The following is a list of the applicants who were appointed as a result of
the 2003 Smithsonian Institution Fellowship competition. This list includes
the names of the institutions from which they received their doctoral degrees
(note: current institutional affiliation is listed for senior awards) or
in
which they are currently enrolled, the title of the proposed research to be
undertaken at the Smithsonian, the name of their host/advisor, the Smithsonian
unit at which the research will be conducted, and the dates of their tenure.
This list is intended to demonstrate the kinds and variety of topics that receive support through the Smithsonian Institution Fellowship Program.
Hills, Jill Benham, University of Westminster. Western Union and International Communications at National Museum of American History with Bernard Finn from March 1, 2004 - May 31, 2004
Terwilliger, Valery J., University of Kansas. Variation in Photosynthetic Water Use Characters in Relation to the Distribution of Oaks in Eastern North American Deciduous Forest at Smithsonian Environmental Research Center with Catherine Lovelock and Geoffrey Parker from June 1, 2003 - May 31, 2004
Wallace-Sanders, Kimberly , Emory University. Stereotypes and Maternal Obsessions: The "Black Mammy" Image as a Maternal Figure in American Ephemera at National Museum of American History with Fath Davis Ruffins from August 15, 2003 - January 15, 2004
Wennersten, John R., University of Maryland, Eastern Shore. The Anacostia River: Environment and Social Change in the Nation's Capital at National Museum of American History with Jeffrey Stine from July 1, 2003 - December 31, 2004
Amat, Alexandra , Bermuda Biological Station. Response of Coral Reefs to Elevated CO2 and Temperature: Comparison Between Low and High Latitute Reefs at Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute with Rachel Collin and Hector Guzman from March 1, 2004 - February 28, 2005
Assefa, Zelalem , State University of New York, Stony Brook. Digital Catalogue of the Dentition of East African Large Mammals at National Museum of Natural History with Richard Potts from January 1, 2004 - April 30, 2004
Blockett, Kimberly D., University of Wisconsin, Madison. Philadelphia Freedom: Black Women Evangelists on Race and Religion at Anacostia Museum with Gail Lowe and Portia James from August 8, 2003 - January 15, 2004
Carney, Karen , Stanford University. The Influence of Elevated CO2 on Soil Microbial Community Composition and Function: Implications for the fate of Carbon in the Rhizosphere at Smithsonian Environmental Research Center with J. Patrick Megonigal and Bert Drake from January 1, 2004 - December 31, 2004
Fitzherbert, Teresa , University of Oxford. Research Arising from Doctoral Thesis on the Freer Gallery's Manuscript "Tarjama-yi Tarikh-I Tabari" of Abu ' Ali Bal'ami at Freer Gallery/Arthur M. Sackler Gallery with Massoumeh Farhad and Ann Gunter from October 1, 2003 - April 30, 2004
Harrison, Rhett D., Kyoto University, Japan. Fig Wasp Dispersal at Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute with E. Allen Herre and Donald Windsor from May 1, 2003 - April 30, 2004
Herz, Hubert M., University of Bielefeld, Germany. On the Move: Causes and Consequences of Colony Evacuation in Leaf-Cutting Ants at Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute with William Wcislo from January 1, 2004 - December 31, 2004
Honeychurch, William H., University of Michigan. Neutron Activation of Gobi Desert Ceramics and Models for Steppe Confederations at National Museum of Natural History with William Fitzhugh and J. Daniel Rogers from October 15, 2003 - October 14,
Johnson, Elizabeth A., California Institute of Technology. Characterization of Water and Hydroxyl in Manganese Oxide Minerals Using FTIR Spectroscopy at National Museum of Natural History with Jeffrey Post from August 15, 2003 - August 14,
Keiner, Christine M., Rochester Institute of Technology. Post-Earth Day Environmental Science and Politics at the Smithsonian at Smithsonian Institution Archives with Pamela Henson and Jeffrey Stine from August 1, 2003 - August 31, 2003
Kirby, Michael X., University of California, Davis. Life before the Isthmus: Early Miocene Biotas from the Southernmost Outpost of North America at Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute with Anthony Coates and Jeremy Jackson from June 1, 2003 - May 31, 2004
Lobel, Michael , Bard College. James Rosenquist, F-111, and the Politics of Pop at Smithsonian American Art Museum with Virginia Mecklenberg and Dom Pisano from September 1, 2003 - February 29, 2004
Petrizzo, Maria Rose, University of Milan, Italy. Planktonic Foraminiferal Biological Response to the Latest Albian Oceanic Anoxic Event 1d at National Museum of Natural History with Brian Huber from April 1, 2004 - September 30, 2004
Raboy, Becky E., National Institutes of Health. GHLT Population Viability Analysis at National Zoological Park with Jonathon Ballou and Peter Leimgruber from January 1, 2004 - December 31, 2004
Root, David B., University of California, Santa Barbara. Systematics of High- Pressure Crystallization of Zircon at National Museum of Natural History with Sorena Sorenson from November 15, 2003 - November 14, 2004
Secord, Ross , University of Michigan. Early Eocene Forests in the Bighorn Basin of Wyoming: Open or Closed Canopy? A Test Using Carbon Isotopes in Mammal Teeth at National Museum of Natural History with Scott Wing from May 15, 2004 - May 14,
Suh, Emmanuel C., University of Buea, Cameroon. Geochemical and Mineralogical Diversity in Recent Lavas of Mount Cameroon: Inferences from Glass Inclusions and Phenocryst and Xenocryst Compositions at National Museum of Natural History with James Luhr and from July 1, 2004 - October 31, 2004
Tzortziou, Maria Athanasia, University of Maryland. Sources and Cycling of Chromophoric Dissolved Organic Material in the Estuarine Waters of the Rhode River Sub- Estuary and the Chesapeake Bay at Smithsonian Environmental Research Center with Patrick Neale and Charles Gallegos from January 1, 2004 - December 31, 2004
Van Bael, Sunshine A., University of Illinois, Champaign. Avian Insectivory in Shade Cacao Farms: Do Birds Control Insect Pests? at National Zoological Park with Russell Greenberg from September 1, 2003 - August 31, 2004
Wingate, Jennifer , Stony Brook University. Doughboys, Art Worlds, and Identities: Sculpted Memorials of World War I in the United States at Smithsonian American Art Museum with George Gurney and Virginia Mecklenberg from September 15, 2003 - March 14, 2004
Bechtel, Alison R., University of Pennsylvania. Infiltrating the Interior: The New York Art World and Collectors' Houses, 1860-1900 at Smithsonian American Art Museum with Richard Murray and Kenneth Myers from July 1, 2003 - June 30, 2004
Brandenburg, Hazel C., George Mason University. Of Art, Artifacts, and America: Currier & Ives and the Production of Cultural Meaning in America at National Museum of American History with Helena Wright and Charles McGovern from January 1, 2004 - June 30, 2004
Diamond, Heather A., University of Hawaii, Manoa. American Aloha: Hawai'i at the Smithsonian Folklife Festival and the Politics of Traditional Culture at Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage with Richard Kennedy and Richard Kurin from June 1, 2003 -
Dooley, Michael C., University of Iowa. Citizen Bird: Progressive Era Ornithological Art and the Founding of the Bird Conservation Movement at Smithsonian American Art Museum with William Truettner and Pamela Henson from June 1, 2003 - May 31,
Egan, Shannon E., Johns Hopkins University. An American Art: Edward S. Curtis and The North American Indian, 1907-30 at Smithsonian American Art Museum with William Truettner from September 1, 2003 - August 31, 2004
Emberton, Carole T., Northwestern University. Citizens in Leviathan: Violence and the Political Culture of Reconsctruction at National Museum of American History with Pete Daniel from March 1, 2004 - August 31, 2004
Fernandez-Marin, Hermogenes , University of Puerto Rico. Attine Nest- foundation at Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute with William Wcislo and Mary Jane West-Eberhard from June 1, 2003 - October 15, 2004
Gadsden, Brett V., Northwestern University. "All We Wanted Was a Bus for the Colored": The Desegration of Public Education in Delaware at National Museum of American History with Alonzo Smith from April 1, 2004 - September 30, 2004
Hamilton, Shane L., Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Trucking Country: Food, Farms and Freight in America's Rural Industrial Landscape, 1945-1970 at National Museum of American History with Pete Daniel and Jeffrey Stine from August 1, 2003 -
Haney, Erin L., University of London, UK. Behind the Lens: Photographers, Patrons and Personhood in Image and Memory in the Gold Coast 1840-1940 at National Museum of African Art with Chris Mullen-Kreamer and David Binkley from September 1, 2003 - August 31, 2004
Henderson, Amy H., University of Delaware. Furnishing the Republican Court: Building and Decorating Philadelphia Homes, 1790-1800 at National Museum of American History with Barbara Clark Smith and Harry Rubenstein from March 1, 2004 - August 31,
Innis, Anne F., University of Maryland. Comparative Ecology of an Invasive Perennial, "Rubus phoenicolasius," and a Native Cogener, "Rubus argutus" at Smithsonian Environmental Research Center with Dennis Whigham from June 1, 2003 - May 31, 2004
Landau, Amy S., Predoctoral Fellow, University of Oxford. The Perso-European Mode at the Court of Shah Sulayman (1666-1694) at the Freer Gallery of Art/ Arthur M. Sackler Gallery with Massumeh Farhad from December 1, 2003 - August 31, 2004Quinn, Kelly A., University of Maryland. Making Modern Homes: A History of Langston Terrace, a New Deal Public Housing Program at Archives of American Art with Liza Kirwin from September 1, 2003 - May 31, 2004
Roberts, Ellen E., Boston University. Japanese Art and the American Aesthetic Interior, 1876-1893 at Smithsonian American Art Museum with William Truettner and Kenneth Myers from October 1, 2003 - September 30, 2004
Robinson, Edward L., University of Oxford. Collecting A Photographic History at the Smithsonian in the 1890s: The Contributions of Photographer Frances Benjamin Johnston at National Museum of American History with Michelle Delaney from August 1, 2003 - January 31, 2004
Rubenstein, Dustin R., Cornell University. Evolutionary and Physiological Mechanisms of Cooperative Breeding in African Starlings at Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute with William Wcislo and Mary Jane West- Eberhard from February 1,
Sloan, Donald E., University of Kansas. The John Reed Club and Visual Culture at Smithsonian American Art Museum with Virginia Mecklenberg and Joann Moser from July 15, 2003 - March 15, 2004
Torres-Carvajal, L. Omar, University of Kansas. Systematics of Stenocercus (Squamata: Tropiduridae) at National Museum of Natural History with Kevin de Queiroz from August 15, 2003 - August 14, 2004
Vilches, Flora , University of Maryland. Studying the Archaeological process in the Work of Robert Smithson, Mark Dion, and Fred Wilson at Smithsonian American Art Museum with Virginia Mecklenburg and Olga Viso from September 1, 2003 - May 31,
Wiley, Elizabeth O., George Washington University. The Reciprocating Gaze: Painters, Natives and the State of Maine in the First Half of the Twentieth Century at Smithsonian American Art Museum with Virginia Mecklenburg and William Truettner from September 1, 2003 - August 31, 2004
Woody, Andrea L., University of Texas. Alan Lomax's Folk Music Programming for the Radio Series by CBS, "American School of the Air" at National Museum of American History with Charles McGovern from June 1, 2003 - July 31, 2003
Maga, Ali Murat, University of Texas, Austin. Postcranial Description of Phylogenetic Analysis of First Metatherian from Middle Eocene of Turkey at National Museum of Natural History with Robert Emry and Richard Thorington from June 30, 2003 -
Miller, Christine W., University of Montana. The Influence of Maternal Effects on a Sexually Selected Trait in the Leaf Footed Bug, Letoscelis Tricolor Westwood (Hemiptera: Coreidae) at Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute with Donald Windsor and William Eberhard from June 9, 2003 - August 15, 2003
Roffler, Josh H., Arizona State University. Frank Russell at Gila River: Revisiting a Turn-of-the-Century Ethnographic Collection at National Museum of Natural History with JoAllyn Archambault and William Merrill from June 30, 2003 - September 5, 2003
Salgado-Ortiz, Javier , Queen's University. Effects of Nest Predation on the Reproductive Success of a Tropical Resident Warbler: A Study Using Real and Artificial Nests at Smithsonian Environmental Research Center with Peter Marra from August 18, 2003 - October 24, 2003
Touchton, Janeene M., University of British Columbia, Canada. The Effects of Competitive Release on Social Dynamics of Ant-Following Antbirds at Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute with Egbert Leigh from June 2, 2003 - August 8, 2003
Weise, Christa Doris, University of New Mexico. Foraging Range, Activity Patterns and Diet of the Great Fruit-Eating Bat (Artibeus Literatus) on Barro Colorado Island, Panama at Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute with Elisabeth Kalko from September 29, 2003 - December 5, 2003