2019 Grant Awardees
Since 2010, the Office of the Provost has awarded more than 450 grants at USC Columbia and the Regional Palmetto Colleges through the Internal Grant Program. The purpose of this competitive grant program is to provide funding to support full-time faculty, regardless of rank or track, in achieving their scholarship goals. Grants support faculty in a variety of ways including research, scholarship, creative activities, course design and collaboration. The current year's group of awardees are listed below by program.
Creative and Performing Arts Awardees
| Name | Title | Department | College | Project |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Kwon, Hyunji | Assistant Professor | Art | College of Arts and Sciences | Art and Trauma: Creative Art for Vulnerable Women |
| Robinson, Mary Catherine | Professor | Art | College of Arts and Sciences | Regeneration: Invoking Connection Through Fiber |
| Valdes, Marius Ivan | Associate Professor | Art | College of Arts and Sciences | Exploring Introversion through Picture Book Art |
| Walker, Alicia Wynn | Associate Professor | Music | School of Music | The Path to the Podium: A Pedagogy of Conducting |
Humanities Awardees
| Name | Title | Department | College | Project |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Crocker, Holly Adryan | Professor | English | College of Arts and Sciences | Feminism Without Gender in Late Medieval Literature |
| Elfenbein, Jessica | Professor | History | College of Arts and Sciences | Reclaiming Ferguson, South Carolina 1890-1940: A Community Study |
| Gulick, Anne | Associate Professor | English | College of Arts and Sciences | Decolonizing Students: Critical Pedagogy and Higher Education in Anglophone African Literature |
| Hubbert, Julie | Associate Professor | Music | School of Music | Technology, Listening and Labor: Music in New Hollywood Film (1967-1980) |
| Kneas, David | Assistant Professor | Geography | College of Arts and Sciences | Good Stories: The Narratives, Knowledge, and Expertise that Sustain Global Copper Exploration |
| Minett, Mark E | Assistant Professor | English | College of Arts and Sciences | Robert Altman and the Elaboration of Hollywood |
| Smith, Mark Michael | Professor | History | College of Arts and Sciences | Emotion, Sense, Experience |
Pedagogy
| Name | Title | Department | College | Project |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ducate, Lara Claire | Professor | Languages, Literatures, & Cult. | College of Arts and Sciences | Exploring Multidisciplinary Approaches to Integrative Learning: Faculty Perspectives and Practices |
| Wang, Cuizhen (Susan) | Professor | Geography | College of Arts and Sciences | Improving Undergraduate Experiential Learning Outcomes in Geospatial Science |
Social Sciences Awardees
| Name | Title | Department | College | Project |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dawes, Molly | Assistant Professor | Education | Education | Preservice Teachers’ Readiness to Address Bullying: Assessing Knowledge and Measurement Development |
| DiStefano, Christine | Professor | Education | Education | Pioneering Child Mental Health Assistance in the Ecuadorian Educational System |
| Fowler, Lauren A | Clinical Assistant Professor | Medicine | Medicine | The Effects of Fatigue on Cognitive Performance and Empathy in Medical Students |
| Harrison, Conor M | Assistant Professor | Geography | Arts and Sciences | Electric Geographies: The new geographical political economy of electricity in the United States |
| Kim, Hoikwang | Assistant Professor | Business | Business | Measuring (In)Attention to Mutual Fund Fees: Evidence from Experiments |
| Shinkareva, Svetlana V. | Associate Professor | Psychology | Arts and Sciences | Resolving conflicting affective signals in the brain |
| Walsemann, Katrina M. | Associate Professor | Health Prom Educ & Behavior | Public Health | Intergenerational student debt and the mental health of mothers and their young adult children |
| Woo, Bongki | Assistant Professor | Social Work | Social Work | Racial Hate Crimes in South Carolina: Perceptions and Responses |
Visiting Scholars Awardees
| Name | Title | Department | College | Project |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Finney, Nikky | Professor | English | Arts and Sciences | At War With Ourselves |
| Goblirsch, Kurt Gustav | Professor | Languages, Literatures, & Cult. | Arts and Sciences | Visiting Scholar Grant: Anatoly Liberman, University of Minnesota |
| Harrison, Conor M | Assistant Professor | Geography | Arts and Sciences | Visiting Scholar Grant: Dr. Gavin Bridge |
| Jenkins-Henry, Toby S | Associate Professor | Instruction & Teacher Educ. | Education | Sport, Education, & Identity |
| Petti, Roberto | Professor | Physics & Astronomy | Arts and Sciences | Nuclear Parton Distributions: Unveiling the Structure of Nuclei |