1999-2000 Graduate Travel Awardees

Mark Aune, English: "The Use of Shakespeare: Al Pacino, Looking for Richard and the Cultural Capital of Shakespeare on Film"

Samantha Blackmon, English: "Virtual 'Reality'; Or, the Present Absence of African American Students in the Computerized Realm"

Li-Mei Chen, Communication: "The Death of a Hero - Postcolonial Anxiety and Body Politics in Yingxiong Pian"

Zhen Chen, Philosophy: "What Does the Agent Have Most Reason to Do When Morality and Prudence Conflict?"

Barbara Schneider Dickson, English: "Technologies of Production: Rhetorics of Pregnancy"

Jennifer Dierickx, Sociology: "The Descent from Fireside Chats to CNN: Hyper-bole in Media Reporting"

Rebekah Farrugia, Communication: "Spice Persuasion: A Rhetorical Analysis of the Spice Girls"

Jeannette Kindred, Communication: "Teaching to the Adult Learner"

Valerie Kinloch, English: "Do You Live Here? Moving Beyond the Practices of the Ivory Tower Writing Classroom"

Marshall Kitchens, English: "Surfing the City: Literacy and the Post-urban Cyberscape"

Christian Kriepke, Anthropology: "Losing and Finding the 'Good' in Caregiving: Situating the Transcendent Among African Americans' Rationales for Caregiving to Persons With HIV"

Michael LaCroix, Music: "Potens Nuntius"

Parvinder Mehta, English: "(Re)membering and (Re)covering the Fragmented Self: Meena Alexander and the Immigrant Experience"

Richard Ness, Communication: "Persona non grata: The Missing Woman in Bergman's Film (or, Why the Lady Vanishes)"

Juliane Newmark, English: "Parallel Travel and Canonical Inquiry: D. H. Lawrence's The Plumed Serpent"

Diane Pawlowski, Anthropology: "Conflict, Moral Dilemmas, and Lessons Learned by Staff Working With Victims of Violence in an Urban Medical Rehabilitation Hospital"

Richard Pineda, Communication: "American Me? Questioning Male Minority Identity in College Debates over Civil Rights" & "The Body Politic: Jesse Ventura and the Drama of Third Party Rhetoric"

Christopher Salinas, Communication: "A Paradoxical View of the Religious Right"

Julie Towell, English: "Transforming Power: Mis-Interpretation of Female Figures in Beowulf and Judith"

Derrick Willis, Medical Anthropology: "Male Caregivers and HIV: The African-American Experience"

Jane Yamazaki, Communication: "Hakoiri Musume (Daughters in a Box): The 1883 Speech of Kishida Toshiko"