Congratulations to our successful applicants for BCLA Dean's Office funding in 2016-17
2017 BCLA Faculty Research and Writing Grant
Zaki Eusufzai (ECON): "Do Predictive Analytic Techniques Tend to Reinforce Discrimination Against Disadvantaged Groups?"
Richard Gilbert (PSYC): "Would a Basic Income Guarantee (BIG) Reduce the Motivation to Work? A Meta-Analysis of a Half-Century of Trial Programs"
Anna Harrison (THST): "His Face Spoke to Me: Aelred of rievaulx's Lamentation on the Death of Simon"
Thomas Herndon (ECON): "Two Essays on U.S. Household Debt and the Sources of Systemic Financial Fragility"
Nadia Kim (SOCL): "The New Traditional Man: Changing Asian American Masculinity in Changing Times"
Holli Levitsky (JWST): "Human Waste: Excremental Aesthetics and the Holocaust"
Brett Marroquín (PSYC): "Cancer Patients and their Partners: Relational Influences on Emotion Regulation, Depression, and Physical Health in Lung and Pancreatic Cancers"
Stella Oh (WGST): "Ghost Worlds: Intimate Shadows of War"
Kayoko Okada (PSYC): "Neural Bases of Gestural Communication in Native Deaf Signers"
Alicia Partnoy (MDLL): "A Very Happy Woman. The Journey of Martina Ramirez"
Eliza Rodriguez y Gibson (CLST): "Style and Latina/o Cultural Politics: Affects, Embodiments, Communities"
Rebecca Sager (SOCL): "Breaking Down Boundaries: How Donald Trump and Religious Right Are Going to Reshape Church and State"
Jeff Siker (THST): "The Bible in the Digital Age: The American Context"
Yanjie Wang (ASPA): "Cultural Politics of Representation: Migrant Workers in Contemporary Chinese Cinema"
Amy Woodson-Boulton (HIST): "Explaining Art: Anthropology, Culture, and Primitivism in the Age of Empire"
Sylvia Zamora (SOCL): "Racial Translations: Mexican Immigrants and Race in a Changing America"
2017 BCLA Research Expense Account
Carla Bittel (HIST): "Origins of the Mind: Gender, Phrenology, and Nineteenth-Century American Science"
Anna Muraco (SOCL): "Aging in the Margins"
Nicolas Rosenthal (HIST): "Painting Native America: American Indian Artists in the Twentieth Century"
Mona Seymour (URBN; SOCL): "Veganic Agriculture in the United States"
Mairead Sullivan (WGST): "Strange Matter: Lesbian Death in Feminist and Queer Politics"