2006 Emerson Foundation Grant Recipients

• Christopher Boveroux '08 and Heather Buchman, assistant professor of music
  "The Singing Revolutions of Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania: Music in the Baltic Independence Movements"


• Robert Brande '08 and Tom Jones, professor of archaeology
  "Murray Farm Archaeological Project"


• Kevin Donegan '07 and Todd Rayne, professor of geosciences
  "Predicting the Impacts of Development on Groundwater Resources of the Sauquoit Creek Watershed in Oneida County"


• Alison Fisher '08 and Stephen Ellingson, assistant professor of sociology
  "Modern Day Slavery in America"


• Erica Fultz '08 and Masaaki Kamiya, assistant professor of East Asian languages
  "Generative Linguistics in Japanese"


• Laura Hartz '07 and Naomi Guttman, associate professor of English
  "The Slow Food Movement in Central New York"


• Wiliam Hoffman '07 and Barbara Tewksbury, the William R. Kenan Professor of Geosciences
  "Reconnaissance Study of Deformation Bands in Palagonitic Tuffs in Iceland"


• Xiaobo Ma '09 and Cheng Li, the William R. Kenan Professor of Government
  "Growing Individualism of Chinese College Students"


• Kathleen Naughton '08 and Robin Kinnel, the Silas D. Childs Professor of Chemistry
  "Experimental Investigation of the Solution Structures for Bioactive Pepticles Derived from the Alpha-Fetoprotein"


• Tessa Olson '08 and Ann Silversmith, professor of physics
  "Low Energy Impact Craters"


• Laura Oman '07 and Catherine Kodat, associate professor of English
  "Capitalism and Literature: Looking at How Japanese and Japanese American Women Authors Resist the Culture Industry"


• Alice Popejoy '09 and Brian Glenn, visiting instructor in government
  "Marketing a Maternalist Welfare State"


• Yejun Qian '08 and Julio Videras, assistant professor of economics
  "How has China's Accession into WTO in 2001 Impacted its Environment?"


• Katharine Steigerwald '07 and William Salzillo, professor of art
  "Classical Ballet and the Figure, a Study in Painting"


• Drew Thomases '07 and Jay Williams, the Walcott-Bartlett Professor of Religious Studies
  "The Indian Diaspora of Jackson Heights: Hindu Identity in a Queens Community"


• Rebecca Wagner '07 and Katherine Terrell, visiting assistant professor of English
  "Tristan and Isolde: the Evolution of a Tragedy"


• Xin Wang '09
  "The Double Life of a Single Child: a Study of the Generation of Single Children from Different Socio-Economic Backgrounds"

• William Welles '08 and Janelle Schwartz, visiting instructor of comparative literature
  "From Fangs to Farce: The Figure of the Vampire in Contemporary American Culture"


• Lily Yu '07 and Melek Ortabasi, assistant professor of comparative literature
  "The Creation of 'the Other' in Modern Japanese Literature"

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