2009 Research and Creativity Enhancement (RCE) Awardees
for grant period 6/1/2009 through 5/31/2

Gideon Alorwoyie, Department of Instrumental Studies: Percussion, Linguistic Meaning in Anlo-Ewe Drum Patterns.

Bruce Bond, Department of English, Lamp (a full-length collection of poetry).

Steve Craig, Department of Radio, Television, and Film, The Impact of Radio Broadcasting on Farm Families during the Great Depression.

Patricaia Cukor-Avila, Department of Linguistics and Technical Communication, Coexisting grammars in the speech of black and white Southerners.

Kelly Donahue-Wallace, Department of Art Education and History, Jerónimo Antonio Gil and Buen gusto in Late Colonial New Spain.

Jacqueline Foertsch, Department of English, Sidebar: Covering the Atom Bomb in the African American Press.

Steven Friedson, Department of Music History, Theory and Ethnomusicology, Receiving Afa:  Divination and Destiny in Ewe Ritual.

Lari Gibbons, Department of Studio Arts, Dwellings: An Interpretive Investigation of the Impact of Land Development on Native Wildlife and its Habitat.

Frank Heidlberger, Department of Music History, Theory and Ethnomusicology, Hector Berlioz (1803-1869) - Musical Meaning and "Autobiographical Construction".

Timothy Jackson, Department of Music History, Theory and Ethnomusicology, Sibelius and the SS.

Jongsoo Lee, Department of Linguistics and Technical Communication, Indigenous Tradition as Intellectual Commodity:  Carlos Fuentes and Mestizaje in Mexico.

Christopher Nelson, Department of Music Composition, Elastic Reality: Physical Modeling of Instruments and Space.

Margaret Notley, Department of Music History, Theory and Ethnomusicology, Mythic Tragedy and Narrative Distance in Brahms's Gesang der Parzen.

John Peters, Department of English, Oscar Wilde and the Aesthetics of Perception.

Richard Ruderman, Department of Political Science, Halevi's Kuzari: On the Possibility of a Dialogue between Faith and Reason.

Harold Tanner, Department of History, China's Fate: Mao Zedong, Chiang Kai-shek, Geroge Marshall and the Second Battle of Siping, April-May 1946.

Kelly Taylor, Department of Communication Studies, Don't Cry for Me Texarkana: The Life and Strange Times of Molly Ivins.

Robert Upchurch, Department of English, Imitation and Innovation: Continental Contexts for Ælfric's Pastoral Care.

Jacqueline Vanhoutte, Department of English, Something Rotten on the Stage in England: Leprosy and Early Drama.

Jennifer Way, Department of Art Education and History, Irish Art and Visual Culture:  Questions of Internationalism and Transnationalism.