2014-15 Jane Grant Dissertation Fellowship

Jenée Wilde

• Jenée Wilde, Department of English (Folklore) — “Speculative Fictions, Bisexual Lives: Changing Frameworks of Non-Binary Desire.”  
  • While studies of gay, lesbian, and transgender communities and cultural production have dramatically increased over the last two decades, research on bisexuality remains highly undervalued in humanities and a majority of social science disciplines. To challenge this dearth of scholarship and to demonstrate the untapped potential of bisexuality studies, Jeneé Wilde’s English/Folklore PhD project develops a fresh approach using textual, cultural, and ethnographic methods of bisexuality research.

2014 Graduate Student Research Grant Awardees

• Matthew N. Hannah, Department of English, “’The Growing Ego’: Dora Marsden’s Collaborative Modernism.”
• April Lightcap, Department of Psychology, “An Efficacy Trial for Birth Your Way: an ACT-Based Prenatal Intervention.”
• Kathryn L. Miller, Department of Political Science, “Violence on the Periphery: Migration and Gendered Violence Against Women in the U.S. Context.”
• Kristen M. Reinhardt, Department of Psychology,  “Came to Serve, Left Betrayed: Violence Against Women in the Military.”
• Marina N. Rosenthal, Department of Psychology, “Sexy and Sexualized: Cheerleading’s Impact on College Students, Children, and Families.”
• Ivan Sandoval-Cervantes, Department of Anthropology, “Gender, Migrations, and Relatedness: Care and Kinship in a Zapotec Transborder Community.”
• Carly P. Smith, Department of Psychology, “A National Study of Campus Sexual Violence and Title IX: The Institutional Betrayal of Mere Compliance.”
• Brandy Todd, Educational Methodology, Policy and Leadership, “Identity Formation and Gender Disparities in the Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics Disciplines.”
• Tongyu Wu, Department of Sociology, “Coding ‘Productive Masculinity’: Gendered Meaning of Exploitation in High-Tech Corporations.”
• Qing Ye, Department of East Asian Languages and Literature, “Aesthetic Beauty and Authentic Sentiment in the 18^th-century Chinese Novel Guwangyan (Preposterous Words).”

2014-15 Faculty Research Grant Awardees

• Aletta Biersack, Department of Anthropology, “Gendered Transformations in the Ipili Mining Era.”
• Yvonne Braun, Departments of Women's and Gender Studies and International Studies, “Networking for Women’s Rights: Transnational Feminist Organizing in Southern Africa.”
• Sara Hodges, Department of Psychology, “Women’s Perceptions of Feedback in STEM.”
• Lori Kruckenberg, School of Music, “Beyond Hildegard: Female Cantors in the German-Speaking Lands, 900-1400.”
• Theresa May, Department of Theatre Arts, “The Women and Rivers Project: Native Women Theatre Artist Workshop / Residency.”
• Priscilla Ovalle, Department of English, “Media/Hair/Style.”
• Judith Raiskin, Department of Women's and Gender Studies, “Parenting without Protection: How Legal Instability Influences LGBT-Headed Households.”
• Lynn Stephen, Department of Anthropology, “Tristeza/Alegria: Gender and Citizen Children of Undocumented Parents, Cinthya’s Story.”