Faculty members awarded Sam Taylor Fellowships

Good news and congratulations! SEVEN SMU faculty from Dedman College and Meadows School of the Arts have been awarded Sam Taylor Fellowships from the Sam Taylor Fellowship Fund of the Division of Higher Education, United Methodist General Board of Higher Education and Ministry. The Fund supports faculty development at United Methodist-related colleges and universities in Texas.

• Ben Johnson, History Department, for a book project on the American environmental reform movement at the turn of the twentieth century.
  
  
• Mark Kerins, Cinema-Television, Cinema-Television, for transcriptions of interview tapes with film industry professionals, relating to his book project on digital sound production in cinema.
  
  
• Nia Parson, Anthropology, for research in Chile on domestic violence and governmental systems under a government changing from dictatorship to democracy.
  
  
• Pamela Patton, Art History, to acquire photographs for publication in her book on visual imagery of the Christian-Jewish relationship in medieval Spain.
  
  
• Lisa Pon, Art History, for research in Rome on the fifteenth-century print Madonna of the Fire, as exemplar of relationships among locations, icons, and collective memory.
  
  
• Simon Sargon, Music, to compose a large-scale orchestral and choral requiem based on early Jewish and Christian texts.
  
  
• Gabriela Vokic, Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures, for research in Chile on structural position of speech sounds, with Spanish speakers acquiring English as a second language.