Three stipends of $3000 each are awarded annually to support graduate student research in the humanities. Nominees are put forward by departments and must have reached the stage in their respective programs where they are expected to be undertaking research toward the completion of a thesis or dissertation. A call for Brown & Kruse Graduate Scholars will be available in the spring of 2010.

These grants are made possible by the generous gift of Maggie and Corey Brown '92 and of Gayle and Layne Kruse '73, members of the Glasscock Center Development Council.

Christie L. Maloyed, Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Political Science, will be studying the influence of religion on the civic tradition in the later half of the Eighteenth Century in Scotland and American, focusing on the ways in which the religious traditions of each nation shaped the debate on the viability of civic virtue. She argues that a civil religious tradition can offer a basis for developing and sustaining a shared sense of the common good without undermining personal liberties.

Asmahan Sallah, Ph.D. candidate in the Department of English, will be examining the treatment, forms, and representations of spirituality in contemporary American fiction. Analyzing works of fiction focused on the quest for the sacred in terms of "anti-dialectical spiritualities," she argues how human creativity, information systems, and consumption practices become new sites where the relationship between the sacred and the secular is rearticulated.

Ann-Marie Womack, Ph.D. candidate in the Department of English, will be examining Vietnam War literature and key war literature predecessors to argue that cross-gender identification allows men to internalize qualities otherwise absent in wartime. In her readings of Crane, Hemingway, Vonnegut, and veteran and female authors of the Vietnam War, she will explore how the anti-heroic treatments of war expose the bounds of masculinity and create places for men to identify with the feminine to reinvigorate their positions.

Past Brown & Kruse Graduate Scholar Awards