SBSRI Announces Fall 2012 Grant Recipients!
SBSRI recently held it’s Fall 2012 grant competition which provided an exciting glimpse of the breadth of research pursued by faculty and students in the College of Social and Behavioral Sciences. In total, we received 31 proposals from 11 different departments requesting $44,532 in research support. Of these, 21 projects are being funded for a total of $24,159. The Fall 2012 grant recipients are as follows:
Faculty Small Grants:
Catherine Brooks, PhD, Assistant Professor, School of Information Resources & Library Science, “Exploring Anxiety: Trauma, Disability, and Support over the Life Course”
David Graizbord, PhD, Associate Professor, The Arizona Center for Judaic Studies, “The New Zionists: Conversations with American Jews”
Erin Leahey, PhD, Associate Professor, Department of Sociology, “Interdisciplinarity and Academic Career Trajectories”
Irene Romano, PhD, Research Social Scientist, School of Anthropology, and Deputy Director, Arizona State Museum, “Expressions of Power and Disgrace: Reconstructing Two Elusive Public Monuments in Roman Puteoli”
Marcela Vasquez-Leon, PhD, Associate Research Anthropologist, School of Anthropology, “Fishing at the Edge of Extinction: Vaquita Conservation in the Upper Gulf of California”
Andrew Wedel, PhD, Associate Professor, Department of Linguistics, “Building a Computer-based Environment for Iterated-learning Experiments”
Research Professorship:
Jadwiga Pieper-Mooney, PhD, Associate Professor, Department of History , “Chile in a Global World”
Dissertation Research Grants:
Samy Ayoub, MSc, School of Middle Eastern & North African Studies, “’Neither Desiring It, Nor Transgressing Its Limit’: Necessity, Liability, and Hardship in Islamic Legal Discourse 16th-19th Centuries CE”
Tracy Bacon, MA, Department of Sociology, “Family Meals in Concept and Practice”
Ufuk Coskun, MA, School of Anthropology, “Understanding the Role of Responsibility in the Making of New Citizen-Subjects: Ahiska Turk Refugees in the U.S. from the Former Soviet Union”
Hyun Kyoung Jung, MA, Department of Linguistics, “On the Syntax of Applicatives and Causatives”
Lori Anne Labotka, MA, School of Anthropology, “’So what’s going on with your hair right now?’ Negotiating Identity through Hair Care Practices in a Women’s Prison”
Lionel Mathieu, MA, Department of Linguistics, “The Role of Orthography in Shaping the Phonological Representation of Novel Words in a Second Language”
Jennifer Miller, MA, School of Government & Public Policy, “Justice in Action: The Institutional Design and Implementation of Transitional Justice”
Kevin Schluter, MA, Department of Linguistics, “The Subconscious Perception of Compressed Speech”
Ryan Seebruck, MA, Department of Sociology, “The Organizational Structure of Education Labor Markets: Teacher Rotation in Japan”
Gila Silverman, MPH, School of Anthropology, “Praying for Healing among Liberal (Non-orthodox) American Jews”
Di Wang, MCMN, Department of Communication, “The Effect of Motivation on Partisan Selective Exposure and Selective Perception”
Pre-Doctoral Research Grants:
Jessica Pfaffendorf, BA, Department of Sociology, “Kicking the Habit: Institutional Considerations on Becoming an Ex Alcoholic”
Edward Polanco, MA, Department of History, “Beyond the Bedside: Female Nahua Ritual Specialists in Early Colonial Mexico”
Elly Zimmer, BA, Department of Linguistics, “Documentation of the Maay Maay Language”
The SBSRI Grant Application System (GAS) is currently open and accepting proposals for the 4-February and 4-March, 2013 deadlines. Be sure to watch the website for updated guidelines and information.