June 13, 2024
Professors awarded grants to support research, summer travel
As experts in their fields of study, Providence College faculty engage in exciting academic pursuits, conduct research, and contribute to the advancement of knowledge. Professors from 15 academic disciplines have received grants to support their work during the summer.
The National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Stipend award was presented to Emann Allebban, Ph.D., assistant professor of philosophy. The program aims to stimulate new research and publication in the humanities. Stipends are competitive; over the past five years, the NEH said it has has awarded 90 grants per year from 800 annual applications.
Allebban’s project, Women, Philosophy and the Islamic World, explores the philosophical contributions of women in the history of philosophy in the Islamic world. This summer she will conduct archival research in Istanbul, Turkey, before reviewing her findings and drafting an article. The archival work will serve as the foundation for a book manuscript entitled Forgotten Philosophy: A History of Women Philosophers of the Islamic World, for the Berkeley Series in Postclassical Islamic Scholarship.
The Rhode Island Foundation awarded funding for three medical research projects. The grants are designed to help early-career researchers advance their projects to the stage of being competitive for national funding. The proposals were evaluated by a review panel of scientists and physicians.
- Kristi Miller, Ph.D., assistant professor of biology, received $25,000 for her research on Investigating Signaling Networks Linking Cell Size and Growth to the Cell Cycle.
- Ryan Post, Ph.D., assistant professor of psychology and of neuroscience, received $23,769 for his study of Medial Prefrontal Cortical Circuits in Motivation and Depression.
- Nicholas Tarantino, Ph.D., assistant professor of psychology, was awarded $25,000 for his research on Piloting a Mobile Adherence Game with Economic Incentives for Young People with HIV in Ghana.
The Marion and Jasper Whiting Foundation awarded five faculty members travel fellowships totaling nearly $34,000. The recipients will study abroad and bring their experiences back to their classrooms for teaching purposes.
- Ruth Ben-Artzi, Ph.D., associate professor of political science, received funding to travel to Portugal for a project entitled Colonialism to Globalization: Immigration and its Impact on Politics, Culture, and Inequality in Portugal.
- Rev. Christopher Justin Brophy, O.P., Ph.D., assistant professor of political science, will travel to Ireland for a project entitled Religion, Revolution, Nationalism: The Political History and Theory of 20th Century Ireland.
- Abigail Emerson, Ph.D., assistant professor of elementary and special education, received funding to travel to Australia and New Zealand for a project entitled Restorative Justice in Australia and New Zealand: An Essential Paradigm to the Elementary Classroom.
- Krishan Oberoi, DMA, assistant professor of music, received funding to travel to Japan for a project entitled Japanese Traditions and the Modern Influence of Westernization.
- Victoria Templer, Ph.D., associate professor of psychology and neuroscience, will travel to Denmark and Sweden for a project entitled The Mind-Brain Relationship in Copenhagen and Stockholm: Creating New Courses for the Neuroscience Curriculum.
The Lilly Network of Church Related Colleges and Universities selected two faculty members to participate in the Lilly Faculty Fellows Program. The initiative provides funds for fellows to develop and pilot faculty fellow programs on their campuses, refresh and enliven a sense of calling for participants as people of faith, as teachers, and as scholars, and provide a space for creative exploration of how Christian thought and practice intersect with the academic vocation.
- A campus project proposal from Mary Harmon-Vukic, Ph.D., associate professor of psychology, and William Hogan, Ph.D., associate professor of English, aims to develop a community of “seekers” in new conversations about how faith might inform academic life. They will offer faculty the chance to reflect on the intersections of spiritual, intellectual, and professional life, and encourage new personal and professional connections among faculty in a way that establishes a more organic identity of what it means to work at a Catholic and Dominican institution.
The Providence College Committee on Aid to Faculty Research recently announced 17 faculty recipients of grants to support their academic research projects:
- Christopher Arroyo, Ph.D., professor of philosophy, GEM Anscombe’s Influence on Philippa Foot
- Patrick Breen, Ph.D., associate professor of history, and Raymond Hain, Ph.D., associate professor of philosophy, Revisiting Democracy in America
- Ellen Feiss, Ph.D., assistant professor of art history, Art in the War on Poverty, 1959-1973
- Sara Hassani, Ph.D., assistant professor of political science and women’s and gender studies, Cloistered Infernos: Bodily Sovereignty in Gender Apartheid
- Bing Huang, Ph.D., associate professor of art history, Ancient Globalization: The Polyhedral Gold Spherical Necklace Beads and the Han Dynasty’s Connection to Ancient Rome
- Sang Woo Kang, DMA, professor of music, Czechoslovakian Keyboard Music: Influence and Impact of Music Narrative and Culture
- Smaranda Lawrie, Ph.D., assistant professor of psychology, Cultures and Parenting Practices
- Christopher Lyddy, Ph.D., associate professor of management, Being While Doing
- Heather McPherson, MFA, associate professor of art, Visual Bardos
- Carmine Perrotti, Ph.D., assistant professor of public and community service studies, Moving from Partnership to Relationship: Neighborly Approaches to Higher Education Community Engagement
- John Scanlan, Ph.D., professor of English, Archival Research for Book Manuscript A Spirit of Contradiction: Law and Literature in Eighteenth-Century London
- Osama Siddiqui, Ph.D., assistant professor of history, Empire of Sentiments: Reading Adam Smith in Colonial India
- Francesca Silano, Ph.D., assistant professor of history, Christianity in Revolutionary Russia and the Soviet Union
- Casey Stevens, Ph.D., assistant professor of political science, Governing Wild Animals: The Structure of the Convention on Migratory Species and the Epistemic Understanding of Wild Animals
- Thomas Strasser, Ph.D., professor of art history, The Excavation at Megalos Peristeres Cave (Crete)
- Eva Michelle Wheeler, Ph.D., associate professor of Black studies, Black in Portugal: A Raciolinguistic Exploration of Black Identities Experiences, and Positionalities in Lisbon
- Chun Ye, Ph.D., associate professor of English, Field Research for Novel Project.
