2001 CSWS Research Grant and Fellowship Awardees

Jane Grant Dissertation Fellowship 

  • Barbara Cook, English, “Southwestern Ecotone: A Zone of Literary Resistance and Environmental Justice”
  • Jill Weigt, Sociology, "The work of mothering after welfare reform"

CSWS Laurel Research Award 

  • Jane Gathoni Njoora, Education, "Teenage Mothers in School Tell Their Stories"
  • Susana Salgado, Counseling Psychology, “Reactions of Ethnic Adolescent Females to Feminist Theory”

Graduate Student Research Grant 

  • Amanda Wright, Art History, "The patronage of Qidan imperia; women and its impact on Liao Dynasty Buddhist sculpture"
  • Kathy Becker, Psychology, "Precursors of men's physical and sexual abuse of women and girls"
  • Charli Carpenter, Political Science, "Gender norms in international society: Men, 'women and children' in discourses of justified intervention"
  • Marcy Hunt-Morse, Counseling Psychology, "Adolescent mothers' psychological development: Implications for parenting"
  • Jennifer E. Wildes, Psychology,” Depressive Symptoms Associated with Comorbid and 'Pure' Forms of Major Depression and Bulimia Nervosa"
  • Shannon Parrott, History, “Female incarceration and the correction of mind and body: Women at Oregon State Penitentiary and Oregon State Hospital from 1854-1917"
  • Ramonu Sanusi, Romance Languages, "Representations of Sub-Saharan African women in colonial and post-colonial novels"
  • Tina B. Eskes  Creative Writing, “River in the Sea: A Novel”
  • Florence Ramond Jurney, Romance Languages, “Telling their own stories"
  • Mark Joseph Carrato, International Studies, "Economic Justice, Empowerment, and Microfinance: An analysis of the relationship between microfinance and women's empowerment in the Guatemalan Altiplano"
  • Leontina Hormel, Sociology, "Women and Work: How the growth of informal employment changed economic life in the Ukrainian city of Komsomolsk"
  • Elizabeth Larson, International Studies, "Nepal's Everyday Ecologists: Women stewards of the Himalayas"
  • Kristina Tiedje, Anthropology, "Ethnic Identity, Gender and Politics of Ritual"

Faculty Research Grant 

  • Sherrie Barr, Dance, “The play of narrative in performance: Autobiography in the contemporary dance solo”
  • Debra Eisert, Center on Human Development/Institute on Violence and Destructive Behavior, “Reducing academic and social risks in middle school girls"
  • Elke Heckner, Germanic Languages and Literatures, “Unruly bodies: Displacements of modernity”
  • Linda Kintz, English, "An Evening with dead whiteness: Adrienne Kennedy and the return of the Southern repressed'
  • Amada Powell, Romance Languages, "Translation and the study of love poems by Sor. Juana Ines de la Cruz"
  • Shelly Withrow, Creative Writing, “Burning Daylight: Life Histories of Women Sharecroppers, their Daughters and Grandparents”
  • Greg Bothun, Physics, "Supernova and the Primal Female: A Morality-Based World View"
  • Dianne Dugaw, English, "The Hidde Baroque in Britain and the Gendering of Literary History"
  • Lynn Stephen, Anthropology, “Zapotec Women in the Global Economy: Work, identity, and politics"

Graduate Student Travel Grant 

  • Cecilia Lopez Badano, Romance Languages, "Santa Evita, cadaver exquisito y postmodernidad"
  • Kathy Becker, Psychology, "Relations among parents' dissociation, use of harsh and inconsistent discipline, and children's externalizing behavior"
  • Lisa DeMarni-Cromer, Psychology, "Assessing and describing dissociation in young children"
  • Maria Elva Echenique, Romance Languages, Latin American Studies Association
  • Rachel Goldsmith, Psychology, “Adolescents' experiences with trauma, alexithymia, and dissociation"
  • Carol Jeffers, Anthropology, "The interface of health and ecology: An ethnobotanical study of natural resource use and collaborative conservation in Raven Creek"
  • Florence Ramond Jurney, Romance Languages, International Conference on Caribbean Literatures
  • Christa Orth, History, Oregon Historical Society, University of Washington
  • Jennifer Rowan, Art History, "Danger and devotion: The mother of demons in art and myth of Buddhist Central Asia"
  • Amanda S. Wright, Art History, "Two images of Kichijoten and their relation to political and religious symbolism in eight-century Japan"

Faculty Travel Grants 

  • Andre Djiffack, Romance Languages, "Debates and discoveries on the nature of African Diaspora and the degree of cultural interaction over time and location"
  • Kathleen Karlyn, English, "I'm not my mother': Third wave feminism, girl culture, and Scream"
  • Karen McPherson, Romance Languages, Bibliotheque Nationale
  • Ellen McWhirter, Counseling Psychology, "Perceived educational barriers among Mexican American and white adolescents"
  • Sarah Thompson, Art History, "Gendered space in the spiritual cosmos: female deities in Buddhist art"

Stanton Scholarship for Health Research 

  • Susan Verscheure, Physical Education and Human Movement Studies, "The effect of estrogen on anterior cruciate ligament laxity and active knee shear in women"
  • Jennifer Hess, Physical Education and Human Movement Studies, “Strength training to enhance balance in frail older adults"