2021-22 Interdisciplinary Scholar Awards
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The Interdisciplinary Scholar Awards support individual Ordinary PC faculty members in any department or program in the School of Arts & Sciences who bring an interdisciplinary approach to their own research. Awardees and their projects are:
Committee Members
Individual Interdisciplinary Awardees
Joseph Cosgrove
Associate Professor of Philosophy Information Theory and Philosophy of Biology
Paul Czech
Professor of Chemistry & Biochemistry The New New Thing: The Science of Start-UPs
Trina Vithayathil
Associate Professor of Global Studies Discrimination in Housing: How Caste and Religion Structure Rental Markets in Urban India
Collaborative Interdisciplinary Awardees
The Collaborative Interdisciplinary Research Awards support cross-disciplinary Ordinary faculty teams in the School of Arts & Sciences in joint study of a common research question. Awardees and their projects are
Toward a More Perfect Union: The Promise and Peril of Democracy in America
Patrick Breen
Associate Professor of History
Raymond Hain
Associate Professor of Philosophy
Awards can be used for research expenses (research or conference travel, supplies, fees, etc.), stipends for student researchers, and/or faculty stipends up to $500 per faculty member. Projects can be based on existing or continuing research initiatives or may represent a new direction of study. The incorporation of student researchers is encouraged, but not required.
School of Arts & Sciences
Ruane Center for the Humanities, Room 147
401.865.2600
pcsas@providence.edu
