James Brooks, Counseling and Educational Psychology "Racial-ethnic Worldview: Advances in Understanding Relational Well-being and Health Outcomes for Multiracial Families"
Dina Okamoto, Department of Sociology "Asian American Narratives and Organizing for Change in the 21st Century"
Oscar Patron, Educational Leadership and Policy Studies "Exploring Institutional Agents’ Leadership Approaches and Racial Justice Orientations: Supporting Black and Latinx Students in Higher Education"
Graduate Student Research Grant Recipients
Jonathan Aker, Political Science "Developing a Measure of Anti-Racist Attitudes"
Jonathan Kang, Counseling Psychology "Development and Validation of the White Innocence Legitimizing Beliefs Scale"
Casey Johnson, African American and African Diaspora Studies "The Thing Worse than Rebellion is the Thing That Causes Rebellion: Conditions of Black Liberation from 1800-1865 in Toronto and Montreal, Canada"
Jeff Moscaritolo, American Studies "Floating Anchor: Kinetics, Chaos, and World-Making in Competitive West Coast Swing"
Sydney-Paige Patterson, History "Towards a Radical Re-invention of the Human: Women in the Black and Dalit Panther Parties"
Sean Purcell, Media School "The Tuberculosis Specimen Dissertation Platform"
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
