Funded Projects

Graduate Student Research Grant Recipients

• Cintia Alaniz, Applied Psychology in Education and Research Methodology
  "¡La Familia es lo Primero!: The Role of Familismo and Traditional Gender Roles in Predicting Psychological Well-being and Sense of Belonging among First-Generation Mexican College Students"
• Jeffery Giddings, Department of African American and African Diaspora Studies
  "The Wake of Blackness: Public Spaces in the UK and Reckonings with it's Racialized Histories"
• Joseph Johnson, Folklore & Ethnomusicology
  "Black Banjo Recovery: (Un)disciplining the Black Body of the Banjo"
• Siya Kulkarni-Schaefer, Applied Psychology in Education and Research Methodology
  "Wearing Our (Whole) Hearts on Our Sleeves: Psychotherapists Dress for Work"
• Jesus Navarro, Applied Psychology in Education and Research Methodology
  "Los Hombres no Lloran: The Role of Emotional Suppression in Machismo, Substance Use, and Treatment-Seeking among Mexican Men"
• Jacqueline Paiz, Applied Psychology in Education and Research Methodology
  "Shaping the Narrative: Latine Graduate Students' Perspectives on Mental Health Treatment and Therapy"
• Alethia Russell, Education Leadership & Policy Studies
  "Twice as Hard to Get Half: Examining High Achieving Black Undergraduate Women's Perceptions of Achievement and Its Influence on Their Wellness Practices"

Graduate Student Travel Grant Recipients

• Mallika Khana, Media Studies
  "Where does healing lie? Interrogating the racialized body as site of trauma and healing"
• Garima Plawat,Folklore and Ethnomusicology
  "Through the Looking Glass: Being or Becoming Asian in Academia"

Faculty Seed Grant Recipients

• Ana Candida Carneiro, Theatre, Drama &Contemporary Dance
  "Public Mother"
• Koji Chavez, Department of Sociology
  "Who Contributes to Diversity? A Conjoint Experiment of Diversity Value"
• Vanessa Miller, Educational Leadership and Policy Studies
  "Analyzing the Use of Race and Ethnicity in Timely Warnings and Emergency Notifications by Campus Police"
• Kosali Simon, O'Neill School of Public and Environmental Affairs
  "Antidepressant Use Among Black Americans in the Wake of Police Brutality Events During the COVID Era"

Graduate Student Research Grant Recipients

• Paloma Czapla, History
  "Refusing the Lens of the State: Archives, Photography and Black Women’s Lives in Post-Abolition São Paulo, Brazil"
• Lisa Doi, American Studies
  "Journey to the Ireito: Japanese American Community Pilgrimages, Place, Identity, and Repair"
• Rachel Garza, Spanish and Portuguese
  "We speak la raza ('the people')”: How Spanish sound reduction communicates ethnolinguistics and community identity in the borderlands of Texas"
• Chandler Hawkins, Educational Leadership & Policy Studies
  "We Have Always Been Beautiful: A Critical Narrative Analysis Examining Black Undergraduate Women's Experiences with (Un) Desirability"
• Shahzarin Khan, Applied Health Science
  "An Intersectional Qualitative Study of South Asian Women's Sexual Pleasure"
• Mallika Khanna, Media School
  "BIPOC-Focused Wellness Platforms as Racializing Technologies"
• Andrea Laguna, Anthropology
  "Maya Aesthetics: Crafting Heritage via the Tourism Industry"
• Peper Langhout, American Studies
  "Passive Cooperation, Artificial Motivation: Preliminary Research on Discourses of Recidivism and Cure at the Lexington Narcotics Hospital (1935-1973)"
• Margaret Lawler, Sociology
  "Dissertation Pilot Study: 2-Week Ethnography of an International School in China"
• Uzoamaka Nwachukwu, History
  "Negotiating Citizenship: Taxation and Resistance in Colonial Eastern Nigeria, 1930-1960"
• Lais Lara Vanin, Spanish and Portuguese
  "Curly She-Wolves: Black Women and the Conquest of Freedom in Afro-Brazilian Literature"

Graduate Student Research Grant Recipients

• Drew Heiderscheidt, Geography
  "Centennial Struggles: Historical Geographies of Direct Action, Mutual Aid, & Criminalization in Colorado's Front Range, 1900-1940s"
• Leandro Martan, Spanish and Portuguese
  "Race, Identity, and Afro-Brazilian Representation in the São Paulo Art Museum's Collection"
• Shelly Mclean Bent, Education Leadership and Policy Studies
  "Mapping the Governance Structure for Multicultural Education Policy Implementation for Indigenous and Ethnic Communities: The Case of the Afro-Colombian Studies Program and the Raizal Community."
• Beatriz Ribeiro, Anthropology
  "How Politics Travel: The Challenges of Indigenous Participation in Global Environmental Governance"

Graduate Student Travel Grant Recipients

• Sabina Ali, Religious Studies
  "How Food Labels Can Uphold Settler Colonialism"
• Sydney-Paige Patterson, History
  "Loving & Writing Towards Liberation: Black and Dalit Women's Radical Vision in the Black and Dalit Panther Parties"

Faculty Seed Grant Recipients

• 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"

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"

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"

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"

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"

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"

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"

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"

• 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