2020-2021 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 2020-2021 Faculty Scholarship Initiative (FSI) proposals – and congratulate the following faculty members on their successful FSI proposals:

Shuya Lu
Monte Ahuja College of Business
Department of Marketing

Textual and Visual Communication Effectiveness Online

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Myong-Hun Chang
College of Liberal Arts and Social Sciences
Department of Economics

Learning to Vaccinate: Endogenous Vaccination and the Dynamics of Infectious Diseases

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Neda Zawahri
College of Liberal Arts and Social Sciences
Department of Political Science

The Politics of Water in the Middle East and North Africa: Exploring domestic and international politics

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Barbara Hoffman
College of Liberal Arts and Social Sciences
Department of CAS

Historical Foundations of Habitat and Culture Change in French West Africa, 1895-1959

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Guowei Jian
College of Liberal Arts and Social Sciences
Department of Communication

Veterans' Translation of Leadership from Military to Civilian Context: A Qualitative Research and Grounded Theory Development

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Bill Kosteas
College of Liberal Arts and Social Sciences
Department of Economics

Student Debt, Salary Expectations, and Career Choices

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Julie Burrell
College of Liberal Arts and Social Sciences
Department of English

Performing Diasporic Time: Enactments of African American History

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J. Mark Souther
College of Liberal Arts and Social Sciences
Department of History

Outside the Gate City: Metropolitan Ambitions on Georgia's Fall Line

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Karen Sotiropoulos
College of Liberal Arts and Social Sciences
Department of History

The Airlift: American Racial Liberalism and the Fracturing of Black Atlantic Dreams

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Heather Russell
College of Liberal Arts and Social Sciences
Department of Music

Investigating folk dance as a teaching tool in secondary music ensembles

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Charles Hersch
College of Liberal Arts and Social Sciences
Department of Political Science

Arendt/Bakhtin: Towards a Dialogic Politics

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Todd Nelson
College of Liberal Arts and Social Sciences
Department of Political Science

Comparative Memorialization of the Holocaust in Poland and Ukraine

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Kimberly Fuller
College of Liberal Arts and Social Sciences
Department of Social Work
Elizabeth Goncy; Shereen Naser
College of Sciences and Health Professions
Department of Psychology
Katherine Clonan-Roy
College of Education and Human Services
Department of Curriculum & Foundations

Midwestern Transgender Youth's Healthcare Experiences

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David Anderson; Tony Sahley; Michael Hammonds
College of Sciences and Health Professions   
Department of Chemistry; School of Health Sciences; School of Health Sciences

Establishing Locus Coeruleus Activation as a Mechanism of Dynorphin Release in the Brain

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Ingrid Hogge
College of Education and Human Services
Department of CASAL

A mixed methods study of financial strain amongst university students