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Faculty Summer Fellows
David Brasington, Economics
Black Migration and Police Defunding
Brian Calfano, Journalism / School of Public & International Affairs
Nothing Funnier than the News! Johnny Carson’s Political Effect on America.
Xuan Cao, Mathematical Sciences
Development of RNA-seq-based gene expression risk score in asthmatics
Mauricio Espinoza, Romance and Arabic Languages & Literatures
The Song That Speaks Two Words’: U.S. Central American Poetry from Civil Wars to Migrant Caravans
Kathleen Grogan, Anthropology
Effects of lifestyle and environmental change on the human epigenome
Peter Langland-Hassan, Philosophy
Living on in Others
Sookkyung Lim, Mathematical Sciences
Computer simulationsof bacterial chemotaxis combined with a fluid-mechanical model
Jack Mewhirter, School of Public & International Affairs
Measuring and Assessing the Impact of US Police Militarization
David Niven, School of Public & International Affairs
The Structural Origins of Racial Disparities in Redistricting
Kenneth Tankersley, Anthropology
Native Americans, Academia, and the 7th Generation
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Faculty Summer Fellows
2021 - 2022
Zvi Biener, Philosophy
The Invention of Evidence
Isaac Campos, History
Drugs and Pandemics, Past and Present; and The Early History of Marijuana in the United States: A Digital Humanities Project
Wayne Durrill, History
Cake Walk
Erika Gasser, History
Religion and Sexuality in Colonial America
Michael Gott, Romance Languages
Transnational Quebec Cinema: Nation, Diversity, and Representation
Xiaoqin Guo, Mathematical Sciences
Random Walks and Stochastic Homogenization in a Balanced Environment
Sharell Luckett, English & Comparative Literature
The Luckett Paradigm
Laura Micciche,
English & Comparative Literature
Writing Support for Faculty of Color
Rebecca Sanders, Political Science
Resistance and Rollback: The Politics of Women’s Rights Contestation at the United Nations
Tracy Teslow, History
Matching Families: Race and Science in American Adoption
Alex Thurston, Political Science
Relations Between States and Muslim Scholars: The Case of Postcolonial Mauritania
Xia Wang, Mathematical Sciences
Deep Learning on Binary Data
Gary Weissman,
English & Comparative Literature
Contribution to Slow Narrative Across Media
Rebecca Wingo, History
Reframing the Crows: Housing and Adult Education on the Crow Reservation, 1884-1934
2020 - 2021
Lora Arduser, English & Comparative Literature
Rhetorical Practices of Mortuary Science
Deniz Bilman, Mathematical Sciences
Rogue Waves in Various Media
Zuan Cao, Mathematical Sciences
Aberrant structure MRI in Parkinson's disease based on tensor regression analysis
Elizabeth Frierson, History
History of Pharmacology in the Ottoman Empire, Egypt, and Europe
Susan Karr, History
Lost & Found; Collective Memory & Historical Imagination in Renaissance Jurisprudence
Maria Moreno, Romance and Arabic Languages & Literatures
The Santa Cruzada Manuscript: Dating and Contextualizing an Unpublished Cookbook from Mexico
Sunnie Rucker-Chang, German Studies
Chinese Migration and the Serbian Cultural Imaginary
Siva Sivaganesan, Mathematical Sciences
Subgroup Analysis of Multiple Responses and High Dimensional Covariates
Katherine Sorrels, History
On the Spectrum: Jewish Refugees from Nazi Austria and the Politics of Disability in the UK and US
2019 - 2020
Won Chang
, Mathematical Sciences
New Statistical Framework for Large Scale Computer Model Calibration Using Deep Learning
Alfred Cotton
, Journalism
Racist Media Representations of Police Shootings: The Problem of Primary Definition
Mauricio Espinoza
,Romance and Arabic Languages and Literatures
Beyond Bad Hombres: Il/legality and Latinx Heroism in U.S. Popular Culture (from Zorro to Narcos)
Seungki Kim
, Math Sciences
The standard deviation of the number of saddle connections of bounded length on translation surfaces
Rebecca Lindenberg
, English
A Brief History of the Future Apocalypse: Poems
Sharrell Luckett
, English
Documenting a Dramatic Theorist of the African Diaspora
Heidi Lene Maibom
, Philosophy
Empathy. New Ideas in Philosophy
Gareth Speight
, Mathematical Sciences
Viable Paths in Non Smooth Spaces
Leah Stewart
, English
Immersion: A Novel
Yanyu Xiao
, Mathematical Sciences
Mathematical modeling in examining the roles of vectors in the transmission of vector-borne diseases
2018 - 2019
Aryay Finkelstein
, Judaic Studies Sacrifice
Priests and the Temple in the Apostolic Constitutions
Gergana Ivanova
, German Studies
Literacy and Sexual Allure: Court Culture in Early Modern Japan
Victor Kaftal
, Math Sci.
Ideals in Multiplier algebras
Lim Sookkyung
, Math Sci.
Understanding the swimming mechanism of a bacterium, Vibrio alginolyticus via mathematical modeling
Rebecca Sanders
, Political Science
Norm Spoiling: Undermining the International Women's Rights Agenda
Joseph Takougang
, Africana Studies
Home Sweet Home: Returned Diaspora Cameroonians
Kenneth Tankersley
, Anthropology
The impact of maize on Native American agricultural soil.
Xia Wang
, Math Sci.
Bayesian Functional ANOVA Models in Climate Prediction
2017 - 2018
Won Chang
, Mathematical Sciences
Event-based diagnostics of model precipitation using rainstorm identification and tracking
Ashley Currier
, Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies
Marriage-Equality Mobilization in Kentucky
Jennifer Glaser
, English & Comparative Literature
Graphic Inheritances: Race. Media, Comics
Kristen Iversen
, English & Comparative Literature
Hamlet’s Secret: Colorado’s Hidden African American Jazz Club and Literary Salon
Sarah Jackson
, Anthropology
Sitting Together with Things: Human-Object Relationships among the Maya
Craig Perry
, Judaic Studies
Masters and Slaves in Medieval Egypt
Leila Rodriguez Soto
, Anthropology
The Integration of Unaccompanied Minors in Cincinnati
Yanyu Xiao
, Mathematical Sciences
The mathematical modeling for infectious diseases
2016 - 2017
Isaac
Campos-Costero
, History
Narcodynamics and the Evolution of Mexico's War on Drugs
Michael Gott
, Romance Languages and Literatures
Crossing 2.0: Mobile Lives, Migrants, and Screen Communities
Hang-Joon
Kim
, Mathematical Sciences
Simultaneous Approach to Edit-Imputation and Data Protection for Business Establishment Data
Andrew Lewis
, Political Science
Priming Prophetic Politics: The Development of Political Clergy in American Seminaries
Shailaja Paik
, History
The Politics of Performance: Caste, Sexuality, and Discrimination in Popular Culture in India
Stephen Porter
, History
Still the Light of the World? Refugees and the End of the American Century
Sunnie Rucker-Chang
, German Studies
Roma Inclusion and US Civil Rights: A Legal and Cultural Comparison
Anne Runyan
, Political Science
Contesting Disposability: Resistances to Burying Nuclear Waste in Canada
Rebecca Sanders
, Political Science
Human Rights Abuses at the Limits of the Law
Gareth Speight
, Mathematical Sciences
Lipschitz Functions and Carnot Groups
2015 - 2016
Lora Arduser
, English & Comparative Literature
Living Chronic: Agency and Expertise in the Rhetoric of Diabetes
Isaas Campos-Costero
, History
Narcodynamics and the Origins of Mexico's War on Drugs
Jintai Ding
, Mathematical Sciences
Authenticated Provably Secure Key Exchange Protocol Based on Learning with Error Problems
Brenden Green
, Political Science
Two Concepts of Liberty: U.S. Grand Strategy and the Liberal Tradition
Victor Kaftal
, Mathematical Sciences
Operator Theory Methods For Fusion Frames
Bledar Konomi
, Mathematical Sciences
Nonseparable multi-output Gaussian process emulator with full scale approximation
Sarah Mayorga-Gallo
, Sociology
Cincinnati Neighborhoods Study
Willard Sunderland
, History
Peter's Horizons: Russia and the World in the Age of Peter the Great
Tai Tsang
, English & Comparative Literature
The Obsolete Empire: Late Realism in Twentieth-Century British Literature
Xia Wang
, Mathematical Sciences
Bayesian Models in Large-Scale Hypotheses Testing
2014 - 2015
Daniel Murphy
, Anthropology
Rough Cashmere: Global Commmodities and Local Catastrophe in Pastoral Mongolia
Shailaja Paik
, History
The Politics of Performance: Caste, Sexuality, and Discrimination in Popular Culture in India
Olivier Parent
, Economics
Spatio-temporal Interaction in Behavioral Models
Siva Sivaganesan
, Mathematical Sciences
Subgroup Analysis with Multiple Covariates
Leonid Slavin
, Mathematical Sciences
Bellman Functions in Harmonic Analysis: New Frontiers
Leah Stewart
, English & Comparative Literature
What You Don't Know About Charlie Outlaw
Patricia Valladarez Ruiz
, Romance Languages & Literatures
Mapping Cultural Dissidence in the Bolivarian Revolution
Benjamin Vaughan
, Mathematical Sciences
Mathematical Modeling of the Effects of Turbulence on Bacterial Biofilms
Guy-Lucien Whembolua
, Africana Studies
Examination of African Fathers' Roles in the Decision Making Process to Breastfeed
2013 - 2014
Christopher Bachelder
, English & Comparative Literature
The Throwback Special
Zvi Biener
, Philosophy
The Life Sciences in the Scientific Revolution: Isaac Newton and the Physiology of Perception
Aryay Finkelstein
, Judaic Studies
Julian and the Jews: The Place of Jews in Emperor Julian's Hellenic Empire
Martin Francis
, History
Britain and the Desert War, 1940-1943: A Cultural History
Michael Gott
, Romance Languages & Literatures
The (New) Boundaries of Frenchness
Robert Haug
, History
The Politics and Economics of Local Elites on the Early Islamic Eastern Frontier
Gergana Ivanova
, German Studies
Gendering the Classics: Adaptation, Women, and Japanese Modernity
Lei Kang
, Mathematical Sciences
Simulation and Analysis of Massive Spatial Data
Holly McGee
, History
Talking on Water: Radical Anti-apartheid Internationalism and Exile in the Life of Elizabeth Mafekeng
Christine Mok
, English & Comparative Literature
Disorientations: Theatricality and Contemporary Asian American Performance
2012 - 2013
Danielle Bessett
, Sociology
Pregnancy After Problems: Understanding Stigmatized Reproductive Careers
Stanley Corkin
,
English & Comparative Literature
The Wire: Space, Race, and the Wonders of Post-Industrial Baltimore
Danielle Deulen
, English & Comparative Literature
After Fever
Erika Gasser
, History
Witchcraft and Possession before Salem: New England Cases, 1640-1660
David Herron
, Mathematical Sciences
QuasiConvexity in Heisenberg Groups
Peter Langland-Hassan
, Philosophy
Knowing What You Are Thinking: Inner Speech, Visual Imagery, and Introspection
Brianna Leavitt-Alcantara
, History
Practicing Faith: Laywomen and Religion in Central America, 1700-1860
Andres Perez-Simon
, Romance Languages and Literatures
The Theatrical Pendulum: Paths of Innovation in Modernist European Drama
Stephanie Sadre-Orafai
, Anthropology
Visual Anxiety: Fashioning Difference in 21st Century America
Katherine Sorrels
, History
The Evolution of Europe: Social Darwinism and the Ideal of Integration in Fin De Siècle Austria
Patricia Valladares-Ruiz
, Romance Languages and Literatures
Female Subjectivities in Contemporary Narratives of Slavery of the Hispanic and Francophone Caribbean
Xia Wang
, Mathematical Sciences
Individual Heterogeneity in Discrete Choice Model: a Bayesian Approach
2011 - 2012
Isaac Campos
, History
Leopoldo Salazar Viniegra, Drug Policy, and US–Mexican Relations
Erynn Casanova
, Sociology
Men and Dress at Work
Jintai Ding
, Mathematical Sciences
New Algebraic Methods for Learning with Error Problems
Ari Gordon
, Judaic Studies
On Jews and Other Nations: The Intellectual Biography of Hans Kohn (1891–1971)
Timothy J. Hodges
, Mathematical Sciences
Project: Algebraic Foundations of Multivariate Cryptosystems
Ethan Katz
, History
Burdens of Brotherhood: The Jewish/Muslim Question in Modern France
Wendy Kline
, History
Birth in Transition: A Recent History of Midwifery and Childbirth in the United States
Shailaja Paik
, History
To Reshape and Reorganize Our Worlds: Dalit Women's Education and Empowerment
Angela Potochnik
, Philosophy
Games in Evolution
Jim Ridolfo
, English and Comparative Literature
The Pigeon and the Honeycomb: Rethinking Rhetorical Delivery for the Twenty-First Century
Siva Sivaganesan
, Mathematical Sciences
Subgroup Analysis of Multiple Responses
Robert A. Skipper, Jr.
, Philosophy
Why Are We Fat? Proximate and Ultimate Causes in Explaining Obesity
2010 - 2011
Robert Buckingham
, Mathematical Sciences
New Universality Laws and Their Applications
Vanessa Carbonell
, Philosophy
Moral Recommendations
David Ciarlo
, History
Selling War: Consumerism, Militarized Whiteness, and the Roots of Fascism in German Visual Culture
Christopher Gauker
, Philosophy
Completion of Words and Pictures: An Essay on the Origin of Ideas
Sookyung Lim
, Mathematical Sciences
Mathematical modeling of valveless pumping
Laura Micchiche
, English and Comparative Literature
What WPAs can learn from Hypermiliung: Agency Reconfigured
Leila Rodriguez Soto
, Anthropology
Accumulation, Inequality and Migration in Two Central American Towns
Nese Sara
, Economics
Non-discrimination at the WTO: Implications for Quality Choice and Welfare
Sylvia Sellers-Garcia
, History
Distant Guatemala: Reading Documents from the Periphery
Seongho Song
, Mathematical Sciences
Hierarchical Bayesian Model for Estimating Migration Rate, Mutation Rate and Population Size in Microsatellite Loci
Katherine Whitcome
, Anthropology
Infant carrying in Malagasy Sifakas: a comparative model for understanding locomotor transitions in human evolution