Advancing Scholarship in the Humanities and Social Sciences
2008 Advancing Scholarship Call for Proposals
Download the Application Form and Guidelines here in interactive, fillable Adobe Acrobat, or Microsoft Word .
Application Deadline: Closed. Next RFP to be released in October 2008.
2007 Program Brochure
Download the booklet describing the results of the 2007 program here: ASHSS Program Brochure .
2008 Advancing Scholarship Research Grant Awardees
David Albertson, Dept. of Religion, College of Letters, Arts and Sciences.
“Between Mathematics and Mysticism: Nicholas of Cusa and the School of Chartres.”
Sarah Banet-Weiser, Annenberg School of Communication.
“Identity: Brand Culture and Political Possibility.”
Jonathan Barnett, Gould School of Law.
“Against Utopia: Sharing Economies in Innovation Markets .”
Caroline Betts, Dept. of Economics, College of Letters, Arts and Sciences.
“Globalization, De-industrialization and the Awakening Giant: Economic Stagnation in Japan and the Emergence of China.”
Tim Biblarz, Dept. of Sociology, College of Letters, Arts and Sciences.
“Sexual Orientation and Social Mobility.”
Gail Peter Borden, School of Architecture.
“Material Precedent: The Typology of Modern Tectonics.”
John Ellis Bowlt, Dept. of Slavic Language & Literature, College of Letters, Arts and Sciences.
“Leon Bakst: the Literary Legacy.”
Peter Brinson, Division of Interactive Media, School of Cinematic Arts.
“The Cat and the Coup: An Interdisciplinary Education Game for History Students.”
Carolyn Cartier, Dept. of Geography, College of Letters, Arts and Sciences.
“Art, Power, Land and Love.”
Andrew Curtis, Dept. of Geography, College of Letters, Arts and Sciences.
“Spatial Patterns of Neighborhood Recovery after Katrina.”
Roberto Ignacio Diaz, Dept. of Spanish & Portuguese, College of Letters, Arts and Sciences.
“Abductions of Opera: Passion and Absence in Latin America, 1701-2006.”
Susan Enguidanos, Davis School of Gerontology.
“Impact of Home-based Palliative Care on Medical Service Use and Quality of Life Among Terminally Ill Patients.”
Stephen Finlay, Dept. of Philosophy, College of Letters, Arts and Sciences.
“Confusion of Tongues: An Analysis of Evaluative Discourse.”
Macarena Gomez-Barris, Department of Sociology, College of Letters, Arts and Sciences.
“Mind Spirit: Spirituality as Practices and Thought in the Americas .”
Douglas Greenberg, Dept. of History, College of Letters, Arts and Sciences.
“Documenting the Rwandan Tutsi Genocide.”
Selahattin Imrohoroglu, Marshall School of Business.
“Reform Uncertainty and Social Security.”
Jeremy Kagan, Production Division, School of Cinematic Arts.
“The Democracy School.”
Peggy Kamuf, Dept. of French & Italian, College of Letters, Arts and Sciences.
“Training Workshop: Translation of the Seminars of Jacques Derrida.”
Kara Keeling, Division of Critical Studies, School of Cinematic Arts.
“African Cinema and Digitization.”
Jung Ki Kim, Davis School of Gerontology.
“Differences in Health Conditions and Associated Risk Factors among Middle and Old-Aged People in the U.S. and Korea.”
Karen Koblitz, Department of Ceramics, Roski School of Fine Arts.
“Reflections on Alternative Uses of the Pottery Vessel in the Southern Caucasus.”
Sonya Lee, Dept. of Art History, College of Letters, Arts and Sciences.
“Surviving Nirvana: Death and Transfiguration of the Buddha in Chinese Art.”
Lisa Leeman, Production Division, School of Cinematic Arts.
“Crazy Wisdom: An Inquiry About Spiritual Leadership.”
Shmuel Leshem, Gould School of Law.
“The Effect of the Right to Silence on the Innocent's Decision to Remain Silent.”
Frank Lewis, Dept. of Philosophy, College of Letters, Arts and Sciences.
“Aristotle and His Friends.”
Paul Lichterman, Depts. of Sociology & Religion, College of Letters, Arts and Sciences.
“Comparing the Dynamics of Civic Life: Addressing Homelessness in Los Angeles and Paris.”
Nancy Lutkehaus, Dept. of Anthropology, College of Letters, Arts and Sciences.
“From Ethnographic Artifact to Object d'art: Nelson A. Rockfeller, The Metropolitan Museum and the Role of ‘Primitive Art’.”
Susan McCabe, Dept. of English, College of Letters, Arts and Sciences.
“Bryher: The Triangulated Desires of Modernism.”
Natania Meeker, Dept. of French & Italian, College of Letters, Arts and Sciences.
“The Female Libertine: Engendering Modernity in Ancien Regime France.”
Lori Rachelle Meeks, Dept. of Religion, College of Letters, Arts and Sciences.
“Gender, Buddhism, and Popular Culture in Late Medieval and Early Modern Japan: Tracing Ideological Change.”
Richard Meyer, Dept. of Art History, College of Letters, Arts and Sciences .
“What was Comparing Art?”
Beth Meyerowitz, Dept. of Psychology, College of Letters, Arts and Sciences.
“Trauma and Resilence among Orphan Heads of Household Who Survived the Rwandan
Genocide.”
Tania Modleski, Dept. of English, College of Letters, Arts and Sciences.
“The Director's Wife Cut" Hitchcock and His Female Collaborators.”
Viet Thanh Nguyen, Dept. of English, College of Letters, Arts and Sciences.
“The Afterlife of War: Between Viet Nam and the United States.”
Gary Dean Painter, School of Policy, Planning, & Development.
“Elderly Housing Tenure Transitions: Life Cycle, Demographic, and Familial Factors.”
Laura Pulido, Dept. of American Studies & Ethnicity, College of Letters, Arts and Sciences.
“What Does it Mean to be Brown? Mexican American Racial Subjectivity in Southern California.”
Michelle Riconscente, Rossier School of Education.
“Engagement Beyond the Border: Understanding Student Motivation in Latin America.”
Jefferey Sellers, Dept. of Political Science, College of Letters, Arts and Sciences.
“Governance and Metropolitan Inequality: A Global Analysis.”
Xiaobing Tang, Dept. of East Asian Languages and Cultures, College of Letters, Arts and Sciences.
“Scenes and Visions: Approaches to Modern Chinese Visual Culture.”
Karen Tongson, Depts. of English & Gender Studies, College of Letters, Arts and Sciences.
“Relocations: Queer of Color Suburban Imaginaries.”
Charlie White, Roski School of Fine Arts.
“Comparative Photographic Study of Teenage and Transgender Subjects.”
Diane Winston, Annenberg School of Communications.
“Saved by Deadline: Religion, News and American Identity.”
Mina Yang, Dept. of Musicology, Thornton School of Music.
“The Passion 2000 Project: Clasical Music and Postmodernism at the Turn of the New Millennium.”
Maria Luisa Zubizarreta, Dept. of Linguistics, College of Letters, Arts and Sciences.
“Second Language Speech: the Acqusition of Phrasal Prosody and Rhythm.”
2007 Advancing Scholarship Research Grant Awardees
Anderson, Emily. Asst. Prof. (English, CLAS)
"Staging the Passions: Gender and Performance in the 18th C. Drama and Novel"
Aritz, Jolanta. Asst. Prof. (Mgmt & Org, Marshall)
"Influence of Culture on the Performance of Multicultural Work Teams in Decisionmaking Meetings"
Baker, Malcolm. Prof. (Art History, CLAS)
"The Marble Index: Roubiliac and Sculptural Portraiture in 18th C. Britain"
Barnes, Jeb. Asst. Prof. (Poli. Sci., CLAS)
"Making Rights Work: From Law on the Books to Organizational Practices"
Bleecker, Julian. Asst. Prof. (Interactive Media, SCA)
"Interdisciplinary Knowledge Production in Collaborative Research Between Artistic and Engineering Practices"
Bleichmar, Daniela. Asst. Prof. (Art History, CLAS)
"Painting as Exploration, Visual Culture and Colonial Botany"
Burns, Bryan. Asst. Prof. (Classics, CLAS)
"Eastern Boeotia Archaeological Project"
Carnicke, Sharon. Prof. (Critical Studies, Theatre)
"Active Analysis: Stanislavsky's Hidden Legacy to Theatre"
Crimmins, Eileen. Prof. (Gerontology)
"Stress and Health in Men and Women"
Currid, Elizabeth. Asst. Prof. (SPPD)
"L.A. as a Global Cultural Hub: Implications for Policy, Planning, and Development"
Demers, Joanne. Asst. Prof. (Music History, Thornton)
"Aesthetics of Contemporary Electronic Music"
Deverell, William. Prof. (History, CLAS)
"The Redemptive West: Rethinking the Post-Civil War American West"
Dodd, Lynn. Lecturer (Religion, CLAS)
"Building Resources for Peace: Contested Heritage and Holy Sites in Israel and Palestine"
Dudziak, Mary. Prof. (Law)
"How War Made America: A Twentieth Century History"
Emeka, Amon. Asst. Prof. (Sociology, CLAS)
"Competing Conceptions of Race in the 21st C.: A Statistical Analysis"
Fiss, Peer. Asst. Prof. (Mgmt & Org, Marshall)
"Set-theoretic Methods and Organizational Configurations"
Fletcher, Angus. Asst. Prof. (Critical Studies, Theatre)
"Comic Democracies: Machiavellian Pragmatism and the Society of Wits"
Fossett, Judith Jackson. Assoc. Prof. (English, CLAS)
"Center for New World Slavery and the Americas"
Hoji, Hajime. Assoc. Prof. (Linguistics, CLAS)
"Hypothesis Testing in Generative Grammar"
James, Heather. Assoc. Prof. (English, CLAS)
"Ovid in Renaissance Poetry and Political Thought"
Kaiser, Elsi. Asst. Prof. (Linguistics, CLAS)
"Investigating Effects of Cognitive Coherence on Language Processing"
Klein, Malcolm. Emeritus (Psychology, CLAS)
"Cross-National Street Gang Research"
Klerman, Daniel. Prof. (Law)
"Jurisdictional Competition and the Evolution of Common Law"
Kondo, Dorinne. Prof. (Anthropology, CLAS)
"(Re)Visions of Race: Performance, Ethnography, and Politics in Motion"
Kun, Joshua. Assoc. Prof. (Communication, Annenberg)
"The World Begins Here: American Myths, Mexican Dreams, and the Making of Tijuana"
Lemon, Rebecca. Assoc. Prof. (English, CLAS)
"Concept of Addiction in Early Modern England"
Levin, Janet. Assoc. Prof. (Philosophy, CLAS)
"Imaginability, Possibility, and Intelligible Connections"
Mirham, Danielle. Prof. (CET, Education)
"Interdisciplinary Approach to the Concept of the Garden"
Musick, Kelly. Asst. Prof. (Sociology, CLAS)
"Class Differences in Expected and Achieved Fertility"
O'Neil, Megan. Asst. Prof. (Art History, CLAS)
"Ancient Maya Objects of History: Fragments"
Pastor, Manuel. Prof. (Geography, CLAS)
"Toxics over Time: A Longitudinal Look at Environmental Disparities in California"
Reid, Megan. Asst. Prof. (Religion, CLAS)
"Abu Ghraib Seminar Project: Critical Perspectives on Violence and Visual Culture"
Sanchez, George. Prof. (History, CLAS)
"The House We Live In: Race, Difference and the Genealogy of Group Relations Across Disciplines"
Schwartz, David. Assoc. (Psychology, CLAS)
"Bullying by Peers during Childhood and Risk for Maladjustment"
Sherwood, Roger. Prof. (Architecture)
"Getty Sketchbooks: A Model for Conducting Design Competitions"
Smith, Stacy. Assoc. Prof. (Communication, Annenberg)
"Impact of Hypersexualized Media Characters on Young Girls' Body Dissatisfaction"
Trickett, Penelope. Prof. (Social Work)
"From Nature vs Nurture to Nature x Nurture: Investigating How Genes Interact with Child Abuse and Neglect"
Vihvelin, Kadri. Assoc. Prof. (Philosophy, CLAS)
"Our Doings and What We Allow"
Wu, Vivian. Asst. Prof. (SPPD)
"Employer's Choice of Health Plan"
Yaffe, Gideon. Assoc. Prof. (Philosophy, CLAS)
"Trying and Attempted Crimes"
Zelinski, Elizabeth. Prof. (Gerontology)
"Executive Function Training in Older Adults"
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