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Faculty Awarded Research Leaves
New Program Supplements Sabbaticals
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Twelve leaves have been awarded under a new Faculty Research Leave initiative made possible by Project SLU2000.
The one-semester leaves, which supplement the University's sabbatical system, begin this summer and run through the summer of 2001.
Leaves have been awarded to:
Dr. Toby Benis, assistant professor of English, who will work on a book-length project exploring representations of Romantic exile and nationalism.
Dr. Charlotte Borst, associate professor and chair of history, for a book-length monograph on the effects of gender and race in American medical education during the 20th century.
Dr. Harold Bush, assistant professor of English, who will explore the deep friendship Mark Twain had with Joe Twichell, a minister, in an attempt to come to terms with Twain's views of religion and the Christian life.
Dr. Gregory Comer, associate professor of physics, for research in theoretical astrophysics. He will use computers to model the gravitational fields produced by the oscillations of rotating neutron stars.
Dr. Richard Dees, associate professor of philosophy, to complete the final stages of a book, Trust and Toleration, and prepare it for publication. The book seeks to find a new philosophical justification for religious toleration by focusing on the social and conceptual conditions that make it both possible and desirable for people involved in deep conflicts of value.
Dr. John Encarnacion, assistant professor of earth and atmospheric sciences, to continue his research in the Antarctic, southern Africa and around the world that aims to provide information about how continents assemble into so-called "super continents" and how these super continents break up.
Dr. Timothy Lomperis, professor and chair of political science, to complete a book on international relations that questions the theory of "the democratic peace." In the arena of military intervention, specifically, Lomperis will argue that the post-Cold War period, in fact, has ushered in a world of democratic belligerence.
Dr. Thomas Madden, associate professor of history, for a book-length monograph on the history of Venice during the Middle Ages. No such monograph has been written in English since 1901.
Dr. Michael McCly-mond, assistant professor of theological studies, for a project titled "Jesus of Nashville: Bible Editions and Popular Religion in Twentieth-Century America." The work will examine the proliferation of new annotated editions of the Bible that have been richly supplied with commentaries, illustrations and other study aids.
Dr. Brian Mitchell, professor of earth and atmospheric sciences, to pursue research at Harvard University on the distribution of the anelastic (or absorptive) properties of the Earth's upper mantle beneath the world's oceans. This work will contribute to the construction of a three-dimensional reference Earth model, a cooperative project being pursued by seismologists at several major institutions.
Dr. William Shea, professor of theological studies, to complete a book contracted with Oxford University Press on the historical relationship between evangelical Protestants and Roman Catholics from the middle of the 19th to the end of the 20th centuries.
Dr. Dana Spence, assistant professor of chemistry, for the "Development of a Biomimetic Blood Flow System." The proposed project will allow for low-level amounts of ATP released from red blood cells to be detected in micofluidic streams.
Twenty-seven proposals were submitted as a part of the competitive application process for the Faculty Research Leaves Initiative of Project SLU2000.
Dr. Thomas Shippey (English) chaired the proposal committee, which made recommendations to Provost Sandra Johnson. Drs. Gerardo Camilo (biology), Cynthia Cook (social service), Maryellen McSweeney (nursing), William Siler, (physical therapy), Alan Stephenson (pharmacological and physiological science), Philipp Stoeberl (management), William Thacker (physics) and Frederic Wolinsky (public health) served on the review committee.
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