Past Faculty Internal Research Awards

Academic Year 2005-06

Fall 2005 Competitive Grant-in-Aid Awards

• Paola Barbara (Physics) -- For the purchase of instrumentation to support a research project, Localized doping of carbon nanotubes for novel devices and sensor applications
• Roberto Bocci (Art, Music & Theatre) -- To support a solo exhibition, titled Installations and Interfaces, 1994-2005, at Florida Southern College from October through November, 2005
• Denise Brennan (Sociology & Anthropology) -- For domestic travel to conduct interviews as well as translation fees in conjunction with book project, Life After Trafficking:  Forced Labor and Servitude in the United States Today
• Heidi Byrnes (German) -- For the preparation of an index for an edited volume entitled Advanced Language Learning:  The Contribution of Halliday and Vygotsky
• Sandra Calvert (Psychology) -- To support the Forum on Shifting the Balance:  Food Marketing and the Health of Children and Youth, to be held at Georgetown in November, 2005
• Roger Chickering (BMW CGES; History) -- To support the translation of an edited volume of collected (personal) essays in German, which will be published by the Franz Steiner Verlag publishing house in Germany
• Gay Gibson Cima (English) -- To support two concurrent projects:  1) research materials to prepare book manuscript, Early American Women Critics:  Performance, Politics, Religion, Race (1730-1830) for publication by Cambridget University Press; 2) research travel for new book project on Early American Women Critics
• Alison Games and Adam Rothman (History) -- To cover translation of research materials in Portuguese, Spanish, French, and Dutch for co-edited Major Problems in Atlantic History, to be published by Houghton Mifflin as part of their Major Problems in American History series
• Derek Goldman (Art, Music & Theatre; Performing Arts) --  For domestic travel to NYC for ongoing development of jazz musical, My Swan:  The Passions of F. Scott Fitzgerald, as well as to support the a parallel workshop at Georgetown on the piece
• Christine Kim (History; SFS) -- To cover the licensing fee for archival photos and virtual media in conjunction with book manuscript, The King is Dead:  The Monarchy and National Identity in Modern Korea, 1897-1945
• Kendall King (Linguistics) -- To support airfare travel to Guernsey, UK (Channel Islands) to conduct fieldwork on Guernsey French, an endangered language
• Susanna Lee (French) -- To support the compilation costs of the new Norton Edition of Stendhal's The Red and the Black
• Dana Luciano (English) --  To support archival research and research assistance toward the revision of book manuscript, Arranging Grief:  Sacred Time and the Body in Nineteenth-Century America
• Meredith McKittrick (History) -- To support translation of oral interviews in Botswana and Namibia for book project, Currents of Power:  A History of Three Southern African Rivers
• Jean Mitchell (GPPI) --  To cover the cost of hiring a graduate student research assistant to collect and organize information on care coordination programs that have been implemented as part of the Medicaid managed care initiatives for children with special needs (SHCN) for NIH-funded project
• John Morrell (Art, Music & Theatre) -- To offset the annual rental lease on an off-campus art studio that is able to accommodate large canvas projects
• Donna Morrison (GPPI) -- To cover the cost of hiring a graduate student research assistant to implement revisions to empirical models using SAS and STATA to be used in a research paper
• B. J. Muhn (Art, Music & Theatre) -- To offset the cost of framing and shipping artwork for exhibition at the 2X13 Gallery in Chelsea, NY
• Patrick O'Malley (English) -- To cover the permission cost to use an image of the Tate Gallery for the cover of forthcoming book, Catholicism, Sexual Deviance, and Victorian Gothic Culture (Cambridge University Press)
• Natsu Onoda (Art, Music & Theatre) -- To cover materials associated with the exhibition of a creative art project, Uncomfortable Women
• Josiah Osgood (Classics) -- To cover photographs and permissions for forthcoming book, Caesar's Legacy:  Civil War and the Emergence of the Roman Empire (Cambridge University Press)
• Joanne Rappaport (Spanish & Portuguese) -- To cover the cost of travel to Cali, Colombia to conduct historical research on the Regional Indigenous Council of Cauca (CRIC)
• Scott Redford (SFS) -- To offset the hiring of one or two professional illustrators to complete camera-ready graphic material to be used in forthcoming book, Final Publication of Medieval Kinet, Turkey
• Cristina Sanz (Spanish & Portuguese) -- To cover participant costs for ongoing study on the role of bilingualism and individual variables, such as cognitive capacity, on the acquisition of non-primary languages
• Michele Swers (Government) -- To hire a graduate student research assistant to code data for book project, Making Policy in the New Senate Club: Women and Representation in the U.S. Senate
• YuYe Tong (Chemistry) --  To defray the cost of repairing a turbomolecular pump and purchasing an RF high power directional coupler for a 400 MHz NMR spectrometer to be used in ongoing research/laboratory projects
• Edward Van Keuren (Physics) -- To support the development of a new type of optical switch in polymer planar lightwave circuits (PLCs) that will be used in Georgetown's Advanced Electronics Lab
• Gerald Yun (Art, Music & Theatre) -- To cover travel and registration fee to attend the Japanese Sankyoku (Japanese Classic Music) Intensive for Shakuhachi and Koto performer scholars held in Boulder, CO, on November 18-20, 2005

Spring 2006 Competitive Grant-in-Aid Awards

• Rachel Barr (Psychology) - To support research assistance and participant incentives for a research project on the effects of media on children under the age of two in childcare settings and if it varies across socioeconomic settings and ethnicities
• Roberto Bocci (Art, Music & Threatre) - To cover the cost of producing ten copies of a volume, and DVD, which documents twelve years' worth of his art installations
• Denise Brennan (Sociology & Anthropology) -  For domestic travel to conduct interviews as well as translation and transcription fees in conjunction with her book project, Life After Trafficking:  Forced Labor and Servitude in the United States Today
• Der-Chen Chang (Mathematics) - To cover publication costs, research assistant support, and travel fees collaborators relating to research work on "molecular diffusion in an aqeous environment" 
• James Collins (History) - To hire a research assistant who will conduct research at the Folger Library for a book project, Republic and State in early modern France
• Charles King (SFS/Government) - To cover travel and accommodation expenses and research assistance for a new book project tentatively titled, The Ghost of Freedom:  A Modern History of the Caucasus
• Francisco Larubia-Prado (Spanish & Portuguese) - To cover the subvention cost to Bibloteca Nueva in Madrid for his forthcoming book, Una encrucijada espanola:  Ensayo criticos sobre Miguel de Unamuno y Jose Ortega [A Spanish Crossroads: Critical Essays on Miguel de Unamuno and Jose Ortega] 
• Susanna Lee (French) - To cover translation fees in conjunction with the new Norton Critical Edition of Stendhal's "The Red and the Black," which she is editing
• Deborah Lesko Baker (French) - To hire a research assistant and to purchase reference materials for the preparation of the English translation of Dr. Kone's play, Sigui, Siguila, Siguiya, to be presented in fall 2005 at the Gonda Theatre at Georgetown
• Jeffrey T. Macher (MSB) - To cover travel to FDA conferences/meetings and data support for a research project on "FDA oversight and enforcement and its relationship to pharmaceutical manufacturing strategies and regulatory performance" 
• Jean M. Mitchell (GPPI) - To hire a research assistant to support data analysis and material preparation of pilot data for a research project on the National School Breakfast Program
• B.G. Muhn (Art, Music & Theatre) - To cover the cost of Chromira prints for new photography project on "life's cyclical nature"
• Barbara Mujica (Spanish & Portuguese) - To cover travel-related costs to Madrid, Spain for the purpose of conducting archival research for a book project on Lettered Women:  The Correspondence of Early Modern Spanish Nuns
• Diana Owen (CCT) - To cover travel to New York City and research assistance in support of a research project on Civic Education and Civic Duty Among Diverse High School Youth
• M. Paranjape (Physics) - To cover the cost of biochemicals, expendable devices, clean-room usage fee, and a research assistant to support a research project on the Development of an Integrated Micro-Fluidic and Micro-Optic Lab-on-a-Chip
• Jeffrey M. Peck (CCT) - To cover accommodation and living expenses in Berlin, Germany for two months in order to research and write an article on Constructing Jewish Identities Through Jewish Studies:  Is the United States a Model for Germany?   
• Jason Rosenblatt (English) - To cover permissions, translation fees and research assistance for forthcoming book, Norton Critical Edition of "Milton's Selected Poetry and Prose"
• Vivaldo A. Santos (Spanish & Portuguese) - To cover a subvention to Nankin Editorial, Brazil for forthcoming book, Drummond:  Um Trem Chamado Corpo
  [Drummond:  A Thing Called Body]
• J.P. Singh (CCT) - To cover travel-related expenses to Senegal and S. Africa for two weeks for the purpose of conducting interviews for a research project on "the effects of globalization on national cultural policies."
• YuYe Tong (Chemistry) - To partially support the purchase of a low-end potentiostat for undergraduate research use in the Chemistry labs. 

Research Infrastructure Awards

• Alan Andreasen, Ronald Goodstein, Johny Johansson, Marlene Morris, and Claudiu Dimofte (MSB) -- To establish and support a Student Research Pool that will allow undergraduate students to participate in research projects conducted by Marketing faculty at the MSB
• Paola Barbara (Physics) -- To purchase new equipment to enhance/support NSF-funded project, Superconductor/Carbon-Nanotube/Superconductor junctions and interfaces to be used in laboratory research projects
• Heidi Elmendorf and Anne Rosenwald (Biology) -- To purchase a table-top ultracentrifuge and two-dimensional (2-D) gel apparatus to be used by Biology faculty in laboratory research projects
• Jennifer Swift and Sarah Stoll (Chemistry) -- To purchase a Fisher Isotemp Programmable Muffle Furnace and a Parr Acid Digestion Bomb to be used in laboratory research projects
• Edward Van Keuren, Makarand Paranjape and Thomas Schneider (Physics) -- To purchase a replacement UV Light Source for a Flourescence Spectrometer that will be used in laboratory research projects

Summer Academic Grants

• Gabor Agoston (History) -- Book project:  The Twilight of an Islamic Power:  The Political Economy of Ottoman Warfare, 1500-1800
• Rachel Barr (Psychology) -- Longitudinal follow-up study for Georgetown's Early Learning Project, which will look at how early media exposure affects children's school readiness or even subsequent comprehension of media content.
• Louise Bernard (English) -- Book project:  National Maladies:  Narrative of Race and Madness in Modern America
• Roberto Bocci (Art, Music & Theatre) -- Interactive art project:  Cycles, Elements and Spaces in Between (Cycles)
• Denise Brennan (Sociology & Anthropology) -- Book project:  Life After Trafficking:  Forced Labor and Servitude in the United States Today
• James Collins (History) -- Book project:  From Republic to State:  Myths About the Origins of Modern Citizenship
• George Comer (MSB) -- Research project:  Mutual Fund Tournament Behavior:  An Analysis of Hybrid Mutual Funds
• Anthony DelDonna (Art, Music & Theatre) -- Research project:  Eighteenth Century Politics and Patronage:  Music and the Republican Revolution of Naples
• Robin Dillon-Merrill (MSB) -- Research project:  Do Project Managers Distinguish Between Good Decisions and Good Luck, and If They Don't, Could Better Lessons be Learned If They Did?
• Lyndon Dominique (English) -- Research for chapter in book project, Wedlock and Fetters:  Marriage, Antislavery and Abolition in British Literature, 1759-1808
• Sylvie Durmelat (French) -- Research for chapter on The Battle of Algiers in book project, Colonial Hauntings:  The French-Algerian Engagement
• Jennifer Natalya Fink (English) -- Research for fiction novel, V
• Melissa Fisher (Sociology & Anthropology) -- Book project:  Wall Street Women in Transition:  How the First Cohort of Female Executives is Reconstructing Work and Retirement
• Luca Flabbi (Economics) -- Empirical and theoretical research for "employer" portion of project on gender differentials in the labor market
• Alison Games (History) -- Book project:  The Atlantic in World History
• Derek Goldman (Theatre & Performing Arts) -- Theatrical project:  Hymn to Elsewhere
• Michael J. Hanmer (Government) -- Book project:  Participation and Attitude Change in the Context of an Expanded Electorate
• Paul J. Heck (Theology) -- Third phase in book project, Skepticism in Islam
• Marc M. Howard (Government) -- Research for chapter on 10 new EU member-states in book project, Varieties of Citizenship in the European Union
• Bardia Kamrad (MSB) -- Research project:  Does Outsourcing Create Shareholder Value?
• Michael Kazin (History) -- Research for book project, The Failure and Success of the American Left
• Christine Kim (SFS/History) -- Book project:  The King is Dead:  The Monarchy and National Identity in Modern Korea, 1897-1945
• Julia A. Lamm (Theology) -- Article project:  Schleiermacher's Treatise on Grace
• Rodney D. Ludema (SFS/Economics) -- Research project:  Free Riding and the Most-Favored Nation Clause
• Chandra Manning (History) -- Book project on Civil War soldiers' camp newspapers, which will examine recurrent themes in camp papers as well as the roles these papers played in the soldiers' war.
• Charles McNelis (Classics) -- Research for commentary on Statius' Achilleid
• Marcia P. Miceli (MSB) -- Book project:  Whistle-blowing in Organizations
• Donna Ruane Morrison (GPPI) -- Research examining how low wages, job instability, irregular/atypical hours, and the availability of job benefits relate to parenting quality and children's psychological adjustment and academic achievement, accounting for the endogeneity of low-wage labor.
• B.G. Muhn (Art, Music & Theatre) -- To participate in advanced educational training programs in the U.S. and Korea that will focus on sophisticated techniques for high temperature firing and glazing of outdoor ceramic tile murals.
• Patrick R. O'Malley (English) -- To revise a book chapter focusing on Charles Maturin's 1820 novel, Melmoth of Wanderer, in terms of the specifically Irish importance of its development of a narrative structure of strategic cultural and historical amnesia.
• Natsu Onoda (Performing Arts) -- Multimedia performance, entitled Performance of Sleep in One Long Act Without Intermission, which looks at the metaphorical relationship between death and sleep, focusing on capital punishment and euthanasia.
• Josiah Osgood (Classics) -- To support writing of two chapters in book project, The Unexpected Emperor.
• Alexander R. Pruss (Philosophy) -- To complete book project, One Body.
• Douglas S. Reed (Government) -- Research for book project, Building the Federal School House:  American Political Development and Public Education.
• Adam Rothman (History) -- Research for book project, The Great South Gate:  New Orleans and the World in the Nineteenth Century.
• Deborah Schiffrin (Linguistics) -- To complete two chapters on two new approaches in discourse analysis -- critical discourse analysis and narrative analysis -- for the 2nd edition of her book, Approaches to Discourse (Blackwell).  
• Scott Taylor (SFS) -- Research and writing for book project, Catching the Big Fish:  The Prosecution of Past Presidents in Africa.
• Dennis Todd (English) -- To write the 4th and final chapter in book project, Defoe's America.
• Edward Van Keuren (Physics) -- Research project:  Nanoparticles for chemotherapy and magnetic resonance imaging
• Peng Wang (East Asian Languages & Cultures) -- To develop supplementary video materials for Business Chinese course used as part of language instruction in the classroom.
• Patrick Warfield (Art, Music & Theatre) -- To support completion of book project, Seven Marches by John Philip Sousa.
• Holger Wolf (SFS/Economics) and Tarik M. Yousef (SFS/CCAS) -- Research project:  The Political Economy of Exchange Rate Policies in the Interwar Period

Junior Faculty Research Fellowships

• Osama Abi-Mershed (History) - To prepare doctoral dissertation, entitled Domination by Consent:  The Bureaux Arabes and Public Instruction in Colonial Algeria, 1831-1870 for publication.
• Peter Armbruster (Biology) - Research and writing on the mosquito, Aedes albopictus (Skuse) -- an important insect vector of dengue fever -- with the long term goal of understanding how ecological and genetic factors interact to influence the adaptation of the mosquito across climactic gradients.
• Louise Bernard (English) - To complete book manuscript, National Maladies:  Narratives of Race and Madness in Modern America.
• Elena Casey (Biology) - Research and writing on project examining how the central nervous system is formed in a developing vertebrate embryo, with particular emphasis on defining the molecular signals and responses that directs an ectodermal (skin) cell to adopt the fate of a neural cell (neuron).
• Jennifer Fink (English) - To complete book manuscript (graphic novel), Cordial Bars   -- a restaging of King Lear from Cordelia's viewpoint.
• Michael Hanmer (Government) - Research project:  Participation and Attitude Change in the Context of an Expanded Electorate
• Paul Heck (Theology) - To complete book manuscript, Skepticism and Religion in Islam.
• Nathan Hultman (STIA) - Research project:  Stepping Through the "open door":  Hedging and Governmental Risk Transfer as Near-term Solutions to the Long-term Climate Challenge
• Christine Kim (SFS; History) - To prepare doctoral dissertation, entitled The King is Dead:  The Monarchy and National Identity in Modern Korea, 1897-1945 for publication.
• Anna Maria Mayda (SFS; Economics) - To further research on "the Free Riding Effect of the MFN (most-favored-nation) clause in multilateral trade negotiations."
• Vijaya Ramachandran (GPPI) - Research project:  The Determinants of Private Sector Development in Africa:  Labor, Competition, and the Political Economy of Growth.
• Lisa Singh (Computer Science) - Research project:  Burst detection in streaming wavelets (datasets)
• Elizabeth Stanley (SFS; Government) - To complete book manuscript, When Wars End:  Domestic Coalitions and Bargains for Peace.
• Gerald Yun (Art, Music and Theatre) - Book project:  Ethics in Performing, Arranging, and Composing with Multicultural Musics

Senior Faculty Research Fellowships

• Gabor Agoston (History) - Book project:  The Twilight of an Islamic Power:  The Political Economy of Ottoman Warfare, 1600-1800
• David Gewanter (English) - To complete a book of poetry, entitled War Bird.
• Yvonne Haddad (CMCU) - To complete book project, Sayyid Qutb:  From Village Boy to Muslim Martyr.
• Alison Mackey (Linguistics) - To complete book project, Second languages are learned:  The role of conversation in linguistic development.
• Paul Portner (Linguistics) - Book project:  Modality and Mood
• Cristina Sanz (Spanish & Portuguese) - To write several article-length manuscripts on "bilingualism, cognition, and third language acquisition."
• Nancy Sherman (Philosophy) - Book project:  The Moral Soul of a Soldier
• Katrin Sieg (CGES; German) - To complete book project, Totalizing Visions:  Global Imaginations and Cultural Critique.

Pilot Research Project Grants:

• Ronda Joan Rolfes (Biology) - Research study on Candida albicans and its virulence factors with Bas1 and Pho2 mutants
• Anne Rosenwald (Biology) - Research study on the effects of Mon2 on Arl1, specifically on how and if it can alter its nucleotide binding capabilities
• Jeffrey Urbach (Physics) -- Research study on Guiding Neurons with Light, which will use imaging and cell culturing to aid research in guiding neuronal growth
• Benjamin Walker (Psychology) - Research study on the Effects of Immune Activation on Social Exploration Behaviors in an Animal Model of Autism

• Tommaso Astarita (History) -- Book Project: Between Salt Water and Holy Water:  A History of the Italian South
• Rachel Barr (Psychology) -- In support of the Georgetown Research Volunteer Program (GRVP)
• Roberto Bocci (Art, Music & Theater) -- Art Exhibit:  Samples
• Denise Brennan (Sociology & Anthropology) -- Book Project: Life After Trafficking:  Returning Home/Creating Home
• Sandra Calvert (Psychology) -- Follow-up study to Rachel Barr's Early Learning Project to examine the impact of early media exposure on school readiness.
• Friederike Eigler (German) -- Book Project:  Generation and Remembrance in German Literature around 2000
• William Jack (Economics) -- Research Project:  Optimal Geographic Targeting
• Kendall King (Linguistics) -- Research project analyzing parent-child discourse among the indigenous population in the Andean highlands.
• Deborah Lesko Baker (French) -- Book project:  Louise Labe:  Complete Poetry and Prose
• Jens Ludwig (GPPI) -- Research study examining the effects of the "Head Start" early childhood education program on the long-term life chances of low-income participants
• Charles McNelis (Classics) -- Research project examining medieval manuscripts of the Achilleid
• Joseph Mazzola (MSB) -- Research project: Global Supply Chain Security
• Jean Mitchell (GPPI) --  Research project examining physician-owned specialty/boutique hospitals and full-service community hospitals in a given market area
• John Morrell (Art, Music & Theater) -- Art Project: From the Ground Up, Landscape Drawings of John Morrell
• Joanna Rappaport (Spanish & Portuguese) -- Book project: Intercultural Utopias: Public Intellectuals, Cultural Experimentation, and Ethnic Dialogue in Colombia
• Douglas Reed (Government) -- Research project:  Resisting Reform: Local Control and Federal Implementation of 'No Child Left Behind'
• Richard Stites (History) -- Book Project:  Russia and the Romantic Revolutions of the 1820s
• YuYe Tong (Chemistry) -- In support of research-related costs: manufacturing prototype electronic devices and the purchase of noble metals and chemicals used for lithographic masking, plating and nanoparticle synthesis
• Edward Van Keuren (Physics) -- Research Project:  Development of a Hydrodynamic Focusing Cell for Nanoparticle Fibers
• Jennifer Woolard (Psychology) -- In support of pilot data research for two grant projects: 1) Police Interrogation of Juveniles; 2) Juveniles and Parental Involvement in the Court Process
• Steve Wurtzle (English) -- Book Project:  Electric Sounds:  Technological Change and the Rise of Corporate Mass Media

Spring 2005 Competitive Grant-in-Aid Awards

• Roberto Bocci (Art, Music & Theatre) -- Art Projects:  Participation in a group exhibition entitled Digital Concentrate; touch screen interactive installation entitled Cycles, Elements and Spaces in Between (Cycles)
• Denise Brennan (Sociology & Anthropology) -- For domestic travel to conduct interviews as well as translation fees in conjunction with book project, Life After Trafficking:  Returning Home/Creating Home
• Alisa Carse and Nancy Sherman (Philosophy) -- In support of research assistance and domestic travel in conjunction with joint book project, Violence and the Price of Dignity
• Alison Games and Adam Rothman (History) -- In support of research assistance for joint book project, Major Problems in Atlantic History
• Derek Goldman (Art, Music & Theatre; Performing Arts) --  For domestic travel and research materials in conjunction with a theatrical production based on the The Wizard of Oz and Salman Rushdie ruminations on the film and own experiences of migration
• Marc Howard (Government) -- To cover the cost of a subvention fee for his forthcoming co-edited book, World Order After Leninism
• Nathan Hultman (STIA) -- Two projects:  an investigation of the diversification benefits of carbon investments in multiple technologies; the implementation of a carbon sequestration project in central Tanzania
• Jean Mitchell (GPPI) -- In support of research assistance for NIH-funded project evaluating the effects of enrollment in a partially capitated managed care plan versus the fee-for-service (FFS) systerm on use of services and access to care for children with special health care needs (SHCN) in Washington, DC
• John Morrell (Art, Music & Theatre) -- To defray the cost (lease) of a professional studio and related utilities, as well as art materials for paintings and drawings
• Donna Morrison (GPPI) -- In support of research assistance for empirical study of the factors associated with the optimal development of SSI-recipient children with special health care needs
• Joanne Rappaport (Spanish & Portuguese) -- To cover the cost of transcribing colonial documentation for research project on race in early colonial Bogota (Colombia)
• Douglas Reed (Government) -- In support of research assistance for project examining the changing federal role in public education, as well as the meaning of local control in public education today, in light of recent federal iniatives such as the "No Child Left Behind" Act
• Jason Rosenblatt (English) -- In support of research assistance to help produce a Norton Critical Edition of Milton's Selected Poetry and Prose
• Jatinder P. Singh (CCT) -- To cover the cost of travel and accommodation to/in Paris, France during summer 2005 for the purpose of conducting a final set of interviews for book project, Negotiating the Global Information Economy
• Jennifer Swift (Chemistry) --  To defray the cost of x-ray diffraction services performed off-campus for research program, External X-Ray Diffraction Services for the period, January 1 through May 31, 2005
• Scott Taylor (African Studies) -- To defray the cost of producing the index to forthcoming book, Politics and Society in Southern Afrcia:  State and Society in Transition
• YuYe Tong (Chemistry) --  To defray the cost of purchasing chemical minerals/materials to be used for synthesizing ligan-protected metal nanoparticles as part of ongoing research work in nanotechnology
• Wilfried Ver Eecke (Philosophy) --  To cover the cost of psychoanalytic training during spring 2005 for the purpose of furthering specialty in the "Philosophy of Mental Illness" 

Junior Faculty Research Fellowships

• Axel Z. Anderson (Economics) - Edit papers under review and complete papers in progress
• Kirsten L. Anderson (MSB) - Research project:  Volume, Price Reaction and Earnings Announcements:  The Role of Trader Identity Both Pre- and Post-Regulation FD
• Sandeep Dahiya (MSB) - Paper project:  So What Do I Get?  The Bank's View of Lending Relationships
• Anna De Fina (Italian) - Book project:  Narrative as Discourse:  An Overview
• David Edelstein (Security Studies, SFS) - Research project:  Occupational Hazards:  Why Military Occupations Succeed or Fail
• Lisa M. Gaynor (MSB) - Research Paper:  The Role of Experience in Auditors' Professional Skepticism, Knowledge Acquisition and Fraud Detection
• Carolyn Hill (GPPI) - Research Projects:  State-Level Policy Factors and Naltrexone Adoption; Effects of Family Structure on Outcomes for Minority Youth; Family Income, Wealth, and Youth Outcomes; and Longer-Term Effects of a Universal Pre-Kindergarten Program
• K. Travis Holman (Chemistry) - Complete research and writing of various manuscripts for publication in peer-reviewed journals
• Brooks Holtom (MSB) - Research project:  Job Embeddedness Intervention Study
• Ivo Jansen (MSB) - Research project:  Discontinuities in the Earnings Distribution and Earnings Management
• Dana Luciano (English) - Book manuscript:  Queer Times:  Nonsynchronous Sexualities and the Future of the Past
• James Mattingly (Philosophy) - Book project on Gauge Theory
• Bonnie Montano (MSB) - Research project:  Knowledge Dissemination in Virtual Communities
• John Morrell (Art, Music & Theatre) - Uninterrupted leave time to devote to landscape painting
• Daniel Nexon (Government/SFS) - Book project:  Imperial Rule, Religious Conflict, and International Change in Early Modern Europe
• Anders Olofsgard (Economics/SFS) - Research project:  A Theory of Organizational Design in the Presence of a Time Inconsistency Problem:  Delegating Real Authority or Seeking Advice?
• Dawn Porter (MSB) - Research project:  Multiple Category Agreement Measures:  Assessing Optimality and Dependence
• Alexander Pruss (Philosophy) - Book project:  The Nature of Time
• Sundaresh Ramnath (MSB) - Research project:  Does the Source of Revenue Growth Matter for Future Revenue and Profitability?
• Andrew Rubin (English) - Revise and complete two book manuscripts:   Archives of Authority:  The State, the Text, and the Critic and Exiled in America:  Emigres and Empire
• Andrew Sobanet (French) - Revise and complete book manuscript:  Corrected Inmates, Corrected Texts:  The Prison in 20th Century French Fiction
• Sarah L. Stoll (Chemistry) - Research Project:  to obtain significant experimental results from investigation of fundamental characteristics of nanoparticles including magnetic, optical and electronic properties, anticipating technological applications
• Michele Swers (Government) - Book project:  Wielding Power in the New Senate Club:  Women and Representation in the U.S. Senate

Pilot Research Project Grants

• Rachel Barr (Psychology) - Research project:  to address the issue of how very early media exposure affects children's school readiness, as well as to screen literacy by tracking an existing sample of children who were originally examined for media exposure during infancy.  Research will supplement ongoing research being conducted in Sandra Calvert's NSF-funded Children's Digital Media Center
• Heidi Elmendorf (Biology) - Research project:  To determine the rates of genetic variation in isolates of the human pathogen, Giardia lamblia
• Edward Van Keuren (Physics) - Research project: To purchase an avalanche photodiode, state of art monochromator, and holographic notch filters for research on "Raman Correlation Spectroscopy"
• Timothy Warren (Chemistry) - Proposal re-submission:  To generate specific preliminary results indicated by review panel of first-time proposal submission, titled S-NO Cleavage/Formation at Non-Heme Metal Sites, to the "Macromolecular Structure and Function A" study section, National Institutes of General Medical Sciences (NIH)  

Senior Faculty Research Fellowships

• Martin Evans (Economics) - Complete book manuscript:  The New Micro Approach to Exchange Rate Modeling
• Svetlana Grenier (Slavic Languages) - Book project:  Freedom and Faithfulness:  The Russian Novel of Adultery from Pushkin to Pasternak
• Erick Langer (History/SFS) - Complete book manuscript:  Asking for Pears from the Elm Tree:  A History of the Franciscan Missions Among the Chiriguanos, 1840-1949
• Janet Mann (Psychology) - Book projects:  Dolphin Mothers and Calves and True Dolphin Tales (non-fiction, science book for children)
• Kathleen McNamara (Government/SFS) - Book project:  Making Money and Making States:  The Euro in Historical Perspective
• Barbara Mujica (Spanish & Portuguese) - Book project:  Lettered Women:  The Correspondence of Early Modern Spanish Nuns
• W. Gerrod Parrott (Psychology) - Book project on the Psychology of Emotion.
• Michael Ragussis (English) - Book project:  Jews and Other "Outlandish Englishmen":  Ethnic Performance and National Identity in Georgian England

Research Infrastructure Awards

• James Albrecht on behalf of the Department of Economics:  to improve the research environment of faculty and doctoral candidates in the department
• Peter Armbruster on behalf of the Department of Biology:  for the purchase of equipment that will allow faculty and graduate students to more accurately and efficiently visualize and quantify nucleic acids and proteins
• Rachel Barr on behalf of the departments of Psychology, Neuroscience, Neurology, and Pediatrics:  to enable the Georgetown Research Volunteer Program (GRVP) to become self-sustaining in the future
• Timothy Beach (STIA) and Sarah Millspaugh (Biology):  for the purchase of a High Power Microscope and Centrifuge for joint geoscience and paleoecological study of microfossil species
• Meredith McKittrick on behalf of the departments of History and Spanish & Portuguese and the Brazilian Studies Program (CLAS):  to digitize a large portion of the Angolan National Archives for ongoing research project and for student/faculty use
• Judith Rubinson on behalf of the Department of Chemistry:  for the relocation (currently housed in the Medical Center) and installation of a 300 MHz Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Spectrometer to the Chemistry department for faculty and graduate student use
• Edward Van Keuren on behalf of the Department of Physics:  for the purchase of a Zeta Meter System 3.0 that will enable researchers to measure the zeta potential -- the definable quantity of surface charge on a particle or surface -- of nanoparticles

Summer Academic Grants

• Louise Bernard (English) -- National Maladies:  Narratives of Race and Madness in Modern America
• William Blattner (Philosophy) -- A Reader's Guide to Heidegger's "Being and Time"
• Elena Silvey Casey (Biology) -- Evolution of the Chordate Nervous System
• David J. Collins (History) -- Sorcerer or Saint:  The Legacy of Albertus Magnus and the Origins of the Witch Craze
• Sandeep Dahiya (MSB) -- ADR holdings of US-based Emerging Markets Funds
• Ahmad Dallal (Arabic Language, Literature & Linguistics) -- The Relationship Between Religious and Scientific Knowledge in Classical Islam
• Raj M. Desai (SFS) -- Redistribution and Realignment in an Era of Financial Crises
• Allan C. Eberhart (MSB) -- Do Mergers and Acquisitions Increase Firm Value or Transfer It?
• Emily C. Francomano (Spanish & Portuguese) -- Bodies of Knowledge:  Wisdom and the Feminine in Medieval and Early Modern Spanish Literature
• Michael J. Hanmer (Government) -- From Selection to Election and Beyond:  Understanding the Causes and Consequences of Electoral Reform in America
• John C. Hirsh (English) -- Sir Thomas Malory's "Le Morte Darthur'" in Medieval Context
• Brooks C. Holtom (MSB) -- Job Embeddedness Intervention Study
• Kendall King (Linguistics) -- Research Project: Parent-child discourse among the Saraguros, an indigenous population of the Andean Highlands
• Donna Lardiere (Linguistics) -- Developing a Grammatical Feature-based Model of Second Language Acquisition
• Horacio Legras (Spanish & Portuguese) -- The Interplay between Art, State and Society in Post-revolutionary Mexico
• Amy E. Leonard (History) -- Gender, Confession, and Education in Reformation Germany
• Dana Luciano (English) -- After 9/11:  Mourning in America Today
• Alison Mackey (Linguistics) -- Can Second Language Learners Learn from Interacting with Each Other?
• James Mattingly (Philosophy) -- Research project on theory change in physics, specifically space time and quantum physics
• Bryan McCann (History) -- Patching the Broken City: Community and Inequality in Rio de Janeiro from the 1960's-1980's
• Steven J. Metallo (Chemistry) -- Interaction and Inhibition of Myc/Max/Mad in Crowded Media
• Jean M. Mitchell (GPPI) -- Effects of within Office Physician Self-Referral on the Provision of Diagnostic Imaging Services
• John Morrell (Art, Music & Theatre) -- Art Exhibit: Investigation of nature in urban environments and how it differs between America and France
• Barbara Mujica (Spanish & Portuguese) -- Lettered Women:  The Correspondence of Early Modern Spanish Nuns
• Mark C. Murphy (Philosophy) -- Hobbes's Renegade scholasticism
• Anders Olofsgard (SFS/Economics) -- A Theory of Organization Design in the Presence of a Tme Inconsistency Problem:  Delegating Real Authority or Seeking Advice?
• Lee Pinkowitz (MSB) -- The Market for Corporate Control and Corporate Cash Holdings
• Nicoletta Pireddu (Italian) -- The Fiction of Europe, Europe in Fiction
• Joanne Rappaport (Spanish & Portuguese) -- Race and Mestizaje in Early Colonial Bogota
• Katrin Sieg (BMW CGES/SFS) -- Sexing Germany: Global Imaginations and Cultural Critique
• Elizabeth Hervey Stephen (SFS) -- Declining Infertility in the United States:  1976-2002
• Sarah Stoll (Chemistry) -- Research project on Nanoscale Phenomena
• Michele L. Swers (Government) -- Representing Women in the U.S. Senate
• Susan Terrio (French/SFS) -- Judging Anti-Semitism at the Paris Juvenile Court
• Catherine H. Tinsley (MSB) -- Can we Shatter the Glass Ceiling?  Follow up on Gender and Mentoring Effectiveness
• Ashwini Tambe (Women's Studies) -- Sexual Consent and Girlhood in Urban India
• YuYe Tong (Chemistry) -- An Investigation of Local Quantum Size Effect in Ligand-Protected Pt Nanoparticles by 195Pt Nuclear Magnetic Resonance
• Steven J. Wurtzler (English) -- The Outmoded:  The Contemporary Avant-Garde and Archaic Media
• Alejandro Yarza (Spanish & Portuguese) -- Kitsch and Fascism in Francoist Spain
• Elizabeth C. Zsiga (Linguistics) -- Relearning Word-to-Word:  An Acoustic Study of Korean-English Interlanguage

Our congratulations to the award recipients and to all who participated in these competitions!