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Next Information Session for Faculty Fellowship: Spring 2026 TBD
| Year | Name | Title of Project | Affiliation |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | Rebecca Kinney | Growing Up in the Heartland: Regional Racial Formation of Korean Adoptees in the Midwest | Cultural and Critical Studies |
| 2025 | Rebecca Mancuso | “How Many Times Can You Learn That Lesson?” A History of Hazing at an Ohio Public University, 1920-2000 | History |
| 2025 | Clayton Rosati | Server Farming: Community Sustainability and Infrastructures of the Machine Learning Age | Media & Communication |
| 2025 | Rachel Walsh | Backlash Blues: Reading Multiethnic Literature for Archives of Care and Resistance in the Face of Dead Futures | English |
| 2024 | Meagan Docherty | Engaging with community perspectives on gun violence in Toledo, Ohio | Psychology |
| 2024 | Sidra Lawrence | Aural Technologies of Justice: The Sonics of Violence, Trauma, and Healing | Ethnomusicology |
| 2024 | Scott Piroth | Curling Clubs as Accessible Places for Everyone | Political Science |
| 2024 | Tim Messer-Kruse | Civics and the Civil War: The racist origins of the Citizenship Education Industry | Department of Cultural and Critical Studies |
| 2023 | Justin Rex | Community Health Workers, Stress Reduction, and Racial Equity in Infant Vitality | Political Science |
| 2023 | Sandra Faulkner | Poetic Portraits of Older Women of the Great Black Swamp | School of Media and Communication |
| 2023 | Ryan Ebright | Making American Opera after Einstein | Musicology |
| 2023 | Angela Ahlgren | Places, Please: Stage Managers, Gender, and Invisible Labor | Theatre and Film |
| 2022 | Michaela Walsh | Navigating Crisis Across Borders: Experiences of a Mexican Indigenous Community in Times of Covid | Ethnic Studies |
| 2022 | John Dowd | AI and Everyday Life: Finding Our Footing in Contemporary Digital Society | School of Media and Communication |
| 2022 | Niki Kalaf-Hughes | Thank you for Listening: Effective Messaging in Constituent Communications | Political Science |
| 2022 | Alli Hoag | Light Forms: Glass Modular Elements for Creating Built Environments | School of Art |
| 2021 | Christopher Witulski | Music, Memory, and Change in Arab America | Ethnomusicology |
| 2021 | Bruce Collet | Sanctuary Churches and Sanctuary Schools in a Context of Migration Securitization | School of Educational Foundations, Leadership and Policy |
| 2020 | Nicole Jackson | Women Writing Black to the British Empire | History |
| 2020 | Starr Keyes | Disability, Race, and the School-to-Prison Pipeline | Counseling and Special Education |
| 2020 | Albert Dzur | The Challenges of Collaborative Governance in the Opioid Crisis | Political Science |
| 2020 | Lori Liggett | The Bicycle and the Ballot Box: How American Suffragists Pedaled Their Way to Power | School of Media and Communication |
| 2019 | Melissa Miller | Moms on the Run: Breakthroughs and Barriers in the 2018 Election | Political Science |
| 2019 | Arne Spohr | Forgotten Voices: Rediscovering Europe's Black Musical Past | Musicology |
| 2018 | Lisa Hanasono | The M-Word: Shattering the Silence of Miscarriage and Pregnancy Loss | School of Media and Communication |
| 2018 | Lara Martin Lengel | Community Organizations' Role in combating Sex Trafficking | School of Media and Communication |
| 2018 | Nancy Patterson | But I Wanna Say What I Wanna Say: Ohio Student and Teacher Perspectives on the First Amendment | School of Teaching and Learning |
| 2018 | Sheri Wells-Jensen | Imagining Life on Other Planets -- Re-imagining Life on Earth | English |
| 2017 | Amy Robinson | "Bad Hombres": Mexican Criminals as Popular Heroes | World Languages and Cultures |
| 2017 | Walter Grunden | Tales of Wa (Harmony) and Woe: Japanese Organizational Culture and the Production of Science and Technology | History |
| 2017 | Rebecca Kinney | Rust Belt Chinatowns: Restaurants, Race, and Redevelopment in the Twenty First Century | School of Cultural and Critical Studies |
| 2017 | Cheryl Lachowski | Ditches: A Montage of the Great Black Swamp | General Studies Writing |
| 2016 | Michael Arrigo | Leg Up/Land on Your Feet | School of Art |
| 2016 | Christina Guenther | Julya Rabinowich's Transnational Poetics: Remembering Border Crossings in Theater and Film | German, Russian, and East Asian Languages |
| 2015 | Rebecca Skinner Green | Forging the Path: Establishing Contemporary Art in Trinidad and Tobago | School of Art |
| 2015/2016 | David Bixler | The Hughes Project | School of Music |
| 2015 | Montana Miller | Blue Skies, Black Death: Skydivers and the Ambiguity of Belief | Popular Culture |
| 2015 | Philip Dickinson | Mere Pseud…: The Secret 1980s Journal of a Teenage Modernist | English |
| 2015 | Dalton Jones | Why is this Man Smiling?: The Reification of Louis Armstrong | Ethnic Studies |
| 2014 | Philip Xie | Industrial Heritage Tourism: Landscapes of Nostalgia | Tourism, Leisure, and Event Planning |
| 2014 | Satomi Saito | Narrative in the Digital Age | German, Russian, and East Asian Languages |
| 2014 | Erin Felicia Labbie | The Medieval Remainder: Faust, Debt, and Social Contracts | English |
| 2014 | Edgar Landgraf | Nietszche's Will, Luhmann's Inheritance. On the Physiological and Philosophical Underpinnings of Nietzsche's and Luhmann's Posthumanism | German, Russian, and East Asian Languages |
| 2013 | Christopher Frey | "Benevolent Care": Education and the Ainu in Japan's North, 1790-1868 | Educational Foundations, Leadership & Policy, EDHD |
| 2013 | Pedro Porben | Desired Revolution: Cultural Practices of the New Man in Cuba | Romance & Classical Studies, Spanish |
| 2013 | Theodore Rippey | The Anxious Ear: Aural Experience in German Modernity | German, Russian, and East Asian Languages |
| 2013 | Clayton Rosati | Infrastructure of Feeling: Media, Materialism, and Struggles for the Geographies of Culture | School of Media and Communication |
| 2013 | Geoff Howes | Utopian Visions of Madness in Austrian Literature | German, Russian, and East Asian Languages |
| 2012 | Sharona Muir | Naked Men, Naked Women, and Invisible Beasts: Tales of the Animals That Go Unseen Among Us | Creative Writing/English |
| 2012 | Kristen Rudisill | Second Honeymoons, Jurassic Babies: Identity and Play in Chennai's Post-Independence Sabha Theater | School of Media and Communication |
| 2012 | Kimberly Coates | Dancing With Freud: Female Sexuality, Modernist Women, and the Intoxication of Movement | English |
| 2012 | Dena Elisabeth Eber | Her Mikvah: Kedushat Yetzirah | School of Art |
| 2011 | Heather Elliott-Famularo | Bearing Witness: The Voices of Our Survivors | School of Art |
| 2011 | Ellen W. Gorsevski | Dangerous Women: The Rhetoric of the Women Nobel Peace Laureates` | School of Media and Communication |
| 2011 | Ruth Wallis Herndon | Children of Misfortune: Growing up Poor in Early New England | History |
| 2011 | Maisha Wester | English | |
| 2011 | Cynthia Baron | Breaking the Hourglass: Documentaries that Shatter the Illusion of the Corporate Food System | Theater and Film |
| 2010 | Eftychia Papanikolaou | College of Music | |
| 2010 | Jolie Sheffer | The Romance of Race: The Familial Origins of American Multiculturalism 1880-1930 | English |
| 2010 | Stephannie Gearhart | English | |
| 2009 | Victoria Ekstrand | Revealing John Doe: The Origins and Culture of Anonymous Speech in U.S. Law | Journalism |
| 2009 | Shannon Orr | Political Science | |
| 2009 | Beatrice Guenther | Trading on Cultural Capital: Madame de Stael's Politics of Literature | Women's Studies |
| 2009 | Vikki Krane | This is a Female Athlete: Interpreting Self-Representations of Female College Athletes | Sport and Leisure Studies |
| 2009 | Allie Terry | Somaesthetics and the Renaissance: Medieval Torture to Aesthetic Redemption at the Bargello | School of Art |
| 2009 | Ellen Berry | Stray Ejections, Misplaced, Shrouded in Forgetting: History, Trauma, and the Politics of Absence in Theresa Cha's Dictee | English |
| 2008 | Neil Engelhart | Petty Despots: Rethinking Human Rights Discourse After the Cold War | Political Science |
| 2008 | Charles Kanwischer | Real Estate Drawings and Recent Work | School of Art |
| 2008 | Vibha Bhalla | American Dreams: Gender, Migration and the Work Experiences of Asian Indian Community in Metropolitan Detroit | Ethnic Studies |
| 2008 | Christina Guenther | Cartographies of Identity: Memory and History in Ruth Beckermann's Documentary Films from 1980-2006 | German, Russian, and East Asian Languages |
| 2007 | Bill Albertini | Bodies and Pain: How to Be Ill and Unhappy | English |
| 2007 | Apollos O. Nwauwa | History | |
| 2007 | Amy Robinson | "True Stories" of Mexican Banditry: The Case of Chuco el Roto | Romance and Classical Studies |
| 2007 | Andrew Schocket | Errand to Africa: Boston King, the British Empire, and the Founding of Sierra Leone | History/American Culture Studies |
| 2007 | Rebecca Green | School of Art | |
| 2006 | Lawrence Coates | English | |
| 2006 | Liette Gidlow | Advertising the American Presidency, 1952-Present | History |
| 2006 | Sridevi Menon | Ethnic Studies | |
| 2006 | Susana Pena | Oye Loca: The Making of Cuban American Gay Miami | Ethnic Studies |
| 2006 | Leigh Ann Wheeler | Women's Studies | |
| 2005 | Peter Way | Culture War: The French and Indian War and the Construction of Social Identity | History |
| 2005 | Rekha Mirchandani | What's So Special about Special Domestic Violence Courts? Social Movements and the State | Sociology |
| 2005 | Edgar Landgraf | Inspiration and Artistic Creativity in Pre-Romantic and Romantic Thought: Inquiries into the Emergence of Modern Consciousness | German, Russian, and East Asian Languages |
| 2005 | Albert W. Dzur | Democratic Professionalism: Civic Task Sharing in Domains of Hidden Authority | Political Science |
| 2005 | Lynn Whitney | The I-280 Maumee River Crossing Project | School of Art |
| 2005 | Gary R. Hess | Explaining America's Lost War: The Forty-Year Debate Over Vietnam | History |
| 2005 | Sridevi Menon | Discursive Realms and Colonial Practice: Contrapuntal Studies of Race in Colonial India and the United States | Ethnic Studies |
| 2004 | Apollos O. Nwauwa | Neo-Colonialism and Academe: The British Intellectual Imperialism and its Aftermath in West Africa, 1948-1990 | History/Ethnic Studies |
| 2004 | Ana Del Sarto | Failures of Memory, Memories of Failures: Contemporary Latin American Women's Narratives | Department of Romance Languages |
| 2004 | Rachel Buff | First World, Third World, New World: Im/Migration, Gender and Empire in and Around the 20th Century United States | History |
| 2004 | Halifu Osumare | Hip Hop's Globalization in Ghana, West Africa | School of Human Movement |
| 2004 | Lisa Wylam | Theater and Film | |
| 2003 | Theresa Mah | Property Value, Race, and Worth: The Cultural Politics of Housing in San Francisco's Sunset District, 1924-1944 | Ethnic Studies |
| 2003 | Gregg Brownell | Media Literacy, Democracy and the Schools | School of Teaching and Learning |
| 2003 | Robert Buffington | The Sentimental Education of the Mexican Working Class | History |
| 2003 | Carol A. Hess | Music and the Spanish Civil War | School of Music |
| 2003 | Eithne Luibheid | Babies of Convenience? African Asylum Seekers and Childbearing Ireland | Ethnic Studies |
| 2002 | Hai Ren | The Countdown of Time: Public Displays and Symbolic Economy in China and Hong Kong | Popular Culture |
| 2002 | Opportune Zongo | Cultural Forces and the Construction of Widowhood | Department of Romance Languages |
| 2002 | Vickie Rutledge Shields | A Cultural Studies Reception Analysis of How Adolescent Girls and Boys Make Meaning of Idealized Images of Gender in Advertising | Women's Studies |
| 2001 | Rosalie H. Politsky | Building an Interpretive Repertoire in the Visual Arts: An Examination of Cultural Values in the Art of Richard Hamilton | School of Art |
| 2001 | Sharona Muir | A Father's Secrets | Creative Writing/English |
| 2001 | Ken Kiple | The Cambridge Food Histories: The Long and Short of Them | History |
| 2000 | Philip G. Terrie | A Biography of Robert Marshall | American Culture Studies |
| 2000 | Marvin Belzer | The Z Files: Reflection on the Practical Implications of Views about Personal Identity | Philosophy |
| 2000 | Ewart Skinner | Media and Communication | |
| 2000 | Fujiya Kawashima | The Great Families in Confucian Korea | History |
| 1999 | Mary Natvig | Imitative Techniques in Masses of the 15th Century | School of Music |
| 1999 | Jacquelyn Cuneen | Gender Portrayals in Sport-Related Advertising: Pring, Point-of-Purchase, and World Wide Web Versions of Women in Sport | Sport Management |
| 1999 | Scott C. Martin | Violence, Gender, and Drinking in the Early National United States | History |
| 1999 | Donald Scherer | The Place of the Humanities and Arts in Ecological Restoration Education | Philosophy |
| 1999 | Judith Sealander | Re-Inventing Childhood: Twentieth Century American State Regulation of Children's Labor, Education, Health, and Welfare | History |
| 1998 | Michael E. Staub | African American Activism, Jewish Identities, and Holocaust Consciousness | English |
| 1998 | Delia D. Aguilar | Feminism and Nationalism: The Philippines as a Case Study | Ethnic Studies/Women's Studies |
| 1998 | Lillian Ashcraft-Eason | African Women's Cosmological Thought, Economic Roles and Agency in Africa and the British Colonies | History |
| 1998 | Federico Chalupa | Ethnicity, Social-Self, and Narrative in the Andean Region | Department of Romance Languages |
| 1998 | Jaak Panksepp | Impulsive Children on Ritalin: A National Scandal in the Making | Psychology |
| 1997 | F. Scott Regan | A Play for Young Audiences Based on the "Faust" Legend | Theatre and Film |
| 1997 | Jack Santiano | Personal, Private, and Public: The Display of Symbols in Northern Ireland | Popular Culture |
| 1996/1997 | Loren E. Lomasky | Good, Better, Best: A Theory of Reason and Value | Philosophy |
| 1996/1997 | Tom Muir | Metal Vessels | School of Art |
| 1996 | Gary Hess | Warmaking and Democracy: Trauma, Johnson, Bush and Congressional Authorization in Korea, Vietnam, and the Persian Gulf | History |
| 1996 | Burton Beerman | Jesus' Daughter | School of Music |
| 1996 | Ellen Berry | Experiments in Transculture: Rethinking Russian and American Models of Creative Communication | English |
| 1996 | Don K. Rowney | Continuity in Russian History: State and Economy, 1885-1991 | History |
| 1996 | Ryan D. Tweney | Free Will in American Psychological Thought: From Jonathan Edwards to The Bell Curve | Psychology |
| 1996 | Vikki Krane | The Experiences of Lesbians in Collegiate Sports | Health, Physical Education, and Recreation |
| 1996 | Khani Begum | Postcolonial and Gender Discourses in Contemporary Irish Women's Writing | English |
| 1996 | Geoffrey Howes | Mental Illness as Cultural Problem with Examples from Modern Austrian Literature | German, Russian, and East Asian Languages |
| 1996 | Epifanio San Juan | Raymond Williams's Theory of Culture: Intersections of Class, Gender, and Ethnicity | Ethnic Studies |
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