Faculty members receive international awards

By Shannon Vicic

Eighteen UI faculty members have received international research and program development awards in recent competitions overseen by the UI Office of International Programs and Studies.

Ten faculty members received a total of $35,000 in the annual William and Flora Hewlett Summer International Research Grant competition. The grants, provided in part by an endowment from the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, are awarded to regular, tenure-line faculty to provide support for international research projects.

Eight faculty members received a total of $8,000 in the semiannual Midwest Universities Consortium for International Activities (MUCIA) International Program Development Awards competition.

The MUCIA award is designed to support international travel for faculty and staff members, enabling them to work abroad on projects likely to result in institutional development or enhancement of international programs.

Winners of the William and Flora Hewlett grants for 1996:

• Amanda Anderson, professor of English, "Cosmopolitanism in Victorian Literature and Culture," $3,500.
  
  
• Merle L. Bowen, professor of political science, "Social and Environmental Change in Twentieth Century Mozambique," $3,500.
  
  
• Hiroko Yamashita Butler, professor of East Asian languages and cultures, "Effects of Surface Case Marking, Word- order, and Animacy on the Processing of a Verb-final Language," $3,500.
  
  
• John M. Cheeseman, professor of plant biology, "An Investigation of the Biological, Sociological and Economic Relations of Mangrove Ecosystems in Tanzania," $3,500.
  
  
• Peter Fritzsche, professor of history, "A History of Nostalgia, 1799-1999," $3,500.
  
  
• Poshek Fu, professor of history, "Framing China: Nation, Control, and the Ambiguity of Shanghai Cinema, 1937-1945," $3,500.
  
  
• Dianne Harris, professor of landscape architecture, "Lombardia Illuminata: The Formation of an Enlightenment Landscape in Eighteenth Century Lombardy," $3,500.
  
  
• Jacquetta Hill, professor of educational psychology, "Hill Tribe Children in Thai Schools," $3,500.
  
  
• Eric Hostetter, professor of art history, "Publication of Excavations on the Palatine Hill, Rome," $3,500.
  
  
• Mark D. Steinberg, professor of history, "Proletarian Imagination: Russian Worker-Writers and the Pursuit of the Cultural Self, 1910-1925," $3,500.

The 1996 winners of the MUCIA International Program Development Awards:

• Leigh S. Estabrook, dean and professor, Graduate School of Library and Information Science, to assess the need for and potential shape of an international school in library and information science education for central and Eastern Europe, $1,000.
  
  
• William G. Martin, professor of sociology, to develop an Internet network linking courses and students at the UI's Urbana-Champaign campus with the University of the Western Cape in South Africa, $1,000.
  
  
• Robert E. Nelson, professor and director, vocational and technical education, to initiate a doctorate program for university lecturers in Kenya, $1,000.
  
  
• Cynthia Radding, professor of history, to compare regions of Mexico and Bolivia from 1750 to 1900 on colonialism, ecology and culture; to develop linkages for scholarships and teaching with universities, research centers and non-governmental organizations, $1,000.
  
  
• John W. Santas, assistant dean, College of Agricultural, Consumer and Environmental Sciences, to place a study abroad program in Argentina on the menu of choices for students in the college, $1,000.
  
  
• Joseph W. Stucki, professor of natural resources and environmental science, to establish cooperative agreements on soil physical chemistry with Denmark, France, Great Britain, Greenland and Scotland, $1,000.
  
  
• Craig Tiley, head coach and co-director of tennis, intercollegiate athletics, to conduct teaching clinics to sports leaders, coaches and underprivileged children in South Africa using the university as a future resource, $1,000.
  
  
• Ronald M. Weigel, professor and chair of veterinary pathobiology, to develop collaborative programs in veterinary epidemiology and preventive medicine with the Free University of Berlin, $1,000.

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