The following is a list of the applicants who were appointed as a result of
the 2006 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.
Cohen, Andrew S., University of Arizona. A 1.5 Million Year Paleoecological Record from Lake Malawi: Implications for Understanding Continental Ecosystem Evolution and Regional Paleoclimate History in East Africa, at the National Museum of Natural History with Anna Kay Behrensmeyer and Richard Potts from August 15, 2006 through January 15, 2007.
Corn, Joseph , Stanford University. User-Unfriendly: Consumer Struggles with Personal Technology, at the National Museum of American History with Roger White from January 15, 2007 through May 15, 2007.
Duffy, Christopher J., Pennsylvania State University. Understanding Relationships of Watershed Dynamics and Riparian Buffers in a Coastal Plain Setting: Multi-Process, Distributed Model Approach, at the Smithsonian Environmental Research Center with Donald Weller and Tom Jordan from February 1, 2007 through May 31, 2007.
Jones, Lu Ann, University of South Florida. DuPont Comes to Tobacco Road: Rural Industrialization in the Postwar South, at the National Museum of American History with Pete Daniel and Bonnie Campbell Lilienfeld from January 15, 2007 through July 15, 2007.
Katz, Jonathan D., Yale University. The Silent Camp: Sexuality and Resistance in Cold War American Art and Culture, at the Smithsonian American Art Museum with Virginia Mecklenburg and Joann Moser from September 1, 2006 through May 31, 2007.
Katzman, Laura R., Yale University. Picturing Puerto Rico: American Photographs and the Making of a Modern Commonwealth, at the Smithsonian American Art Museum with Virginia Mecklenburg and Miguel Bretos from September 1, 2006 through June 1, 2007.
Komanecky, Michael K., Brown University. New Spanish Missions in the American Imagination, at the Smithsonian American Art Museum with William Truettner and Virginia Mecklenburg from June 1, 2006 through December 31, 2006.
Oguibe, Olu O., University of Connecticut. Contemporary African Art: A Critical Survey, at the National Museum of African Art with Christine Mullen Kreamer from September 1, 2006 through November 30, 2006.
Temeles, Ethan J., Amherst College. Phylogenetic and Geographic Analyses of Ecological Causation of Sexual Dimorphism and Coevolution: Hummingbirds and Heliconias as a Model System, at the National Museum of Natural History with W. John Kress and Gary R. Graves from August 1, 2006 through January 31, 2007.
Tzetlin, Alexander B., Moscow State University. Does Travisia Johnston, 1840 Belong to the Family Opheliidae (Polychaeta Annelida)?, at the National Museum of Natural History with Kristian Fauchald from October 16, 2006 through January 15, 2007.
Andrade, Sonia C.S., Universidade Estudual de Campinas. Molecular Phylogenetics and Morphological Evolution of the Specialized Mesopsammic Genus Ototyphlonemertes (Hoplonemertea: Nemertea), at the National Museum of Natural History with Jon L. Norenburg from January 15, 2007 through January 14, 2008.
Ballentine, Barbara , Duke University. Testing the Adaptive Significance of Geographic Variation in Morphology, at the National Zoological Park with Russell Greenberg and Robert Fleischer from January 15, 2007 through January 14, 2008.
Benjamin, Suresh P., University of Basel, Switzerland. Generic Revision and Phylogenetic Analysis of the Crab Spider Subfamily Stephanopinae and the Phylogeny of Thomisidae (Arachnida: Araneae), at the National Museum of Natural History with Jonathan A. Coddington from January 1, 2007 through December 31, 2007.
Bonifacino De Leon, Jose M., Univ. Nacional de la Plata, Argentina. Phylogeny of Chiliotrichum Group s.s. (ASTERACEAE: Astereae): Unraveling the Mysteries of Patagonian and Andean Bushy Daisies Through Inference from Molecular Data and Morphology, at the National Museum of Natural History with Vicki Funk from February 1, 2007 through January 31, 2008.
Cain, Victoria E.M., Columbia University. Native Under Glass: American Natural History Museums, 1869-1942, at the Smithsonian Institution Archives with Pamela Henson from March 15, 2007 through July 15, 2007.
Cakirlar, Canan , Tuebingen University, Germany. Environment and Long-Distance Trade in 3rd Millennium BCE North Syria: The Archaeomalacological Evidence, at the National Museum of Natural History with Melinda A. Zeder from January 1, 2007 through June 30, 2007.
Chapman, Samantha K., Northern Arizona University. Does Diversity Matter During Litter Decomposition?: Species Mixtures in Temperate vs. Tropical Forests, at the Smithsonian Environmental Research Center with Candy Feller from November 1, 2006 through October 31, 2007.
Cheng, Yongxu , East China Normal University. The Study of the Broodstock Lipid Nutrition on the Reproductive Performance and Larval Quality of the Blue Crab Callinectes Sapidus, at the Smithsonian Environmental Research Center with Anson Hines from June 1, 2006 through September 30, 2006.
Conathan, Lisa J., University of California, Berkeley. The Arapaho Texts of A.L. Kroeber, at the National Museum of Natural History with Ives Goddard and Lucy Thomason from November 1, 2006 through April 30, 2007.
Cronin, Marionne H., University of Toronto, Canada. Transferring Technology: American Aircraft Manufacturers and the Canadian Bush Plane, at the National Air and Space Museum with Dorothy Cochrane from January 15, 2007 through April 15, 2007.
David, Marc , University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. The Transformation of Lousiana Acadians through Historical Representation in Washington, DC and South Louisiana, at the National Museum of American History with Pete Daniel from June 1, 2006 through November 30, 2006.
Fernandez-Marin, Hermogenes , University of Puerto Rico. Use of Antibiotics by Attine Ants, at the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute with William Wcislo and Mary Jane West-Eberhard from June 15, 2006 through June 14, 2007.
Ganem, Jacqueline L., University of Virginia. Towards a Muslim Identity: Relics, Shrines and Modernity, at the Freer Sackler Gallery of Art with Massumeh Farhad from June 1, 2006 through November 30, 2006.
Helgen, Kristofer Michael, University of Adelaide, Australia. Current Topics in Integrative Mammalian Systematics: Case Studies of Procyonid Carnivores and Lipotyphlan Insectivores, at the National Museum of Natural History with Don Wilson and Jesus Maldonado from June 15, 2006 through June 14, 2007.
Jain, Sreepat , Florida International University. The Blake Nose Benthic Foraminiferal Record: Implications for North Atlantic Maastrichtian Ocean Structure, Paleoproductivity and Diversity, at the National Museum of Natural History with Brian T. Huber from January 1, 2007 through December 31, 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, 2007 through December 31, 2007.
Kettenring, Karin M., University of Minnesota, St. Paul. Differences in Establishment Requirements of Native and Introduced Genotypes of Phragmites Australis (Common Reed), at the Smithsonian Environmental Research Center with Dennis Whigham from September 15, 2006 through September 14, 2007.
Krafft, Bjorn Arne, University of Tromso, Norway. Diving Beahvior, Energy Expenditure and Contaminant Exposure, Metabolism and Transfer in Weddell Seal (Leptonychotes weddellii) Females and Pups During the Lactation Period, at the National Zoological Park with Olaf Oftedal and Regina Eisert from September 1, 2006 through August 31, 2007.
Mangan, Scott A., Indiana University. Does the Breakdown in Negative Plant-Soil Feedback Reinforce Low Tree Diversity on Small Forested Islands?, at the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute with E. Allen Herre and Egbert Leigh from December 15, 2006 through December 14, 2007.
Mayo, Julia Carmen, Universidad Complutense de Madrid. Small-Scale Architecture in Precolumbian Panama: A Preliminary Evaluation, at the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute with Richard Cooke from April 1, 2006 through May 31, 2006.
McCoyer, Michael T.M., Northwestern University. Mestizaje Meets the Color Line: Mexicans and Racial Formation in Chicago, East Chicago, and Gary, 1916-1960, at the National Museum of American History with Peter Liebhold and Olivia Cadaval from January 1, 2007 through June 30, 2007.
Mitchell, Carl P.J., University of Toronto. Estuarine and Tidal Marshes as Sources of Methylmercury: Hydrology and Hot Spots, at the Smithsonian Environmental Research Center with Cynthia Gilmour from January 1, 2007 through December 31, 2007.
Perry, Linda , Southern Illinois University. Plant Food Use in Lowland South America: An Examination of the Type Collections, at the National Museum of Natural History with Dolores Piperno and Bruce Smith from June 1, 2006 through May 31, 2007.
Reddy, Sita , Provisions Library. Yogic Bodies: The Art of Tranformation, at the Freer Sackler Gallery of Art with Debra Diamond and Richard Kurin from January 1, 2007 through October 31, 2007.
Scharlemann, Jorn P.W., University of Cambridge, UK. Impacts of Deforestation and Agriculture on Tropical Forest Species, at the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute with William Laurance from October 1, 2006 through September 30, 2007.
Schwab, Brandon , Humboldt State Univ.. Experimental and Textural Constraints on the Kinetics of Magma Mixing and the 1915 Eruption of Lassen Peak, California, at the National Museum of Natural History with Jonathan Castro from January 1, 2007 through August 15, 2007.
Sobrino, Cristina Maria, University of Cadiz. The Tidal Marsh as a Source of Increased CO2 into the Rhode River Sub-Estuary: Effects on Phyloplankton Photosynthesis and Sensitivity to UV Radiation, at the Smithsonian Environmental Research Center with Patrick J. Neale from June 1, 2006 through May 31, 2007.
Stromberg, Caroline A.E., University of California, Berkeley. Vegetation Structure in Late Cretaceous Ecosystems in North America and the Role of Angiosperms, at the National Museum of Natural History with Scott Wing and Anna Kay Behrensmeyer from January 1, 2007 through December 31, 2007.
Tetrault, Lisa M., University of Wisonsin, Madison. Memory of a Movement: Re-Imagining Woman Suffrage in Reconstruction America, 1865-1890, at the National Museum of American History with Barbara Clark Smith and Lisa Kathleen Grady from January 15, 2007 through May 14, 2007.
van Ee, Benjamin W., University of Wisconsin, Madison. Morphological Evolution and Phylogenetics of Poinsettias (Euphorbia subgenus Pointsettia; Euphorbiaceae), at the National Museum of Natural History with Kenneth Wurdack from September 15, 2006 through September 14, 2007.
Altman, Safra , University of Maryland. Species Diversity and Invasion Success in Marine Fouling Communities, at the Smithsonian Environmental research Center with Anson Hines and Gregory Ruiz from September 1, 2006 through November 30, 2006.
Andersen, Kelly M., University of Illinois, Urbana Champaign. An Experimental Assessment of Soil Resource Availability and Herbivory in Determining Habitat Specificity in Understory Palms, at the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute with S. Joseph Wright and Benjamin Turner from July 1, 2006 through June 30, 2007.
Beadell, Jon S., University of Maryland, College Park. Disease, Genetics and the Evolution of Immune Response in Island Avifauna, at the National Zoological Park with Robert Fleischer from June 1, 2006 through May 31, 2007.
Brown, Lauren , Harvard University. WPA to NEA: Public Opinions of Federal Arts Funding, at the Smithsonian American Art Museum with Virginia Mecklenburg and Harry Rubenstein from June 1, 2006 through August 31, 2006.
Budaeva, Nataliya E., P.P. Shirshov Inst. Of Oceanology RAS. Revision of the Genera Paradiopatra (Sarsonuphis Fauchald, 1982) Diopatra and Epidiopatra (Polychaeta: Onuphidae), at the National Museum of Natural History with Kristian Fauchald from October 1, 2006 through March 31, 2007.
Byerly, Ryan M., Southern Methodist University. Dental Enamel Hypoplasia, Flouride Toxicosis, and the Archaeological Record: the Impact of Bison Health on Prehistoric Hunter-Gatherer Subsistence at the Frasca, Hudson-Meng, Jones-Miller, and Lamb Spring Sites, at the National Museum of Natural History with Dennis J. Stanford and Melinda A. Zeder from June 1, 2006 through August 31, 2006.
Carvajal Contreras, Diana , University of Calgary. Fishing, Salting and Smoking Fish at Cueva de los Vampiros: A Contextual and Archeofaunal Evaluation of a Purported Pre-Columbian Fishing Camp Near Parita Bay Panama, at the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute with Richard Cooke from May 15, 2006 through May 14, 2007.
De Baca, Michael A., Harvard University. Memory Work: Anne Truitt and Sculpture, at the Smithsonian American Art Museum with Cynthia Mills and Virginia Mecklenburg from January 1, 2007 through June 30, 2007.
De la Cova, Carlina M., Indiana University. An Analysis of African American Health during the Nineteenth Century, at the National Museum of Natural History with Douglas Owsley and David Hunt from June 1, 2006 through August 31, 2006.
Haxall, Daniel L., Pennsylvania State University. Politics, Form, and Identity in Abstract Expressionist Collage, at the Smithsonian American Art Museum with Virginia Mecklenburg and Joann Moser from January 31, 2007 through March 31, 2007.
Laney, Monique , University of Kansas. "Operation Paperclip" and German Immigrants in Huntsville, Alabama During the Cold War, at the National Air and Space Museum with Michael Neufeld and Roger Launius from January 15, 2007 through July 15, 2007.
Marley, Anna O., University of Delaware. Rooms with a View: The Topographic Landscape in the American Home, 1780-1820, at the Smithsonian American Art Museum with William Truettner from January 1, 2007 through December 31, 2007.
Matthews, Scott L., University of Virginia. Romantic Realism: Documentary Expression in the South, 1900-1945, at the National Museum of American History with Pete Daniel and David Haberstich from January 15, 2007 through June 15, 2007.
Page, Rachel A., University of Texas, Austin. Predator Assessment of Prey Cues: Frog-Eating Bats and Frog Calls, at the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute with Elisabeth Kalko and John H. Christy from February 15, 2007 through February 14, 2008.
Plassart, Marie , Lyon 2 University, France. Building National Identity at the Smithsonian: A History of Exhibit Making, Museum Planning and Relations with the Federal Government, at the Smithsonian Institution Archives with Pamela Henson and Larry Bird from November 15, 2006 through August 31, 2007.
Powers, Sarah , University of Delaward. Images of Tension: City and Country in the Work of Charles Sheeler, Edward Hopper and Thomas Hart Benton, at the Smithsonian American Art Museum with Virginia Mecklenburg from September 1, 2006 through August 31, 2007.
Rodriguez, Andres H., University of Oxford. The Missionary Anthropological Enterprise in Southwest China: David Crockett Graham and the West China Border Research Society, at the Smithsonian Institution Archives with Pamela Henson and Paul Taylor from March 15, 2007 through June 15, 2007.
Roeder, Katherine , University of Delaware. Cultivating Dreamfulness: Fantasy, Longing, and Commodity Culture in the Work of Winsor McCay, at the National Portrait Gallery with Wendy Wick Reaves and Larry Bird from September 1, 2006 through August 31, 2007.
Schermerhorn, Jack Lawrence, University of Virginia. Against All Odds: Slavery and Enslaved Families in the Making of the Antebellum Chesapeake, at the National Museum of American History with Pete Daniel and Fath Davis Ruffins from September 1, 2006 through November 30, 2006.
Scott, Sascha Thyme, Rutgers University. Modernism on the Move: New York-New Mexico Artistic Exchange, 1914-1942, at the Smithsonian American Art Museum with William Truettner and Virginia Mecklenburg from September 1, 2006 through May 31, 2007.
Smith, Laura E., Indiana University, Bloomington. The Early Photographs of Horace Poolaw, at the National Museum of American History with Rayna Green and Frank Goodyear from September 1, 2006 through April 30, 2007.
Spellman, Susan V., Carnegie Mellon University. Cornering the Market: Independent Grocers and Innovation, 1860-1930, at the National Museum of American History with Peter Liebhold from January 1, 2007 through April 30, 2007.
Studds, Colin E., University of Maryland, College Park. Linking Non-Breeding Habitat Occupancy to Population Processes in Nearctic-Neotropical Migratory Bird, at the National Zoological Park with Peter Marra from June 15, 2006 through June 14, 2007.
Taub, Emily N., Emory University. On Site-Specificity: A Genealogy, at the Smithsonian American Art Museum with Virginia Mecklenburg and Liza Kirwin from July 1, 2006 through November 30, 2006.
Toteva, Maia , University of Texas at Austin. Language Strategies and Ideas in the Art of American Conceptual and Post-Conceptual Artists, at the Smithsonian American Art Museum with Virginia Mecklenburg and Anne Collins Goodyear from January 1, 2007 through July 31, 2007.
Urena, Leslie J., Northwestern University. Lewis Hine at Ellis Island: The Photography of Immigration and Race, 1904-1926, at the Smithsonian American Art Museum with Virginia Mecklenburg and Frank Goodyear from September 1, 2006 through August 31, 2007.
Anello, Barbara J., Montclair State University. Dorothy West Pelzer: Documentary Photography in Southeast Asia 1962-1971, at the National Museum of Natural History with Paul Taylor from May 15, 2006 through July 21, 2006.
Breedon, Kirsty A., University of York, UK. How Might a Close Reading of Herbert Ward's Congolese Sculptures Challenge Current Understandings of Them? And Why Might that Reading Help to Re-Launch Questions of Ethnicity in British Sculpture Studies?, at the National Museum of Natural History with Mary Jo Arnoldi from June 1, 2006 through August 9, 2006.
Foster, Adam D., University of Wyoming. Covariation in the Upper and Lower Midfacial Complex in North American Populations, at the National Museum of Natural History with Douglas Owsley and Douglas Ubelaker from September 11, 2006 through November 17, 2006.
Gomez, Maria I., Humboldt Universitat zu Berlin. Systematics and Biogeography of Central and Northern South American Freshwater Cerithiodean Gastropods (Thiaridae and Pachychilidae), at the National Museum of Natural History with Ellen E. Strong from January 8, 2007 through March 16, 2007.
Jackinsky-Horrell, Nadia M., University of Washington. An Analysis of Yup'ilk Painted Bowls, Boxes and Spoons at the Smithsonian Institution, at the National Museum of Natural History with William Fitzhugh from January 8, 2007 through March 16, 2007.
Kapheim, Karen M., University of California, Los Angeles. The Evolution of Cooperation and Social Correlates of Individual Recognition, at the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute with William Wcislo and Roland Kays from June 26, 2006 through September 1, 2006.
Lampley, Gary L., Fashion Institute of Technology. How African and African American Style Contributions Have Influenced High Fashion, at the National Museum of American History with Fath Davis Ruffins from May 22, 2006 through July 28, 2006.
Massie, Kelleen E., San Diego State University. Patterns of Dental Enamel Hypoplasia and Age-at-Death in a California Native American Population, at the National Museum of Natural History with Douglas Ubelaker and David Hunt from January 8, 2007 through March 16, 2007.
Monsegur Rivera, Omar A., University of Puerto Rico, Mayaguez. Vascular Flora of the Guanica Dry Forest, Puerto Rico, at the National Museum of Natural History with Pedro Acevedo from July 31, 2006 through October 6, 2006.
Murray, Sean A., CUNY Graduate Center. The Piano Girl: Gender, Race and Becoming American, at the National Museum of American History with Fath Davis Ruffins from June 19, 2006 through August 25, 2006.
Ranch, Kohanya J., California State University, Los Angeles. Chumash Ways of Reviving a Culture: Sources of Inspiration, at the National Museum of the American Indian with Anne McMullen from June 19, 2006 through August 25, 2006.
Reichert, Michael S., University of Texas, Austin. An Investigation of Social Eavesdropping on Male-Male Territorial Interactions in the Frog, Hyla Rosenbergi, at the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute with John Christy from June 1, 2006 through August 9, 2006.
Rodgers, Paula J., University of Maryland. A Comparative Analysis of Sperm Storage in Brachyuran Crabs, at the Smithsonian Environmental Research Center with Anson Hines from June 5, 2006 through August 11, 2006.
Smith, Neil A., North Carolina State University. Systematic Revision of the Pliocene Genus Alca 9Aves, Alcidae) from the Yorktown Formation of Aurora, NC, at the National Museum of Natural History with Storrs L. Olson and Lee-Ann Hayek from June 12, 2006 through August 18, 2006.
Verplank, Ashley K., University of Washington. Analysis of Native Northwest Coast Daggers, at the National Museum of the American Indian with Mary Jane Lenz from June 19, 2006 through August 25, 2006.
Walsh, Megan E., Temple University. Depicting American Identity: Deception, Portraiture and Charles Willson Peale, at the National Portrait Gallery with Sidney Hart and David Ward from February 25, 2007 through May 5, 2007.