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Past Recipients of Seed Grants

2008 Recipients

Amy Sara Carroll, American Culture, 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, American Culture
Imagine Freedom: Women, Incarceration and Resistance

Reshma Jagsi, Medicine
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, Obstetrics and 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 and Cultures
Ruth Adler Schnee: Michigan Modernist (A Documentary Portrait of Modernism Designer Ruth Adler Schnee)

Elizabeth Wingrove, Political Science, Women's Studies
The Ancient Regime of Letters

Susan Wright, Institute for Research on Women and Gender, Residential College
Feminist Theory and Arms Control

2007 Recipients

Barbara DeWolfe, William L. Clements Library
Women in History - Public Databases

Lawrence LaFountain-Stokes, American Culture, Romance Languages and Literatures
Translocas and Transmachas: Trans Diasporic Puerto Rican Drag

Anna Kirkland, Women's Studies, Political Science
Law and Social Change through Fathers' Rights: A Preliminary Inquiry

Janis Miller, Obstetrics and 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 Pre-Eclampsia

Heather O'Mahen, Behavioral Sciences - UM Flint
Barriers to Mental Health Treatment Use in Depressed Pregnant Women

Ami Pflugrad-Kackisch, 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, Anthropology
Disturbed Sex: Biomedicine and the Determination of Ambiguous Genitalia in Ecudor

Xiomara Santamarina, English Language and Literature, 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 Recipients

Amal Fadlalla, Center for Afroamerican and African Studies; Women's Studies
Transcending the Nation: Engendering Muslim-Sudanese Identities in America

Jessica Fogel, Dance
Where the Book Falls Open: An Evening of Dance

David Halperin and Valerie Traub, English Language and Literature; Women's Studies
Gay Shame

Jennifer Hardacker, Screen Arts and Cultures
Bringing the Voices of HIV positive Caribbean Women to the Discourse on Gender and the Epidemic

Lisa Harris, Obstetrics and Gynecology
Risk Distortions in Obstetrics and Gynecology

Nancy Hunt , History; IRWG; Obstetrics and 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; Psychology
Interpersonal Trauma in Mothers: The Differential Impact of Post Trauma Symptoms on Sons and Daughters

Anna Kirkland , Political Science; 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 Smoke?

Karin Martin, Sociology; Women's Studies
The ABC's 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; Center for Afroamerican and African Studies
Doing Time, Reading Crime: Cultures of Reading in Women's Prisons

Anjel Vahratian, Obstetrics and Gynecology; Women's Studies
Maternal Morbidity Associated with Infertility Treatment

2005 Recipients

Elizabeth Cole, Women's Studies; CAAS
African American Debutantes: The self conscious construction of feminity, 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; Education
Gender and Family Interaction Strategies in People over 85 with Low and High Family Contact

Catherine Kim, Obstetrics & Gynecology; Internal Medicine
Support and Advice for Gestational Exercise and Diet (SAGE)

Maria Montoya, History; American Culture
Creating an American Home: Work, Property and Paternalism on the American Landscape, 1900-1960

Nadine Naber, American Culture; 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 Recipients

Jamie L. Anderson, Philosophy
Get Real: A Hegelian Analysis of Contemporary Social Issues

Georgina Hickey, History-Dearborn campus
Radical Women and the Friendly City: Feminist Challenges to Urban Gender Segregation in the Twetieth 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 Univ of Michigan 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 Archivig of Renowned Dancers from the mid 20th century

Stella Nair, History of Art
Defining Boundaries/Defending Borders: Spanish Agression, 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, 1830-1865

Catherine Sanok, English
Women Saints of Our Countrie of England': Gender, Religion, and National Identity in Pre-modern England

Michael S.Spencer, Social Work
Developing a Culturally Competent Intervention for Poor Mothers with Depression: A University of Michigan/Detroit Head Start Partnership

Robin M.Wilson, Dance
Slave Moth: a dance theatre work' "On Stage and in Community

 

2003 Recipients

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 Box Lempart, Sociology at UM Dearborn
Deconstructing Wife Abuse In South America

Lisa Kane Low, OB/GYN
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, University of Michigan Museum of Art, History of Art
Conversation with Traditions: Nilma Sheikh and Shahzia Silkander

Lucia M.Suarez, Spanish, Department of Romance Languages
The Psyche in Pain: The Making of Caribbean Memory

Alisse Theodore, English Language and Literature
The Role of Conversation Rhetorics in Social Change: Woman Suffrage and Women's Liberation

Martha Vicinus, English
Cosmopolitan Women: American and English Expatriate Writers (1890-1920)

MeikoYoshihama, Social Work
A Participatory Action Research on Domestic Violence in Asian Pacific Islander (API) Communities in Southeast Michigan

Amy M.Young, U of M Substance Abuse Research Center
Adolescents' Sexual Inferences about Drinking Women

2002 Recipients

Poonam Arora, Film Studies, Department of Humanities, Dearborn Campus
Film Biography of Indira Gandhi

Cynthia Arslanian-Engoren, Nursing
Treatment Seeking Decisions of Women with Symptoms of Acute Myocardial Infarction

Ted Bader, Center for Political Studies and Institute for Social Research
Emotional Equality and Democratic Representation: Gender, Stereotypes, and Emotion in Election Campaigns

Susan Frazier-Kouassi, Research Center for Group Dynamics and Institute for Social Research
Gender and Mental Health Research: Patterns, Problems, and Promising Directions

Carol Karlsen, History
After Salem: The Transformation of the Witch in American Culture

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 Writing

Mary Ann O'Connor, Women's Education Center, Flint Campus
Issues in Women's Citizenship: Local and Global Assessments

Melita Schaum, English and Women's Studies, Dearborn Campus
The Reading Pagoda (Creative Nonfiction Memoir)

Amy 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

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2001 Recipients

Katherine Alaimo, Public Health
"We Don't Just Grow Vegetables, We Grow Values.": An Exploration of the Social, Spiritual, and Nutritional Development of Urban Community Gardeners in Flint, MI

Janet Finn, Anthropology and Social Work
Women Building Community: History, Practice, and Possibility

Ann Ruggles Gere, Education
Becoming Indian Teachers: The Self-Fashioning of Native American Women

Melissa Gross, Kinesiology
Role of a Professional Society in the Careers of Women Scientists: 25 Years of Participation in the American Society of Biomechanics

David Halperin, English
Valerie Traub, English Proposal for an Interdisciplinary International Conference: Lesbianism Before Lesbianism

Ching Kwan Lee, Sociology
Migrating Struggles: Living Labor, the Body and the Law in the Chinese Reform

Ram Mahalingam, Psychology
Cultural Psychology of Gender: Antecedents to Female Neglect and Feticide

Peggy McCracken, Romance Languages
& Literatures and Women's Studies Only Women Bleed: Blood, Gender, and Medieval Literature

Jonathan Metzl, Psychiatry and Women's Studies
A Cultural Analysis of 'Diagnostic Bracket Creep': Gender, Life Stages, and SSRI Anti-Depressants

Laurie Morgan, Sociology and Women's Studies
Career Outcomes of Women in Science and Engineering

Ann Shields, Psychology
Family Relationships, Emotional Development, and Gender Differences in Depression in Early Adolescence

Kristine Siefert/Carol Boyd, Social Work, Nursing and Substance Abuse Research Center
Estimating the Impact of Welfare Reform on a Hidden Population of Women Drug Offenders and Their Children

Enid Sutherland, Music
Proposal for support to complete and prepare scored of "Daphne and Apollo Remade".

Lauren Talalay, Classics and Kelsey Museum
'Hidden Things': An Exhibition on Memory and Homosexuality in the Poems of Constantine Cavafy and the Etchings of David Hockney

Richard Tolman, Social Work
Trapped by Poverty, Trapped by Abuse 'Third Research Conference'

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2000 Recipients

Tomás Almaguer, Sociology and American Culture
Sin Vergüenza (Shameless): An Interdisciplinary Conference on Latino/a Sexuality

Carolyn Balducci, Residential College
Marta Abba (1900-1988)

Crisca Bierwert, Institute for Research on Women & Gender
African Immigrant Women's Health in Detroit

Tabbye M. Chavous, Psychology
Laura Kohn, Psychology
Gender, Ethnicity, and Interpersonal Violence

Stephanie Fonda, Institute for Social Research
Gender Differences in the Depression-Health Relation among Middle-aged and Elderly Americans

Lisa Harris, Obstetrics & Gynecology
Technological Reproduction and the Construction of Women's Infertility: In Vitro Fertilization in the United States - 1978-1990

Leslie Hollingsworth, Social Work
Factors Associated with Compliance with Service Agreements Among Women Whose Children are in Foster Care: A Preliminary Study

Karen Honeycutt, Sociology
Up the Ladder, Awkwardly: An Exploratory, Comparative Study of Upward Social Mobility by Working-Class Women and Men in the U.S., Canada, and England

Eileen Morgan, English
Éire Waves: the Radio and Domestic Change in the Republic of Ireland, 1926-1958

Maureen Phipps, Obstetrics & Gynecology
Naming Fathers on Birth Certificates: Confronting Women's Obstacles

Cynthia Pomerleau, Psychiatry and Nicotine Research Laboratory
Focus Groups for Weight-Concerned Women with Diverse Demographic Profiles

Robin Queen, Germanic Languages & Literature and Linguistics
Lesbian Ways with Words

Beth Glover Reed, Social Work and Women's Studies
Intersectionality and Resistance in Multicultural/Pro-equity Learning and Teaching

Jennifer Robertson, Anthropology and Women's Studies
The Gendered Politics of "Blood"

Margaret Somers, Sociology and History
From Poverty to Perversity: Malthusianizing, "Othering," Animalizing, Marketizing, Bastardizing, Commodifying, Rationalizing, Racializing, Demonizing, Infantalizing, Feminizing, Sexualizing, and Engendering the Poor Over Two Centuries of Welfare Reform

Louise K. Stein, Music
Songs of Venus: Women's Voices and the Role of Gender in the Performance Practice of Hispanic Baroque Opera and Musical Theater

Hitomi Tonomura, History and Women's Studies
The World of Lady Nijô: Status, Sex, and Solitude in Medieval Japan

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1999 Recipients

Kathleen Faller, Social Work
Saint Joseph County Forensic Interview Project: How Boy and Girl Victims Differ

Linda Groat, Architecture & Urban Planning
The Hidden Value of 'Relational Practice' in Architectural Education: The Contributions of Faculty Women

Denise Howard, Obstetrics & Gynecology
Racial Differences in the Stress Continence Control System of Nulliparous and Primiparous Women

Nancy Hunt, History, Obstetrics and Gynecology
Timothy Johnson, Obstetrics, Gynecology and Women's Studies
Women's Health in the City of Accra (Ghana)

Arlene Keizer, English
A "Cage of Obscene Birds": Technologies of Sex and the Deployment of Sexuality at the Margins

Edith Kieffer, Public Health
Hispanic Women's Perspectives on Physical Activity and Health

Nichole Pinkard, Education
Research Group on Gender and Educational Technology

Catherine Squires, Center for Afroamerican & African Studies and Communication Studies
Women and Race in Sports Journalism

Valerie Traub, English and Women's Studies
The Renaissance of Lesbianism in Early Modern England

Elaine Gazda, Kelsey Museum of Archaeology and History
Women and the Cult of Bacchus in Roman Italy: The Villa of the Mysteries at Pompeii Revisited

Sherrie Kossoudji, Social Work and Economics
Why Didn't Legalization Matter For Women? An Investigation into the Gender Differences in the Impact of IRCA on the Economic Mobility of Formerly Unauthorized Workers

Joanne Leonard, Art and Women's Studies
Imagining Emigration: The Album and the Letters

Ram Mahalingam, Psychology
Essentialism, Power and Folk Theories about Gender among Tamils: A Developmental Study

Regina Morantz-Sanchez, History
The Making of the American Jewish Middle Class

Ann Stoler, Anthropology, History and Women's Studies
The Gender of Politics of the French Radical Right: Assessing Where Women Stand in a Moment of Crisis

Susie Tharu, Women's Studies
Gender, Citizenship and the Law in Postcolonial India

Mieko Yoshihama, Social Work
An International Study of Women's Health and Domestic Violence - Japan: The Prevalence, Risk and Protective Factors, and Health Consequences

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1998 Recipients

Naomi Andre, Music
Subverting the Expected: Verdi, Character, and Vocal Types for Women's Lower Voices

Deborah Carr, Sociology and Survey Research Center
Women's Self-Employment: Why Does the Gender Pay Gap Persist?

Terrie Epstein, Education
Gendering the Past? Urban Children's and Adolescents' Views

Richard Ford, Anthropology, Biology and Museum of Anthropology
The Two-Spirit (a.k.a. Berdache) Gender in Prehistoric North America

Susan Gelman, Psychology
Essentialist Beliefs about Gender in Children

Siobán Harlow, Public Health
Methods and Measures: Emerging Strategies for Women's Health Research

Kristin Harrison, Communication Studies and Research Center for Group Dynamics
Women Viewing Women's Sports: The Body Benefits of Sports Spectatorship

Nancy Hunt, History and Medicine
Gender Politics, Youth Cultures, and Reproductive Health Care in Kinshasa (Congo-Zaire) since 1945

Karin Martin, Sociology and Women's Studies
Gendered Bodies: Doing Gender in Three Groups of Undergraduate Women

Jacqueline Mattis, Psychology and Women's Studies
The Role of Gender Socialization in the Religious and Spiritual Development of African-American Men

Suzanne Raitt, English
May Sinclair and the Sadness of Modernity

Beth Glover Reed, Social Work and Women's Studies
Women, Men, Minorities and the Climate for Research Productivity: Organizational Processes and Quality of Worklife

Denise Sekaquaptewa, Psychology
When is Being Different Detrimental? The Effects of Solo Status on the Test Performance of Caucasian and African-American Women

Patricia Simons, History of Art and Women's Studies
Valerie Traub, English, Women's Studies
Lesbianism in the Renaissance: Words and Images

Jon-Kar Zubieta, Psychiatry and Medicine
Mu Opiod Receptor Involvement in Alcohol Dependence and Alcohol Craving in Women

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1997 Recipients

Ruth Behar, Anthropology and Women's Studies
An Afro-Cuban Family Living the Revolution

Sueann Caulfield, History and Residential College
In Defense of Honor: Morality, Modernity, and Nation in Brazil, 1918-1945

Susan Contratto, Psychology and Women's Studies
University of Michigan Multidisciplinary Rape Project

Constance Cook, Education and Center for Research on Learning and Teaching
The Impact of Instructor's Gender on Student Evaluations of College Teaching: Experiences, Perceptions and Concerns of University of Michigan Faculty

Barbara Frederickson, Psychology, Women's Studies and Research Center for Group Dynamics
Psychological Costs of Self-Objectification in Women: Exploring Differences and Similarities Across Ethnicities and Sexual Orientations

Siobán Harlow, Public Health
Methods and Measures: Emerging Strategies for Women's Health Research

Ann Chih Lin, Political Science and Public Policy
Women's Work and Political Assimilation: The Case of Arab-American Immigrant Women

Carla O'Connor, Education
Through the Fire: Exploring the Educational Resilience of Black Women of Low Income and Working Class Origins

Sonya Rose, History, Sociology and Women's Studies
Redefining the Nation in World War II Britain: Conceptions of Citizenship During the "People's War"

Patricia Simons, History of Art and Women's Studies
The Rhetorics and Rituals of (Un)veiling in Early Modern Europe

Maureen Walton, UM Alcohol Research Center
Frederic Blow, Psychiatry
Sharon Mudd, UM Alcohol Research Center
Differences Among Women in Relapse Risk Following Substance Abuse Treatment

Mieko Yoshihama, Social Work
Interaction of Gender, Race and Class: An Examination of Domestic Violence Against Low Income Women of Color

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1996 Recipients

Elsa Barkley Brown, Center for Afroamerican & African Studies
Considering the Social Identities of African American Men

Susan E. Crowell, Art and Residential College
Women Potters of Kyushu

Sandra Klein Danziger, Social Work and Public Policy
Effects of Welfare on Maternal Mental Health, Parenting, and Child Development

Hemalata Dandekar, Center for South & Southeast Asia and Architecture & Urban Planning
Feminists for Adequate Housing

Frieda Ekotto, Romance Languages & Literature
Women Writing Africa

Beth Glover Reed, Social Work and Women's Studies
Organizational Features of Programs for Women with Problems with Alcohol and Other Drugs (AOD)

Susan Juster, History
Gender and Evangelicalism in the Age of Revolution: Women Preachers in Canada, Britain, and America

Carol Karlsen, History and Women's Studies
The Salem Witch Outbreak of 1692: A History in Documents

Kimberlee J. Kearfott, Nuclear Engineering, Radiological Sciences and Biomedical Engineering
Gender and Access in Engineering Education at the University of Michigan

Donald R. Kinder, Center for Political Studies and Political Science
We Beg to Differ: The Effects of Gender on Political Values and Policy Attitude Formation

Stuart Kirsch, Anthropology
Yonggom Women and the Ok Tedi Mine (Papau New Guinea)

Earl Lewis, Center for Afroamerican & African Studies and History
"Are You Color Blind?" Race, Love, and Gender in the Rhinelander Case

Rosario Montoya, Anthropology
Gender's Place: Feminist Anthropologies of Latin America Across the Americas

Penny F. Pierce, Nursing
Knowledge, Beliefs, and Preferences of Women Concerning Breast Cancer Treatment

Yopie Prins, English and Comparative Literature
Sappho in Victorian England

Nancy E. Reame, Nursing and Women's Studies
A Follow-up Study of the Surrogate Mother Experience: Ten Years Later

Carolyn Sampselle, Nursing, Women's Studies and Medicine
Women's Voices: The Birth Experience

Terry G. Wilfong, Kelsey Museum of Archeology and Near Eastern Studies

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