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Ann Arbor, MI
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Past Faculty Seed Grant Recipients
Fall 2012
Alison Berent-Spillson
(Psychiatry)
Metabolic Syndrome and Mood Disorders in Women
Nastaran Foyouzi
(Obstetrics and Gynecology)
Genetics of Primary Ovarian Insufficiency: Phase 1: Recruitment
Kelli Stidham Hall
(Obstetrics and Gynecology; Institute for Social Research)
Young Women's Mental Health, Psychosocial Circumstances and Unintended Pregnancy Experiences>
Joan Kee
(History of Art)
Refiguring Abstraction's Worlds: The Works of Zarina, Yayoi Kusama, and Lee So-Jung
S.E. Kile
(Asian Languages and Cultures; Michigan Society of Fellows)Gender Presentation in Early Modern China
Michelle McClellan
(History; Residential College)
Creating a Usable Past: Recent Histories of Gender and Addiction
Victor Roman Mendoza
(Women's Studies; English)
Completion of Manuscript: Fantasy Islands: Race, Illicit Intimacies, and the Philippine in U.S. Imperial Culture
Michelle Segar
(SHARP Center for Women and Girls; IRWG)
Toward Sustainable Health: Leveraging Gender Differences in Explicit and Implicit Motivators to Optimally Promote Physical Activity
"Return (our) children now". The letters "A," "D," "N" stand for "DNA" in Spanish. (Artwork provided by Grandmothers of the Plaza de Mayo.)
Alexandra Minna Stern
(Obstetrics and Gynecology; American Culture; History)
Mitochondrial DNA and Missing Mothers: Gender, Genetics, and Human Rights in Argentina
WINTER 2012
Lily Cox-Richard
(Art & Design and Michigan Society of Fellows)
The Stand (Possessing Powers)
Jennifer Glass
(Psychiatry and Research Center for Group Dynamics)
Patient Perspectives on the Impact of Fibromyalgia on Driving Behavior
Wendy Marder
(Internal Medicine)
Development of Guidelines for Female Fertility Preservation for Rheumatologists and Nephrologists
Lisa Martin
(Behavioral Sciences, Dearborn)
Building a Tool Kit for the Providers Share Workshop: Using Video Vignettes to Facilitate Frank Talk Among Abortion Providers
Abortion providers are targets of stigma, violence, harassment, and restrictive legislation
Timothy McKay
(Physics and Astronomy, LSA Honors Program)
I'm Not a Physics Person: The Impact of Values Affirmation on Gender Disparities in Introductory Physics Performance
Nadine Naber
(Women's Studies and Program in American Culture)
Women, Gender, and the Egyptian Revolution: TheArab Spring from a Transnational Feminist Perspective
Elizabeth Roberts
(Anthropology)
Epigenetics and the Maternal Body
Valerie Traub
(English and Women's Studies)
Symposium on the Cultural History of Cartography
FALL 2011
Jason Bell
(Obstetrics & Gynecology)
Assessing the Need for the Integration of Family Planning and HIV Services in Kumasi, Ghana
Lindsey Bloor
(Psychiatry and VA Ann Arbor Healthcare System)
Development and Evaluation of a Women Veteran’s MOVE! Weight Management Program
David Caron
(Romance Languages [French] and Women's Studies)
“Sex and Justice” Conference
Paul Clyde
(Business Economics and Public Policy and Part-time MBA Program)Funding Women’s Health Care at Panzi Hospital: Assessing the Business Model and Increasing Capacity
Patricia Coleman-Burns
(Afroamerican and African Studies and Nursing)Leading from Behind: A Participatory Action Model! Bringing Culturally Competent, Evidence-based Health Literacy to a Black Faith-based Community to Reduce Disparate Health Outcomes in African American Women and Girls
Lilia Cortina
(Psychology and Women's Studies)
Gender, (In)Justice, and International Occupational Health Psychology
Megan Eagle
(Nursing)
Addressing the Risk of Maternal Mortality in Rural Ecuador
Dae Hee Kwak
(Kinesiology)
Selling Pink: Exploring the Impact of Breast Cancer-related Marketing Campaigns on Consumer Perception toward the Cause
Zoe McLaren
(Health Management and Policy)
Cost Effectiveness of Medical Devices to Reduce Maternal Mortality in Low-resource Settings
Terri Sarris
(Screen Arts and Cultures)
Finishing Funds for the Film The Radiant Sun: Designer Ruth Adler Schnee
Rebecca Thornton
(Economics)
South African Women in the Workforce: Cost and Motivational Barriers to Entry
Mieko Yoshihama
(Social Work)
Great East Japan Earthquake through Women’s Lenses: Past, Present, and Future
WINTER 2011
Naomi Andre
(Women’s Studies and Residential College)
South African Opera Today: Princess Magogo and Winnie
Tabbye Chavous
(School of Education and Combined Program in Education and Psychology)
African American Women in STEM: Considering Issues of Race, Gender, and Academic Identity
Rita Chin
(History)
European Feminists and the Gendered Discourse on Immigrant Muslim Women
Clare Croft
(Dance)Funding Footprints: US State Department Sponsorship of International Dance Tours
Barbara DeWolfe
(William L. Clements Library)Women in History Project
Robin Edelstein
(Psychology)
Neuroendocrine and Psychological Changers in Heterosexual and Lesbian Couples during the Transition to Parenthood
Holly Hughes
(School of Art & Design, Theatre & Drama, and Women’s Studies)
Standing Heat
Petra Kuppers
(English, Art & Design, Theatre & Drama, and Women’s Studies)
Women’s Disability Culture Poetry: Experimental Women’s Writing, Somatic Engagement, and Practice-As-Research
Sara McClelland
(Psychology and Women’s Studies)
Understanding the Intimacy and Sexual Quality of Life Concerns of Women with Metastatic Breast Cancer
FALL 2010
Maria Cotera
(Women’s Studies and Program in American Culture)
Chicana Por Mi Raza: Uncovering the Hidden History of Chicana Feminism
(1965–85)
Rockefeller Oteng and Richard Redman
RO-Emergency Medicine, RR-Nursing
Nursing Roles and Attitudes in Kusami, Ghana: An Exploratory Study
Megan Sweeney
(English Language and Literature and Center for Afroamerican and African Studies)
The Gardener Who Prepared the Soil: Sadie Peterson Delaney—Librarian and Bibliotherapist.
Sadie Peterson Delaney. Photo courtesy of Tuskegee University Archives and supplied by Prof. Megan Sweeney (English Language and Literature and Afroamerican and African Studies), Fall 2010 Faculty Seed Grant Recipient for The Gardener Who Prepared the Soil: Sadie Peterson Delaney--Librarian and Bibliotherapist
Winter 2010
Alexis Bravos
(Screen Arts & Cultures)Hepworth
Deborah Keller-Cohen
(Linguistics and Women's Studies)Language, Social Engagement, and Cognition in Aging: A Pilot Study
Sara Konrath
(Institute for Social Research, Social Psychology)Do Issues or Relational Bonds Matter More in Political Giving Behavior
Victor Mendoza
(Women's Studies and English Language and Literature)Negroes Going Native: Racial Drag and African American Disidentification with Philippine Insurrectos
Tiya Miles
(Program in American Culture, History, Center for Afroamerican and African Studies, Native American Studies Program)Our Mothers' Gardens (a novel of historical fiction)
Beth Glover Reed
(Social Work and Women's Studies)Addressing Both Intimate Partner Violence and Alcohol and Other Drugs: Field Analyses of Contested Spaces
Mary Rigdon
(Political Science)The Role of Expectations and Gender in Altruism
Richard M. Tolman
(Social Work)The Meaning and Impact of Prenatal Ultrasound for First-Time Fathers: Effects on Paternal-Fetal Attachment, Motivation to Parent, and Positive Support towards Their Partners
Valerie Traub
(English Language and Literature and Women's Studies)Mapping Embodiment in the Early Modern West: Anatomy, Cartography, and the Prehistory of Normality
Ruth Tsoffar
(Women’s Studies and Comparative Literature)Cannibal Ideology: Sexuality, Ethnicity, and Colonialism in Hebrew Cultures
Fall 2009
Lilia Cortina
(Psychology and Women's Studies)Hostile Work Experiences: Undermining the Careers of Women in Leadership
Derek Griffith
(Public Health)African American Masculinities and Chronic Illness
Heidi Kumao
(Art & Design)Timed Release
Brenda K. Marshall
(English Language and Literature)What’s a Heaven For : An Intervention into the Publishing Industry
Terri Sarris
(Screen Arts & Culture)Loose Threads: An Experimental Documentary Exploring a History of Home Sewing
Michelle L. Segar
(IRWG)The Framing of Physical Activity by Clinicians Impacts Patient Self-Objectification, Motivation, and Participation
Julia Seng/Janis Miller
(Nursing, Obstetrics & Gynecology, and IRWG) and Janis Miller (Nursing and Obstetrics & Gynecology/Nursing, Obstetrics and Gynocology)Could the "Love Hormone," Oxytocin, Be a Mechanism of Pain in Pelvic Tissue?
Mieko Yoshihama
(Social Work)Developing Community-Driven, Socioculturally Relevant Intimate Partner Violence Prevention Program: Multi-Method Assessment of Hamtramck Bangladeshi Community
Winter 2009
Pamela Aronson
(Behavioral Sciences–Dearborn)Breaking Barriers or Locked Out? How Nontraditional Students Experience College
Holly Hughes
(Art & Design, Theatre & Drama, and Women’s Studies)The Wedding Project: Let Them Eat Cake
Petra Kuppers
(English Language and Literature, Women’s Studies, and Theatre & Drama)Women’s Disability Culture Poetry
Jody Lori
(Nursing)Liberian Women’s Experience of Hospital Birth
Rebecca Thornton
(Economics)Women, Circumcision, and HIV Prevention
2008
Amy Sara Carroll
(Program in American Culture and English Language and Literature)Descubrir el hilo negro: The Allegorical Performative in Post-NAFTA Cultural Production from Mexico and the United States
Tamar Carroll
(History)Grassroots Feminism: Direct Action Organizing and Coalition Building for Social Change in New York City
Carol Jacobsen
(Art & Design, Women’s Studies, and Program in American Culture)Imagine Freedom: Women, Incarceration, and Resistance
Reshma Jagsi
(Radiation Oncology)Representation of Women and Minorities in Medical Research: Associations with Researcher Gender and Funding Source
Artemis Leontis
(Classical Studies)Intellectual Biography of Eva Palmer Sikelianos
Lydia Li
(Social Work)Gender and Elder Care in China
Lisa Kane Low
(Nursing, Women’s Studies, and Obstetrics & Gynecology)Implementing Active Management of Third Stage Labor in Rural Honduras to Prevent Post-Partum Hemorrhage
Deborah Sampson
(Nursing)An Historical Analysis of State Legislation and Nurse Practitioner Practice Acts: Professional Nursing, Gendered Work Autonomy, and Health Policy
Terri Sarris
(Screen Arts & Cultures)Ruth Adler Schnee: Michigan Modernist (A Documentary Portrait of Modernism Designer Ruth Adler Schnee)
Elizabeth Wingrove
(Political Science and Women's Studies)The Ancien Régime of Letters
Susan Wright
(IRWG and Residential College)Feminist Theory and Arms Control
2007
Barbara DeWolfe
(William L. Clements Library)Women in History—Public Databases
Lawrence LaFountain-Stokes
(Program in American Culture and Romance Languages and Literatures)Translocas and Transmachas: Trans Diasporic Puerto Rican Drag
Anna Kirkland
(Women’s Studies and Political Science)Law and Social Change through Father's Rights: A Preliminary Inquiry
Janis Miller
(Obstetrics & Gynecology)Urine Chemistries to Objectively Document Effect of Beverage Intake Modifications on Symptoms of Overactive Bladder
Louise O'Brien
(Neurology)Sleep-Disordered Breathing as a Risk Factor for Preeclampsia
Heather O'Mahen
(Behavioral Sciences, UM-Flint)Barriers to Mental Health Treatment Use in Depressed Pregnant Women
Ami Pflugrad-Kackischm
(History)Brothers of a Vow: Secret Fraternal Orders and White Male Political Culture in Antebellum Virginia
Shachar Pinsker
(Near Eastern Studies)The "Meager" Gifts of Anne Kleiman: Hebrew Poetry by Women in America
Elizabeth Roberts
(IRWG and Anthropology)Disturbed Sex: Biomedicine and the Determination of Ambiguous Genitalia in Ecuador
Xiomara Santamarina
(English Language and Literature and Center for Afroamerican and African Studies)Genealogical and Historical Research on Eliza Potter, African American Hairdresser and Author of A Hairdresser's Experience in High Life (1859)
Ruth Scodel
(Classical Studies)Feminism and Classics V: Bringing It All Back Home
Martha Sheil
(Music)Margaret Harshaw: A Tribute to Her Vocal Legacy through Interviews and Observations with Distinguished Teacher/Artists
Sapna Taggar
(Education)Nurturing Tradition, Embracing Modernity: Muslim Girls' Quest for Identity in the Post September 11 Era
Amy Young
(IRWG)Peer Rejection among Girls as a Risk Factor for Sexual Harassment and Assault
2006
Amal Fadlalla
(Center for Afroamerican and African Studies and Women's Studies)Transcending the Nation: Engendering Muslim-Sudanese Identities in America
Jessica Fogel
(Theatre & Dance)Where the Book Falls Open: An Evening of Dance
David Halperin
(English Language and Literature and Women's Studies) and Valerie Traub (English Language and Literature and Women's Studies)Gay Shame
Jennifer Hardacker
(Screen Arts & Cultures)Bringing the Voices of HIV Positive Caribbean Women to the Discourse on Gender and the Epidemic
Lisa Harris
(Obstetrics & Gynecology)Risk Distortions in Obstetrics and Gynecology
Nancy Hunt
(History and Obstetrics & Gynecology)Accra Re-Mix: Bodies, Gender, and Knowledge in a West African City
Katherine Ibbett
(Romance Languages and Literatures)Imagining Compassion: Literature and Fellow-Feeling in Early Modern France
Michelle Kees
(Psychiatry and Psychology)Interpersonal Trauma in Mothers: The Differential Impact of Post Trauma Symptoms on Sons and Daughters
Anna Kirkland
(Political Science and Women's Studies)Legal and Medical Consciousness among Fat Rights Activists and Members of Overeaters Anonymous
Lynda Lisabeth
(Neurology)Gender and Acute Stroke Presentation: Do Women with Stroke Present Differently than Men with Stroke?
Karin Martin
(Sociology and Women's Studies)The ABCs of the Birds and the Bees: The Sexual Socialization of Young Children
Tamiko Noll
(Nursing)An Ethnography of Preeclampsia: A Cultural Analysis of High-Risk Pregnancy, Disease, and Physical Activity
Megan Sweeney
(English Language and Literature and Center for Afroamerican and African Studies)Doing Time, Reading Crime: Cultures of Reading in Women's Prisons
Anjel Vahratian
(Obstetrics & Gynecology and Women's Studies)Maternal Morbidity Associated with Infertility Treatment
2005
Elizabeth Cole
(Center for Afroamerican and African Studies and Women's Studies)African American Debutantes: The Self-conscious Construction of Femininity, Race, and Class
Pamela Davis Kean
(IRWG)The Influence of Race and Gender in Information Technology Careers
Ruth Dunkle
(Social Work)Mothers of Adult Daughters with a Serious Mental Illness: The Experience of African Americans and Whites
Deborah Keller-Cohen
(Linguistics, Women's Studies, and Education)Gender and Family Interaction Strategies in People over 85 with Low and High Family Contact
Scene from Who’s Afraid of Virginia Ham? a collaborative performance, directed by Prof. Holly Hughes and commissioned by IRWG
Holly Hughes
(Art & Design, Theatre and Drama, Women's Studies)Who’s Afraid of Virginia Ham?
Catherine Kim
(Obstetrics & Gynecology and Internal Medicine)Support and Advice for Gestational Exercise and Diet (SAGE)
Maria Montoya
(History and Program in American Culture)Creating an American Home: Work, Property, and Paternalism on the American Landscape, 1900–1960
Nadine Naber
(Program in American Culture and Women's Studies)Arab San Francisco: On Gender, Cultural Citizenship, and Belonging
Divya Patel
(Obstetrics & Gynecology)Utilization of Emergency Contraception: Disentangling Barriers and Improving Access for Women
Denise Sekaquaptewa
(Psychology)Gender Stereotypes in the Math Classroom: Assessment, Consequences, and an Intervention
Antonia Villarruel
(Nursing)Exploration of Abused Latina Women's HIV Risk Factors and Perceptions: Basis for Development of a Culturally Sensitive HIV Prevention Program
2004
Jami L. Anderson
(Philosophy)Get Real: A Hegelian Analysis of Contemporary Social Issues
Georgina Hickey
(History-Dearborn)Radical Women and the Friendly City: Feminist Challenges to Urban Gender Segregation in the 20th Century
Valerie Kivelson
(History)Who was a Witch? Russian Witchcraft Persecution in Comparative Perspective
Jayati Lal
(Sociology)Consuming Modernity the American Way: Amway and the Growth of Middle Class Consumerism in India
Ching Kwan Lee
(Sociology)Working in China: Ethnographies of Gender, Class, and Spatial Inequality in the Chinese Workplace
Lynda Lisabeth
(Stroke Program, U-M Health System)Gender and Acute Stroke Presentation: Do Women with Stroke Present Differently than Men with Stroke?
Christian Matjias
(Music and Dance)The Preservation of One's Story: The Video Archiving of Renowned Dancers from the Mid-20th Century
Stella Nair
(History)Defining Boundaries/Defending Borders: Spanish Aggression, Guaco Ocllo, and Her Struggle for Independence in the Colonial Andes
Qiang Ning
(History of Art)Visual History of Chinese Women
Nancy Reame
(Nursing)Collecting Oral 'Herstories' from the Veteran Feminists of Michigan: Talking about Feminism across Generations
Stephanie Rowley
(Psychology)Gender Differences in Racial Socialization, Racial Identity, Feelings of Alienation, and Well-being among Biracial Adolescents
Maria Carla Sanchez
(English)The Real America: Realism, Social Reform, and the Writing of the Nation, 1830-65
Catherine Sanok
(English)Women Saints of Our Countrie of England: Gender, Religion, and National Identity in Premodern England
Michael S. Spencer
(Social Work)Developing a Culturally Competent Intervention for Poor Mothers with Depression: A U-M/Detroit Head Start Partnership
Robin M. Wilson
(Dance)Slave Moth: A Dance Theatre Work: On Stage and in Community
2003
Kathryn Babayan
(Near Eastern Studies)Celibacy, Marriage, and Friendship: Mystical Union with God and the Cultivation of the Ars Erotica
Carol F. Karlsen
(History and Women's Studies)After Salem: The Transformation of the Witch in American Culture
Lora Bex Lempert
(Sociology-Dearborn)Deconstructing Wife Abuse in South America
Lisa Kane Low
(Obstetrics and Gynecology)Adolescents' Experiences of Childbirth: Nothing is Simple, Part 2
Karin A. Martin
(Sociology)William Wants a Doll: Can He Have One? Child Care Experts and Gender-Neutral Child Rearing
James Steward
(UMMA, History of Art)Conversations with Traditions: Nijima Sheikh and Shahzia Sikander
Lucia M. Suarez
(Romance Languages-Spanish)The Psyche in Pain: The Making of Caribbean Memory
Alisse Theodore
(English Language and Literature)The Role of Conservative Rhetorics in Social Change: Woman Suffrage and Women's Liberation
Martha Vicinus
(English)Cosmopolitan Women: American and English Expatriate Writers (1890-1920)
Mieko Yoshihama
(Social Work)A Participatory Action Research on Domestic Violence in Asian Pacific Islander Communities in Southeast Michigan
Amy M. Young
(U-M Substance Abuse Research Center)Adolescents' Sexual Inferences about Drinking Women
2002
Poonam Arora
Film Biography of Indira GandhiCynthia Arslanian-Engoren
(Nursing)Treatment-Seeking Decisions of Women with Symptoms of Acute Myocardial Infarction
Ted Brader
(Center for Political Studies, ISR)Emotional Equality and Democratic Representation: Gender, Stereotypes, and Emotion in Election Campaigns
Susan Frazier-Kouassie
(Research Center for Group Dynamics, ISR)Gender and Mental Health Research: Patterns, Problems, and Promising Directions
Jayati Lal
(Sociology and Women's Studies)Fabricating Class, Assembling Gender: Women Workers and the Cultural Politics of Modernity in Delhi's Television and Garment Factories
Piotr Michalowski
(Near Eastern Studies)Mistress Who Sparkles Like the Stars of the Heavens: The Sumerian Goddess of Writings
Mary O'Connor
(Women's Educational Center, Flint)Issues in Women's Citizenship: Local and Global Assessments
Melita Schaum
The Reading PagodaAmy Schulz
(Public Health)Intersectionality, Neighborhood Context, and Health in Detroit
Rebecca Upton
(Center for the Ethnography of Everyday Life and Anthropology)Does the Womb Go to the Head if You Have HIV? Linking Infertility and AIDS among Women in Botswana