Liberal Arts Scholarship Catalyst Grants Program
Past awardees
We are pleased to announce the recipients of the 2021 College of Arts and Sciences Liberal Arts Scholarship Catalyst (LASC) grants.
- R. Darden Bradshaw (Department of Art and Design): Sustaining Memory: Threads of Place
- David Darrow (Department of History): The Spread of Empire: Siberia, the Global Butter Industry and Peasant Cooperative Production
- Glenna Jennings (Department of Art and Design): The Desert Table: one community’s struggle for food justice
- Benjamin Kunz (Department of Psychology): The Role of Threat-Related Stereotypes in the Perception of Interpersonal Distance
- Nancy Martorano Miller (Department of Political Science): The Diffusion of Ideas in State Constitutions
- Laura Vorachek (Department of English): Society of Women Journalists Membership Database 1894-1914
We are pleased to announce the recipients of the 2020 College of Arts and Sciences Liberal Arts Scholarship Catalyst (LASC) grants.
- Dorian Borbonus (Department of History): GIS Map of Funerary Monuments in Imperial Rome
- David Darrow (Department of History): The Spread of Empire: Siberia, the Global Butter Industry and Peasant Cooperative Production
- Miranda Hallett (Department of Sociology, Anthropology and Social Work): More than Survival: Salvadoran migrants, sanctuary, and life in the diaspora
- Erin O'Mara Kunz (Department of Psychology): Examining self-esteem across the menstrual cycle
- Sayeh Meisami (Department of Philosophy): Philosophy of Logic in the Faith-Based Metaphysics of Mulla Sadra
- Shazia Rahman (Department of English): The Environment of South Asia: Literary and Cinematic Representations
- Viorel Paslaru (Department of Philosophy): What’s in the Name of a Language? Science, Values and Diversity
- Anthony Smith (Department of Religious Studies): From Rome to Hollywood: Italian Cinema in Cold War America
- Patrick Thomas (Department of English): Developing the Repository of Social Media Writing: Expanding Collaborative Digital Writing Research Spaces, Methods, and Practices
We are pleased to announce the recipients of the 2019 College of Arts and Sciences Liberal Arts Scholarship Catalyst (LASC) grants.
- Joshua Ambrosius (Department of Political Science): Chatting with the Nextdoor Neighbors: Use of a Niche Social Media Platform by Community Leaders and Members in the Dayton, Ohio, Suburbs
- Simanti Dasgupta (Department of Sociology, Anthropology and Social Work): Prophylactic Rights: Sex Work Movement, HIV/AIDS and Anti-tracking Laws in Sonagachi, India
- Samuel Dorf (Department of Music): Extreme Early Music: Performing Antiquity Today
- Erin Holscher-Almazan (Department of Art and Design): "The Only Way We're Going to Get Through This is Together:" Support for a Significant Solo Exhibition and Continued Creative Research in Female-centered Paintings and Prints
- Natalie Hudson (Department of Political Science, Human Rights Studies Program): New Directions in the Politics of Narratives: Transnational Advocacy on Sexualized Violence in Conflict
- Judith Huacuja (Department of Art and Design): Liberation Theology and Social Engagement in the Art of Robert Campbell
- Heather MacLachlan (Department of Music): The Seventh Precept in the Twenty-First Century
- Caroline Merithew (Department of History): “The Certainty of Hope:” Feminism and Antifascism in the Global Struggle to Keep Ethiopia Independent, 1924-1945
- Erin O’Mara (Department of Psychology): Examining self-esteem across the menstrual cycle
- Andy Slade (Department of English): Be a Man, and Other Bad Advice: Cinema and the Ethics of Masculinity
- Tereza Szeghi (Department of English): Didacticism, Hope, and Change: Fiction and the Fight for Indigenous Human Rights
- Patrick Thomas (Department of English): Examining Social Media Writing Processes through Data Visualization
We are pleased to announce the recipients of the 2018 College of Arts and Sciences Liberal Arts Scholarship Catalyst (LASC) grants.
- Simanti Dasgupta (Department of Sociology, Anthropology and Social Work): Prophylactic Rights, Sex Worker's Subjectivity at the intersection of HIV/AIDS
- Suki Kwon (Department of Art and Design): Creative Seminar Project in China
- Nancy Martorano Miller (Department of Political Science): Applying Institutional Grammar Syntax Framework-Study of Public Policy in State Constitutions
- Caroline Merithew (Department of History): Feminism, Antifascism, global struggle to keep Ethiopia independent
- Haimanti Roy (Department of History): Paper Trails: Mobility and Documentary Citizenship in 20th Century India
- David Watkins (Department of Political Science): Uses, Abuses of "realism" in political theories of immigration
- Laura Voracheck (Department of English): Late 19th c. women journalists