Learn more about the ICS Faculty Fellowship
Information Session for Faculty Fellowship: September 10th, 2025: BTSU 306, 11:00 am to 12:00 pm
Watch the recording below of our 2023 informational session on ICS Faculty Fellowships, where past fellows and director Jolie Sheffer shared their experiences with the Fellowship Program and answered questions about applying for and utilizing ICS Fellowships!
| Year | Name | Title of Project | Affiliation |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | Scott Piroth | Curling Clubs as Accessible Places for Everyone | PoliticalScience |
| 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 |
Updated: 04/16/2025 11:24AM