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

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

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

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

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