The Women's Studies Program

Assistant Professor Dr. Lynne Fallwell (History) has been awarded a follow-up grant to her two previous Curt C. and Else Silberman Summer Seminar Grants for University Faculty for study at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. She will be working at the Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies.
Dr. Fallwell received the Curt C. and Else Silberman Summer Seminar Grant for University Faculty in 2004 and 2005. That month-long research/teaching seminar brought selected faculty from across North America together to meet with each other and work with leading experts in the field. This summer the Holocaust Museum awarded two follow-up grants to previous participants, one of which went to Dr. Fallwell.

Assistant Professor Dr. Christina Ashby-Martin (Honors College) has been invited to serve on the editorial board of the newly created The Journal of Texas Women Writers.  The journal features scholarship on women writers from Texas and women writers who have lived in Texas, with emphasis on their cultural and artistic diversity. 
 

 Assistant Professor Barbara Weinlich (CMLL) has been selected to participate in the NEH Summer Seminar “Identity and Self-Representation in the Subcultures of Ancient Rome.” The summer seminar includes 15 participants working in collaboration with Professors Eleanor Leach (Indiana University) and Eve D’Ambra (Vassar College). She will have access to a major library collection, with time reserved to pursue individual research and study projects. She will also be awarded a stipend by the National Endowment for the Humanities that covers the travel expenses, books, and other research expenses, and living expenses for the duration of the period. The five-week project will be held in the American Academy in Rome June 23-July 27, 2008.

Associate Professor Laura J. Beard (CMLL) has been awarded the Spencer A. Wells Faculty Award for Creativity in Teaching AND the President’s Academic Achievement Award AND a Fulbright Grant in Nature Studies, Fall 2008.

Women’s Studies Director Laura M. Calkins (WS/Honors) has been selected to participate in the NEH Summer Institute “Holy Land and Holy City in Classical Judaism, Christianity, and Islam” at Oxford University, where she will be a University Visiting Faculty Member affiliated with the Oxford Centre for Hebrew and Jewish Studies, during July and August 2008.

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