Faculty Fellowships and Research Grants

The Bhisé Center has provides annual fellowships to Adelphi faculty members, who lead the Bhisé Global Experience to India and teach a 360 seminar-style course on colonialism in the spring semester.

Research Grants and Course Development

Grants and funding for course development are aimed at increasing attention to issues of globalization, equity, colonialism and postcolonialism in South Asia and across the world.

Bhisé faculty research grants are awarded to seven recipients each year. Projects may focus on research, creative endeavors or new course development in any academic discipline. In addition, faculty members, with the approval of the other members of their unit (department or program), are invited to submit proposals for the development of BCGU-aligned undergraduate courses.

Faculty research grants for the 2024-2025 academic year went to:

• Damian Stanley, assistant professor of psychology
  Implicit bias in the justice system: A focus on gender and its intersection with race
• René Steinke, professor of english and director of the MFA Program in Creative Writing
  Research to support the writing of a novel with the life and work of Hilma af Klint (1862-1944) at its center
• Adelheid B. Strelick, associate professor of dance
  Research to support integration of Indian classical dance elements into dance choreography taught at Adelphi

Faculty research grants for the 2023-2024 academic year went to:

• Charles Baker, professor of accounting and law
  Examining Colonial Control through Chartered Accounting
• Tandra Chakraborty, professor and chair of the Department of Biology
  Investigation of Ayurvedic Medicine 
• Katie Laatikainen, professor of political science and international relations
  A Comparative Analysis of Indian Multilateralism: From Non-Alignment to Multipolarity
• David Pierce, assistant professor of art and art history
  Branding of Vietnam Fine Arts Museum (holder of colonial artifacts)
• Benjamin Serby, assistant professor in the Honors College
  Human Rights Violations During the U.S.-Vietnam War
• Monica Yang, professor and chair of the Department of Management
  Corporate Social Responsibility in Pre- and Post-Colonial India
• Kirsten Ziomek, associate professor of history
  Korean comfort women “fighters” in WWII in India