CLAS Dissertation Writing Fellowships awarded to 15 doctoral students

Wednesday, May 17, 2017

Fifteen College of Liberal Arts & Sciences doctoral students have received CLAS Dissertation Writing Fellowships. The program provides monthly payments to a total of $11,250 to allow for time to complete a PhD dissertation.

The award recipients are below:

  • Alissa R. Adams (Art & Art History)
    Dissertation: "French Depictions of Napoleon I's Ressurection (1821-1848)"
  • Rachel M. Anderson (Psychological & Brain Sciences)
    Dissertation: "Role of Mitochrondria in Chronic Stress-Induced Prefrontal Structural and Functional Plasticity"
  • Maura K. Curran (Communication Sciences & Disorders)
    Dissertation: "Language Intervention for Casual Adverbial Production and Science Content Learning"
  • Samuel Fitzpatrick (English)
    Dissertation: "Descent Into the 'Easy Rawlins Mysteries Series': Walter Mosley and the Return of the Black Detective"
  • Robert D. Holdaway (Physics & Astronomy)
    Dissertation: "The Search for Reconnection Events at 1.15 Second Resolution With Polar/HYDRA/DDEIS"
  • Matthew Houdek (Communication Studies)
    Dissertation: "The State of Lynching: Memory, Articulation, and Confronting the United States' Legacies of Racial Terror"
  • Hye Won Kwon (Sociology)
    Dissertation: "Sociology of Grit: Cross-Cultural Approaches to Social Stratification in Grit"
  • Martin Lopez-Vega (Spanish & Portuguese)
    Dissertation: "Periferias emancipadas. Politicas de la representacion espacial en la Iberia reimaginada"
  • Aldrin Tinashe Magaya (History)
    Dissertation: "Christianity, Culture, and the African Experience in Marange, Zimbabwe c1932-1960"
  • Brian Olovson (Division of World Languages, Literatures & Cultures)
    Dissertation: "Collaborative Writing in the Spanish as a Foreign Language Classroom: A Process and Product Analysis"
  • Anthony S. Parisi (Philosophy)
    Dissertation: "Scientific Properties: A Lawlike Trope Theory"
  • Nadia G. Sabbagh (Social Work)
    Dissertation: "The Experience of Women in Prison with Accessing Gynecological Care"
  • Cory A. Taylor (Religious Studies)
    Dissertation: "'I Have Called You Friends': Social Networks and Characterization in the Gospels"
  • Judah F. Unmuth-Yockey (Physics & Astronomy)
    Dissertation: "Duality Methods and the Tensor Renormalization Group: Applications to Optical Lattices"

The University of Iowa College of Liberal Arts and Sciences offers about 70 majors across the humanities; fine, performing and literary arts; natural and mathematical sciences; social and behavioral sciences; and communication disciplines. About 15,000 undergraduate and nearly 2,000 graduate students study each year in the college’s 37 departments, led by faculty at the forefront of teaching and research in their disciplines. The college teaches all Iowa undergraduates through the college's general education program, CLAS CORE. About 80 percent of all Iowa undergraduates begin their academic journey in CLAS. The college confers about 60 percent of the university's bachelor's degrees each academic year.