Carleton announces faculty development grants for 2026–27

On behalf of the Faculty Grants Committee, Provost and Vice President for Academic Affairs Michelle Mattson announced the following faculty development fellowship awards for 2026–27.

Term-long fellowship awards

• Ryan Dawkins, political science and international relations: Funding from the provost’s Hewlett Mellon endowment and Edward C. Congdon Endowment Fellowship for work on his project, Economizing Democracy: Local Political Economy, Privatized Service Delivery, and the Flattening of Local Democracy.
• Chumie Juni, religion: Funding from the provost’s Hewlett Mellon endowment to work on her book project, Halakhic Women: Gender and Ritual Conflict in American Orthodox Judaism.
• Sarah Kennedy, archaeology and Latin American studies: Funding from the provost’s Hewlett Mellon endowment and a Class of ’49 Fellowship to support her work on “Incan Expansion and Native Resistance in the Peruvian Altiplano.”
• Yaron Klein, Middle Eastern languages: Funding from the provost’s Hewlett Mellon endowment for his work on “Embedded Verses: Poetry in the 1,001 Nights, Its Functions and Interplay with Prose” and “Instruments of Meaning: Music in Classical Arabic Poetry, Philosophy, and Jurisprudence.”
• Wes Markofski, sociology and anthropology: Funding from the Eugster endowment to support his work on “Oil and Water: Indigenous and Interfaith Collaborations for Environmental Justice.”
• Andrea Mazzariello, music: Support for his work on “The Blessed Electric in Continuous Present” from the Eugster, NEH-Smith / Kinney, and President’s Hewlett Mellon endowments.
• Kaz Skubi ’11, chemistry: Funding from the provost’s Hewlett Mellon endowment for his work on “Controlling the Selectivity of Radical Reactions Enabled by Visible Light Photocatalysis.”
• Chie Tokuyama, Asian languages and literatures: Support for her work on “Beauty, Evolution, and the Politics of Aesthetic Pleasure in Modern Japanese Literature” from the provost’s Hewlett Mellon funding.
• Cheryl Yin, sociology and anthropology: Funding from the provost’s Hewlett Mellon endowment for “Language & Morality: Being Modern in Early 21^st-Century Cambodia.”

Targeted opportunity awards

• Summer Forester, political science and international relations: Support from the Roth and Hewlett Mellon funds to continue work to create a community of practice of scholars, women’s rights activists, and “femocrats” from across the Global South.
• Shaohua Guo, Asian languages and literatures: Funding from the Levin endowed fund to support her project, “Streaming China in Times of Precarity: Webcasts, Short Videos, and Creative Industry.”
• Hope Sample, philosophy: Support from the Elledge fund for her work on “Anne Conway: Everything is Good.”
• Cherlon Ussery, cognitive science and linguistics: Support from the Smith fund for her work on “Building Capacity at MMUF Liberal Arts Institutions.”

Small grants

• Jorge Brioso, Spanish: Funding for a research stay at the University of La Laguna.
• Eleanor Jensen ’01, art and art history: Support for the creation of her artist book, Regenerating Soil and Community with Female Farmers in Iowa.
• Silvia López, Spanish: Support for research travel to forward her project, “Sentiment of the Dialectic: Object and World in Roberto Schwarz and Paulo Arantes.”
• Matt Whited, chemistry: Funding for travel to Germany to collaborate with a colleague on new cooperative catalytic systems with earth-abundant metals.