death by Hanging."
  • Katie Van Wert, English
    
Funding to cover travel expensives to Vancouver, CA to present her paper titled "American Carnivalesqu: Literary Representations of Queer Counterpublics at Home and Abroad" at ACLA's 2011 conference.
  • Lina Zigeltye, Visual and Cultural Studies
    Funding to cover travel to Madrid, Spain to present her work, "The Im/possibilities of Legibility: Mapping Queer Narratives of Vilnius" at the LGBT/Queer Studies:Toward Trans/national Scholarly and Activist Kinships International Conference.

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