Grant Recipients FY'21

Faculty awards received between July 1, 2020 and June 30, 2021

Ireri Chavez-Barcenas (Music) was awarded a National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Stipend for her project titled Singing in the City of Angels: Race, Identity, and Devotion in Early Modern Puebla de los Ángeles.

Manuel Diaz-Rios (Neuroscience and Biology) was awarded an Equipment Grant from the Grass Foundation for his project titled Interactive Neurophysiology Workshop to Promote Neuroscience Research in Undergraduate Colleges in Puerto Rico.

Page Herrlinger (History) and Natasha Goldman (Art History) were awarded a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Seminar and Institute program to support a two-week seminar hosted by Bowdoin entitled Teaching the Holocaust through Visual Culture.

Ann Kibbie (English) was awarded a National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship for her project titled Obstetrics and the Disabled Maternal Body in Nineteenth-Century Great Britain.

Michele LaVigne (Earth and Oceanographic Science) and her collaborators from Iowa State University and Scripps College were awarded a grant from the National Science Foundation for their project titled Using multi-proxy paleo data to constrain natural and anthropogenic hydrographic variability in the Gulf of Maine System over the last 250 years (NSF Award No. 2028212).

Alex Marzano-Lesnevich (English) was awarded a 2021 Maine Arts Commission Literary Fellowship, a 2021-22 Shearing Fellowship from the Black Mountain Institute, and a residency from the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts in support of upcoming writing projects including their book BOTH AND NEITHER.

Alison Riley Miller (Education) and her collaborators from the Gulf of Maine Research Institute and Vanderbilt University were awarded a grant from the National Science Foundation for their project titled Developing a Modeling Orientation to Science: Teaching and Learning Variability and Change in Ecosystems (NSF Award No. 2010155).

Ayodeji Ogunnaike (Africana Studies) was awarded a Postdoctoral Fellowship from the Ford Foundation for his project titled How Worship Becomes Religion.

Jill Smith (German) was awarded a grant from the German Embassy in support of the German department’s German Campus Weeks programming.