Fellowship & Grant Recipients
Overview
On this page, you'll find a list of all of our 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.
Fellowship & Grant Recipients 2024-2025
RESI-Cantú Graduate Research Fellowship
Cristina Nader - School of Education
Project Title: Exploring the Experiences of First-generation, Low-income Black and Latin* Undergraduate Women at a Predominantly White Institution in Texas
Jacquita N. Johnson - Environmental and Occupational Health
Project Title: Race, Gender, Place & the Environment: The Experiences of Black Women in Settegast, Houston, TX
Jaqueline Mendez - Sociology
Project Title: Bureaucratic Brokering for Resource Acquisition in Mixed-Status Families: Barriers, Resilience, and Leveraging Citizenship
Judanne Lennox-Morrison - Landscape Architecture and Urban Planning
Project Title: Race, Place and Preparedness: Examining Community Emergency Response Teams (CERTs) in Rural Underserved Areas
Graduate Student Small Research Grant
Jinxu Li - Communication & Journalism
Project Title: Promoting Asian American Mental Health Seeking Psychological Help: A Cultural Sensitivity Approach
Hyewon Yoon - Landscape, Architecture, & Urban Planning
Zipeng Guo - Landscape, Architecture, & Urban Planning
Project Title: How Covid-19 impacted the behavior of people of color: Studying spatial visitation patterns using Big data
Brianna Hampton - School of Education
Project Title: Understanding the Influence of AI in STEM Education on Sense of Belonging Among Underrepresented Minority Students
Percy Gresham - Psychological & Brain Sciences
Project Title: Examining Misgendering as a Social Cognitive Process
Kelly Pantaleon - School of Education
Project Title: Navigating School: Exploring the interactions between parents and peers on adolescents’ education
Jacqueline White - School of Education
Project Title: Beyond the Hire: Latine Faculty Recruitment and Retention
Giselle Deleon - School of Education
Project Title: College students’ engagement in anti-racist action and critical consciousness during rising media coverage of ICE raids
Mariana Nicole Brown - Sociology
Project Title: Cultural Preservation and Celebration: A Comparative Study of Latinx Fraternities and Sororities in HSI and Non-HSI Universities
Patrick Grigsby - History
Project Title: The Limits of Machine Charity: Rediscovering Lost Perspectives on Tammany Hall, 1845-1924
Faculty Research Small Seed Grant
Ananya Tiwari - School of Education
Project Title: Exploring AI’s Impact on Fostering a Sense of Belonging Among Underrepresented Minority Students in STEM Disciplines
Sean McKinnon - Global Languages & Cultures
Project Title: Ethnolinguistic gatekeeping: Tracking awareness, experiences, and attitudes towards the “no sabo kids” label in the United States
Joshua Yudkin - Health Behavior
Project Title: Exploring Urban Landscapes: A Photovoice Approach to Understanding Environmental Influences on Childhood Obesity in Santo Domingo
John A. Williams III - School of Education
Project Title: Into DEEP: Pinpointing and Profiling Disciplinary Excellence and Exemplary Performance in Texas Urban Schools
Andres G. Viana - Psychological & Brain Sciences
Project Title: Racial Trauma and Hazardous Drinking Among Latinos: A Pilot Study
Meg Perret - Global Languages & Cultures
Project Title: Migration Is Natural: Conservation Biologists and the U.S.-Mexico Border Wall, 1993-2021
Don Deere - Philosophy
Project Title: Landscapes of Decolonial Ecology: On Édouard Glissant's Caribbean Landscape
Ernesto Amaral - Sociology
Project Title: Racialized Identities, Attitudes on Immigration, and Colorism
Undergraduate Research Grant
Elysia Couvrtier - Bush School of Government & Public Service
Project Title: Exploring the Puerto Rican Identity through the Political Status of Puerto Rico
Steven Yang - Mays Business School
Project Title: Perception of Harris' skin tone
Nethra Jagadeesan - Public Health
Project Title: Operationalizing concordant care in an inclusive and holistic way: A cross-sectional study of undergraduate college students’ identities and healthcare preferences
Interdisciplinary Faculty Seed Grant
Portia Owusu - English
Project Title: Hurston & the Law: Hoodoo, Barn Courts, and the Spatial Legalities of Black Folk
Lynn Vartan - Performance, Visualization, & Fine Arts
Project Title: Lullabies of Texas: A Multicultural and Multigenerational Study
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
Project Title: Amplifying Black and Latinx Youths Voices on Community Concerns, Socio-Cultural Strengths, and Mental Wellness in the Southwest: A Photovoice Project
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
Jordan Nixon, Communication & Journalism
Project Title: NowI'mAPRBLEMxSomosAPRBLEM
Emma Newman, Anthropology
Project Title: Migrant Necro-Rutas: Manifestations of Violence Against Migrants in South Texas
Mark Mallory, History
Project Title: Black, Native, and Otherwise: Race, Gender, and Empire in the Black Seminole Diaspora
Cristina Nader, Educational Administration and Human Resource Development
Project Title: Exploring the Experiences of First-generation, Low-income Students of Color with Microaffirmations at Predominantly White Institutions
Paula Michelle Ochoa Treviño, Sociology
Project Title: The Transborder Lifestyle: Studying, Parenting, and Schooling Across Borders
Jaqueline Mendez, Sociology
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
Faculty Research Small Seed Grant
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
Dr. Nancy Plankey-Videla, Associate Professor and Coordinator of LMAS
Project Title: Networks and Practices of Mentorship
Amy Earhart, Associate Professor in English
Project Title: The Millican Massacre: Newspaper Transmission & the Extension of Reconstruction Racial Violnece
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
Ege Selin Islekel, Assistant Professor in Philosophy
Project Title: Monstrous Visions: Mechanisms of Defense and Regimes of Visibility
Nadia Kim, Professor in Sociology
Project Title: Sociology and the Race Problem: The Failure of a Discipline, Again?
Regina Mills, Assistant Professor in English
Project Title: Gaming Latinidad: Creating a Collection of Interviews and Oral Histories of Latinx Game Development
Kristy Pathakis, Assistant Professor in Political Science
Project Title: Echoes of Exclusion: Identifying the causes and consequences of Americans’ non-belonging
Undergraduate Research Grant
Diego Sepulveda-Allen, History
Project Title: Mexican Americans, Identity Politics, and Ethnic Pandering in South Texas, 1945-1985
Veronika Croan, Psychological and Brain Sciences
Project Title: Exploring Perceived Burden, Thwarted Belonging, and Academic Success among Black and Latinx College Students: A Study on Mental Health and Socioeconomic Factors