22 School Awarded President’s Distinguished Travel Grants

Twenty-two school from Stony Brook University’s College of Arts and Sciences and School of Marine and Atmospheric Sciences acquired grants from the President’s Distinguished Travel Grants program to help them in sharing their analysis and scholarship at conferences and occasions around the globe.

“I am pleased that these faculty will be able to share their research, scholarship, and art with their colleagues and peers,” stated Carl W. Lejuez, Executive Vice President for Academic Affairs and Provost. “The conversations and connections at these conferences spark new lines of inquiry and strengthen the impact of discoveries, ideas, and understanding.”

For greater than a decade the journey grants program has been a part of ongoing efforts to help school in arts, humanities, and social science fields at Stony Brook University.

“It’s always important that Stony Brook researchers connect and network frequently with a wide variety of publics, and the President’s Distinguished Travel Grants offer valuable support toward this goal,” stated Janet Ward, Associate Provost for Arts, Humanities, and Social Sciences Initiatives.

The following school acquired grants to help their analysis and scholarship.

Izumi Ashizawa
Associate Professor, Department of Art, College of Arts and Sciences (CAS)
Ashizawa traveled to the University of Northern Iowa and Coe College to carry out the present evolution of her three-part piece of efficiency artwork, “Kurogo Me version 1.x + Kurogo me, Together! + Commodify Me!” This interactive efficiency piece spurs a dialog about invisibility in a number of views.

Mohamad Ballan
Assistant Professor, Department of History, CAS
Ballan traveled to conferences in Madrid, Spain, and Bonn, Germany, to current two ongoing tasks and strengthen his ties to worldwide collaborators. As a scholar of the medieval Mediterranean, Ballan’s two tasks discover Muslim-Christian relations through the Second Crusade within the twelfth century, and an examination of ideological implications of family tree and kingship from the Nasrid-Castilian borderlands in 14th-century Spain.

Isak Berbic
Associate Professor, Department of Art, CAS
Berbic traveled to the University of Waterloo in Canada to take part in a convention that introduced collectively students in cultural historical past, idea, movie research, and visible arts. He introduced analysis on “Jugoslovenska Dokumenta,” an artwork exhibition organized shortly earlier than the breakup of Yugoslavia, inspecting it as a website of reminiscence and a mirrored image of broader cultural and social transformations.

Simone Brioni
Professor, Department of English, CAS
Brioni traveled to Italy to current the photographic guide he curated, “Crazy Fish Sing,” a piece of visible storytelling reflecting on a 1974 new-fascist bloodbath in Italy. Paired with a movie chronicling the lives of the bombing’s victims, the guide grew to become a catalyst for broader conversations in regards to the tragedy’s legacy and place in collective reminiscence. During his go to, Brioni additionally entered discussions to develop the mission right into a full-scale exhibition.

Robert Chase
Associate Professor, Department of History, CAS
Chase traveled to Chicago to take part in a panel in regards to the state of incarceration on the annual assembly of the Organization of American Historians. Chase mentioned his award-winning 2020 guide, “We Are Not Slaves: State Violence, Coerced Labor, and Prisoners’ Rights in America,” and gave a preview of his present guide mission, “Sheriffs and Carceral States of America: Right-Wing Law Enforcement, Anti-Insurgent Policing, the Posse Comitatus Movement, and American Democracy.”

Robert Crease
Professor, Department of Philosophy, CAS
Crease was invited to talk in Denmark at a gathering of the Nordic Society for Phenomenology in regards to the philosophy of science. He was invited by the organizers of his session to co-author the lead article within the forthcoming guide, “Oxford Handbook of Phenomenology of Science.”

Jiwon Hwang
Assistant Professor, Department of Asian and Asian American Studies, CAS
Hwang traveled to Cornell University for a convention about Korean and Japanese linguistics. There, she introduced her analysis about how preliminary nasal stops in spoken Korean have gotten much less nasal in sure populations by age, gender, and geographic location.

Katherine Johnston
Assistant Professor, Departments of English and Writing and Rhetoric, CAS
Johnston traveled to The Netherlands for a convention about AI and public security, the place she introduced on the methods AI fashions entrench conventional gender roles and notions of motherhood. Johnston is increasing her scholarship of digital surveillance to handle the underlying ideologies animating the enlargement of synthetic intelligence.

Robert Kaplan
Advanced Senior Lecturer, Department of Writing and Rhetoric, CAS
Kaplan traveled to a nationwide writing research convention to current, with two Stony Brook colleagues, about an internet pilot to revise the library instruction part of WRT 102, a required course within the Stony Brook Curriculum. Kaplan and colleagues from the Department of Writing and Rhetoric and Stony Brook Libraries have been engaged on this revision for 4 years and are making ready to evaluate the pilot efforts within the upcoming educational yr.

Alan Kingsberg
Associate Professor, Department of Creative Writing, Film and TV, CAS
Kingsberg traveled to Denver, Colorado, for Series Fest, a convention of aspiring {and professional} tv writers. There, he spoke to a gaggle of collegiate fellows about Stony Brook’s MFA packages and networked with different trade professionals with the objective of elevating consciousness of SBU’s packages for future recruitment and collaborative alternatives. 

Fernando Loffredo
Assistant Professor, Department of Hispanic Languages and Literature, CAS
Loffredo is main a long-term worldwide analysis mission to look at how artwork and artifacts moved throughout territories and had an affect on cultures and environments in Latin America and the Pacific Rim beneath Spanish and Portuguese rule, and the function energy hierarchies performed in these interactions. His mission features a collection of seminars with graduate college students and worldwide students. With his award, he traveled to the Peruvian Amazon, delivering talks about native visible tradition. Stony Brook PhD pupil Samuel Espíndola joined the seminar.

Anna Melnikova
Instructor, Department of Linguistics, CAS
Melnikova traveled to a languages convention in Chicago the place she spoke about instructing Russian, a much less generally taught language, to lessons of heritage and non-heritage audio system. Melnikova’s speak blended her experiences utilizing progressive pedagogy to show Russian and her analysis as a linguist.

Nobuho Nagasawa
Professor, Department of Art, CAS
Nagasawa traveled to Seoul for a convention with artists, students, and scientists in regards to the intersections and interactions between the totally different fields. She introduced her work with fiber optic cables that blends weaving strategies from her ancestral Kyoto, Japan, with sculpture, sound, and biofeedback. 

Douglas Pfeiffer
Associate Professor, Department of English, CAS
Pfeiffer traveled to France to community with future collaborators, current a discuss his newest guide, “The Force of Character,” and obtain the 2025 Jozef Ijsewijn Prize at a gathering of the International Association for Neo-Latin Studies. Pfeiffer’s guide and a associated in-progress anthology discover the function of writer biographies in literary criticism in early fashionable language traditions.

Lauren Richmond
Associate Professor, Department of Psychology, CAS
Richmond traveled to Denver, Colorado, for a gathering of the American Psychological Association to provide a discuss her analysis in cognitive offloading and its usefulness to older adults. Cognitive offloading is a course of by which individuals use exterior prompts as reminiscence aids, for instance writing a grocery listing somewhat than attempting to memorize it.

Tara Rider
Senior Lecturer, School of Marine and Atmospheric Sciences
Rider traveled to New Zealand for the International Congress of History of Science and Technology as a part of a gaggle of students with the International Commission for the History of Oceanography. Rider introduced her analysis about how instructing environmental historical past helps her college students higher perceive how social and pure sciences interaction and affect communities, previous and current.

Jeffrey Santa Ana
Associate Professor, Department of English, CAS
Santa Ana traveled to Baltimore for the annual American Studies Association convention. There, he joined a panel dialogue about environmental horror movies and literature, and spoke with colleagues and potential publishers about his subsequent guide mission, tentatively titled “Flood Memory: Decolonial Land and Water Reckoning in the Transpacific.”

James Austin Smith
Lecturer, Department of Music, CAS
Smith has spent years uncovering misplaced up to date music from East Germany, and wove the found compositions right into a presentation that blends musical efficiency with lectures and archival movie to inform the story of a politically-charged avant garde. Smith traveled to Cologne, Leipzig, and Dresden to current this efficiency for the primary time in Germany, with assist from German colleagues and music college students.

Okay. Tan
Associate Professor, Department of English, CAS
Tan introduced his work on the annual convention of the Modern Language Association in New Orleans and the biennale convention of the Society of Sinophone Studies in Edmonton, Canada. At every convention, he mentioned totally different sides of his analysis about queer identification and activism amongst Sinophone communities in Asia. 

Javier Uriarte
Associate Professor, Department of Hispanic Languages and Literature, CAS
Uriarte traveled to Brazil for a gathering of the Brazilian Comparative Literature Association to current a paper in regards to the affect and aesthetics of rivers in Indigenous Amazonian cultures. The presentation, and alternative to fulfill and community with different students, will assist inform his upcoming guide mission in regards to the significance of rivers in early twentieth-century writings about and from Amazonia.

Yi Wang
Assistant Professor, Department of Asian and Asian American Studies, CAS
Wang organized two panels and introduced two papers on the annual convention of the Chinese Language Teachers Association in New York City. Her displays examined how Chinese language educators conceptualize and implement social justice-oriented pedagogy, with specific consideration to the methods during which college students’ multicultural and multilingual identities are acknowledged, negotiated, and built-in into classroom instruction.

Jennifer Young
Lecturer, Department of Writing and Rhetoric, CAS
Young traveled to the annual convention on faculty composition hosted by the National Council of Teachers of English in Baltimore. There, she attended periods about first-year writing, pedagogy, generative synthetic intelligence, and data literacy.