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Presently Funded Research Projects

2010

Richard Horwarth

Environmental Studies Program
"Environmental Values, Beliefs, and Behavior"

2009

Robert Bonner

History
"Slaveownians Abroad: Proslavery Confederates on the Global Stage"

Michelle T. Clarke

Government
"The Ethics of Patriotism" - a fall conference

Sienna Craig

Anthropology
"Cultivating the Wilds: Considering Potency, Protection, and Profit in the Use of Materia Medica in Transnational Asian Medicines"

Thalia Wheatley

Psychological and Brain Sciences
"Cross-Modal Emotional Dynamics"

Richard Winters

Government
"Conference on Politics and Policy in the United States"- Conference will be held in 2011

2008

David Bucci

Psychology & Brain Science
"Physical Exercise: Effects on Brain Function and Behavior"

Sienna Craig

Anthroplogy
"Himalayan Healers in Transition:  Social and medical Change Among Tibetan Medicine Practitioners in Nepal"

Joseph Cullon

History
"The Balance of Industry: Colonial Maritime Manufacturing and the Reformulation of British Mercantilism in the Eighteenth Century"

Martin Dimitrov

Government
"The Role of the Secret policy in Suppressing Dissent in Communist Bulgaria: Evidence from the Newly Opened Communist Party and State Security Archives"

Pascaline Dupas

Economics
"Consumption Smoothing, Microfinancing, and Business development: Theory and Evidence from Informal Retail Businesses in Western kenya"

Jennifer Fluri

Geography and of Women's and Gender Studies
“Gender and Development Policy: The Spatial Impacts of the International Community on Gender Relations and Economic Reform in Kabul, Afghanistan”

Douglas A. Irwin

Economics
"Origins of the Gatt"

Sharlene Mollett

Geography
"Contested Spaces: the Politics of Natural Resource Access in Central America"

Catherine Norris

Psychology & Brain Science
"The Effect of video game play on stereotype activation and Applications"

Tanalis Padilla

History
"The Intended Lessons of Revolution: School Teachers in the Mexican Countryside, 1940-1975"

Peter Tse

Psychology & Brain Science
"How Our Expectations Can Cause Us to Misperceive Reality"

Thalia Wheatley

Psychology & Brain Science
"The Uncanny Valley: The Neural Correlates of Perceived Distortions of Human Form."