CURRENTLY FUNDED BALDY CENTER RESEARCH 2007-2008

Annual Research Grants

Thomas Burkman (Asian Studies Program) History and Memory: Redress, Mediation, and Forgiveness as Means to Reconciliation among Japan, China, and Korea 

Rebecca French (Law) The Golden Dispersion: Tibetan Law in the Diaspora

Johnson, Lauri (Educational Leadership and Policy) “Something Better for our Children”: A Comparative Study of the Lives of Educational Activists and their Fight for Equitable Schooling in New York City, Toronto, and London, 1968-2008

Charles Lamb (Political Science) Fair Housing in the Twentieth Century

Teresa Miller (Law) African American Woman Incarcerated

Athena Mutua (Law) Pardons as a Tool of Restorative Justice: The Kansas Nine, Black Power on Trial

Carl Nightingale (American Studies) Property Rights, Property Values, Racial Segregation, and the Origins of a Transnational Housing Market

 

Small Research Grants

Markus Dubber (Law) The Police Power Reconsidered: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Modern Governance

Joshua Dyck (Political Science) The Political Geography of Direct Democracy

Joshua Dyck (Political Science) Political Distrust and the Conservative Movement at the Ballot Box

Bruce Jackson (English & American Studies) Old State House Museum Cummins Prison Farm Exhibit

Martha McCluskey (Law) Critical Analysis of Economic Inequality

Robert Wagmiller (Sociology) and Robert Adelman (Sociology) Early Life Residential Experiences and Neighborhood Attainment in Later Life

Lois Weis (Educational Leadership & Policy) The Way Class Works