Dr. Marcus Kondkar was awarded a Marquette Faculty Fellowship for the Summer of 2009 for his research, “Intimate Partner Homicide: Exploring the Relationship between Race, Gender, Law and Violence.” The Marquette Faculty Fellowship is annually awarded to tenured and tenure-track faculty at Loyola University New Orleans to support scholarly and creative activities. The university’s president and the provost select the Marquette Faculty Fellows upon the recommendation of the University committee on Grants and Leaves.