- 2011 Distributed Learning Awardees
- 2011 Humanities Awardees
- 2011 Clinical Incentive Awardees
- 2011 Creative and Performing Arts Awardees
- 2011 Social Sciences Awardees
- 2010 Awardees
Name |
Department |
Project |
Robert Brinkmeyer |
English – College of Arts and Sciences |
Making Things Work: Crafts and Artifacts in the Construction of Modern Southern Identity ($11,009) |
Kara Brown |
Educational Studies – College of Education |
International Teacher Migration and the Global Convergence Debate: Reconsidering the Cultural and Institutional Dimensions of Schooling ($14,577) |
Kathryn Edwards |
History – College of Arts and Sciences |
Living with Ghosts: The Dead in European Society from the Black Death to the Enlightenment ($15,000) |
Jill Frank |
Political Science – College of Arts and Sciences |
Circulating Authority: Plato and the Practices of Politics ($11,055) |
Anne Gulick |
English – College of Arts and Sciences |
Declarative Moments: Literature, Law and Transatlantic Postcolonialism ($13,618) |
Victor Holtcamp |
Theatre and Dance – College of Arts and Sciences |
Tinseltown Boot Camp: Hollywood Studios and Actor Training ($3,054) |
Leon Jackson |
English – College of Arts and Sciences |
Scarlet Letters: A History of Blackmail in the Anglophone Atlantic World from the Fifteenth Century to the Present ($13,609) |
Catherine Keyser |
English – College of Arts and Sciences |
Making Taste: Food Science and Artificial Flavor in Modern American Literature ($15,419) |
Thomas Lekan |
History – College of Arts and Sciences |
Saving the Serengeti: The Frankfurt Zoological Society and the Paradox of Western Conservation ($12,591) |
Kevin Lewis |
Religious Studies – College of Arts and Sciences |
Mischief and Idolatry in the Language of Religious 'Belief' ($16,000) |
Christine Lotter |
Instruction & Teacher Education – College of Education |
Using Model-based Inquiry Instruction to Improve Students Scientific Literacy ($20,000) |
Norman Madden |
English – College of Arts and Sciences |
Quare Fellas: Marginal Masculinities in Irish Culture ($6,324) |
Rebecca Stern |
English – College of Arts and Sciences |
Moving Through Time: Life Among the New Sciences in Nineteenth-Century England ($14,503) |
Nicholas Vazsonyi |
Languages, Literatures, and Cultures – College of Arts and Sciences |
The Cambridge Wagner Encyclopedia ($5,445) |
Tracey Weldon-Stewart |
English – College of Arts and Sciences |
Middle Class African American English ($15,423) |
Sarah Williams |
Music – School of Music |
Semester Leave to complete the manuscript for Damnable Practises: Representations of Early Modern English Witchcraft in Broadside Balladry and Popular Song ($10,000) |
Name |
Department |
Project |
Brandon Bookstaver |
Clinical Pharmacy and Outcomes Sciences – SC College of Pharmacy |
Frequency of ApoE subtypes in an HIV-positive African-American population and correlation with neurocognitive disorders ($15,061) |
Paul Browne |
Obstetrics & Gynecology – School of Medicine |
The Role of Periodontal Organisms in Adverse Pregnancy Outcomes ($10,377) |
Brianne Dunn |
Clinical Pharmacy and Outcomes Sciences – SC College of Pharmacy |
Efficacy and safety of dual calcium channel blockers compared to JNC 7 guided treatment in African American patients with hypertension ($13,650) |
Lisa Gallo |
Graduate Program – School of Medicine |
Effectiveness of a Multidisciplinary Outpatient Weight Management Clinic in Reducing BMI SDS in Overweight and Obese Children and Adolescents in the Midlands of South Carolina ($17,598) |
Bryan Love |
Clinical Pharmacy and Outcomes Sciences – SC College of Pharmacy |
Adherence and Persistence to 5-Aminosalicylic Acid (5-ASA) |
April Miller |
Clinical Pharmacy and Outcomes Sciences – SC College of Pharmacy |
Comparison of traditional methods for renal function estimation with methods designed for estimation in acute kidney injury and the potential impact on antimicrobial dosing ($13,046) |
James Selph |
Neurology – School of Medicine |
A Double-Blind, Placebo-Controlled, Feasibility Study to Examine the Efficacy of Topical Creams in Painful Diabetic Peripheral Neuropathy (PDPN) Patients ($15,000) |
Souvik Sen |
Neurology – School of Medicine |
Effect of cerebral reperfusion on brain connectivity in acute stroke (14,548) |
Scott Sutton |
Clinical Pharmacy and Outcomes Sciences – SC College of Pharmacy |
Presence of Methicillin Resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) in Collegiate Football Players and Football Equipment ($11,000) |
Sharon Weissman |
Internal Medicine – School of Medicine |
Randomized-Controlled trial of every 4 month versus every 6 months monitoring in HIV-infected patients controlled on Highly Active Antiretroviral Therapy ($14,454) |
Jun Wu |
Clinical Pharmacy and Outcomes Sciences – SC College of Pharmacy |
Adherence to adjuvant hormone therapy and Associated Outcomes in Medicaid Patients with Primary Breast Cancer ($14,046) |
Name |
Department |
Project |
James Ackley |
Music – School of Music |
Recording of Newly Composed American Trumpet Music ($8,000) |
Susan Anderson |
Theatre and Dance – College of Arts and Sciences |
South Carolina Festival of Dance ($20,000) |
Reginald Bain |
Music – School of Music |
Music, Physics and Sonification |
Elise Blackwell |
English – College of Arts and Sciences |
Water Damage: a novel ($6,876) |
Brad Edwards |
Music – School of Music |
A Compact Disc Recording and Commissioning Project |
Julia Elliott |
Regional Campus & Continuing Education – Senior & Regional Campuses |
Hamadryas: a novel ($14,664) |
Constance Gee |
Music – School of Music |
Rhapsody for Viola and Orchestra by Henry Brant ($6,000) |
Lisa Hammond |
USC Lancaster |
Finding the Goddess and Other Poems ($9,449) |
Robert Jesselson |
Music – School of Music |
Commissioning Six New Compositions for Cello and Piano to Celebrate the 30th Anniversary of the Jesselson/Fugo Duo ($10,130) |
Mila Parrish |
Theatre and Dance – College of Arts and Sciences |
iDance Community Performances ($6,275) |
Michele Reese |
USC Sumter |
Poetry Sequence on the Study of Slave Narratives ($9,533) |
Kathleen Robbins |
Art – College of Arts and Sciences |
Fine Art Photography Book and Exhibition Project: |
Nic Ularu |
Theatre and Dance – College of Arts and Sciences |
USC THEATRE IN NEW YORK ($13,635) |
Marius Valdez |
Art – College of Arts and Sciences |
The Secret Species Project: Character-Based Art and Graphic Design ($6,095) |
Name |
Department |
Project |
David Darmofal |
Political Science – College of Arts and Sciences |
Improving Inferences from Survey Data: Modeling Behavioral Interactions Between Survey Respondents ($19,354) |
Stanley Dubinsky |
English – College of Arts and Sciences |
Language Rights ($17,369) |
Alissa Holland |
Psychology – College of Arts and Sciences |
A Functional Cerebral Systems Approach to Anxious Arousal: The Influence of Right-Lateralized Cognitive and Physiological Stress on Right Hemisphere Activation and Regulation of Sympathetic Tone ($18,161) |
Maimuna Huq |
Anthropology – College of Arts and Sciences |
Cultural politics of religion, education, and identity among contemporary Bangladeshi Muslims ($10,000) |
Carl Maas |
Social Work – College of Social Work |
Developing a Social Marketing Intervention to address Intimate Partner Violence Behaviors in Latino Men living in South Carolina ($19,983) |
Gerald McDermott |
Division of Research – Moore School of Business |
Transnational Integration Regimes as Development Programs: How the EU, NAFTA and the Mercosur Shape the Institutional Paths of Emerging Market Democracies ($19,150) |
Ronald Pitner |
Social Work – College of Social Work |
Mapping Neighborhoods for Crime and Ownership ($19,984) |
Jimy Sanders |
Sociology – College of Arts and Sciences |
Acculturation, socioeconomic status, and body mass index trajectory among children of immigrants in the U.S. ($16,821) |
Todd Shaw |
Political Science – College of Arts and Sciences |
Changing Distances of Black Politics ($9,252) |
Brent Simpson |
Sociology – College of Arts and Sciences |
A Solution to the Problem of Collective Action in Large Groups ($17,000) |
Lucy Spence |
Instruction & Teacher Education – College of Education |
Writing Assessment and Instruction for Culturally and Linguistically Diverse Children ($17,384) |
Benjamin Steiner |
Criminology & Criminal Justice – College of Arts and Sciences |
Comparing Self Reported to Official Indicators of Inmate Misconduct Within and Across Prisons in Two States ($5,846) |
Lee Walker |
Political Science – College of Arts and Sciences |
Completion and Expansion of Cross-National Study of Judiciary's Role in Protection of Civil and Political Rights ($9,775) |



