Research Award Winners
2008
Allison Takahashi
"'Light’s Fellowship with Twilight': The
Religious Thought of John Henry Barrows and the 1893 World’s Parliament
of Religions"
Nominating Faculty: James Dobbins, Religion
Brian Holbrook
"The Constitutional Significance
of Presidential Signing Statements"
Nominating Faculty: Ron Kahn, Politics
2007
No awards given.
2006
Claire Cheney
"Untold, Savored, Gold: Poems"
Nominating Faculty: Pam Alexander, Creative Writing
Peter Nowogrodzki
"Understanding What We Cannot See:
An Investigation of Research on Signals and Ultraviolet Plumage Reflectance"
Nominating Faculty: Keith Tarvin, Biology
Janine Heiser
Nominating Faculty: Paul Dawson, Politics
2005
Yi Hong Sim
"How to Swing a Mouse: Intersections of Female and
Feline in Medieval Europe"
Nominating Faculty: Jennifer Bryan, English
Katherine Au
"Avian Chimeras for Studying Craniofacial Development"
Nominating Faculty: Yolanda Cruz, Biology
2004
Caitlin Cardina
"The Pulverized Poetic: A Literary Exploration
of Spices in Colonial America"
Nominating Faculty: T.S. McMillin, English
Joel Heller
"Geographical Illustrations: The Popular
Atlas and the Internationalization of Walt Whitman"
Nominating Faculty: Jedd Deppman, English
2003
Shama Cash-Goldwasser
"New Weapons in an Ancient War: Fighting Malaria
With Genomics"
Nominating Faculty: Yolanda Cruz, Biology
Shoshana Friedman
"Watering With Words: Children and Nature
in Puritan Educational Literature"
Nominating Faculty: T.S. McMillin, English
Lauren Stensland
"The Unz Initiatives and the Dangers
of Direct Democracy"
Nominating Faculty: Debbie Schildkraut, Politics
2002
Michael Block
"All Was Confusion: The Civil War in New Mexico"
Nominating Faculty: Gary Kornblith, History
Marian Schlotterbeck
"Modestly Appropriating Conventions:
Anne Bradstreet, Phillis Wheatley and the Literary Sphere of Early America"
Nominating Faculty: T.S. McMillin, English
2001
Elizabeth Weinstein
"Deconstructing Autism: A Sociological Perspective on a Puzzling Disorder"
Nominating Faculty: Antoinette Charfauros-McDaniel, Sociology