Riya V. Anandwala | Feb. 5, 2009
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| Photo by Riya V. Anandwala |
| Professor Shannon Martin is one of four OVPR grant recipients. |
Professor Shannon Martin, associate professor Steve Raymer and assistant professors Emily Metzgar and Mike Conway received grants at the end of the year.
OVPR awards two types of grants to Bloomington faculty. Grants-in-Aid for research include $2,500 to be used to support research, start new research or support current research that has hit a critical point. Summer Faculty Fellowships of $8,000 are designed to enable faculty to work fulltime on research or other scholarly work in summer.
Associate Dean for Graduate Studies and Research Amy Reynolds said that while faculty have applied for these OVPR grants many times over the years, this is the first time that all applicants received grants.
"These grants are campus-wide, but competitive," said Reynolds. "They make a big difference to faculty.”
Here’s how the recipients say they’ll use their grants:
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| Photo by Riya V. Anandwala |
| Associate professor Steve Raymer will spend the summer in India working on his latest photographic project. |
With his Summer Faculty Fellowship, associate professor Steve Raymer will travel this summer in India, location for his latest photographic book and exhibition about Calcutta, today called Kolkata, the capital of Indian state West Bengal.
Raymer’s project, "Redeeming Calcutta," already is underway. He plans to complete the research, reporting and photography for his book and accompanying exhibition during the fall and winter of 2009, when he has an Indiana University sabbatical. The grant will be used to support his three months of fieldwork, editing and printing.
Shannon Martin
Professor Shannon Martin will use her Summer Faculty Fellowship to continue her work on a research project on James Russell Wiggins, former U.S. ambassador to the United Nations during the Johnson administration. Martin said to date, no compilation exists that provides such a retrospective of Wiggin’s many activities and his larger contributions, including his rich journalism career.
Her research will involve preparing an historical account of how the journalism community talked within its membership and then communicated with congressional members to launch a number of citizen-centered initiatives.
Emily Metzgar
Assistant professor Emily Metzgar’s Grant-in-Aid will help her continue her research project focused on citizen journalism. This research is based on the development of a working model of citizen journalism as practiced today in the United States.
Collaborating with a colleague from Louisiana State University, Metzgar is conducting in-depth interviews with people associated with six different citizen journalism operations in the country. Metzgar began the project a year ago while a doctoral candidate at LSU.
"I will mainly use this grant to support traveling for my research," she said.
Mike Conway
Assistant professor Mike Conway also received a Grant-in-Aid, which he will use to complete his book on how television news began in the United States.
"As of now, the book is titled The Visualizers: The Origins of TV News in America," he said. “The money will be used for the production costs. I am happy to have received this, as such grants help faculty in conducting our research projects."
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| Photo by Riya V. Anandwala | Photo by Riya V. Anandwala |
| Assistant professor Mike Conway will use his grant to work on a book about the origins of television news. | Assistant professor Emily Metzgar’s grant will help fund her ongoing research project on citizen journalists. |
