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Recipients & Areas of Study
Faculty Course Development Grants

2005-2006

Kenneth Andrews, Sociology
"Race, Civil Rights and Social Change in the U.S. South"

Carole Blair, Communication
"Remembering the (Uncertain) Future: The Rhetoric of the Civil Rights Memorial"

Larry Griffin, Sociology
"The Modern South or the South Today"

Dale L. Hutchinson, Anthropology
"Global Expansion, Landscape Transformation, and Health in the Colonial South"

Karla Slocum, Anthropology
"Heritage Tourism and Oklahoma's "All Black Towns": Globalizing Race and History in the Southwest"

2004-2005

Jim Leloudis, History
History 164

 

 

 

2003-2004

William Andrews, English
"The North Carolina Roots of African American Literature"

William Bathrop, Communications
"The Rhetoric of the Civil Rights Movement: An Interdisciplinary Perspective"

John Florin, Geography
"Geography 162 Georgraphy of the South"

Jim Peacock, UCIS
"Southern Identity in a Global World"

Della Pollock, Communications
"Remembering Desegregation: Performanace, Memory, and Histories of Change"

William Stott , Carolina Environmental Program
"North Carolina Coastal Literature in Context"

2002-2003

Theda Purdue, History
"Tribal Studies: Cherokee History"

2001-2002

Michael Green, Margaret C. Scarry, History and Anthropology
“The Indians' New Worlds: Southeastern Indian Histories from 1200 to 1800”

Jeff Saviano, Sociology
“A New Introduction to the Sociology of the Contemporary South; Sociology 15: Regional Sociology of the South”

2000-2001

Laurie Langbauer, English
“In the Eyes of Others: the South as Symbol of Self and Nation”

Jocelyn Neal, Music
“The History of Country Music: Course Development through Source Recordings”

Todd Taylor, English
“Multimedia North Carolina: This House is Home”

1999-2000

John Florin, Geography

Trudier Harris, English

Peter Robinson, Geography

Rachel Willis, American Studies

 

Faculty Summer Research Stipends

Summer 2006

Charles Price, Anthropology
"Family Farmers and Grassroots Activism in Kentucky"

Patrick Davison, Journalism and Mass Communications
"Redneck Riviera: Waves of Change Erode Carolina Beach Boardwalk"

Summer 2005

Patrick Davison, Journalism and Mass Communications
"Redneck Riviera: Waves of Change Erode Carolina Beach Boardwalk"

Charles Price, Anthropology
"Family Farmers and Grassroots Activism in Kentucky"

Summer 2004

Andy Andrews, Sociology

Thomas Campanella, Department of City and Regional Planning
"Soul City"

Tewari Meenu, Department of City and Regional Planning

James Seay, English
"One Courner of Yoknapatawpha"

Summer 2003

Derek Goldman, Communications
"New Southern Performance Works"

Donna LeFebvre, Political Science
"Biography of Samuel Field Phillips"


2002-2003

Jim Fraser, Geography
"Globalization and the New South City"

Isaac Unah, Political Science
"Empirical Analysis of the Application of Capital Punishment in NC"

2001-2002

Stephen Birdsall, Geography
“Implications of Tobacco Land Use Change in Piedmont North Carolina”

Connie Elbe, English
“New Orleans English”

Daniel Gitterman, Public Policy
"Business Interests, The American South and the Minimum"

Dorothy Holland, Anthropology
“Racial Discrimination and the Economic Justice: Black Farmers and the Case of Pigford V. Glickman”

Theda Perdue, History
“Mixed Blood: Indians and Southern History”

Rachel Willis, American Studies
“Southern Textiles Jobs and Hmong Employees: Changing the Color of the Social Fabric”

2000-2001

Derek Goldman, Communications Studies
“Places We Are From: The South and North in America”

David Greeland, Geography
“A Preliminary Investigation of Climatic Variability for the Southern United States”

Michael Green, American Studies
“An Ethnohistory of Southeastern Indians”

Alison Isenberg, History
“Commercial Landscapes of the South: Comparing the Property Values of Black Business Districts and the White Main Streets in the Twentieth Century”

Catherine Lutz, Anthropology
“War's Wages: Fayetteville and the Twentieth Century”

1999-2000

Alpa Cravey, Geography

Leon Fink, History

Joanne Hershfield, Communication Studies

Micheal McFee, English


Graduate Student Stipends

2006

Sarah Clere, English
Women are Workers Too: An Analysis of Three 1930s Strike Novels

Timothy Galow, English
Ambivalence and Ambiguity in North Carolina's Speaker Ban Law

William Gibbons, Music
The Musical Audubon: Ornithology in the Symphonies of Anthony Philip Heinrich

Brian Graves, Communication
The Life and Music of Top Notch the Villain (a.k.a. Jerome Williams)
Featuring the artist himself, Top Notch the Villain

Jessica Hardie, Sociology
High Hopes?: Community and Family in Shaping Educational Expectations in the Post-Deseg South

Carie Hersh, Anthropology
Transnational Parachurches and the Intersection of Religion and Politics in Virginia Beach, Virginia

John Hubbell, Folklore
Patch My Heart: Memphis' Soul Survives 1968

Lee Ann Jacobs, Biology
A study of mechanisms affecting biodiversity in southeastern temperate forests

Mary Alice Kirkpatrick, English
Roving Visionaries: Re-Imagining the Southern Landscape

Seth Kotch, History
From Progressivism to Barbarism: Capital Punishment in the Mind of the South

Kelly Morrow, History
Sex in the South: The Sexual Revolution at UNC, 1969-73

Ali Neff, Folklore
Let the World Listen Right: Function and Folklore in the Rural Roots of Southern Hip-Hop

Katie Otis, History
I'll Picket the Commission: Political Activism Among Florida Retirees, 1960-1980

Kelly Quinn, Epidemiology
Predictors of Change in the Black-White Health Gap in the U.S. South: 1960-2000

Chad Seales, Religious Studies
Patriotic Bodies: Sacrament and Sacrifice in Siler City Fourth of July Parades, 1901-1932

Cindy Spurlock, Communication
Sprawling Carolina

Matthew Thompson, Anthropology
Staging "the Drama": The Continuing Importance of Cultural Tourism in the Gaming Era

2005

David Cline, History
"At the Left Hand of God: the Student Interracial Ministry and U.S. Clergy Involvement in Social Justice Movements"

Matt Harper, History
"Religion, Citizenship, and State Violence: North Carolina's Black Militia, 1874 - 1900"

Greg Kaliss, History
"Clearning the Lane: Charlie Scott and Public Response to Integration"

Martha King, Folklore
"Silent Bells Begin to Sway: Sense of Place in Southern Roots-Rock"

Tamara Johnson, Geography
""Somos Dominicanos": Exploring Dominican Communities, Identities, and Social Spaces in the Urban South"

Beth Anne Latshaw, Sociology
"'Our Tradition, Our Hunger, Our History' Soul Food, Memory, and Identity in the American South"

Leah Masselink, Health Policy and Administration
"Knowledge of HIV Serostatus in Low Prevalence Areas: Implications of Emergency Department-Based Testing"

Jaman Mathews, Folklore
"Collaboration and Visual Representation: Photographing O'Bryant's Chapel AME Zion Church"

David Sehat, History
"The Anticlericalism of Booker T. Washington"

Douglas Shadle, Music
"Understanding Local Musical Praxis in an African American Catholic Community: Holy Cross Catholic Church, Durham, North Carolina"

Elizabeth Smith, History
"Having "Their Tales Told": Female Deviance and Political Discourse in Raleigh, North Carolina, 1865-1876"

Katherine Smith, Folklore
"Cherokee Foodways: An Ethnographic Study of the Cherokee Nation in Northeastern Oklahoma"

Jon Spader, Public Policy
"The Role of Public Policy Programs in Stimulating Minority Enterprise in Atlanta, GA and Durham, NC"

Blaine Waide, Folklore
"Forty Below Barbershop: Culturally Styling a Transitional Identity"

 

2004

David Cline, History
"At the Left Hand of God: the Student Interracial Ministry and U.S. Clergy Involvement in Social Justice Movements"

Matt Harper, History
"Religion, Citizenship, and State Violence: North Carolina's Black Militia, 1874 - 1900"

Tamara Johnson, Geography
"Religion, Citizenship, and State Violence: North Carolina's Black Militia, 1874 - 1900"

Greg Kaliss, History
"Clearning the Lane: Charlie Scott and Public Response to Integration"

Martha King, Folklore
"Silent Bells Begin to Sway: Sense of Place in Southern Roots-Rock"

Beth Anne Latshaw, Sociology
""Our Tradition, Our Hunger, Our History" Soul Food, Memory, and Identity in the American South"

Jaman Mathews, Folklore
"Collaboration and Visual Representation: Photographing O'Bryant's Chapel AME Zion Church"

Leah Masselink, Health Policy and Administration
"Knowledge of HIV Serostatus in Low Prevalence Areas: Implications of Emergency Department-Based Testing"

David Sehat, History
"The Anticlericalism of Booker T. Washington"

Douglas Shadle, Music
"Understanding Local Musical Praxis in an African American Catholic Community: Holy Cross Catholic Church, Durham, North Carolina"

Elizabeth Smith, History
"Having "Their Tales Told": Female Deviance and Political Discourse in Raleigh, North Carolina, 1865-1876"

Katherine Smith, Folklore
"Cherokee Foodways: An Ethnographic Study of the Cherokee Nation in Northeastern Oklahoma"

Jon Spader, Public Policy
"The Role of Public Policy Programs in Stimulating Minority Enterprise in Atlanta, Ga., and Durham, N.C."

Blaine Waide, Folklore
"Forty Below Barbershop: Culturally Styling a Transitional Identity"


2003

S. Willoughby Anderson, History
"Against the Peace and Dignity of the State of Alabama: The Sixteenth Street Baptist Church Bombing Trail and the Remaking of Birrmingham"

Jesse Cleary, Geography
"Characterizing Southern Sprawl: Ecological Patch Dynamics and the Development History of Wake County, North Carolina"

Andy Crank, English
"Let Us Now Praise Forgotten Men: James Agee's Radical-Racial South"

G. Rebecca Dobbs, Geography
"The Indian Trading Path through the Piedmont: What route, what role?"

Amos Esty, History
"Reinventing South Conservatism: The North Carolina Republican Party and the Ideology of the Reactionary Progress, 1963-1968"

Chandra Ford, Health Behavior
"Neighborhood Factors,Percieved Racism and Human Immundeficiency Virus (HIV) Test Taking Among Blacks Attending A Public Sexually Transmitted Disease (STD) Clinic"

Kimberly Gibbs, English
"The Discarded Novel: Examing the Role of Mandy Oxendine in the Literary Career of Charles W. Chesnutt"

Gerarddo Gurza-Lavalle, History
"Prosalvery Ideology and poplar Political Culture in Antebellum South, 1830-1860"

Rachel Hall, Communications
"Missing Dolly, Mourning Slavery"

Andrew Leiter, English
"The Harlem Renaissance and the Shaping of William Faulkner's Joe Christmas"

Elizabeth Armistead Lemon, English
"A Considerarion of Female Characters and the Space They Inhabit in the Ficton of Ernest Gaines"

Burgin Mathews, English
" Talking Country: Oral Histories in Classic Country Music"

Andrea McAtee, "Political Science"
"Republican and Democratic Party Oranizations in the South: Responses to ncreasing Competition"

Tara Powell, English
"Walker Percy's science of the Spirt: Reinventing Intellectual Life in Twentieth Century Southern Literature"

Paul Quigley, History
"Disordered Nation: The Evolution of Southern Nationalism, 1848-1865"

Lindsey Twa, Art
"The Ambivalence of the Real: William Meade Prince's Illustrations for Roark Bradford's Dialect Stories"

Cypriane Williams, History
"Mardi Gras Indians: Ideologies of Race, Class, and Resistance on the Periphery of New Orleans Carnival"

2002

Suho Bae, Public Policy
"Sectoral and Regional Differences in Productivity Growth in Southern…"

Edmond Boudreaux, Anthropology
"Pottery and Foodways: Exploring Social Differences…"

Amy Beth Crow, History
"The Goldsboro Rifles' Monument at Bentonville, 1894-1895"

David A. Davis, English
"Obey Thy Master:Religion and Slavery in W.W.Brown's Cloitel"

Danny DeVries, Anthropology
"Place and Crisis: Social Memory in Eastern North Carolina Flood Plains"

Timothy Diette, Economics
"Getways To Minority Education in North Carolina Public Schools"

Barbara Hahn, History
"The Social and Natural World of Bright Tobacco Culture"

Jessica Kaplan, Ecology
"Fire, Species Richness and Presence of Wiregrass in Longleaf Pine"

Jonathan Lepofsky, Geography
"Place-Making in Chattanooga, Tennessee"

Molly Loomis, Health Education
"Understanding the "Model Minority" in the South:Asian American Women's Health Initiative"

Jon Marcoux, Anthropology
"TVA Archaelogical Research Project"

Mintcy Maxham, Anthropology
"Native American Communties in the 12th Century"

Gregory Pettis, Political Science
"The Voter, Voter Turnout, and The Context of Local Racial Composition"

Nancy Schoonmaker, History
"Remebering Antebellum Louisiana"

Christopher Sims, Journalism
"Recruit:Joining and Serving in Today's Military"

Bryan Sinche, English
"Autobiographical Writing in Johnson's Island Prison"

Michael Spinks, Folklore
"The Dispossessed of Onslow County"

Rose Stremlau, History
"Cherokee families in the Era of Allotment"

Kristin Taverna, Ecology
"Forests of Continuity of the North Carolina Piedmont"


2001

Kimberly Allen, Anthropology
“A Post Civil Rights Movement: Environmental Justice Activism and Identity in North Carolina”

Carey Aselage, Rose Wilcher, Health Behavior and Health Education
“Youth Empowerment Project”

Jamila M. Batchelder, Ecology
“Assessing the Effects of Landscaping Conditions on Fish Community Structure at Multiple Scales: Protecting Streams in the American South”

Matthew Z. Brown, History
“A more than Passing Fancy: Show Boat and the Interwar American Culture”

Sarah Bryan, Folklore
“The Petticoats Legends: The Folklore of the Capture of Jefferson Davis”

Michelle Cawley, Ecology
“Landscaping Patterns of Invasion in Exotic Plants in Great Smoky Mountains National Park: The Role of Corridors”

Doug Cumming, Journaliam and Mass Communication

Karl Davis, History
"Much of the Indian Appears: Adaptation and Persistence in a Creek Community, 1783- 1854"

Andrew Dyke, Economics
“The Effects of Politics and Policy on Plea Bargaining and the Criminal Sentencing in North Carolina”

Bryan A. Giemza, English
"Telling About the South: Creating a Hypertext for Absalom, Absalom!"

Ann Kakaliourras, Anthropology
“Biological Relationships and the Interactions Between Late Woodland Native American Peoples on the North Carolina Coast”

Bradley Lamphere, Ecology

Josh Levinson, Folklore

Liz Lindsey, Folklore

Chris McGinnis, Independent

Malinda Mayner, History

Chad Morgan, History
"Industrialization in the Slave Society: Problems and Possibilities in Alabama and Georgia, 1820-1865"

Kathleen Blain Roberts, History
"Pretty Women: Female Beauty Culture in the South, 1865 to the Present."

Christopher Rodning, Anthropology
“Burying the Dead in Ancient Southwestern North Carolina”

Susan Webb, Christine Kelleher, Political Science
"Second Order Devolution, Welfare Reform, and Caseload Reduction in North Carolina"

2000

Joe M. Anoatubby, History
"In Defense of their Land and Their Liberties: The Chickasaw People, 1785-1860"

Marc David, Anthropology
"Making Collective History in South Louisiana: An Archival, Ethnographic, and Survey Study"

Thad C. Guldbrandsen, Anthropology
"Bull City Futures: Race, Class, Gender and the Transformation of Public Space"

Kaaren M. Haldeman, Anthropology
"African American Healing Traditions in the South: Healing Practices, Identity and Health Among Patients and Practitioners"

Angela Hornsby, History
"Reconstructing Manhood: Black Men and the Radical Uplift in North Carolina, 1900- 1930"

George Hovis, English
“The Yeoman Ideal in Contemporary North Carolina Fiction”

Berkley Hudson, Journalism
“O.N. Pruitt's Possum Town: Images as Southern History”

Mark D. Knott, Ecology
"Prescribed burning and longleaf pine ecosystem restoration in North Carolina: an analysis of landowner preferences, opinions, and behavior"

Bryan T. McNeil, Anthropology
“Changing Forms of Resistance in Appalachia Holland”

Marsha Michie, Anthropology
“‘We must secure the existence of our people’: The White Supremacist Movement in North Carolina”

Douglas L. Mitchell, English
“Clio's Muse: Southern Artists and the Formal History”

Chris Myers, History
“Playing by the Rules: Senator James O. Eastland and the Preservations of White Supremacy in the Post-Civil Rights World”

Kathryn Newfont, History
“Moving Mountains: Forest Politics and the Common Culture in Western North Carolina”

Jonathan F. Phillips, History
"North Carolina Sandhills Culture and Ideology in the New South Era, 1890-1917"

Charles Seagle, Anthropology
“The Politics of the Apolitical: Americans and a Nicaraguan Sister City”

Brian Steele, History
"‘Something ""New Under the Sun’: Thomas Jefferson, the Union, and the Intellectual Construction of America, 1774-1826"

Christopher J. Windolph, English
"The Practical and Common-Sense: Post-Civil War Ethics, Life on the Mississippi and Adventures of Huckleberry Finn"

1999

Kathleen Drowne, English
"Legislating Morality: American Modernism and the Literature of Prohibition, 1920-1933"

Steve Estes, History
"‘I Am a Man’: Masculinity in the Struggle for the Civil Rights, 1954-1972 "

Joshua Guthman, History
"‘A Trip to New York’: Hilbilly Music and the Vaudeville Stage"

Monte Hampton, History
"The Southern Presbyterian Evolution Controversy, 1884-1888 : Science, Theology, and the Experience of Modernity in the Late-Nineteenth Century South"

George Hovis, English
“Contemporary North Carolina Fiction and the Yeoman Ideal”

Mary James, Ecology
“The Distribution and Abundance of Legumes in the Carolina Sandhills”

Michelle McCullers, Folklore
“Funeral Directors as Active Bearers of Burial Traditions on St. Helena Island”

H. Collin Messer, English
"The Grasp of Abstraction: Faulkner, O'Connor, and Percy"

Elizabeth Monahan, Anthropology
“Biocultural Parameters of Social Organization at Town Creek”

Kristofer Ray, History
"Bustling Merchants and Industrious Planters: Society, Politics and the Market in Middle Tennessee, 1780-1860"

Kelly Reames, English
"Southern Women Rewriting Race: Lillian Hellman, Kaye Gibbons, and Elizabeth Cox"

Olivia Silber, Health Behavior
Adolescent Help-Seeking for Dating Violence in a Rural Southern Community

Elizabeth Stearns, Sociology
Immigrants in the American South: Family and Labor Force Characteristics

Regina Sullivan, History
“Woman with a Mission: Remembering Lottie Moon and the Woman's Missionary Union”

Sarah Thuesen, History
"Learning to Belong: Race, Citizenship, and Education in the Jim Crow South, 1917-1954"

Leah Van Wey, Sociology
“Immigrants in the American South: Family and Labor Force Characteristics”

 

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