Previous Talle Mid-Career Faculty Award Winners

Professor Elaine Auyoung, Department of English: "Unselfing: What We Can Ask of the Arts"

Professors Samuel Fletcher & Jessica Gordon-Roth, Department of Philosophy: "Mary Somerville, Philosopher"

Professor Nathaniel Mills, Department of English: "Workshopping Blackness: Writing Workshops and the Production of Twentieth-Century African American Literature"

Professor Kathryn Nuernberger, Department of Creative Writing: "Intertwined: Prose Poems about Instances of Symbiotic Mutualism"

Professor Michael Gallope, Department of Cultural Studies & Comparative Literature: "Strange Inscriptions: Race, Gender, and Mysticism in the Postwar Avant-Garde, 1958–78"

Professor Katherine Gerbner, Department of History: "Constructing Religion, Defining Crime: Slavery, Power, and Belief"

Professor Chris Larson, Department of Art: "Smithville, TN: The Residue of Labor"

Professor Robert B. Nichols, Department of Political Science: "Violence and Method in Colonial Contexts"

Professor David Karjanen, Department of American Studies: "Detention and Processing of Unaccompanied Migrants in the United States"

Professor Carolyn Lieber, Department of Sociology: "Inclusive Population Projections of American Indian and Alaska Native People"

Professor Schmuel Lissek, Department of Psychology: "Modeling Neural Markers of Maladaptive, Generalized Avoidance"

Professor Amy O'Connor, Hubbard School of Journalism & Mass Communication: "On the Range: The Values, Practices, and Language of CSR that Bind Mining Companies and Communities Together"

Professor Michelle Phelps, Department of Sociology: "Mass Probation in the US: Understanding Supervision’s Impact on Wellbeing"

Professor Amit Yahav, Department of English: "On Making Leisure Real"

Professor Kathryn Grace, Department of Geography, Environment & Society

Professor Alice Lovejoy, Department of Cultural Studies & Comparative Literature: "Tales of Militant Chemistry: A History of Raw Film Stock"

Professor Matt Rahaim, School of Music: "Ways of the Voice: Vocal Striving and Moral Contestation in North India"

Professor Ning Ma, Department of Asian Languages & Literatures, "The Ways of the Monkey King: Chinese Culture and Globalization in Deep Time"

Professor Moin Syed, Department of Psychology, "Facilitating Open Science in Ethnic Minority Psychology"

Professor William Viestenz, Department of Spanish & Portuguese Studies: "The Lethal Principle: The Politics of Immunity in Francoist Spain"

Professor Joyce Bell, Department of Sociology: "From Black Power to Black Lives Matter: Toward a Black Radical Demosprudence in the US & England"

Professor Giovanna Dell'Orto, Hubbard School of Journalism & Mass Communication: "A Profession in Crisis Covering Crises: Journalism, Public Discourses and Policies about Migrant and Refugee Movements and Integration in the European Union and the Americas"

Professor Kate Derickson, Department of Geography, Environment, and Society: "Reconstruction and Its Legacies in Gullah/Geechee Nation"

Professor Tanisha Fazal, Department of Political Science: "Military Medicine and the Changing Costs of War"

Professor Michael Minta, Department of Political Science: "Corporate Money and the Financing of Civil Rights Advocacy"

Professor Gilliane Monnier, Department of Anthropology: "Reconstructing Neanderthal and Modern Human Behavior Through Stone Tool Residue Analysis"

Professor Paul Shambroom, Department of Art: "Past Time: Troubled Visions of the Good Old Days"

Professor Kim Todd, Department of English: "Undercover, The Hidden History of America's Girl Stunt Reporters"

Professor Cawo Abdi, Department of Sociology: "Ethnocentric Charter Schools in Minnesota"

Professor Sophia Beal, Department of Spanish and Portuguese Studies: "The Art of Brasília: How Culture Reframes the Built Environment"

Professor Lizbeth H. Finestack, Department of Speech-Language-Hearing Sciences: "Metalinguistic Awareness and Language Development in Children"

Professor Njeri Githire, Department of African American & African Studies: "Inedible Ideologies: Food, Politics and Artistic Expression in the African Cultural Landscape"

Professor Jaime E. Hanneken, Department of Spanish and Portuguese Studies: "Tropologies of Latinité: Race and Space in the Circum-Atlantic, 1830-1930"

Professor Nancy Luxon, Department of Political Science: "Staging the Political: Colonial Encounters Across North Africa and France"

Professor Yuichiro Onishi, Department of African American & African Studies; Asian American Studies: "The Birth of Midcentury Racial Liberalism: A Strange Journey from America’s Concentration Camps to the Land of 10,000 Lakes"

Professor Michael J. Silverman, School of Music: "Healthy and Unhealthy Music Use, Music-Based Emotional Regulation, and Coping Strategies in Acute Care Mental Health Inpatients: A Cross Sectional Study"

Professor Travis Workman, Asian Languages and Literature: "Melodrama and the Cold War: Ideas and Emotion in Korean Film"

Professor Lisa Channer, Department of Theatre Arts & Dance: "Dancing on the Edge"

Professor Katherine Hayes, Department of Anthropology: "A Carceral Landscape? Re-interpreting the place and material culture of Historic Fort Snelling through the lens of incarceration" 

Professor Mai Na Lee, Department of History: "The Hmong Kingdom at Dragon Capital (Long Cheng):  Vang Pao’s Alliance with the CIA"

Professor Joshua Page, Department of Sociology: "American Bail: Extraction and Management at the Boundary of State and Market"

Professor Matthias Rothe, Department of German, Scandinavian & Dutch: "Staging Economy - Critique through Presentation in Brecht's Theater"

Professor R. Scott St. George, Department of Geography, Environment & Society: "The Long View on Drought in Nepal" 

Professor Michael Wilson, Department of Anthropology, "Chimpanzee Dialects? Testing Whether Chimpanzees at Gombe National Park, Tanzania Have Group-specific Calls"