Lucia Antalova (Government) was awarded a grant to conduct research in Belgium, Hungary, Poland, and Slovakia. Her project “Developing a Typology of Community Norms” will explore the limits of the legitimacy stemming from the new democracies’ desire to “return to Europe.”

Jessica Bean (Economics) was awarded a grant to conduct research in the United Kingdom. Her project focuses on “Married Women’s Labor Force Participation in Late Victorian and Edwardian Britain: New Data from Old Censuses.”

Alima Bissenova (Anthropology) was awarded a grant to conduct research in Kazakhstan. Her project will examine the “Construction Boom in Kazakhstan” and its impact on socio-political processes as well as relations between the capital and the state.

Beth Bouloukos (Romance Studies) was awarded a grant to conduct research in Spain. Her project focuses on “Medieval and Early Modern Spanish Oneirocriticism: A Comparative Study of Relationships, Influences, and Sources” and seeks to link literary texts to visual manifestations of dreams and visions.

Katherine Groo (Comparative Literature) was awarded a grant to conduct research in France. Her project focuses on “Ethnographic Cinema in Early Twentieth-Century France.”

Richard Guy (Architecture) was awarded a grant to conduct research which will include assessing archival materials at The Hague in the Netherlands. His project “The Architecture of Empire in the Dutch Golden Age: Trade, Shipping and Society” will analyze the maritime architecture of the Dutch East India Company.

Jennifer Hadden (Government) was awarded a grant to conduct research in Belgium and Germany. Her project, “The Two Worlds of European Collective Action,” will explore the variety of European-level collective action that takes place within the present day European Union.

Marco Hauptmeier (ILR) was awarded a grant to conduct research in Germany. His project, “Collective Action Meets Markets – Labor-Management Negotiations in Multinational Companies in Germany, Spain and the U.S.,” studies how labor responds to economic pressures and employer strategies in collective negotiations with multinational companies.

Ellen Lockhart (Music) was awarded a grant to conduct research in Italy. Her project, “Melodrama in Europe 1770-1810,”will focus on the intersection of ideas of dance, gesture, visual art, and music of the Pygmalion fable in Italian settings.

Marie Muschalek (History) was awarded a grant to conduct archival research in France and Germany to examine how soldiers explained to themselves and to others their presence in the colonies. Her project title is “Fighting For What? Soldiers’ Experiences and Justifications in German Colonial Warfare 1880-1918.”

Malia Spofford (Romance Studies) was awarded a grant to conduct archival research of urban centers and their counterspaces in Spain. Her project, “Historian as Outlaw: López de Gomara and the Transoceanic Urban Subject,” will seek to investigate the dynamics of sovereign and outlaw in sixteenth century Spain and the Americas.

Sarah Thébaud (Sociology) was awarded a grant to conduct research in Luxembourg City. Her project examines “Welfare Production Regimes and Entrepreneurship: The Role of Policy in Explaining Gender Inequality in Venture Creation.”