Recent Grants

Recent grants

From The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation to Alberto Varon, associate professor of English and director of the Latino Studies Program, a grant to support a New Directions Fellowship. These fellowships assist faculty members in the humanities and humanistic social sciences who seek to acquire systematic training outside their own areas of special interest.


From the National Institutes of Health to Anna Mueller, the Luther Dana Waterman Associate Professor in Sociology, to advance her ongoing research on schools and youth suicide.


From NASA Research Opportunities in Space and Earth Sciences Carbon Cycle Science program to Natasha MacBean of Geography to fund climate research on dryland regions.


From the National Eye Institute to the Kumar Lab, led by Justin Kumar in Biology, to continue their work using the fly eye to model diseases of the human retina.


From the Russell Sage Foundation to Dina Okamoto in Sociology for “Measuring and Analyzing Boundary Rhetoric Over Time.”


From the Department of Energy to Steven Tait and Kenneth Caulton in Chemistry for “Rational Design of Metal-ligand Single Atom Heterogeneous Catalysts.” 


From the Presidential Arts and Humanities Program to Liza Black in History for "The Police Empire and Native America: Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and the Murder of Savanna LaFontaine-Greywind."


From the Presidential Arts and Humanities Program to Melody Deusner in Art History for "Aesthetic Painting in Britain and America."


From the Presidential Arts and Humanities Program to Jeffrey Gould in History for "Dawn to Despair."


From the Presidential Arts and Humanities Program to Cooper Harriss in the Center for Religion and the Human for "Religion & Literature Workshop."