Research & Creative Grant Recipients
Minou Arjomand
College/School: College of Liberal Arts Department: English Project Title: Motherhood on the Political Stage
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
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
Craig Campbell
College/School: College of Liberal Arts Department: Anthropology Project Title: Mapping Indigenous Texas
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
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
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
Marina Peterson
College/School: College of Liberal Arts Department: Anthropology Project Title: Weathering Uncertainty: Rainmaking in the American West
Dalpat Singh Rajpurohit
College/School: College of Liberal Arts Department: Asian Studies Project Title: Devotional Religion and Hindi Literature in the Making of Marwar
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
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
Ronald Covey
College/School: College of Liberal Arts Department: Anthropology Project Title: Building a Comprehensive Archaeological Database for the Inca Heartland
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
Xiaobo Lu
College/School: College of Liberal Arts Department: Government Project Title: Mobilized Compliance: The Origins of Authoritarian Party Resilience
Sandro Sessarego
College/School: College of Liberal Arts Department: Spanish and Portuguese Project Title: Afro-Veracruz Spanish: African Diaspora and Creole Genesis
Cristine Legare
College/School: College of Liberal Arts Department: Psychology Project Title: Examining Variation in Beliefs about COVID-19 within Texas
Beili Liu
College/School: College of Liberal Arts Department: Art and Art History Project Title: The Tie That Binds: Sculptural Exploration of Migrant Experiences
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
Rachel Wellhausen
College/School: College of Liberal Arts Department: Government Project Title: Weaponizing Waste: How Developing Countries Use Garbage Imports for Political Advantage
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
Benjamin Gregg
College/School: College of Liberal Arts Department: Government Project Title: Evaluating Bioethical Regulation in a Non-Democratic State
Hongjoo Lee
College/School: College of Liberal Arts Department: Psychology Project Title: Reducing Alcohol-Seeking Behavior with Retrieval+Extinction
Fred Valdez Jr.
College/School: College of Liberal Arts Department: Anthropology Project Title: The Rancho Archaeology Project (RAP) – Archaic and Preclassic Maya Transitions
Rabun Taylor
College/School: College of Liberal Arts Department: Classics Project Title: Rome, Water, and Climate Change: An Environmental History of the Aqua Traiana
Sarah Brayne
College/School: College of Liberal Arts Department: Sociology Project Title: Policing Data: Surveillance and Prediction in the Digital Age