Harry Schrillo Faculty Scholarly and Artistic Research Fellowship

Ken Crane

Katherine Koh

Tickets have been purchased for a research trip to the United Kingdom for two weeks at the end of March. There are plans to visit at least four archives, including the London Metropolitan Museum, Lambeth Palace Archives, the Weston Library at the Bodleian Libraries, and the British Library. During my trip, I plan to expand on the research I undertook for my doctoral dissertation; in particular, I will consider in greater detail the religious leanings of prominent members of the Merchant Taylors Company of London. 

David Kendall

Schrillo funding was used to purchase a new Canon EOS R camera with an extra macro lens as well as to help pay for travel to and around the Philippines. Around 20,000 pictures have already been taken using the new camera and the quality of pictures is vastly improved compared to the previous camera that was being used.  The increased ISO range particularly helps in the low lighting conditions often encountered in this particular field of research.

Marilyn Loveless

Lora Geriguis

Professor of English
$1000
Project title: Environmental and Medical Humanities: From the Early Modern Period to the COVID-19 Crisis

To further study ecocriticism (as a school of literary criticism) and medical humanities (as an interdisciplinary field) for how they both inform my book project on the topic of the “environmental consciousness” and the rise of the scientific method in Early Modern England (planned for Spring 2022 sabbatical) and two intervening conference presentations (planned for 2021). These research projects will also have a spill-over effect of informing my teaching of classes such as HUMN 105, PREH 101, and various upper division and graduate ENGL classes. The thread that pulls all this research together is the question of how science, its history, its methodologies, its role as a system of knowledge and authority, and its intersections with the humanities, has impacted human experience with our own physicality (i.e. via illness) and our environments. The Schrillo funds so generously provided are going to the purchase of both primary and secondary books needed for the project.

Lloyd Trueblood

Alicia Gutierrez-Romine

Carrie Specht

Title:  One Small Stand (A Short Film Project)
La Sierra University is nearing its one-hundredth birthday. In celebration of the historic occasion I am working on developing, writing, and producing a short film to honor one of our institution’s greatest moments; its stand against Japanese-American internment during World War II.

David J Kendall, PhD

Assistant Professor of Music
Department of Music
$1000

I plan to spend six months performing archival research in parts of the central and southern Philippines spiritually administered by the Augustinian Recollect Order (O.A.R.) during the Spanish colonial period (1565-1898).  I will be attempting to expand understanding of the religious, material, and particularly the liturgical/musical cultures of those areas.  I will also perform secondary archival research in and around Manila, present a series of lectures and symposia at the University of Santo Tomas, and supervise a PhD research seminar at the University of the Philippines, Diliman College of Music.  In addition, I will present research at a number of local academic conferences, collaborate and assist in performances of newly-discovered liturgical music, and organize a research symposium or small conference at the University of the Philippines.

Carrie Specht, Assistant Professor of Film and Television

Department of Film and Television
Research Project: Classic Visions
$2250

As the Creator and Editor of ClassicFilmFan.com it’s no secret I’m a huge fan of classic Hollywood.  My current book project, Classic Visions fulfills a desire to share knowledge of the past with a personal need to give back to a beloved community in a meaningful way that will have a lasting and tangible effect, especially for the older artists who now enjoy a quiet retirement at the Motion Picture Fund Retirement Community and depend upon the organization for their daily life.  My proceeds from the book, Classic Visions will be donated to the fund as a way of saying thanks for the memories.

The book itself is to be filled with classic movie moments as remembered by some of Hollywood’s most memorable individuals, who will provide unique movie memories that describe a favorite movie moment, and how it has moved them, inspired them or affected their lives.  Each entry of an individual is to be paired with a photo of the contributor, a still from the corresponding film, and original movie poster artwork.  The culling of the entries will be achieved through a series of interviews conducted in person whenever possible, and in a variety of unique locations such as back stage of a movie being filmed, in the halls of the famed Actors Studio, in a Beverly Hills mansions, and at historical Hollywood landmarks.  The recorded interviews will be transcribed for editing and gathered for presentation in the organized compilation.

Ken Crane

Title: A Comparison of U.S. and German Policy toward Unaccompanied Refugee Children
This project compares the U.S. and German policies toward unaccompanied refugee minors, gauging emerging changes in policy and practice. The idea for this began in March of 2013. I was interviewing Iraqi refugee families in southern Germany as part of my study of the post-2003 Iraqi refugee crisis. In the process I met three individuals who provided “guardianship” (German-Vormundschaft) for unaccompanied refugee minors from countries of protracted conflict, such as Iraq, Afghanistan, and Somalia. Based on those conversations I was struck by 1) how many asylum seekers in Germany are children (37% in 2010) and 2) that though far from perfect, the German system was able to avoid large-scale institutionalizing of unaccompanied minors in inappropriate facilities, which is what happened to Central American children here in 2014.  Half the world’s refugees are under the age of 18, and we can expect greater numbers of refugee children to be crossing borders seeking protection in the future.

In-Kyeong Kim

Title: Memory in Social Context

This study investigates memory in social context which is as an analog to an eyewitness situation in which multiple witnesses are interviewed in the presence of each other. The social influence on memory has been most frequently studied in the social contagion and misinformation effect paradigms, which usually involved confederates (who needed to lie) or insertion of inaccurate information. This study, conducted with new methodology and new technology, will enable investigation with more ecologically valid stimuli--without confederates or misinformation--and further study the process of planting and forming false memory, and in so doing, will open new directions in eyewitness memory research.

Gilbert Valentine

John N. Andrews was an important leadership figure and theologian in the early Adventist Church. This research project is being undertaken in preparation for writing a formal scholarly biography.  This particular phase of the research is focused on an investigation of the formative primary and secondary school years of J.  N. Andrews and his family circumstances in the 1840s and through to the mid 1860s.  The research involves work in archival collections in New England such as the Regional Archives and Land Records Office in South Paris, Maine; the Library of the University of Maine, Augusta, Me; the Portland Historical Society, Maine and other local community Historical Society collections.

Marilynn Loveless

"God's Peculiar People" tells a story about the early Adventist church drawing primarily on the letters and writings of Ellen White and contemporary theatrical practice.

The goal of this project will be to share the life of Ellen White and de-mythologize her (there is ample evidence to suggest that she would appreciate this) in a theatrical production that celebrates her incredible energy and accomplishments and the savvy way she dealt with the peculiarity of some of the ideas that the early Adventist church flirted with.