Projects by year
2019
The 16 projects that won funding from the Research Scholar Grants program in 2019 are listed below.
Research Scholar Fellowship
- Lending and Borrowing Across the Color Line in the Antebellum American South – Kimberly Welch (History)
- Like an Ink Blot on Paper: Testing the Diffusion Hypothesis of Mass Migration, Italy 1875-1920 – Ariell Zimran (Economics)
- The Transient Renaissance: Contagion, Communion, and Ethical Risk – Kathryn Schwarz (English)
- Twenty-First Century Climate Fiction – Teresa Goddu (English)
- “Vernacular English” Book Project and “A Postcolonial Aesthetic” Essay – Akshya Saxena (English)
- When the Good Life Goes Bad: Examining the Seven Deadly Sins in the Trump Era – Stacey Floyd-Thomas (Divinity)
Faculty Development Grant
- Blair Woodwind Quintet Audio/Visual Recording Project – Molly Barth (Woodwinds)
- Finding Family, Finding Home: Forensic and Isotopic Studies to Identify Genocide Victims in Peru – Tiffany Tung (Anthropology)
- Fostering New Works for Percussion by Women Composers – Ji Hye Jung (Brass & Percussion)
- Publication of The Sovereign Street – Carwil Bjork-James (Anthropology)
Lecture/Symposia
- Da Abertura à Crise: contemporary Brazilian literature and socio-political change – Emanuelle Oliveira-Monte (Spanish & Portuguese)
Summer Stipend
- Building Resilience into the Water Treatment Process – Janey Camp (Civil & Environmental Engineering)
- City of Zanatany: Built Space and Urban Belonging in Mahajanga, Madagascar – Tasha Rijke-Epstein (History)
- Exploring Intersex in Science, Law, Culture, and Theology – Stephanie Budwey (Divinity)
- The Judgment of the Provinces: Law, Culture, and Empire in the Roman East – Ari Bryen (History)
- Sourcing ancient Maya petrified wood – Markus Eberl (Anthropology)
2018
The 19 projects that won funding from the Research Scholar Grants program in 2018 are listed below.
Research Scholar Fellowship
- Troubled Teens: Psychiatry and the Shaping of Adolescence in the Wake of Brazil’s New Democracy – Dominique Behague (Psychology)
- Lucretian Poetics Book Project Completion and Second Book Research – Jessie Hock (English)
- Islam through American Eyes: Examining How Postwar Anthropologists Created Knowledge of Islamic Communities through the Case of Clifford Geertz (1926-2006) – Laura Stark (Medicine, Health & Society)
- Reflections on Ancient Greek Mirrors: An Object-Biographical Approach – Mireille Lee (History of Art)
- Stagecraft / Art History Archive: Memory and Photographic Obsolescence – Vesna Pavlovic (Art)
- Marriage Markets and the Assimilation of Immigrants in the Early 20th Century – Frederico Gutierrez (Economics)
- Atlantic Transformations: The Many Lives of Captain Francisco Menendez and his ‘Subjects’ – Jane Landers (History)
- LGBT Rights, Organizing and Health in Criminalized Contexts – Tara McKay (Medicine, Health & Society)
- The Making of Kings: African Sovereignty in the British Atlantic World – Catherine Molineux (History)
Faculty Development Grant
- Invention and Imagination: Broadening Skills for the Classical Musician – Jared Hauser (Woodwinds)
- Ryan Middagh Jazz Orchestra, Recording of New Works – Ryan Middagh (Composition/Theory)
Lecture/Symposia
- Parthenon^2: Digital Approaches to Architectural Archaeology – Betsey Robinson (History of Art)
- Reactive Lipids in Biology and Disease: The 10th Biennial Meeting of the International 4-Hydroxynonenal (HNE) Club – Sean Davies (Pharmacology)
- From MLK to BLM: A Half Century of Struggle – Phillis Sheppard (Divinity School)
Summer Stipend
- Black Moneylenders in the Antebellum U.S. South – Kimberly Welch (History)
- Burn Pit Exposure, Diagnostic Dilemmas and Toxic War – Ken MacLeish (Medicine, Health & Society)
- Challenging the Racist Right – Sophie Bjork-James (Anthropology)
- German Idealism and the Future of Political Theology: Kant to Marx – Alex Dubilet (English)
2017
The 19 projects that won funding from the Research Scholar Grants program in 2017 are listed below.
- LGBT Rights and Health in Mozambique – Tara McKay (Medicine, Health & Society)
- The Wiley-Blackwell Reader in Practical Theology – Bonnie Miller-McLemore (Divinity School)
- Vanderbilt Symposium on Cell Dynamics – Jason MacGurn (Cell & Developmental Biology)
- The Palimpsest of Justice: Legal Trials and Romantic Print Culture, 1770–1835 (partial) – Mark Schoenfield (English)
- Space and Territory in Socio-Environmental Conflicts/The Sovereign Street – Carwil Bjork-James (Anthropology)
- Punish Liars, Not Free-Riders: The Role of Communication in Collective Action – Brenton Kenkel (Political Science)
- From Dams to Temples: Infrastructure, Ecology and the Religious Landscapes of Delhi – Anand Taneja (Religious Studies)
- The Trans-American Repertoires of Uncle Tom’s Cabin – Celso Castilho (History)
- Species-Being: The Normative Foundations of Ethical Life – Karen Ng (Philosophy)
- The Marginal Congestion of a Taxi in New York City – Alejandro Molnar (Economics)
- Precarious Forms: Performance and Politics in the Neoliberal Americas – Candice Amich (English)
- Lallubhai: An Alternative History of Indian Capitalism – Samira Sheikh (History)
- The Lucretian Imagination ~ Book Project – Jessie Hock (English)
- The Hollys: Migration, Family and the Forging of Diaspora – Brandon Byrd (History)
- U.S. Women’s Legal Activism in the Judicial Arena – Holly McCammon (Sociology)
- Black Women in Tennessee, from Slavery to Freedom – Brandon Byrd (History)
- Urban Community Health in the Ancient Wari Empire of Peru – Tiffany Tung (Anthropology)
- Islamic Juristic Competition in North America – Phillip Ackerman-Lieberman (Jewish Studies)
2016
The 27 projects that won funding from the Research Scholar Grants program in 2016 are listed below.
- The Sound of Africa in the Caribbean: Tambu Drumming in the Netherlands Antilles (Aruba) – Gregory Barz (Blair School of Music)
- Retention of Minority Students in Secondary Music Programs – Tucker Biddlecombe (Blair School of Music)
- The Blakemore Trio Records Music of Adam Schoenberg – Carolyn Huebl (Blair School of Music)
- Oriental by Design: Ottoman Jews and the Stuff of Empire – Julia Philips Cohen (Jewish Studies)
- Land Tenure at the Ancient Maya Capital of Tamarindito, Guatemala – Markus Eberl (Anthropology)
- Tiwanaku Stone Sculptures: Research in European Collections and Institutes – John Wayne Janusek (Anthropology)
- Research and Development of a Program in Cultural Heritage at Vanderbilt University – Mireille Lee (History of Art)
- Mannered Monks and Model Kings: Worldly Buddhists in Early Modern Tibet – Nancy Lin (Religious Studies)
- Problematizing Health and Compliance in a Veteran Treatment Court – Kenneth MacLeish (Medicine, Health & Society)
- American Modernism at Mid-Century: The Work of Morris Davidson, Painter and Educator – Kevin Murphy (History of Art)
- Immersive Video Games for Learning Medieval Language and Culture: Theory and Practice – Lynn Tarte Ramey (French & Italian)
- Alaskan Film Project – Jonathan Rattner (Cinema and Media Arts)
- A New History of Human ‘Guinea Pigs’: Creating the Postwar Market for Human Subjects – Laura Stark (Medicine, Health & Society)
- Identifying the Childhood Homelands of the Enslaved Community at the Grassmere Plantation, Nashville: A Bioarchaeological and Isotopic Approach – Tiffany Tung (Anthropology)
- Negotiating Traditions: Lois Mailou Jones, Africa and the Composite Aesthetics of Blackness – Rebecca Kegan VanDiver (History of Art)
- Rusted Stories – Melvin Ziegler (Art)
- An Epistemic Theory of Argument – Scott Aikin (Philosophy)
- Public Bodies/Health Spaces – Mozhdeh Amelia Hamraie (Medicine, Health & Society)
- Kidney Exchange with Immunosuppressants – Eun Jeong Heo (Economics)
- Itinerant Preachers and Non-Sectarian Spaces: A Reassessment of Buddhism in Ancient Japan – Bryan Lowe (Religious Studies)
- Agency vs. Structure: Investigating the Political Donations of Corporate Directors and Political Action Committees, 1980-2014 – Joshua Murray (Sociology)
- From ‘La trata de blancas’ [‘The White Slave Trade’] to ‘Enslaved’ Immigrants: Race, Representation and Prostitution in Spain – Neica Michelle Murray (Spanish & Portuguese)
- A Spectral Dialectic: The Ontology of Telepresence Technololgy – Haerin Shin (English)
- New Forms of Home, New Forms of Work: Changes in the Organization of Aging – LaTonya Trotter (Sociology)
- The Library of Eden: A History of Syriac Monastic Readers – David Michelson (Divinity School)
- An Empirical Study of Federal Class Action Settlements, 2005-2015 – Brian Fitzpatrick (Law School)
- Derivation of Multilevel Reliability Measures for Complex Multilevel Designs – Sun-Joo Cho (Peabody College)
2015
The 23 projects that won funding from the Research Scholar Grants program in 2015 are listed below.
- Baroque to Modern, Applying Historically Informed Performance Practice to the Modern Oboe – Jared Hauser (Blair School of Music)
- Granada’s Lead Books and their Intellectual Impact: Pedro DE Castro and his Network of Moorish, Mestizo and Old Christian Scholars – Jose Cardenas Bunsen (Spanish & Portuguese)
- Senior Academics Forum on Traditional Chinese Architectural History: Academic Workshop and Exhibition of Architectural Photography – Tracy Miller (History of Art)
- Climate, Land and Sea: Fourteen Millennia of Human History and the North Coast of Peru – Tom Dillehay (Anthropology)
- Cinema and the Inhospitable World: A Monograph on Film Theory, Cinema Production and Environmental Criticism – Jennifer Fay (Cinema & Media Arts)
- The Florentine Conspiracy (1360-61) – Elsa Filosa (French & Italian)
- Lost Voices from the U.S. Civil Rights Movement: The Women of Selma – Edward Friedman (Spanish & Portuguese)
- Critical Participatory Action Research – Lisa Guenther (Philosophy)
- Screen Printing: Framing and Supply Costs – Mark Hosford (Art)
- Mapping the Stars: Celebrity and the Politics of Identity – Claire Sisco King (Communication Studies)
- Research on Ancient Greek Bronze Mirrors at Isthmia and Athens, Greece – Mireille Lee (History of Art)
- “What We Have Here” a Novel about a Metal Refinisher who Accompanies his Ex-wife and her Children on a Journey along El Camino Real through the California Mission Valley – Lorraine Lopez (English)
- Beyond Sects and Founders: A New Ground-Level Approach to Buddhism – Bryan Lowe (Religious Studies)
- Project I. Cultivating Democratic Citizenship: Evidence from Teach for All. Project II. Human Trafficking Vulnerability: An Experimental Intervention Using Mass Media to Change Norms and Behaviors in Nepal – Cecilia Mo (Political Science)
- Lost Art: Obsolescence of Photographic Slides: Project Research and Development – Vesna Pavlovic (Art)
- (Book Project) Orientations, Opportunities and Outcomes of Religion Entrepreneurship – Richard Pitt (Sociology)
- Divine Prospects: Mounts Helicon and Parnassus in Ancient Experience and Imagination (research, writing and completion of scholarly monograph) – Betsey Ann Robinson (History of Art)
- Alternative Qi: Science and Spirit in the Making of Global Chinese Medicine – Ruth Rogaski (History)
- Business and Religion in 18th Century Gujarat – Samira Sheikh (History)
- Subventions for two publication projects: 1) Houses of Ill Repute: Houses, Brothels and Taverns in the Greek War; 2) Morgantina Studies, Vol. 7, Houses and Households – Barbara Tsakigis (Classical & Mediterranean Studies)
- The Cambridge Kant Lexicon – Julian Wuerth (Philosophy)
- Liberation as Communion: Reformation Theologies in Historical Context – Paul Lim (Divinity School)
- Convergence: U.S. Education Policy 50 Years after ESEA and HEA of 1965 – Christopher Loss (Peabody College)
2014
The 17 projects that won funding from the Research Scholar Grants program in 2014 are listed below.
- Globalization, Psychiatry and the Politics of Global Mental Health – Dominique Behague (Medicine, Health & Society)
- Agricultural Terraces and the Power at the Ancient Maya Capital of Tamarindito, Guatemala – Mark Eberl (Anthropology)
- Understanding Content Exposure in Reading and Mathematics During Kindergarten: A Cross-Cohort Analysis – Mimi Engel (Leadership, Policy & Organizations)
- Don Quixote at 400 Years, Part II: A Symposium – Ed Friedman (Spanish & Portuguese)
- Romanticism Re-Oriented: Indian Authors and English Literary Culture, 1770-1830 – Humberto Garcia (English)
- Symposium on Contemporary Hispanic Theater: Enhancing Spanish-Language Proficiency & Community Engagement through Theater – Ruth Hill (Spanish & Portuguese)
- Pan-Africanism & Decolonization: The Life and Work of George Padmore – Peter Hudson (History)
- Professor Bil Jackson’s Recording of Kevin Puts’s Clarinet Concerto – Bil Jackson (Blair School of Music)
- To Heal the World: The Poetry of Juan Gelman and the Rabbinic Tradition of Tikkun Olam – Cathy Jrade (Spanish & Portuguese)
- Research for “Grisaille Manuscripts,” Essay Commissioned for the Exhibition Catalogue, COLOUR: The Art and Science of Illuminated Manuscripts, for the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge – Elizabeth Moody (History of Art)
- Minority Patient Perspectives on Trust and Privacy Regarding DNA Samples Collected for Vanderbilt’s BioVU Biorepository – Amy Non (Anthropology)
- Jim Crow Meets Racial Democracy: Indelible Memories, Shifting Identities and Changing Vocabularies in the Shadow of the Panama Canal – Ifeoma Nwankwo (English)
- Gold Coast to Petro State: Sovereignty, Globalization and Resource Extraction in Ghana, West Africa – Jemima Pierre (African American & Diaspora Studies)
- Trios from the Romantic to Avant-Garde – Melissa Rose (Blair School of Music)
- Social Inequalities and their Effects on Diet in the Aftermath of Wari State Collapse: A Bioarchaeological and Isotopic Investigation – Tiffiny Tung (Anthropology)
- Recovering the Lost Aristotle: Gersonides’ Silence About Aristotle’s Ethics/Politics – Idit Dobbs-Weinstein (Philosophy)
- Robotic Archaeology: Toward a Comprehensive Semiautonomous Aerial Mapping System – Steve Wernke (Anthropology)
2013
The 18 projects that won funding from the Research Scholar Grants program in 2013 are listed below.
- The AmeriQuests Portal: Border-Crossing through the Americas – Bob Barsky (French & Italian)
- Commissioning a Piano Reduction of Joan Tower’s Bassoon Concerto – Peter Kolkay (Blair School of Music)
- Mobilizing the Law: Legal Activism in the U.S. Women’s Movement – Holly McCammon (Sociology)
- Houses and Households around the Athenian Agora, 600-86 BCE – Barbara Tsakirgis (Classics)
- Iconography of Spectacle – Vesna Pavlovic (Art)
- African Sovereignty in the British Atlantic World, 1580-1815 – Catherine Molineux (History)
- Jews and Romanies: An Entangled History – Ari Joskowicz (Jewish Studies)
- Warren Center 25th Anniversary Prog – Ed Friedman (Spanish & Portuguese)
- Preliminary Research on Aphrodite and Miorros in Corinth and Athens, Greece – Mireille Lee (History of Art)
- Markets for Small Arms and the International Political Economy of Civil War – Brett Benson (Political Science)
- Iceland Cinematic Haiku – Jonathan Rattner (Film Studies)
- Albert Camus, Israel and Terrorism – Natalie Debrauwere-Miller (French & Italian)
- The Painter Frida Kahlo – Leonard Folgarait (History of Art)
- John Dewey and Social Justice – Robert Talisse (Philosophy)
- Cardinal Virtues: Democracy, Human Rights and Liberation Theology – Paul Lim (Divinity School)
- Religion Entrepreneurship: The Origins and Negotiation of a Church-Founder Identity – Richard Pitt (Sociology)
- Epigenetic Consequences of Extreme Social Deprivation in Romanian Children – Amy Non (Anthropology)
- Improvised Order? Architectural Survey of a Planned Colonial Town in Highland Peru – Steve Wernke (Anthropology)
2012
The 27 projects that won funding from the Research Scholar Grants program in 2012 are listed below.
- The Cassandra Project – Michael Aurbach (Art)
- The Prime Minister’s Perspective on Brazilian Abolition: Joao Alfredo Correia and the Links to Pernambuco – Celso Castilho (History)
- Aim High: The Life of Shirley Chisholm – Anastasia Curwood (African American & Diaspora Studies)
- Theorizing Prisons from the Inside Out – Lisa Guenther (Philosophy)
- Large Format Screenprinting at Vanderbilt – Mark Hosford (Art)
- An Analysis of the Ancient Inscriptions at Johns Hopkins University and the National Museum of Rome – Michael Johnson (Classical Studies)
- Effects of Low Vitamin C Levels on the Sensory Nerves, the Memory and the Temperament of Scorbutic Victims, and how these account for Disturbances of Mood in Maritime History and Literature – Jonathan Lamb (English)
- Revolutionary Horizons – Paul Miller (French & Italian)
- Archival Research for Black Kinship in the Atlantic World: Encountering African Sovereignty around the Slave Trade – Catherine Molineux (History)
- Governing Risk: Politics and Economy in Early Modern British Political Thought – Emily Nacol (Political Science)
- Voices from Panama: History and Heritage from the City to the Canal Zone and Beyond, and Writing to Remember Ourselves: Intergenerational Perspectives on West Indian Heritage in Panama – Ifeoma Nwankwo (English)
- Photographic Installation: Light-box and Acrylic Dome as a Display Technique – Vesna Pavlovic (Art)
- African Migrations, African Returns: The Making of Modern Diasporas – Jemima Pierre (African American & Diaspora Studies)
- Discoveries of the Americas Portal: Project Development – Lynn Ramey (French & Italian)
- Sephardim in Merchant Empires: Evidence from the Portuguese Factory in Antwerp – Claudia Rei (Economics)
- Gender, Secularism and Jewish Modernity: Jewish Women’s First-Person Narratives of Secular Modernity – Allison Schachter (Jewish Studies)
- Aesthetic Networks: Victorian New Media and the Idea of Art – Rachel Tuekolsky (English)
- Guillotine: Medicine and Terror in the French Revolution – Holly Tucker (French & Italian)
- 18th-Century Wax Anatomy – Holly Tucker (French & Italian)
- Archaeological Survey of … – Steve Wernke (Anthropology)
- Development of Hip Hop Medical Intervention in Local South African Health Clinics – Greg Barz (Blair School of Music)
- New Horizons for the Oboe: Commission and Recording of New Works by Libby Larson – Jared Hauser (Blair School of Music)
- Silenced Author: The Writings of the Cuban Slave Poet Juan Francisco Manzano – William Luis (Spanish & Portuguese)
- Economies of Conversion: Vaishnavism and Religious Change in Early Modern Gujarat, Western India, 1650-1800 – Samira Sheikh (History)
- The Caliphate’s Burden: Hausa-Fulani Sub-Colonialism and Middle Belt Consciousness in Nigeria –Moses Ochonu (History)
- Artist in Residency at the School of Visual and Performing Arts, Tasmania Australia – Amelia Winger-Bearskin (Art)
- Blinding Landscapes – Mel Ziegler (Art)
2011
The 23 projects that won funding from the Research Scholar Grants program in 2011 are listed below.
- Old Music, New Instrument: The Influences of Historically Informed Performance – Jared Hauser (Blair School of Music)
- The American Horn Trio: The Commissioning and Recording of 21st Century Works for Horn, Violin and Piano – Leslie Norton (Blair School of Music)
- British Studies Digital Archives Project – James Epstein (History)
- Souvenir Yugoslavia Tourism Representation as a National Identity – Vesna Pavlovic (Art)
- Documenting Avukah: Language Theory, Policy and Zionism – Bob Barsky (French & Italian)
- Spanish Theater: Text and Performance – Ed Friedman (Spanish & Portuguese)
- God’s Problems: Revelations, Strange Providence and the Religious “Other” in Enlightenment England – Paul Lim (Divinity School)
- Diabetes Types: Cultural History of a Chronic Disease – Arleen Tuchman (History)
- The Epistemology of Extremism – Robert Talisse (Philosophy)
- Advertising the Romantic Book: John Murray and the Profession of Letters – Dahlia Porter (English)
- In the Caliphate’s Shadow: Hausa-Fulani Sub-Colonialism in the Nigerian Middle Belt – Moses Ochuno (History)
- The Body, Dress and Identity in Early Greece – Mireille Lee (History of Art)
- Arnold Schoenberg’s A Survivor from Warsawin Postwar Europe: The Czech Case Study, 1960-1968 – Joy Calico (Blair School of Music)
- Dark Finance: Wall Street and the West Indies, 1873-1933 – Peter Hudson (History)
- (Anti)Blackness Matters in Contemporary France – Trica Keaton (African American & Diaspora Studies)
- Review of the Uncatalogued Papers of Oscar Hammerstein 2nd at the Library of Congress – James Lovensheimer (Blair School of Music)
- Kenchreai Excavations 2011: Understanding Life and Death at a Port in Roman Greece – Joseph Rife (Classical Studies)
- Power, Ethnicity and Honorific Address among the Highland Maya – Sergio Romero (Anthropology)
- Study and Reproduction of Previously Inaccessible Documents, from 1650-1820, of the Bohra Muslim Community in Western India – Samira Sheikh (History)
- A Medical Ethnomusicology Study of Popular Music as HIV/AIDS Intervention Among Youth in Lesotho (Southern Africa) – Greg Barz (Blair School of Music)
- Documenting the Descendants of the Panama Canal Builders through Film – Ifeoma Nwankwo (English)
- Becoming Ottomans: Sephardi Jews and Imperial Belonging – Julia Phillips Cohen (Jewish Studies)
- On the Limits of Christian Ethics – Ted Smith (Divinity School)
2010
The 14 projects that won funding from the Research Scholar Grants program in 2010 are listed below.
- Fashioning Imperial Citizens: Sephardi Jews and the Late Ottoman State – Julia Phillips Cohen (Jewish Studies)
- Photographs as Objects, Large Format Scanning and Ink-Jet Printing – Vesna Pavlovic (Blair School of Music)
- Finishing of the Book Manuscript Mystery Unveiled: The Crisis of Trinitarianism in 17th Century England (Oxford, 2011) – Paul Lim (Divinity School)
- Does the Health Effect of Social Capital Vary with Age – Lijun Song (Sociology)
- Trios for Oboe, Horn and Piano – Jared Hauser (Blair School of Music)
- Jewish Anticlericalism and Anti-Catholicism in Alsace since the French Revolution – Alexander Joskowicz (Jewish Studies)
- Invisible Women: Female Patronage of Buddhist Artistic Productions in Medieval Eastern India – Jinha Kim (History of Art)
- A World Premiere Recording by the Blakemore Trio: Gates of Silence, by Susan Botti – Carolyn Huebl (Blair School of Music)
- Claiming and Framing: The Social Construction of Scientific Facts in the Mammography Screening Debate – Juleigh Petty (Medicine, Health & Society)
- Preventing the Return of Disgust in Humans: A Learning-Based Approach – Bunmi Olatunji (Psychology)
- Rapid Social Perception and Social Judgment Processes in Schizophrenia – Sohee Park (Psychology)
- Constructs of Masculinity in Cold War Era American Musicals – Jim Lovensheimer (Blair School of Music)
- Region and Locality in the Temple Architecture of the Central Yellow River Valley During China’s Middle Period – Tracy Miller (History of Art)
- Danielle Kruglak: Early Midwifery, Bourgeois-Guillemeau Controversy Student-Faculty Research in Paris – Holly Tucker (French & Italian)
2009
The 19 projects that won funding from the Research Scholar Grants program in 2009 are listed below.
- The Object of Study: Theory, Interdisciplinary and the State of the Humanities – Frederick Friedman (Robert Penn Warren Center)
- Musical Remigration: Schoenberg’s “A Survivor from Warsaw” in Postwar Europe – Joy Calico (Blair School of Music)
- Investigating Ceremonial and Domestic Practices in the Terminal Prehispanic and Early Colonial Andes through Archaeological Ceramic Analysis – Steve Wernke (Anthropology)
- Diet, Nutritional Status and Dental Health: A Bioarchaeological Study of Ancient Food Practices and their Health Effects in the Wari Empire of the Andes (AD 600-1000) – Tiffany Tung (Anthropology)
- The Link between Perspective Taking and Deficient Empathy in Psychopathy – Stephen Benning (Psychology)
- Songs of Reconciliation: Music and Genocide in Rwanda (Central Africa) – Greg Barz (Blair School of Music)
- Epic Manipulations: The Tabulae Iliacae in their Roman Context – David Petrain (Classical Studeies)
- What Modern Was, What Modern Is: A Recorded Survey of Post 1950 Modern American Works for the Oboe, and the Commissioning of New Works – Jared Hauser (Blair School of Music)
- Receptacle of the Sacred: Illustrated Manuscripts and the Buddhist Book-Cult in South Asia – Jinah Kim (History of Art)
- Large Format Screenprinting at Vanderbilt – Mark Hosford (History)
- Contesting Widowhood: Southern Black Women and the Post Emancipation State – Brandi Brimmer (History)
- Aesthetics and Media: Word and Image in the Long 19th Century – Rachel Teukolsky (English)
- New Book Project: Aesthetic Encounters in the British Atlantic World – Catherine Molineux (History)
- Mehinaku Art: Social Change and the Evolution of an Aesthetic Tradition – Thomas Gregor (Anthropology)
- Race, Ethnicity and Immigrant Acculturation in a New Immigrant Gateway – Katherine Donato (Sociology)
- The Nashville Crucible: Out of the Workshops and into the Streets – Daniel Cornfield (Sociology)
- Music, Authority, Community – Jennifer Lena (Sociology)
- Two Studies of Greek Religion: Architectural Innovation and Cult Importation in Classical Greece –Bronwen Wickkiser (Classical Studies)
- Funds to Cover Travel Expenses During Leave – Edward Friedman (Spanish & Portuguese)
2008
The 16 projects that won funding from the Research Scholar Grants program in 2008 are listed below.
- Realities and Representations: The 2008 U.S. Presidential Campaign – Bonnie Dow (Communication Studies)
- Zellig Harris’s America: Linguistics, Zionism and Radical Politics – Bob Barsky (French & Italian)
- Large Format Screenprinting at the Frans Masereel Centrum, Belgiium – Mark Hosford (Art)
- A Linguistic Study of the Toponymy of Northern Catalonia (Roussillon): Joan Coromines’ Fieldbook XXV (1959-1960) of the Onomasticon Cataloniae – Philip Rasico (Spanish & Portuguese)
- Antique Highway – Michael Aurbach (Art)
- Poetry and Apocalypse: Theological Disclosures of Poetic Language – William Franke (French & Italian)
- The Birth of the Middle Class and the Rise of the Painted Panel in Early Modern Flanders – Jay Bloom (History of Art)
- Publication of a Collection of Articles: Aspects of Ancient Greek Cult: Context-Ritual-Iconography – Bronwen Wickkiser (Classical Studies)
- The Function of Tholoi at Delphi, Olympia, and Epidauros – Bronwen Wickkiser (Classical Studies)
- Musical Remigration: Schoenberg’s “A Survivor from Warsaw” in Postwar Europe – Joy Calico (Blair School of Music)
- Islamic Republicanism in the English Imagination, 1660-1830 – Humberto Garcia (English)
- The Troublesome Verse: The Gospel of John in 17th Century English Religious Culture from Anthony Wotton to John Locke – Paul Lim (Divinity School)
- Animal Pedagogy: The Role of Animals in the Philosophy of “Man” – Kelly Oliver (Philosophy)
- Singularity and Feminist Philosophy – Lisa Guenther (Philosophy)
- Beyond our Beginnings: An Anthology of Essay and Memoir by Women Writers from Lower and Working Class Backgrounds – Lorraine Lopez (English)
- God’s Other Life: A Study in the Doctrine of The Trinity, with Special Reference to Schleiermacher – Paul DeHart (Divinity School)
2007
The 14 projects that won funding from the Research Scholar Grants program in 2007 are listed below.
- Time After Time – David Wood (Philosophy)
- Max Dellbury Centenary Celebration – John Wikswo (Physics & Astronomy)
- Symposium Marking the 20th Anniversary of the Founding of the RPWC for the Humanities – Helmut Smith (History)
- Archival Research in Four Presidential Libraries to Support Music and the Modern American Presidency – Melanie Lowe (Blair School of Music)
- Music and the Performance of Manhood: Adult-Male Circumcision Rituals and HIV/AIDS in Uganda and South Africa – Greg Barz (Blair School of Music)
- Getting Back on Track: Complete Work-in-Progress, Exhibitory Support and Documentation of Work – Michael Aurbach (Art)
- The Ghetto Tax: The Redistribution of Wealth in Modern Society, 1974-2000 – Devin Fergus (History)
- Understanding Latin America’s Subnational Transitions, 1980-2005 – Jonathan Hiskey (Political Science)
- In Search of a New Identity: The Russian Intelligentsia and America in Post-Totalitarian Russia – Konstantin Kustanovich (German)
- Q’Eqchi’ and Linguistic Diversity in Mayan: A Story on the Rise of New Dialects – Sergio Romero (Anthropology)
- The Paris of Bricktop’s: African American Women in the City of Light – Tracy Sharpley-Whiting (African American & Diaspora Studies)
- The Role of Scandal in Constructing Diva Personas: The Women of Salome (1905) and Elektra (1909) – Joy Calico (Blair School of Music)
- Images of Women, Female Deities and the Buddhist Book-Cult – Jinah Kim (Art)
- Use of Reason, Revelation and Tradition in Anti-Trinitarian Debates of the 17th Century England – Paul Lim (Divinity School)
2006
The 15 projects that won funding from the Research Scholar Grants program in 2006 are listed below.
- The Cinema Dreams its Rivals: Media Fantasy Films from Radio to the Internet – Paul Young (English)
- Modernism, Media and Propaganda: British Narrative from 1900 to 1950 – Mark Wollaeger (English)
- Envisager Dieuavec Edmond Jabe’s – Nathalie Debrauwere-Miller (French & Italian)
- The Color of Crime: Delinquency and Representation of Race in Brazilian Popular Culture – Emanuelle Oliveira (Spanish & Portuguese)
- Yemen Language School Tuition – Beverly Moran (Law School)
- Pablo Picasso and Cubism in 1909 – Leonard Folgarait (History of Art)
- Revolutions in Mexican Catholicism: Vision, Shrine and Society in Oaaca, 1887-1934 – Edward Wright-Rios (History)
- Postwar Japan and Visions of Mass Consumer Society – Yoshikuni Igarashi (History)
- Feminist Art and Sexual Trauma: Ending the Silence in Contemporary American Art – Vivien Fryd (History of Art)
- Aesthetics of Violence: Representations of Authenticity in 20th Century German Literature – Christoph Zeller (German & Slavic Studies)
- Sweet Sand of Time: A Culture History of Diabetes in the U.S. – Arleen Tuchman (History)
- Writing in the Humanities – Helmut Smith (History)
- A Native American Peace System and Continuing Research in Brazil’s Upper Xingu – Thomas Gregor (Anthropology)
- Juan Bautista Witten, Former Known as Big Prince: An African in the Age of Atlantic Revolutions – Jane Landers (History)
- W.B. Yeats and the Idea of Democracy – Vereen Bell (English)
2005
The 10 projects that won funding from the Research Scholar Grants program in 2005 are listed below.
- Between Fact and Fiction: The 1930s Hollywood Chronicles of Israel Chas de Cruz and Olympio Guilherme – Jason Borge (Spanish & Portuguese)
- Barriers and Bridges: Immigrant Women and Work in Tennessee – Ronnie Steinberg (Sociology)
- Songs of Imbalu: HIV and Adult-Male Circumcision Rituals in Uganda, East Africa – Greg Barz (Blair School of Music)
- Sor Juana Inese de la Cruz and the Politics of Gender and Identity in the Baroque Culture of New Spain – Carlos Jauregui (Spanish & Portuguese)
- Brain Imaging of Adult Second Language Learners During Lexical Processing – Virginia Scott (French & Italian)
- Do Micro-Credit Borrowing Groups Self-Segregate, and Along Which Dimensions – Christian Ahlin (Economics)
- Writing the Metropole: Northern Nigerian Muslim Tourists in Britain and the Politics of Experiential Narration – Moses Ochonu (History)
- Settlers, Creoles and the Re-enactment of History (conference) – Jonathan Lamb (English)
- Brecht at the Opera – Joy Calico (Blair School of Music)
- Science has No Sex: The Life of Marie Zakrzewska – Arlene Tuchman (History)
2004
The 12 projects that won funding from the Research Scholar Grants program in 2004 are listed below.
- Suspended Animation: The Art of Marilyn Murphy; a Mid-Career Survey Exhibition at the Frist Center for the Visual Arts – Marilyn Murphy (Art)
- The Requirements of Kinship, German Enlightenment and the Nature of Community – Sara Eigen-Figal (Germanic & Slavic Languages)
- Free Speech and Expression in the Work Place – Bruce Barry (Owen Graduate School of Management)
- Fieldwork and the Jinci Shrine Complex for Book Manuscript Completion – Tracy Miller (Art & Art History)
- Femininity and Intention in Early Modern England – Kathryn Schwarz (English)
- Rebellion or Reform? The Critical Reception of the Sturm und Drang – John McCarthy (Germanic & Slavic Languages)
- Hot Quarks 2004: Workshop for Young Scientists on the Physics of Ultra-Relativistic Nucleus-Nucleus Collision (conference) – Julia Velkovska (Physics & Astronomy)
- Von Neumann Algebras and Applications (conference) – Dietmar Bisch (Mathematics)
- Maimonides and his Milieu (conference) – Lenn Goodman & Idit Dobbs-Weinstein (Philosophy)
- Interpreting African American Life at Southern Historic Sites: Workshop on Belle Meade Plantation – Don Doyle & Richard Blackett (History)
- Don Quixote: An Anniversary Celebration – Frederick Friedman (Spanish & Portuguese)
- Book Subvention: Beatriz Viterbo Editora – Jason Borge (Spanish & Portuguese)
2003
The 17 projects that won funding from the Research Scholar Grants program in 2003 are listed below.
- International Conference and Spring School on Noncommutative Geometry and Applications – Dietmar Bisch (Mathematics)
- Muckraking in America, 1900-2000 – Cecelia Tichi (English)
- Artist Book Project: A Museum Catalog of the Works of Marilyn Murphy to Accompany Survey Exhibition at the Frist Center for the Visual Arts – Marilyn Murphy (Art)
- Disciplining Gender: Rhetorics of Sex Identity in Contemporary U.S. Culture – John Sloop (Communication Studies)
- Queer Domesticities: Fiction, Form and Eros in Victorian Britain – Carolyn Dever (English)
- Women’s Rights Activism and the Dismantling of the Patriarchal State – Holly McCammon (Sociology)
- Sweet Sand of Time: A Cultural History of Diabetes in the U.S., 1922-present – Arleen Tuchman (History)
- Imitating Schoolboys: An Essay in Shakespeare’s Emotions – Lynn Enterline (English)
- Gender Under the Lens: Women, Literature and Early Modern Microscopy – Holly Tucker (French & Italian)
- Nam, Nam: Paranoid Nationalism and the Dominican “Man-Eating Negro” – Carlos Jauregui (Spanish & Portuguese)
- The Color of Crime: Afro-Brazilians’ Struggle from Social Criminality to Racial Awareness – Emanuelle Oliveira (Spanish & Portuguese)
- Journalism: Shaping Knowledge in the Information Age – Cecelia Tichi (English)
- Enhancing Interdisciplinary Collaboration in Community-Based Research (conference) – Douglas Perkins (Human & Organizational Development
- The Varieties of Pluralism – Robert Talisse (Philosophy)
- Stakeholding at the Grassroots: Culture, Economy and Politics in Germany, Guatemala and the U.S. –Edward Fischer (Anthropology)
- International Symposium on the Reception of George Buchner – Dieter Sevin (German & Slavic Languages)
- Conference on Nationalism in the Atlantic World: The Americas and Europe, 1776-1919 – Don Doyle (History)