Awards for 2008-2009:
Angela Castenada (Associate Professor of Sociology and Anthropology) Fall – "Doing Anthropology: Ethnographic Methods in Theory and Practice"

Pre-tenure leave to develop a new course in ethnographic methods and prepare a draft paper for journal submission.

Nancy Davis (Professor of Sociology and Anthropology) – "Sacralizing the Public Sphere: Religiously Orthodox Movements in the Modern World"

Full-year sabbatical leave to begin a book-length manuscript on the efforts to sacralize the public sphere by four religiously-orthodox
movements: the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt, Shas in Israel, Comunione e Liberazione in Italy, and The Salvation Army in the U.S.

Wayne Glausser (Professor of English) – "Alice, Blue Boy, Chromosomes, Doors: A Psychedelic Abecedarius"

Full-year sabbatical leave to complete a book of critical essays, broadly interdisciplinary in range, that address various topics related to the use of psychedelic drugs.

Carl Huffman (Professor of Classical Studies) – "Aristoxenus on the History of Greek Philosophy and the Biography of Greek Philosophers: Pythagoreanism, Pythagoras, Socrates and Plato"

Full-year sabbatical leave to write a book on the fourth-century B.C. Greek philosophy Aristoxenus as a historian of philosophy and biographer of philosophers.