Fellowship & Grant Recipients
Overview
On this page, you'll find a list of all of our active grant recipients and collaborations. Some of them may grow to include their own web pages with links to outcomes, etc. In the meantime, feel free to reach out to RESI or any given projects' primary investigator if you have any questions.
Special Collaborations
Africana Studies
Primary Investigator: Dr. Myeshia Babers, Lecturer
Co-Primary Investigator(s): Dr. Rebecca Hankins, Professor; Dr. Collins; Dr. Alain Lawo-Sukam, Associate Professor; and Dr. David Donkor, Associate Professor
Project Title: Supporting Underserved Student Populations Across the College of Arts and Sciences
Latino/a & Mexican American Studies
Primary Investigator: Dr. Nancy Plankey-Videla, Associate Professor and Coordinator of LMAS
Project Title: Networks and Practices of Mentorship
Sociology
Primary Investigator: Megan Bodily, Doctoral Student
Project Title: Understanding Undergraduate Students’ Experiences of Belonging
Primary Investigator: Jaqueline Mendez, Doctoral Student
Co-Advisor(s): Dr. Nancy Plankey-Videla, Associate Professor and Dr. Pat Rubio Goldsmith, Professor
Project Title: Second-Hand Illegality: Exploring Bureaucratic Exclusion and Resource Inequality for U.S.-Born Latina/o Children of Undocumented Parent
Fellowship & Grant Recipients 2023-2024
RESI-Cantú Graduate Research Fellowship
Yaír André Cuenú-Mosquera, Hispanic Studies
Project Title: Afrourbanite Communities: Representation and (De) Construction of The Afro Experience in Urban Contexts in Afro-Colombian Literatures
Robyn Douglas, Clinical Psychology
Hannah Bowling, English
Project Title: ‘So base a hue? A beauteous blossom, sure’: Race and Identity in Shakespearean Performance from the Early Modern to the Postmodern.
Vanessa Verner, Sociology
Project Title: “Not by The Commission of Men’s Hands”: Gender, Race, and Class Politics within Black Pentecostalism
Graduate Student Small Research Grant
Daniel Gómez-Vásquez, Economics
Project Title: Hiring in a Diverse Labor Market: Spillovers Across Minority Groups
Mikayla Renwick, Communication & Journalism
Project Title: Black Placemaking Geographies: The Development of Communities
Leslie Torres, History
Project Title: Challenging ‘Bad Sons of Uncle Sam’: Ethnic Mexican Acts of Resistance in Early 20th Century Texas
Faculty Research Small Seed Grant
Meg Perret, Assistant Professor in Global Languages and Cultures
Project Title: Migration Is Natural: Scientist-Activists and Environmental Justice in the U.S.-Mexico Borderlands
Sarah McNamara, Assistant Professor in History
Project Title: Nuestra Historia: A Public History and Public Art Project
Undergraduate Research Grant
Diego Sepulveda-Allen, History
Project Title: Mexican Americans, Identity Politics, and Ethnic Pandering in South Texas, 1945-1985