Gould Sponsored Faculty Research

2026-2027 Academic Year

Professor Nicholas Buccola

RA Position Pending

Brother’s Keeper: Civil Rights, WhiteSupremacy, and the Making of American Conservatism

The student RAs will support Professor Buccola in the writing of his book, Brother’s Keeper: Civil Rights, White Supremacy, and the Making of American Conservatism. This book will tell the story of conservative resistance to the “classical phase” of the Civil Rights Movement (1954-1965). Although Professor Buccola has already gathered a wealth of research materials, students will assist in filling gaps in the narrative with primary and secondary source materials. In addition to finding the materials, the student will read the materials and discuss them with Professor Buccola, as he attempts to refine the thesis and supporting arguments for the book.

Professor Jennifer Feitosa

RA Position Pending

“Team (versus) Leadership: The Human Side of Team Leadership”

The student RAs will support Professor Feitosa in her work on a book chapter, “Team (versus) Leadership: The Human Side of Team Leadership.” RAs will assist in assembling and integrating the psychological research on team processes and leadership with research on trust, obligation, collective action and interdependence. They will assist in building a conceptual map and the functions taxonomy; identifying and resolving conceptual tensions in the literature of team leadership; drafting the framing, conceptual foundations, and functional-approach; integrating and revising the draft; and finalizing references.

Professor Minju Kim

RA Position Pending

“From Space to Preference: The Evolution ofKorean pa-ey-ya”

The student RA will support Professor Kim in her work on two research papers, “From Space to Preference: The Evolution of Korean pa-ey-ya" during AY 2026–2027, both of which address the Korean connective pa-ey-ya. With the exception of brief descriptions in reference to grammar books, there has been no systematic linguistic study of pa-ey-ya. During this academic year, Professor Kim will complete two manuscripts and submit them to peer-reviewed journals. By assisting with this project, the RA will learn important foundational skills in humanities research. The RA will help conduct a literature review, a task that will involve reading and synthesizing scholarships on language change, grammaticalization, and related theories. The RA will also work with historical corpus data, data from contemporary natural conversations, and audio data. The audio data will be used to distinguish between different functions of the Korean connective pa-ey-ya. Through this work, the student will learn how to (1) use the corpus-processing program UniConc to identify relevant tokens, (2) process audio data, (3) use the phonetic analysis program Praat, (4) conduct a literature review and become acquainted with different theories of language change, (5) classify and code tokens in their contexts, and (6)analyze and interpret research findings. The RA will also have the opportunity to learn to read older Korean texts that use Korean letters no longer in use today.