Dana Research Assistantships
Elise Bartosik-Velez, Spanish & Portuguese/Minh Le ’27 to work on the project “Francisco de la Cruz in Sixteenth-Century Peru: Would-Be Pope and King of Spain”
Natalie Chwalisz, Political Science/Piero Maria Pedone ’26 to work on the project “From Border Control to Ballot Boxes: Migration Governance and Diaspora Political Engagement”
Chloe Craig, Sociology/Arya Shrestha ’26 to work on the project “Motherhood Under Surveillance”
Alyssa DeBlasio, Russian/Alexandra Ubbens ’28 and Sophia Kovalski 2028 to work on the project “Editorial assistant: Brill book series in Contemporary Russian Philosophy”
Maggie Douglas, Environmental Studies/Liv Kacar ’26 to work on the project “Characterizing the bee assemblage across an urban-rural gradient in central Pennsylvania”
Lucile Duperron, French/Rick Faltemier ’28 to work on the project “Harnessing AI to support language learners with language-based learning disabilities (LBLD)”
Curtis Edmonds, Political Science/Cecilia Madden ’28 to work on the project “Sister Support: The Congressional Bonding Activities Among Black Women in the House of Representatives”
James Ellison, Anthropology/Archaeology/Arya Shrestha ’26 to work on the project “Urban Nature Infrastructures and the Production of Difference in a Mid-Atlantic Capital City”
Steve Erfle, INBM/Sarah Forrester ’28 to work on the project “Playing with Polygons: Counting Strategies, String Art and More”
Jacquie Forbes, Educational Studies/Indra Sokhomsan ’25 to work on the project “The Gendered Care Work of Black Women Educators Amid COVID-19”
Catrina Hamilton-Drager, Physics & Astromony/Adi Chacko ’27 to work on the project “Continuing Observations of the eclipsing binary system KH 15D”
Emily Hawk, History/Travis Minger ’28 to work on the project “The Movements of Black Modern Dance: Choreography, Education, and Community Engagement in the 20th Century United States”
John Henson, Biology/Ella Hynds ’27 to work on the project “Structure and Function of the Contractile Ring that Mediates Cytoplasmic Division in an Early Embryo”
Rachel Jacobs, Political Science/Henry Thorton ’29 to work on the project “Civilian Self-Protection and Mutual Aid in Conflict Database (CSP-MA Database)”
Ye Jiang, Economics/Linh Nguyen ’27 to work on the project “Assessing the Welfare and Health Effects of Telecom and Internet Disruptions”
Lorelei Koss, Math & Computer Science/Phu Nguyen ’27 to work on the project “The Mathematics on Your Walls: Symmetry in American Wallpaper, 1900–2025”
Liz Lewis, Educational Studies/Mary Jane Stewart ’27 to work on the project “Beyond Traditional Academic Writing: Examining Inclusive Writing Practices and Undergraduate Literacy Development”
Katie Marchetti, Political Science/Sofia Getoff-Scanloh ’26 to work on the project “Women’s Organizations and Administrative Lobbying”
Katie Marchetti, Political Science/Eva Hartley ’28 to work on the project ““Women’s Organizations and Administrative Lobbying”, “PA Exit Polls” with Sarah Niebler (Dickinson College), “Teaching Research Methods in Political Science” with Sarah Niebler (Dickinson College)”
Russell McDermott, English/Maya Reichenbach ’27 to work on the project “Cringe Humor and Embodied Simulation”
Katie Oliviero, Women, Gender & Sexuality Studies/Avery Lonzer ’27 to work on the project “Complicity’s Political Possibilities and Discontents”
Karen Weinstein, Anthropology/Archaeology/Ava Hoffer ’28 to work on the project “Taphonomy of dissection in human skeletons that were studied in anatomy education in the United States in the early 20th century”
Olivia Wilkins, Chemistry/Boriana Yotzova ’26 and Kylee Preller ’27 to work on the project “ALMA Observations of Methanol Isotopologues in Orion KL”
Amy Wlodarski, Music/Audrey Herman ’26 to work on the project “Translating Sources for the Uruguayan Premiere of Ullmann's Der Kaiser von Atlantis (Montevideo, 1988)”
Scholarly/Creative
Qing Bai, INBM to support the project “Ideology and Uncertainty: How Economic Policy Uncertainty Influences Retail Trading in Politically Aligned Companies”
Jeremy Ball, History to support the project “Angolans in Maine Oral History Project”
Michael Beevers, Environmental Studies to support the project “The Importance of Narratives in Peacebuilding Initiatives: The Case of the Proposed Bucovina Peace Park”
Eren Bilen, Data Analytics to support the project “Collaborating with an Intelligent but Hallucinating Partner: Human-AI Interaction Under Asymmetric Information”
Eren Bilen, Data Analytics to support the project “The Ukraine Refugee Crisis and Online Giving: Evidence from Two Million GoFundMe Campaigns and a Controlled Donor Experiment”
Matthew Biwer, Anthropology/Archaeology to support the project “Investigating Early High-Altitude Human-Environment Interactions in the Peruvian Highlands”
Margarita Blush, Theatre & Dance to support the project “Where Are You Going, Little Horse! in NYC”
Say Burgin, History to support the project “Can’t Jail A Revolution/People Against Racism”
Carolina Castellanos Gonella, Spanish & Portuguese to support the project “Trans Brazilian Epistemes in the 21st Century”
Amanda Cheromiah, American Studies to support the project “Titolo dell’esposizione: Far away from home”
Samuel Driver, Russian to support the project “Rethinking the ‘Lie’: Image Manipulation and Truth Claims from Stalin to Putin”
Andrew Dufton, Anthropology/Archaeology to support the project “Ceramic Analysis at Acholla, Tunisia”
Andrew Dufton, Anthropology/Archaeology to support the project “Mapping the Urban Landscape of Acholla, Tunisia”
Rachel Eng, Art & Art History to support the project “Life Persists”
Jill Felker, Biology to support the project “Quantification of Antibiotic-Resistant Genes in the Maiden Creek Watershed, a Drinking Water Source for the City of Reading, in Pennsylvania”
Jill Felker, Biology to support the project “Assessment of Antibiotic-Resistant Microorganisms in LeTort Spring Run throughout Carlisle, Pennsylvania”
Tiffany Frey, Biology to support the project “Protein Trafficking and Release in Autoinflammatory Disease”
Kamaal Haque, German to support the project “Luis Trenker's Environmental Activism”
John Henson, Biology to support the project “Structure and Function of the Contractile Ring that Mediates Cytoplasmic Division in an Early Embryo”
Ye Jiang, Economics to support the project “Marriage and Fertility under Macroeconomic Shocks: Legal, Technological, and Price Influences”
Carol Ann Johnston, English to support the project “Vaughan and Traherne, Writing the Visual and Visionary”
Marcus Key, Geosciences to support the project “Modelling centripetal flow in fossil bryozoan feeding currents”
Karen Kirkham, Theatre & Dance to support the project “Performing and Directing "What the Constitution Means to Me"”
David Kushner, Biology to support the project “Analysis of a satellite RNA associated with Turnip crinkle virus”
John MacCormick, Math & Computer Science to support the project “Liberating Chain-of-Thought Reasoning in Large Language Models”
Wade Mansell, INBM to support the project “The Effect of Luxury Pricing on Cognitive Flexibility”
Jarek Metro, Chemistry to support the project “Electrochemical studies of lipid-membrane particles as guided and targeted drug-delivery systems”
Yalcin Ozkan, Sociology to support the project “Financialized Self, Individualized Social Safety: The Vernacularization of Financial SelfHelp Culture in Turkey”
Jorge Sagastume, Spanish & Portuguese to support the project “Rivers of Ruin: Allegory and Memory in Post-Dictatorial Argentina”
Adeline Soldin, French to support the project “Reading for Pleasure and Perversion in France's Third Republic”
Alyson Thibodeau, Geosciences to support the project “Sourcing Turquoise from the Copper World Project”
Xiaolu Wang, INBM to support the project “Mapping Contemporary Chinese Astrology: Social Media Discourse and Public Engagement”
Amy Wlodarski, Music to support the project “The International Reception of Viktor Ullmann’s Der Kaiser von Atlantis”
Collaborative Student-Faculty Research
Shamma Alam, Economics/Nathan Caldwell ’27 to support the project “Economic Volatility and Suicidal Behavior in Low- and Middle-Income Countries: A Systematic Literature Review”
Qing Bai, INBM/Zachary Bellis ’28 to support the project “The Mass Culture of Investing: Social Media, Meme Stocks, and Retail Trading Behavior”
Wande Benka-Coker, Environmental Studies/Abigail Benham ’28 and Sarah Pontillo ’28 to support the project “Active Transportation and Air Quality: Measuring Exposure Along Carlisle's Cycling Routes”
Eren Bilen, Data Analytics/Pranav Azad ’27 to support the project “AI for Rubik's Cube: Mimicking Human Solving Techniques”
Scott Boback, Biology/Josephine Caton ’27, Emery Fishbach 2028, and Elle Kellogg ’28 to support the project “Functional morphology of snake skin during rain-harvesting behavior”
James Ellison, Anthropology/Archaeology/Soumya Bathla ’28 to support the project “Forming Lives and Living Difference with Nature Infrastructures in a Mid-Atlantic Capital City”
Rachel Eng, Art & Art History/Lauren Schill ’27 to support the project “Locality: Creating Ceramic Glazes from Cumberland County”
Emily Kelahan, Philosophy/Eli Scott-Joseph ’28 to support the project “David Hume’s Philosophy of Work”
David Kushner, Biology/Caroline Lotten ’27 and Ayako Ogawa ’28 to support the project “Continued analysis of a satellite RNA associated with Turnip crinkle virus”
Miguel Leal, Chemistry/Gabriel Barzousky ’28 and Andrew Nichols ’28 to support the project “Expanding the Scope of Germylamines Towards Amide Synthesis”
Nan Ma, East Asian Studies/Zixvan Su ’27 to support the project “From Instruction to Information: Charting Information Entropy in Printed Children's Dances in China (1900s–1980s)”
Heather Plumridge Bedi, Environmental Studies/Alicia MacMillan ’29 to support the project “Tools to Build Resilient Futures in Post-Fossil Fuel Areas in Pennsylvania”
Anthony Rauhut, Psychology/Anna Gnagey ’27 and Anastasiia Halchenko ’27 to support the project “Disrupting Memory Reconsolidation Alters Addiction-Related Processes”
Michael Roberts, Biology/Esther Nlebemuo ’27, Bridget McHugh ’28, Emma Grim ’27, and Mariana Kushnir ’27 to support the project “Gene Therapy in Acute Myeloid Leukemia Cells”
Jim Sias, Philosophy/Olivia Whittaker ’28 to support the project “Acquiring the Virtues”
Fatou Thioune, International Studies/Jina Jeong ’28 to support the project “Export Processing Zones and Firm Productivity in Mauritius”
Anthony Underwood, Economics/Anh Quang Tran ’27 to support the project “Energy Transitions and Local Public Finance in Pennsylvania”
Xiaolu Wang, INBM/Derek Du ’28 to support the project “Mapping Contemporary Chinese Astrology: Social Media Discourse and Public Engagement”
Megan Yost, Psychology/Parker Cashio ’27 to support the project “Interviews of LGBTQ+ Christians”
Sabbatical Expense Support
Elise Bartosik-Velez, Spanish & Portuguese to support the sabbatical project “Francisco de la Cruz, Future Pope and King of Peru”
Christopher Bilodeau, History to support the sabbatical project “A Shame to All New England’: Gendered Violence in the Province of Maine, 1630-1670”
Marcelo Borges, History to support the sabbatical project “Migrations and Emotions in a Globalized World, 1870-2015”
Jacquie Forbes, Educational Studies to support the sabbatical project “Support for Sabbatical Projects”
Christopher Francese, Classical Studies to support the sabbatical project “Edition and annotated translation of Giampietro Maffei, Historiae Indicae (1588)”
Margaret Frohlich, Spanish & Portuguese to support the sabbatical project “Workshop on videographic criticism”
Kamaal Haque, German to support the sabbatical project “Luis Trenker's Environmental Activism”
Marie Helweg-Larsen, Psychology to support the sabbatical project “Stigmatization of smokers”
John Henson, Biology to support the sabbatical project “Investigating the mechanism of cell division in early sea urchins embryos”
Sarah Kersh, English to support the sabbatical project “NWSA/ Colorado College Book Proposal Workshop and Writing Retreat; July 26-30”
Karen Kirkham, Theatre & Dance to support the sabbatical project “Artistic General Director of ALCA and "What the Constitution Means to Me" project”
Noreen Lape, Educational Studies to support the sabbatical project “Disagreeable Classrooms: Fostering Transformative Conversations Across Differences”
James McMenamin, Italian to support the sabbatical project “Dante, Petrarch, and Frederick II”
Katie Oliviero, Women, Gender & Sexuality Studies to support the sabbatical project “Straightening Out the Nation: Citizenship Policies and the Backlash Against LGBTQ Families”
Amalia Pesantes Villa, Anthropology/Archaeology to support the sabbatical project “A Longitudinal Study of patient's experiences in Primary Health Care Facilities”
Wei Ren, Art & Art History to support the sabbatical project “Art by the Book: Lu Xun. Tao Yuanqing, and the Making of Modern Chinese Design”
Magda Siekert, Middle East Studies to support the sabbatical project “Develop a new course entitled “Communicating with Foreign Publics: How the US Government, NGOs, and the Private Sector Engage Overseas”
Alyson Thibodeau, Geosciences to support the sabbatical project “Copper isotope analysis of geological and archaeological azurite specimens from the Southwestern United States”
Alyson Thibodeau, Geosciences to support the sabbatical project “Collection of Turquoise from the Courtland-Gleeson Mining District, Dragoon Mountains, Arizona, USA”
Rui Zhang, Psychology to support the sabbatical project “Representations of Chinese culture and cultural fit”
Professional Development
Margaret Frohlich, Spanish & Portuguese to support the project “Videographic Criticism Workshop”
Margaret Frohlich, Spanish & Portuguese to support the project “Havana Film Festival New York”
Sarah McGaughey, German to support the project “Workshop Trends in Modernity in Hermann Broch Studies”
Jarek Metro, Chemistry to support the project “Transforming undergraduate education in the molecular life sciences”
Kristine Mitchell, Political Science to support the project “Developing Expertise in Central Eurpoean Politics”
Anna Neumann, American Studies to support the project “It's Like Being Alive”
Dana Somers, Biology to support the project “Computational Biology Peer Mentor Network”
Study Groups
Jenn Halpin, Environmental Studies to support the discussion “Cultivating Pedagogical Connections on the College Farm”
Peter Schadler, Religion to support the discussion “Major Revisions to the Medieval and Early Modern Studies (MEMS) Curriculum”
Jennifer Schaefer, Math & Computer Science to support the discussion “Mathematics Curriculum”
Publication and Dissertation Support
Shamma Alam, Economics to support the publication of “Economic Shocks and Mental Health in Bangladesh”
Wande Benka-Coker, Environmental Studies to support the publication of “Exploring the Relative Effects of Natural Gas and Biogas Cooking on Indoor Air Quality in Residential Kitchens”
Scott Boback, Biology to support the publication of “Nesting ecology of painted turtles (Chrysemys picta picta x C. p. marginata) at an anthropogenic site in south-central Pennsylvania”
Alyssa DeBlasio, Russian to support the publication of “Women Philosophers and Russia”
Maggie Douglas, Environmental Studies to support the publication of “Potential for the American toad (Anaxyrus americanus) to contribute to biological control in a vegetable agroecosystem”
Amy Farrell, American Studies to support the publication of “Intrepid Girls: The Complicated History of the Girl Scouts of the USA”
Christopher Francese, Classical Studies to support the publication of “Giovanni Pietro Maffei, History of the Indies in 16 Books”
Sharon Kingston, Psychology to support the publication of “A cross-sectional study of predictors of perceptions of addiction among college student Electronic Nicotine Delivery System users”
Karl Qualls, History to support the publication of “From Ruins to Reconstruction (Russian -language edition)”
Mireille Rebeiz, French to support the publication of “Hezbollah in International Law”
Mireille Rebeiz, French to support the publication of “Interviews with Beirut Veterans”
Wei Ren, Art & Art History to support the publication of “Free the Nude! Lu Xun's Book Cover Designs and Symbolist Art in Republican China”
Teaching
Jeremy Ball, History to support the project “Rooibos Tea Revenue Sharing for South Africa's Indigenous Khoisan Communities”
Qing Bai, INBM to support the project “Lowering Barriers to Machine Learning & NLP in Finance: Incorporating Vibe Coding into Business Education”