Assumption College
Faculty Development Grants: 2004-2005

CHERYL AMANTEA, Assistant Professor of Marketing and Management, will use the grant for research and development of a Portfolio-Based Capstone Course for Students Enrolled in the major of Organizational Communication.

CHRISTOPHER BEYERS, Assistant Professor of English, will research a project entitled "Ebenezer Cooke's World: Money, Power, and Beautiful Writings in Colonial Maryland."

RICHARD BONNANO, Assistant Professor of Italian, will research a project entitled "Nick LaRocca and New Orleans' Italian-American Jazz Pioneer."

STUART BORSCH, Assistant Professor of History, will research a project called "Ottoman Power and Intervention in the Egyptian Economy."

GAVIN COLVERT, Assistant Professor of Philosophy, will develop a course on the relations between Islamic, Jewish, and Christian Philosophy in the medieval period and beyond.

LEONARD DOERFLER, Professor of Psychology, will complete work on a research project entitled "Symptoms of Panic Disorder and Agoraphobia in Children and Adolescents."

RICHARD FOX, Visiting Instructor of Art, proposed a project entitled "Interior/Exterior Landscape Painting."

VERONICA GOLD, Assistant Professor of Education & NANHO VANDER HART, Assistant Professor of Special Education, will research a new course development called EDU 575 Seminar: Strategies in Teaching Mathematics to Students with Moderate Disabilities.

ARLENE GUERRERO-WATANABE, Assistant Professor of Spanish, will research and develop a new course tentatively entitled "Magical Realism and the Literature of the Fantastic."

JAMES HAURI, Assistant Professor of Chemistry, will continue research on the Assabet River.

ELISABETH HOWE, Professor of French, will use the grant to support her writing and research on a textbook "Introduction to Close Reading."

DONA KERCHER, Associate Professor of Spanish and Chairperson of the Department of Foreign Languages, will research a project entitled "Hispanic Hitchcock: Research in San Sebastian and Madrid."

MARY KIELBASA, Assistant Professor of Education, will use the grant to support her proposal to explore the Works of Picturebook Artist Julie Vivas through a lens provided by critic Mikhail Bakhtin, a lens which you call "A Carnival Celebration of the Human Spirit."

JEANNE McNETT, Associate Professor of Management, will conduct a research project to study the value of the liberal arts in a management education.

SUSAN MELIA, Professor of Sociology and Chairperson of the Department of Sociology and Anthropology, will conduct research that will examine the significance of spiritual beliefs in the lives of older women over the age of 85.

RACHEL RAMSEY, Assistant Professor of English, will research a project called "Constructing Credit and Building Trade in Early Modern London: the Literary History of the Royal Exchange, the New Exchange, and Exchange Alley."

EDITH READ, Lecturer in Art, will research a project on Drawing parallels between the Language of Art and the Language of Mathematics.

DAVID SIDDLE, Associate Professor of Social and Rehabilitation Services, will research dementia in the elderly.

FANG ZHANG, Assistant Professor of Psychology, will complete her longitudinal study of change and stability in students' attachment styles during their first year at Assumption College.