Provost’s Research Awards for New Faculty

2011 College of Arts & Sciences Winners

Howard Cass (Music & Dance and Communication, Media, & Theater Arts). 
"Recording of Musical Compositions Based on the Writings of Kurt Vonnegut"

Elizabeth Currans (Women’s & Gender Studies). 
"Engendering Publics: Women’s Demonstrations in the 21st Century U.S."

Jason DeMarte (Art) 
"Nature Preserve"

Xianghong Feng (Sociology, Anthropology, & Criminology). 
"Place, Culture, and Consumption: The McDonaldization of Tourism in Fenghuang, China"

Jason Ferguson (Art). 
"Domestic Carnival"

Katherine Greenwald (Biology). 
"A New Mode of Reproduction in Salamanders: Adaptive Benefits and Conservation Implications"

Rob Halpern (English Language & Literature). 
"Becoming a Patient of History: Poetry, Politics, and the Crisis of Agency" (scholarly essays), and "My Augustine" (poems)

Peter Higgins (History & Philosophy). 
"Justice and Immigrant Admissions"

Margaret Koopman (Biology). 
"Investigating the Genetic Structure of Carnivorous Pitcher Plants"

David Pawlowski (Physics & Astronomy). 
"Towards a 27 Day Prediction of Ionospheric and Thermospheric Space Weather"

Robert Peavler (Music & Dance). 
"Recording of Various 20th and 21st Century American Art Songs"

Jamie Scaglione (Chemistry). 
"Characterization of the Pladienolide Thioesterase"

Nitya Singh (Political Science). 
"Understanding the Role of Economic Factors in the Growth of Left-Wing Extremist Movements - A Study of the Naxalite Movement in India"