Texas Tech University

Recipients

Year Name Department Topic Award
2025 No Grants Awarded
2024 Kanika Batra English Black Freedom from Selma to Soweto: Gender, Consciousness, Power $750
2024 Brett Houk Sociology, Anthropology & Social Work The Mystery of the Booth’s River Marsh Canals in Northwestern Belize $750
2024 Jorgelina Orfila Art Visit to the Warner Brothers Archives at the University of Southern California $750
2024 Elissa Zellinger English The Poetics of Profession: Memorials and Minorities in Late Nineteenth-Century America $750
2023 Michael Borshuk English "What We Need": Tribe, Strata Records, and Black Self‐Determination in Detroit in the 1970s $750
2023 Carole Edwards Classical & Modern Languages & Literatures Renegotiating authorship: contemporary Moroccan writer Mohamed Nedali $750
2023 Ryan Hackenbracht English Japanese American Prison Camps and the Enchantment of Nature: Writing the Plains at Amache $750
2023 Jin Jung Education An exploration of transnational communities focusing on Korea and Japan: The Past and The Present $750
2023 Scott Weedon English Aesthetics and Technical Communication   $750
2020 Zachary Brittsan History Trying Modernity: Murder and Justice in Mexico’s Age of Conflict, 1848-1871 $750
2020 Emily Skidmore History Breast is Best?: The Long Debate Over Infant Feeding in the United States $750
2019 Miguel Levario History Standing Our Ground: Mexican American Agrupaciones Protectoras and Racial Violence $750
2019 Lisa Phillips English Embodied Sovereignty: The Story of Ishi's Life and Death as a Living Object on Display $750 
2018 Edwards, Carole Classical & Modern Languages & Literature The Figure of the Loser in Contemporary French Pop Culture $750
2018 Griffith, Lauren Sociology Anthropology  & Social Work The Centripetal Force of an American Ashram: Sacred Kashi $750
2017 Orfila, Jorgelina School of Arts Research on Swiss Animation Artist Charles Blanc-Gatti $750
2017 Jocoy, Stacey  Music  Helen Hewitt, Petrucci's Odhecaton, and the Making of Musicology $750
2016 Williams, Keira History  Amazons in the White City  $750 
2016 Baugh, Scott L. English Archival Contexts Surrounding Willie Varela's Experimental Chicano/a Cinema $750
2015 Bjerk, Paul K. History Travel to the George Bush Presidential Library $716
2015 Duffy, Ali Theater & Dance N/A $750
2014 Skidmore, Emily History N/A $750 
2013 Guengerich, Sara Classical & Modern Languages Literature Spanish American Colonial Literature and Culture $750
2013 Barenberg, Alan History Empire of Cotton $750
2012 Barrera, Cordelia English The Ecocritical Writings of Gloria Anzaldúa $657
2012 Hill, Karlos History One Nation Under Lynch Law: Confronting the Crisis of Lynching in African American Life and Memory $750
2012 Houk, Brett Anthropology Archival Study: J. Eric Thompson's Field Notes from his 1931 Visit to Kaxil Uiniche $750
2011 Couch, Julie English Reading the Child in Middle English Literature $750
2011 Whitney, Allison English NASA's Filmmaking Practices During the Apollo and Space Shuttle Programs $750
2010 Duffy, Ali Theater & Dance Missing Links in the Critical Discourse of Contemporary Dance $750
2010 Zugay, Brian Architecture John Augustus Dempwolf and Lutheran Mail-Order Church Design of the 1890's $750
2009 Elko, Stacy Art Iconography of Henna Designs of the Maghreb $750
2009 Smith, Christopher Music Ethnomusicology in Oils: a Research Study of the Archival Materials of Antebellum Painter William Sidney Mount $750
2008 Adams, Gretchen A. History Benedict Arnold and the Limits of Collective Memory $750
2008 Elliott, Janis J. Art Patronage and Visual Experience in the 14th Century Lay Chapels in Italy $750
2007 Schneider, Andreas Sociology Conservation of Online Materials for Libraries $750
2007 Snead, Jennifer E. Music Responsible Readers: Early Methodism and Popular Literacy, 1740-1830 $750
2006 Grass, Sean English Portable Property: Victorian Identity in the Marketplace $750
2006 Fleuckiger, Carol Art Paintings About Early American Social Reform Writings $750
2005 Pratt, Comfort Classical & Modern Languages Literature Activities of the Spanish at the Los Adaes Presidio from 1721 to 1773 $500
2004 Fitzgerald, Colleen English Tohono O'odham Narratives $500
2003 Baugh, Scott English N/A $500
2002 Van Cleave, Rachel Law N/A $750
2001 Beard, Laura Classical & Modern Languages Literature N/A $750
2000 Allen, Louse Education N/A  $750
2000 Bilello, Joseph Architecture N/A  $750
1999 Mills, Kelly T. History N/A  $750
1999 Schneider, Andreas Sociology, Anthropology & Social Work N/A $750
1999 Watts, Elizabeth A. Mass Communication N/A  $750
1998 Howe, John History N/A  $750
1998 Trotter, Mary English N/A  $750
1997 Brown, Glen R. Art N/A  $750
1997 Puriton, Marjean English N/A  $750
1997 Rylander, Kent Biological Sciences N/A  $300
1996 Barkley, Heather English N/A  $750
1996 Beard, Laura Classical & Modern Languages Literature N/A  $750
1996 Stuyt, Jeff A. HPER N/A  $750
1995 Clarke, Bruce English N/A  $750
1995 Koreman, Megan History N/A  $750
1995 Lamour, David Classical & Modern Languages Literature N/A $750
1994 Cenzia, Sherry English N/A  $750
1994 Newcomb, Benjamin History N/A  $750
1994 Peterson, Richard Geosciences N/A  $750
1993 Eberling, Eric Education N/A  $750
1993 Handa, Rumiko Architecture N/A  $750
1993 Wenthe, William English N/A  $730
1992 Maddock, Mary English N/A  $500
1991 Flynn, George History N/A  $500
1991 Miller, Carolyn Education N/A  $500