Twenty-two faculty members from Stony Brook University’s College of Arts and Sciences and School of Marine and Atmospheric Sciences have been awarded grants through the President’s Distinguished Travel Grants program. The initiative supports faculty as they present their research and scholarship at conferences and events worldwide.
“I am pleased that these faculty will be able to share their research, scholarship, and art with their colleagues and peers,” said Carl W. Lejuez, Executive Vice President for Academic Affairs and Provost. “The conversations and connections at these conferences spark new lines of inquiry and strengthen the impact of discoveries, ideas, and understanding.”
The travel grants program has supported faculty in arts, humanities, and social sciences at Stony Brook University for over ten years.
“It’s always important that Stony Brook researchers connect and network frequently with a wide variety of publics, and the President’s Distinguished Travel Grants offer valuable support toward this goal,” said Janet Ward, Associate Provost for Arts, Humanities, and Social Sciences Initiatives.
Recipients include Izumi Ashizawa from the Department of Art who performed her interactive piece on invisibility at institutions in Iowa; Mohamad Ballan from History who presented projects on medieval Muslim-Christian relations in Spain and Germany; Isak Berbic from Art who discussed cultural memory through an exhibition on Yugoslavia in Canada; Simone Brioni from English who presented a photographic book about a 1974 massacre in Italy; Robert Chase from History who spoke about incarceration in America at a conference in Chicago; Robert Crease from Philosophy who contributed to a phenomenology meeting in Denmark; Jiwon Hwang from Asian Studies who researched Korean linguistics at Cornell University; Katherine Johnston from English who addressed AI’s influence on gender roles at a conference in The Netherlands; Robert Kaplan from Writing & Rhetoric who co-presented curriculum revisions nationally; Alan Kingsberg from Creative Writing who promoted SBU’s MFA programs at Series Fest in Denver; Fernando Loffredo from Hispanic Languages led seminars on art migration in Latin America with talks delivered in Peru.
Other awardees include Anna Melnikova (Linguistics) presenting innovative Russian language pedagogy in Chicago; Nobuho Nagasawa (Art) blending traditional weaving with technology at a Seoul conference; Douglas Pfeiffer (English) receiving an international prize for his work on author biographies in France; Lauren Richmond (Psychology) discussing cognitive offloading for older adults at an APA meeting in Denver; Tara Rider (Marine Sciences) presenting environmental history teaching methods in New Zealand.
Additional recipients are Jeffrey Santa Ana (English), James Austin Smith (Music), K. Tan (English), Javier Uriarte (Hispanic Languages), Yi Wang (Asian Studies), and Jennifer Young (Writing & Rhetoric), each sharing expertise across topics such as environmental literature, lost contemporary music performance, queer identity studies among Sinophone communities, Indigenous Amazonian culture aesthetics, social justice pedagogy for Chinese language educators, and college composition teaching methods.
These awards aim to enhance academic collaboration by enabling faculty to engage with global scholarly communities.