Stonehill Faculty Focus 2008

Fellowship Award - Assistant Professor of Religious Studies Shari Lowin received a $30,000 fellowship grant from the American Council of Learned Societies. A scholar who specializes in Early Islamic Intellectual Thought, Comparative Islamic and Jewish Exegesis, and rabbinic Judaism, Lowin will use the grant during her 2008-2009 sabbatical to continue her research on erotic poetry by Muslim and Jewish religious scholars in Islamic Spain.

Grants

Linzy Brekke-Aloise, assistant professor of history, Fashioning America: Clothing, Consumerism and Citizenship, 1783-1840, Postdoctoral Research Leave Fellowship, American Association of University Women (AAUW), $30,000.

Maryjean Viano Crowe, associate professor and chair of fine arts, Arts Outreach: Mentoring Through Photography and Visual Arts, Massachusetts Service Alliance, $15,536.

Craig Higgins, associate professor of health care administration, Supply Chain Management Scholarship and Internship initiative, Kimberly-Clark Corporation, $30,000.

John Lanci, professor of religious studies, Mid-Career Colloquy Workshop, Wabash Center, $3,000, plus travel expenses.

Louis Liotta, professor and chair of chemistry, Synthesis and Study of Carbohydrate Processing Enzyme Inhibitors, supplement from the Research Experiences for Teachers (RET) Program, National Science Foundation/Research in Undergraduate Institutions (RUI), $5,600.


Louis Liotta, professor and chair of chemistry, Educational Partnership Agreement for Undersea Technology, Naval Undersea Warfare Center Division Newport, Department of the Navy, allows access to various funding opportunities including the Naval Research Enterprise Intern Program (NREIP) for undergraduate student research and donations of equipment.

Shari Lowin, assistant professor of religious studies and program director of Middle Eastern and Asian Studies, Sex and God: On Arabic and Hebrew Erotic Love Poetry in Medieval Andalusia, ACLS Fellowship, American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS), $30,000.

Shari Lowin, assistant professor of religious studies and program director of Middle Eastern and Asian Studies, Sex and God: On Arabic and Hebrew Erotic Love Poetry in Medieval Andalusia, Education and Cultural Affairs Fellowship, Albright Institute for Archaeological Research, $16,000.

Debra Salvucci, associate professor and chair of business administration, Wolf & Company Case Writing Competition in the Accounting Program, Wolf & Company, P.C., $20,000 over four years.

Cheryl Schnitzer, assistant professor of chemistry, and Louis Liotta, professor and chair of Chemistry, Project SEED Summer 2007, American Chemistry Society and the Northeastern Section of the American Chemical Society, $6,000.

Kevin Spicer, C.S.C., associate professor of history, Catholic-Jewish Dialogue Committee Speaker Series, Nehemias Gorin Foundation, $5,000. 

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