Carleton College announces faculty development grants for 2025–26
Faculty development grants are split into three categories: term-long fellowship awards, targeted opportunity awards, and small grants.
On behalf of the Faculty Grants Committee, Provost and Vice President for Academic Affairs Michelle Mattson announced the following faculty development fellowship awards for 2025–26.
Term-long fellowship awards
- Kristin Bloomer, religion: Eugster and President’s Fellowships for her book project, Family Gods: Intimacy, Remembrance, and the Making and Re-making of Family in South India.
- Jorge Brioso, Spanish: Roth Fellowship for his work curating a new literary series focused on engaging living Cuban authors.
- Huan Gao, political science and international relations: Hewlett Mellon, President’s, and Class of ’49 Fellowships for her book manuscript, Spatial Power and State Control in Disaster-Stricken Cities, which investigates major disasters and post-disaster social changes.
- Jade Hoyer, art and art history: Eugster Fellowship for her project, Prairie Paper: Creating Artwork from Place, for which she will create artwork using handmade paper and pursue hands-on research making paper from harvested plants in the Cowling Arboretum.
- Laska Jimsen, cinema and media studies: Hewlett Mellon, Elledge, Smith, and Class of ’54 Fellowships for the creation of two short experimental films, Circles & Arrows; Matrices & Trees and I Can’t Be Alone, I Don’t Have Internet.
- Joseph Johnson, mathematics and statistics: Roth and President’s Fellowships for his work using tools from dynamical systems theory and agent-based modeling to model complex social systems.
- Claire Kelling, mathematics and statistics: Hewlett Mellon Fellowship for her project, Advancements in Spatial Statistics Methodology through Community-Based Research on Policing.
- Hector Melo Ruiz, Spanish: Hewlett Mellon and NEH/Smith-Kinney Fellowships for work on his book, Urban Rebellions: Narrating Latin American Popular Violence.
- Hope Sample, philosophy: Hewlett Mellon Fellowship for her research project, Evil and Matter in Conway’s Principles, an analysis of Conway’s novel ethical concept of matter, according to which it is a potential for achieving higher perfection.
- Sunrose Shrestha, mathematics and statistics: Hewlett Mellon Fellowship for his research project investigating the dynamics of triply periodic polyhedral surfaces.
Targeted opportunity awards
- Sarah Meerts and Eric Hoopfer, neuroscience: Support from the President’s Fellowship for focused research into the design of an interdisciplinary neuroscience major.
Small grants
- Shaohua Guo, Asian languages and literatures: Support from the Gilman Fund for expenses related to fieldwork in China for her book-length examination of Chinese digital culture.
- Jade Hoyer, art and art history: Support from the Helms Fund for travel related to papermaking research, artist residency, and an exhibition of work.
- Sarah Kennedy, archaeology and Latin American studies: Support from the Gilman Fund for travel as part of an archeological investigation of the initial Inca expansion into the plateau surrounding Lake Titicaca.