Linda Arnold Carlisle Faculty Research Grant

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Dr. Christine Woodworth - Winner, 2012-2013 Arnold Carlisle Grant

Dr. Christine Woodworth, cross-appointed faculty member in Theatre and in Women’s and Gender Studies, is the winner of the 2012-2013 Linda Arnold Carlisle Faculty Research Grant. Her project is titled "From Pantomime to Propaganda: Actress Kitty Marion and Birth Control Reform." In her proposal, Woodworth describes her project:
Actress and radical activist Kitty Marion was something of a nomadic figure, born in Germany and immigrating to England and then America because of her work on the stage and in the campaigns for women‘s suffrage and birth control reform. In the U.S. she became an icon in New York City as she stood in places such as Times Square, Grand Central Station, and Coney Island, selling Margaret Sanger‘s pro-birth control periodical, The Birth Control Review. For 13 years Marion was such a prominent figure on NYC streets that many mistakenly assumed she was Margaret Sanger herself. Calling upon her theatrical training as well as her experience in other social justice campaigns, Marion ―performed‖ her first-wave feminism daily. Focusing specifically on her work with Margaret Sanger and The Birth Control Review, I plan to explore the ways in which Kitty Marion established herself as a first-wave feminist icon through her performative protests.

The Carlisle grant will fund research in two archives: Kitty Marion Papers, New York Public Library, and Margaret Sanger Papers, available on microfilm at Wake-Forest University, Duke University, and the Library of Congress.

In Summer 2012, Dr. Woodworth participated in the Mellon School for Theater and Performance Research’s summer program at Harvard University. This prestigious program is designed to assist junior faculty in developing book proposals. She also attended the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) Summer Institute at UNC Chapel Hill.

Dr. Woodworth holds a Ph.D. in Theatre and graduate certificate in Women’s Studies from Bowling Green State University, and her M.A. in Theatre and Drama at Indiana University-Bloomington. She teaches Theatre History, Feminist Theatre, and Introduction to Graduate Studies at UNCG. She a cross-appointed faculty member in Theatre and Women’s and Gender Studies

Other Carlisle Awards Winners

1995	Dr. Hephzibah Roskelly Department of English “Widening the Circle: Group Learning for Change”
1996	Dr. Paige Hall Smith Public Health Education “Seeking Shelter: A Contextual Analysis of Decision-Making by Women Experiencing Battering”
1997	Dr. Jude Rathburn Bryan School of Business “Women Working Together as Friends and Collaborators: Building a Community of Scholars”
1998	Dr. Leandra A. Bedini Leisure Studies “Differentiating Perceptions of Entitlement to Leisure of Caregivers of Older Adults”
1999-2000	Mary P. Erdmans Department of Sociology “Oral Histories of White, Working-Class Women”
2000-2001	Lucinda Kaukas Department of Housing and Interior Design “Re-Placing Women in the History of Modern Architecture and Design”
2001-2002	Katherine M. Jamieson Department of Exercise and Sport Science “An Assessment of Physical Activity Patterns Among Immigrant Adolescent Latinas in North Carolina”
2002-2003	Ann Dils Department of Dance “Doris’ Children: History, Tradition, and the Humphrey Line”
2003-2004	Karin Baumgartner Department of German and Russian “Letters From Paris: A German Woman’s View from Post-Revolutionary France”
2004-2005	Juana Suarez Department of Romance Languages “From the Brigades: Critical Essays on Columbian Cinema”
2005-2006	Elizabeth Keathley School of Music “The Feminine Face of Musical Modernism: Schoenberg’s Women Collaborators”
2006-2007	Jody Natalle Department of Communication “Jacqueline Kennedy as International Diplomat” Jennifer Keith Department of Music “The Poems of Anne Finch: A Critical Edition”
2007-2008	Alexandra Schultheis Department of English “The Songs and Sentences of the Drapchi 14”
2008-2009	Michelle Dowd Department of English “Adam's Rib: An Anthology of Early Modern Women's Writing on the Fall”
2009-2010	Stephen Sills Department of Sociology “Impact of Global Downturn on Filipina Factory Workers”
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
2011-2012	Elizabeth Bucar Department of Religious Studies "The Islamic Veil: A Beginner's Guide"
2012-2013	Christine Woodworth Department of Theatre "From Pantomime to Propaganda: Actress Kitty Marion and Birth Control Reform"

Carlisle Research Award Description

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Linda Arnold Carlisle Faculty Research Grants are awarded to UNCG faculty to support research or creative activity related to women's and gender 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, significance of the project, its implication for women's and gender studies, and the significance of the project to the applicant's career and future plans

Carlisle Faculty grants provide a stipend of $1000 to support tenure-track faculty research. These awards have contributed to other awards and honors for faculty. Michelle Dowd, for example, later won the Sara A. Whaley Book Award from the National Women’s Studies Association for Women’s Work in Early Modern English Literature and Culture, 2009.

Applications are available electronically at our web site, and may be submitted via email, with subject line "LAC Faculty Grant Application," to ilmoore@uncg.edu or printed and delivered in hard copy to the WGS office, 336 Curry Bldg. All applications must be received by 5PM on Monday, March 25, 2013.