Manuscript and Book Preparation Awards – Faculty Awardees

The Manuscript and Book Publication Award (MBPA) is designed to assist tenured and tenure-track faculty in publishing books and manuscripts. Applications for the MBPA will only be accepted after the completed manuscript has reached the successful conclusion of the peer review process and has been formally accepted by a publisher. Funding preference will be given to publications submitted to university press publishers.

The MBPA funds may be used for the author’s mandatory contribution to the cost of book and manuscript publication, such as professional indexing, editorial work, digital or interactive content, image and map reproduction, color plates and photos, permissions and cover art.

In Fiscal year 2024-2025, the Office of Research awarded 17 Manuscript and Book awards 

Faculty awards were as follows:

  1. Anantharam, Raghuram, Arts & Sciences, Mathematics, Eisenstein cohomology for GL(N) and the special values of Rankin-Selberg L-functions over a totally imaginary number field
  2. Asif, Siddiqi, Arts & Sciences, History, Cosmic Fragments: Dislocation and Discontent in the Global Space Age
  3. Stephen, Sohn, Arts & Sciences, English, Asian Ameritopias
  4. Margaret Orr, Graduate School of Education, Educational Leadership, Administration, and Policy Division (GSE) Leading Equity-Focused Improvement Inquiry in Schools
  5. Meiping Sun, Arts & Sciences, Economics, Long-term Impacts of Growth and Development Monitoring: Evidence from Routine Health Examinations in Early Childhood
  6. Sasha Panaram, Arts & Sciences, English, The Aesthetic Afterlives of the Middle Passage: Black Movement, Catastrophe, and Choreographies for Living
  7. Jinhui Wu, School of Business, Information, Technology and Operations (BUS), An Exploratory Study of the Association between Green Bond Features and ESG Performance
  8. Catalina Jordan Alvarez, Arts & Sciences, Theatre and Visual Arts, Vagaries: A Collection of Screenplays
  9. Scott Bruce, Arts & Sciences, History, Monasticism and Manuscript Culture in Medieval Europe
  10. Yi Ding, Graduate School of Education, Psychological & Education Services (GSE), Working Memory Load, Automaticity, and Problem Solving in College Engineering Students: Two Mathematics Domains
  11. Jacob Smith, Arts & Sciences, Political Science, Waves of Discontent: Electoral Volatility, Public Policymaking, and the Health of American Democracy
  12. Robert Hernandez, Arts & Sciences, English, Transplanetary: Speculative Arts of the Americas
  13. Monika McDermott, Arts & Sciences, Political Science, Masculinity in American Politics
  14. Tim Wood, Arts & Sciences, Communications and Media Studies, The Company We Keep: Citizen Organizing in the U.S. and Canadian Oil Industries
  15. Eric Studt, Arts & Sciences, Philosophy, Top-Down Corruption of Consciousness
  16. Elizabeth Thrall, Arts & Sciences, Chemistry, The Translesion Polymerase Pol Y1 is a Constitutive Component of the B. subtilis Replication Machinery
  17. Ki-Eun Jang, Arts & Sciences, Theology, Contesting Labeled Identities: The Sociology of ‘Gentilics’ in Biblical and Northwest Semitic Literature