Research & Creative Activity
RESEARCH & CREATIVE ACTIVITY GRANT RECIPIENTS
September 2006-April 2007

Deborah Achtenberg
, Department of Philosophy
Project Title: Seminar in Experimental Critical Theory: SECT IV Cartographies of the Theological-Political

Emmanuel Barth, Department of Criminal Justice
Project Title: Spatial Analysis of Motel Crime

Berch Berberoglu, Department of Sociology
Project Title: Global Inequality: Globalization, Class, and the Distribution of Household Wealth

Rebekah Bogard, Department of Art
Project Title: Shipping

Shane Borrowman, Department of English
Project Title: Saving Aristotle: Greek Texts and Arab Translations in Medieval Europe to 1500

Paul Butler, Department of English
Project Title: Out of Style: Reanimating Stylistic Study in Rhetoric and Composition

Scott Casper, Department of History
Project Title: Sarah Johnson's Mount Vernon: African American Life at an American Shrine

Linda Curcio, Department of History
Project Title: Grave Sins of Sensuality: Soliciation in the Confessional in Colonial Mexico

Joseph DeLappe, Department of Art
Project Title: New Studio Equipment and Materials Support and Travel for Performance/Presentation

Cathryn Donohue, Department of English
Project Title: Investigating the tone-vowel interaction in Fuzhou

Isabelle Favre, Department of Foreign Languages & Literatures
Project Title: Beginning with the People: Popular Creativity in Rwanda

Victoria Follette, Department of Psychology
Project Title: Assoc for Psychological Science: Teaching and Clinical Science

William Follette, Department of Psychology
Project Title: Understanding Advanced Statistical Analysis of Dyadic Interactions

Valerie Fridland, Department of English
Project Title: Vowel Perception: Identification, discrimination, and sociolinguistic norms

Cheryll Glotfelty, Department of English
Project Title: Literary Nevada: From Native America to the Nuclear Age

Peter Goin, Department of Art
Project Title: CalAg: A Field Guide to California Agriculture

Carlos Guevara-Mann, Department of Political Science
Project Title: Forsaken Virtue: An Analysis of the Political Behavior of Panamanian Legislators

Donald Hardy, Department of English
Project Title: A Corpus Based Exploration of the Functional Motivations for Relative Clause Structure and Book Indexing

Jen Hill, Department of English
Project Title: Natural Places, Contested Spaces

Casilde Isabelli, Department of Foreign Languages & Literatures
Project Title: First Noun Principle or L1 Transfer Principle in SLA

Duane Karna, Department of Music and Dance
Project Title: The Use of the IPA in the Choral Rehearsal

Derek Kauneckis, Department of Political Science
Project Title: How do landowner attitudes affect policy participation in the Lake Tahoe basin?

Markus Kemmelmeier, Department of Sociology
Project Title: Presentation of two papers at the meeting of the Society of Personality and Social Psychology (SPSP)

Ann Keniston, Department of English
Project Title: Literature after 9/11

Eunkang Koh, Department of Art
Project Title: Print Project

Jaime Leaņos, Department of Foreign Languages & Literatures
Project Title: Piccolomini in Iberia: Italian Influences in the Genesis of the Spanish Sentimental Literature

Darrell Lockhart, Department of Foreign Languages & Literatures
Project Title: Jewish Issues in Latin American Cinema

Monica Miller, Department of Criminal Justice
Project Title: God in the courtroom

Bruce Moran, Department of History
Project Title: Book Publication: Possessing Chymia: Alchemists, Chemists and Cultures in the War of Words of Andreas Libavius

Louis Niebur, Department of Music and Dance
Project Title: Delia Derbyshire Research and Conference Presentation

Sandra Ott, Center for Basque Studies
Project Title: Basque-German Relations during the Occupation, 1940-1944

Clayton Peoples, Department of Sociology
Project Title: The Impact of Campaign Contributions on Polickymakers' Voting: The U.S. and Canada in Comparison

James T. Richardson, School of Social Research and Justice Studies
Project Title: Minority Religions and the European Court of Human rights

Aaron Santesso, Department of English
Project Title: Surveillance and Literature

Michael Sarich, Department of Art
Project Title: Michael Sarich Retrospective Publication/Exhibition

Richard Scott, Department of Anthropology
Project Title: Timelines, Transitions, and Teeth: Impact of the New World on the Old in Post-Medieval Spain

Scott Slovic, Department of English
Project Title: Numbers and Nerves: Information and Meaning in a World of Data

Mark Wessinger, Department of Psychology
Project Title: Data Analysis, conference presentations and a teaching workshop - multilevel professional development

Carolyn White, Department of Anthropology
Project Title: Trans-Atlantic Trade and Daily Life in 18th and 19th Century England and the United States

Christopher Williams, Department of Philosophy
Project Title: Comments at American Society for Aesthetics, Pacific Division