Faculty Development Committee Report

Fall 2024

Professor Megan Benka-Coker, Associate Professor of Health Sciences.
Funded project: Evaluating Regional and Occupational Air Pollution Exposures and Lung Function in Barbados.

Professor Emelio Betances, Professor of Sociology, LACLS.
Funded project: The Dissenting Teachers Movement in Oaxaca, Mexico.

Professor Caroline Hartzell, Professor of Political Science.
Funded project: Microlevel Analysis of Power Sharing and Women’s Political Empowerment in Colombia.

Professor Yan Sun, Professor of Art & Art History.
Funded project: Hezi Gui in the Collection of Ostasiatiska Museet: Art, Casting Techniques, and the Eastern Frontier of the Western Zhou Dynasty.

Professor Jocelyn Swigger, Professor of Music.
Funded project: Music of Agnes Tyrrell: Travel, transcription, publication.

Spring 2025

Professor Kurt Andresen, Professor of Physics.
Funded project: Investigations of Transport through Nanopores at Oxford University.

Professor William Bowman, Professor of History.
Funded project: Green Vienna: The making and remaking of a global and sustainable city, 1945 to 2025.

Professor Katherine Buettner, Associate Professor of Chemistry & Biochemistry.
Funded project: Design and Characterization of Vanadium Enzymes for Use in Catalysis and Quantum Information Systems.

Professor Tina Gebhart, Associate Professor of Art & Art History.
Funded project: Ceramics Apprentice(s).

Professor Ian Isherwood, Associate Professor of Interdisciplinary Studies.
Funded project: Research at Oxford University and the National Library of Scotland.

Professor Tres Lambert, Associate Professor of German Studies.
Funded project: Back to Hofmannsthal: Archival and Library Research in Vienna, Austria.

Professor Ben Luley, Associate Professor of Anthropology, Ancient Greek & Roman Studies.
Funded project: Economic Transformations in Roman Mediterranean Gaul: Archaeological Excavations at Ancient Lattara (France).

Professor Jena Meinecke, Assistant Professor of Physics.
Funded project: High repetition rate exploration of Biermann-battery generated magnetic fields in pre-magnetized laser-produced plasmas.

Professor Aisha Mershani, Assistant Professor of Interdisciplinary Studies.
Funded project: Decolonizing Thinking: Attending a Summer School for Academics.

Professor Yoko Nishimura, Associate Professor of Asian Studies.
Funded project: Data collection in Tokyo.

Professor William O’Hara, Assoicate Professor of Sunderman Conservatory of Music.
Funded project: Attendance at the Eastern Leadership Conference.

Professor Jennifer Powell, Professor of Biology.
Funded project: SNPC-4 and Related Genes Act in the Immune and Oxidative Stress Responses.

Professor Magdalena Sanchez, Professor of History.
Funded project: Subvention for Infanta: The Short, Remarkable Life of Catalina Micaela.

Professor Sushmita Sircar, Assistant Professor of English.
Funded project: Chang Rae-Lee's on Such a Full Sea as a Global Industrial Novel.

Professor Yan Sun, Professor of Art & Art History.
Funded project: Site Visits and Examination of Newly Excavated Artifacts of the Western Zhou period (1045-771 BCE).

Professor Hakim Williams, Associate Professor of Africana Studies.
Funded project: Restorative Circle Training with Teacher/Facilitators in Trinidad.