Introducing the 2021-22
Graduate Research Grant Awardees
Mentor
Kris Paulsen | Associate Professor of History of Art
Kris Paulsen is a specialist in contemporary art, with a focus on time-based and computational media. Her work traces the history of technology in the arts from photography to new media, with a particular emphasis on telepresence, virtuality, interface studies and early video art. Paulsen's current research addresses the logics of quantification and virtuality in contemporary art and culture, with particular attention to how they intersect with the physical, fleshy body.
Grant Awardees
ANDREW BISHOP
PhD | Department of English
Project Title: Coping with Complicity: Anthropogenic Violence and Extinction in Industrial-Era American Travel Literature
LYDIA CORNETT
MFA | Department of Art
Project Title: Said/Unsaid: A Visual Study in Nonverbal Communication
KASHIF DENNIS
PhD | Department of Women's, Gender and Sexuality Studies
Project Title: Sugar Dhaddy
OMAR DIENG
PhD | Department of African and African American Studies
Project Title: Becoming Afro-European: Practice of Rootedness in the African Diaspora
TAMARA McCARTY
PhD | Department of Dance
Project Title: Marginalized Motion: Late-Medieval German Dance in Law, Practice and Memory
ALEXANDROS NIKOLAIDIS
PhD | Department of Educational Studies
Project Title: Educational Dimensions of Social Injustice
AARON PETERS
MFA | Department of Art
Project Title: Broken Objects
FERNANDO SÁNCHEZ LÓPEZ
PhD | Department of Spanish and Portuguese
Project Title: Social Simulations in the Face of Catastrophe: A Generic and Cognitive Approach to El hoyo and La peste's Worldbuilding
BRETT TAYLOR
MFA | Department of Art
Project Title: De/Re/Un-Becoming: Composing Being at the Intersection of Ability, Gender and Sexuality
MOLLIE WOLF
MFA | Department of Dance
Project Title: The WILDS
Previous Cohorts
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
