2007-2008 Rockefeller Center Grant Recipients

 



Thirteen members of the Dartmouth faculty were awarded research grants for the 2007-2008 academic year.

John Campbell, Professor of Sociology
"Knowledge Regimes in Comparative Political Economy"

Donna Coch, Assistant Professor of Education
"The Rhyming Brain in Beginning Readers"

Sienna Craig, Assistant Professor of Anthropology
"Himalayan Healers in Transition: Social and medical Change Among Tibetan Medicine Practitioners in Nepal"

Joseph Cullon, Assistant Professor of History
"The Balance of Industry: Colonial Maritime Manufacturing and the Reformulation of British Mercantilism in the Eighteenth Century"

Martin Dimitrov, Assistant Professor of 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, Assistant Professor of Economics
"Consumption Smoothing, Microfinance, and Business Development: Theory and Evidence from Informal Retail Businesses in Western Kenya"

Karen Fisher-Vanden, Associate Professor of Environmental Studies
"Climate Commitments and Shareholders Value: When Does it Pay to be Green?"

Jennifer Fluri, Assistant Professor of Geography
"Gender and Development Policy: The Spatial Impacts of the International Community on Gender Relations and Economic Reform in Kabul, Afghanistan"

Douglas Irwin, Professor of Economics
McNulty Scholar and Grant
"Origins of the GATT"

Francis Magilligan, Professor of Geography
"Climate Change, El Nino, and Hydrologic Development in the Atacama Desert in Southern Peru"

Sharlene Mollett, Assistant Professor of Geography
"Contested Spaces: The Politics of Natural Resource Access in Central America"

Benjamin Valentino, Assistant Professor of Government
"Somebody Else's Son (or Daughter): Social Group Cues, Military Casualties, and Support for War"

Thalia Wheatley, Assistant Professor of Psychological & Brain Sciences
"The Uncanny Valley: The Neural Correlates of Perceived Distortions of Human Form"

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