Introducing the 2020-2021
Graduate Research Grant Awardees
EMILY CRAVER
MFA | Department of Dance
Project title: Performativity of Interactions Between Humans and Technology
PROJECT WEBPAGE | past future tenses
JOY ELLISON
PHD | Department of Women’s, Gender and Sexuality Studies
Project title: Coalitions at the Crossroads — Transgender Movements in the Midwest (1945-2000)
PROJECT WEBPAGE | What We Know About James Clay Jr.
DAVIANNA GREEN
MFA | Department of Dance
Project title: A Time Preserved (A Choreographic Navigation of Trauma, Loss, Love and Healing)
PROJECT WEBPAGE | Manifested Dreams
YILDIZ GÜVENTÜRK
MFA | Department of Dance
Project title: Corpus – Can We Just Dance?
PROJECT WEBPAGE | Corpus — Can we Just Dance?
RINA HAJRA
MFA | Department of Theatre
Project title: Kept Promise — A Human Rights Documentary
PROJECT WEBPAGE | Kept Promise — Interview with Mr. Hoti
MIRANDA HOLMES
MFA | Department of Art
Project title: Not (Just) My Painting
MIKEL BERMELLO ISUSI
PHD | Department of Spanish and Portuguese
Project title: Un Espejo Roto (“A Broken Mirror”)
ANDREA LUQUE KARAM
PHD | Department of Arts Administration, Education and Policy
Project title: Website on Music Education in Mexico
PROJECT WEBPAGE | Music Education in Mexico
CLAYTON KINDRED
PHD | Department of History of Art
Project title: An Archaeology of Castration — The Image of the Eunuch in Nineteenth-Century France
JACOB KOPCIENSKI
PHD | School of Music
Project title: Documenting a Cemetery in Rendville, Ohio (Collaborative Project)
PROJECT WEBPAGE | Rendville Cemetery
FUNGISAI MUSONI
PHD | Department of African and African American Studies
Project title: Transnational Connections Between the Rockefeller Foundation and the University College of Rhodesia and Nyasaland (UCRN)/Zimbabwe Between 1956-1985
REXHINA NDOCI
PHD | Department of Linguistics
Project title: Albanian Immigrants in Greece and the Right to Bias-Free Accented Greek
STEVEN RHUE
PHD | Department of Anthropology
Project title: Children's Experience and Perception of Household Water Insecurity in South America
ROLANDO RUBALCAVA
PHD | Department of English
Project title: Application of Narrative Medicine to Student-Faculty Interactions
PUBLISHED ARTICLE | On Discovering the Applications of Narrative Medicine: An Autoethnography
KYLEE C. SMITH
MFA | Department of Dance
Project title: Dance Performance at the National Lynching Memorial in Montgomery, Alabama
LYDIA SMITH
MFA | Department of Art and the Center for Folklore Studies
Project title: Documenting a Cemetery in Rendville, Ohio (Collaborative Project)
PROJECT WEBPAGE | Rendville Cemetery
LEYLA TIGLAY
PHD | Department of History
Project title: Decolonization and Environmental Justice in the Nuclear Age — African Reactions to the French Nuclear Tests in the Algerian Sahara (1958-1964)
MITCH VICIEUX
MFA | Department of Art
Project title: Medical Disparities for LGBTQ+ Individuals and Transgender Civil Rights
PROJECT WEBPAGE | God Made Me
JORDAN P. WOODWARD
PHD | Department of English
Project title: Environmental Racism as Metastatic Carcerality
