Jackson Fellow Scholars
Photo by Suzi Nishida.
Named for Helen Jackson, the grandniece of Helen Hunt Jackson, Jackson Fellow Scholars Grants provides release time and/or research grants to Colorado College faculty involved in scholarship or course development on themes with southwestern content. Research grants are also available to regular visiting faculty who are currently active with Southwest Studies. The program is funded by the Helen Jackson and William S. Jackson Family Endowment.
2009-2010 Awards
Sarah Hautzinger, Associate Professor of Anthropology: "Soldier-Family Wellness: An Anthropological Study of Army-Civilian Cultural Relations"
Anne Hyde, Professor of History: "A History of Colorado"
Victoria Levine, Professor of Music: "Yuchi Social Dance Songs and Woodland Ceremonialism"
Brian Linkhart, Associate Professor of Biology: "The Effects of Forest Thinning on Flammulated Owls (Otus flammeolus) in Colorado"
Laura Padilla, Assistant Professor of English, Course preparation for EN 280, "Introduction to Native American Literature"
Eric Perramond, Associate Professor of Southwest Studies: "Regional Political Ecologies of the Southwest"
David Torres-Rouff, Professor of History: " Making Los Angeles; Race, Space, and Municipal Power, 1822-1890"
2008-2009 Awards
Victoria Levine, Professor of Music: a research project with detailed analysis and musicological comparisons of Mississippi Choctaw social dance songs recorded by Frances Densmore in 1933 with Okahoma Choctaw social dance songs Professor Levine recorded in 1985.
Brian Linkhart, Professor of Biology: research to determine how thinning ponderosa pine (Pinus ponderosa) forests affects breeding populations of Flammulated Owls (Otus flammeolus) in Colorado.
Mario Montano, Professor of Anthropology: field based research project to develop a course with the purpose of assisting students to examine various environmental and cultural issues related to the Southwest, with emphasis on the Rio Grande River Basin.
Eric Perramond, Professor of Southwest Studies: new research for course development and scholarship on a recently taught course SW301: Political Ecology of the Southwest.
Eric Popkin, Professor of Sociology: continuing research on a 10 year project examining Salvadoran migrant hometown associations in Los Angeles . The research will result in a paper that seeks to contribute to the emerging literature on hometown associations.
David Torres-Rouff, Professor of History: revise and rewrite a book manuscript incorporating new research. The book is entitled Making Los Angeles; Race, Space and Municipal Power, 1822-1890.
Leighton Peterson, Professor of Anthropology: to finish rough-cut editing and post production work on Lost Tribes, a documentary film exploring identities and histories which transect in the annual Columbus Day protest in Denver Colorado by Native Americans.
Marianne Stoller, Professor Emeritus-Anthropology: for technical support in the preparation of a monograph on the 17th century Spanish Colonial Sanchez Site near La Cienega, New Mexico.
Previous Awards
2007-2008
Recipient |
Award |
Subject |
| Victoria Levine | Funding | "Music and the Woodland Communities in Oklahoma" |
| Brian Linkhart | Funding | "The Effects of Forest Thinning on Flammulated Owls (Otus Flammeolus)" |
| David Mason | Funding | Ludlow |
| Laura Padilla | Funding | "The Locals: John and Nash Candelaria" |
| Eric Perrmond | Funding | "The Spatial Dimensions of Water Resource Knowledge: Agencies, Experts, and Locals in New Mexico" |
| Eric Popkin | Funding |
"Globalization and Border Militarization Policies" |
David Torres-Rouff |
Funding |
"Making Los Angeles: Race, Space, and Municipal Power,1822-1890" |
| Rebecca Tucker | Funding | "Investigating Spanish Colonial Art in the Denver Art Museum" |
| Ruth Van Dyke | Funding | "Chaco Reloaded: Landscape, Memory, and Ideology" |
2006-2007
| Recipient | Award | Subject |
| Fr. Dave Denny & Tessa Bielecki | Funding | "Desert Spirituality: Middle East to the American Southwest" |
| Claire R. Farrer & Chris Jones | Funding | Feasibility study for a book on Southwestern Indian made Squash-Blossom necklaces. |
| Liz Feder | Funding | "Global Feminism" |
| Sarah Hautzinger | Funding | "The One Spoken of in Prophecy: A Non-Hopi Medicine Man in the Hopi Tradition" |
| Phil Kannan | Funding | "Laws and Policies that Shaped the Development of the Southwest" |
| Mark Levine | Funding | "Acequias: Communities Under Pressure, Responses and Rejuvenations" |
| Brian Linkhart | Funding | A study to determine the effects of the Hayman Fire on the breeding density and demography of Flammulated Owls. |
| Sally Meyer | Funding | "The Ecological Basis of Sustainable Agriculture" |
| Mario Montańo | Funding | "Southwest Material Folk Culture" |
| Eric Perramond | 1 block | A project to analyze and map existing acequia networks. |
| Eric Popkin | Funding | "Globalization and Migration from Southern Mexico to the U.S. Southwest" |
| Ruth Van Dyke | Funding | "Memory, Place and the Memorization of Landscape" |
| Maria Varela | Funding | Develop a community based research methods course to be cross- |
2005-2006
| Recipient | Award | Subject |
| Phil Kannan | Funding | "Laws and Policies That Shaped the Southwest" |
| Victoria Levine | Funding | "Southwestern Arts and Cultures" |
| Brian Linkhart | Funding | Research the occupancy and breeding status of Flammulated Owls in the post-burn area of the Hayman Fire. |
| David Mason | Funding | "Poems form the Baca Grande" |
| Mario Montano | Funding | "Las Paduanas: Hispanic Women, Folk religion, and Lenten Foods."" |
| Eric Popkin | Funding | "Developing Southwest Studies Partnerships for Civic Engagement on the U.S.-Mexico Border Region" |
| Ruth Van Dyke | Funding | Revisions on 4 articles on Chacoan Archaeology that are to be published in leading journals. |