Faculty Highlights

Dr. Joseph Dietrich, Assistant Professor of Political Sciences, was awarded a grant by Public Agenda, in partnership with Four Direction Native Vote, for his project MoVE (Measure of Voting Equity), a collaboration with Dr. Melissa Rogers of Claremont Graduate University. Through the grant, Drs. Dietrich and Rogers will “create a scoring system to quantify differences in electoral access across U.S. counties.”

Dr. Harjant S. Gill, Associate Professor of Sociology, was awarded the Antipode Foundation Grant for his work on surveillance, security and democracy in India. This grant will fund filmmaking for a “documentary to bridge the gaps between academic scholarship and public knowledge, to provide social justice-oriented educators and activists with resources for their work, and to foster critical thinking through creative expression.”

Dr. Alison McCartney, Professor of Political Science and Dean of the Honors College, was awarded a grant from the Tall-Wiedefeld Society in support of the Baltimore County Public School Model United Nations, a program that “brings the students together for an accessible and mutually beneficial civic engagement learning program.”

Dr. Alisha Reaves, Assistant Professor of Languages, Literatures and Cultures, was awarded the Spencer Grant from the Spencer Foundation for her research on second-language acquisition. Dr. Reaves’ research focuses on high-variability phonetic training (HVPT), which is used in language teaching to aid non-native speakers learn new sounds.

Dr. Zosha Stockey, Associate Professor of English, was awarded a Towson University Foundation grant in support of the Grantwriting in Valued Environment (G.I.V.E.) Project at TU. This project is committed to advancing “students’ professional writing goals by connecting their coursework to the writing needs of small, nonprofit organizations (NPOs) in the Baltimore region.”