Non-Travel Awards 2021-2022
Dana Research Assistantships
Shamma Alam, International Studies/Zimeng Liu ’23 to work on the project "Covid-19 and Children's Health Outcomes"
Kirk Anderson, Educational Studies/Valerie Cerna ’24 to work on the project "Trauma-Informed Pedagogy in Higher Education"
Say Burgin, History/James van Kuilenburg ’23 to work on the project "Organizing Your Own: The White Fight for Black Power in Detroit"
Carolina Castellanos, Spanish & Portuguese/Julandry Almonte ’22 to work on the project "Griselda Blanco in Colombian Newspapers"
Nikki Cummings, Anthropology/Hunter Omerzo ’24 to work on the project "Mesopotamian-Aegean Symbolism of Liminality: The Genius and Monkey"
Allyssa Decker, Environmental Studies/Riley Kuehn ’23 to work on the project "Dickinson College Green Roof Pilot Project"
Xiaozhou Ding, Economics/Trang Ha Do ’23 to work on the project "School Quality and Household Mobility"
Amy Farrell, American Studies & Women's, Gender and Sexuality Studies/Adena Cohan ’22 to work on the project "Routledge Companion to Gender and Fat"
Tiffany Frey, Biology/Andrew Howe ’23 to work on the project "Summer 2022 Laboratory and Writing Project Support"
Margaret Frohlich, Spanish & Portuguese/Ana Matovic ’22 to work on the project "More than Two Flavors: Sexual Diversity in Cuban Young Cinema"
Sherry Harper-McCombs, Theatre & Dance/Lily Hollenberg to work on the project "Design, creating, and maintenance of costumes and crafts for summer productions"
Katie Heard, Political Science/Amanda Fruman ’22 to work on the project "Theaters of Redemption: The Religious Life of Legal Death"
Rachel Jacobs, Political Science/Carter Gallahue ’24 to work on the project "Buffers Against Famine: Survival Strategies in Cambodia under the Khmer Rouge"
Carol Ann Johnston, English/Julia Chandler ’22 to work on the project "Three essays"
John Katunich, Writing Program/Sarah Rice ’24 to work on the project "The Post-Pandemic Writing Center, a Digital Edited Collection"
Karen Kirkham, Theatre & Dance/Maddie Sheehan ’24 to work on the project "Peak Performance"
Paul Ko, Economics/Shix xi Liu ’24 to work on the project "Trade, Globalization and Rise of Female Labor Force Participation"
Xiaozhou Ding, Paul Ko, and Eren Bilen, Economics/Heidi Beardsley ’25 to work on the project "Impact of Asymmetric Productivity Spillovers in Job-to-Job Transitions: Evidence from Labor Mobility in Academia"
Ebru Kongar, Economics/Francesca Kelly ’25 to work on the project "Potential Impact on Parental Child Caregiving of Daycare Closures”
Andrea Lieber, Religion/Amanda Furman ’22 to work on the project "#ownyourstar: Jewish identity influencers and Hillel's campaign to fight anti-Semitism on campus"
Darren Lone Fight, American Studies/Moses Krueger ’24 to work on the project "Mandan, Hidatsa, and Arikara (Three Affiliated Tribes of North Dakota) Boarding School Peoples"
Emily Marshall, Economics/Mary Ellen Owens ’22 to work on the project "The Effect of Women in Economics Groups on Diversity in the Field"
Emily Marshall, Economics/ Mary Ellen Owens ’22 to work on the project "Covid Health Policies"
Janine Ludwig and Sarah McGaughey, German/Nick Rickert ’22 to work on the project "Digital Journal Publication"
Kristine Mitchell, Political Science & International Studies/Isabel Rush ’24 to work on the project "Building 'Little Punjab' in West London? Southall Migrants' Experiences in the Own Words"
Kristine Mitchell, Political Science/Harpneet Chohan ’24 to work on the project "Building 'Little Punjab' in West London"
Matthew Pinsker, History/Charlotte Goodman ’23 to work on the project “House Divided Project”
Naila Smith, Psychology/Chinemerem Nwanze ’23 to work on the project "The Context of Reception and Black Immigrants in the United States"
Sarah St. Angelo, Chemistry/Uyen Nguyen ’24 to work on the project "Renewable Agriculture: Biogas Digestor, Compost, and Resultant Fertilizer Effects on Crop Growth and Nutritional Content"
Gregory Steirer, English/Amanda Sowah ’22 to work on the project "When is a Copyright Not a Copyright? Comic Strip and Cartoon Characters as Intellectual Property"
Kristin Strock, Environmental Studies/Marissa Calvert ’22 to work on the project "Cumberland County Water Resources StoryMap"
Megan Yost, Psychology/Katherine Lurie ’23 to work on the project "LGBTQ Individuals' Positive Experiences with Christianity"
Scholarly/Creative
Nadia Alahmed, Africana Studies to support the project "Research for a book titled “Black Power Movement, Palestinian Liberation and Culture of Resistance, and the Roots of Black and Palestinian Solidarity”"
Thomas Arnold, Biology to support the project "Epigenetic Sabotage: Plants use Histone Deacetylase Inhibitors as Weapons Against Pest Insects"
Kent Barrett, Theatre & Dance to support the project "Valley Traction presents an adaption of the Empire Builders at the Philadelphia Fringe Festival"
Eren Bilen, Data Analytics to support the project "Cheating and Moral Issues: An Experiment"
Scott Boback, Biology to support the project "Testing for Cryptic Sociality in Prairie Rattlesnakes"
Eleanor Conover, Art & Art History to support the project "Framing the Landscape: Onsite with Georgia O'Keeffe"
Maggie Douglas, Environmental Studies to support the project "Foraging behavior of the American toad toward pest and non-pest invertebrates"
Tiffany Frey, Biology to support the project "Effect of Isoprenoid Depletion on CD14 Trafficking in Macrophages"
Ellen Gray, Music to support the project "Amalia Rodrigues: Live at the Olympia Theater"
Ellen Gray, Music to support the project "1) Amalia Rodrigues: Live at the Olympia Theater; 2) Tangibles, Intangibles and a Precarious South"
Ellen Gray, Music to support the project "Tangibles, Intangibles, and the Precarious South: Heritage Labors in Southern Europe (Case Study: Lisbon's fado neighborhoods)"
Sherry Harper-McCombs, Theatre & Dance to support the project "Creation of performance objects and performance to explore cycles of displacement in Central Appalachia"
Rachel Jacobs, Political Science to support the project "Buffers Against Famine: Survival Strategies in Cambodia under the Khmer Rouge"
Sharon Kingston, Psychology to support the project "Impacts of Juvenile Justice Involvement and Intense Adolescent Employment on Adult Outcomes"
Karen Kirkham, Theatre & Dance to support the project "Midsummer Night"
Jed Kuhn, American Studies to support the project "Traces of Intimacy: Native Americans and Mexican Americans in the Trans-Sierra West"
Elizabeth Lee, Art & Art History to support the project "Matisse's Therapeutic Modernism"
Nan Ma, East Asian Studies to support the project "Dancing Utopia: The Mass Dance in China's Great Leap Forward campaign, 1958-1960"
Marianna Past, Spanish & Portuguese to support the project "Writing Resistance, evoking homeland: Haitian Kreuyol poetry in Cuba"
Amalia Pesantes Villa, Anthropology to support the project "Type 2 diabetes in Lima Peru"
Alexandra Rush, Psychology to support the project "Navigating Unbound Spaces: Exploring the Experiences of Girls in Scouting."
Peter Schadler, Religion to support the project "Monograph on the topic of narratological discourse between fact and fiction in Byzantium and beyond."
Adeline Soldin, French to support the project "The Truth about Taste: Food as literary inspiration chez Proust and Barbery"
Gregory Steirer, English to support the project "When Is a Copyright Not a Copyright? Comic Strip and Cartoon Characters as Intellectual Property."
Megan Yost, Psychology to support the project "Orthodox Jewish Women's Haircovering, Religiosity, and Body Image"
Megan Yost, Psychology to support the project "LGBTQ Individuals' Positive Experiences with Christianity"
Evan Young, History to support the project "Medical Caregiving and Legal Boundaries of Family in Early Modern Japan"
Rui Zhang, Psychology to support the project "Biculturalism and Wise Reasoning"
Collaborative Student-Faculty Research
Shamma Alam, International Studies/Shi Xi Liu ’24 for the project "Impact of Covid-19 and lockdowns on poverty in developing countries"
Grant Braught, Mathematics & Computer Science/Christian Gonzalez ’24 for the project "Farm Data2 Development"
Maria Bruno, Anthropology/Heidi Hepburn ’23 for the project "Reconstructing Animal, Plant and Landscape Domestication and Management Processes at the Onset of Agriculture in the Lake Titicaca Basin"
Rebecca Connor, Chemistry/Eden Balema ’24 for the project "Synthesis and Characterization of New Hsp70 inhibitors"
Xiaozhou Ding, Economics/Janet Cao ’23 for the project "Too Late to Buy a Home? Home Purchase restrictions and housing prices in China"
Xiaozhou Ding and Paul Ko, Economics/Jie Hou ’23 and Yelim Kim ’24 for the project "Pennsylvania Annual Economic Report"
Jeff Engelhardt, Philosophy/Molly Moran ’24 for the project "Ideal, nonideal, and deidealized theory in philosophy of language"
Tiffany Frey, Biology/Grace Heine ’24 and Elizabeth Baah ’24 for the project "Effect of Isoprenoid Depletion on CD14 Trafficking in Macrophages"
Marcus Key, Earth Science/Madeline McDowell ’23 for the project "Correlating growth rates to climate change in marine bryozoans"
Xiexin Liu, Data Analytics/Emily Shambaugh ’24 for the project "Analyzing the difference between customers’' long-term segments and short-term goals: A Bayesian approach"
Sarah Niebler, Political Science/Carrie Becher for the project "Access and Disability Services in the Liberal Arts Environment"
Karl Qualls, History/Mia Ramero ’22 for the project "Children of the Nation: Raising the Next Generation in Interwar Dictatorships"
Colin Rathbun, Chemistry/Roberta Akrong ’24 and Jennifer Tran ’24 for the project "New Bioluminescent Enzymes for Imaging Cancer and Immune System"
Michael Roberts, Biology/Sophia Kovatsis ’24, Colin Albitz ’23, and Jae Chung ’23 for the project "Reprogramming Human Leukemia Cells Toward Self-destruction"
Kristin Strock, Environmental Studies/Prerana Patil ’24 for the project "Managing Harmful Algal Blooms in Pennsylvania Reservoirs "
Tony Underwood, Economics/Alexander Usich ’24 for the project "The Local Economic Impact of Dickinson College"
Todd Wronski, Theatre & Dance/Brigid McNulty ’23 for the project “Kurt Vonnegut: My Lives’ Stories”
Sabbatical Expense Support
Santiago Anria, Political Science to support the sabbatical project "Social Movements, Polarization, and Democratic Regime Trajectories in Latin America"
Rebecca Connor, Chemistry to support the sabbatical project "Characterization of the effects of heat shock protein modification and inhibition on protein binding and stress activation. "
Eva Copeland, Spanish & Portuguese to support the sabbatical project "Eva Canel's fiction and theatre"
Alyssa DeBlasio, Russian to support the sabbatical project "Vladimir Petrushevsky at the Dutch Volcanological Survey, 1921-1950"
Rachel Eng, Art & Art History to support the sabbatical project "Deep Time"
Amy Farrell, American Studies to support the sabbatical project "Girl Scouts of the USA"
Ellen Gray, Music to support the sabbatical project "1) Amalia Rodrigues: Live at the Olympia Theater; 2) Tangibles, Intangibles and a Precarious South"
Marie Helweg-Larsen, Psychology to support the sabbatical project "Why are we so bad at risk assessment"
Erik Love, Sociology to support the sabbatical project "Held Hostage to Race: Advocacy for Public Transit in the U.S."
Tullio Pagano, Italian to support the sabbatical project "Italian Travel Writers and the Re-Conquest of Argentina (1860-1915)"
Peter Schadler, Religion to support the sabbatical project "Between Fact and Fiction: Byzantium and Beyond"
Professional Development
Crawley-Woods, Theatre & Dance to support the project "Professional Training Program at the Bates Dance Festival"
Holley Friedlander, Mathematics & Computer Science to support the project "Park City Mathematics Institute - Undergraduate Faculty Program - Number Theory Informed by Computation"
Sherry Harper-McCombs, Theatre & Dance to support the project "Introductory course in Spinning"
Nicoletta Marini-Maio, Italian to support the project "Teaching Black Italy"
Rui Zhang, Psychology to support the project "Workshop on longitudinal structural equation modeling."
Teaching Projects
Bruno Grazioli, Dickinson In Bologna to support the project "Art Itineraries in Bologna"
Study Groups
Todd Wronski, Theatre & Dance to support the discussion "Kurt Vonnegut: My Lives' Stories"
Lucile Duperron, French to support the discussion "The Global Campus: Credentialing Internationization Across the Curriculum"
Publication and Dissertation Support
Carolina Castellanos, Spanish & Portuguese to support the publication of "Warrior Women and Trans Warriors: Performing Masculinities in Twentieth Century Latin American Literature"
Alyssa DeBlasio, Russian to support the publication of "Socrates in Russia"
Alyssa DeBlasio, Russian to support the publication of "Philosophical Aspects of Globalization: A Multidisciplinary Inquiry"
Lars English, Physics & Astronomy to support the publication of "Mathematical Problems in Engineering"
Margaret Frohlich, Spanish & Portuguese to support the publication of "More than Two Flavors: Sexuality Diversity in Cuban Young Cinema"
Ellen Gray, Music to support the publication of "Publication Support for the indexing and foreign language proofing of book, 'Amalia Rodrigues: Live at the Olympia Theater'"
John Henson, Biology to support the publication of "Building the contractile ring in an early embryo: initiative as clusters of myosin II, anillin and septin and visualization of septin filament network"
Marcus Key, Earth Science to support the publication of "Pulication of conference volume"
Marcus Key, Earth Science to support the publication of "Historical geoarchaeological approach to sourcing seventeenth-to eighteenth century black "marble" ledger stones from the Chesapeake Bay region, U.S.A."
Elizabeth Lee, Art & Art History to support the publication of "The Medicine of Art: Disease and the Aesthetic Object in Gilded Age America"
Elizabeth Lee, Art & Art History to support the publication of "Charles Lang Freer: Collecting the Disabled Body"
Antje Pfannkuchen, German to support the publication of "Editing of a special thematic issue of Modern Language Notes"
Mireille Rebeiz, French & WGSS to support the publication of "Gendering Civil War: Francophone Women’s Writing in Lebanon"