"I believe in women,
         especially thinking women."
-Emmeline B. Wells

Previous Faculty Research Grant Recipients

2009 Recipients

A Test of "Tend and Befriend" versus "Fight or Fligh": The Rolw of Oxitocin in Response to Stress
Julianne Holt-Lunstad, PhD
Psychology
Women and Families in a Spanish Village in the 1700s
George R. Ryskamp, JD
History
Women of Consequence in the Dutch Golden Age
Martha Moffitt Peacock, PhD
Visual Arts

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2008 Recipients

Molecular Mechanisms of Selective Estrogen Receptor Modulation in Women’s Health and Endocrine-Related Diseases
Chin-Yo Lin, PhD
Microbiology and Molecular Biology

The Impact of High School Sports on Female Outcomes
Joseph Price, PhD
Economics

Women, Status, and the Ethnographic
Textiles of Syria

Cynthia Finlayson, PhD
Visual Arts/Art History

Mormon Sisters at the World’s Congress of Representative Women
Reid Neilson, PhD
Church History

The WomanStats Project
Valerie Hudson, PhD
Political Science

Development and Validation of Domestic Violence Myths Scale
Niwako Yamawaki, PhD
Psychology

 

Religion and Women’s Emancipation in the Short Fiction of Xu Dishan
Steven L. Riep, PhD
Asian and Near Eastern Studies

The Divine Feminine
David L. Paulsen, PhD
Philosophy

 

 

 

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2007 Recipients

Sophie Critical Edition Series: Elisa von der Recke
Michelle Stott James, PhD
Germanic and Slavic Languages

Love Songs
Pamela Musil, MA
Dance

The Effects of Ambivalent Sexism on College Students’ Teacher Evaluation
Niwako Yamawaki, PhD
Psychology

The Pivot of Nations: Establishing New Ways to Explore How Variations in Women’s Status Affect State Behavior and Security
Valerie Hudson, PhD
Political Science

Learner-Centered Teaching as an Education Strategy in Mali
Yodit Solomon, MA
Women’s Research Institute

Women’s Lives in a Spanish Village in the 1700s
George R. Ryskamp, JD
Family History and Genealogy

Local Ladies, Local Worthies
J. Michael Farmer, PhD
History

 

 

 

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2006 Recipients

Setting the Stage: Minerva Teichert’s Pageants in Paint Exhibition and Catalogue
Marian Wardle, PhD
Museum of Art

Determinants and Consequences of Disclosure of HIV Serostatus: Implications for HIV/AIDS Prevention
Kirk Dearden, PhD
Health Science

Gender Differences in Stress, Coping, and Life Experiences: Siblings of Children with Diabetes, Down Syndrome, and Autism
Barbara Mandleco, PhD
Nursing

The Pivot of Nations
Valerie Hudson, PhD
Political Science
Chad Emmett, PhD
Geography

Gender and Boundaries in the Early Modern Mediterranean
Eric Dursteler, PhD
History

Factors that Influence Health Practices Among Immigrant Hispanic Women
Ana Birkhead
Nursing

Preserving Women’s History
John Murphy, MA MLIS
Connie Lamb, MA

Harold B. Lee Library

 

 

 

 

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2005 Recipients

The Great ‘Escape’ from Biology
Shauna Anderson, PhD
Biology

A Qualitative Study of the Supports Women Find Most Beneficial when Dealing with a Spouse’s Sexually Addictive and Compulsive Behaviors
Wendy Watson, PhD
Marriage and Family Therapy

Gender and Boundaries in the Early Modern Mediterranean
Eric Dursteler, PhD
History

The Geography and Politics of Gender Civilizations
Valerie Hudson, PhD
Political Science
Chad Emmett, PhD
Geography

Portraitistes á la Plume: Women Art Critics in Revolutionary and Napoleonic France
Heather Jensen, PhD
Visual Arts

Validation of the Symptoms of Eating Disorders Scale
Diane Spangler, PhD
Clinical Psychology

Understanding Diabetes Management Among Women in Utah: A Study in Positive Deviance
Rosemary Thackeray, PhD
Health Science

 

 

 

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2004 Recipients

Microcredit from the Borrower’s Perspective
Kristie Seawright, PhD
Business Management

Women of Palmyra
Cynthia Finlayson, PhD
Visual Arts

 

Sophie: A Digital Library of Works by Early German-Speaking Women, 1740-1927
Michelle Stott James, PhD
Germanic and Slavic Languages

The Impact of Women in the U.S. Congress: A Look at Legislative Productivity, Priorities, and Passage
Kimberlee Holland, PhD
Sociology

Dance and Gender: Women as Initiator and Responder
Rebecca Phillips, MFA

Women in Mali
Yodit Solomon, MA
Women’s Research Institut

Rethinking the Clash of Civilization
Valerie Hudson, PhD
Political Science

 

 

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2003 Recipients

LDS Women’s History Summer Fellowship Program
Jill Mulvey Derr, PhD
Smith Institute for LDS History

Gender and Boundaries in the Early Modern Mediterranean
Eric Dursteler, PhD
History

Women in China’s Period of Disunion, AD 220-618
J. Michael Farmer, PhD
History

Nettie Lee Benson: Historian and Librarian
Mark L. Grover, PhD
Harold b. Lee Library

Guide to Women’s Manuscript Collections in the L. Tom Perry Special Collections
Connie Lamb, MA
Harold B. Lee Library

The Intrigue of the Domestic
Martha Peacock, PhD
Visual Arts

The Feasibility of Intra-family Adoptions in the Marshall Islands
Jini L. Roby, JD
Social Work

The Women Art Students of Robert Henri
Marian Wardle, PhD
Visual Arts