Jane Grant Dissertation Fellowship

• Alison Altstatt, School of Music and Dance, “The Music and Liturgy of Kloster Preetz: Ritual Practice in a North German Women’s Community, 1350-1550.”

Laurel Research Award

• Gennie Thi Nguyen, Anthropology, “From War to Hurricane Katrina: Women’s Untold Stories.” 

Graduate Research Grants

• Sarah Jaquette, Environmental Studies, “Indians, Invasive Species, and Invalids: The ‘Ecological Other’ in American Culture and Literature.”
• Sarah LaChance Adams, Philosophy, “Charity is a Mother: The Nature of Nurture in Maternal Ethics.”
• Tam Nguyen, Linguistics, “Women’s Speech in a Matriarchal Society: a Sociolinguistic Study of Rhade (or Ede).”
• Christina W. O’Bryan, Anthropology, “Gender and Self: Sociospatial Mobility among Afghan Women in Vancouver, B.C.”
• Kelley Totten, Folklore, “Performance and Visual Representation in Craftswomen’s Souvenir Production.”

Faculty Research Grants

• Lynn Fujiwara, Assistant Professor, Women’s and Gender Studies, “The Politics of Removal: Forced Deportations, Exclusions, and the Impact on Immigrant Families.”
• Lamia Karim, Assistant Professor, Anthropology, “Gender Jihad: Feminist Reform in Bangladesh.”
• Irmary Reyes-Santos, Visiting Assistant Professor, Ethnic Studies, “Women, Migration, and Globalization in the Caribbean.”
• Sharon R. Sherman, Professor, Folklore, “Whatever Happened to Zulay? Entrepreneurship and Globalization among Indigenous Andean Women.”
• Carol Silverman, Professor, Anthropology, “Gender, Race and Family: Issues of Education and Sexuality among Balkan Romani Migrants in New York City."
• Yizhao Yang, Assistant Professor, Planning, Public Policy and Management, “The Built Environment, Social Justice, and Gender.”