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2011 Summer Research Grants

Loyola College

Biology Department

David Rivers, Professor
Heat production in maggot masses formed by forensically important flies 

Lisa Scheifele, Assistant Professor
Mechanisms controlling chromosome rearrangement 

Chemistry Department

Birgit Albrecht, Assistant Professor
Computational studies of drug binding to the ACE2 receptor:  Implications for Treatment of SARS

Classics Department

Joseph Walsh, Professor
Slaughter of the Innocents 

Communications Department

Russell Cook, Professor
A Phenomenology of Media Technics 

Tania Rosas-Moreno, Assistant Professor
Fact and Fiction in Brazilian Media 

Karsonya Whitehead, Assistant Professor
Notes from a Slave Ship Doctor: Interpreting the 1749-51 Diary of William Chancellor 

English Department

Juniper Ellis, Professor
Worlds of Laughter: Humor Literature and Culture 

Fine Arts Department

James Bunzli, Associate Professor
Completion of Manuscript for a Book Project: The Myth of Autobiography: Comtemporary Solo Performance in Essays, Interviews, and Texts 

Anthony Villa, Professor
Recording a Set of Original Works for the Moderately Sized Jazz Band

History Department

Sara Scalenghe, Assistant Professor
The Body Different: Disability in the Middle East, 1500-1800

Modern Languages and Literature 

Ramón Espejo-Saavedra, Associate Professor
"A Labyrinth of Concentric Circles:" Critic and Actor in the Essays of Mariano José de Larra 

Margarita Jacome, Assistant Professor
Violence, Nation and Identity in Colombian Short Fiction of Forced Displacement 

Andrea Thomas, Assistant Professor
Oscar Wilde's Multilingual Salomé 

Jinghua Wangling, Assistant Professor
Crafted Straightforwardness: Ninth-Century Chinese Poetry on Female Entertainers 

Thomas Ward, Professor
Garcilaso’s Footprints across the Ages (a chapter)

Philosophy Department

Bret Davis, Associate Professor
The Other Inside/The Self Outside: Nishida and the I-Thou Relation 

Drew Leder, Professor
The Phenomenology of "Shape-Shifting" 

Physics Department

Gregory Derry, Professor
Development of a Lensed Electron/Ion Spectrometer

Political Science Department

Carsten Vala, Assistant Professor
Religion-based Resistance and Civil Society in Authoritarian China 

Psychology Department

Theresa DiDonato, Assistant Professor
Romantic relationship initiation: How humor leads to attraction 

Jason Prenoveau, Assistant Professor
Verifying a Hierarachical Model of Anxiety and Depression 

Theology Department

Angela Christman, Professor
Arianism and Arium in Ambrose of Milan's Exposito Psalmi CXVIII

Writing Department

Allen Brizee, Assistant Professor
Using Empirical Research Methods to Assess Civic Engagement 

Brian Murray, Professor
Dickens & Friends: Art in Society in Victorian London 

Sellinger School of Business and Management

Economics Department

John Burger, Associate Professor
Productive Recessions and Jobless Recoveries 

Finance Department

Tuugi Chuluun, Assistant Professor
Board Networks and the Cost of Corporate Debt 

Information Systems and Operations Management Department

Paul Tallon, Associate Professor
Rethinking the Dimensionality of Strategic IT Alignment 

Law and Social Responsibility Department

Elizabeth Kennedy, Assistant Professor
When the Shop Floor is in the Living Room: A Theoretical Framework for the Domestic Employment Relationship

Management and International Business

Hung-bin Ding, Associate Professor
Family embedded network and diversification: Empirical evidence from family business groups in Taiwan 

Marketing Department

Qiyu Zhang, Assistant Professor
The Good, The Bad, and The Uncertain: Understanding Consumers' Perception of User-Generated Product Ratings 

 

2010 Summer Research Grants

Loyola College

Biology Department

Rebecca Brogan, Ph.D., Assistant Professor
Role of mineralocorticoids during luteinization

David Rivers, Ph.D., Professor
Impact of fly maggot masses on development of a forensically important parasitic wasp

Lisa Schiefele, Ph.D., Assistant Professor
Copy number of Mobile DNA Elements Following Genome Evolution

Christopher Thompson, Ph.D., Assistant Professor
Alteration of Neutrophil Function by Echinacea and Green Tea

Chemistry Department

Elizabeth Dahl, Ph.D., Assistant Professor
Assessing the potential for alkyl nitrate formation in clouds

Jesse More, Ph.D., Assistant Professor
Studies in Natural Product Chemistry: Synthesis of Diospongin B

English Department

Bryan Crockett, Ph.D., Associate Professor
Shakespeare Shorthanded: Another Look at Pirated Texts

Nicholas Miller, Ph.D., Associate Professor
After the Race: Urban Ireland, Accelerator, and the Legacy of the ‘Irish Film Renaissance'

Robert Miola, Ph.D., Professor
A Norton Critical Edition of Shakespeare’s Hamlet

Mark Osteen, Ph.D., Professor
Someone Else’s Nightmare and Left-Handed Endeavor: two chapters of The Big Night: Film Noir and American Dreams

Fine Arts Department

James Bunzli, Ph.D., Associate Professor
Preliminary Research for Sabbatical Book Project: The Myth of Autobiography: Contemporary Solo Performance in Essays, Interviews, and Texts

History Department

Angela Leonard, Ph.D., Assistant Professor
Researching the Black African Presence in Pre-20th Century Great Britain

Modern Languages and Literatures Department

Ramón Espejo-Saavedra, Ph.D., Associate Professor
Spectator and Spectacle: The Creation of the Modern Reader in the Work of Ramón de Mesonero Romanos

Matthew Harper, Ph.D., Assistant Professor
Ladri di biciclette: A Study in Adaptation

Margarita Jacome, Ph.D., Assistant Professor
Hit Men in Colombian Fiction: Consuming the Drug-trafficking Culture of Violence

Jinghua Wangling, Ph.D., Assistant Professor
Commercialization and Professionalization: Poetic Capital in Ninth-Century Chinese Entertainment Culture

Thomas Ward, Ph.D. Professor
Garcilaso’s Footprints across the Ages: The Andes, Hispanic Culture, and the Nation of Peru

Philosophy Department

Richard Boothby, Ph.D., Professor
The Object of Psychoanalysis: A Contribution to a Forthcoming Book

Drew Leder, Ph.D., Professor
Toward a More Materialistic Medicine

Dale Snow, Ph.D., Associate Professor
Schelling's Encounter with Goethe

Physics Department

Gregory Derry, Ph.D., Professor
Chaotic Dynamics in the Human Menstrual Cycle

Joseph Ganem, Ph.D. Professor
Development of Optically-pumped Mid-IR Phosphor Materials

Psychology Department

Rachel Grover, Ph.D., Assistant Professor
Social Processes within Friendships as Mediators of the Link between Psychopathology and Friendship Quality

Christopher Higginson, Ph.D., Assistant Professor
Cognitive Test Performance of Individuals with Attention Problems in a Quiet versus Noisy Environment

Jason Prenoveau, Ph.D., Assistant Professor
Role of Expectancy in Extinction of Conditioned Fear

Speech-Language Pathology/Audiology Department

Libby Kumin, Ph.D., Professor
Development and Dissemination of Information on Social Skills in Children and Adolescents with Down Syndrome

Theology Department

Stephen Fowl, Ph.D., Professor
A Theological Commentary on the Book of Ruth

Robert Trent Pomplun, Ph.D., Associate Professor
Jesuit Scholasticism and the Spiritual Exercises of Ignatius Loyola

Wilhelmus Valkenberg, Ph.D., Professor
The importance of the opening prayer in the Qur’an for contemporary dialogue between Christians and Muslims

Writing Department

Peggy O’Neill, Ph.D., Associate Professor
How Does Assessment Frame College Writing Programs?

Sellinger School of Business and Management

Economics Department

John Burger, Ph.D., Associate Professor
Local Bond Markets During the Global Financial Crisis

Andrew Samuel, Ph.D., Assistant Professor
Foreign aid: a cause or consequence of corruption in weak states?

Finance Department

Frank D’Souza, Ph.D., Assistant Professor
The Impact of Sarbanes-Oxley on Market Efficiency: Evidence from Merger & Acquisition Activity

Information Systems and Operations Management Department

Gloria Phillips-Wren, Ph.D., Associate Professor
International Standards in Financial Reporting: Are U.S. Companies Ready for the Change?

School of Education

Teacher Education Department

Robert Simmons, Ph.D., Assistant Professor
Why did we decide to do this?: The journey of Black men who decide to become teachers in urban schools


2009 Summer Research Grants

College of Arts and Sciences

Biology Department

Maren Blohm, Ph.D., Assistant Professor
The effect of the heavy metals nickel and chromium on disjunct populations of Arabidopsis lyrata

Kim Derrickson, Ph.D., Associate Professor
Is the Withdrawal of Parental Care by Male Wood Thrushes An Adaptive Response to Being Cuckolded?

Andrew Schoeffield, Ph.D., Associate Professor
Control of Pathogenic Bacteria in a viable-but-nonculturable state by the bacterial predator Bdellovibrio

Christopher Thompson, Ph.D., Assistant Professor
Modulation of the Innate Immune System of Echinacea and Green Tea

Christopher Tilmann, Ph.D., Assistant Professor
Impact of environmental toxins on the development and reproduction of the nematode, C. Elegans

Chemistry Department

Birgit Albrecht, Ph.D., Assistant Professor
The Odd Couple: SARS and ACE2

Elizabeth E. Dahl, Ph.D., Assistant Professor
Proposal Writing for Research in Marine and Atmospheric Chemistry

Jesse D. More, Ph.D., Assistant Professor
Studies Toward the Synthesis of the Antifungal Natural Product Ezomycin A2: Preparation of Ezoaminuroic Acid

Classics Department

Thomas D. McCreight, Ph.D., Assistant Professor
Student Life in Early Jesuit Schools: Previously Untranslated Documents

Martha C. Taylor, Ph.D., Associate Professor
Democracy, Freedom, and Empire in Thucydides

English Department

Bryan Crockett, Ph.D., Associate Professor
The Puritan and the Pirate: Stephen Egerton’s Incendiary Sermon

Juniper Ellis, Ph.D., Associate Professor
A Handbook for Humor Studies

Nicholas Miller, Ph.D., Associate Professor
Tropics of Evolution: Science, Religion, and Literary Imagination

Robert S. Miola, Ph.D., Professor
A Norton Critical Edition of Shakespeare’s Hamlet

Mark W. Osteen, Ph.D., Professor
Femmes Not Fatale: Women, Love and Labor Power; and Vet Noir: Disability, Masculinity, and Memory, two chapters of a book entitled The Big Night: Film Noir and American Dreams

Fine Arts Department

Janet Headley, Ph.D., Professor and Chair
George A. Lucas, Samuel P. Avery, and Art Patronage in late 19th Century America

History Department

Thomas R. Pegram, Ph.D., Professor
The Ku Klux Klan in 1920’s American Society and Politics

Mathematical Sciences Department

Mili I. Shah, Ph.D., Assistant Professor
Symmetric Eigenfaces

Modern Languages and Literatures Department

Leslie Zarker Morgan, Ph.D., Associate Professor
Orable, Guibourc, Tiborga: Metamorphoses of a Medieval French Literary Protagonist into Italian

Pastoral Counseling Department

Joseph Stewart-Sicking, Ed.D., Assistant Professor
Called to Serve: A Study of Gender and Well-Being among Episcopal Clergy

Philosophy Department

Paul Richard Blum, Ph.D., Professor
Michael Polanyi: The Personal Coefficient and the Cultural Framework: Parameters of Advancement in Science

Bret W. Davis, Ph.D., Assistant Professor
Orienting Heidegger

Timothy J. Stapleton, Ph.D., Associate Professor
The Parting of the Ways: Husserl and Heidegger

Physics Department

Joseph W. Ganem, Ph.D., Associate Professor
Growth and Characterization of Praseodymium-Doped Potassium Lead Chloride Crystals

Political Science Department

Douglas B. Harris, Ph.D., Associate Professor
Arthur Pue Gorman and the Origins of Senate Party Leadership

Janine Holc, Ph.D., Associate Professor
Is a Secular Europe the Future of Catholic Poland?  The Impact of European Union Conflict on Polish Electoral Politics

Speech-Language Pathology/Audiology Department

Marie Kerins, Ph.D., Associate Professor
Learning and Communication Pattern of Generation Y Students in Speech-Language Pathology

Libby Kumin, Ph.D., Professor
Development of a communication skills checklist for employment counseling with adults with Down Syndrome

Janet Preis, Ed.D., CCC-SLP, Associate Professor
The Effect of Sensory Integration Therapy on the Expressive Language of Children with Autism

Lisa Schoenbrodt, Ed.D., CCC-SLP, Professor
Response to Intervention: The Role of the Speech Language Pathologist

Theology Department

R. Trent Pomplun, Ph.D., Associate Professor
The Alphabetum Tibetanum of Antonio Agostino Giorgi (1711-1797)

Angela Russell Christman, Ph.D., Professor
Ambrose of Milan’s Exposito Psalmi CXVIII in its Liturgical Setting

Writing Department

Ron Tanner, Ph.D., Professor
Searching for the Island Story Tellers

Sellinger School of Business and Management

Marketing Department

Jason Qiyu Zhang, Ph.D., Assistant Professor
Born Unequal: Understanding Persuasiveness of Consumers Product Reviews

School of Education

Teacher Education Department

L. Mickey Fenzel, Ph.D.
, Professor and Chair
The Education of At Risk Urban African American and Latino/a Middle School Students in Nativity Schools