College of Humanities and Social Science recipients of previous Berkman Faculty Development Grants

2008 - 2009 awardees

Marian Aguiar, Assistant Professor, English
Tracking Modernity: India, Trains, and the Culture of Mobility

Edda Fields-Black, Associate Professor, History
Treading in the Trench: Transformation of West Africa's Rice Coast and South Carolina and Georgia's Rice Plantations

Anna Fisher, Assistant Professor, Psychology
Mechanisms of Sustained Selective Attention in 2- to 6-Year-Old Children: Obtaining Evidence from Eye Tracking

Erte Xiao, Assistant Professor, Social and Decision Sciences
Punishment and Social Norms

2007 - 2008 awardees

Horacio Arlo-Costa, Associate Professor, Philosophy
Admissibility and Ambiguity

Charlene Castellano, Teaching Professor, Modern Languages
Winging It with Joseph Brodsky: A Poet Pictures Writing in a New World

Felipe Gomez, Lecturer, Modern Languages
Death Beats: Countercultural Suicide and Popular Music in Latin America, 1960-1980

Suguru Ishizaki, Associate Professor, English
Visual Design Skills Assessment Study

Xiaofei Kang, Assistant Professor, Modern Languages
Contesting the Yellow Dragon: Religion, Ethnicity and Modernity at China's Borderland

Carey Morewedge, Assistant Professor, Social & Decision Sciences
Social Comparison and the Construction of Value

Alessandro Rinaldo, Assistant Professor, Statistics
Developing Software for the Analysis of Large and Sparse Contingency Tables

2006 - 2007 awardees

Brooke Feeney, Associate Professor, Psychology
Emotion Expression in Relationships

Anna Fisher, Assistant Professor, Psychology
Development of Automatic and Voluntary Selective Attention

Lori Holt, Associate Professor, Psychology
Professional Development in fMRI Methods: Uncovering the Neural Basis of Auditory Expertise

John Soluri, Associate Professor, History
Wildlife Conservation and Livelihoods in Patagonia and Tierra del Fuego

Naoko Taguchi, Assistant Professor, Modern Languages
Learning Context, Individual Differences, and Pragmatic Development in L2 English

Jonathan Woon, Assistant Professor, Social and Decision Sciences
Institutions, Information, and the Shaping of Political Brand Names

James Wynn, Assistant Professor, English
Arguing with Numbers: Rhetoric and the Development of Statistical Biology in the Nineteenth Century

2005 - 2006 awardees

Barbara Freed, Professor, Modern Languages
Matisse and America

Richard Maddox, Professor, History
Change in Rural Spain: A Case Study of the Cultural Politics of the Transformation of the Countryside in the "New Spain"

Jane McCafferty, Associate Professor, English
Literary Journalism: Two Men and Their Children

Lisa Tetrault, Assistant Professor, History
The Memory of a Movement: Re-imagining Woman Suffrage in Reconstruction America, 1865-1890

2004 - 2005 awardees

Jay Aronson, Assistant Professor, History
DNA Identification in War Crimes and Genocide Investigations in the Former Yugoslavia

Stephanie Batiste, Assistant Professor, English
Dunham, Anthropology, and Dances of the Diaspora

Jane Bernstein, Associate Professor, English
"Rachel Is" - a documentary film about a transitional year in the life of a young woman with mental retardation

Robert Cavalier, Associate Teaching Professor, Philosophy
Adding Telephonic Capabilities to Project PICOLA (Public Informed Citizen Online Assembly)

Edda Fields, Assistant Professor, History
"Muck Work:" The Creation of the Gullah and Geechee on Coastal South Carolina and Georgia Rice Plantations, 1708 to 1930

Paz Macias-Fernandez, Lecturer, Modern Languages
Teaching Women's Literature in the Foreign Languages: A Survey and Study

Joung Yeo Angela No, Assistant Professor, Social and Decision Sciences
The Effects of Industrial Organization and Intra-firm Networks on Technology Adoption

Naoko Taguchi, Assistant Professor, Modern Languages
Development of Pragmatic Comprehension Ability: An Analysis of Comprehension Accuracy and Speed in Relation to Proficiency and Cognition

Erik Thiessen, Assistant Professor, Psychology
Learning to Use Phonemic Contrasts from Distributional Information in Infancy

2003 - 2004 awardees

Mariana Achugar, Assistant Professor, Modern Languages
The Process of Acquiring Spanish Academic Language in the US for Bilingual Heritage Speakers and Monolingual Speakers: Case Study of an Academic Community in El Paso

Steven Awodey, Associate Professor, Philosophy
Algebraic Set Theory

Charlene Castellano, Teaching Professor, Modern Languages
Ferruccio Busoni's "Doctor Faust": A Legend Lives On

Jim Daniels, Professor, English
University Tales: From Screenplay to Film

David Danks, Assistant Professor, Philosophy
International Congress of Psychology Symposium

Kathleen Newman, Associate Professor, English
Index for Radio Active

Linda Palmer, Research Scientist, Philosophy
Short Series of Rat Behavioral Experiments to Test a Series of Compounds in a Paradigm Currently Under Development

Jayeeta Sharma, Assistant Professor, History
Empire's Garden, Assam's Tea: Locality, Commodity, Community

Mandy Simons, Associate Professor, Philosophy
'Either' and 'Or'