FRI Faculty Research Grants

2010-2011

• Cathleen Cahill, “Making, Marketing, & Buying Baskets: Women’s Economic and Intercultural Networks of Exchange in Northern California.”
• Pamela Cheek, “The Gender of Cosmopolitanism:  Women Writers and their Heroines Abroad, 1769-1810.”

2009-2010

• Brian Herrera, “Latin Explosion: Latinos, Racial Formation and Twentieth Century U.S. Popular
  Performance”
• Juan Pablo Micozzi, "The More Women at Work, the Sooner We Win? Gender Quotas and Legislative Productivity in the Argentine Congress"

2008-2009

• Kathleen Washburn, “Gertrude Bonnin, Literary Reform, and Writing Modern Indians”
• Karen Foss, “Fertility Tourism: The Commodification of Human Reproduction”

2007-2008

• Amy Brandzel, “Refugee in ‘America’: Gendered Scripts and Colonial Feminism in U.S. Refugee Law”
• Glenda Balas and Jan Scheutz, “Facing Down the Odds: Women Pioneers in Communication”
• Patricia Covarrubias, “New Identities: Danish Women as Muslims”
• Gail Houston, “Envisioning Nineteenth-Century British Women’s Radical Spirituality"

2006-2007

• Bárbara Reyes, “Latina Leadership in Mainstream Politics, Civil Rights or Civic Duty:   Graciela Olivarez’s Life and Public Service”
• Kathryn McKnight, Afro-Latino Voices: Narratives from the Early Modern Ibero-Atlantic World, 1552-1808.
• Ziarat Hossain, “A Developmental-Contextual Approach to Understanding Mothers’ and Fathers’ Involvement with Children and Its Relationship to Children’s Academic Achievement and Social Development in Mexican Immigrant Families”

2005

• Carmen Nocentelli, "Islands of Love:  Europe, 'India,' and Interracial Romance, 1572-1673"

2004

• Alex Lubin, "Intimate Enemies: The Politics of Marriage and Demography in the Israel-Palestine Conflict"
• Liz Hutchison, “My Walking Archives: Oral and Archival Research on the History of Chilean Domestic Service”

2003

• Melissa Axelrod, “Linguistic Ethnography of the Ixil Mayans of Guatamala”
• Anita Obermeier, Assistant Professor, “Seed, Sex, Superiority: Medieval Concepts of Fertility and Sterility”
• Rebecca Schreiber, “Exile, Post-Nationalism and the Politics of Frm in the Work of Elizabeth Catlett”

2002

• Barbara Reyes, “Women and 19th century California Missions”
• Glenda Balas, “Enhancing Internality and Self Awareness among Girls in Roosevelt County, NM”
• Gary Scharnhorst, “Biography of Kate Field”

FRI Small Events Grants
2009-2010

• “An Evening with Joanne Barker: Native Acts: The Law of Cultural Authenticity in Martinez v. Santa Clara Pueblo”
• Heidi Tinsman in "Not Buying into it: Consumption and Pro-Democracy Struggles in Chile"

2008-2009

• Pamela Gravagne
• Rinita Mazumdar
• Jordan Johnson
• Kevin Hallgren, Paulette Christopher, Alexis Ortiz, Dr. Steven Verney

2007-2008

• Bapsi Sidhwa
• UNM Civil Rights Symposium
• Aphra Behn Society Conference
• Lecture Series: “Nineteenth-Century Science, Technology and Aesthetics”

2006

• Women in Sport Media Literacy Project
• Andrea Smith on "Indigenous Feminisms and Social Justice"
• 14th Annual UNM Conference on Ibero-American Culture and Society
• Women Studies Retreat

2004

• Lecture Series: “Oddly Observed: Queer Sensibilities in Visual Culture.”
• Technologies of Gender Conference

2003

• “A Gender Neutral Legal Society: Fact or Fiction?” Conference
• Feminist Theory Reading Group
• Workshop: “Gender and Performance: Using Dance to Represent Gendered and Cultural Patterns”
• Mexico and Brazil Face to Face Drama and Film Festival
• Dissertation Writing Workshop on Feminist Methodology

FRI Graduate Student Research Grants
2010-2011

• B. Erin Cole, “A Single-Family City: Zoning, Race, Sexuality, and Neighborhoods in Denver, 1956-1989.
• V. Gina Diaz, dissertation research on Chicana lesbian feminist art.
• Suzanne Dunai, "Cooking for the Patria: Education, Feminism, and Consumerism during the Franco Regime."
• Christine Kozikowski, Reading Privacy in Middle English Texts 1350-1450: Private Space, Public Face

• Elena Avilés, “Mi/My lengua franca: Manipulating a Chicana Cultural Heritage in Art and Literature.”
• Pamela Gravagne, "The Becoming of Age"

2009-2010

• Lucinda Grinell, “'Lesbianas Presente': Lesbian Activism, Transnational Networks, and Cold War Politics in Mexico City, 1968-1996.”
• Stacey Kikendall, “The eye of Glorvina met mine”: Vision Gender and Imperialism in the “Wild Irish Girl”
• Kathleen McIntyre, “Contested Spaces: The Rise of Protestantism in Oaxaca, 1920-1994”

• Emira Ibrahimpasic, “Muslim Women’s Identities in post-war Bosnia and Herzegovina.”
• Leigh Johnson, “Historical Romance and Representation: Jovita Gonzalez and Eve Raleigh’s Collaboration and Correspondence”
• Jennifer A. Sandoval, “Outsourcing Fertility: A Critical Analysis of Surrogacy in India.”
• Kellie Sawyer, “Philadelphia’s Straight History/Gay Nightlife: Tourism and ‘Diversity’ in the U.S. Nation’s ‘Freedom Capital.’”

2008-2009

• Elaine Nelson, “Sex and Commercial Tourism in the Black Hills: The Legacy of Deadwood's Prostitution Industry”
• Ashley Carlson, “From Housekeeping to Volcanoes: Sarah Stickney Ellis on Female Education”

2007-2008

• Sarah Guengerich
• Jocelyn Salaz
• Emira Ibrahimpasic
• Lavinia Nicolae, “Deadlock over Wedlock: Kinship, Politics and Identity in New
  Mexico’s Same-Sex Marriage Debate”

• Robin Runia
• Lena McQuade
• Michele Leiby
• Sarah Payne

FRI Graduate Student Paper Prize Winners
2011

• Erin Murrah-Mandril, "Misreading the Feminine: Representation of Women in the Far West in Mary Hallock Foote’s 'Maverick.'"

2010

• Susan Ruth, "Women's Toolkits: Engendering Paleoindian Technology" (first place)
• Leigh Johnson, "Chicana Literary Activism: Motherwork as a Response to Domestic Violence"(second place)

2009           

• Stacey Kikendall, “’The eye of Glorvina met mine’: Vision, Gender, and Imperialism in The Wild Irish Girl”

2008           

• Cindy Murillo, paper “Reclaiming Motherhood through Exile: Body Politics in Harriet Beecher Stowe’s Uncle Tom’s Cabin”

2007

• Ying Xu, “Edited Melancholy and the Construction of Self: Mary Wollstonecraft’s Letters Written During a Short Residence in Sweden, Norway and Denmark,”

2006

• Andrea López, “Beyond the Maquilas: Gender Discourse and Gendered Violence in Cd. Juárez”
• Justin Parks, “‘Our Eyes Look Out’: The View from the Window and the Noise from the Street in Two Poems by Mina Loy”

2005

• Birgit Schmidt-Rosemann, "The Pleasure of Destroying It":  Creating and Undoing Standards of Female Virtue in The Female Husband and Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure”

2002

• Hadar Dubowsky for “Feminist Methodology and a Qualitative Case Study of a Masculine Female Adolescent”