2008-2009 Graduate School Research Committee Awards
These competitive awards are intended to support the development of junior faculty research programs (e.g., the initial phase of a new project or a transition project). See the award program information.
Lisa Berger
Assistant Professor, Social Work
Social Worker and Physician Administered Brief Alcohol Intervention for Hospitalized Patients
Winson W. Chu
Assistant Professor, History
Polish, German, or Jewish? The "Lodzer Mensch" and the Politics of Multi-Ethnicity in Twentieth-Century Poland
Christopher A. De Sousa
Associate Professor, Geography
Residential Brownfields Development, Sprawl, and Sustainability: A Demand Side Perspective
Frankie Flood
Assistant Professor, Visual Art
Rapid Prototyping and D Scanning in the Production of Art
Ryan Holifield
Assistant Professor, Geography
Environmental Justice and the Cleanup of Contaminated Urban Rivers: A Comparative Study of Areas of Concern in the Lake Michigan Basin
Nan Y. Kim-Paik
Assistant Professor, History
Families of the Wartime Missing and the Return of the Korean War's Presumed Dead in 21st-Century South Korea
Anna Mansson McGinty
Assistant Professor, Geography and Women's Studies
Gender Identity and Activism Among Muslim Women in the Midwest
Lori Neighbors
Assistant Professor, Human Movement Sciences
To Weigh or Not to Weigh: The Demography, Epidemiology, and Qualitative Experience of Body Weight Monitoring for Weight Control
Susan Partington
Assistant Professor, Health Sciences
An Investigation of the Relationship Between the Prenatal Environment and Childhood Obesity
Joe Peschio
Assistant Professor, Foreign Languages and Linguistics
The Green Lamp
Arijit H. Sen
Assistant Professor, Architecture
Collaborative Politics of the Contact Zone: White Women in the San Francisco Hindu Temple
R. Jason Sherman
Assistant Professor, Anthropology
The Margarita Settlement Survey: Ancient Maya Rural Settlement in South-Central Quintana Roo, Mexico
Julia A. Snethen
Assistant Professor, Nursing
Influence of Familial Environment and Decision-Making Patterns on Childhood Obesity
Natasha Borges Sugiyama
Assistant Professor, Political Science
The Politics of Social Policy Diffusion in Brazil
Kristin M. Sziarto
Assistant Professor, Geography
The Scales of Immigrant Regulation and Resistance: A Comparative Study
Tanya J. Tiffany
Assistant Professor, Art History
Diego Velázquez's Early Paintings and the Culture of Seventeenth-Century Seville
Laura Trafí-Prats
Assistant Professor, Visual Art
A Narrative Study of Elementary Children's Aesthetic Perspectives of Urban Environment and Change