2000 CSWS Research Grant and Fellowship Awardees

Jane Grant Dissertation Fellowship 

  • Pissamai Homchampa, Anthropology, "Self-care practices among industrial workers in Thailand: Constructing knowledge and perceptions on health and wellness in the factory setting"
  • Lea Williams, Comparative Literature, “Writing on all Fronts: Gender, Nationalism, and the Literature of War”

CSWS Laurel Research Award 

  • Leece Lee, Education, “Native American Women: Surviving the Education System”
  • Kristina Tiedje, Anthropology, "Ethnicity and Gender in the Sacred Space of Nuhau Ritual Healing in Mexico"

Faculty Research Grant 

  • Jennifer C. Ablow, Psychology, “The Transition to Motherhood: Psychobiology and the transmission of social vulnerabilities across generations”
  • Bryna Goodman, History, "Women in public in early Republican China"
  • Geraldine Moreno, Anthropology, "At the factory, at the table: Gender differences in nutritional status of Thai industrial workers"
  • Grace Gamalinda Talusan, Geography, "Filipino women's voices: Research in the lives and stories of Filipino American women and how geography shapes their lives"
  • Matthew Dennis, History, "Seneca possessed: Witchcraft, gender and colonialism on the frontier of the early republic"
  • Karen McPherson, Romance Languages, "Canadian Women Writing: Telling histories"
  • Monica Szurmuk, Romance Languages, "The errant Jewess: Rewriting diaspora in minor literatures"

Graduate Student Research Grant 

  • Connie Dickinson, Linguistics, "Uru Sona: The role of Female Shamans among the Tsachila"
  • Mary J. Fechner, Anthropology, "A change of heart: A cultural study of heart disease in post-socialist Germany"
  • Jennifer Gilmanton Rowan, Art History, "Images of Hariti, Mothers of Demons: Pakistan on-site study, iconographic analysis, and photo documentation"
  • Carol Spellman, Folklore, "Behind the lace curtain: Irish women and traditional Irish music"
  • Hellen Vallianatos, Anthropology, "The political economy of food consumption during pregnancy among the urban poor of New Delhi, India"
  • Naomi Kasumi, Fine Arts, “The Third Voice”
  • Kristin Penza, Psychology, "Cortisol responses to stress and history of live adversity among depressed and never-depressed women"
  • Jill Weigt, Sociology, "The process of combining motherhood and paid work after welfare reform"

Ecological Conversations Faculty Award 

  • Suzanne Clark, English, "The Natural History of Modernism: Science as Freedom, Science as Fate"
  • Jim Tarter, English, "Cancer as an Environmental Justice Issue: Gender, Science, and the Politics of Cancer in Rachel Carson and Her Daughters"
  • Shaul Cohen, Geography, "Cultivating Tress, Harvesting Myths: Reconstructing Science and Nature"
  • Mary O'Brien, "Our Last Canyon Grasslands: Translating Science into Public Environmental Discourse"

Faculty Travel Grants 

  • Sara Brownmiller, Knight Library, "Critical thinking in interdisciplinary instruction: Strategies form Women's Studies"
  • Carol Silverman, Anthropology, "Women and the Rom human rights struggle in Eastern Europe"

Graduate Student Travel Grant 

  • Krista Gragg, Counseling Psychology, "The effects of racism in supervision: Perspectives of a supervisee"
  • Scott Harris, Sociology, "Constructing (in)equality: The domains of relevance and typifications of married people"
  • Tiia-Riikka Kihlstrom, History, Immigration History and Research Center, University of Minnesota
  • Allyson Lima, Romance Languages , "Maneuvering the marginal into view: Reflecting bodies in the novel El Sueno de Venecia by Paloma Diaz Mas and in the painting Las Meninas by Velazquez"
  • Julia Major, English, Pitts Theology Library, Emory University
  • Ce Rosenow, English, "The influence of cultural translation on American modernist poetry: The example of Amy Lowell and Japan"
  • Susan Verscheure, Physical Education and Human Movement Studies, "How effective are different sports bra designs at attenuating forces during jumping?"