2017 Grant Awardees
Grants support faculty in a variety of ways including research, scholarship, creative activities, course design and collaboration. The current year's group of awardees are listed below by program.
Creative and Performing Arts Awardees
| Name | Title | Department | College | Project |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Berry, Marybeth | Associate Professor | USC Lancaster | USC Lancaster | The Conference of the Birds: An Innovative Journey into the Complex Global Social and Political Dynamics. |
| Davis, Northrop Fletcher | Associate Professor | Art | Arts and Sciences | Becoming A Mangaka |
| Davis, Thaddeus | Associate Professor | Theatre and Dance, Department of | Arts and Sciences | Migratuse Ataraxia |
| Garner, David Kirkland | Assistant Professor | Music, School of | Music, School of | Southern Time: Seeing Past, Hearing Now. a concert-length multimedia composition for wind ensemble, electronics & video |
| Greenwald, Lauren Elyse | Assistant Professor | Art | Arts and Sciences | Roadside |
| Hunter, Dawn Marie | Associate Professor | Art | Arts and Sciences | A Sojourn to Spain with Ramón y Cajal: Fulbright Scholar Research at the Instituto Cajal |
| Kingkade, Howard C. | Associate Professor | USC Lancaster | USC Lancaster | Short Movie Project |
| McGill, Denise | Associate Professor | Information and Communications, College of | Information and Communications | Gullah Gone: Preserving the Land, Water and Culture of the Sea Islands Documentary Film |
Humanities Awardees
| Name | Title | Department | College | Project |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Barnes, Jessica | Assistant Professor | Geography | Arts and Sciences | Seeds of Change: Wheat Breeding in Egypt Since the 1950s |
| Buell, Duncan | Professor | Computer Science & Engineering | Engineering & Computing | Developing Wordification: a web-based game system for teaching English spelling |
| Frey, Jennifer | Assistant Professor | Philosophy | Arts and Sciences | Action, Virtue, and Human Goodness |
| Harrison, Carol | Professor | History | Arts and Sciences | Women Against the Nation: Rome and Catholic Cosmopolitanism in the Nineteenth Century |
| Jelly-Schapiro, Eli | Assistant Professor | English | Arts and Sciences | Literature, Theory, and the Temporalities of Neoliberalism |
| Johnson, Birgitta | Assistant Professor | Music, School of | Music, School of | Worship Waves, Navigating Identities: Music in the Black Church at the Turn of the
21st Century (Provost Humanities Grant Application) |
| Kuenzli, Elisabeth | Associate Professor | History | Arts and Sciences | Troubling Frontiers: The Domingos’ Revolution of 1891 in Eastern Bolivia and the Question of Indian Political Agency in Santa Cruz |
| Melvin-Koushki, Matthew | Assistant Professor | History | Arts and Sciences | Occult Philosophers and Philosopher Kings in Early Modern Iran |
| Miller, David | Professor | English | Arts and Sciences | Editing Spenser's *Amoretti and Epithalamion* |
| Patel, Dinyar | Assistant Professor | History | Arts and Sciences | The Grand Old Man of India: Dadabhai Naoroji and the Demand for Swaraj |
| Rice, Thomas | Professor | English | Arts and Sciences | Finnegans Wake: Imaging the Read |
| Weisenburg, Michael | Librarian | University Libraries | University Libraries | Ghostwriting: Historical Readers and Library Collections |
| Woertendyke, Gretchen | Associate Professor | English | Arts and Sciences | A History of Secrecy in the New World |
| Wu, Yulian | Assistant Professor | History | Arts and Sciences | The Social Life of Jade: Objects and Empire Construction in Eighteenth-Century China |
Pedagogy
| Name | Title | Department | College | Project |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Hudson, Simon | Professor | Hotel, Restaurant & Tourism Management | Hospitality, Retail & Sport Management | Study abroad programs and their influence on values and ethical travel behaviors |
| Milling, Stephanie | Professor | Theatre and Dance, Department of | Arts and Sciences | Integrative Learning in Postsecondary Teacher Preparation in Dance: Developing a Sustainable Model for Dance in Education |
| Sawyer, Roger Holmes | Professor | Biological Sciences | Arts and Sciences | Conversion of WebMic from a Java Applet to HTML5 |
Social Sciences Awardees
| Name | Title | Department | College | Project |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Almor, Amit | Associate Professor | Psychology | Arts and Sciences | Language Reference, Space and Brain |
| Augustine, Jennifer March | Assistant Professor | Sociology | Arts and Sciences | Mothers' College Enrollment and Families' Wellbeing |
| Barker, Drucilla K | Professor | Anthropology | Arts and Sciences | Liberating Economics: Feminist Perspective on Families, Work and Globalization, 2nd Ed. Fully Revised. |
| Elk, Ronit | Research Associate Professor | Nursing | Nursing | Community-Engaged Hospitalists' Training |
| Gonzalez, Robert M. | Assistant Professor | Business, Moore School of - Division of Research | Business, Moore School of | Mobile Phone Access, Mobility, and Labor Market Outcomes |
| So, Kevin | Assistant Professor | Hotel, Restaurant & Tourism Management | Hospitality, Retail & Sport Management | Why do people choose Airbnb? An examination of emotional motivations behind the sharing economy. |
| Kaczynski, Andrew | Assistant Professor | Health Promotion, Education & Behavior | Public Health, Arnold School of | Examining the efficacy of theory-based persuasive communications for promoting physical activity in public parks: A pilot study |
| Karami, Amir | Assistant Professor | Library & Information Sciences, School of | Information and Communications | Computational Analysis of the US 2016 Presidential Election in Social Media |
| Mann, Emily S. | Assistant Professor | Health Promotion, Education & Behavior | Public Health, Arnold School of | Contraceptive counseling in South Carolina: An exploratory study with healthcare providers |
| Meng, Fang | Associate Professor | Hotel, Restaurant & Tourism Management | Hospitality, Retail & Sport Management | The Effect of “Disconfirmation” on Customers’ Willingness to Post Online Review: An Experimental Study |
| Peterson, Timothy | Associate Professor | Political Science | Arts and Sciences | Commodity Trade Networks and Vulnerability to United States Influence |
| Shah, Payal | Assistant Professor | Educational Studies, Department of | Education | Empowerment and Agency among "educated" young women in Gujarat, India |
| Simmons, Kimberly Eison | Associate Professor | Anthropology | Arts and Sciences | Dominican Women and the Politics of Hair: The Emergence of the Natural Hair Movement in the Dominican Republic and Abroad |
| White, Andrew A | Research Assistant Professor | Archaeology & Anthropology, SC Institute of | Arts and Sciences | Finding the Family in South Carolina Prehistory: Exploring the Buried Archaeology of the Dorn Levees |
| Wooten, Nikki R | Assistant Professor | Social Work, College of | Social Work | Using the U. S. Army Polypharmacy Medication Model to Quantify High Risk Polypharmacy Prescription Drug Use in Deployed Army Service Members |
| Zarrett-Kivita, Nicole | Associate Professor | Psychology | Arts and Sciences | A Brief, Adaptable Mindfulness Intervention for Teachers to Improve Classroom Climate in Secondary School Settings |
Visiting Scholars Awardees
| Name | Title | Department | College | Project |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bazaliy, Yaroslaw | Associate Professor | Physics & Astronomy | Arts and Sciences | Topological Phase Effects in Spin Transport |
| Beets, Michael W | Associate Professor | Exercise Science | Public Health, Arnold School of | Visiting Scholar - Anthony Okely |
| Bennett, Charles | Professor | Pharmacy - Clinical Pharmacy and Outcomes Sciences | Pharmacy, SC College of | Law, Medicine, Public Health, and Health Policy: The four pillars of pharmaceutical
safety $12,500 Five-day visit sometime between July 1, 2017 and June 30, 2018 |
| Bizimis, Michael | Earth and Ocean Sciences | Arts and Sciences | Curriculum Development In Quantitative Metamorphic Petrology and Collaborative Research in Mantle Geochemistry. | |
| Dudycha, Jeffry | Professor | Biological Sciences | Arts and Sciences | Variation of effective population size and its consequences for neutral vs. adaptive divergence |
| Mallia, Karen L. | Associate Professor | Journalism & Mass Communications, School of | Information and Communications | Uncovering the Power Behind The Truth Initiative |
| McInnes, Campbell | Professor | Drug Discovery and Biomedical Sciences | Pharmacy, SC College of | Expanding Research and Training in Protein Biochemistry and X-Ray Crystallography at USC |
| Parker-Harley, Jennifer Carol | Associate Professor | Music, School of | Music, School of | Visiting Scholars Grant: The Richard Greener Music Project |
| Rothenberg, Sarah | Assistant Professor | Environmental Health Sciences | Public Health, Arnold School of | Catalyzing new research partnerships to investigate environmental and community health impacts due to sanitary sewage overflows in Columbia, S.C. |
| Sweaney, Daniel E | Associate Professor | Music, School of | Music, School of | String Quartet-in-Residence Program at USC: |