Summer 2004
PEOPLE
Summer, Presidential, Mid-Career Fellowships Awarded
SUNY
Geneseo has selected five faculty members to receive 2004 summer research
fellowship awards for research into areas from across the liberal arts
and science spectrum.
Douglas Bicket (communication), Douglas Anderson (art) and
Joseph Cope (history) were awarded 2004 Presidential Fellowships.
Rachel Hall (English) and Christopher C. Leary (mathematics)
were selected to receive 2004 Mid-Career Research Fellowships.
The Presidential Fellowships each carry an award of $3,500, funded by
an allocation from the president of the College. The projects are as follows:
Joseph Cope’s project, Victims and Survivors: War Relief During
the 1641 Irish Rebellion, will allow him to rework his Ph.D. thesis
for publication as a monograph. Cope’s work locates the rising within
a British context and contends that one of the most significant and often
overlooked dimensions of the rising is the disjunction between the war
as experienced by New English Protestants in Ireland and the war as represented
in the English political and print culture.
Douglas Anderson’s project, The Twelve Labors of Hercules,
is an interdisciplinary collaboration between a visual artist and a composer.
Anderson will establish the stylistic direction of a series of paintings
and musical pieces that will be based on the myth, The Twelve Labors
of Hercules. The project outcome is to produce 12 paintings and a
musical score that correspond to the project’s title.
Douglas Bicket’s project, Re-Imaging the Post-9/11 U.S. Public
Sphere Through the British News Media, will examine the increased
presence and role of selected British news media outlets in the U.S. Relatively
free of the political-economic factors that have so successfully constrained
the U.S. news media in the post-9/11 world, British media have become
significant de factor appendages to the mediated public sphere in America,
even framing the war on terrorism in ways that are very critical of U.S.
policy.
The faculty selected to receive Mid-Career Summer Research Fellowships
will each receive $4,000, funded by the College Research Foundation. The
projects are as follows:
Rachel Hall’s project is titled Heirlooms, a collection of
linked stories that follow a French Jewish family from the early days
of World War II to the present. Hall will explore the rhythms and repetitions
within history and individual lives, and the way that loss and sadness
get inherited or passed on to future generations. Her collection will
include 12 stories. She has already written three, one of which was published
in The Gettysburg Review.
Christopher Leary’s project, titled Small World Networks,
will use a computer model of an idealized ecosystem to investigate questions
concerning the development of small world networks, which is a system
of relationships between individuals where each individual is related
to every other individual through a relatively small number of intermediate
steps.
Recipients must devote two consecutive summer months to their project.