Nov 23, 2009 | 02:08
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Nov 03, 2009
Center for the Study of Women faculty grants for 2009-10
Faculty members in the Center for the Study of Women have received grants for 2009-10.
Dawn M. Upchurch, professor of public health and community health sciences, has received the Faculty Research Completion Grant for her investigation of midlife women’s use of omplementary and alternative medicine for health and menopause.
Lucy Burns, assistant professor in the Department of Asian American Studies, has received a Junior Faculty Research Development Grant for her research about the Filipino performing body in various entertainment media.
Nina Sun Eidsheim, assistant professor of musicology, has also received a Junior Faculty Research Development Grant for her theory that most analyses of voice and vocal repertoire in the Western music tradition have been focused more on the written works rather than the performances of the works.
Michelle A. Johnson, assistant professor of social welfare, has also received a Junior Faculty Research Development Grant for her studies of the ways in which community dynamics create disparities in maternal and infant healthcare, focusing on communities of Mexican women.
Jo-Ann Eastwood, assistant professor in the School of Nursing, will share a Junior Faculty Research Development Grant with Dr. Noel Bairey Merz for their research on estrogen deficiency and cardiovascular disease in premenopausal women.
Katrina Daly Thompson, assistant professor of applied linguistics and TESL, has also received a Junior Faculty Research Development Grant for her critical analysis of sexuality in the urban myths of Tanzania.
Aamir Mufti, associate professor of comparative literature, has been awarded a Faculty Research Seed Grant for work on the iconography of partition in Indian visual arts.
Hannah Landecker, associate professor of sociology, has also been awarded a Faculty Research Seed Grant for her examination of the intersection between genetics and the politics of reproduction.
Margot Quinlan, assistant professor of chemistry and biochemistry, has been awarded a Faculty Research Seed Grant for her research into the role of the cytoskeleton in determining polarity during egg and embryo development.
Christine Dunkel-Schetter, professor of psychology and health psychology chair, has received a Faculty Research Seed Grant for a controlled pilot trial that aims to reduce prenatal stress in pregnant women using mindfulness-based intervention.
Robin Derby, assistant professor of history, has received a Faculty Research Seed Grant for her look into Haitian and Dominican rumors about the state, as divined from popular narration.
Eric Avila, associate professor of history, Chicano/Chicana studies and urban planning, has received a Faculty Research Seed Grant for his comparative history of urban highway construction during the 1950s and 60s.
Keith L. Camacho, assistant professor of Asian-American studies, has received a Faculty Research Seed Grant for his ethnographic research project exploring how social activist groups were formed post-9/11 in areas such as Guam and Okinawa.
Saskia Subramanian, assistant resident of psychiatry and medicine, will share a Faculty Research Seed Grant with Dr. Thuy Tran for their plan to conduct in-depth interviews and focus groups with 12 physicians who deal regularly with menopausal women.
