Linda Arnold Carlisle Faculty Research Grants are awarded to UNCG faculty to support research or creative activity related to women’s, gender, and sexuality studies. All full-time faculty who have not received the Carlisle Grant within the past three years are eligible to apply. Grants are awarded based on the quality and completeness of the proposal, the significance of the project, its implication for WGSS, and the significance of the project to the applicant’s career and future plans.
Carlisle Faculty grants provide a stipend of $2,500 to support faculty research. The funds should be used between July 1st and June 30th of the academic year of the award. Typically each grant recipient gives a presentation of their research in the Spring of the award year.
Applications are available electronically and may be submitted via email with subject line “LAC Faculty Grant Application” to wgs@uncg.edu. Applications are due April 1.
Dr. Anne Parsons, winner of the 2026-2027 Linda Arnold Carlisle Research Grant
Every academic year, the Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies program awards a faculty member with the Linda Arnold Carlisle Faculty Research Grant to support promising research or creative work related to the program. This year’s recipient is Anne E. Parsons, Director of Public History, Associate Professor Department of History, and Cross-appointed Faculty in Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies. Congratulations to Anne!
Dr. Parsons will use the Linda Arnold Carlisle Faculty Grant to support her project “Queer Effects: Two Women, Their Daughter, and the Family Archive.”
Dr. Parsons will examine the life of Frieda Miller, a well-known economist, women’s advocate, and labor activist. Miller lived an extraordinary life, holding positions as the Industrial Commissioner of New York, Director of the United States Women’s Bureau, and a delegate to the United Nations on women and children. She also had an extraordinary family structure.
Anne will travel to the Arthur & Elizabeth Schlesinger Library in Boston to review materials in the Elisabeth Burger, Frieda Miller, and Pauline Newman papers related to the Burger’s secretive birth in Europe in 1923, Newman and Miller’s intimate correspondence, photographs of the family, and Burger’s diaries and memoirs in which she recounts her birth and childhood with her mothers.
We look forward to her presentation this Spring.
Previous LAC Research Grant Awards Winners
2025-2026: Dr. Kailan Rubinoff, Associate Professor of Musicology in the School of Music
Dr. Rubinoff used the Linda Arnold Carlisle Faculty Grant to support her research on the QueerPassion, a reimagining of J.S. Bach’s St. John Passion with a new libretto by Thomas Höft that highlights stories of violence against LGBTQ+ people in the eighteenth century and recent times. With the support of the grant, she conducted ethnographic research among the QueerPassion musicians and audience members at the BachFest Leipzig in June 2025.
Dr. Kailan Rubinoff photographed in front of the St. Thomas church in Leipzig, where J.S. Bach worked
2024-2025: Dr. Faye Stewart, Associate Professor of German Studies
“A Queer Theory of Spectatorship: Viewing Socialist – Era Cinema Aslant”.
Faye Stewart used the Linda Arnold Carlisle Faculty Grant to expand her research in East German and Post-socialist Cinema. In March 2025, Dr. Stewart presented her research analyzing socialist-era German cinema through a queer lens. We were pleased to have Linda Arnold Carlisle in attendance at her talk.
2023-2024: Dr. Arielle Kuperberg, Professor of Sociology
“Explaining Disparities in Heath and Health Care Use Among Trans, Nonbinary, and other Gender Minority College Students.”
In March 2024, Dr. Kuperberg presented her work which centers on the data comparing health behaviors and personal health assessments between cisgender and gender minority university students. Dr. Kuperberg found that gender minorities have more financial insecurity, food insecurity, and housing insecurity which contributes to poorer health outcomes for gender minorities. Trans discrimination within healthcare, from doctor bias and insurance limitations to lack of peer support, also contributes to these disparities.
2022-2023: Dr. Hewan Girma, Assistant Professor and Director of Undergraduate Studies in the African American & African Diaspora Studies Department
Hewan Girma utilized the Linda A. Carlisle Faculty Grant to research Transnational Adoption in Ethiopia. In March 2023, Hewan presented her work via lecture entitled: “Transnational Adoption: Ethiopian Adoptees and Relinquishing Parent Perspectives” with Linda Carlisle in attendance.
2021-2022: Dr. Judith Leitch
Department of Social Work
“A Grounded Theory Study of the Perceptions and Experiences of Psychotherapy by Sexual and Gender Minority People in North Carolina”
2020-2021: Dr. Daniel Coleman
Assistant Professor of Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies
“Trans Ecologies at the End of the Human”
2019-2020: Jennifer Feather
Assistant Professor of English
“Rights Before the Human: Renaissance Appropriations of Ovid”
2018-2019: Yarneccia D. Dyson
Assistant Professor of Social Work
“Herstory: The Use of Womanism as an Epistemological Lens to Explore Sexual Health Risks and Lived Experiences of Women of Color in College Aged 18- 29”
2017-2018: Cybelle McFadden
Associate Professor of French, Director of Undergraduate Studies
“Race, Place, and the Republic: Immigration, Discrimination and Citizenship in Contemporary French Film”
2016-2017: Lisa Levenstein
Department of History
“Women’s Rights are Human Rights: A Transnational History”
2015-2016: Sarah Dorsey
Head Music Librarian at UNCG
“Composing Her Way: The Life and Works of Louise Talma”
2014-2015: Risa Applegarth
Department of English
“Rhetorical Education and Professional Embodiment in Business and Professional Women’s Clubs, 1919-1945”
2013-2014: Noelle Morrissette
Department of English
“Southern Modernisms: Anne Spencer’s Letters and Legacy”
2012-2013: Christine Woodworth
Department of Theatre
“From Pantomime to Propaganda: Actress Kitty Marion and Birth Control Reform”
2011-2012: Elizabeth Bucar
Department of Religious Studies
“The Islamic Veil: A Beginner’s Guide”
2010-2011: Lisa Levenstein
Department of History
“Don’t Agonize, Organize” Displaced Homemakers and the Decline of the Family Wage in the Postwar United States
2009-2010: Stephen Sills
Department of Sociology
“Impact of Global Downturn on Filipina Factory Workers”
2008-2009: Michelle Dowd
Department of English
“Adam’s Rib: An Anthology of Early Modern Women’s Writing on the Fall”
2007-2008: Alexandra Schultheis Moore
Department of English
“The Songs and Sentences of the Drapchi 14”
2006-2007: Jody Natalle
Department of Communication
“Jacqueline Kennedy as International Diplomat”
2006-2007: Jennifer Keith
Department of Music
“The Poems of Anne Finch: A Critical Edition”
2005-2006: Elizabeth Keathley
School of Music
“The Feminine Face of Musical Modernism: Schoenberg’s Women Collaborators”
2004-2005: Juana Suarez
Department of Romance Languages
“From the Brigades: Critical Essays on Columbian Cinema”
2003-2004: Karin Baumgartner
Department of German and Russian
“Letters From Paris: A German Woman’s View from Post-Revolutionary France”
2002-2003: Ann Dils
Department of Dance
“Doris’ Children: History, Tradition, and the Humphrey Line”
2001-2002: Katherine M. Jamieson
Department of Exercise and Sport Science
“An Assessment of Physical Activity Patterns Among Immigrant Adolescent Latinas in North Carolina”
2000-2001: Lucinda Kaukas
Department of Housing and Interior Design
“Re-Placing Women in the History of Modern Architecture and Design”
1999-2000: Mary P. Erdmans
Department of Sociology
“Oral Histories of White, Working-Class Women”
1998: Dr. Leandra A. Bedini
Leisure Studies
“Differentiating Perceptions of Entitlement to Leisure of Caregivers of Older Adults”
1997: Dr. Jude Rathburn
Bryan School of Business
“Women Working Together as Friends and Collaborators: Building a Community of Scholars”
1996: Dr. Paige Hall Smith
Public Health Education
“Seeking Shelter: A Contextual Analysis of Decision-Making by Women Experiencing Battering”
1995: Dr. Hephzibah Roskelly
Department of English
“Widening the Circle: Group Learning for Change”