2009-2012 TAA Publication Grant Recipients

Gregory Williams, an assistant professor of contemporary art and critical theory, and director of graduate studies in the department of History of Art and Architecture at Boston University, has been awarded a $1,000 TAA Publication Grant.

The grant will help cover costs incurred in the publication of his book, Permission to Laugh: Humor and Politics in Contemporary German Art, which will be published by the University of Chicago Press in spring 2012. Read more about this grant

Erina Duganne, an assistant professor of art history at Texas State University, has been awarded a $200 TAA Publication Grant. The grant will cover the cost of reproducing images for her essay, "Family Folktales: Carrie Mae Weems, Allan Sekula, and the Critique of Documentary Photography," which will appear in English Language Notes in fall 2011.

"This grant was exceedingly helpful, since without it, I would not have been able to publish the necessary images that I discuss in great detail in this essay and thus much of the nuances of the arguments that I make would have been lost," said Duganne. "This grant is very important to scholars like myself who need to reproduce visual images with their publications but cannot afford the high reproduction and copyright costs associated with these reproductions." Read more about this grant

Reproductive endocrinologist and exercise physiologist Carl De Crée has been awarded a TAA Publication Grant in the amount of $1,000 to cover a portion of the page charges incurred in publishing his article, Kǒdǒkan Jῡdǒ's Inauspicious Ninth Kata: The Joshi goshinhǒ —“Self-Defense Methods for Women”, which appeared in the August 2011 issue of Archives of Budǒ.

"I feel honored by this recognition," said De Crée. "Receiving this grant to support the publication of our work is also a boost of confidence for me to continue this line of research in often difficult circumstances. We feel extremely encouraged by the support we have received from TAA." Read more about this grant

Michael Bruening, an assistant professor of history at Missouri University of Science & Technology, has been awarded a TAA Publication Grant in the amount of $1,000 for costs incurred in publishing his book, Epistolae Petri Vireti: The Previously Unpublished Letters and a Register of Pierre Viret’s Correspondence, which will be published in September 2011 by the Swiss press Librarie Droz.

"I was thrilled to hear that I had been awarded a TAA publication grant for my book,” said Bruening. “My critical edition of Reformation-era correspondence is the kind of book that will be used by scholars for decades to come. It will be an essential volume for good research libraries, yet it clearly will not be a bestseller." Read more about this grant

Dr. Mario Gil has been awarded a TAA Publication Grant in the amount of $427.68 to purchase offprints of his article, "Oxytocin in the medial preoptic area facilitates male sexual behavior in the rat," which was published in the April 2011 issue of Hormones and Behavior.

"I am extremely thrilled to be the recipient of a TAA publication grant," said Gil. “This is my first publication as a primary author. The support and assistance provided to academic authors by organizations like TAA is invaluable."

In the article, Gil and coauthors Renu Bhatt, Katie B. Picotte, and Elaine Hull report that the neuropeptide oxytocin (OT) microinjected into a particular brain area called the medial preoptic area (MPOA) facilitates male reproductive behavior in the rat. Read more about this grant

John Morfaw
John Morfaw has been awarded a $750 TAA Publication Grant to fund book production costs for his new book, Project Sustainability: Strategies, Processes and Plans, to be published by iUniverse Publishers in May 2011. The funds will be used to pay for the book's production services including editorial evaluation, developmental editing, proofreading, professional indexing and copyright registration.

"I am very excited with the very generous publishing grant offered to me by the Text and Academic Authors Association to facilitate the publication of my book," said Morfaw. "This goes a long way to illustrate the efforts made by this organization to help needy authors to get their books published in order to disseminate information, inform people and educate the people on contemporary issues affecting the social, economic, environmental, political, cultural and educational changes around the world. TAA is a very unique organization offering this type of philanthropic services to authors and this magnanimity needs to be emulated because they are helping to transform the entire universe. This is actually an inspirational and transformational philanthropic gesture by TAA and it will transform the lives of authors and readers and this will continue to speak volumes around the world for many decades." Read more about this grant

Erina Duganne
Erina Duganne, an assistant professor of art history at Texas State University, has been awarded a $250 TAA Publication Grant. The grant will cover costs incurred in reproducing photographs for her article, "The Kamoinge Workshop in Context: An Interview with Louis Draper, Albert Fennar, and Beuford Smith," which will appear in the Spring 2011 issue of the Journal of the Society for Photographic Education.

"I was absolutely thrilled to learn that I had received a TAA Publication Grant," said Duganne. "As an art historian, images are central to the research and writing that I do. However, with the rising costs of reproduction as well as copyright fees and with university departments increasingly unable to assist with covering these costs, publishing scholarly articles and books that include visual images have become more challenging. Receiving a TAA Publication Grant has been critical in my effort to publish my research with the images that are so integral to it." Read more about this grant

Leslie Anderson
Leslie Anderson, a doctoral candidate specializing in nineteenth-century Danish painting at the City University of New York, has been awarded a $650 TAA Publication Grant. The grant will cover the costs of making photographic images of nine artworks in DANISH museums to be included in her article, “Painting Instruction: C. W. Eckersberg and Artistic Labor in the Danish Golden Age.”

"I am delighted that TAA would support the work of a doctoral candidate," said Anderson. “Access to funding is limited for emerging scholars. Without this publication grant, I would not have been able to afford the Exorbitant cost of high-resolution images for my article. Thus, TAA has provided the financial support necessary to disseminate my research." Read more about this grant

Dannielle Joy Davis
Dannielle Joy Davis, an associate professor of educational leadership, policy and law at Alabama State University, has been an awarded a $750 TAA Publication Grant to cover the costs of preparing an article and book chapter.

"This grant from TAA will cover publication related expenses that my department was not able to cover," says Davis. "It is so nice to have my research supported in this way!" Read more about this grant

Dr. John Wakefield
Dr. John F. Wakefield, professor of education at the University of North Alabama, has been awarded a $300 grant from TAA to cover costs incurred in researching his article, “The Second Great Awakening and American Educational Reform: Insights from the Biography of John Milton Gregory,” to be published by Vitae Scholasticae, the journal of the International Society for Educational Biography (volume 28, number 1, 2011).

“I am thankful to receive this grant from TAA, which reimburses copying and book purchase expenses necessary for my research,” said Wakefield. “I was fortunate that a grant from TAA was available after funds for faculty research dried up on my campus.” Read more about this grant

Elaine Hull and Juan Dominguez
Elaine Hull, professor of psychology and neuroscience, and Juan Dominguez, assistant professor at the University of Texas at Austin, have been awarded a $75 grant from to TAA to cover the cost of reprints for their article, “Serotonin impairs copulation and attenuates ejaculation-induced glutamate activity in the medial preoptic area,” published by Behavioral Neuroscience, Vol. 124(4), Aug. 2010, 554-557. Read more about this grant

Barbara Veltri, Ed.D.
Barbara Veltri, Ed.D., assistant professor in the College of Education at Northern Arizona University, has been awarded a $750 grant from to TAA to cover graphic design, photographic, and editing costs for her new academic book, Learning on Other People's Kids: Becoming a Teach for America Teacher, published by Information Age Publishing (Charlotte, NC) in 2010.

"I am so grateful for this grant!" said Veltri. "I am a junior faculty member in a state that has faced fiscal emergency since I arrived nearly four years ago. Not only was my salary flat (no raises) but all faculty and staff were impacted by mandatory furlough which means that my salary was actually reduced. The TAA grant provided me with a light at the end of the financial tunnel." Read more about this grant

Michael Krausz
Michael Krausz, professor of philosophy at Bryn Mawr College, has been awarded a $750 grant from to TAA to cover editorial services for his book, Dialogues on Relativism, Absolutism and Beyond: Four Days in India, which will be published by Roman and Littlefield in 2011.

"I'm delighted to have received a TAA Publication Grant," said Krausz."It will allow me to hire an excellent copy editor to polish my manuscript." Read more about this grant

Dr. Kathleen King
Dr. Kathleen P. King, a professor of education at Fordham University’s Graduate School of Education in New York City, has been awarded a $750 TAA Publication Grant for expenses incurred in researching her book, The Professor's Guide to Taming Technology: Leveraging Digital Media, Web 2.0 and More for Learning, which will be published by Information Age Publishing, Inc. in July 2010.

"This grant is not only a surprise and tremendous monetary help, it is extremely validating as well," said King. "I am very grateful on each account. In the past, some of my books have been based on funded research or were less intensive in the editing process. However, this book has turned into a large project because we have a unique, very valuable contribution to the literature as our goal. From all of the TAA members, thank you for your forward thinking in providing a potential source of funding for us to pursue special projects that we might not be able to otherwise." Read more about this grant

Mary Lynne Derrington
Mary Lynne Derrington, an assistant professor at Western Washington University, has been awarded a $265 TAA Publication Grant to cover the cost of obtaining assistance in preparing her manuscript for publication. Her article, "Self-Imposed Barriers: What does it take for female leaders to move beyond the limits they set themselves to reach the superintendency?," will be published in The Administrator, an American Association of School Administrators publication, in September 2009.

"I am grateful to receive this grant support," says Derrington. "I am very happy that I joined TAA and plan to remain a member throughout my career. I am on the tenure track at my university. As such, I, like many other members, have a scholarship requirement that includes research and publication. This grant assisted me in preparing the final publication and ensuring that it would be published. When I sent it to the editor of the journal, he said it was excellent and needed few edits." Read more about this grant

Dr. Dannielle Joy Davis
Dr. Dannielle Joy Davis, an assistant professor of education at The University of Texas at Arlington, has been awarded two TAA Publication Grants totaling $699. The first grant, for $529, will cover the cost of transcription work that led to the publication of a book chapter, "The Mentorship of a Sharecropper’s Daughter: Being Young, Gifted, and Black in Academe," which will be published in The Handbook of Formal Mentoring in Higher Education: A Case Study Approach, edited by Carol A. Mullen, and published by Christopher-Gordon Publishers, Inc.

The second grant, for $170, will cover the computer and printing costs of moving another article to publication, "Mentorship and the socialization of underrepresented minorities into the professoriate: Examining various influences," which will be published in Mentoring and Tutoring: Partnership in Learning.

"I am grateful for this support and happy to have my work acknowledged by other academic authors," says Davis. "Receipt of the grant has introduced my work on mentoring outside of the field of education." Read more about this grant

Reika Yokochi
Geologist Reika Yokochi, a visiting research assistant professor at the University of Illinois at Chicago, has been awarded a TAA Publication Grant of $750 to help cover the cost of publishing her article about the enigmatic diamond "carbonado", a naturally occurring black diamond, in The Canadian Minerologist.

"The TAA Publication Grant was literally the only grant I could apply to my situation," she said. "I was not aware of the cost of publication, and was told about the charge a month before publication, while the proof was being made." Read more about this grant

Marguerite Rippy
Marguerite Rippy, an associate professor of English at Marymount University in Virginia, has been awarded a $150 TAA Publication Grant that will allow her to incorporate a copyrighted photograph of Orson Welles from his unfinished film adaptation of Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness, in her book, Orson Welles and the Unfinished RKO Projects: A Postmodern Perspective, which will be published by Southern Illinois University Press in Spring 2009.

"The grant was tremendously helpful to me, since neither my press nor my university have resources to subsidize photographic copyright fees, so I am paying most of these fees out of my own pocket," she said. Read more about this grant

Joselina Cheng
Joselina Cheng, an assistant professor at the University of Central Oklahoma, has been awarded a $400 TAA Publication Grant to cover the cost of publishing her paper, "The effects of innovative pedagogy on student learning outcomes in relation to learning styles", in the spring 2009 issue of the Journal of American Society of Business and Behavioral Sciences (ASBBS).

"The Publication Grant from TAA has made it possible for me to publish at tier-one journals that are listed in the Cabell directory," said Cheng. "One impact of publishing at the tier-one level is the scholarly credibility that can enhance my probability of tenure and promotion in an academic setting. Another is that is allows me to share my vision with readers, authors, researchers, and policy makers by promoting the integration of advanced technology and innovative pedagogy in order to promote better teaching and learning in the global e-learning environment." Read more about this grant

Michael Krausz
Michael Krausz, professor of philosophy at Bryn Mawr College, has been awarded a grant of $750 to cover a portion of the cost of compiling an index for his collective volume, The Idea of Creativity, edited by Krausz, Dennis Dutton and Karen Bardsley. The book will be published by Brill Publishers (Amsterdam and New York) in 2009.

"This TAA Publication Grant will be very helpful to me in recovering some of the costs of hiring a professional indexer," said Krausz. Read more about this grant

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