Home >  Faculty Opportunities >

Presently Funded Research Projects

2012

Douglas Haynes

History

"R.D. Karve, Global Sexology and the Making of 'Modern' Sexuality in Western India, 1920-1925"

Robert Johnson 

Economics

"The Evolution of Production Fragmentation and Trade in Value Added over Four Decades"

Brendan Nyhan

Government

"Political Influence on Public Corruption Prosecutions"

2011

Andreas Moxnes

Economics

"The Customer Margin in International Trade and the Role of Trade Costs"

Russell Rickford

History

"A Struggle in the Arena of Ideas: Black Independent Schools and the Quest for Nationhood, 1968-1980"

Christopher Sneddon

Geography

"The Social, Biophysical, and Policy Dimensions of Dam Removal"

Sharlene Mollett

Geography

"Tourism Troubles: Struggles for Land on the Panamanian Atlantic Coast"

M. Cecilia Gaposchkin

History

"Crusade, Liturgy, Ideology, and Devotion: 1095-1400"

Marc Dixon

Sociology

"The Expanding Tactical Repertoire and Influence of Social Movements: Social Protest and Corporate Change"

Lucas Swaine

Government

"Personal Autonomy, Political Philosophy, and Democracy"

Michele Tine

Education

"Working Memory Differences Between Children of Rural and Urban Poverty"

Xun Shi

Geography

"Assessing the Association Between Metropolitan Gentrification and Urban Health Policy"

Denise Anthony

Sociology

"Exploring the Relationship Between Health Information Technology and Hospital Quality"

2010

Richard Howarth

Environmental Studies Program

"Environmental Values, Beliefs, and Behavior"

2009

Robert Bonner

History

"Slaveownians Abroad: Proslavery Confederates on the Global Stage"

Michelle 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 Police 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 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 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"