Announcing the 2024/25 Dean of Arts Faculty Research Award recipients



Pictured from top to bottom, left to right: Dr. Avery Everhart, Dr. Barbara Arneil, Dr. Crystal Webster, Dr. Donna Baines, Dr. J. Logan Smilges, Dr. Kate Hale.

Six Arts professors were recently selected as recipients of the 2024/25 Dean of Arts Faculty Research award.

This award allows research faculty to devote their time to research for one semester by reducing teaching or administrative duties. Congratulations to all the recipients!


  • Dr. Avery Everhart, Assistant Professor, Department of Geography
    Research project: Beyond Binary Data: The Role of Data, Statistics, and (Mis)Information in Shaping Transgender Life
  • Dr. Barbara Arneil, Professor, Department of Political Science
    Research project: An Organic Theory of Politics
  • Dr. Crystal Webster, Associate Professor, Department of History
    Research project: Encoded in Love: A Tale of Travel, Medicine, Black Masculinity in the Nineteenth Century
  • Dr. Donna Baines, Professor, School of Social Work
    Research project: Building Emancipatory Practice and Theory: Indigenous and Anti-Oppressive Perspectives in International, Decolonizing Dialogue
  • Dr. J. Logan Smilges, Assistant Professor, Department of English Language and Literatures
    Research project: Neurotrans: Mental Disability and Transgender Intimacies
  • Dr. Kate Hale, Assistant Professor, Department of Geography
    Research project: Snowpack and Hydrologic Variability Across Earth’s Natural Water Towers