Faculty Research Grant Recipients Fall 2000 - Spring 2005
2004-2005
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Rachel Ablow, Department of English
Presented "Anthony Trollope and the Pleasures of Alienation" at the Inaugural North American Victorian Studies Association Conference -
Janet Berlo, Art and Art History
Reassessment of a 19th Century African-American Artist: Harriet Powers and her Quilts -
Beth Buggenhagen, Anthropology
Presented "Visibilty and Vulnerability in Senegalese Muslim Trad Circuits in New York City" at Society for Anthropology of North America annual meeting -
Nancy Chin, Community and Preventive Health
Gender Dynamics and Child Health in a Mountain Community: A Preliminary Site Assessment, Qinghai, China -
Kimberley Healey, Modern Languages and Cultures
Presented "Le detail qui tue: crime et vision chez Marie Nimier et Fred Vargas" with one of the authors at Colloquium for twentieth century French studies at the University of Florida -
Cilas Kemedjio, Modern Languages and Cultures
Presented a paper dealing with the intertextual genealogy of women characters in the work of Maryse Conde, including her novel Who Slashed Celanire's Throat , at a conference at the University of Quebec -
Ralph Locke, Musicology, Eastman School of Music
Presented a paper that dealt with the interaction between “empire” and conventional male and female roles in opera, as seen in Verdi's Aida at the 13 th Biennial Conference on Nineteenth-Century Music; and a paper on the use and transformation of folk-style Spanish songs in Verdi's Don Carlos and Bizet's Carmen at the American Musicological Society annual meeting; and Glossy photos for article in Cambridge Opera Journal on gender and the portrayal of Middle Easterners and Africans, in Verdi's opera -
Aida Joan Saab, Art and Art History
Research on “Creating a Life, Opting Out, Hip Mamas and Crunchy Conservativism: Antifeminism and the Popular Media.” at the Association for Research on Mothering Annual Conference -
Marni Shindelman, Art and Art History
Presented "Crackers in Bed: The Story of Lynda & David T., as Gathered from the Internet" at the Midwest Conference for the National Society for Photographic Education
2003-2004
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Rachel Ablow, Department of English
Presented "Anthony Trollope and the Pleasures of Alienation" at the Inaugural North American Victorian Studies Association Conference -
Karen Beckman, Department of English
To present "Cut: Photography, Memory, and the Resistance to Film in Alejandro González Iñárritu's film "Amores Perros" ("Love's A Bitch") at "The Photograph," a conference organized by MOSAIC: A Journal for the Interdisciplinary Study of Literature -
Kimberley Healey, Modern Languages and Cultures
Presented “Hypnotic Text, Cinematic Sex” at a conference on Romance Languages -
Sonia James-Wilson, Warner School of Graduate Education
Presented "Becoming sisters: Co-construction of identities through rites of passage in an urban community" at the "Transforming Spaces: Girlhood, Agency and Power" conference -
Ernestine McHugh, Eastman School of Music, Humanities
Attended a working session, with co-editors of papers on feminism and psychological anthropology, at the American Anthropological Association -
Molly McNulty, Community and Preventive Medicine
Research project, "Gender analysis of a right to equality in health care: Case study of maternity services in Belfast Northern Ireland -
Anne Merideth, Department of Religion and Classics
Presented "Plaits, Pearls, and Prostitutes: The Adorned Woman in Early Christianity" at the American Academy of Religion/Society of Biblical Literature Annual Meeting -
Jean Pedersen, Eastman School of Music, Humanities; Department of History
Research for “Social Science, Social Criticism, and Social Realist Novels: the Belle Epoque Political Fiction of French Feminist Activists Louise Compain and Simone Bodève”
2002-2003
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Ernestine McHugh, Eastman School of Music Humanities
Transcription of tapes for research on Women and Religion in the Face of Mortality -
Kimberley Healey, Modern Languages and Cultures
Presentation of "From Colonialism to Postcolonialism: the French Empire and Women's Mobility" at Women in Motion conference -
Reinhild Steingrover, Eastman School of Music, Humanities
Presented "Forceful Confessions: Lilian Faschinger's Magdalena Sunderin" at the German Studies Association Conference
2001-2002
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Nancy Forand, Anthropology
Research for "Women, Animals, and Dangerous Things" -
Kimberley Healey, Modern Languages and Cultures
Presentation of "Seducing and Submissive Women in the Work of Amelie Nothomb, Catherine Breillant and Marie Nimier" at the NEMLA conference -
Melinda Knight, Simon School
Archival research for "Entrepreneurial Women at the End of the Nineteenth Century: Forgotten Role Models for Women in Business" -
Jean Pedersen, Humanities, Eastman School of Music
Research for "Feminist Theatre in France, 1897-1898" -
Rachel Ablow, Department of English
Archival research at New York Public Library for "The Marriage of Two Minds: Sympathy and the Mid-Victorian Marriage Plot" -
Mary Fox, Psychiatry M&D Psychology
Presentation of "Seeing Faces Less Visible: Contributions of a Feminist Phenomenology" at the American Psychological Association -
Rosemary Kegl, Department of English
Presenting "When Cats Go to Heaven: Closet Drama and Renaissance Women's Writing" at the Modern Language Association Conference -
Anne Merideth, Department of Religion & Classics
Presenting "She Walks in Poorer Garb": Fashioning Christian Identity in Tertullian's On the Apparel of Women at the American Academy of Religion -
Andrés J. Nader, Department of Modern Languages and Cultures
Presenting "Violence and Difference in Male Homosexuality: Néstor Perlongher in Brazil" at the Fremdes Begehren: Repräsentationsformen transkultureller Beziehungen Conference -
Ellen M. Santora, Warner School of Graduate Education
Facilitated collaboration on the Three Universities Internet Project in Newfoundland
2000-2001
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Ernestine McHugh, Eastman School of Music Humanities
Presented "Sumitra's Room: Representation and Experience in the Global Realm" at the 27th Annual Conference on South Asia. The paper developed some of the research in Nepal supported by a previous SBAI research grant. -
Tim Scheie, Eastman School of Music Humanities
Presented "Tender and Lovable Bodies: Barthes and Performance" at the Rhetoric of the Other/La Rhetorique de L'autre -
Michele L. Simms-Burton, English
Research and interviews pertinent to "Black Women Writers and the Black Arts Movement: The Intersection of Race and Gender" -
Tener Goodwin Veenema, School of Nursing
Data analysis and writing for "Adolescent and Community Attitudes and Perceptions of Violence: Two Cultural Consensus Analyses," to determine the nature of the relationship between media perceptions and violence in adolescent girls -
Nancy Fischbeck Feinstein, School of Nursing
To present "Maternal Coping With Preterm Labor: An Intervention" at the Eastern Nursing Research Society Annual Meeting. -
Kimberley Healey, Modern Languages & Cultures
To present "Andrée Viollis, Voyageuse Politique" at the Carolina Conference on Romance Languages. -
Beth Jörgensen, Modern Languages & Cultures
Presented "Writing Home: Las crónicas transnacionales de Alma Guillermoprieto" at the Noveno Congreso Internacional de Literatura Centroamericana. -
Janet Wolff, Art & Art History
Publication of Pictured Women. Mary M. Fox, Psychiatry Presented "Ethics in Techo Feminism: A Deus ex Machina" at the American Psychological Association Conference in Washington D.C. -
Roger Freitas, Musicology, Eastman School of Music
Primary research for a book on the life and music of seventeenth-century castrato Atto Melani.
