OVPR Research & Creative Grant Recipients

Research & Creative Grant Recipients

Minou Arjomand

College/School: College of Liberal Arts
Department: English
Project Title: Motherhood on the Political Stage

2024

Zachary Elkins

College/School: College of Liberal Arts
Department: Government
Project Title: Nationality Laws and Migrant Integration: Proposal for a Survey of Venezuelan Migrants in Three Settings

2024

Wendy Hunter

College/School: College of Liberal Arts
Department: Government
Project Title: Twin Transformations: The Expansion of the Welfare State and Religiosity in Contemporary Brazil

2024

Craig Campbell

College/School: College of Liberal Arts
Department: Anthropology
Project Title: Mapping Indigenous Texas

2023

Manuela Angelucci

College/School: College of Liberal Arts
Department: Economics
Project Title: Improving Parental Mental Health and Children's Outcomes in High-Poverty Areas through a Low-Cost Scalable Program

2023

Kamran Aghaie

College/School: College of Liberal Arts
Department: Middle Eastern Studies
Project Title: Pious Nationalisms: An Approach to Studying Islamic Nationalism, and Religious Nationalisms Around the World

2022

Ayelet Haimson Lushkov

College/School: College of Liberal Arts
Department: Classics
Project Title: "This is my native land": Black Education and the Classics in Texas

2022

Marina Peterson

College/School: College of Liberal Arts
Department: Anthropology
Project Title: Weathering Uncertainty: Rainmaking in the American West

2022

Dalpat Singh Rajpurohit

College/School: College of Liberal Arts
Department: Asian Studies
Project Title: Devotional Religion and Hindi Literature in the Making of Marwar

2022

James Slotta

College/School: College of Liberal Arts
Department: Anthropology
Project Title: The Analogue Life of Digital Misinformation: Communicating Health Expertise in Papua New Guinea

2022

Denton Walthall

College/School: College of Liberal Arts
Department: Classics
Project Title: The Swenson Digitization Project: Creating an Open Access Resource for UT's Swenson Collection of Ancient Coins

2022

Ronald Covey

College/School: College of Liberal Arts
Department: Anthropology
Project Title: Building a Comprehensive Archaeological Database for the Inca Heartland

2021

J. Brent Crosson

College/School: College of Liberal Arts
Department: Religious Studies
Project Title: The Other Anthropocene: Race, Climate, and the Cosmopolitics of Energy in the Southern Caribbean

2021

Xiaobo Lu

College/School: College of Liberal Arts
Department: Government
Project Title: Mobilized Compliance: The Origins of Authoritarian Party Resilience

2021

Sandro Sessarego

College/School: College of Liberal Arts
Department: Spanish and Portuguese
Project Title: Afro-Veracruz Spanish: African Diaspora and Creole Genesis

2021

Cristine Legare

College/School: College of Liberal Arts
Department: Psychology
Project Title: Examining Variation in Beliefs about COVID-19 within Texas

2020

Beili Liu

College/School: College of Liberal Arts
Department: Art and Art History
Project Title: The Tie That Binds: Sculptural Exploration of Migrant Experiences

2020

Rajka Smiljanic

College/School: College of Liberal Arts
Department: Linguistics
Project Title: Effect of Protective Face Masks on Audio-Visual Word Recognition and Memory for Native and Non-Native Speakers

2020

Rachel Wellhausen

College/School: College of Liberal Arts
Department: Government
Project Title: Weaponizing Waste: How Developing Countries Use Garbage Imports for Political Advantage

2020

Paola Bonifazio

College/School: College of Liberal Arts
Department: French and Italian
Project Title: Italian Producers Go to Hollywood: Cinema Cultures in Contact from Neorealism to the Spaghetti Western

2019

Benjamin Gregg

College/School: College of Liberal Arts
Department: Government
Project Title: Evaluating Bioethical Regulation in a Non-Democratic State

2019

Hongjoo Lee

College/School: College of Liberal Arts
Department: Psychology
Project Title: Reducing Alcohol-Seeking Behavior with Retrieval+Extinction

2019

Fred Valdez Jr.

College/School: College of Liberal Arts
Department: Anthropology
Project Title: The Rancho Archaeology Project (RAP) – Archaic and Preclassic Maya Transitions

2019

Rabun Taylor

College/School: College of Liberal Arts
Department: Classics
Project Title: Rome, Water, and Climate Change: An Environmental History of the Aqua Traiana

2019

Sarah Brayne

College/School: College of Liberal Arts
Department: Sociology
Project Title: Policing Data: Surveillance and Prediction in the Digital Age

2018