Congratulations to Nancy Ries, Jonathan Hyslop, and Karen Harpp, as recipients of The Kallgren Fund which will provide funding for their project proposal Tanzania and Kenya: Elephants, Volcanoes, and Ports, to investigate questions about violence, global trade, and the conservation of endangered species. Nancy Ries and Jonathan Hyslop are professors in the Department of Sociology and Anthropology and Karen Harpp is a professor in the Department of Geology.
The Kallgren Fund is an endowed fund to be used for the benefit of faculty. It is overseen by the Kallgren Committee, which asked the Faculty Development Council (FDC) to administer a pilot program to fund faculty travel. Because of additional support from the President’s Office, the FDC were able to support four strong proposals that pursue very different kinds of opportunities. Please join the FDC, and the Sociology and Anthropology Department in congratulating our SOAN professors as they embark on these exciting plans over the summer of 2014.
Other proposals receiving funding include:
Jyoti G. Balachandran, Jessica Graybill, David Robinson, and Kira Stevens, Central Asia: Uzbekistan, to investigate varieties of empire-building, both past and present, along the Silk Road.
Enrique J. Galvez, Crafting New Visions for Early 21st Century Sciences at Colgate, to conduct a division-wide faculty retreat.
Elizabeth Marlowe, Mark Shiner, Alan Cooper, Antonio Barrera, Pilar Mejia, Abby Rowe, and Doug Hicks (using supplemental funding from the Dean’s contingency budget), Travel Along the Camino to Santiago de Compostela, Spain, to examine the relationships between medieval and contemporary international pilgrimage experiences.