Past Awards

Grace Brannon, Ph.D. (Communications): presentation of research at International Conference on Communication in Healthcare in Vienna, Austria.

Jinny Choi, Ph.D. (Modern Languages, Spanish): travel to Argentina for research on Korean-Spanish bilingual communities in Buenos Aires.

Sabine Harvey (Modern Languages, German): presentation of pedagogy on how to incorporate German classical literature into undergraduate coursework at the ACTFL conference in Washington, D.C.

Sonia Kania, Ph.D. (Modern Languages, Spanish): presentations on the historical linguistics of the Spanish language in Mexico and Spain.

Alicia Rueda-Acedo, Ph.D. (Modern Languages, Spanish): travel to Mexico City to interview Elena Poniatowska, French-Mexican journalist and Cervantes Prize winner.

Reem Shishakly (Modern Languages, Arabic): presentation of paper “Arabic within Reach: Teaching Arabic to Non-native Speakers,” at International Conference of the Arabic Language in Dubai, United Arab Emirates; $1000 to assist travel to and from Dubai.

Antoinette Sol (Modern Languages, French): presentation of paper “Historical Fiction and Fictional History: Elisabeth Guenard’s Histories, Scandals and Secrets,” at World Congress of the Conseil International d’Etudes Francophones; $2000 to assist travel to and from Belgium.

Justin Ginsberg (Art and Art History): presentation of exhibition on site-specific installations at the museum Kunstpalast in Dusseldorf, Germany, presentation of research at Exceptional Hardware Software Meeting, Hamburg, Germany; $2000 to assist travel to and from Germany.

Seiji Ikeda (Art and Art History): establishing dialog of exchange between UTA and Department of Communication Design at University of Applied Sciences, Trier, Germany; $2000 to assist travel to and from Germany.

Mary Vaccaro (Art and Art History): research on drawings of Annibale Carracci and Daniele da Volterra, Besancon and Marseille, France; $2000 to assist travel to and from France.

Darryl Lauster (Art and Art History): art residency program at Foundation id11, Delft, Holland; $1625 to assist travel to and from Holland. Jennifer Ronyak (Music): archival research for monograph, Intimate Expressions: Lied Performance at the Start of the Nineteenth Century at Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin, Stadtgeschichtliches Museum, Leipzig; $3000 to assist travel to and from Germany.

Melia Belli (Art and Art History, Asian Art history): presentation of paper “Mayawati’s Lucknow: Making Subaltern Space in a Historic City,” at European Conference on South Asian Studies, Zurich, Switzerland; $2000 to assist travel to and from Zurich.

Brent Sasley (Political Science): research on project titled “Foreign and Security Policymaking in Israel: Universal Processes or Sui Generis?” in Tel Aviv and Jerusalem, Israel; $2000 to assist in travel to and from Israel.

Antoinette Sol (Modern Languages, French): presentation of paper “La lute amoureuse ou le corps a corps dans deux romans de Veronique Tadjo et de Nicole Cage-Florentiny,” at International Conference Veronique Tadjo: Literary Postcoloniality, Postfeminity, or asserted Africaness? in Johannesburg, South Africa; $2000 to assist travel to and from South Africa.

Michael Varner (Music): research and production of CD Composition for African Talking Drum and Bassoon; $2000 to assist production of CD.

C. Scott Pool (Music, bassoon): research and invitation to perform at Orfeo International Music Festival in Vipiteno/Sterzing, Italy; $2000 to assist in travel to and from Italy.

Soo Hong Kim (Music, Voice): presentation of vocal and recital programs in Seoul, South Korea, and Kaohsiung City, Taiwan; $900 to assist in travel to and from South Korea.

Young-Hyun Cho (Music, piano): presentation of solo piano recital at Seoul National University; $1800 to assist in travel to and from South Korea.

Antoinette Sol (Modern Languages, French): presentation of paper “Paul et Virginie,” at International Conference of the Conseil international d’etudes francophones, Grand Baie, Maritius; $2000 to assist in travel to and from Maritius.

Ritu Khanduri (Anthropology): research on Fulbright project “Engineering Success: Women, Wellness and the Making of a Scientific Workforce in India and the U.S.,” in New Delhi, India; $2000 to assist in travel to and from India.

Lonny Harrison (Modern Languages, Russian): research for manuscript “Archetypes from Underground: Notes on the Dostoevskian Self in Toronto, Canada; $2000 to assist in travel and research expenses to Canada.

A. Raymond Elliott (Modern Languages, Spanish): continuing research on Chicahuaxtla Triqui language grammar textbook in El Portal, Mexico; $2000 to assist in travel and research expenses in Mexico.

Daniel Cavanagh (Music, Jazz piano): participation at the Bucharest International Jazz Competition, Bucharest, Romania; $2000 to assist in travel to and from Romania.

Melia Belli (Art and Art History, Asian Art History): research on modern and contemporary architecture in Dhaka, Bangladesh; $2000 to assist in travel to and from Bangladesh.

Mary Vaccarro (Art and Art History): presentation of paper on “Donatello to Annibale Carracci: Italian Renaissance Drawings from French Regional Collections,” at Old Master Drawings conference, Paris, France; $1600 to assist in travel to and from Paris, France.

Najia Alameddin (Modern Languages, Arabic): presentation of paper “Gibran of Lebanon: The Creative Dualism,” at conference on Reconfigurations: From Papyrus to Post-Jerusalem in Briston, Great Britain; $1000 to assist in travel to and from Great Britain.

Alusine Jalloh (History, Africa program): research book project "Muslim Fula Business Elites and Politics in Twentieth-Century Sierra Leone"; $2000 to assist in travel to and from Sierra Leone.

Jinny Choi (Modern Languages, Spanish): research project "Transnational Migration and (Re)Settlement of Asians and Middle Easterners in South America: Their Language and Ethnic Identity" Gandhi"; $2000 to assist in travel to and from Brazil, Argentina, and Paraguay.

Sonja Watson (Modern Languages, Spanish): research project "Forging Afro-Panamanian Identity Through Hip-Hop"; $2000 to assist in travel to and from Panama.

A. Raymond Elliott (Modern Languages, Spanish): research project to document the Chicahuaxtla Triqui language in Mexico; $2000 to assist in travel to and from Mexico.

C. Scott Pool (Music): research/performance project at the Festival of Winds in Brazil; $1802 to assist in travel to and from Brazil.

Brent Sasley (Political Science): research project on Security Policymaking in the Israeli National Security Council; $2000 to assist in travel to and from Israel.

Ritu Khanduri (Anthropology): research book project "Branding Gandhi"; $2000 to assist in travel to and from India.