Feminist Research Institute

Past Grant Recipients and Paper Prize Winners

FRI Faculty Research Grants
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
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
2008-2009

  • Elaine Nelson
  • Ashley Carlson

2007-2008

  • Sarah Guengerich
  • Jocelyn Salaz
  • Emira Ibrahimpasic
  • Lavinia Nicolae
  • Robin Runia
  • Lena McQuade
  • Michele Leiby
  • Sarah Payne

FRI Graduate Student Paper Prize Winners
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”