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International Awards for Faculty Travel & Research

The Dickey Center has awarded support to a diversity of international scholarship projects submitted from over 20 departments for research, travel, and engagement in more than 25 countries around the world.

  • Street art in Centro Habana celebrating the labor of the Committees for the Defense of the Revolution.

    Street art in Centro Habana celebrating the labor of the Committees for the Defense of the Revolution (neighborhood watch groups). Photo by Rachel Hynson

2014-2021 Awards*

A selection of awards is listed below. Award eligibility, due dates, links to application forms, and criteria may be found on the Faculty Travel & Research Grants page.

Bernard Avishai
Support for visiting guests to speak on Israel-Palestine issues 
Department: Government   
Award Type: Classroom Enhancement
Pillar:  Security

Dror Ben-Zeev
mHealth: Mobile Apps for Mental Health Diagnoses and Care
Department: Geisel School of Medicine     
Award Type: Research
Pillar: Security / Global Health

Robert Bonner
Remaking North American Sovereignty
Department: History
Award Type: Conference
Pillar: Security / Canada Studies

Research for "Slaveocrats at Sea: The Maritime Menace of the Southern Confederacy"
Department: History
Award Type: Research
Pillar: Security / Canada Studies                                                                          

Lisa Baldez
Introduction to Latin American, Latino & Carribean Studies Speakers
Department: Government / Latin American, Latino & Carribean Studies
Award Type: Classroom Enhancement

Melody Burkins
Faculty and Student Participation in 2016 Model Arctic Council
Department: Environmental Studies           
Award Type: Classroom Enhancement / Conference
Pillar: Environment / Climate

Stephen Brooks
Department: Government
Award Type: Conference
Pillar: Security

Andrew Chapman
Panel participant: New Genres and the Cinematic Nation in Recent Russian Film
Department: Russian
Award Type: Conference

Ada Cohen
Actual Problems of Theory and History of Art
Department: Art History
Award Type: Research

Ayo Coly
The Idea of Africa: Deconstructing race in the Iconography of a Continent
Department: African and African American Studies
Award Type: Classroom Enhancement

Kelley Corbett
Thiamine and Vitamin-C in Pediatric Sepsis & Severe Acute Malnutrition in Rwanda
Department: Geisel School
Award Type: Research
Pillar: Global Health

Sienna Craig
Visit from Seth Holmes, UC Berkeley: Fresh Fruit, Broken Bodies: The Hiddenness of Migrant Farmworkers and Global Inequalities
Department: Anthropology
Award Type: Classroom Enhancement
Pillar: Human Development

Workshop participant: Developing an interdisciplinary and multilingual digital knowledge base on Tibetan medical formulas
Department: Anthropology
Award Type: Conference
Pillar: Human Development / Global Health

Yasser Elhariry
The Pacific Invasion
Department: French & Italian
Award Type: Conference

William Ellison
Campus concert of Indian Classical music with Pandit Rabindra Goswami (sitar) and Ramchandra Pandit (tabla) to coincide with Diwali
Department: Anthropology & Religion      
Award Type: Classroom Enhancement

Kristine Giffin
COMP2CLINIC: Biomedical Reserachers & Clinicians Closing the Gap Between Translational Research and Helathcare Practice
Department: Biomedical Data Science
Award Type: Conference

Reena Goldthree      
"No Yankee Rule for us Negro British West Indians": U.S. Annexation Rumors in the Interwar Caribbean
Department: African and African American Studies                      
Award Type: Conference
Pillar: Human Development / Security     
                          
Doug Haynes 
Brand-Name Capitalism, Advertising, and the Making of Middle Class Conjugality in Western India, 1918-1940.
Department: History
Award Type: Research

Katie Hornstein
Evading the Hierarchies of Nineteenth-Century Visual Culture
Department: Art History
Award Type: Conference

Jeremy Horowitz
How Land Grievances Mobilize and Divide Ethnic Groups: Experimental Evidence from Kenya
Department: Government
Award Type: Research
Pillar: Human Development

Yusaku Horiuchi
The Impact of Russian Election Meddling on Allies" Trust in the United States. Presenting paper at the 2020 Winter Meeting of the Japanese Society for Quantitative Political Science
Department: Government
Award Type: Conference
Pillar: Security

Kate Hornstein
Global Animal Histories: The Lion as Subject and Object of (Art) History
Department: Art History
Award Type: Conference

Rachel Hynson
State of the Family: Sexuality, Power, and Revolution in Cuba, 1959-1968
Rachel Hynson's research explores the efforts of early-revolutionary Cuban officials to remake sexual standards and produce families deemed fitter than those under capitalism. 
Department: Latin American, Latino, and Caribbean Studies         
Award Type: Research
Pillar: Gender / Security

Sergei Kan
Sitka Creoles as Seen by the Russian Orthodox Clergy After the Sale of Alaska
Department: Anthropology / Native American Studies     
Award Type: Conference

Moisei Krol's Return to the Jewish People via Ethnographic Research among the Buryats
Department: Anthropology / Native American Studies
Award Type: Conference

Chelsey Kivland
Nowhere to Go: A Multimedia Look at Haiti's Post-Earthquake Housing Crisis
Department: Anthropology
Award Type: Classroom Enhancement
Pillar: Human Development / Global Health

Theodore Levin
Collaboration with Aga Khan Trust for Culture, Dartmouth Music Department, and Sean Curran Dance Company (NYC)
Department: Music 
Award Type: Classroom Enhancement
Pillar: Human Development

Eng-Beng Lim           
The Other Harem
Department: Women's, Gender & Sexuality Studies          
Award Type: Research
Pillar: Gender

Jennifer Lind
The Rise of Nationalism in Japan?
Department: Government
Award Type: Research
Pillar: Security

Rise of China - Guest Lecture Adam Segal, Council on Foreign Relations
Department: Government
Award Type: Classroom Enhancement
Pillar: Security

Lisa Loeb
East Africa Regional Leadership Center curriculum development
Department: Computer Science
Award Type: Classroom Enhancement / Research
Pillar: Human Development

Patricia Lopez
The Great Waging Peace - Peacekeeping, human rights, & law in Haiti
Department: Geography     
Award Type: Conference:
Pillar: Human Development

Michael McGillan
Spatial Form and the Dialectics of Non-Presence in Karl Barth's Römerbrief.
Department: German          
Award Type: Conference

Laura McPherson
Tonal Compounding in Seenku 
Department: Linguistics
Award Type: Conference
Pillar: Human Development

Ed Miller
Visit from Christian Appy of UMass-Amherst, a historian and renowned expert on the Vietnam War
Department: History
Award Type:  Classroom Enhancement
Pillar: Security

Abigail Neely
Assessing Health Care Access in Rural South Africa
Department: Geography     
Award Type: Research
Pillar: Global Health

Abigail Neely
Visit from Claire Wendland, author of "A Heart for the Work," and discussion of medical education in Malawi
Department: Geography
Award Type: Classroom Enhancement
Pillar: Global Health

Witchcraft and Biomedicine; Speaker/author of book "Medicine in the Meantime."
Department: Geography
Award Type: Classroom Enhancement

Deborah Nichols
Altica Craft Specialization, Exchange, and the Development of Early Complex Societies in Central Mexico
Department: Anthropology
Award Type: Research
Pillar: Human Development

Brendhan Nyhan
The Prevalence and Causes of Conspiracy Belief about Disease Outbreaks
Department: Government   
Award Type: Research         
Pillar: Global Health 

Reiko Ohnuma
An Elephant Good to Think: The Buddha in Parileyyaka Forest 
Department: Religion
Award Type: Conference

Linette Park
Contemporary Black Political Thought and the Modern World; Speaker on Afro-Pessimism
Department: African and African American Studies
Award Type: Classroom Enhancement

Danielle Poole
Attending Women Leaders in Global Health Conference in Kigali, Rwanda
Award Type: Conference
Pillar: Global Health & Gender

Remote data for characterizing the COVID-19 risk environment in humanitarian crises
Award Type: Research
Pillar: Global Health / Security / Human Development

David Plunkett
Foundations of Conceptual Ethics - Philosophy & Climate Change
Department: Philosophy
Award Type: Research
Pillar: Environment

Daryl Press
Geography, Maritime Power, and the Brewing Pacific Rivalry
Department: Government
Award Type: Research
Pillar: Security

Jeffrey Ruoff
Finding Telluride in the Film Festival Galaxy
Department: Film & Media Studies
Award Type: Conference

Leah Sarson  
Critical and Feminist Approaches to Research Design in International Relations
Department: Dickey Center            
Award Type: Conference     
Pillar: Gender / Security 
                  
Christina Seely
Markers of Time – Tropics
Department: Studio Art      
Award Type: Research
Pillar: Environment / Climate

Jonathan Smolin
Links between the Arab Spring and contemporary Arabic fiction in Egypt. 
Department: Asian and Middle Eastern Studies
Award Type: Research

Silvia Spitta
Creating a catalogue of the exhibition:  Performing Archives: Martin ChambiPhotography, 1920-2014
Department: Spanish          
Award Type: Research

James Stanford
Sociolinguistic Field Research of Language Contact in Rural China
Department: Linguistics                  
Award Type: Research
Pillar: Human Development Gender                                                                                             
Jenny Swanson
Collaboration with Professor Magdalene Odundo, Kenyan Artist (and Former Dartmouth Visiting Professor)
Department: Hopkins Center
Award Type: Conference
Pillar: Human Development

Spencer Topel
Research and Filming of New Installation: Border Languages
Department: Music
Award Type: Research

George Trumbull
Manuscript development: Land of Thirst and Fear
Department: History          
Award Type:  Research

Land of Thirst and Fear: A History of Water in the Sahara from Empire to Oil 
Department: History          
Award Type: Research
Pillar: Environment / Security

Dale Turner
Indigenous Philosophies & Impact Benefit Agreements
Department: Native American Studies / Government
Award Type: Research
Pillar: Human Development

Ben Valentino
International Early Warning Project
Department: Government   
Award Type: Research
Pillar: Security

Peter Wright
Community-based model designed to improve HIV positive patients' access and adherence to life sustaining antiretroviral therapy
Department: Geisel School of Medicine
Award Type: Research
Pillar: Global Health

*Note: In AY2015-2016, the Dickey Center added review criteria to better align awards with its main "pillars" of scholarly focus: security, human development, global health, environment and climate, and gender.