Recipients Awarded for Summer 2022
The 3rd Annual IWL Interdisciplinary Summer Grant Program award winners include five research grants and one project grant:
Exploring Women-Centered Refugee Resettlement
Principal Investigator: Louise Cainkar, PhD, Social & Cultural Sciences
Gender, Power, and Culture in the Face of "Getting Old": An Ethnographic Study in a Continuing Care Retirement Community
Principal Investigator: Alexandra Crampton, PhD, Social & Cultural Sciences
Examining the Experiences of American Mothers and Their Families During the COVID-19 Pandemic
Principal Investigator: Astrida Kaugars, PhD, Psychology
Uncovering Sex Differences in Pain and Stress in Hispanic Adult Long-COVID Survivors
PI Team: Linda Piacentine, PhD, Nursing; Paula Papanek, PhD, Exercise Science, Physical Therapy; and Marie Hoeger Bement, PhD, Physical Therapy
Diffraction
PI Team: Kris Holodak, MFA, Digital Media; and Debra Krajec, MFA, Performing Arts
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Recipients Awarded for Summer 2021
The 2nd Annual IWL Interdisciplinary Summer Grant Program award winners include four research grants and one project grant:
Sex Differences in the Persistent Effects of COVID-19
PI Team: Dr. Sandra Hunter, Dr. Linda Piacentine, Dr. Marie Hoeger Bement, and Dr. Paula Papanek
The overarching goal of this research is to determine the long-term effects of COVID-19 on physical and psychological function across different population demographics including sex, age, race, and ethnicity.
Decolonizing the Archives: Ynéz Mexía’s Herbaria Digital Platform
PI Team: Dr. Michelle Medeiros and Dr. Henry Medeiros, with Dr. Denise Coutinho Endringer from Vila Velha University-Brazil
The purpose of "Decolonizing the Archives" is to analyze collecting expeditions to South America by the Mexican American botanist Ynéz Mexía (1870-1938).
An Early Index of Risk for Alzheimer’s Disease in Women: Advanced EEG Analysis of Complex Sensorimotor Functioning
PI Team: Dr. Kristy Nielson, Dr. Leigh Ann Mrotek, Dr. Robert Scheidt, and Dr. Scott Beardsley
The purpose of this research is to characterize sex differences in behavioral performance and in functional frontal-cerebellar activation and connectivity using advanced EEG techniques.
The Persephone Project: Advocate. Amplify. Adore.
Principal Investigator: Dr. Melissa Shew
The Persephone Project’s mission is grounded in the belief that all young people are “thinkerly” creatures filled with intellectual curiosity about themselves, the world, and each other. Yet, women, girls, and those who identify as gender nonconforming have been widely excluded from the history of intellectual life and are still excluded today. The Persephone Project aims to help remedy that situation.
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Pilot IWL Interdisciplinary Grant Program
The Institute for Women’s Leadership (IWL) launched its Pilot Interdisciplinary Summer Grant Program in 2020. This research grant program seeks to foster interdisciplinary research collaborations across the university that further the campus community’s understanding of gender and sex across intersecting disciplines. IWL's pilot grant program funded 6 interdisciplinary research projects aimed at advancing understanding of gender and which had the potential for extramural funding.
The IWL Pilot Interdisciplinary Summer Grant Program supports projects involving collaborators from two or more disciplinary backgrounds or traditions. Projects may be directed toward:
- The gathering of primary data,
- The application of innovative approaches and analyses to provide novel insights from existing data, and/or
- Creative endeavors that stimulate or strengthen competitive extramural grant applications.
Recipients Awarded for Summer 2020
The Inaugural IWL Interdisciplinary Summer Grant Program award winners supported six research projects:
Black Women’s Lives: An Interdisciplinary and Multimethod Exploration of Identity and Strength within Intersectionality
PI Team: Dr. Ed de St. Aubin, Psychology; Dr. Karen Robinson, Nursing & Associate Director of Marquette’s Nurse-Midwifery Program

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The Genuine Farmer: The State, Gender and the Dynamics of Agricultural Change in Southeastern Nigeria, 1900-1960
Principal Investigator: Dr. Chima Korieh, History

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The Effect of Mindful Prayers on First-Generation Immigrant/Refugee Muslim Women’s Wellness: A Mixed Methods Research
PI Team: Dr. Enaya Othman, Arabic Studies; Dr. Lee Za Ong, Counselor Education and Counseling Psychology; Dr. Karisse A. Callender, Counselor Education and Counseling Psychology

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The Sexual Education of Catholic Young Women: An Ethnographic Study of the Gender Messages in Catholic Sexual Pedagogy
Principal Investigator: Dr. Karen Ross, Theology (Visiting Assistant Professor)

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Global Voices from the Woman’s Building Library, Chicago, 1893: A Case Book in Close and Distant Reading
Principal Investigator: Dr. Sarah Wadsworth, English Studies

Dr. Wadsworth
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