Grants & Awards
2013 CAMWS (Classical Association of the Middle West and South) Special Service Award. [Honors “classicists or non-classicists who have made special contributions to the promotion of Latin and Classical studies, especially at the state and local level, in CAMWS territory.”] http://www.camws.org/awards/service.php
Niagara Foundation, 2013. Funding for two academic outreach trips to Turkey (about $20,000)
International Programs Faculty Fellow, University of Iowa, Fall 2012-Spring 2013
Niagara Foundation, 2012. Funding for journalism faculty and practitioners outreach trip to Turkey (about $20,000)
Principal Investigator, “Training Minority Students from Chicago in Iowa Journalism Workshops,”McCormick Foundation, 2013 (about $20,000)
Principal Investigator, “Training Minority Students from Chicago in Iowa Journalism Workshops,”McCormick Foundation, 2012 (about $12,500)
Principal Investigator, “Training Minority Students from Chicago in Iowa Journalism Workshops,”McCormick Foundation, 2011 (about $12,500)
Principal Investigator, “Create an iPhone App” class tech funding, Academic Technologies Advisory Council 2009 Innovations in Teaching with Technology Award by Iowa Information Technology Services (about $6,500)
Principal Investigator, “2008 University of Kansas Transportation Research Institute Presidential & Congressional Forum” (about $43,000)
Co-Principal Investigator, “Development of an Interactive E-training Program for Work Zone Safety and Mobility,” University of Kansas Transportation Research Institute, 2008-2009 (about $130,000)
Co-Principal Investigator, “Improving Highway Workzone Safety,” University of Kansas Transportation Research Institute, 2008-2009 (about $180,000)
Perlmutter CV—4 Principal Investigator, “Can Blog Usership Increase Newspaper Readership?” Funding by John S. and James L. Knight Foundation as part of the Carnegie-Knight Initiative on the Future of Journalism Education, 2006-2007 ($9,200)
Co-Principal Investigator, “Driver Safety and the Boomer Dilemma: ‘Advanced Driver Training’ as Addressing the Attention Challenge,” University of Kansas Transportation Research Institute, 2006 (about $127,000)
LSU Press Professorship, 2003-2006 ($6,000 renewed yearly)
LSU Distinguished Faculty Award for Teaching, Research & Service, 2001 ($1,000)
Mary Poindexter Research Professorship, 2000-2001 ($6,000)
Douglas Manship Research Professorship, 1998-2000 ($6,000)
Lee Griffin Research Professorship, 1997-1998 ($2,000)
Tiger Athletic Foundation Undergraduate Teaching Award, 1997-1998
LSU Incentive Grant for Teaching Innovation, 1996, “Evaluating Student Internship Expectations & Performance: A Pilot Study for Building an Attitude Scale” ($2,500)
LSU Summer Research Stipend, 1996, “The Pictorial Portrayal of the People’s Republic of China in the Washington Post” ($4,000)
C-SPAN Winter Seminar for Professors, 1996, Conference invitation to Washington, D.C. and grant Sorority-Fraternity “Best” Faculty Teaching Appreciation Award, 1994, University of Minnesota
Kriss Research Grant, 1993, University of Minnesota-Twin Cities University of Minnesota Graduate School and Frances Andrews Fund Grant for Research Abroad, 1992, “Formal and Thematic Styles of Photography in the People’s Republic of China”