Summer Grants

The Office of the Provost and Academic Affairs is pleased to support a competitive summer grants program for Stetson's tenured and tenure-track faculty.

Projects supported by a summer grant must contribute to the University's mission of teaching, research, and artistic development. Summer grant funds are not normally awarded for course development unless the project has an application beyond the classroom, as, for example, an article on pedagogy. Summer grants are intended to support activities carried out in the summer months (May-August) immediately following the award.

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2025 Summer Grants

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Summer Grants Recipients

  • 2025 Summer Grant Award Recipients

    • Chesya Burke, From Poe to Peele: A Survey of U.S. Horror Through the Lens of Racial Relations
    • William Chavez, Pillars of Cathsploitation: Exorcism and Satanism in Folklore and Media
    • Sepideh Dadkhah, Analysis of variance in gene expression in Drosophila melanogaster testis
    • Carol Dee, Do Investors Perceive Improvements in Fair Value Accounting for Investment Assets after Public Company Accounting Oversight Board (PCAOB) Inspections?
    • Candido Diaz, Comparative Natural History and 3D Kinematics of Floridian Bolas Spiders
    • Kristine Dye, The mechanism of Merkel Cell Polyomavirus small tumor antigen nuclear localization on cellular transformation and the development of Merkel Cell Carcinoma
    • Mayhill Fowler, Theater Women: Place and Performance in 20th century Ukraine: (Almost) Finishing the Book
    • Sarah Garcia-Beaulieu, Modulation Matters: A Direct Comparison Between Three Types of Transcranial Electrical Stimulation
    • Sean Kennard, World Premiere Video Recording of Sheridan Seyfried's Sonata for Piano
    • Eric Kurlander, Austrian “Solutions” to the Nazi “Jewish Question”? The Anschluss, the Jewish Community of Vienna, and the Central Office of Jewish Emigration, 1938–1939
    • Meghan McGreal, Computational Modification of the Structure of the UndA Fatty Acid Decarboxylase Enzyme Inspired by the Membrane Bound UndB Fatty Acid Decarboxylase
    • Khushbu Mishra, Mother’s education and child marriage among girls – evidence from India
    • Nathan Munson, Research and Recording of Jewish and Hebrew Art Songs
    • Sean Newman, Developing and testing the earning employee loyalty scale
    • Karl Ng, Reactive Ethnicity or Mainstream Assimilation? A Longitudinal Approach to the Intergenerational Transmission of Gender and Sexual Identity
    • Erin Nickell, Professional Skepticism – Conceptualizations, Measures, Antecedents, and Consequences (Book Chapter for Academic Use)
    • Kelly Smith, Federalism and Feedback: How Diffusing Policies Affect Politics Across the U.S. States
    • Ben Tanner, Carbon Storage in an Old Growth Hemlock and White Pine Forest in Maine, USA
    • Kevin Taylor, The Role of Positive Affect on Trust Building in LinkedIn Profiles
    • Amanda Waterhouse, Designing Development: Colombian Architecture & Cold War Orders
    • Petros Xanthopoulos, Detecting Artificial Intelligence (AI)-assisted plagiarism through text pattern matching

  • 2024 Summer Grant Award Recipients

    • Carol Azab, When should service companies maintain or eliminate 3rd party/outsourced services?
    • Cheysa Burke, From Poe to Peele: A Survey of US Horror Through the Lens of Racial Relations
    • Corie Charpentier, Are mangrove tree crabs in rhythm with their habitat?
    • Sarah Cramer, An exploratory study of school food experiences in Austria
    • Roslyn Crowder, Examining hypoxia-mediated changes in caspase-8 expression in human cancer cells
    • Michael Eskenzani, Name Norms: The Age, Sex, and Sexuality of 490 First Names
    • Mayhill Fowler, Theater Women: Place and Performance in the 20th century Ukraine
    • Alwin Franke, Media Ecologies and Experimental Forums in German Art & Literature
    • Melissa Gibbs, Reproductive Patterns of the Mosquitofish Gambusia holbrooki
    • Mathew Imes, The Paradox of Investment
    • Christopher Jimenez, Asian-American Ecocriticism :The Cultural Acoustics of Climate Fiction
    • Asal Johnson, Cancer Outcomes in Historically Redlined Neighborhoods in Florida
    • Sean Kennard, CD Recording with Trio Barclay
    • Hannah Markley, Morbid Cravings: Appetite and Medicine in 19th Century Literature
    • Meghan McGreal, Computational Elucidation of the Structure and Function of the UndA Fatty Acid Decarboxylase Enzyme and the impact of biomimetic inspired Active Site Modifications
    • Mary Oslick & Melissa Parks, Uncovering Teachable Moments: Using AI-generated pre-service teachers’ pedagogical thinking
    • Yeon Park, Boon or Bane? Domestic Attitude toward Capital-Owing Immigrants
    • Alison Parks, Beyond Pathology: Specters of Suicidality in the Queer Community
    • Elizabeth Plantan, Authoritarian Politics and INGO Adaptation in China and Russia
    • Scott Semenyna, Female Sexual Orientation: Categories, Correlates and Controversies
    • Matt Shannon, Measurement of Long-Range Distances on N15-labeled Paramagnetic Proteins for Structure Elucidation
    • Carol Shields, Methodological Considerations for Effective Peripheral Nerve Stimulation
    • Jessica West, Social Networks and Discretionary Accruals
    • Aaron Witek, Developing Comprehensive Interactive Trumpet Recital
    • Shan Yan, Corporate Social Responsibility and Firm Labor Compensation

  • 2023 Summer Grant Award Recipients

    • Raisa Ankeny, Florida Language Policy
    • Karen Coker-Merritt, Linguistic Study of Occitan for English-Occitan Song Performance Guide
    • Rachel Core, Balancing health, sustainability and profit in an Asian food market
    • Kristine Dye, The role of MCPyV ST in tumor development 
    • Michael Eskenazi, Processing singular they/them during reading
    • Terry Farell, The impact of the invasive cane toad (Rhinella marina) on Florida parasites
    • Alwin Franke, Reading Marx globally
    • Matthew Imes, The impact of off-balance sheet financing on stock returns
    • Asal Johnson, Neighborhood attributes, gender, race/ethnicity and death due to Bladder Cancer in Florida for different insured groups 
    • Michael King, Taste reactivity responses to sodium carbonate in normal and sodium-depleted rats
    • Camille King, Taste reactivity responses to sodium carbonate in normal and sodium-depleted rats
    • Eric Kurlander, A global history of the Nazi "Jewish Question", 1919-1941: Chapters 3, 7, and 9
    • Hannah Markley, Morbid cravings: medicalizing appetite in nineteenth-century literature
    • Luca Molnar, Work on a series of monochromatic paintings that use color as a framework to explore the intersections of history, personal experience, and identity
    • Erin Nickell, An Examination of and Enhanced Defense Strategy for Combatting the Effect of Auditor Partner Characteristics on Auditor Liability 
    • Carmen Palmer, More than Men: Female Gentile converts to Judaism within the Dead Sea Scrolls
    • Yohann Ripert, Sustainable independence: Lyndon B. Johnson's first African policy
    • Kelly Smith, Policy learning in state legislative offices: who? What? How?
    • Jean Smith, Uncovering protein-protein interactions required for cell fusion
    • Kevin Taylor, Agency and communion in early-stage fundraising: A computer-aided text analysis
    • Chaz Underriner, Creating a Web Map of William Bartran’s Travels in Florida
    • Jessica West, Cash flows vs. accruals--a deeper look
    • Aaron Witek, Writing the book Practical Transposition
    • Kirsten Work, Dragonfly and damselfly communities in close and disparate ponds in Ocala National Forest
    • Shan Yan, Corporate social responsibility and corporate financial report complexity
    • John York, Investigating Phthalazine and its derivatives as potential Photocatalysts for chemical reactions

  • 2022 Summer Grant Award Recipients

    • Tony Abbott, Creating a Web Map of William Bartran’s Travels in Florida
    • Robert Askew, Validation and Replication for Textual Scholarship: Cluster Analyses of Variation in Extant Copies of the Elizabethan Sonnet Sequence Astrophil and Stella
    • Nicole Banton, Why We Choose
    • Teresa Carmody, Body, Archive, Essay;
    • Su Young Choi, Should I Post as an Activist or an Influencer?
    • Rachel Core, Respiratory Disease and Social Change in China
    • Sarah Cramer, Cultivating experiential learning and food democracy in carceral spaces
    • Joel Davis, Validation and Replication for Textual Scholarship: Cluster Analyses of Variation in Extant Copies of the Elizabethan Sonnet Sequence Astrophil and Stella
    • Kristine Dye, Elucidating the mechanisms of cellular transformation and tumorigenesis by MCPyV ST necessary for the development of Merkel cell carcinoma
    • Mayhill Fowler, Comrade Actress: Soviet Ukrainian Women on the Stage and Behind the Scenes
    • Tandy Grubbs, Modified-Lorenz computational simulations to assess the severity of atmospheric climate fluctuations within a warming planet
    • Sean Kennard, Video Recording of Beethoven’s ‘Pathetique’ Sonata and Chopin’s ‘Heroic’ Polonaise
    • Eric Kurlander, A Global History of the Nazi “Jewish Question”: Three Territorial “Solutions” and the Role of Great Britain
    • Alexander Martin, Toward a New Approach to Text-Music Relationships in Song
    • Michael McFarland, Discourse Strategies in Sudden Change Rhetoric: Argument and Invention in Evangelical Preaching
    • Kushbu Mishra, Impact of mother's employment on children's nutrition: evidence from Nepal
    • Luca Molnar, The Tragedy of Men
    • Hunter Murphy, Analyzing the Correlation between Pedagogy and Outreach in the Academic Library
    • Erin Nickell, More Than Just a Name: The Impact of a Star-Quality Rating System for Audit Partners on Investor Decision Making
    • Elizabeth Plantan, State-Society Relations under Authoritarianism
    • Yohan Ripert, Sustainable Independence: Rewriting African Freedom with Eloquence and Diplomacy, 1956-1977
    • Joshua Rust, Enactivist Social Ontology
    • Amy Smith, Mapping Children’s Conceptions of Duration as an Attribute of their Lived Experiences: A Comparative Case Study

  • 2021 Summer Grant Award Recipients

    • Tony Abbott, Creating a Geodatabase of William Bartram’s Travels in Florida
    • Raisa Ankeny, Building ESOL Networks (Project BEN) as pathways of change: Innovative Professional Development for Teachers of ELs and Teacher Candidates
    • Carol Azab, YOU SAY BLACK LIVES MATTER- Do service providers walk the talk?- Examining racial discrimination bias in service recovery
    • Chesya BurkeIn Service to the White Creator: The Black Maid Archetype in Ann Petry’s The Street and Kathyrn Stockett’s The Help
    • Teresa Carmody, Raptured
    • Corie Charpentier, The impact of light pollution on coastal larvae
    • Jamie Clark, Hear Her Voice
    • Michael Eskenazi, How Much Do Readers Know About Their Eye Movement Behavior?
    • Giovanni Fernandez, Liquidity Needs, Emergency Funds, and Tax-Efficient Withdrawal Rates
    • Mayhill Fowler, War Stories: Theater on the Frontlines of Socialism
    • Matthew Imes, Determinants of Female Board Director Power
    • Asal Johnson, Epidemiology of COVID-19 in Florida Communities and Counties in Florida, 2020-2021
    • Sean Kennard, Video Recording of Chopin’s 24 Preludes
    • Stuart Michelson  Individual Financial Literacy and Financial Planning
    • Khushbu Mishra, Do Remittances Reshape Household Expenditures? Evidence from Nepal
    • Nicole Mottier, Threat Multiplier: War, Foodways and Agroecology in Modern Mexico
    • Mary Ellen Oslick, Building ESOL Networks (Project BEN) as pathways of change: Innovative Professional Development for Teachers of ELs and Teacher Candidates
    • Joshua Rust, Kurt Lewin’s notion of biological gen-identity: what makes a caterpillar and a butterfly stages of the same organism?
    • Matthew Shannon, Characterization of Atomic Level Interactions Between Proteins and Small Molecules Probed by Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (NMR) Spectroscopic Methods
    • Paul Sibbald, Study of Organic Chemical Reaction Mechanisms Using Computational Methods
    • Kelly Smith  Public Health Retrenchment: Vaccine Exemption Laws in the US States
    • Peter Smucker, Appalachian Folk Music, the Supernatural, and Social Encounters in Kentucky Route Zero
    • Kevin Taylor, The effects of deal complexity on entrepreneur sentiment during early-stage fundraising
    • Chaz Underriner, Moving
    • Joseph Woodside, Global Supply Chain Digitization and Innovation in the COVID-19 Era

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  • 2014 Summer Grant Award Recipients