Timothy Murray Graduate Travel Grant Recipients

2021-2022

Martin Abbot (Science & Technology Studies)
Organizing Irresponsibility? Redrawing the urban nature and culture of risk in New Orleans

Amanda Domingues (Science & Technology Studies)
Making bodies from the past: understanding and measuring humans through archaeological practices

Emily Donald (History)
The Sexual Politics of Hierarchy: A History of Ladies, Tomboys, and Women-Loving Women in Thailand

Kaitlin Emmanuel (Visual Studies)
Researching Sri Lanka Otherwise: Aesthetics as Testimony in the Tamil Diaspora

Re'ee Hagay (Near Eastern Studies)
Mizrahi Aesthetics: Mourning, Time, Globalization

Eliana Hernández-Pachón (Romance Studies)
Plant/Human Interactions in Contemporary Colombian Art

Megan Jeffreys (History)
Perspectives of Escape: Resistance and Community in Antebellum Virginia

Sophia Léonard (German Studies)
“… zeigen, wie es sich in Wahrheit verhält.“ Peter Weiss‘ Biographical Dramas

Astara Light (Visual Studies)
Decoding hauntings, ephemerality, and ecology: Tracing the movement of knowledge through exhibitions of work by Indonesian artists

Sarah Meiners (History)
Whose Children? The Making of the United States’ Cold War Child Refugee Policy

Jinglin Piao (Anthropology)
State Anti-Poverty Programs in Rural Ethnic China

Alec Pollak (English)
Literary Estates and the Transmission of Culture

Jennifer Rabedeau (English)
Medieval Afterlives: Ornament & Empire in Victorian Britain

Austin Raetz (History)
I Bid Him Not Do It’: Same-Gender Sexual Violence in English Courts, 1600-1800

Siriwan Sirithorn (Asian Studies)
Wild Things: Theater, Performance, and Ritual Beings in Northern Thai Ricelihood

Sarah Then Berg (Africana Studies & Research Center)
Musical Phenomenology: Aural Subjectivity in International Relations

Jacob Walters (History)
“Strange Twistings of Soul”: Emancipatory Experimentalism, Speculative Sociology, and the Revolutionary Unknown in the Writings of W.E.B. Du Bois

Anran Wang (History)
Archival research in Moscow, Russia for a historical study on Inner Mongolia, China

 

2019-2020

Ellen Abrams (Science & Technology Studies)
Making Mathematics American: Representation, Labor, and Engagement during the Growth of American Mathematics, 1894-1945

Manasicha Akepiyapornchai (Asian Studies)
Language and Lineage: The Multilingual Soteriology in Medieval South India

Pichaya Damrongpiwat (English)
Frances Burney, Gendered Violence, and the Materiality of Eighteenth-Century Epistolary Fiction

Ibrahim Gemeah (Near Eastern Studies)
Between Secularism and Islam: State, Religion, and Society in Nasser's Egypt, 1952-1970

Raashid Goyal (Near Eastern Studies)
The Construction of Islamic Law: Compositional Analyses of Legal Traditions

Grace Catherine Greiner (English)
Experimentation in the Archive: Medieval and Modern Poet-Critics and the Making of New Media

Aslihan Gunhan (Architecture)
Displaced Modernities: The Ottoman Empire, Turkey and the Specters of Armenian Architects

Mariangela Mihai Jordan (Anthropology)
I am a whisper, my dear

Jeffrey Mathias (Science & Technology Studies)
The Mind in Isolation: Sensory Deprivation and the Politics of Subjectivity in Cold War America

Krithika Vachali (English)
Reading Natural History: Collection Epistemologies in Nineteenth Century British Science and Literature

2018-2019

Yagna Nag Chowdhuri (Asian Studies)
Of Gurus, Enlightenment and the Ethical Life: The Making of Modern Spirituality in India

Shoshana Deutsh (Science & Technology Studies)
Becoming ‘Too Sensitive’ to Vibration: Mining and Earthquakes in New Zealand

A.R. Edlebi (English)
The Idea of Earth: Modern Literature and Human Time

Lara Fresko-Madra (History of Art)
Sediments of Time: State Violence, History, and Memory in Contemporary Art From Turkey (1990-2015)

John Gorczyk (Anthropology)
Placing animal-human communities in the early Neolithic of the Sofia Basin, Bulgaria

Magdala Lissa Jeudy (Romance Studies)
Troubling Medicine: Naturalist Authors Examine the Medical Apparatus

Matthew Kilbane (English)
Poetry, Media, and the Music of Celia Zukofsky in the Ransom Center’s Lyric Archive

Jayme Kilburn (Performing & Media Arts)
Women Directors: Restaging a Discipline

Patrick Kozey (Romance Studies)
“Por cantigas o rimas”: Poetry and Politics at Court in Iberia, 1000-13000

Lisa Lehner (Science & Technology Studies)
Living With and Without: On the Experience and Global Politics of Curing Hepatitis C

Anna Mascorella (Architecture)
Restore, Displace, Appropriate: Negotiating the Baroque Legacy in Fascist Rome

Lauren van Haaften-Schick (History of Art)
Law into Art/Art into Law: Legal after-lives of the ‘political promise’ of Conceptual Art through Seth Siegelaub's “The Artists Reserved Rights Transfer and Sale Agreement”

Yen Vu (Romance Studies)
Young, Beguiling and Free: 20th century Vietnamese intellectual thought and experience in French expression

 

2010-2011

Mari Crabtree (History) 
The Black Aesthetic in Harlem, 1910-1940 

Stephanie DeGooyer (English)
Framed Voices: Eighteenth-Century Literature, Equality and the Archive

Brigette Nicole Fielder (English)
“Tupping your white ewe”: Sexual Kinship and Racial Marking in Mid-Nineteenth Century American Literary Culture

Amanda Gilvin (History of Art)
Exhibition and Circulation of Nigerian Art, 1920-Present

Irving Goh (Comparative Literature)
Towards a Theory of the Reject: Contemporary French Thought from 1968 to the Present

Zachary Gooch (Romance Studies)
Narratives of Noir and the Image of Postwar France 

Gokce Gunel (Anthropology)
Thinking Ahead: Rationality, Mediation and Discipline in the Construction of Masdar City

Mukti Lakhi (English)
Contextual Universalisms: Indigenous Discourses of Human Rights in India and South Africa

Cecily Swanson (English)
Circles, Salons, Society: American Modernists in Paris

Darla Thompson (Science & Technology Studies)
Harnessing Labor: Iron Collars and the Forces of Slavery

Zac Zimmer (Romance Studies)
What is the Value of the Common? Aesthetics in the Networked Age

 

2009-2010

Alexis Briley (Comparative Literature) 
`Lawful Calculation’: Hölderlin’s theory of Poetic Rhythm 

Julie Phillips Brown (English)
The Feminist Avant-Garde in the Americas

Osvaldo de la Torre (Romance Studies)
The Chilean Tradition in Latin American Poetry

Mark Ferraguto (Music)
Investigating the Beethoven Sketchbook “Landsberg 12” in the Berlin Staatsbibliothek 

Kate Hames (English)
Troubled Waters: Narrating the Thames to the Amazon in British Literature, 1899-1939

Joseph Brent Morris (History)
`Be not conformed to this world’: Oberlin and the Crusade Against American Slavery

Sarah Pearce (Near Eastern Studies)
Crusader Philology: The Transformation of Literature at the court of Alfonso VIII

Claudia Pederson (History of Art)
Contemporary videogames by visual artists as a transnational medium for cultural critique

Hannah Rogers (Science & Technology Studies)
SymbioticA: The Practices of Art and Science

Marcela Romero Rivera (Comparative Literature)
Lixo e Luxo: The politics of the image of garbage in Rio de Janeiro 

Kim Todt (History)
“Let Us Comprehend the Mysteries of Commerce”: The Mercantilist System in New Netherland and Colonial New York from 1630 through 1790

Anne Wilde (History)
Konrad Bercovici: The Man Behind the Gypsy Costume

Alan Young-Bryant (English)
Pre-Raphaelite Art and Design: Images and Objects of Dante Gabriel Rossetti’s Sonnets for Pictures (1847-1881)

Zhiguo Xie (Linguistics)
Modality and Evidentiality in Lhasa Tibetan

 

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