2016-2017 Faculty Scholarship Initiative (FSI) Award Announcement

The Office of Research would like to thank members of the University Research Council for their review of all 2016-2017 Faculty Scholarship Initiative (FSI) proposals – and congratulate the following faculty members on their successful FSI proposals:

Ji Eun Park
Monte Ahuja College of Business
Marketing
$6,500.00

EMNEs (emerging market multinational enterprise) and Subsidiary Autonomy Delegation: Exploring The Moderating Role of Dynamic Capabilities

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Samantha Baskind
College of Liberal Arts and Social Sciences
Art
$7,500.00

The Warsaw Ghetto in the American Cultural Imagination

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Kathy Curnow
College of Liberal Arts and Social Sciences
Art
$7,500.00

Splendor, Spectacle and Substance under Oba Esigie: Sixteenth-Century Art and Culture in the Benin Kingdom

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Kathleen Stansberry
College of Liberal Arts and Social Sciences
Communication
$7,361.60

Organized Publics: Advancing the Situational Theory of Publics to Account for the Participatory Communication Practices of Online, Interest-Based Communities

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Linda Francis
College of Liberal Arts and Social Sciences
Criminology, Anthropology and Sociology
$7,296.00

Identity Loss in Elderly Adults with Alzheimer’s Disease

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Michael Geither
College of Liberal Arts and Social Sciences
English
$1,112.50

Creation Myth: A Full-Length Devised Theatrical Experience Part 2

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Jennifer Jeffers
College of Liberal Arts and Social Sciences
English
$6,050.90

Frances Molloy: In Quest of the Forgotten

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Shelley Rose
College of Liberal Arts and Social Sciences
History
$7,082.34

Gender and the Politics of Peace: Cooperative Activism and Transnational Networks on the German Left, 1921-1983

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Karen Sotiropoulos
College of Liberal Arts and Social Sciences
History
$7,500.00

Race and 'the United States of Africa'

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Michael Baumgartner
College of Liberal Arts and Social Sciences
Music
$7,500.00

Notre musique:  Jean-Luc Godard and Meta­Film Music

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Greg D’Alessio
College of Liberal Arts and Social Sciences
Music
$6,011.20

Recording and release of chamber music compositions

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Sucharita Adluri
College of Liberal Arts and Social Sciences
Philosophy & Comparative Religion
$7,400.00

Boundaries of the Text: Scriptural Commentary in Hindu Traditions

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Stephen Taysom
College of Liberal Arts and Social Sciences
Philosophy & Comparative Religion
$7,500.00

The Worlds of Joseph F. Smith: A Cultural Biography

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Joel Lieske
College of Liberal Arts and Social Sciences
Political Science
$7,500.00

Racial Diversity and Voting in U. S. Presidential Elections

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Neda Zawahri
College of Liberal Arts and Social Sciences
Political Science
$7,148.00

Adapting to Climate Change along the Jordan, Euphrates, and Tigris Rivers

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Tama Engelking
College of Liberal Arts and Social Sciences
World Languages, Literatures, & Cultures
$4,000.00

Why Colette?  Why Now?

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Abed el-Rahman Tayyara
College of Liberal Arts and Social Sciences
World Languages, Literatures, & Cultures
$5,700.00

Arab Communities of Cleveland

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Maureen Whitford
College of Sciences and Health Professions
Health Sciences
$6,642.75

Title: One vs. Two Handed Use After Stroke: Role of Task Requirements

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Catherine Hansman
College of Education and Human Services
CASAL
$6,712.50

Identity and Power: Examining a Marginalized field in Academe

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Julia Phillips
College of Education and Human Services
CASAL
$7,475.40

Actual Versus Self-Reported LGB Counseling Competencies of Graduate Students in Mental Health Programs

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Browne Lewis
Cleveland-Marshall College of Law
Law
$4,194.00

Disposal People: Vulnerable Patients and Physician-Assisted Suicide

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Brian Ray
Cleveland-Marshall College of Law
Law
$7,334.00

Anti-Land Invasion Units and South Africa’s Third-Generation Housing-Rights Decisions