Study Leave for Tenured Instructional Faculty Awards

Study leaves for tenured instructional faculty, funded by the Office of the Provost, are intended to provide paid temporary leave for the support of advancing scholarly research, teaching, and/or creative activity, including the development of innovative teaching approaches and methods. The application process for Faculty Study Leaves is competitive, and not all applications may be funded. 

AY2025-26 Study Leave Award Recipients

Criminology, Law and Society

Christopher Koper, Proposal to support a book on evidence-based policing and publications from field research with justice practicioners

Robert Norris, American Injustice: Race and Wrongful Convictions from Scottsboro to Central Park

James Willis, Advancing Policing Through Craft and Sciences

Economics

Noel Johnson, Plague, Print, and Persecution: The Role of Print Media in Shaping Social Responses to Epidemics in Early-Modern Europe

Cesar Martinelli, Research in Political Economy and Course Development in Game Theory

English

Ben Gatling, Narrating the Self: Personal Narratives and Folklore

Teresa Michals, Lydia: A Real-Life Regency Romance

Kristin Samuelian, Living Wonders: Culture, Politics, and the Scrutinized Body in Romantic and Victorian Fiction

History and Art History

Robert DeCaroli, Women's Workings: Curses, Cures, and Childbirth in Early South Asia

Jennifer Ritterhouse, A Feminism for Hard Times and Places: Betsy Brinson, the South, and the ACLU's Women's Rights Projects in the 1970s

Vanessa Schulman, An Ecological History of the Ascan School

Psychology

William Helton, Engineering Psychology and Human Performance

School of Integrative Studies

Andrew Wingfield, River of Resistance: Fighting for Indigenous Rights and Environmental Justice in the Peruvian Amazon

AY2024-25 Study Leave Award Recipients

Criminology, Law and Society

Beidi Dong, Combating the Surge of Violence in the United States: Effective Policing and the Potential of Artificial Intelligence

Economics

Johanna Mollerstrom, Social Preferences and Demand for Redistribution - Research and Policy in Sweden

English

Douglas Eyman, Monograph - Rhetoric Design Code: Embodiment, Activism, and AI

Jennifer Samaine Lockwood, Tituba: The History of an American Cultural Figure

Global Affairs

Byunghwan Son, Democratic Backsliding and Its Aftermath: The case of South Korea

History and Art History

Jane Hooper, Global Passages: Creating a Public Database of Slaving Voyages across the Indian Ocean and India

Cynthia Kierner, The Mother of the Mets: The Life and Times of Joan Whitney Payson

Modern and Classical Languages

Kristina Olson, Dressing Babylon: Sartorial Poetics in Dante, Boccaccio and Petrarch

Martin Winkler, Einstein in the Classical Tradition

Psychology

Thalia Goldstein, The Cognitive, Social, and Emotional Outcomes of Play and Imagination: Longitudinal and Lifespan Effects

Religious Studies

Maria Massi Dakake, A Twentieth Century Female Scholar and Mystic: Nusrat Amin and Her Extraordinary Commentary on the Qur'an

Sociology and Anthropology

Manjusha Nair, Enduring Partnerships? Global Indian Mining and Textile Making in South Africa and Ethiopia