The following is a list of the applicants who were appointed as a result of
the 2005 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 undertaken
at the Smithsonian, the name of their host/advisor, the Smithsonian unit
at which the research was 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.
Chesner, Craig A., Eastern Illinois University. Volatile Content and Proximal Ash from the 74 ka Toba Eruption, Sumatra, Indonesia, at the National Museum of Natural History with James Luhr from October 1, 2005 through March 31, 2006.
Frank, Barbara E., State University of New York, Stony Brook. Marks of Identity: Mapping the Art History of an African Ceramic Tradition, at the National Museum of African Art with Christine Mullen Kreamer and David Binkley from September 1, 2005 through April 30, 2006.
Halper, Vicki , Independent Researcher. Voices in Studio Crafts, at the Renwick Gallery with Jane Milosch and Liza Kirwin from September 15, 2005 through December 15, 2005.
Hills, Patricia S., New York University. Painting Harlem Modern: The Art of Jacob Lawrence, at the Smithsonian American Art Museum with Virginia Mecklenburg from November 1, 2005 through February 28, 2006.
Archie, Elizabeth A., Duke University. The Relationship Between Social Behavior and Genetic Structure in a Population of Wild African Elephants, at the National Zoological Park with Jesus Maldonado and Robert Fleischer from September 1, 2005 through August 31, 2006.
Bai, Xuemei , University of Southern Mississippi. Dinoflagellate Parasitism and Membrane Sterol Composition, at the Smithsonian Environmental Research Center with D. Wayne Coats from September 1, 2005 through August 31, 2006.
Barker, Sheila C., Independent Scholar. Claude and America, at the Smithsonian American Art Museum with William Truettner from May 15, 2005 through September 15, 2005.
Chapman, Samantha K., Northern Arizona University. Mangrove Biodiversity: Investigating the Influence of Plant Diversity on Microbial Community Composition and Litter Processing, at the Smithsonian Environmental Research Center with Ilka Feller from October 1, 2005 through September 30, 2006.
Cortesini, Sergio , University of Rome. "One Day We Must Meet": Art and National Identity in Fascist Italy and New Deal America, 1933-1941, at the Smithsonian American Art Museum with Virginia Mecklenburg from November 1, 2005 through April 30, 2006.
Ferry, Elizabeth E., Johns Hopkins University. Tasteful Science: The Smithsonian Mineralogical Collections and the Experience of Empire, at the Smithsonian Institution Archives with Pamela Henson and James Luhr from July 1, 2005 through August 31, 2005.
Franz, Nico M., Cornell University. Revision and Phylogeny of North American Madopterini (Coleoptera: Curculionidae), at the National Museum of Natural History with Terry Erwin from January 1, 2006 through December 31, 2006.
Freestone, Amy L., University of California, Davis. Latitudinal Variation in Marine Benthic Diversity, at the Smithsonian Environmental Research Center with Richard Osman and Gregory Ruiz from February 15, 2006 through February 14, 2007.
Keller, Jason K., University of Notre Dame. Controls of Microbial Respiration Along the Estuarine Continuum: Interactions of Plant Tissue Quality and Site Conditions, at the Smithsonian Environmental Research Center with J. Patrick Megonigal and Thomas Jordan from January 1, 2006 through December 31, 2006.
LaDeau, Shannon L., Duke University. Evaluating the Spatial and Temporal Patterns of WNV Host-Vector Dynamics Across the Northeastern United States, at the Smithsonian Environmental Research Center with Peter Marra from July 1, 2005 through June 30, 2006.
Mah, Christopher , University of Illinois. Phylogenetic Analysis and Taxonomic Revision of the Asteriidae (Forcipulatacea; Asteroidea), at the National Museum of Natural History with David Pawson from August 15, 2005 through August 14, 2006.
Mayo, Julia C., Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain. Small-Scale Architecture in Pre-Columbian Panama: A Preliminary Evaluation, at the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute with Richard Cooke from June 1, 2005 through March 31, 2006.
Mihm, Stephen A., New York University. Making Money, Creating Confidence: Counterfeiting and Capitalism in the United States, 1789-1877, at the National Museum of American History with Richard Doty from January 1, 2006 through June 30, 2006.
Nami, Hugo G., University of Buenos Aires, Argentina. Paleoindian Lithic Technology from a Continental Perspective: An Experimental and Comparative Study, at the National Museum of Natural History with Dennis Stanford from February 15, 2006 through August 14, 2006.
Odo, David R., University of Oxford, UK. Selling Pictures of Japan: Photographic Practice, Cultural Heritage, and Nation Building in the Meiji Era, at the Freer Gallery of Art/Arthur M. Sackler Gallery with Ann Yonemura and James Ulak from July 1, 2005 through May 31, 2006.
Santos, Cynthia , University of Sao Paulo. Pattern and Process in Morphological and Molecular Evolution of Caranonemertidae (Nemertea), Symbionts and Egg Predators of Decapod Crustaceans, at the National Museum of Natural History with Jon Norenburg from August 15, 2005 through August 14, 2006.
Sayer, Emma J., University of Cambridge, UK. Will Increased Primary Production Turn Tropical Forest Soils into a Carbon Source? A Large-Scale Field Study of the Priming Effect, at the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute with Benjamin Turner and S. Joseph Wright from July 15, 2005 through July 14, 2006.
Schwartz, Danielle K., McGill University, Canada. Design for Sight and Sound: John Vassos, A Biography, at the Smithsonian American Art Museum with Virginia Mecklenburg and Liza Kirwin from September 1, 2005 through April 30, 2006.
Tzortziou, Maria A., University of Maryland. Sources and Cycling of Chromophoric Dissolved Organic Matter in the Esturine Waters of the Rhode River Sub-Estuary and the Chesapeake Bay, at the Smithsonian Environmental Research Center with Patrick Neale and Charles Gallegos from June 1, 2005 through May 31, 2006.
Wechsler, James M., Independent Scholar. Modernism and International Communism: Hugo Gellert and the Artists of the Communist Party, USA, at the Smithsonian American Art Museum with Virginia Mecklenburg and Joann Moser from August 1, 2005 through March 31, 2006.
Barragan, Luis M., University of Arizona. Form and Function in Mountain Pima Traditional Narratives, at the National Museum of Natural History with William Merrill from March 1, 2006 through February 28, 2007.
Cserno, Isabell , University of Maryland, College Park. Race and Nation in Visual Presentations of Blacks in U.S. American Culture (Greeting Cards, Trade Cards, Ads, Sheet Music, etc.), 1893-1933, at the National Museum of American History with Fath Davis Ruffins from January 1, 2006 through June 30, 2006.
De Santana, Carlos David D.C.M., Inst. Nacional de Pesquisas de Amazonia. Systematics and Biogeography of Sternarchorhynchus, at the National Museum of Natural History with Richard Vari and Stanley Weitzman from January 15, 2006 through January 14, 2007.
Freund, Daniel , Columbia University. Sunshine for Sale: The Commodification of Natural Light in America, 1900-1935, at the National Museum of American History with Peter Liebhold from September 1, 2005 through November 30, 2005.
Gillespie, Sarah C., City University of New York. Samuel F. B. Morse and the Daguerreotype: Art and Science in American Culture, 1835 -1855, at the National Museum of American History with Michelle Delaney and Ann Shumard from September 1, 2005 through May 31, 2006.
Goff, Lisa , University of Virginia. Shantytowns in the United States, 1820-1950, at the National Museum of American History with Pete Daniel from January 1, 2006 through August 31, 2006.
Goheen, Jacob R., University of New Mexico. Assessing the Impacts of Large Herbivors on Acacia Reproduction, at the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute with S. Joseph Wright from June 1, 2005 through November 30, 2005.
Greenhill, Jennifer A., Yale University. The Plague of Jocularity: Art, Humor, and the American Social Body, 1863-1906, at the Smithsonian American Art Museum with William Truettner and Cynthia Mills from September 15, 2005 through November 15, 2006.
Hooper, Elaine R., University of Illinois, Chicago. Effect of Forest Fragmentation on Seed Dispersal, at the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute with William Laurence from September 1, 2005 through August 31, 2006.
Jander, Karin C., Cornell University. Plant Sanctions and Wasp Pollination Behaviour in the Fig Tree - Fig Wasp Mutualism, at the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute with E. Allen Herre from January 15, 2006 through January 14, 2007.
Jones, Joseph J., Michigan State University. The Making of a National Forest: The Contest Over the Michigan Cutover, 1890-1940, at the National Museum of American History with Jeffrey Stine from June 1, 2005 through August 31, 2005.
Kajiya, Kenji , New York University. Negotiating Modernism: Color-Field Painting and the Upheaval of Art Criticism in America, 1952-1967, at the Smithsonian American Art Museum with Virginia Mecklenburg from June 1, 2005 through March 31, 2006.
Kashyap, Arunima , Michigan State University. Hunter Gatherer Subsistence at Bagor: An Investigation through Starch Grain Analysis, at the National Museum of Natural History with Dolores Piperno and Bruce Smith from September 15, 2005 through February 14, 2006.
Keisman, Jennifer , Princeton University. Species Effects on Nutrient Cycling: Does the Soil Microbial Community Mediate a Positive Feedback Between Litter Quality and Nitrogen Availability, at the Smithsonian Environmental Research Center with Geoffrey Parker and J. Patrick Megonigal from August 1, 2005 through July 31, 2006.
Lasso, Eloisa , University of Illinois. Can Vegetative Reproduction Explain the Abundance of Understory Piper Shrubs in Tropical Forests?, at the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute with S. Joseph Wright and Eldredge Bermingham from July 1, 2005 through June 30, 2006.
Leibowitz, Rachel , University of Illinois. Seeing Through Window Rock: The Landscape Legacy of the New Deal in the Capital of the Navajo Nation, at the Smithsonian American Art Museum with Virginia Mecklenburg and Rayna Green from January 1, 2006 through June 30, 2006.
Martinez, Veronica Y., University of Texas, Austin. Inside the Federal Labor Camp: Exploring Race, Community, and Resistance in the New Deal Era, at the National Museum of American History with Marvette Perez and Pete Daniel from January 15, 2006 through July 15, 2006.
Mayer, Stephanie G., Boston University. The Art of the Gift: Mount, Sully, Huntington and the Antebellum Gift Book Industry, at the Smithsonian American Art Museum with William Truettner and Helena Wright from August 15, 2005 through December 15, 2005.
Meyer, Alan D., University of Delaware. Why Fly? A Social and Cultural History of Private Aviation in Post-World War II America, 1945-1985, at the National Museum of American History with Pete Daniel and Dominick Pisano from July 1, 2005 through December 31, 2005.
Moss, Dorothy , University of Delaware. Recasting the Copy: Original Paintings and Reproductions at the Dawn of American Mass Culture, c. 1900, at the Smithsonian American Art Museum with William Truettner and Virginia Mecklenburg from September 15, 2005 through July 15, 2006.
Murray, Xiomara M., New York University. Before the "Mellon Gallery": Toward an American National Gallery of Art, 1811-1937, at the Smithsonian American Art Museum with William Truettner from June 1, 2005 through February 28, 2006.
Nasstrom Evans, Heidi , University of Maryland. The Aesthetic Evolution of Simple Living in Jane Whitehead's Built Environs, at the Renwick Gallery with Jane Milosch and Virginia Mecklenburg from May 15, 2005 through May 15, 2006.
Nystrom, Eric C., Johns Hopkins University. Visual Representations in the American Anthracite Coal Industry, 1860-1920, at the National Museum of American History with Peter Liebhold from September 15, 2005 through January 14, 2006.
Olsen, Brian J., Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University. Behavioral Divergence in the Swamp Sparrow, Melospiza Georgiana, as a Result of the Abiotic Conditions of the Tidal Salt-Marsh, at the National Zoological Park with Russell Greenberg and Robert Fleischer from May 1, 2005 through April 30, 2006.
Power, Susan L., Universite de Paris I-Pantheon Sorbonne. New World Surrealisms, at the Smithsonian American Art Museum with Joann Moser and Virginia Mecklenburg from September 1, 2005 through August 31, 2006.
Tocheri, Matthew W., Arizona State University. A Comprehensive 3D Comparative Study of the Scaphoid-Trapezium-Trapezoid (STT) Region in Modern Humans and Nonhuman Primates, at the National Museum of Natural History with Richard Potts and David Hunt from September 1, 2005 through August 31, 2006.
Trillo, Paula A., University of Montana. The Evolution of Primary and Secondary Sexual Characters in the Tortoise Bettle Acromis Spassa, at the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute with Donald Windsor and Mary Jane West-Eberhard from June 1, 2005 through November 30, 2005.
Ullinger, Jaime M., Ohio State University. The Effect of Early Urbanism on Skeletal Health: A Bioarchaeological Reconstruction of Early Bronze Age Bab edh-Dhra, at the National Museum of Natural History with Donald J. Ortner from January 1, 2006 through August 31, 2006.
Walker, William S, Brandeis University. "A Living Exhibition": Folklife at the Smithsonian, 1876-1980, at the Smithsonian Institution Archives with Pamela Henson from June 1, 2005 through January 31, 2006.
Wright, Kelly F., University of Cincinnati. Research on Dissertation "Coloring Their World": Americans and Color in the Nineteenth Century, at the National Museum of American History with Barbara Clark Smith and Pete Daniel from October 15, 2005 through January 15, 2006.
Carico, Aaron Y., University of Minnesota, Minneapolis. Taking Place: Race and Land in the South, 1865-1890, at the National Museum of American History with Fath Davis Ruffins and Pete Daniel from June 6, 2005 through August 12, 2005.
Carvajal Contreras, Diana Rocio, University of Calgary, Canada. Fishing, Salting and Smoking Fish at Cueva de los Vampiros: A Contextual and Archaeological Evaluation of a Purported Pre-Columbian Fishing Camp near Parita Bay, Panama, at the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute with Richard Cooke from June 27, 2005 through September 2, 2005.
Colbeck, Gabriel J., Washington State University. A Radio Telemetry Investigation of the Role of Females in Extra-Pair Fertilization, at the National Zoological Park with Scott Sillett from May 31, 2005 through August 5, 2005.
Eisler, Matthew N., University of Alberta. Border Crossing: Transnational Technoscience and Cross-Disciplinary Research in Hydrogen Fuel Cell Development, 1934-1970, at the National Air and Space Museum with Allan Needell and Paul Ceruzzi from August 1, 2005 through October 7, 2005.
Meyers, Maureen E., University of Kentucky. The Late Prehistory in Southwestern Virginia: A Ceramic Re-analysis of C.G. Holland's Southwestern Virginia Survey, at the National Museum of Natural History with Bruce Smith from May 23, 2005 through July 29, 2005.
Nikiforova, Bistra V., University of Memphis. Media Narratives, Social Context, and the Construction of Southern Senses of Place Since the End of the Cold War, at the National Museum of American History with Pete Daniel from May 31, 2005 through August 5, 2005.
Studds, Colin E., University of Maryland. Non-breeding Habitat Occupancy and Population Processes in a Neotropical -Nearctic Migratory Bird, at the Smithsonian Environmental Research Center with Peter Marra from June 6, 2005 through August 12, 2005.
Waxenbaum, Erin B., University of Florida. Ontogeny in Three Native American Populations: Temporal and Spatial Effects on Human Growth and Development, at the National Museum of Natural History with Douglas Ubelaker from June 6, 2005 through August 12, 2005.