COH Announces 2016 Research Grants Recipients

December 9th, 2016

Congratulations to this year's COH research grant awardees! 

Straight to the Goal!

2016 COH Faculty Research Grants Awardees

Professor Katia Bezerra
Dept. of Spanish & Portuguese
Project: Borders within Borders: Diasporas in the Lusophone World

Professor Ana Carvalho
Dept. of Spanish & Portuguese
Project: The interplay of standard language ideologies and students' bilingual varieties in a dual-immersion bilingual classroom

Assistant Professor Anita Huizar-Hernandez
Dept. of Spanish & Portuguese
Project: National Center for Faculty Development and Diversity's Faculty Success Program

Assistant Professor Annette Joseph-Gabriel
Dept. of French & Italian
Project: Mapping Marronage: Visualizing Trans-Atlantic Networks of Freedom

Professor Richard Kinkade
Dept. of Spanish & Portuguese
Project: Dawn of a Dynasty: The Life and Times of Infante Manuel of Castile (1234-1283)

Associate Professor John Leafgren
Dept. of Russian & Slavic Studies
Project: Revolution Across the Curriculum: Commemorating the Russian Revolution of 1917 at the University of Arizona

Associate Professor Hai Ren
Dept. of East Asian Studies
Project: Spheres of Engagement: Art, Society, and Citizenship

Associate Professor Robert Schon
Dept. of Religious Studies & Classics
Project: Excavations at Warren Ballpark

Assistant Professor Caleb Simmons
Dept. of Religious Studies & Classics
Project: Publication Subvention for Beyond the Monastery

2016 COH Graduate Students Research Grants Awardees

Dongchen Hou
Dept. of East Asian Studies
Project: From Brush Tips to Machine Arms - Decoding Chinese Writing in the Nexus of Embodied Experience, Technics, and Locus of Authorship

Xuefei Ma
Dept. of East Asian Studies
Project: Nüshu, Calligraphy, and Choreography - Empathetic Bonding over Secrecy in Shu-ing/Writing a Women's History

Amanda Snell
Second Language Acquisition & Teaching GIDP
Project: Creative Materials for Immigrant and Refugee Second Language Learners

Whitney Waites
Dept. of Spanish & Portuguese
Project: Performing Blackness: Identity Politics and Subalternity in Brazilian Graffiti