2024-25 Fellowships Awarded:

The Center for Middletown Studies is pleased to announce the recipients of 2024-2025 Middletown Studies Faculty Fellowships.  These awards support Ball State faculty scholarship tied to the themes and issues addressed in Middletown Studies scholarship and with the potential to earn external funding. The three recipients are:

  • Max Felker-Kantor, Associate Professor of History. Felker-Kantor will conduct research for “The Rampart Way: Race, Corruption, and the Origins of Twenty-First Century Policing.” Felker-Kantor will use the Fellowship to conduct research in support of a grant application to the National Endowment for the Humanities.
  • Shuning Lui, Associate Professor of Curriculum Studies, Department of Educational Studies. Lui will undertake research for a project entitled “Chinese immigrants and Educational/Political Engagement: Supplementary Education, Affirmative Action in College Admissions, and the Chinese Immigrant Community in the U.S.” She plans to seek further support for this investigation from the Spencer Foundation.
  • Eva Zygmunt, Helen Gant Elmore Distinguished Professor, Department of Early Childhood, Youth, and Family Studies. Zygmunt will use the Middletown Studies Faculty Fellowship to chronicle the development and implementation of the Freedom School in Whitely. This initial research will support an application for additional funding from IU Health.

 

2023-2024 Fellows Updates:

  • Ellen Whitehead (Sociology) and Emily Wornell (CBER) have completed preliminary data collection for their study, “Residential Decision-Making of College Students in an Era of Increasing Political Bifurcation and Devolution of Individual Rights.” After completing data analysis, they will seek further funding to expand the project.
  • Jorn Seeman (Geography) completed phase one of the MASTS of Whitely project, which is developing a community-centered, open-ended, interactive online platform for sharing place-based histories of the neighborhood, historical sources, and personal spatial biographies. In addition to the Faculty Fellowship from the Center for Middletown Studies, Seeman has received $8,000 in funding from the Community Foundation of Muncie and Delaware County.