A&S WINNERS CIRCLE 2012
Internal Competitve Funding Awards

Thanks to a second internal competitive funding opportunity, 52 Texas Tech faculty members received a total of $599,994 to advance scholarship in the Creative Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences (CAHSS). Winners were announced Sept. 17.

Thirty-four of those faculty members hail from the College of Arts & Sciences and are listed below. Together, they received $341,880, or 57 percent of the total funds.

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Department of Classical & Modern Languages & Literatures (CMLL)

John Beusterien, Associate Professor of Spanish
Level 2 Award for Reading Cervantes in the Twenty-First Century

 

George Cole, Associate Professor of Spanish
Level 1 Award for Creating New Worlds: Young Costa Rican Science Fiction

 

Erin Collopy, Associate Chair; Associate Professor of Russian
Level 2 Award for Folkloric Vampire of Russia

 

Carole Edwards, Associate Professor of French
Level 2 Award for Mimi Barthelemy's Haitian Theater as Resilience and Nation Building

 

Idoia Elola, Associate Professor of Spanish & Linguistics
Level 3 Award for Book Proposal: Writing in Spanish in Diverse Contexts

 

David Larmour, Chair, and Corby Kelly, Visiting Assistant Professor
Level 2 Award for Mapping Identity in Imperial Rome

 

Anthony Qualin, Assoiciate Professor of Russian
Level 2 Award for Vladimir Vysotsky as a Soviet Pop Culture Phenomenon

 

Victoria Surliuga, Associate Professor of Italian
Level 2 Award for Beyond Fellini: The Life and Art of Giulietta Masina

 

Christopher Witmore, Associate Professor of Classical Archaeology
Level 3 Award for The Binchester Archaeological Project

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Department of Communication Studies

Amy Heuman, Associate Professor of Communication Studies
Level 3 Award for Mobilizing for Social Change in the South Texas Colonias

Katie Langford, Chair
Level 2 Award for Communicating Protest: The Fight for Civil Rights in American Social Movements

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Department of English

Kanika Batra, Assistant Professor of English
Level 3 Award for Presenting “Genders and Sexualities in Print” Research at Conferences and Finalizing a Second Book Manuscript

 

Curtis Bauer, Assistant Professor of English
Level 2 Award for Translating the Poetry of Carlos Pardo and Jorge Gimeno: Completing Two Poetry Manuscripts

 

Kelli Cargile Cook, Associate Professor of English
Level 2 Award for Advancing Technical Communication and its Instruction in the Republic of Korea

 

Marta Kvande, Assistant Professor of English
Level 3 Award for Negotiating Print and Manuscript Culture in the Eighteenth-Century Novel

 

Min-Joo Kim, Associate Professor of Linguistics
Level 1 Award for Adjective Ordering and Noun Phrase Internal Structure

 

Brian McFadden, Associate Professor of English
Level 1 Award for Monsters, Vikings, and Monks: The Cultural Context of the Monster Texts of the Beowulf Manuscript

 

Jill Patterson, Professor of English
Level 2 Award for Teaching White Jurors to See the Environmental "Setting" for Capital Murder "Stories"

 

John Poch, Professor of Creative Writing
Level 2 Award for Memorial: A Book of Short Stories

 

Rich Rice, Associate Professor of English
Level 3 Award for Developing the "Smart" Media Connect-Exchange Study Abroad Model

 

Yuan Shu, Associate Professor of English
Level 3 Award for Co-editing Two Essay Volumes that Would Transform the Field of American Studies

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Department of History

Paul Bjerk, Assistant Professor
Level 2 Award for Julius Nyerere

 

Laura Calkins, Assistant Professor of International and Comparative History
Level 2 Award for Bioethical Challenges in Humanitarian Aid: The United Nations in China, 1944-49

 

Stefano D'Amico, Associate Professor
Level 2 Award for Fall and Redemption: Female Poverty and Shelters for "Imperiled Women" in Counter-Reformation Milan

 

Barbara Hahn, Associate Professor
Level 2 Award for The Cotton Bull and the New York Bears: A Study in Prices & Information

 

Justin Hart, Associate Professor
Level 3 Award for "Total War Means Total Effort: The Forgotten Debate Over Universal Military Training, 1945-1951"

 

Karlos Hill, Assistant Professor
Level 3 Award for One Nation Under Lynch Law: Confronting the Crisis of Lynching in African American Life and Memory

 

Ron Milam, Associate Professor
Level 2 Award for Cambodia and Kent State: Killing in the Jungles and on the College Campuses

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Department of Sociology, Anthropology & Social Work (SASW)

Christina Bradatan, Assistant professor of Sociology
Level 2 Award for Place Attachment, Environmental Changes and Migration

 

Arthur Durband, Associate Chair; Associate Professor of Physical Anthropolgy
Level 3 Award for Computerized Tomography (CT) scanning of the Willandra Lakes Fossil Human

 

Michael Jordan, Assistant Professor of Anthropology
Level 1 Award for Indigenous Cultural Heritage in the Digital Afe: James Mooney's Field Notes on the Kiowa and Southern Cheyenne

 

Jeffrey Williams, Interim Dean of Arts & Sciences, Professor of Anthropology
Level 2 Award for Documenting the French variety of Terre de Bas, Ties des Saintes, Guadeloupe, French West

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