The following is a list of the applicants who were appointed as a result of
the 2008 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.
Bentor, Eli, Indiana University. Aro Ikeji Masquerade Festival: Practicing History Through Performance, at the National Museum of African Art with Christine Mullen Kreamer and Mary Jo Arnoldi from August 15, 2008 through June 15, 2009.
Bercaw, Nancy, University of Pennsylvania. Science and Citizenship: African American and Indian Bodies in Post-Emancipation America, at the Smithsonian Institution Archives with Pamela Henson from August 15, 2009 through November 15, 2009.
Das, Asok Kumar, London University. The Mughal Master of Natural History, Ustad Mansur, at the Freer Gallery of Art/arthur M. Sackler Gallery with Debra Diamond and Massumeh Farhad from July 1, 2008 through September 30, 2008.
Haltman, Kenneth, Yale University. Preparing a Critical Translation of Rene Brimo, L'Evolution du Government aux Etats-Unis, at the Smithsonian American art Museum with William Truettner from June 1, 2008 through August 31, 2008.
Mazow, Leo, Pennsylvania State University. Thomas Hart Benton and the American Sound, at the Smithsonian American Art Museum with Virginia Mecklenburg from July 1, 2008 through September 30, 2008.
Veder, Robin M., Pennsylvania State University. Embodied Modernism, at the Smithsonian American art Museum with Joann Moser and Wendy Wick Reaves from September 1, 2008 through November 30, 2008.
Ahlering, Marissa A., University of Missouri. The Dynamics of an Elephant Population in a Human Dominated Landscape, at the National Zoological Park with Jesus Maldonado and Robert Fleischer from October 1, 2008 through September 30, 2009.
Berg, Ellen L., University of California, Berkeley. Where Have You Gone, Miss Columbia? American Identity and Uncle Sam's Forgotten Partner, at the National Museum of American History with William Bird and Harry Rubenstein from September 1, 2008 through February 28, 2009.
Bills, Emily I., Woodbury University. Esther McCoy: Selected Writings of an Architectural Advocate, at the Archives of American Art with Liza Kirwin and Cynthia Field from July 1, 2008 through August 31, 2008.
Blakeslee, April M.H., University of New Hampshire. Genes and Parasites: Reconstructing the Invasive History of a Marine Snail in Three Oceans, at the Smithsonian Environmental Research Center with Whitman Miller and Gregory Ruiz from September 1, 2008 through October 31, 2009.
Boyer, Alison G., University of New Mexico. Reconstructing the Pre-Human Avifauna of New Caledonia, at the National Museum of Natural History with Helen James and Storrs Olson from September 1, 2008 through December 31, 2008.
Brown, Clayton, University of Pittburgh. Out of the Yellow Earth: Archaeology and the Search for China's National Origins, at the Freer/Sackler Gallery of Art with Keith Wilson and Pamela Henson from May 15, 2008 through August 15, 2008.
Curran, Sabrina C., University of Minnesota. Bovid Ecomorphology Using Geometric Morphometrics, at the National Museum of Natural History with Melinda Zeder and Kay Behrensmeyer from February 15, 2009 through May 15, 2009.
Fagervold, Sonja K., University of Maryland. Understanding the Mechanism of Microbial Mercury Methylation, at the Smithsonian Environmental Research Center with Cynthia Gilmour from November 1, 2008 through October 31, 2009.
Hanselmann, Rhea, Tufts University. An Investigation into Kori Bustard (Ardeotis Kori) Health, Physiology and Feeding Ecology in Laikipia, Kenya: Implications for Wild Kori Bustard Conservation and Captive Species Management, at the National Zoological Park with Suzan Murray and Sara Hallager from July 1, 2009 through June 30, 2010.
Havelock, Glenn M., University of Exeter. Environmental Controls on Diatom Distribution in the Patuxent Estuary, Past and Present Implications for Holocene River Discharge and Sea-Level Change, at the Smithsonian Environmental Research Center with Charles Gallegos and Denise Breitburg from March 1, 2009 through February 28, 2011.
Hayes, Kenneth A., University of Hawaii. Comparative Anatomy and Phylogenetics of the Lower Caenogastropoda (Mollusca: Gastropoda) Architaenioglossa (Ampullariidae, Cyclophoridae, Vivparidae) and the Campanilidae, at the National Museum of Natural History with Ellen Strong and M.G. Harasewych from March 1, 2009 through February 28, 2010.
Hesselberg, Thomas, University of Bath, UK. Behavioral Flexibility in Orb-Spiders, at the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute with William Eberhard from August 1, 2008 through July 31, 2009.
Lasso, Eloisa, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. Consequences of Asexual Reproduction on Plant Mating, at the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute with Eldredge Bermingham from November 1, 2008 through October 31, 2009.
Lind, Eric M., University of Maryland. Cascading Effects of White-Tailed Deer Ecosystem Modification on Moth Biodiversity, at the Smithsonian Environmental Research Center with Ilka Feller and John Parker from June 15, 2008 through June 14, 2010.
Maloney, Kelly O., Auburn University. The Imprint of Historical Land Use on Present Day Stream Conditions in the Patuxent River Basin, Maryland, at the Smithsonian Environmental Research Center with Donald Weller from January 1, 2009 through December 31, 2009.
Marten-Rodriguez, Silvana, University of Maryland, College Park. An Evalution of Floral Variation in Caribbean Heliconia: The Role of Geographic Mosaics and Pollination Systems, at the National Museum of Natural History with John Kress and Pedro Acevedo from January 1, 2009 through December 31, 2009.
Mayne, Rhiannon Gwenllian, University of Tennessee. Is the Metal in Eucrites and Mesosiderties Related? Implications for Differentiation and Impact History of 4 Vesta-Target of the Dawn Mission, at the National Museum of Natural History with Timothy McCoy from January 1, 2009 through December 31, 2009.
Mehdiabadi, Natasha J., University of texas, Austin. Phylogenetic and Behavioral Tests of Symbiont Choice in the Attine ant-Fungus Symbiosis, at the National Museum of Natural History with Ted Schultz and Sean Brady from September 15, 2008 through September 14, 2009.
Redden, Karen M., George Washington University. Phylogeny and Biogeography of Six Caesalpinioidaeae Legume Genera Concentrated on the Guiana Shield, at the National Museum of Natural History with Vicki Funk from November 1, 2008 through October 31, 2009.
Smith, Adam R., University of Washington. Modularity and the Evolution of New Phenotypes: Hormonal Regulation of Reproduction and Behavior in the Bee Megalopta, at the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute with William Wcislo and Mary Jane West-Eberhard from January 1, 2009 through June 30, 2009.
Sponsel, Alistair W., Princeton University. The Study of Coral Reefs and the Sciences of Exploration Since 1838, at the Smithsonian Institution Archives with Pamela Henson from March 1, 2009 through August 31, 2009.
Temkin, Ilya, New York University. Phylogeny, Ontogeny, and Systematics of the Family Isognomonidae (Mollusca: Bivalvia), at the National Museum of Natural History with Ellen Strong and M.G. Harasewych from September 1, 2008 through August 31, 2009.
Troutman, John W., University of Texas, Austin. A Cultural History of the Hawaiian Steel Guitar, at the National Museum of American History with Rayna Green from June 1, 2008 through August 31, 2008.
Wallace, Miranda J., University of London. A Time of Images: Photography and Film in American Art Since 1970, at the Smithsonian American art Museum with Joanna Marsh from March 1, 2009 through May 31, 2009.
Wang, Yiyou Daisy, Guggenheim Museum. International Art Dealers and the Formation of the Chinese Art Collection at the Freer Gallery of Art, 1893-1950, at the Freer Sackler Gallery of Art with J. Keith Wilson and David Hogge from July 15, 2008 through October 15, 2008.
Wilson, Scott D., University of British Columbia, Canada. The Role of Population Density and Climate in the Determination for Population Growth for a Neotropical Migrant Songbird, at the National Zoological Park with Peter Marra from September 1, 2008 through August 31, 2009.
Wittman, Sarah E., University of Vermont. Keystone Species Effects on the Trophic Architecture of an East African Savanna, at the Smithsonian Tropical research Institute with Ben Turner and Candy Feller from October 15, 2008 through April 15, 2009.
Wolff, Christopher B., Southern Methodist University. Sourcing Slate in the Far Northeast: An Examination of Prehistoric Exchange Systems in Newfoundland and Labrador, at the National Museum of Natural History with William Fitzhugh and Stephen Loring from October 1, 2008 through September 30, 2009.
Zachos, Louis G., University of Texas, Austin. Heuristic Modeling of Growth and Development in Stem Group Echinoids (Perischoechinoidea), at the National Museum of Natural History with Douglas Erwin and David Pawson from January 15, 2009 through January 14, 2010.
Altman, Safra, University of Maryland. Diversity and Resource Effects on Invasibility and Invasion Success, at the Smithsonian Environmental Research Center with Anson Hines and Gregory Ruiz from August 1, 2008 through July 31, 2009.
Arendt, Beatrix J.Y.M., University of Virginia. Before the Missionaires: An Archaeological Study of 18th Century Labrador Inuit Life, at the National Museum of Natural History with William Fitzhugh and Stephen Loring from December 1, 2008 through August 31, 2009.
Best, Makeda D., Harvard University. Alexander Gardner - Photography Into History, 1858 - 1868, at the Smithsonian American Art Museum with Toby Jurovics from January 1, 2009 through June 30, 2009.
Carter, Sarah A., Harvard University. A Basket, A Needle, A Penknife: Object Lessons in Nineteenth-Century American Material and Visual Culture, at the Smithsonian American Art Museum with William Truettner from September 1, 2008 through August 31, 2009.
Cramer, Katie, Scripps Institution UCSD. Historical Changes in Coral Communities Along a Gradient of Land Use in Panama, at the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute with Jeremy Jackson and Rachel Collin from August 1, 2008 through July 31, 2009.
Dolor, Marvourneen K., University of Maryland, College Park. Investigation of Rhenium's Biogeochemisty Microbial Fixation by Sulfate-reducing Bacteria, at the Smithsonian Environmental Research Center with Gerhardt Riedel and Cynthia Gilmour from June 1, 2008 through August 31, 2008.
Donaldson, Rachel C., Vanderbilt University. Folkways Records and the American Folk Music Revival, at the Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage with Jeffrey Place from September 1, 2008 through May 31, 2009.
Folland, Thomas F., University of California, Los Angeles. Robert Rauschenberg's Combines and a Queer Neo-Avant-Garde: 1954-1959, at the Archives of American Art with Liza Kirwin from January 1, 2009 through March 31, 2009.
Gaffney, Nicholas L., University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. Mobilizing Jazz Communities, at the National Museum of American History with John Hasse and Portia James from August 1, 2008 through October 31, 2008.
Ghilani, Jessica L., University of Pittsburgh. N.W. Ayer Advertising Agency Records and the United States Army, at the National Museum of American History with Vanessa Broussard Simmons from July 1, 2008 through August 31, 2008.
Giraldo, Juan Pablo, Harvard University. Does Leaf Hydraulic Conductance Control the Onset of Leaf Senescence in Tropical Trees?, at the Smithsonian Tropical research Insitute with S. Joseph Wright and Egbert Leigh from October 15, 2008 through May 15, 2009.
Goldman, Jason M., University of Southern California. Arousing Possibilities: Deviant Sexuality and Underground American Art, 1955-1969, at the Smithsonian American Art Museum with Virginia Mecklenburg and Anne Ellegood from September 1, 2008 through August 31, 2009.
Gould, Sarah Z., University of Michigan. Toys Make a Nation: Ethnic Imagery in American Toys, 1840 - 1990, at the National Museum of American History with Fath Davis Ruffins from September 1, 2008 through April 30, 2009.
Henry, Amanda G., George Washington University. Plant Foods in Neanderthal and Modern Human Dietary Ecology, at the National Museum of Natural History with Dolores Piperno from September 1, 2008 through May 31, 2009.
Iizuka, Fumie, University of Arizona. Monagrillo Ware, Panama's First Pottery (ca. 4,500-3,200 B.P.): An Instrumental and Typological Analysis of its Technology, Possible Functions, and Socio-Economic Context, at the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute with Richard Cooke and Dolores Piperno from January 1, 2009 through December 31, 2009.
Jones, Jamie L., Harvard University. American Whaling in Commerce, Culture, and Memory: Contexts in American Art of the Inland and Maritime Frontiers, at the Smithsonian American Art Museum with William Truettner and Eleanor Jones Harvey from September 15, 2008 through January 15, 2009.
Kapheim, Karen M., University of California, Los Angeles. The Evolutionary Genomics of Facultative Social Behavior in a Tropical Sweat Bee, at the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute with William Wcislo from January 15, 2009 through April 15, 2009.
Kelley, Jonathan, UC Davis. Predator-induced Shifts in Behavior and Physiology in the Checker-throated Antwren (Epinecrophylla fulviventris), at the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute with Mary Jane West-Eberhard and Egbert Leigh from April 1, 2008 through October 31, 2009.
LaFountain, Jason D., Harvard University. A History of New England Puritan Art, at the Smithsonian American art Museum with William Truettner and Ellen Miles from September 1, 2008 through August 31, 2009.
Manganiello, Christopher J., University of Georgia. Dam Crazy with Wild Consequences: Artificial Lakes and Natural Rivers in the Southern South, 1890-1990, at the National Museum of American History with Jeffrey Stine and Pete Daniel from November 1, 2008 through May 31, 2009.
Marden, Kerriann, Tulane University. Pathology, Disease and Mortuary Behavior in the Chaco Canyon, at the National Museum of Natural History with Donald Ortner and David Hunt from August 15, 2008 through February 15, 2009.
Ming, Leta, University of Southern California. Performing Counterculturalism: San Francisco Conceptual Art, 1969 - 1979, at the Smithsonian American Art Museum with Joanna Marsh and Liza Kirwin from 01/01/509 through April 30, 2009.
Palm, Nancy, Indiana University. Unsettling Identities: Indian Iconography in Thomas Cole's National Landscapes, at the Smithsonian American Art Museum with William Truettner from September 1, 2008 through June 30, 2009.
Robertson, Letha Clair, University of Kansas. The Art of Thomas Hicks (1817-1890), at the National Portrait Gallery with Ellen Miles and William Truettner from August 15, 2008 through December 15, 2008.
Rodgers, Paula J., University of Maryland. Phylogenetic Constraints and Ecological Variation in Sperm Storage of Brachyuran Crabs, at the Smithsonian Environmental Research Center with Anson Hines from June 1, 2008 through May 31, 2009.
Voss, Annemarie, Rutgers University. Incremental Remedies: Women Artists and Ecology Since 1980, at the Smithsonian American art Museum with Eleanor Harvey from August 1, 2008 through July 31, 2009.
Walz, Jonathan F., University of Maryland, College Park. Anti-Mimetic Portraiture and the American Avant-Garde, 1912-1927, at the National Portrait Gallery with Wendy Wick Reaves and Anne Collins Goodyear from September 1, 2008 through August 31, 2009.
Warak, Melissa C., University of Texas, Austin. Sound Exchange: Interactions of Music and Art, 1955-1969, at the National Portrait Gallery with Anne Collins Goodyear from October 1, 2008 through June 30, 2009.
Watson, Adam S., University of Virginia. Hierarchy and Craft Production in prehistoric Chaco: Tracing Patterns of Faunal Procurement, Consumption, and Use in Chaco Canyon, NM (AD 500-1200), at the National Museum of Natural History with Melinda Zeder from August 15, 2008 through May 15, 2009.
Weiss, Francine, Boston University. Visual Verses: Modern Collaborations of American Artists and Poets, 1921-1946, at the National Portrait Gallery with Frank Goodyear and Toby Jurovics from February 1, 2009 through January 31, 2010.
Welch, Andreanna Jo, University of Maryland, College Park. Spatiotemporal Population Genetics of the Hawaiian Petrel, at the National Zoological Park with Robert Fleischer and Jonathan Ballou from August 15, 2008 through February 14, 2009.
Zundo, Mary E., University of Illinois. Mapping Destiny: Cartography and Nineteenth-Century American Art of the Frontier, at the Smithsonian American Art Museum with William Truettner from July 1, 2008 through October 31, 2008.
Butler, Emily Y., University of Wisconsin, Madison. Integrating Phylogeny and Ecophysiology in New World "Dryopteris", at the National Museum of Natural History with Elizabeth Zimmer from June 30, 2008 through September 5, 2008.
Cardoni, Daniel Augusto, Mar del Plata National University. Genetic and Morphological Adaptations in Birds of South American Tidal Marshes, at the National Zoological Park with Russell Greenberg and Jesus Maldonado from March 2, 2009 through May 31, 2009.
Cora, Ildiko, Eotvos Lorand University. Micro-and Nano-Scale Local Structural Studies for Solving Geological Problems, at the National Museum of Natural History with Jeffrey Post from July 14, 2008 through September 19, 2008.
Goldsmith, Gregory R., University of California Berkeley. Plant Responses to Changes in Cloudiness of a Tropical Montane Forest: Connecting Climate Change to Plant Ecology in a Sensitive Ecosystem, at the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute with Klaus Winter from September 15, 2008 through November 21, 2008.
Herrera, Santiago, Universidad de Los Andes. Connectivity Across the Deep Ocean: Phylogeography and Morphological Variation of the Cosmopolitan Bubblegum Coral Paragorgia arborea (Linnaeus), at the National Museum of Natural History with Stephen Cairns and Allen Collins from October 6, 2008 through December 12, 2008.
Jessee, Emory J., Montana State University. Resurveying Bikini, at the National Museum of American History with Barton C. Hacker and Jeffrey K. Stine from June 2, 2008 through August 8, 2008.
Jolaosho, Omotayo T., Rutgers University. Understanding the Liberation Song through American and South African Performance Activism, at the Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage with Diana Baird N'Diaye from June 2, 2008 through August 8, 2008.
Keegan, Rebecca E., Duke University. Out of Africa: An Investigation of Contemporary South African Art at the National Museum of African Art, at the National Museum of African Art with Christine Mullen Kreamer from June 2, 2008 through August 8, 2008.
Macke, Robert J., University of Central Florida. Survey of Meteorite Density, Porosity and Magnetic Suspectibility, at the National Museum of Natural History with Glenn MacPherson and Timothy McCoy from June 23, 2008 through August 29, 2008.
Malcolm, Karl D., University of Wisconsin, Madison. Fecal Glucocorticoid Concentrations as an Indicator of Habitat Quality in Asiatic Black Bears, at the National Zoological Park with William McShea and Janine Brown from June 2, 2008 through August 8, 2008.
Nakagaki, Michael M., Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University. Problematica and Modern Phyla of the Burgess Shale, at the National Museum of Natural History with Douglas Erwin and Peter Wagner from May 27, 2008 through August 15, 2008.
Phillips, Erin E., University of Alabama. The Hemphill Style: Gathering the Corpus through Rubbings, Photographs, and Line Drawings, at the National Museum of the American Indian with Ann McMullen from June 2, 2008 through August 8, 2008.
Phillips, Stephen Colby, University of Washington. Detecting Hunter-Gatherer Social Networks in the Kuril Islands of the Russian Far East Based on Obsidian Artifact Source Analysis, at the Museum Conservation Institute with Robert Speakman from July 7, 2008 through September 12, 2008.
Whiteman, Shawn B., University of New Mexico. Size Shouldn't Matter: Identifying Woodrat (Neotoma) Teeth Exclusive of Size Information, at the National Museum of Natural History with Michael Carleton and Kay Behrensmeyer from June 2, 2008 through August 8, 2008.
Xu, Mingzi, University of Oklahoma. UV Reflectance and Sexual Signaling in a Giant Damselfly, at the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute with William Wcislo and Donald Windsor from December 15, 2008 through February 20, 2009.