Winter 2008 Recipients of URGC Faculty Research / Creative Arts Grants

Ana Aparicio, Department of Anthropology, "Latino Youth, Organizing, and Movement-Building: Exploring 20th and 21st Century Political Formations"

Janet Barrett, School of Music, "A multi-tiered case study of a middle school general music curriculum"

Sherwin Bryant, Department of African American Studies, "Rivers of Gold, Sweet Valleys, and Sordid Cities: Slavery and the Struggle for Autonomy and Rights in the Kingdom of Quito, 1690-1810"

Hannah Feldman, Department of Art History, "Spectacles of Decolonization: Representation and the Public in Paris During the Algerian War"

Edward Gibson, Department of Political Science, "Institutional Bases of Subnational Authoritarianism in Democratic Countries"

Frederick Hemke, Department of Music Performance Studies, "The Concert Saxophone: Its History and Its Pedagogy"

Cecily Hilsdale, Department of Art History, "Greeks Bearing Gifts: Byzantine Art and Diplomacy in an Age of Decline"

Katherine Hoffman, Department of Anthropology, "Berber Law by French Means: Administering Justice in the Moroccan Hinterlands, 1930-1954"

Kelly Kaczynski, Department of Art Theory and Practice, "Olympus Manger, Scene II"

Susan Mineka, Department of Psychology, "Functional neuroanatomical substrates of fear extinction: fMRI correlates of exposure therapy for specific phobia"

Shalini Shankar, Department of Anthropology, "Producing Asian American Advertising: Ethnographic and Sociolinguistic Perspectives"

Melissa Wittmeier, Department of French and Italian, "Enlightened Aristocracy: From father to son at the Chateau de Villevieille"

Fall 2007 Recipients of URGC Faculty Research / Creative Arts Grants

Pamela Bannos, Department of Art Theory and Practice, "Hidden Truths: Lincoln Park and the Chicago City Cemetery, Then and Now"

Caroline Bledsoe, Department of Anthropology, "The Demography of Family Reunification in Afro-Iberia: Unfolding Dilemmas for Spain and its Gambian Immigrants"

Risa Brooks, Department of Political Science, "Society and the Terrorist: how does social support affect militant groups' strategic choices?

Carolyn Chen, Department of Sociology, "Yoga, Health and the New American Spirituality"

Eli Finkel, Department of Psychology, "Tracking the Development of Fledgling Relationships Over Time"

Linda Roethke, Department of Theatre, "Examination and Visual Documentation of Pivotal Couture from the Twentieth-Century, Focusing on Garments Predating 1960"

Krista Thompson, Department of Art History, "The Visual Economy of Light in African Diasporic Practice"

2006/07 Recipients of URGC Publication Subventions

Elizabeth Hurd, Department of Political Science
Book Title: The Politics of Secularism in International Relations

Sylvie Romanowski, Department of French and Italian
Book title: Essay on the Geography of Plants, translated from the 1807 French Essai sur la géographie des plantes by Alexander von Humboldt

Spring 2007 Recipients of URGC Faculty Research / Creative Arts Grants

Sheila Donohue, Department of English
"Here & Now: A Novel in Progress"

Renee Engeln-Maddox, Department of Psychology
"Extending Objectification Theory into New Territories: The Impact of Gender and Sexual Orientation in College Student and Community-Based Samples"

Robert Gjerdingen, Music
"The Manuscript Sources of Eighteenth-Century Italian Solfeggi--Establishing the Repertory"

Ilya Kutik, Slavic Languages and Literatures
"Doctor Chicago"

Christopher Mercer, Music
"Primate Vocalization Recording"

S. Monoson, Department of Political Science
"Socrates in American Popular Culture, 1944-Today"

Chiaki Moriguchi, Department of Economics
"Child Adoption in the United States: Empirical Historical Analysis"

Mary Pattillo, Department of Sociology
"Information and Choice in Chicago Public Schools"

Paul Reber, Department of Psychology
"Neural and Cognitive Components of Motor Skill Learning"

Gayla Ruffer, Department of Political Science
"What's in a Name? Naming Restrictions, Social Cohesion and the Integration of Immigrants in the European Union"

Nitasha Sharma, African American Studies
"Claiming Space, Making Race: Second Generation South Asian American Hip Hop Artists"

Helen Thompson, Department of English
"Jean-Baptiste-Simeon Chardin and the Life of Things"

David Tolchinsky, Department of Radio/Television/Film
Feature Film about College Debating

Gregory Ward, Department of Linguistics
"Distinguishing among contextually-determined aspects of utterance meaning: An empirical investigation"

Alexander Weheliye, Department of English
"Textual Collages: The Juxtapositional Poetics of Du Bois's The Souls of Black Folk and Benjamin's One-Way Street"

Winter 2007 Recipients of URGC Faculty Research / Creative Arts Grants

Carlos Abril, Music Education
"Perceptions of Music in the Secondary Schools: The Principal's Perspective"

Tracy Davis, Program in Theatre and Drama
"Nineteenth-Century British Performance"

Doris Garraway, Department of French and Italian
"The Haitian Nation and Its Pasts: Memories of the Haitian Revolution in Haitian Literature"

Pamela Hinchman, Music
"Cross-Cultural Music Exchanges"

Yohanan Petrovsky-Shtern, Department of History
"The Russian Shtetl, 1790-1830"

Susan Phillips, Department of English
"Polygots and Pocketbooks: A Cultural History of Dictionaries in Pre-Modern England"

Melissa Wittmeier, Department of French and Italian
"Managing the Revolution: le Chateau de Villevieille"

Fall 2006 Recipients of URGC Faculty Research / Creative Arts Grants

Karen Alter, Department of Political Science
"The Politics of intellectual Property Disputes in the Andean Economic Community"

Josef Barton, Department of History
"Crumbs of Fresh Bread for Everyone: Mexican Rural Women and the Reconstruction of Community, 1880-1930"

Carolyn Chen, Department of Sociology
"Health and Spirituality in the US"

Eli Finkel, Department of Psychology
"The Second Northwestern Speed-Dating Study: Raising the Bar with Videotaping Procedures and Biological Measures"

Sarah Fraser, Department of Art History
"What is Chinese about Chinese Art?  Archaeology, Politics, and Identity in Republican China (1928-1947)"

Christina Kiaer, Department of Art History
"Socialist Realism as Modern Art: Aleksandr Deineka as Case Study"

Victor Yampolsky, Department of Music Performance Studies
"Messiaen's Turangalila"