2011–13:
In recognition of two outstanding faculty proposals, the Professional Standards and Awards Committee decided to split the Fishbein award:

Laura Chmielewski, Assistant Professor of History:
To complete her study, God and the Sea: Religious Culture and Maritime Enterprise in Early America (working title), “a geographically expansive study that examines representative communities from Quebec to New Orleans” from 1607 to 1820, which “focuses attention on the underexplored world of lived religion as fashioned by dependence on the sea.”

Mary Kosut, Assistant Professor of Media, Society, and the Arts:
To complete her work on Buzz: The Culture and Politics of Bees, under contract with New York University Press. Buzz “investigates the dynamic community of urban beekeepers living throughout the five boroughs of NYC and also examines how bees are meaningful to different people.”

2010–12:

Nancy Zook, Assistant Professor of Psychology:
To conduct a series of studies that will examine whether or not meditation practices result in changes in performance on executive functions tasks.

2009–11:

Ahmed Afzal, Assistant Professor of Anthropology:
To conduct an ethnographic study of Pakistani and Indian mass media in the United States, resulting in a book tentatively titled Transnational Lives and the Cultural Politics of Pakistani & Indian Mass Media in the United States.