The following is a list of the applicants who were appointed as a result of
the 2009 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.
Claypool, Lisa R., Stanford University. Figuring the Social Body: Painting Manuals in Late Imperial China, at the Freer Gallery of Art/Arthur M. Sackler Gallery with Joseph Chang from January 1, 2010 through June 30, 2010.
Corbett, David Maxwell Peters, University of Manchester, UK. Landscape, City and Identity in American Painting c. 1840-1917, at the Smithsonian American Art Museum with William Truettner and Virginia Mecklenburg from November 1, 2009 through April 30, 2010.
Drewal, Henry J., Columbia University. Senses in Understandings of Art Among Yoruba-Speaking Peoples, at the National Museum of African Art with Christine Mullen Kreamer and National Museum of Natural History with Mary Jo Arnoldi from June 1, 2010 through August 31, 2010.
Meyer, James S., Johns Hopkins University. The Return of the 1960s: Narratives of the Contemporary, at the Smithsonian American Art Museum with Joanna Marsh and Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden with Kristen Hileman from August 1, 2009 through July 31, 2010.
Richmond, Courtney, Rowan University. Ecological and Evolutionary Constraints on Life History Strategies in the Ctenophohen "Mnemiopsis leidyi" in Chesapeake Bay, at the Smithsonian Environmental Research Center with Denise Breitburg and Anson Hines from June 1, 2009 through .
Sellet, Frederic, Southern Methodist University. Weaponry Manufacture and Prehistoric Adaptations: Quantifying Projectile Point Production at the Lindenmeier Site, at the National Museum of Natural History with Dennis Stanford and Margaret Jodry from June 1, 2009 through August 31, 2009.
Andersen, Kelly M., University of Illinois, Urbana Champaign. Partitioning of Soil Nitrogen Forms Among Understory Palms: Applying Recent advances in Nitrogen Cycling to Lower Montane Tropical Forests, at the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute with Benjamin Turner and Edward Herre Herre from August 1, 2009 through January 31, 2011.
Bolin, Jay F., Old Dominion University. Host-Parasite Cospeciation and Plastid Genome Evolution in the Plant Holoparasite Family Hydnoraceae, at the National Museum of Natural History with Kenneth Wurdack from January 1, 2010 through December 31, 2010.
Bruno, Maria Christina, Washington University, St. Louis. Documenting the Domestication of Chenopodium Pallidicaule Using Scanning Electron Microscopy, at the National Museum of Natural History with Bruce D. Smith from January 15, 2010 through April 15, 2010.
Campagnolo, Kathleen Merrill, Courtauld Institute of Art. Artists, Ideas, and Homage in 1960s New York: A View through the Early Work of Walter De Maria, at the Smithsonian American Art Museum with Virginia Mecklenburg and the National Portrait Gallery with Anne Collins Goodyear from November 1, 2009 through May 31, 2010.
Chang, Andrew, UC Davis. Larval Dispersal Patterns and Population Connectivity of Key Bivalve Species in Chesapeake and San Francisco Bays, at the Smithsonian Environmental Research Center with Gregory Ruiz and Whitman Miller from August 1, 2009 through September 30, 2011.
Cohen, Benjamin R., Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University. The Moral Landscape of Adulteration: Cheating on Nature in the Early Age of Industrialized Food, at the National Museum of American History with Jeffrey Stine and Pete Daniel from May 18, 2009 through January 15, 2010.
Dezeuze, Anna, Courtauld Institute of Art. The Everyday in American Art, 1958-1971, at the Smithsonian American Art Museum with Joann Moser and Archives of American Art with Liza Kirwin from October 1, 2009 through June 30, 2010.
Gotzek, Dietrich A., University of Georgia. Molecular Phylogeny and Evolution of Fire Ants (Hymenoptera: Formicidae), at the National Museum of Natural History with Sean Brady and Ted Schultz from August 1, 2009 through July 31, 2010.
Kosnik, Matthew A., University of Chicago. Quantifying the Effect of Taxon-Specific Rates of Shell Loss on Paleoecological Records: Can the Damage be Undone?, at the National Museum of Natural History with Peter J. Wagner from September 1, 2009 through August 31, 2010.
Lentfer, Carol Joy, Southern Cross University. Advances in Starch Granule Research in Southeast Asia and its Application to Archaeobotanical Studies, at the National Museum of Natural History with Dolores Piperno from December 1, 2009 through March 31, 2010.
Lind, Eric M., . Cascading Effects of White-tailed Deer Ecosystem Modification on Moth Biodiversity, at the Smithsonian Environmental Research Center with John Parker and Ilka Feller from June 15, 2009 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, at the Smithsonian Environmental Research Center with Donald Weller from January 1, 2010 through December 31, 2010.
Mooney, Amy M., Rutgers University. Portraits of Noteworthy Character, at the National Portrait Gallery with Brandon Fortune and Frank Goodyear from November 1, 2009 through July 31, 2010.
Mozdzer, Thomas J., University of Virginia. Effects of Global Change on Common Reed, Phragmites australis, at the Smithsonian Environmental Research Center with Patrick Megonigal and Bert Drake from June 1, 2009 through May 30, 2011.
Mulcahy, Daniel G., Utah State University. Morphological Variation in Nightsnakes and Cat-Eyed Snakes, at the National Museum of Natural History with Kevin de Queiroz and Roy McDiarmid from September 1, 2009 through August 31, 2010.
Ogada, Darcy L., Rhodes University. Ecological Implications of Vulture Extinction on Facultative Scavengers and Disease Transmission, at the Mpala Research Center with Mark Torchin and Margaret Kinnaird from September 1, 2009 through August 31, 2010.
Orr, Caley M., Arizona State University. Functional Morphology of the Wrist and Ankle in Homo Floresiensis, at the National Museum of Natural History with Richard Potts and Matthew Tocheri from March 1, 2010 through November 30, 2010.
Ott, John W., University of California, Los Angeles. Brotherhood on Paper: Giacomo Patri and the Representation of Interracial Solidarity in the American Labor Movement, at the Smithsonian American Art Museum with Virginia Mecklenburg from June 1, 2009 through May 31, 2010.
Pawley, Emily, University of Pennsylvania. "The Balance Sheet of Nature": Calculating the New York Farm, 1825-1860, at the National Museum of American History with Pete Daniel from March 1, 2010 through May 31, 2010.
Phillips, Stephen J., Princeton University. Towards a Research Practice: Frederick Kiesler's Experiments in Morphology and Modern Design, at the Smithsonian American Art Museum with Virginia M. Mecklenburg and Joann Moser from June 1, 2009 through August 31, 2010.
Rogers, Sarah A., Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Innocents Abroad, Again: American Art in Beirut, 1953-1975, at the Smithsonian American Art Museum with Virginia M. Mecklenburg and Archives of American Art with Liza Kirwin from August 15, 2009 through August 15, 2010.
Salami, Gitti E., University of Iowa. Yakurr Tradition in Postcolonial Nigeria, at the National Museum of African Art with Christine Mullen Kreamer and National Museum of Natural History with Mary Jo Arnoldi from January 1, 2010 through August 31, 2010.
Saltonstall, Kristin, Yale University. Origins and Genetic Diversity of "Saccharum spontaneum" L in Panama, at the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute with Eldredge Bermingham from June 1, 2009 through May 31, 2010.
Seagle, Christopher T., University of Chicago. Solubility of Oxygen and Sulfur in Solid Iron at High Pressures, at the National Museum of Natural History with Elizabeth Cottrell from August 1, 2009 through July 31, 2011.
Sienkewicz, Julia A., University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. Citizenship by Design: Art and Identity in the Early Republic, at the National Portrait Gallery with David Ward from October 1, 2009 through June 30, 2010.
Smith, Zoe, University of Melbourne, Australia. Ecological and Phylogenetic Correlates of Enzyme Activity in Orchid Mycorrihizal Fungi, at the Smithsonian Environmental Research Center with Melissa McCormick and Dennis Whigham from August 1, 2009 through July 31, 2011.
Triplett, Jimmy K., Iowa State University. Exploring Reticulate Evolution and Biogeography in the Temperate Bamboos of East Asian and Eastern North America Utilizing Nuclear Sequence Data, at the National Museum of Natural History with Jun Wen and Paul Peterson from January 1, 2010 through December 31, 2010.
Wagelie, Jennifer J., City University of New York. Maori Artifacts and Pacific Island Manikins: An In-Depth Study at the NMNH, at the National Museum of Natural History with Adrienne Kaeppler and Joshua Bell from September 15, 2009 through June 14, 2010.
Wilson, Amy S., University of British Columbia. Patterns of Demography and Genetic Diversity Along the Road Towards Extinction, at the National Zoological Park with Peter Marra and Robert Fleischer from June 1, 2009 through May 31, 2010.
Wurzburger, Nina, Princeton University. Redefining Nutrient Limitation in Panamanian Lowland Tropical Forests, at the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute with Joseph Wright and Benjamin Turner from July 15, 2009 through September 30, 2011.
Bacon, Christine D., Colorado State University. Species Delimination and Ecological Niche Modeling of Hawaiian Pritchardia (Palmae: Arecaceae), at the National Museum of Natural History with Warren L. Wagner from September 1, 2009 through November 30, 2009.
Bentlage, Bastian, University of Kansas. Biogeography of Open Ocean Jellyfishes, at the National Museum of Natural History with Allen G. Collins and National Museum of Natural History Stephen D. Cairns from September 1, 2009 through August 31, 2010.
Black, Jennifer M., University of Southern California. Branding Trust: Advertising, Legitimacy, and Trademarks in US Popular Culture, 1876-1930, at the National Museum of American History with Vanessa Broussard Simmons and Helena E. Wright from March 1, 2010 through May 31, 2010.
Bozanic, Andrew D.A., University of Delaware. The Acoustic Guitar in American Culture, 1880-1970, at the National Museum of American History with Pete Daniel from January 1, 2010 through June 30, 2010.
Byrd, Dana E., Yale University. Reconstructions: The Material Culture of the Post-Bellum Plantation, 1861-1877, at the Smithsonian American Art Museum with William Truettner from September 1, 2009 through August 31, 2010.
Churchill, Celia K.C., University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. Identifying Synapomorphies Underlying the Ecological Transition from Benthos to Neuston in Janthinidae (Mollusca: Gastropoda), at the National Museum of Natural History with Ellen Strong from January 15, 2010 through April 15, 2010.
Cincinnati, Noah Benjamin, Johns Hopkins University. The White Man's Other Burden: Imperialism, Zoos, and American Wildlife Protection, 1889-1926, at the Smithsonian Institution Archives with Pamela Henson from September 15, 2009 through December 15, 2009.
Curtis, Erin M., Brown University. Cultural History of Donuts and Asian Immigration in Los Angeles, at the National Museum of American History with Franklin Odo and Nancy Davis from October 1, 2009 through March 31, 2010.
Danner, Raymond M., Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University. Does Winter Food Drive Natural and Sexual Selection in a Short Distance Migratory Sparrow?, at the National Zoological Park with Russell Greenberg from January 1, 2010 through December 31, 2010.
Davis, Alexandra E., University of Pennsylvania. Representations of Artists in American Fashion and Lifestyle Magazines, 1923-1951, at the National Portrait Gallery with Wendy Wick Reaves and Smithsonian American Art Museum Virginia Mecklenburg from September 1, 2009 through August 31, 2010.
Dobreva, Neli Ignatova, Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales. Thinking American National Identity Through the Events of September 11th Storytelling: The Power of Object, Image, and Narrative, at the National Museum of American History with James B. Gardner and William L. Bird from July 1, 2009 through December 31, 2009.
Douberley, Amanda A., University of Texas, Austin. The Corporate Model: Sculpture, Architecture and the American City, 1946-1969, at the Smithsonian American Art Museum with Virginia Mecklenburg and National Pportrait Gallery with Anne Goodyear from July 1, 2009 through June 30, 2010.
Elder, Nicole S., Princeton University. Show and Tell: Representation, Communication, and the Still Lifes of William M. Harnett, at the Smithsonian American Art Museum with William Truettner and Eleanor Harvey from September 1, 2009 through August 31, 2010.
Hill, Jason E., University of Southern California. The Artist as Reporter: Picturing the News in PM Daily, 1940-1948, at the Smithsonian American Art Museum with Virginia Mecklenburg from September 1, 2009 through August 31, 2010.
Jenks, Kate E., University of Massachusetts, Amherst. Domestic Dogs as a Reservior Host for Disease, at the National Zoological Park with Nucharin Songsasen and Peter Leimgruber from June 1, 2009 through May 31, 2010.
Laubacher, Matthew, Arizona State University. The Culture of Collecting in 19th Century American Natural History, at the Smithsonian Institution Archives with Pamela Henson from June 1, 2009 through August 31, 2009.
Lemay, Kate C., Indiana University. Forgotten Memorials: The American Cemetaries in France from World War II, at the Smithsonian American Art Museum with Cynthia Mills and George Gurney from September 1, 2009 through June 30, 2010.
Lowery, Darrin L., University of Delaware. Analysis of the Smithsonian's Middle Atlantic Paleoindian Site Collections and the Associated Site Formation Processes: A Comparison with the Delmarva Peninsula Data, at the National Museum of Natural History with Dennis Stanford and Torben Rick from July 1, 2009 through March 31, 2010.
Luarca-Shoaf, Nenette, University of Delaware. The Place of the Mississippi River in Antebellum Visual Culture and Imagination, at the Smithsonian American Art Museum with William Truettner from September 1, 2009 through August 31, 2010.
Mengel, Laurie M., Brown University. Neither Cio-Cio San nor Hester Prynne: Japanese Immigrant and Japanese American Women in Japan and Hawaii 1880-1920, at the Asian Pacific American Program with Franklin Odo from August 1, 2009 through January 31, 2010.
Mercelis, Joris, Ghent University, Belgium. Leo H. Baekeland (1863-1944). A Biography of an Entrepreneur, at the National Museum of American History with Arthur Molella from September 1, 2009 through November 30, 2009.
Myhaver, Virginia J., Boston University. The "New American Revolution": Cultural Pollitics and the 1976 American Bicentennial, at the Smithsonian Institution Archives with Pamela Henson and National Museum of American History Larry Bird from July 1, 2009 through September 30, 2009.
Scott, Jarrod J., University of Wisconsin. Microbial Community Assembly in the Refuse Dumps of the Leaf-Cutter Ant, Atta columbica, at the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute with William Wcislo from September 15, 2009 through May 15, 2010.
Suurmeyer, Ellen, University of Arizona. Investigating Mechanism of Gall Induction in the Fig-Fig Wasp System, at the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute with E. Allen Herre from June 1, 2009 through May 31, 2010.
Swinehart, Karl F., University of Pennsylvania. The Aymara in the Anthropological Gaze: Weston La Barre's Ethnographic Encounters in the Altiplano, at the National Museum of the American Indian with Ramiro Matos from June 1, 2009 through August 31, 2009.
Touchton, Janeene M., Princeton University. Competive Release Reveals Individual Variation in Spotted Antbirds (Hylophylax naevioides), at the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute with Egbert Leigh and William Wcislo from July 1, 2009 through January 31, 2010.
Walsh, Catherine, University of Delaward. Tell Me a Story: Narrative and Orality in Nineteenth Century American Visual Culture, at the Smithsonian American Art Museum with William Truettner from July 1, 2009 through June 30, 2010.
Zacks, Michelle, University of Hawaii. From Food to Trash: A Social History of the Mullet Fishery of Southwest Florida, at the National Museum of American History with Paula Johnson from March 1, 2010 through November 30, 2010.
Janicki, Amanda F., Missouri State University. Using Museum Specimens to Better Understand Scarring and Body Condition Seen in Bats Affected with White-Nose Syndrome, at the National Museum of Natural History with Don E. Wilson from June 1, 2009 through August 7, 2009.
Kaiser, Sara A., Washington State University. Adaptive Significance of Plasticity in Hormone-Mediated Avian Reproductive Behaviors, at the National Zoological Park with Scott Sillett from June 1, 2009 through August 7, 2009.
Larnerd, Joseph H., Temple University. Re-Contextualizing The Throne: James Hampton's Material Iconology, at the Smithsonian American Art Museum with Virginia Mecklenberg and Helen B. Ingalls from June 1, 2009 through August 7, 2009.
LeClerc-Caffarel, Stephanie M.E., University of East Anglia, UK. The United States Exploring Expedition Collections: Intrepretative Research on Exchange Relations Betweens Fijians and Euro-Americans, at the National Museum of Natural History with Adrienne L. Kaeppler and Joshua A. Bell from June 1, 2009 through August 7, 2009.
Malek, Jennafer Christine, University of Maryland Effects of Intertidal Exposure on Disease in the Eastern Oyster, Crassostrea virginica, and Implications Under Climate Change, at the Smithsonian Environmental Research Center with Denise Breitburg from May 1, 2009 through July 10, 2009.
Nzewi, Ugochukwu-Smooth C., Emory University. Art Biennales, Global Art World and Transformations in Contemporary African Art, at the National Museum of African Art with Christine Kreamer and NMAfA Karen Milbourne from June 1, 2009 through August 7, 2009.
Scheffler, Robin, Yale University. Establishing a Research Site for Tropical Biology: the Practice of Research on Barro Colorado Island, 1923-1946, at the Smithsonian Institution Archives with Pamela Henson from June 1, 2009 through August 7, 2009.
Spear, Erin R., University of Utah. The Role of Soil Pathagens in Determining the Distribution of Tropical Tree Species Along a Rainfall Gradient, at the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute with Phylllis Coley and Thomas Kursar from June 1, 2009 through August 11, 2009.
Trabert, Sarah J., University of Iowa. A Re-Examination of Plains/Southwestern Relationships: Ceramics from El Cuartelejo (14SC01), at the National Museum of Natural History with J. Daniel Rogers from June 1, 2009 through August 7, 2009.
VanSickle, Caroline M., University of Michigan. Learning About Neandertals from the Pelves of Geographically Varied Populations of Modern Humans, at the National Museum of Natural History with David R. Hunt from June 1, 2009 through August 7, 2009.
Veijalainen, Anu, University of Turku, Finland. Latitudinal Diversity Gradient of Ichneumonidae (Hymenoptera), at the National Museum of Natural History with Terry L. Erwin from September 21, 2009 through November 27, 2009.
Zhang, Guanyang, University of California, Riverside. Evolution of Sticky Trap Protection in Harpactorini (Insecta: Hemiptera: Reduviidae: Harpactorinae), at the National Museum of Natural History with Thomas Henry from February 22, 2010 through April 30, 2010.