Research Grants, Winter 2006

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Winter 2006
WGST Grant Recipients

Women's and Gender Studies is pleased to announce the recipients of our Winter 2006 research and travel grants. Nominations for grant funds were accepted in January from Women's and Gender Studies affiliate faculty and graduate minors.

Faculty Recipients
Graduate Minor Recipients

A listing of recipients follows, with an indication of the projects the grants will fund.

Faculty Recipients

Faculty grants were intended to recognize the contributions of affiliate faculty to the intellectual and curricular success of Women's and Gender Studies, and support research, development of cross-listed courses, and/or travel to the NWSA (National Women's Studies Association) conference in June, 2006.

Kim Anderson, Social Work, "Surviving Domestic Violence"

Robert Baum, Religious Studies, "Alinesitoue: A Senegalese Woman Prophet and Her Influence in The Gambia"

Fran Danis, Social Work, Expansion of a Current Statewide System of Certified Sexual Assault Resource Centers Patterned after the Statewide Trauma System of Certified Hospitals.

Devoney Looser, English, "Another Jane: Jane Porter, Austen's Celebrated Contemporary"

Loreen Olson, Communication, "The Relationship Between Media Consumption and Attitudes Toward Being a Feminist: Do Conservations With Similar-Aged Others Make A Difference?

Linda Reeder, History, "Disordered Houses: Women, Psychiatry, and the Making of Modern Italy"

Catherine Rymph, History, Development of an upper-division course in the History Department called Historical Perspectives on Adoption and Child Welfare and the Family, to be cross-listed with Women's and Gender Studies.

Peeter Tammeveski, Educational, School, and Counseling Psychology, Women's and Gender Studies, and Human Development and Family Studies, "Reproducing the Gendered and Racialized Body of Estonian Republic, 1918-1940" and "Un/comfortable Locations: Women's Studies and the Struggle Against Multiple Oppressions"

Lee Ann Whites, History, "Occupied Women: The Gendered Implications of General Order #11 and the Banishment of Southern Sympathizing Women from Civil War Missouri"

Graduate Minor Recipients

Women's and Gender Studies graduate minors were also invited to apply for grants supporting their research and/or travel to NWSA (National Women's Studies Association) conference in June, 2006.

Ann Detwiler Breidenbach, Rural Sociology, "Disrupted Science and Emergent Voices: Knowing Menopause"

Candace Korasick, Sociology, "Women Without Children: Identity, Choice, Control"

Melinda Stafford Markham and Jessica Troito, HDFS, "Content of Father and Mother Stereotypes"

Veronica Medina, Sociology, "Not Every Girl Can Be An American Girl: The Exclusivity of 'American Girl' Identity"

Cherith Moore, Architectural Studies, will attend the NWSA (National Women's Studies Association) conference, "Locating Women's Studies: Formations of Power and Resistance," in June.

Allyn (Lyn) Mortimer, Rural Sociology, "Power in the Garden: An Exploration of the Lives of Missouri Farm Women and Their Vegetable Gardens During the Great Depression"

Kendra Yoder, Sociology, "Identifying and Questioning Best Practices within a Social Justice : Women's Centers Modeling Congruent Feminist Praxis" and "Becoming Allies to Allies: Negotiating Women's Involvement in Men's Anti-Sexism Work," to be presented at annual conference of NWSA (National Women's Studies Association).

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