 Kenneth
E. Brashier, assistant professor of
religion and humanities, received a prestigious Graves Award in the
humanities. The award of $13,970 will allow Brashierto develop a companion
anthology for studies of the early ancestral cult in China. Brashier
proposes to develop a sourcebook on the early Chinese ancestral cult
in order to fill the current gap in scholarly understanding. The sourcebook
would collect a wide array of Chinese texts including poetry, philosophy,
historical writings, and court debates, the majority of which have
never been translated, as well as extensive emphasis on stone graves,
tombs, and relief imagery. |
 Kimberly
Clausing, assistant professor of economics,
was awarded $115,280 from the National Science Foundation to study
international taxation and the international trade of multinational
firms over the next three years. She will examine the magnitude of
tax-motivated income shifting of multinationals, consider the consequences
of this shifting for the volumes of U.S. international trade and U.S.
federal government revenue collections, and consider an alternative
international taxation system—formula apportionment—under
which U.S. multinationals would be taxed based on the share of their
worldwide activity in the U.S. |
Stefan
Kapsch, professor of political science, was
awarded a Fulbright Senior Scholarship to Germany. He will spend the spring
semester on the faculty of the Amerika Institut of Ludvig Maximillians Unviersiy
in Munich, Germany, where he will be researching criminal justice and social
control in demo-cratic societies. Kapsch also served as a Fulbright Fellow
in 1994–95 at the faculty of social sciences at the University of Ljubljana,
Slovenia. 
