Fall 2022 Grant Awardees
Graduate Student Research Grant Recipients
- Jasmine L. Davis-Randolph, Sociology
"The Legal Fallacy of Discrimination: An examination of the Impact of Workplace Appearance Policies on Organizational Leaders" - Justin Hawkins, History
"Reveling in Conflagrations: Arson and Race in America from Revolution to Reconstruction" - Jessica Moore, Art History
"What and Where Is Black Feminist Art History?" - Bruna Kalil Othero Fernandes, Spanish & Portuguese
"A Black Poet Away From Home: Domingos Caldas Barbosa and his Contemporaries in Brazil’s XVIII Century" - Sasha Weiss, American Studies
"Cancer is Colonial: The Intersections of Indigeneity, Genetics, Genocide and Hereditary Cancer Syndromes"
Spring 2022 Grant Awardees
Faculty Seed Grant Recipient
- Stephanie Allen, Department of Gender Studies
"We Must Document Ourselves Now: Black Lesbian Cultural Legacies and the Politics of Self-Representation"
Graduate Student Research Grant Recipients
- Karyn Housh, Counseling & Educational Psychology
"Exploring the Learning Experiences of Women of Color in STEM" - Yingjian Liang, Sociology
"Staying Within or Reaching Beyond: The Making and Unmaking of Ethnic Boundaries as Mechanisms of Immigrant Labor Market Stratification" - Rossmary Márquez Lameda, Applied Health Science
"Medical Mistrust, Perceived Discrimination, and Healthcare Utilization among Venezuelan Migrant and Refugees in Peru" - Aditi Tandon, Education
"Dissecting Hegemonic Beliefs: Critical Perspectives of Caste, Class, and Gender in Schools in Central India" - Donovan Watts, Political Science
"The Politics of Black Millennials"
Fall 2021 Grant Awardees
Graduate Student Research Grant Recipients
- Huixin Tian, Information and Library Science
"Ethnographic Study on the Chinese Professional Training-Intermediary Institutes for Programming work in the United States" - Samuel Smucker, The Media School
"Melvin Van Peebles: The Paris Years"
Spring 2021 Grant Awardees
Faculty Seed Grant Recipients
- Alberto Ortega, O'Neill School of Public and Environmental Affairs
"Biased Media, Racial Attitudes, and Perception of Police" - Tennisha Riley, Department of Counseling and Educational Psychology, School of Education
"Resistive Transformation: A Youth Participatory Action Research Investigation to Elevate Black Student's Critical Consciousness of Learning Experiences"
Graduate Student Research Grant Recipients
- Monica Heilman, Sociology
"The Role of Whiteness in Multiracial Identity" - Anna Russian, Sociology
"The Meaning and Consequences of Gender Socialization Across Context and Over Time: Former Student-Athlete Experiences in Life After College Sport" - Shanalee Gallimore, Higher Education and Student Affairs
"I'm Not Your Superwoman: A Narrative Inquiry of Black Women in Graduate STEM Programs and Their Holistic Well-Being"
Fall 2020 Grant Awardees
Graduate Student Research Grant Recipients
- Melissa Garcia, Sociology
"Latina-founded Sororities and Latino-founded Fraternities Project - Follow-up Interviews for Lifecourse of Membership Paper" - Jasmine Davis & Alisha Kirchoff, Sociology
"Teaching Race: A Sociological Inquiry of Higher Ed Classrooms" - Sydney-Paige Patterson, History
"Between Home and City: Radical Private Space in the Black and the Dalit Panther Parties" - José Luis Suárez Morales, Spanish & Portuguese
"The Uses of Memory: Mediatization and Crisis in Post-Dictatorship Guatemala"
Fall 2019 Grant Awardees
Graduate Student Research Grant (GSRG) Recipients
- Nilzimar Vieira, Spanish & Portuguese
"Afro-Brazilian and Afro-Portuguese Women Voices in Literature and Cinema" - Nelson Zounlome, Counseling and Educational Psychology
"An Experimental Evaluation of a Black Encouragement Intervention for University Students"
Graduate Student Travel Grant (GSTG) Recipients
- Soleil David, English
"I See What You Mean: Visualization as a Stage in Translation" - Morgane Flahault, Comparative Literature and American Studies
"Our Problems, Our Solutions: Building a Polyvalent Community Organization in North Oakland" - Asher Lubotzky, History
"The Ambiguous Nature of Settler Colonialism in Africa: Examination of Settlers' Construction and Interpretation of Race and Nation in German Southwest Africa" - Daniel Runnels, Spanish & Portuguese
"Manifestos of the Partido Liberal Mexicano: The Written Sign, Abandoned (From the Other Side of the Border) - Donovan Watts, Political Science
"The Generational Divide: Police Violence, Political Attitudes, and African American Youth" - Nilzimar Vieira, Spanish & Portuguese
"Curly Hair: Memories in the Short Film K-bela (How Beautiful) by Yasmin Thayna and in the Novel Esse Cabelo by Djaimilia Pereira de Almeida"
Spring 2019 Grant Awardees
Faculty Seed Grant (FSG) Recipients
- Koji Chavez, Sociology
"A Perfect Match? Racial and Gender Discrimination During Upward and Downward Job Mobility" - Rasul Mowatt, American Studies
"A Very Dark Matter: A Compendium of Lynching Violence" - Karen Inouye, American Studies
Graduate Student Research Grant (GSRG) Recipients
- Giselle Cunanan, American Studies
"#EthnicStudiesNow: Racial Labor in a Multicultural Moment" - Minchul Kim, Media School
"Personalized and Emotionalized News Media Coverage of Muslim Victims: A Test of Empathy-Alturism Mechanisms" - Yingjian Liang, Sociology
"Searching for a Future: STEM Graduate Students Navigating the Transition to Work" - Maritza Steele, Sociology
"Teaching Inequality: Tackling Topics of Race and Discrimination in a Predominantly White Elementary School"
Graduate Student Travel Grant (GSTG) Recipients
- Ting-Han Chang, Educational Leadership & Policy Studies
"Exploring how Asian American and Pacific Islander (AAPI) Undergraduate Students Experience Culturally Engaging Campus Environments" - Allie Martin, Folklore & Ethnomusicology
"Go-Go is (not) dead, Long Live Go-Go: Naratives of Death in D.C.'s Local Music Scene" - Tamara Mitchell, Spanish & Portuguese
"Specters of Roque: The Pen and/as the Sword" - Eliot Raynor, Spanish & Portuguese
"Referential ambiguity of 'mano' and 'pie' in Columbia: A case of substrate semantic transfer"
Fall 2018 Grant Awardees
Graduate Student Research Grant (GSRG) Recipients
- Jacks Cheng, Counseling & Education Psychology
"The Invisible Heroes: Asian Men and Their Career Experiences in Traditionally Masculine Workforces" - Khadijah Edwards, African & African American Studies
"The Voice of the People: A Critical Assessment of Popular Support for Black Liberation Leaders in the 1960's" - Anne Mahady, African & African American Studies
"Envisioning the American Folk in the Art of Palmer C. Hayden" - Tamara Mitchell, Spanish & Portuguese
"Roque Agitprop: Living and Writing between La Matanza and El Mozote" - Daniel Runnels, Spanish & Portuguese
"Writing Against the State in Early 20th Century Latin America" - Jazma Sutton, History
"We Have Got to Do the Work Ourselves: The Greenville Settlement on the Border of Indiana and Ohio, 1820-1920"
Graduate Student Travel Grant (GSTG) Recipients
- Mihee Kim-Kort, Religious Studies
"Defending the Sacred: Burning Church Doctrines and (Re)inscribing the Racialized Structures of American Soveriegnty" - Sydney-Paige Patterson, History
"Black Realms: Arnold Hamilton Maloney, Afro Caribbean Migrants & Evolving Definitions of Blackness, 1910-1949" - Olivia Holloway Salzano, Spanish & Portuguese
"Aluisio Azevedo'l Long-Forgotten O Japao and the Naturalist Formation of a Nation Body" - Kevin Taber, Political Science
"Public Goods Provision & Grassroots Democratization in the "New" African Diaspora" - Paula Tarankow, History
"Exploring Animals and Racism in the New South: Animal Loyalty, Black Humanity, and Humane Education in New Orleans"
Spring 2018 Grant Awardees
Faculty Seed Grant (FSG) Recipients
- Sylvia Martinez, Education & Latino Studies
Carl Darnell, Educational Leadership & Policy Studies
"Interrogating the College Search Process for African American and Latinx Youth" - Kosali Simon, School of Public and Environmental Affairs
Alex Hollingsworth, School of Public and Environmental Affairs
Hsien-Chang Lin, School of Public Health
"Racial and Ethnic Dimensions of the Opioid Addictions Crisis" - Phoebe Wolfskill, American Studies & African American Studies
"Photographic Appropriation in the Early Work of Romare Bearden"
Graduate Student Research Grant (GSRG) Recipients
- Muna Adem & Denise Ambriz, Sociology
"Assessing the Impact of Race and Legal Status on Attitudes toward Immigrants in the U.S." - Jelani Ince, Sociology
"Finding Faith: The Role of Race and Religion in the Adaptation to Organizational Change" - Douglas Peach, Folklore & Ethnomusicology
"Race By Reconstruction: Music, Performance, and Heritage Tourism among Gullah Geechees" - Nicolas Sillitti, Latin American History
"The Making of the Criollo: Class, Race and Nation in the Argentine Barracks (1901-1955)" - Robin Valenzuela, Anthropology
"Navigating Parental Fitness: Noncitizen Mexican Parents and Transnational Family Reunification" - Bianca Vasquez, Counseling and Educational Psychology
"Understanding How Latino Parents Support their Student's College Decision-Making"
Graduate Student Travel Grant (GSTG) Recipients
- Giselle Cunanan, American Studies
"Rights and Critical Refusals: College Student Organizing amidst University Neglect" - Jessica David, Counseling Psychology
"Fighting for the Freedom to Kneel: Sport Psychology's Role in the Activist-Athlete Movement" - Nzingha Kendall, American Studies
"Diasporic Blackness in Works by Sara Gomez & Belkis Ayon" - Sam Kye, Sociology
"Detecting White Flight in the Contemporary U.S.: A Multi-Component Approach" - Michael Montesano, Comparative Literature
"Surviving the War on Blackness: Black Feminism and "Stay on the Battlefield" by Sonia Sanchez" - Stephanie Nguyen, Educational Leadership and Policy
"Conditions of Success: The Asian American Studies Social Movement in the Midwest, 1990-2009"
2017 Grant Awardees
Faculty Seed Grant (FSG) Recipients
- Alex Lichtenstein, History
"Making Apartheid Work: Black Workers and Industrial Relations in South Africa: Oral History" - Timothy Lovelace, Maurer School of Law
"The World is on our Side: America and Race for Human Rights under Law" - Laura McCloskey, School of Public Health
"Eco-social Determinants of Racial Disparities in Infant Mortality within the State of Indiana"
Graduate Student Research Grant (GSRG) Recipients
- Alexandra Cotofana, Anthropology
"White Man Law versus Black Magic Women: Racial and Gender Entanglements of Witchcraft Policies in Romania" - Sarah Foss, History
"Until the Indian is Made to Walk: Indignismo and Development in Cold War Guatemala, 1940-1988" - Stephanie Huezo, History
"'Popular' Teachers and the Narratives of Liberation in El Salvador and the Salvadoran Diaspora (1980-2009)" - Anna Sera, Education Leadership and Policy Studies
"Transnational Janpanese-Brazilian Students: Race, Nation, and Integration in Teachers' Talk" - Shu-Yi Wang, Counseling and Educational Psychology
"Seeing the Good and Bad in Culture: An Exploration of the Construct of Cultural Complexity"
Graduate Student Travel Grant (GSTG) Recipients
- Denise Ambriz, Sociology
"Assessing the Oppositional Culture Explanation among Mexican-origin Students" - Julide Etem, The Media School
"Exploring Syrian Refugees in Turkey through Multi and Hidden Cameras" - Jordan Lynton, Anthropology
"Foreign Deconstructing Chinese Jamaican Identity Formation and Negotiations of Identity" - Angel Nathan, Higher Education and Student Affairs
"Crooked Beauty: Analyzing the Parameters of Black Beauty at a Predominately White Institution of Higher Education" - Adam Nicholson, Sociology
"The Growth of the Anti-Black Class: Rethinking Modern Racism in America" - Lei Wang, Counseling and Educational Psychology
"Racial Discrimination on the Change of Suicide Risk among Ethnic Minorities in the US"
2016 Grant Awardees
Faculty Seed Grant (FSG) Recipients
- Jennifer Lee, Sociology
"Racial Triangulation of Asians and Latinos: An Experimental Survey of the Field of Race Relations" - Cara Caddoo, History
"Race, Film, and the Lincoln Motion Picture Company" - Terri Francis, Cinema and Media Studies
"Ecstatic Instruction in African American Arts and Media"
Graduate Student Research Grant (GSRG) Recipients
- Lauren Apgar, Sociology
"The Economic Incorporation of Immigrants Across the 50 United States" - Matthew Fowler, Political Science
"White Linked Fate and Backlash: Realistic and Percieved Threats to White Group Cohesion" - Nzingha Kendall, American Studies
"Imperfect Independence: Black Women Experimental Filmmakers" - Jordan Lynton, Anthropology
"Strategic Identity Formation in Chinese-Jamaican Communities" - Kevin Taber, Political Science
"Ethnicity and Transnationalism Abroad: Shaping African Migrant Associations' Homeland Efforts"
Graduate Student Travel Grant (GSTG) Recipients
- Kelly Hanson, English
"Transnational Performances of Haitian History" - Douglas Peach, Folklore and Ethnomusicology
"Music & the Confederate Flag Debate in South Carolina: An Audiotopic Analysis" - Tamara van der Does, Sociology
"Ethnic Niches and High School Employment among Latino/as"
2015 Grant Awardees
Faculty Seed Grant (FSG) Recipients
- Matthew Hayes, Political Science
"Race and Voter Identification Laws" - Jason McGraw, History
"The Loudest Island in the World: Jamaican Music at Home and Abroad, 1940s-1970s" - Jakobi Williams, African American and African Diaspora Studies
"The Original Rainbow Coalition of Late-1960s-era Chicago"
Graduate Student Research Grant (GSRG) Recipients
- Carl Robert DeMuth, Anthropology
"Coal Heritage Archaeology" - Safak Kilictepe, Anthropology
"Reproducing a "Racially Pure" Nation through the Regulations of Reproductive Technologies: High-Tech Islamist State Pronatalism and Kurdish Women's Reproduction" - Jedidiah Kuhn, American Studies
"The Stewart Indian School: Colonial Regulation and Assimilation" - Alaina Roberts, History
"Chickasaw Freedpeople in Nineteenth-century Indian Territory" - Juan Rojas, Folklore & Ethnomusicology
"Post-Paramilitary Violence and Collective Reparation through Traditional Music in a Colombian Afro-Caribbean Town"
Graduate Student Travel Grant (GSTG) Recipients
- Kirk Harris, Political Science
- Sarah Monson, Anthropology
- David Nguyen, Education
- Shu-Yi Wang, Psychology
- Francesca White, Education
2013-2014 Grant Awardees
Faculty Seed Grant (FSG) Recipients
- Stephen Benard, Sociology
"Labor Market Outcomes for Asian Men and Women in the United States" - Karen Inouye, American Studies
"Tenants' Rights Organization in Boston Vietnamese Lodging Houses" - Sarah Imhoff, Religious Studies and Borns Jewish Studies
Symposium, "Jews, Race, America" (October 5-7, 2013) - Amrita Myers, History and Gender Studies
"Liminal Lives: Black Women and Interracial Families in the Old South" - Ellen Wu, History
"Overrepresented: Asian Americans, Race, and Class in Late-Twentieth Century America"
Graduate Student Research Grant (GSRG) Recipients
- Meagan Call-Cummings, Education
"Latinos in Action" - Christopher Clements, History
"'The Criminal Elements Amongst Us': Narrating Twentieth-Century Mohawk Nationalism" - Norihide Furukawa, Anthropology
"Becoming Educated in a Multi-Ethnic University: Affirmative Action and Ethnic Change in Malawi" - Matthew R. Kerchner, Anthropology
"In the Shadow of the Children's Fire: Race, Policy and the American Summer Camp Movement" - Dana Prewitt, Sociology
"Racial Projects and Intersectionality: Insights from Elementary Educators" - Davina Two Bears, Anthropology
"The Old Leupp Boarding School: The Navajo and Japanese Experience"
Graduate Student Travel Grant (GSTG) Recipients
- Melinda Brennan, Gender Studies
- Meagan Call-Cummings, Education
- Christopher Clements, History
- Sarah Dees, Religious Studies
- Christy Erving, Sociology
- Caralee Jones, African American and African Diaspora Studies
- Hope Rias, Education
- Jessica Waggoner, English