Grants Received by Faculty
Grants
1/2019 Granted Research Incentive Fund (PI: 300,000 AED)
1/2017 ESCP Europe Research Funding (Co-Pi: 5,000€)
10/2016 Policy Research Incentive Award (PI: 20,000 AED)
12/2016 Start-Up Grant (PI: 15,000 AED)
11/2015 Dissertation Completion Grant (PI: $10,000)
11/2015 Diversity & Inclusion Grant (PI: $1,188)
8/2015 International Travel Grant ($2,500)
3/2009-9/2009 Critical Language Enhancement Award for Study of Arabic ($8,000)
2/2009-1/2010 Fulbright Fellowship to the United Arab Emirates ($36,000)
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Awards & Memberships:
- Scholarship Recipient, United Nations Project, Yemen
American University, Washington, D.C.; 1982 – 1984
- Outstanding Student Honor Society (OSHS), 2003
Grants
CHR Summer Research Grant, George Mason University, 2023
Robert K. Purks Grant, George Mason University, 2022
SCMS Travel Grant, 2015
Grants
2025 Sterns SoTL Microgrant, George Mason University
2021 Center for Humanities Research Summer Grant, George Mason University
2021 Term Faculty Development Grant, George Mason University
2016 McCandish Endowment Fellowship, The George Washington University
2015 National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Institute Award
2013 Summer Research Fellowship, Northeast Modern Language Association
Grants
2025 Fellow
Center for Humanities Research, George Mason University
2022-23 Academy Scholar
Harvard Academy for International & Area Studies
2019-20 Academy Scholar
Harvard Academy for International & Area Studies
2016 Mellon/ACLS Dissertation Completion Fellowship,
American Council of Learned Societies
2016 Charlotte W. Newcombe Doctoral Dissertation Fellowship (declined),
Woodrow Wilson Foundation
2013 Dissertation Fieldwork Grant,
The Wenner-Gren Foundation
2013 International Dissertation Research Fellowship,
Social Science Research Council
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Research Fellow - NATIONAL INTELLIGENCE UNIVERSITY (NIU) - U.S. Defense Intelligence Agency (DI), U.S. Department of Defense (2006-2007)
Grants
Fellow in the 2024 Institute for Critical Social Inquiry (ICSI) Summer Seminar with David Harvey
2024-2025 and 2025-2026 Mercatus Center Graduate Scholar
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"AI in Teaching and Learning" project was awarded the Fund for Excellence and Innovation grant from the State Council of Higher Education for Virginia, 2024-2026. ($93,000)
Grants
Office of the Vice President Pre-Dissertation, IU, Research Award (2022)
Department of Folklore and Ethnomusicology, IU, Summer (Fieldwork) Research Award (2023)
College Arts and Humanities Institute, IU, Graduate Research Award (2022)
Graduate and Professional Student Government, IU, Graduate Research Award, (2020)
Islamic Studies Program, IU, Graduate Student Conference Travel Award, (2024)
American Folklore Society, Conference Travel Award, (2023)
Grants
With the support of our Korean colleagues in the department, Professor Berroa was able to secure a grant from the Korea Foundation to fund 70% of a Korean professorship at GMU for the first five years of the position.
With the support of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Spain, Professor Berroa secured the presence in the department of an annual lecturer that would spend her/his time teaching in the department. The first lecturer, Ana Ruiz Alonso-Bartol, completed her tenure (August 2017-2020) and a new lecturer -Carlos Javier Avilés López- is on campus for the 2021-24 academic period.
With Professor Lisa Gring-Pemble, at that time at New Century College, who directed the program in the summer 2011, Prof. Berroa directed the State Department Study of the United States Institute for Student Leaders [SUSI], Winter 2012. The program, titled: “E pluribus Unum—Out of Many, One: Contemporary United States’ Society in Context”, offered 21 students from underrepresented segments of the Bolivian, Paraguayan, and Peruvian societies the unforgettable opportunity to learn and experience the history, politics, life, and culture of the United States from January 6 to February 11, 2012.
Grants
George Mason Term Faculty Development Grant (Summer, 2018)
Curriculum Impact Grant (2019, 2020)
Grants
In 2024, Dr. Brackney was selected as a Fellow at Harvard University's, Advanced Leadership Initiative (ALI), a multidisciplinary program designed for experienced leaders committed to social impact. During her fellowship year, she collaborated with a global cohort of scholars, policymakers, and practitioners to examine the role of policing and other institutions of supremacy in perpetuating systemic inequality. Her work focused particularly on state-sanctioned violence and the cultural and structural mechanisms that sustain it. Through this engagement, Dr. Brackney contributed to critical conversations on dismantling oppressive systems and co-creating pathways toward a more just and equitable society.
From 2018-2022, Dr. Brackney was granted a fellowship to Carnegie-Mellon University’s, Institute for Politics and Strategy where she specialized in the influence of race on politics and policy.
Grants
Collaborative Research Grant for Communication Across the Curriculum: Creating Faculty Resources for Building Communication Skills in the Discipline. Awarded by 4-VA. The purpose of this award is to develop faculty resources for building student communication skills within disciplinary courses. Team members: Melissa Broeckelman-Post, Brandi Quesenberry, Timothy Ball, and Stephanie Norander. Award amount: $30,000. Awarded May 2019.
Faculty Research and Development Award for Communication Center Impacts: A Proof of Concept for Enhancing Skills and Learning. Team members: Melissa Broeckelman-Post and Heidi Lawrence. Award amount: $15,000. Awarded December 2018.
Seed Grant for Context Matters: An Exploration of Epistemic Climate and Motivation in an Undergraduate Communication Course. Team members: Angela Miller, Michelle Buehl, and Melissa Broeckelman-Post. Award amount: $9500. Awarded January 2018.
Curriculum Impact Grant for Studio for the Communication Arts. Awarded by George Mason University. The purpose of this award is to identify best practices and establish single, signature curricular and physical studio space where students and faculty across the university can engage in communication work—including writing, speaking, information literacy, and production. Team Members: Susan Lawrence, Melissa Brockelman-Post, Patricia West, Michelle LaFrance, and Jen Stevens. Award amount: $14,000. Awarded December 2017.
4-VA Collaborative Research Grant. Awarded by George Mason University and 4-VA. The purpose of this award is to conduct three assessment projects evaluating the effectiveness of a pilot version of a lecture/lab/speech lab model of COMM 101: Interpersonal and Group Interaction. Award amount: $20,000. Awarded December 2017.
National Communication Association Advancing the Discipline Grant for A National-Level Assessment of Core Competencies in the Basic Communication Course. Team members: Melissa Broeckelman-Post (George Mason University), Lindsey B. Anderson (University of Maryland), Andrew D. Wolvin (University of Maryland), Angela M. Hosek (Ohio University), Cheri Simonds (Illinois State University), John Hooker (Illinois State University), Josh Westwick (South Dakota State University), Karla Hunter (South Dakota State University), Kristina Ruiz-Mesa (California State University, Los Angeles), LeAnn Brazeal (Missouri State University). Award amount: $3900. Awarded October 2016.
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Numerous federal grants for juvenile programming
Grants
Organizational Grant, North America Wales Foundation (2022)
Center for Humanities Research Fellow, George Mason University (2021-2022)
Fenwick Fellow, George Mason University (2018-2019)
Graduate Research Fellow, Wolf Humanities Center, University of Pennsylvania (2016-2017)
Fulbright-Aberystwyth University Award, US-UK Fulbright Commission (2014-2015)
Grants
Selected Current Grants:
1. 2-R01 DA033431-06A1 Chaplin (PI), Thompson (co-PI)
Dates: 08/01/18-04/30/2023
Agency: NIH/NIDA
Total Funding: $2,578,998
Title: Parent-Adolescent Interactions, Gender, and Substance Use: Brain Mechanisms
2. R01DA052427 Chaplin (PI)
Dates: 07/15/2021-05/31/2027 (w NCE)
Agency: NIH/NIDA
Total Funding: $3,100,000
Title: Efficacy and neurobiological mechanisms of a parenting-focused mindfulness intervention to prevent adolescent substance use
3. K02 DA058840 (Independent Scientist Award) Chaplin (PI)
Dates: 07/01/2023-12/31/2027
Agency: NIH/NIDA
Total Funding: $500,664
Title: Integrating neural and momentary assessment of parenting, arousal, and adolescent substance use
4. F31AA031881 Kisner (PI)
Dates: 07/01/2024-06/30/2026
Agency: NIH/NIAAA
Total Funding: $72,030
Title: Intensive longitudinal associations between stress, mindfulness, and alcohol use in highly stressed mothers
Role: Sponsor
Selected Completed Grants:
1. R01DA033431 Chaplin (PI)
Dates: 09/15/12- 07/30/18 (with NCE)
Agency: NIH/NIDA
Total Funding: $1,872,094
Title: Parent-Adolescent Interactions and Substance Abuse Risk: Gender Differences
2. F31DA041790 Turpyn (PI)
Dates: 08/01/16-07/31/18
Agency: NIH/NIDA
Title: Neural Mechanisms of a Parent-Focused Mindfulness Intervention to Prevent Adolescent Substance Use
Role: Sponsor
3. R34DA034823 Chaplin (PI)
Dates: 04/01/13-02/29/17 (with NCE)
Agency: NIH/NIDA
Total Funding: $749,000
Title: Reducing Stress with Parenting-Focused Mindfulness to Prevent Youth Substance Use
4. K01DA024759 Chaplin (PI)
Dates: 05/01/08-07/30/13
Agency: NIH/NIDA
Funding: $824,149 (direct costs)
Title: Gender, Emotional Arousal, and Risk for Adolescent Substance Abuse
Grants
2024-2025 Cher Weixia Chen. SIS Faculty Research Support Grant, GMU
2024-2025 Cher Weixia Chen (co-investigator, with Beidi Dong/PI, Xiaoquan Zhao & Julie Kim). Anti-Racism & Inclusive Excellence Seed Funding, GMU
2023-2024 Fulbright Canada Research Chair in Human Rights and Social Justice, University of Ottawa, Canada.
2021-2022 Chen, Cher Weixia (PI, with Graziella Mccarron, Melody Porter & Steve Grande). 4-VA Collaborative Research Grant.
2021 Chen, Cher Weixia. Faculty Research and Development Award. College of Humanities and Social Sciences, GMU.
2020 Chen, Cher Weixia (PI, with Graziella Mccarron & Xiaomei Cai). Office of Undergraduate Education/ Office of the Provost Summer Team Impact Projects Grant, GMU.
2017 Chen, Cher Weixia. Faculty Research and Development Awards, College of Humanities and Social Sciences, GMU.
2013-2015 Chen, Cher Weixia (co-PI, with Paul Gorski). Center for Consciousness and Transformation Seed Grant, GMU.
Grants
2020 PI. Virginia Dual Enrollment Cost Study. Virginia Department of Education. $49,656.
2014 Co-Principal Investigator (PI). What does direct evidence via card swipe tell us about student engagement and retention? A study of the engagement research index project. NASPA Channing Briggs Research Grant. $1,000.
05/11-08/11 PI. A typological approach to understanding and promoting spiritual development in higher education. University of North Texas Junior Faculty Summer Research Fellowship. $5,000.
05/09-08/09 PI. A comparative study of student success among science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) transfers from community colleges in five states. University of North Texas Junior Faculty Summer Research Fellowship. $5,000.
Grants
Producer’s Guild of America (PGA) Create Fellowship in Documentary
Portland Events and Film Office Post-Production Grant
Media Arts Grant, Regional Arts and Culture Council
DC Commission on the Arts and Humanities, Fellow in Media Arts
Best Fiction Short Film, Audience Award – Paris Cineffable Film Festival
Best Short Film, Audience Award – image+nation Montreal Film Festival
Semi-Finalist, feature film screenplay – Austin Screenwriting Competition
Jury Award, Screenwriting – Big Muddy Film Festival
Grants
PI, Incheon-ASEAN Global Youth Camp education program, Incheon East Asian Global Education Institute, 2025.
PI, Incheon-New York Student Exchange Program, Incheon Metropolitan City Office of Education, 2025.
PI, "Different, We Walk Together: Literature-Centered Global Literacy Program," Incheon Metropolitan City Office of Education, 2025.
Governor of Education Award of Appreciation, Incheon Metropolitan Office of Education, 2025
PI, "Different, We Walk Together: Literature-Centered Cultural Exchange Program," Incheon Metropolitan City Office of Education, 2024.
Faculty Research and Development Award, George Mason University Korea, 2023, 2024, & 2025.
Center for Humanities Research (CHR) Summer Research Grant, George Mason University, 2022
National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) Summer Scholar, 2018.
MK President Research Award, George Mason University Korea, 2018
Andrew W. Mellon Dissertation Seminar in Historical Interpretation Fellowship, Rutgers University, 2005
Grants
GRANTS
Principal Investigator / Co-Principal Investigator
Co-Principal Investigator
EAGER - Disrupting Operations of Illicit Supply Networks
National Science Foundation (NSF)
Project: “Network Analysis and Opportunities for Disruption of Organ Trafficking”
$291,510.00 (24 months, starting November 1, 2018; extended until February 28, 2023)
Principal Investigator: FY 2014 International Programs to Combat Trafficking in Persons Grant
Office to Monitor and Combat Trafficking in Persons, U.S. Department of State
Project: “Trafficking in Persons along Mexico’s Eastern Migration Routes: The Role of Mexican Transnational Criminal Organizations”
$200,000.00 (18 months, starting April 2015)
Collaborator / researcher
Collaborator: 21st Century Borders SSHRC Partnership Grant
Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada
Project: “Twenty-First Century Borders: Emergent Challenges Within and Among States”
$5.4 million (April 1, 2021-March 30, 2028)
FELLOWSHIPS, AFFILIATIONS AND SCHOLARSHIPS
Fellow, Small Wars Journal - El Centro (2021-to date)
Affiliated faculty, Observatory of the Binational Relationship between Mexico-United States (Observatorio de la Relación Binacional México-Estados Unidos), National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM) (2021 to date)
Non-resident Scholar, Center for the United States and Mexico, James A. Baker III Institute for Public Policy, Rice University (October 1, 2017-December 31, 2021)
Expert in the areas of Mexico-U.S. relations, organized crime, immigration, border security and human trafficking
Woodrow Wilson Center Global Fellow (August 1, 2017-December 31, 2021), Latin American Program
Short-term visiting fellow, Baker Institute’s Center for the United States and Mexico, Rice University (May 21 - June 8, 2018), Project: “The Improvised War: Calderón’s Years and Consequences” (with Dr. Tony Payan)
Woodrow Wilson Center Residential Fellowship (September 2016-July 2017), Project: “Trafficking in Persons, Irregular Immigration and Transnational Organized Crime in Central America and Mexico”
Research fellow at the Freie Universität Berlin - Desigualdades.net project (June–August 2013)
Drugs, Security and Democracy (DSD) Post-doctoral Fellowship (August 2011-July 2012)
Fulbright-García Robles Fellowship for Graduate Studies (Sep 2000-May 2002)
Consejo Nacional de Ciencia y Tecnología (CONACYT) Scholarship (Fall 2000–August 2006)
New School for Social Research Dissertation Fellowship (2003-2004)
New School for Social Research Graduate Teaching Fellowship (2003-2004)
New School for Social Research Tuition Scholarship (Fall 2000 - Fall 2003)
Janey Program for Latin American Studies Summer Grant (Summer 2004)
2002 Transregional Center for Democratic Studies (TCDS) New Social Science Training Fellowship (September-December 2002)
Grants
In Progress
US Department of Education (University of Illinois at Chicago). The Chicago Early Childhood Preparation and Pathway (CECPP) Partnership. PI: C. Main. Role: Co-Principal Investigator. 2019-2024.
National Institutes of Health. Efficacy and neurobiological mechanisms of a parent-focused mindfulness intervention to prevent adolescent substance use. PI: T. Chaplin. Role: Statistician. 2021-2026.
National Institutes of Health. Parent-adolescent interactions, gender, and substance use: Brain mechanisms. PI T. Chaplin. Role: Statistician. 2018-2023.
Grants
- National Science Foundation (NSF)
- U.S. Army Research Institute for the Behavioral and Social Sciences (ARI)
- U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS), with additional funding from the Swedish Civil Contingencies Agency (MSB) and the Dutch National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC)
Grants
National Science Foundation (NSF), Law and Social Science Doctoral Dissertation Grant, Co-Principal Investigator (and Dissertation Advisor) with Maria Valdovinos Olson (GMU, PhD Candidate) in October, 2022. The award funding is disbursed through Arizona State University.
Advisory Board member of the European Research Council (ERC)- Consolidator Project Transnational Advocacy Networks and Corporate Accountability for Major International Crimes (principal investigator: Dr. Raluca Grosesçu, University of Bucharest). This project has received 5 years of funding from the ERC under the European Union's Horizon 2020 research and innovation program (grant agreement No. 101002993 - CORPACCOUNT) and it is implemented by the National University of Political Science and Public Administration in Bucharest, (€4,000,000) 2021-2026.
Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, Invitational Research Fellowship in Japan, October 2021-January 2022.
George Mason University Faculty Development Grant ($6,000) May, 2021.
George Mason University Faculty Study Leave Award, Fall Semester, 2021.
Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars. Residential Fellowship, and affiliation with Science, Technology, and Innovation Program, to research and work on book manuscript. September 2019- May 2020.
George Mason University Provost PhD Program Grant (with Nancy Hanrahan). Competitive university-wide grant for the Sociology PhD Program. ($475,000), 2018-2021.
George Mason University Provost PhD Program Grant. Competitive university-wide grant for the Sociology PhD Program. ($406,800), 2015-2018.
Corporation for National and Community Service. Co-principal Investigator (with Jim Witte, Amy Best, and Shannon Davis). Grant to study the impact of immigrant civic engagement on socio-economic mobility in seven cities across the United States. ($350,000), October, 2015; and renewed in June, 2017.
Society for the Study of Social Problems. Awarded funding from Board of Directors to organize and moderate a special panel session at the 2015 Annual Meeting that I proposed for convening international graduate student scholars from multiple continents of the global South (Myanmar, Honduras, Bolivia, and Egypt) conducting social research on transnational conflict. ($5000), 2014-2015.
George Mason University Faculty Study Leave Award, Fall Semester, 2014.
Society for the Study of Social Problems. Awarded funding to cover two conference rooms at the Westin Hotel at Times Square in New York and professional staff from SSSP, and raised (with David Kyle, UC Davis) additional $3,500 from University of Connecticut’s Human Rights Institute, University of California, Davis’ Office of University Outreach and International Programs and Department of Sociology George Mason University's Consortium on Global Problem Solving and Office of Global and International to organize a one-day international conference on “Re-Imagining Human Rights: The Challenge of Agency, Creativity, and Global Justice,” (http://www.sssp1.org/index.cfm/pageid/1635/ ). ($7,500), 2013.
George Mason University Provost PhD Program Grant (with Amy Best). Competitive university-wide grant for the Sociology PhD Program. ($405,500), 2012-2015.
Center for Global Studies. Faculty Research Grant for project titled, “Just Practicing? The Transnational Production of Human Rights in Burma.” ($2,500), 2010-2011.
George Mason University Provost. Awarded stipend to travel to Moscow to strengthen educational partnership and explore potential for a joint human rights certificate program between our Department of Sociology and Anthropology and the State University – Higher School of Economics’ Department of Public Policy and Department of Sociology in Moscow, Russian Federation. ($4,200), 2010.
Federation Internationale des Ligues des Droits de l’Homme [International Federation of Human Rights], based in Paris, France. Grant for travel to Bangkok, Thailand to conduct interviews with the Burma Lawyer’s Council, 80 NGOs from the Global North and South, and Burmese and ethnic nationalist minority activist groups from Burma, and to conduct field research along the Thai-Burma border relating to emerging transnational campaigns for accountability on international crimes in Burma, including by a referral to International Criminal Court. ($5,000), 2009.
George Mason University Fenwick Fellowship (with Tony Samara). Funding, part-time research assistant, and library office space for research project: Transnational Justice and Legal Discourse in the Making of Extraordinary Rendition. ($5,000), 2007-2008.
George Mason University Faculty Study Leave Award, Fall Semester, 2007.
National Endowment for the Humanities. Visiting Scholarship Award at Columbia University. Grant to develop visiting scholar publication and participate in 8-week colloquium on “Human Rights in an Age of Globalization.” ($4,500), 2005.
Grants
Davis, Shannon N. (Principal Investigator). 2016. “The Construction of Perceived Research Competency among Sociology Undergraduates.” American Sociological Association Carla B. Howery Teaching Enhancement Fund. $2,500.
Witte, James (Principal Investigator), Amy Best, John Dale, and Shannon N. Davis (Co-Principal Investigators). 2015-18. “Civic Engagement in Seven Cities.” Corporation for National and Community Service. $370,110.
Davis, Shannon N. (Principal Investigator). 2011. “Gender and Career Prioritization after the Recession.” American Sociological Association Fund for the Advancement of the Discipline Award. $6,885.
Davis, Shannon N. (Principal Investigator). 2010. “Gender, Social Class, and Career Prioritization after the Recession.” Faculty Research and Development Award, College of Humanities and Social Sciences, George Mason University. $4,930.
Davis, Shannon N. (Principal Investigator). 2007. “Examining Mechanisms for the Intergenerational Transmission of Beliefs about Gender.” Faculty Research and Development Award, College of Humanities and Social Sciences, George Mason University. $2,700.
Grants
NICHD/ACF “Social-Emotional Assessment for School Readiness”.
Bill Melinda Gates, Kirlin, Rauner Foundations, “Assessments for Social, Emotional, and Academic Learning with Preschool and Elementary-School Children”.
Institute for Education Sciences: Early Childhood Teachers as Socializers of Young Children's Emotional Competence
NICHD: Computerized Social-Emotional Assessment Battery for School Readiness
Grants
Mason Curriculum Impact Grant: Revision of First-year INYO series for INTO Mason & Mason Korea (2023)
Grants
Received $10,000 CHSS Faculty Research and Development Award (FRDA)
Doug Eyman, Heidi Lawrence and Isidore Dorpenyo received $30,000 Curriculum Impact Grant to expand and revise the Professional Writing and Rhetoric concentration at George Mason
Grants
DoD/MURI
DARPA
NIH_NIA/NINDS
Alzheimer's and Related Dementias Research Award Fund (ARDRAF)
Thomas and Kate Miller Jeffress Memorial Trust Fund
4-VA Initiative
American Housing Foundation
CHSS Faculty Research Development Award (2X)
Grants
University of Chicago Academic Scholarship, 2012-2013
Brigham Young University-Idaho Academic Scholarship, 2008-2010
Brigham Young University-Idaho Research Scholarship, 2010
Grants
FUNDED PROJECTS
Nancy Berlinger, Lisa Eckenwiler, Verina Wild, “Responding to Low-Wage Migrant Workers’ Health During COVID-19: A Normative Framework and Practical Toolkit for Using “Grey Literature” as a Source of Promising Practices and Policy Ideas” Paper prepared for Public Health Emergency Preparedness and Response Ethics Network (PHEPREN) and the Ethics and Governance Unit, World Health Organization, 2020-2021 (Epidemic Ethics/WHO initiative which has been supported by FCDO/Wellcome Grant 214711/Z/18/Z)
Matthew Hunt, Lisa Eckenwiler (Co-Investigator), John Pringle, Lisa Schwartz, Shelley-Rose Hyppolite, and Mayfourth Luneta, “A Qualitative Inquiry into the Ethics of Closing Humanitarian Projects in the Philippines, Focusing on Moral Experiences of Community Stakeholders,” Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, 2020-2022
“Humanitarian Health Ethics and Global Health Justice for the Long-term Displaced: Comprehensive Services and Epistemic Justice,” Faculty Research and Development Award, College of Humanities and Social Sciences, George Mason University, 2020-2021
Ryoa Chung, Lisa Eckenwiler (Co-Investigator), and Matthew Hunt, Vulnérabilité Structurelle de Santé et Justice Sociale. Étude de Cas: Les Enjeux Ethiques Concernant la Santé des Réfugiés Handicapés au Canada, Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, 2018-2022
Santé des Réfugiés Handicapés au Canada, Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, 2018-2022.
Matthew Hunt, Ryoa Chung, Lisa Eckenwiler (Co-Investigator), and John Pringle, Ethics and the Closure of Humanitarian Health Projects, Réseau de Recherche en Santé des Populations du Quebec 2018-2019#
Agomoni Ganguli Mitra, Ayesha Ahmad, Ryoa Chung, Lisa Eckenwiler (Co-Principal Investigator), Matthew Hunt, Jackie Leach Scully, and Lisa Schwarz, Gender, Vulnerability, and Global Health Emergency Wellcome Trust, 2018-2019^
Counterterrorism, Ethics, and Global Health, College of Humanities and Social Sciences Faculty Research and Development Award, 2013
Matthew Hunt, Lisa Eckenwiler (Co-Investigator), John Pringle, and Lisa Schwartz, An Ethics Framework for Research in Low-Resource Disaster Settings, Canadian Institutes for Health Research, 2012-2017
Research Group Member, The Ethics of Care and Place, Center for Humans and Nature, 2011-2014
Ivy Bourgeault, Ron Labonte, Lisa Eckenwiler (Consultant), et al., Source Country Perspectives on the Migration of Highly Trained Health Personnel: Causes, Consequences, and Responses, Canadian Institutes for Health Research, 2010-2015
Jack Hadley, Lisa Eckenwiler (Co-Investigator), and Tim Waidman, Economic and Ethical Analysis of Age-Based Premiums in a Health Insurance Purchasing Pool, Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, 2009-2010
Source Countries for Nurses and Care Workers in the U.S.: Ethical Implications, Center for Global Studies, George Mason University Faculty Research Grant, 2009
Caregiving in the Context of Globalization, George Mason University Faculty Summer Research Grant, 2008
Member, Responsible Conduct of Research Task Force, Council on Graduate Studies, 2005-2006
Co Applicant, Symposium: Fighting the Global War on Terror: Ethical Issues in the Treatment of Detainees, Virginia Foundation for the Humanities, 2005
The Ethics of Bioethics: Mapping the Moral Landscape, Old Dominion University Faculty Summer Research Grant, 2005
Moral Reasoning and the Review of Research Involving Human Subjects, Old Dominion University Faculty Summer Research Grant, 2000
Grants
Curriculum Impact Grant, The Office of Provost, George Mason University, 2023-2024
Provost's Summer Research Fellowship, George Mason University, 2018, 2020
Travel Research Grant, George Mason University, 2019
Fulbright Foreign Student Program, 2013
Grants
Current Grants and Contracts
Saving Young Lives and Decreasing Health Disparities Through the Dissemination of Culturally Sensitive Evidence-Based Assessment to State-Funded Behavioral Health Organizations
FY 2023 Congressional Directive Spending Projects
HHS/Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA)
Aims: (1) To train clinicians who serve diverse, low-income youth and families, and their clinical supervisors, in the use of measurement-based care to allow for regular administration of culturally sensitive evidence-based assessments to clients, and (2) help administrators effectively implement use of MBC across their organizations so that all clients may benefit from their use.
Dates of grant: 9/30/2023 – 9/29/2025
Total Costs: $943,983
Role: PI
Co-Investigators: K. Renshaw & A. Sanchez
Detecting and Addressing Bulimia Nervosa in Adolescent Girls through Local Community Service Boards
1ASTWH220109-01-00 (Fischer PI)
Department of Health and Human Services, Office on Women’s Health
Aim: (1) To disseminate evidence-based diagnostic tools for adolescent eating disorders and (2) To develop and test a transdiagnostic treatment for adolescents with eating disorders (Bulimia Nervosa and Binge Eating Disorder) using a community-based participatory research approach.
Dates of grant: 10/1/2022 – 9/30/2025
Total costs: $1,361,563.00
Role: Co-Investigator, Other Co-Investigators: Amanda Sanchez, Ph.D.
Suicide & Substance Misuse Prevention for Veterans: Transdiagnostic Treatment Development & Pilot
Virginia Department of Veteran Services (VDS)
Aim: To develop and pilot test a transdiagnostic treatment for Veterans with suicidality, substance misuse, and other co-occurring mental health conditions.
Dates of grant: 8/25/2023 – 8/24/2025
Total Costs: $150,000
MPIs: K. Renshaw & C. Esposito-Smythers
Inova Kellar Center Clinical Research Service Contract
Aim: Aid the Inova Kellar Center in the implementation of web-based routine outcomes monitoring, also known as measurement-based care (MBC), in collaboration with OWL (https://www.owl.health/), LLC. The Kellar Center provides behavioral health treatment to children, adolescents, and their families, and offers a full continuum of services including partial hospitalization, intensive outpatient, intensive home-based services, outpatient, medication management, psychiatric evaluations, psychological testing, and a therapeutic school. Use of MBC allows the Kellar Center to use client self-report data, collected via empirically validated assessments, to guide treatment and discharge planning, monitor client progress, evaluate the efficacy of all services, and address accreditation requirements. These data are also used to prepare research papers and provide pilot data for grant applications.
Sponsor: Inova Kellar Center
Dates of Contract: 6/7/16-6/6/24
Total Costs: $623,193
Role: PI
Fairfax Consortium for Evidence-Based Practice
Aim: The purpose of this contract is to establish and lead a training consortium, in partnership with Healthy Minds Fairfax, for ongoing training in evidence-based interventions for youth and family serving behavioral health providers from local health and human service agencies, public schools, and private provider networks. Training and consultation are provided in interventions for suicidal behavior as well as mental health and substance use disorders. The consortium also evaluates training outcomes and provides implementation support. Data collected are also be used to prepare research papers/presentations and provide pilot data for grant applications.
Sponsor: Healthy Minds Fairfax (Fairfax County Government)
Dates of Contract: 12/1/17-6/30/26
Total Costs: $1,498,358
Role: PI
Northern Virginia Regional Consortium for Evidence-Based Practice
Aim: The purpose of this contract is to establish and run a training consortium for ongoing training in evidence-based trauma treatments for children, adolescents, and adults. Training and consultation are provided to behavioral health providers from Community Service Boards in Alexandria, Arlington County, Fairfax County, Fairfax City, Falls Church, Loudon County, and Prince William County. The consortium also evaluates training outcomes and provides implementation support. Data collected are also be used to prepare research papers/presentations and provide pilot data for grant applications.
Sponsor: Northern Virginia Regional Management Group
Dates of Contract: 9/1/20-8/31/23 (renewal in progress)
Total Costs: $703,071
Role: PI
Co-Investigators: Keith Renshaw, Ph.D. & Sarah Fischer, Ph.D.
Grants
Completed & On-going grants:
- Principal Investigator, 2021. Managing Protests: A National Study of Police Policies and Practices. National Institute of Justice. (Funded, 2022). Amount: $600,000.
- Principal Investigator, added 2021. Supporting Innovation: Field initiated Programs to Improve Officer and Public Safety. Bureau of Justice Assistance. (Funded, 2019). Amount: $500,000.
- Principal Investigator, added 2021. Cocooning and Procedural Justice Dialectics: A Clustered Randomized Field Trial to Assess Crime Reduction and Citizen Perspectives Using Two Evidence-Based Programs in Tucson, AZ. National Institute of Justice.(Funded, 2017). Amount: $855,860
Grants
NCTE/CCCC Research Initiative Grant, 2021-22 with Courtney Wooten, Lourdes Fernandez, Kerry Folan, Ariel M. Goldenthal, and Sheri Rain
NCTE/CCCC Emergent Researcher Award, 2018 with Jessica McCaughey, GWU
Grants
2021 Summer Funding from the Center for Humanities Research, College of Humanities and Social Sciences, George Mason University - https://chr.gmu.edu/research/
Grants
Association of Doctoral Programs in Criminology and Criminal Justice Student Research Funding (2022)
Grants
Fulbright U.S. Scholar- Fulbright English Teaching Assistantship and Research
U.S. Fulbright Scholar Program- US Department of State Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs
Board of Trustees’ Resolution of Appreciation: Shenandoah University
Who’s Who Among Students in American Universities & Colleges
Grants
The Color of Emotion: Teachers' Racialized Interpretations of Children's Emotions and Student Outcomes, W.T. Grant Foundation, Co-Principal Investigator.
Emotional Competence: Associations with Parenting, Social Behavior and Indicators of School Readiness, Center for the Advancement of Well-Being, Principal Investigator
Early Childhood Teachers as Socializers of Young Children's Emotional Competence, Institute of Education Sciences, US Department of Education, Consultant
Grants
Elizabeth and J. Richardson Dilworth Fellowship, with funding from the Ruth Stanton Foundation, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, NJ, 2019–2020
Honorable Mention, International Center of Medieval Art Book Prize, 2018, for Theophilus and the Theory and Practice of Medieval Art (Penn State Press, 2017)
Kress / International Center of Medieval Art Publication Grant, 2015, for Theophilus and the Theory and Practice of Medieval Art (Penn State Press, 2017)
Stefan Engelhorn Curatorial Fellowship in the Busch-Reisinger Museum, Harvard Art Museums, Harvard University, 2012–2014
Residential Postdoctoral Fellowship, Getty Research Institute, Los Angeles, 2011–2012
Grants
John W. Kluge Fellowship, Kluge Center, Library of Congress, 2013-2014 (deferred to 2014-2015)
Smithsonian Institution Postdoctoral Fellowship, 2013-2014 (deferred to 2014-2015)
U.S. Capitol Historical Society Fellowship, 2011-2012
Littleton-Griswold Grant for Research in U.S. Legal History, American Historical Association, 2005 and 2006
Library Resident Research Fellowship (Supported by the Phillips Fund for Native American Research), American Philosophical Society, Philadelphia, PA., 2006
Grants
2025 - 2026, Principal Investigator - Bridge Funding for Advancing Collaborations for Equity in Marine & Climate Science. Spencer Foundation, Kapor Foundation, William T. Grant Foundation, and Alfred P. Sloan Foundation ($19,241)
2025, Research Consultant - Uninterrupted Higher Education: An Ecosystem Approach to Supporting Students with Precarious Immigration Statuses. William T. Grant Foundation ($150,000)
2023-2025, Principal Investigator - Advancing Collaborations for Equity in Marine and Climate Science (ACE-MCS). National Science Foundation ($2,308,247)
2023-2025, Senior Personnel - BRinging together Allies In Diversifying Climate and Marine Careers (BRAID-CMC) Alliance Workshop. National Science Foundation ($141,142)
2021-2022, Co-Principal Investigator - From ‘Cash Cows’ to ‘Yellow Peril’: Examining the Positioning of Asian International Students in the United States in Contentious Times. Spencer Foundation ($44,293)
2019-2020, Principal Investigator - Researching diversity, inclusion, and student success: Towards a global campus climate framework. Worldwide Universities Network (£24,048)
2018-2021, Co-Principal Investigator - Examining collective impact in a community-university partnership to broaden girls’ participation in science from middle school to high school graduation. National Science Foundation ($299,267)
2014-2015, Principal Investigator - Foreign-born Black collegians learning race in a U.S. context. NASPA Foundation ($2,500)
Grants
Fulbright Foreign Scholarship Board, Fulbright U. S. Scholar, University of Debrecen, Hungary, 2024-2025.
Virginia Museum of History & Culture: Andrew W. Mellon Fellowship, 2020-2021.
John L. Nau III Center for the Study of the American Civil War, Research Fellowship, University of Virginia, 2020-2021.
National Sporting Library and Museum, John H. Daniels Fellowship, 2020-2021.
Benjamin F. Stevens Fellowship, Massachusetts Historical Society, 2019-2020.
Research Fellowship, Virginia Center for Civil War Studies, Virginia Tech University, 2019-2020.
Kentucky State Historical Society Scholarly Research Fellowship, 2018-2019.
United States Military Academy, West Point Summer Seminar in Military History, 2012
David Warren Bowman Award for Best Paper, Alabama Association of Historians, 2011.
National Historical Publications and Records Commission/ Wisconsin Historical Society, Institute for the Editing of Historical Documents Certificate, 2008.
The Gilder-Lehrman Institute of American History Post-Doctoral Research Fellowship, 2005.
U. S. Military Historical Institute General and Mrs. Matthew B. Ridgeway Post-Doctoral Research Grant, 2005
Grants
Faculty co-director, Race and ethnicity in Cultural Studies: New courses and new connections, Curriculum Impact Grant, George Mason University, 2022-2023.
Grants
2024-25. Residential Fellow. Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, affiliated with the Refugee and Forced Displacement Initiative.
2024. Council of American Overseas Research Centers’ Multi-Country Research. U.S. State Department. In support of research project “My Culture, My Survival: Arts Initiatives for Refugees by Refugees.
2022 Faculty Research and Development Award (FRDA). George Mason University
2019 Curriculum Impact Grant. Folklore and Festivals. George Mason University.
2016 Fund for Faculty Excellence Award. University of Oregon.
2016 Humanities Research Award. College of Arts and Sciences. University of Oregon.
2015-16 Rippey Innovative Teaching Award for development of “Politically Creative” Freshman Interest Group seminar
2012-13 Fulbright Teaching/Research Award. In support of research project “Dance and the Politics of Intangible Cultural Heritage in Malawi.” Teaching at Mzuzu University, Malawi.
2012 CO-PI. Randall V. Mills Archives of Northwest Folklore Preservation and Access Project for Media Collections. Oregon State Libraries.
2011 Rippey Innovative Teaching Award for development of “Politically Creative” Freshman Interest Group seminar.
2011 C0-PI. Oregon Folklife Network Grande Ronde Consortium Grant. Oregon Arts Commission.
2011 CO-PI. Randall V. Mills Archives of Northwest Folklore Preservation and Access Project for Media Collections. Oregon State Libraries.
2010 PI. Traditional Arts Apprenticeship Program (TAAP), Interactive Map and Folk Arts Archive. National Endowment for the Arts
2010 Research Grant. Center for the Study of Women in Society. University of Oregon.
2010 Summer Research Award. The Office of Research and Faculty Development. University of Oregon
2008 Junior Professorship Development Award. College of Arts and Science. University of Oregon.
2007 Junior Professorship Development Award. College of Arts and Science. University of Oregon.
2006 African Studies Course Seed Grant. African Studies Program. University of Oregon.
2006 Junior Professorship Development Award. College of Arts and Science. University of Oregon.
2005-06 New Faculty Award. University of Oregon’s Office of the Vice President for Research and Graduate Studies.
2004 Scholarly and Creative Activities Grant. Texas A&M University Office of Vice President of Research.
2004 Women’s Studies Faculty Research Fellowship. Texas A&M University Women’s Studies Program.
2002 P.I. on grant to fund Folklore and Education seminar at the University of Toledo: “Women the Keepers of Tradition.” Ohio Humanities Council.
2000 Doctoral Student Grant-in-Aid of Research. Indiana University, Bloomington, Graduate School.
1999 Fulbright-Hays Doctoral Dissertation Research Abroad Award
1998 Graduate Student Paper Prize for “Putting Colonialism into Perspective: Cultural History and the Case of Malipenga in Malawi.” African Studies Program. Indiana University, Bloomington.
Grants
Conference on College Composition and Communication Research Initiative Grant. “Student Perceptions of Learning Experiences in Hybrid Writing Courses.” With Courtney Adams Wooten, Lourdes Fernandez, Brian Fitzpatrick, Kerry Folan, and Sheri Nicole Rain. January 2022.
Grants
2018-2026. National Endowment for the Arts: ArtsLabs. The Mason Arts Research Center.
2021-2022. Wake Forest University, The Science of Honesty, The John Templeton Foundation. When Honesty is Discouraged: Understanding Culturally-Endorsed Parental Lies.
2021-2023. National Endowment for the Arts. Positive Effects of Marching Arts on Feelings of Belongingness, Social Bonding, and Inclusivity for Minority Students.
2020. The Alan Alda Center for Science Communication. Acting Techniques Study.
2019. National Science Foundation, Science of Learning, SBE Directorate. Co-PI. Conference “Learning through Play and Imagination” Proposal ID 1940560.
2017-2019. National Endowment for the Arts: Art Works. Theatrical Thinking: The Habits of Mind Taught in Theatre Classes. #17-980096
2017-2018. Caplan Foundation for Early Childhood. Puppets, Dolls, and Costumes: Embodiment and Representation when Constructing Knowledge through Play.
2015-2018. Arts Connection. Theatre in School to Promote Youth with Autism.
2013-2016. The John Templeton Foundation. Training Empathy and Compassion through Engagement with Fictional Worlds #47592
2010-2012. National Science Foundation Minority Postdoctoral Research Fellowship.
Grants
Stage Two Progressive Grant - Collaboration with The University of Minnesota Youth and AIDS Projects - Department of Pediatrics Research Council - The University of Minnesota - 2021 ($10,000)
Stage One Progressive Grant - Collaboration with The University of Minnesota Youth and AIDS Projects - Department of Pediatrics Research Council - The University of Minnesota - 2021 ($5,000)
Grants
Senior Fulbright Scholar, Spain. 2024
P.I. and Director, Project GO/MASON. 2021-2024
Faculty Fellow, The Center for Humanities Research, George Mason University, Spring 2021
CLS/US State Department Alumni Development Fund, 2018
Mathy Scholar, George Mason University, 2016
CLS/US State Department Alumni Development Fund, 2016
NEH Summer Scholar, American Muslims: History, Culture, and Politics, 2015
Postdoctoral Fellow, North Africa SME (French/Arabic linguist), the Center for Strategic Communication, ASU, 2012-13
Grants
National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship to support the writing of book manuscript Abstraction in the Andes, 1950-1970 (2020-2021)
Millard Meiss Publication Grant for Transatlantic Encounters: Latin American Artists in Paris between the Wars (2016)
National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship to support the writing of book manuscript Transatlantic Encounters: Latin American Artists in Paris between the Wars (2012-2013)
Post-Doctoral Research Fellowship at the Center for the Study of Modern Art, The Phillips Collection, Washington, DC (2008-2009)
Getty Foundation publication grant for Penn State University Press’s series “Refiguring Modernism: Arts, Literatures and Sciences.”(2008)
Grants
Term Faculty Grant for the Development the study abroad program "Art and Memory in Rome and Florence." Co-authored by L. Bauman. Fall 2019.
GEO Global Studies Development Grant for the study abroad program "Art and Memory in Rome and Florence." Co-authored by L. Bauman. Fall 2019.
History and Art History Teaching Development Grant for proposed course on the Roman Army and Imperial Monuments. Spring 2019.
Grants
- Huntington Library Fellow (2012)
- Colonial Williamsburg Fellow (2011)
Grants
Nyberg Grant, 2004. In cooperation with four other Millikin University faculty members, applied for and received a grant involving collaborative summer work toward standardization of Critical Writing 1 assignments around issues of critical literacy. Awarded $2500.
Grants
Andrew W. Mellon Faculty Fellowship, Harvard University, 1986-87
National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship, 1994-95
John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Fellowship, 1996-97
Grants
Fellow, Institute for Historical Studies, University of Texas at Austin, 2008
Churchill Scholar, University of Texas, 2006-(lifetime)
Grants
“Global Passages: Creating a Public Database of Slaving Voyages across the Indian Ocean and Asia,” NEH Digital Projects for the Public: Production grant (began 2023, terminated 2025), co-written with Daniel Domingues, Richard Allen, and Matthew Hopper
Geoffrey and Elizabeth Thayer Verney Fellowship, Nantucket Historical Association, 2019
Research fellowship, New England Regional Fellowship Consortium, 2016-7
Grants
Teaching Assistant Fellowship, Environmental Science & Policy, AY 2016 & 2017
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Curriculum Impact Grant, Office of the Provost, Conceived of and developed course modules to reflect professional development needs of sustainability professionals; co-wrote, revised, and solicited department and college feedback for successful grant. AY 2018-2019, Environmental Science & Policy Department, George Mason University |
Grants
NEH Grant funding for producing the dataset "Valuing Enslaved Lives in Fauquier County, Virginia, 1799-1865" with Enslaved: Peoples of the Historical Slave Trade, 2023-2024
NEH Funded Summer Institute Selected Participant - Data-Informed Methods for Slavery Studies, Summer, 2023
Omohundro Institute - National Endowment for the Humanities ARP Research Fellowship, 2022
Inclusive Excellence Curriculum Revision Team Grant, George Mason University, 2022
Mason 4VA OER Grant Recipient for course redesign using Open Education Resources, 2018.
Provost Award, George Mason University, 2014-2015.
Provost Travel Award, George Mason University, 2014.
Andrew W. Mellon Fellow, Virginia Historical Society, Richmond, VA, 2014.
Josephine Pacheco Award for Best Graduate Research Paper, George Mason University, 2010.
Randy Beth Clarke Fellowship, for studies in antebellum southern and women's history, George Mason University, 2010.
Grants
Non-Resident Senior Fellow, USC Shoah Foundation, 2024-2025
Sharon Abramson Research Grant, Holocaust Educational Foundation of Northwestern University, 2023
Residential Fellow, George Mason University Center for Humanities Research, Autumn 2022
Franklin Research Grant, American Philosophical Society, 2022
Faculty Fellow, Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media, 2021-2022
Fenwick Fellow, George Mason University, 2020-2021
Mabelle McLeod Lewis Fellow, 2019-2020
Silas Palmer Research Fellow, Hoover Institution Library & Archives, 2016
Grants
Dr. Huntt's dissertation project was awarded a 2022 American Psychological Foundation (APF)/ COGDOP Graduate Research Scholarship. She received the Savin Scholar Award in 2022 from the Devereux Institute of Clinical & Professional Training & Research professionals.
Grants
2021-22: Ruth W. and A. Morris Williams, Jr. Fellowship, National Humanities Center (for Nuclear Decolonizations)
2021: George Mason University Faculty Research Development Award
2018: Inclusive Pedagogy Project Award, University of Chicago (for “Universal Access in the Humanities Core”)
2017: First Book Institute Fellowship, Center for American Literary Studies at Pennsylvania State University (for Infrastructures of Apocalypse)
2014-15: Mellon/ACLS Dissertation Completion Fellowship
Grants
Summer Research Fellowship, Office of the Provost, George Mason University, 2016
International Travel Grant, GAPSA, George Mason University, 2016
Provost’s Award for Dissertation Research Travel, George Mason University, 2016
Provost’s Award for Dissertation Research Travel, George Mason University, 2015
Provost’s Award for Dissertation Research Travel, George Mason University, 2014
Digital History Fellowship, Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media, 2012
Grants
Summer Research Grant, AbuSulayman Center for Global Islamic Studies, GMU
Hunt Postdoctoral Fellowship, the Wenner-Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research
Residential Fellowship, George Mason University, Center for Humanities Research (CHR)
Faculty Research and Development Award (FRDA), George Mason University, College for Humanities and Social Sciences
Doctoral Dissertation Research Improvement Grant, National Science Foundation
Graduate Research Opportunity Grant, Stanford University, Office of the Vice Provost for Education
Diversity Dissertation Research Opportunity Grant, Stanford University, Office of the Vice Provost for Education
Language Study Grant, Stanford University, Abbasi Program in Islamic Studies
Research Grant, The Scientific and Technological Research Council of Turkey (TUBITAK)
Grants
Past Externally Funded Projects
Collaborative Research: The Impact of Covid-19 on Victimization Risk and Service Needs for Domestic Violence Victims and Survivors (September 2021 - August 2024)
Amount: US$478,887 (George Mason University Amount: $208,081)
Funder: National Science Foundation
Role: Co-principal Investigator (with Co-PI Dr. Mangai Natarajan)
Project Partner: John Jay College of Criminal Justice
Mapping for Policy, “A Whole Journey Approach to Tackling Sexual Victimization in Public Transit” (2017-2019)
- Role: Principal Investigator
- Amount: US$100,000
- Funder: Sexual Violence Research Initiative and World Bank Group Development Marketplace for Innovation on Gender-based Violence Prevention Award
Systematic Review of Barriers to, and Facilitators of Women’s Participation in High Productivity Labor Market Sectors (2017-2019)
- Role: Senior Reviewer
- Funder: DFID
- Amount: US$86,000
Survey of State Attorney General Offices (2015-2020)
- Role: Co-principal Investigator
- Funder: Bureau of Justice Statistics, Department of Justice
- Amount: US$449,735
Rutgers Violence Against Women Research Consortium (Sub-contract to Rutgers University; 2017-2018)
- Role: Consortium Core Faculty
- Funder: National Institute of Justice
- Amount: US$166,000 base funding with potential for increase as research tasks are assigned
Harnessing the Power of Businesses in Responding to Refugee Crises: A Blueprint for Improved Humanitarian-Private Sector Collaboration (2016-2018)
- Role: Co-principal Investigator
- Funder: U.S. Bureau of Population, Refugees, and Migration
- Amount: US$199,432
Harnessing the Power of Businesses in Responding to Refugee Crises: A Blueprint for Improved Humanitarian-Private Sector Collaboration (2016-2017)
- Role: Co-principal Investigator
- Funder: U.S. Bureau of Population, Refugees, and Migration
- Amount: US$199,432
Making Growth Work for Women in Low Income Countries Research Consortium (2015-2017)
- Role: Co-PI and Project Manager (Lead Investigators: Dr. Elizabeth Peters and Dr. Nan Astone)
- Funder: Canada’s International Development Research Centre, U.K.’s DFID, and Hewlett Foundation
- Amount: US$1,639,486
Understanding the Economic Impact of Gun Violence (2015-2017)
- Funder: Everytown for Gun Safety Support Fund
- Role: Principal Investigator
- Amount: US$400,000
Economic Impact of Refugees on Host Communities: Social Networks, Economic Vulnerability, and Resilience among Urban Refugees in Kenya, Turkey, and Pakistan (2015-2017)
- Role: Investigator
- Funder: U.S. Bureau of Population, Refugees, and Migration
- Amount: US$200,000
Analyzing Crime Patterns and Trends in the Washington, DC Metropolitan Area: Documenting the Value of Cross-Agency and Cross-Jurisdictional Data Integration (2014-2015)
- Role: Acting Co-principal Investigator
- Funder: National Institute of Justice
- Amount: US$689,507
Awards and Fellowships
Development Marketplace: Innovations to Prevent Gender-Based Violence Award, 2017. Awarded by World Bank Group and Sexual Violence Research Initiative for supporting research and innovation to help address the problem of sexual harassment in and around public transportation ($100,000)
National Institute of Justice Graduate Research Fellowship, 2012-2014 ($25,000) Rutgers University Dissertation Fellowship, 2012 ($20,000)
Rutgers Center on Public Security Research Assistantship, 2011-2012 ($15,000) Gerhard Mueller Scholarship, Rutgers Alumni Association, 2010 ($600) TUBITAK Graduate Fellowship, 2006-2008 ($20,000)
Grants
Center for Humanities, Residential Fellow, Fall 2024. CHR Past Fellows
CHSS Inclusive Excellence Curriculum Enhancement Gant for the development of KORE 455 Korean Diasporas in a Global World course, 2023.
4-VA@Mason Collaborative Research Grant (2022-2023) project, “Globalization in Reverse: The Diffusion of K-pop in the United States” with Byunghwan Son and Dae Young Kim
The Best Presentation Award, “Implementing Film Projects in Language Classrooms” with Jihye Moon, The Foreign Language Association of Virginia, 2021.
Online Course Development Grant, The Sterns Center, George Mason University, 2021.
Faculty Research and Professional Development Award (FRDA) project, “The Diffusion and Reception of Korean Popular Culture in the United States” with Dae Young Kim and Byunghwan Son, CHSS, GMU 2020-2021.
The Korea Foundation, Support for the Establishment of Professorship, 2019-2024.
4-VA grant for creating shared courses in Korean, 2013-2014.
Global Society of Korea and America Scholarship, 2012.
Grants
- Just-in-Time Adaptive Interventions for Emotion Regulation; National Science Foundation; Role: Co-PI
- Affective Forecasting Errors: Implications for Individual Learning and Performance; Army Research Institute; Role: PI
- Emotion Management Orientation and Training Exercises II (EMOTE II); Army Research Institute; Role: Co-PI
- Emotion Management Orientation and Training Exercises (EMOTE); Army Research Institute; Role: Co-PI
Grants
Sir William Luce Fellowship, Durham University (UK), Easter Term (late April—late June) 2018.
Fulbright Scholarship, School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), University of London, January-March 2018.
Earhart Foundation Fellowship Research Grants, Summer 1997, Summer 2001, Summer 2004, Summer 2005, Summer 2006, and Spring 2015.
Kennan Institute Short-Term Grant, January 2008.
Hokkaido University Slavic Research Center 21st Century Center of Excellence Program Foreign Visitors Fellowship, June-July 2007.
National Endowment for the Humanities Stipend, Summer 1995.
United States Institute of Peace Grant, September 1994-May 1995.
Earhart Foundation Fellowship Research Grant, September 1993-May 1994.
United States Institute of Peace Jennings Randolph Peace Fellowship, June 1989-May 1990.
Kennan Institute Research Scholarship, February-August 1985.
Rockefeller Foundation International Relations Fellowship, September 1982-November 1984.
Brookings Institution Research Fellowship, September 1980-August 1981.
Earhart Foundation H. B. Earhart Fellowships, Summer 1980, and Fall 1981.
Institute for the Study of World Politics Fellowship, September 1979-May 1980.
Grants
- Principal Investigator, Off the Wall: Digital Preservation of Civil War Graffiti Houses, National Endowment for the Humanities ($200,000)
- HBCU History & Culture Access Consortium: Contract with the Smithsonian's National Museum of African American History and Culture, ($300,000)
- Principal Investigator, Off the Wall: Digital Preservation of Civil War Graffiti Houses, National Endowment for the Humanities, Principal Investigator, ($60,000)
- Co-Principal Investigator, Building a Community of Supporters Through New Media and Audience Engagement, Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, co-Principal Investigator with Lincoln Mullen and Jessica Otis, ($1,000,000)
- All the Appalachian Trails, National Endowment for the Humanities discovery grant ($29,000)
- Virginia's Lost Appalachian Trail, Virginia Foundation for the Humanities ($10,000)
- Presidential Fellow, George Mason University, 2014-2015
- U.S. Department of Education, UISFL grant Democratic North Africa: Strengthening the Study of North African Culture, Language, and Society, 2012-14 ($96,000)
- Making the History of 1989: Sources and Narratives on the Fall of Communism, National Endowment for the Humanities ($190,000), 2006-2009
- NEH Summer Seminar grant, Making Sense of 1989, 2007-2008 ($68,000)
- Women in World History, National Endowment for the Humanities Exemplary ($250,000)
- Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, Research Scholar, 2005
- State Council of Higher Education in Virginia (SCHEV) Outstanding Faculty Award, 2005
- George Mason University Teaching Excellence Award, 2005
- Co-Director, World History Matters: Teaching and Learning Through Online Primary Sources, National Endowment for the Humanities and Delmas Foundation ($280,000)
- Fellow, Visible Knowledge Project, 2001-04
- Pew National Fellow, Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching, 1999-2001
Grants
Co-PI, Facebook Foundational Integrity & Impact Research: Misinformation and Polarization Award, Meta Platforms Inc.
"Testing fact and logic-based responses to polarizing climate misinformation" (PI: Dr. John Cook, Climate Change Communication Research Hub, Monash University)
Co-PI, Alzheimer's and Related Diseases Research Award Fund (ARDRAF), Virginia Center on Aging, The Commonwealth of Virginia
"Alzheimer Research Inquiry and Care for Asian Americans (ARICAA): Protocol development of culturally tailored social media-based program" (PI: Dr. Alicia Hong, School of Health Administration and Policy, George Mason University)
PI, One for All Educational Grant, Free Speech Center, Middle Tennessee State University
"Supporting PR students’ campaign development and implementation to promote the First Amendment on Mason campus in COMM 331 Public Relations Campaigns"
PI, Faculty Research and Development Award, George Mason University
"Identifying barriers to public understanding of climate change impact on transportation management and policy: A theory-driven approach"
Co-PI, Climate Communication Award, International Environmental Communication Association
"Countering climate misinformation with humor and active inoculation" (PI: Dr. John Cook, Center for Climate Change Communication, George Mason University)
Grants
Principal Investigator. Curriculum Impact Grant, George Mason University. Ethics and AI Minor Development. July 1, 2021—June 30, 2022 ($43,000)
Principal Investigator. Smith Richardson Foundation. CRISPR and Biosecurity: Assessing the Risks, Benefits, and Governance Options for New Genome Editing Tools. January 2017-January 2019. ($193,283)
Principal Investigator. National Endowment for the Humanities, Coming Home: Dialogues on the Moral, Psychological, and Spiritual Impacts of War. 2018-2019 ($100,000)
Principal Investigator. National Endowment for the Humanities, Coming Home: Dialogues on the Moral, Psychological, and Spiritual Impacts of War. 2017-2018 ($100,000)
Principal Investigator. National Endowment for the Humanities, Coming Home: Dialogues on the Moral, Psychological, and Spiritual Impacts of War. 2016-2017. ($81,597)
Co-Principal Investigator. George Mason University, Center for Global Studies, Workshop Grant, 2016. ($7,500)
James F. Hoobler Fellowship, Department of Government and Politics and the School of Public Policy, for exceptional academic work in public policy and management, 2012-2013
Robyn Rafferty Mathias Research Award, in Support of Lebanon Field Research, 2008
Andrew Mellon Research Award, 2007
Grants
2021-2023. National Endowment for the Arts. Role: Co-Investigator. (PI: T. Goldstein, CO-I: D. Young). To support a study examining the longitudinal positive effects of marching arts on feelings of belongingness, social bonding, and inclusivity for minority students.
2021-2023. Spencer Foundation, The Racial Equity Special Research Grant (Grant# 202100291). Role: Co-Investigator (PI: T. Ha; Co-I: Hernández, M., Rogers, A.). Re-imagining Latinx adolescents’ academic success: How cultural assets and social relationships protect against the effects of discrimination.
2016-2018. Loan Repayment Award. National Institute of Health. National Institute on Drug Abuse. Clinical Research (L30 DA042448)
2014-2017. Role: Co-Investigator. National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, NIH. Behavioral and institutional barriers to HIV prevention among migrant women. (1R21HD078201)
Grants
FELLOWSHIPS:
- Fellowship at the Institute for Advanced Studies, Waseda University, Tokyo, Japan, “Historic Representations and Perspectives on Japanese-Korean reconciliation,” 2023
- Isaac Manasseh Meyer Fellowship at the University of Singapore, Singapore, “Collective memories and symbolic boundaries in North-East Asia,” 2020
- POSCO Visiting Fellowship with the East-West Center (EWC) in Honolulu, Hawaii, 2019
- Fellowship at the Institute for Advanced Studies, Waseda University, Tokyo, Japan, “Historic Representations and Perspectives on Japanese-Korean reconciliation,” 2018
- Rockefeller Foundation Bellagio Academic Writing Residency, Bellagio, Italy, “Neighborhood resilience,” 2017
- Fellowship at the Northeast Asia History Foundation, Seoul, South Korea, “Reconciliation in Northeast Asia: The social identity approach,” 2015
- Visiting Professor, National University “Kyiv-Mohyla Academy,” Kiev, Ukraine, 2012- 2013
- Fellowship, George Eckert Institute for International Textbooks Research, Germany, project “The Impact of history education on the reshaping of exclusive conflict identities and negative perceptions of outgroups as well as on the formation of common identity and building positive relationship between former conflict parties,” 2009
- Fulbright New Century Scholars Program Fellowship “Addressing Sectarian, Ethnic and Cultural Conflict within and across National Borders.” Project “The “Peaceful Crimean Model”: The impact of National Identity and Civil Society,” 2003
- The Curriculum Resource Center of the Central European University, participation in the CRC Nationalism session, 2002
- IREX Consortium for Humanities and Social Sciences, Targeted Exchanges Program “Elaboration of curricula and research program for peace education in Crimea,” 2001
- Regional Scholar Exchange Program of the United States Information Agency Fellowship at the Kennan Institute, Woodrow Wilson Center, Washington, D.C, “The resolution of ethnic conflict in Crimea,” 1999-2000.
RESEARCH and PRACTICE GRANTS:
External:
- Principal Investigator, “Contact Theory in Democracy, Human Rights & Governance Programs,” supported by the US Department of State, 2022-2025
- Principal Investigator, “The Costs of Peace: War Experience, Territorial Loss, and Peace Agreement Consensus in Ukraine,” supported by the NSF RAPID grant program, 2022-2023.
- Co- Principal Investigator, “Identity and Religion based approaches to Peace processes,” supported by Bridging Insights Harvard University, 2022-2023
- Principal Investigator, “Tolerance Promotion and Conflict Resolution: Teaching and Practice (Faculty of Philosophy University of Nis (UNI)/George Mason University Partnership)”, supported by the US Department of State, Embassy in Serbia, 2021-2023.
- Principal Investigator, “Developing curricula and internship program with EDGE for Lebanon,” supported by the US Department of State, Embassy in Lebanon, 2021-2022.
- Principal Investigator, “Creating Digital Opportunities in Native American Communities through Tribal Resource Centers: Building Resilience to COVID-19 and Future Pandemics”, supported by the Open Internet Society, 2021- 2022.
- Co- Principal Investigator, “Living Through War: An oral history of civilians experiencing the effects of structural violence in Sudan,” supported by the USAID, 2020-2021.
- Principal Investigator, “History Teachers as agents of Peacebuilding,” supported by the Civic Peace Service (GIZ), Germany, 2020-2021
- Principal Investigator, “Developing youth leadership in community enhancement through internship in local administrations and NGOs,” grant of the S. State Department, Embassy in Ukraine, 2019-2022.
- Principal Investigator, “Interethnic dialogue in Ukraine,” grant of the US Department of State, Embassy in Ukraine, 2018- 2021.
- Co-Principal investigator, “Russian Perspective on Islam”, supported by the National Endowment for Humanities, 2016-2018.
- Co-Principal Investigator, “Russian Perspective on Islam”, supported by the Luce Foundation, 2014- 2017.
- Principal Investigator, “History Teachers as Agents of Nation Building,” supported by the Spencer Foundation, 2012-2013.
- Principal Investigator, “History, memory and conflict in Ukraine”, supported by the Ebert Foundation, 2012.
- Co-Principal investigator, Lessons Learned project: Provincial Reconstruction Teams in Iraq and Afghanistan. Grant of the Center for Complex Operations, National Defense University, 2011-2012.
- Principal Investigator, “Cross Atlantic Conference on History, Memory, and Conflict,” supported by the Ebert Foundation, 2011.
- Principal Investigator, “History Education and Social Identity,” supported by the Spencer Foundation, 2009-2010.
- Principal Investigator, “The common history textbook: Toward the peace education in South Caucasus,” supported by the United States Institute of Peace, 2008-2010.
- Co-director of project “Religion and education in Tajikistan: Toward tolerant civic society,” supported by USAID, 2009-2012.
- Co-director of project “Policy Seminars on Conflicts in Eurasia,” supported by the Title VIII Program of the US Department of State, 2007-2009.
- Country director, research project “The quest for ethno-national identity: positive and negative effects” in collaboration with ERCOMER, supported by INTAS, 2004-2006.
- Principal Investigator, “Education for tolerance: multicultural setting or ethnic school?”, supported by the Spencer Fellowship of the National Academy of Education, 2002-2003
- Principal Investigator, “Sources for Ethnic Tension in the Crimea: Instrumental Primordial Approaches, ” IPRA Foundation research grant 2003
- Director of project, “Tolerant communities,” supported by the Renaissance Foundation, Ukraine, 2002-2003
- Grant for publication of the book “Social Identity and Conflict in Crimea,” ECA Alumni Small Grant, 2002
- Director of project, “Facilitating community change in multicultural settlements of Crimea,” supported by the Confidence-building Measures Programme of the Council of Europe, 2002
- Renewal of INTAS Grant for Young Scientists, 2002
- Principal Investigator, “Roots of conflict in Crimea”, INTAS Grant for Young Scientists in category “Experienced Ph.D. Fellowship,” 2001
- Director of project “Formation of national identity: the way to peacebuilding in Crimea” (research and seminar series), supported by the Renaissance Foundation, Ukraine, 2000-2001
- Co-director of project “George Mason University/ National Tavrida Vernadsky University Partnership for Conflict Resolution Development in Ukraine.” Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs, US Department of State, NIS college and University Partnerships Program (NISCUPP), 2000- 2003
- Director of project “School of Peace at National Tavrida Vernadsky University” supported by the United States Institute of Peace, 2000-2003
- Principal Investigator, “Ethnic Identity and Conflict Behavior: the problems of peacebuilding in the Crimea,” Individual Research Support Scheme Grant Open Society Foundation, 1998-1999
- Principal Investigator, “Social-psychological causes of ethnic conflict in Crimea and development of methods of stereotypes correction,” supported by the Research and Writing Initiative of the Program on Global Security and Sustainability of the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, 1995-1997.
- Principal Investigator, “National Cultural Societies in Crimea,”supported by the Open Society Institute, Managing Multiethnic Communities Project, Soros Foundation, 1995-1996.
GMU Research grants:
- Principal Investigator, seed grant, “Bridging Divides in Social Movements for Peace and Justice: A Comparative, Mixed-Methods Analysis of Two LGBTQ-Justice Movements in the US,” 2022
- Principal Investigator, seed grant “Identity-based approaches to climate-related Migration,” 2022.
- Co- Principal Investigator, seed grant “Affective-Normative Theory of Conflict Transformation,” 2022.
- Principal Investigator, seed grant for the Peace Lab on Reconciling Divided Societies and Memories, 2021.
- Principal Investigator, “Impact of historical narratives on immigration policies in Greece,” supported by the GEO office, George Mason University, 2018.
- Principal Investigator, “Categorical violence and national identity in Brazil,” supported by the Office of the Provost, George Mason University, 2016.
- Principal Investigator, “Study of National identity and Intergroup relations in South Africa,” supported by the provost office of GMU, 2011.
- Principal Investigator, “Politicization of History Seminars,” supported by the Point of View Program at the Institute for Conflict Analysis and Resolution, 2009.
- Principal Investigator, “Identities and commodities in Chiapas, Mexico.” Research grant of the office of Global Education of George Mason University, 2008.
- Co-PI, “Innocents in violent conflict,” ICAR research grant, 2007.
- Principal Investigator, “Justice and peacebuilding in conflict and post-conflict societies,” Research grant of the office of Global Education of George Mason University, 2006.
- Principal Investigator, “The assessment of the International Criminal Court,” Research grant of the office of Global Education of George Mason University, 2005.
Grants
2023-2024 Wellcome Trust (Award #FP00001847) "Insights for driving climate action in diverse policy ecosystems " Role: Co-Principal Investigator ($1,052,415)
2023-2024 Wellcome Trust (Award #224423P) "Global synthesis research on perceptions of and engagement with climate change and health" Role: Principal Investigator ($121,791)
2022-2023 World Health Organization (Award #224284P) "WHO Health and Climate Change Communication Project" Role: Principal Investigator ($24,600)
2020-2021 World Health Organization (Award #223745) "Health professionals' views on climate change and health" Role: Principal Investigator ($12,000)
2019-2023 Institute for a Sustainable Earth, George Mason University (Award #215035) "Human health and the climate" Role: Principal Investigator ($40,000)
Grants
2024 Emergent Ventures, Co-Pi with Desiree Desierto
2023 Templeton Individual Freedom and Free Markets, Co-PI with Desiree Desierto
2022 Pluralism & Exchange Grant, Mercatus Center, Co-PI with Desiree Desierto
2021 Career Development Faculty Research Development Award (FRDA), GMU
2021 F.A. Hayek Fund for Scholars
2017 W. Glenn Campbell and Rita Ricardo-Campbell Fellowship, Hoover Institution.
2016 Institute of Economic Research, Hitotsubashi University
2016 Isaac Manasseh Meyer Fellowship (IMMF), National University Singapore.
Grants
2017- Distinguished Research Fellow at the Institute of Nanjing Massacre History and International Peace, Nanjing, China
2014 Lester F. Ward Distinguished Contribution to Applied and Clinical Sociology Award, Association for Applied and Clinical Sociology
2005 Robin Williams Distinguished Career Award, Peace, War, and Social Conflict Section of the American Sociological Association.
Sept. 2000 National Institutes of Health, co-principal investigator with Alfred McAlister,
– May 2003 University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, “Moral Disengagement: Measurement and Modification” (NIH GRANT 1 R21 HD40067: $869,000)
1998 Ford Foundation, “Gandhian Models of Economic Development: Trade versus the Environment” [with Rennison Lalgee and S. Jeyapragasam].
1995 Academic Press grant for preparation of The Encyclopedia of Violence, Peace and Conflict.
1992- National Science Council (Republic of China), Visiting Research
1993 Professorship.
1990 Indo-U.S. Fellowship, Indo-U.S. Sub-Commission on Education and Culture,
1990 American Institute of Indian Studies Fellowship.
1989 National Science Foundation (U.S.A.) Grant for research in India
-1990
1988 Fulbright Research Fellowship Award for research in India
1987 Distinguished Book Award, Society for the Scientific Study of Religion, for The Politics of Heresy: The Modernist Crisis in Roman Catholicism
1980, 1982, 1986, 1988, 1990 University Research Institute Grants, University of Texas at Austin
1995-1996 Faculty Research Assignment, University of Texas at Austin
1979 Stouffer-Starr Dissertation Grant Award, University of Chicago
Grants
Minerva Research Fellow, United States Naval Academy, 2013-14
Grants
C. Wright Mills Award (Society for the Study of Social Problems) for Life is Hard, 1992.
Ruth Benedict Prize (Society of Lesbian and Gay Anthropologists) for Life is Hard, 1993.
Ruth Benedict Prize (Association for Queer Anthropology) for Sex Panic and the Punitive State, 2012.
Anne Bolin & Gil Herdt Book Prize (Human Sexuality and Anthropology Interest Group) for The Struggle to be Gay--in Mexico, for Example, 2024.
Grants
Fulbright Scholar, Ireland 2022-2023
GMU Center for Humanities Research Fellow, 2025-25
National Park Service: Community Gardens in DC National Parks, 2022-2025
National Park Service: Manassas National Battlefield Park Cultural Assessment, 2022-2025
National Park Service: Summer in the Parks, 2018-19
Grants
“Communication Center Impacts: A Proof of Concept for Enhancing Skills and Learning.” Melissa Broeckelman-Post and Heidi Lawrence. Faculty Research and Development Award. Submitted November 2018. Funded December 2018. $15,000.
“Rhetoric of Quantification in the Context of Chronic Pain.” Heidi Lawrence and Rachael Graham Lussos. National Science Foundation (NSF) Dissertation Research Improvement Grant (DRIG). Submitted August 3, 2018. Funded February 22, 2019. $5,059.
“Expanding the Professional Writing Curriculum to Enhance Global and Civic Engagement.” With Doug Eyman and Isidore Dorpenyo. George Mason University (GMU) Curriculum Impact Grant (CIG) Submitted June 1, 2018. Funded, June 19, 2018, $30,000.
“Virginia Colloquium on the Rhetoric of Health and Medicine (VCRHM).” With Bernice Hausman, Kelly Pender, Michael Klein, Lori Beth De Hertogh, and Cathryn Molloy. 4-VA. Submitted October 17, 2017. Funded December 12, 2017, $16,500.
“Community-Engaged Health Research Program.” With Ali Weinstein, Emily Ihara, Cathy Tompkins, and Rebecca Vargas-Jackson. GMU CIG. Submitted September 25, 2017. Funded December 2017, $35,000.
“A Multidisciplinary Approach to Mitigating Campus Sexual Assault.” With Bonnie Stabile, Nance Lucas, Angela Hattery, Anthony Stefanidis, Siona Listokin-Smith, Patricia Maulden, Linn Jorgenson, Kate Destler, and Jessica Terman. Provost’s Multidisciplinary Initiative Grant Program. May-June 2015. Funded July 2015, $25,000.
Grants
Lebovic has received fellowships from the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Institute for Citizens and Scholars, the Knight First Amendment Institute at Columbia University, the George Mason Center for Humanities Research, the National Library of Australia, the LMU-Munich Center for Global History, the Center for Cultural Analysis at Rutgers University, the Frederic Ewen Academic Freedom Center at NYU, and the Truman Institute.
Grants
Co-Investigator: Zaccaro, S., Zhou, S., & Lee, P (2023-2024). Studying journal publication bias, $25,000, SIOP
Pincipal Investigator: Lee, P. & Kaplan S. (2022) Evaluating Organizational Climate and Turnover, $10,000, Virginia Department of Veterans Services
Pincipal Investigator: Lee, P. & Kaplan S. (2022) Developing machine learning model for personnel selection, $20,000, US Navy (Contract)
Co-Investigator: Lee S., Lee, P., Lee B., Nam G. Ji O., & Kim N. (2017). An in-depth study on organizational safety culture using Korean Occupational Safety and Health Company Survey (Research Report No. 2017-906). Ulsan, Korea: Korean Occupational Safety Health Research Institute.
Grants
2025 - 2027: Graphical changeable message signs: Strategies, impacts, and best practices, Virginia Department of Transportation
2019 - 2023: Driver vigilance framework for level 2 and level 3 driving automation systems, National Highway Traffic Safety Administration
2019 - 2021: Microplastics in the Mason watershed: A mass balance approach, GMU Institute for a Sustainable Earth
2018: Turning ambiguous traffic scenarios into autonomous vehicle’s intelligence, GMU OSCAR Summer Impact Grant
2017 - 2018: Interpretable temporal mining for contrastive driving behaviors, GMU Office of Research
2017 - 2018: GEST DC Study: Gestational exposure to traffic pollution in the DC metro area, GMU Office of Research
2015 - 2021: SCH:INT:Collaborative Research: Diagnostic driving: Real time driver condition detection through analysis of driving behavior, National Science Foundation
Grants
2024-25 Fulbright Senior Scholar (University of Murcia, Spain).
2023-24 Residential fellow at Mason's Center for Humanities Research.
Grants
Fellowship, Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, December 2023
Term Faculty Study Leave, Fall 2023
Fellowship, Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, September 2021
Term Faculty Development Fund Grant, Spring 2020
Residency Grant, PostGraduate Writers Conference, Summer 2018
Term Faculty Development Fund Grant, Spring 2017
Mason 4-VA OER Grant, Fall 2016-Spring 2017
Term Faculty Development Fund Grant, Summer 2016
Residency Grant, The Vermont Studio Center, January 2014
Grants
Dr. Liu has received competitive external research funding via an Early Career Scheme Research Grant from the University Grants Council in Hong Kong (2017-2019), a Cora Du Bois Fellowship from Harvard University (2014), a Mellon/ACLS Dissertation Completion Fellowship (2013-2014), a Charlotte W. Newcombe Doctoral Dissertation Fellowship (2013-2014 declined), a National Study Abroad Scholarship from the Ministry of Education, Republic of China, Taiwan (2010-2012), a Fulbright Graduate Study Grant from the Fulbright Foundation (2007-2008 declined), and Academia Sinica Masters’ Thesis Writing Scholarship from the Institute of Ethnology, Academia Sinica, Taiwan (2005-2006).
Grants
NSF Linguistics Research Grant to Blanchette, Lukyanenko, Reed & Grieser. “What’s in a grammar?: A micro-comparative study of negation in American Englishes” $380k, 2023-2026.
Grants
(Active grants only; for full grant list, see Cynthia Lum's CV)
PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR (with Koper, C.S., also PI; CoPI: Kimbrell, S.C.). Improving Clearance Rates and Victim Satisfaction for High-Volume Crimes through Follow-Ups: A Randomized Controlled Trial. Arnold Ventures ($839,520).
PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR (with Koper, C.S., also PI; CoPI: Kimbrell, S.C.). Enhancing Safety and Security at Northern Virginia Airports and Associated Metro Stations. Bureau of Justice Assistance ($296,000).
PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR (Co-PI: Dong, B.; with NPI PI Burch, J.). Understanding the Application, Recruitment, Retention, and Careers of Police Officers: A Longitudinal Study. National Policing Institute ($186,401).
PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR (with Koper, C.S., also PI). Institutionalizing and Sustaining an Evidence-Based and Problem-Oriented Approach in Suffolk County Police Department. Bureau of Justice Assistance (via Suffolk County Police Department) Grant # 15PBJA-21-GG-04371-SMTP (GMU portion: $397,846).
CO-PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR (PI: Jeff Beeson). GMU-HIDTA. Office of National Drug Control Policy. (Total funding as of 2023: $25,089,714).
Grants
Fall 2024- Henry Luce Foundation-funded pedagogical workshop on Southeast Asian and Appalachian Studies, with performance from the AppalAsia music group, co-sponsored by the East-West Center (Hawaii), and many more
Summer 2024 Henry Luce Foundation-funded Summer Institute on Modern Southeast Asia, East-West Center, Hawaii
2021-2022 Reapplied and renewed the Korea Foundation grant to support the hiring of a part-time instructor and the continued offering of four Korean language courses at the University of Kentucky
2020-2021 Received a Korea Foundation grant to support the hiring of a part-time instructor and the opening of four Korean language courses at the University of Kentucky, renewable
Spring 2018 Outstanding Undergraduate Research Mentoring Award, A&S, UKY
Spring 2018 Office of the Vice President for Research, Research and Creative Activities Grant, UKY
Spring 2018 Student Government Association Student Coalition for Diversity and Inclusion, Inclusivity Award, UKY
Summer 2017 Visiting fellowship at the Humanities Research Center, ANU
2016-2017 Teacher Who Made a Difference Award, College of Education, UKY
Summer 2016 Research fellowship at the International Center for the Studies of Chinese Civilization, Fudan University
2014-2015 Full-year research Professorship at the Ewha Institute for the Humanities, National Research Foundation of Korea
Summer 2013 CELT Innovation + Design Lab Fellowship, UKY Center for the Enhancement of Learning and Teaching (CELT)
Summer 2010 National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Seminar Stipend
Grants
Doctoral Dissertation Research Improvement Grant, $5,059, National Science Foundation, 2019
Grants
Promise Award Travel Grant, Winter 2020 (to present a paper at the 13th Deleuze and Guattari Studies Conference: Territorialities, Exterritorialities, Non-territorialities — cancelled due to Covid-19 pandemic): $1500
Promise Award Travel Grant, Fall 2019 Travel Grant (to present a paper at Logic of Sense at 50 at Gettysburg College): $800
McBride International Travel Grant (to present a paper at the XXIV World Congress of Philosophy Beijing, China): $1000
Promise Award Travel Grant, Summer 2018 (to present a paper at the XXIV World Congress of Philosophy Beijing, China): $1500
Promise Award Travel Grant, Summer 2018 (to research at the Husserl Archive Leuven, at Katholieke Universiteit Leuven): $1500
Grants
CHSS, Faculty Research and Development Grant, 2025-26
American Philosophical Society, Franklin Research Grant, 2025-26.
4VA Grant with Virginia Tech, 2024-2025
NEH, Scholarly Editions and Translations Grant, 2023-2024
SSHRC Connections Grant, Co-directors, Nicholas Terpstra, Colin Rose
The Gladys Krieble Delmas Foundation Grant for Venetian Studies, 2020, 2024
American Historical Association, Bernadotte E. Schmitt Grant, 2018
Grants
Next System Studies, 2021-2025: $430,000
Term Faculty Development Award, College of Humanities and Social Sciences, George Mason University, 2021: $4500
Graduate Division Doctoral Dissertation Fellowship, UCSB, 2018: $7500
Flacks Fund for the Study of Democratic Possibilities, 2017 Grant Recipient: $2000
Research Fellow, Next System Project, 2017 and 2018: $6250
Sociology Research Grant, UCSB, 2015 and 2016: $1100
American Association of Political Consultants, 2012 Pollie Award (Six in four categories)
Finalist, Governor’s Business Plan Competition, Wisconsin 2010
Burrell Business Plan Competition Startup Grant, UW-Madison 2009
Grants
VIVA Open Course - Content Creation Grant, 2023
Smithsonian Faculty Fellowship, Montgomery College, 2019
UN Open Pedagogy Fellowship, Montgomery College, 2018
Grants
Fulbright Research Fellow (2018-2019)
Dean's Teaching Fellow, Emory University (2018 - 2019)
Grants
Marc was selected as a Samuel J. Heyman Fellow in 2007.
Grants
Virginia Center for the Creative Arts Fellow
Newnan Artrez Fellow
Kimmel Harding Nelson Center Fellow
Cheuse Center International Writers MFA Fellow
Grants
National Science Foundation (NSF) Grant, 2020, Co-PI for "Situated Algorithmic Thinking: Preparing the Future Computing Workforce for Ethical Decision-Making through Interactive Case Studies" (VIEW)
Curriculum Impact Grant, 2021, Co-PI on project to create an Ethics & AI Minor at GMU
Curriculum Impact Grant, 2021, Co-PI on project to perform anti-racist overhaul of doctoral curriculum and policies
Faculty Research and Development Award, 2018, College of Humanities and Social Sciences, George Mason University
Grants
Summer Team Impact Project Grant (Co-PI), The Office of Undergraduate Education, George Mason University, 2025. Link
University Life Career Faculty Fellowship, George Mason Universtiy, 2024. Link
Project Global Officer Grant (Co-PI), The Defense Language and National Security Education Office, Institute of International Education, Washington, D.C., 2021-2024. Link
Best Presentation Award, “Implementing Film Projects in Language Classrooms.” The Foreign Language Association of Virginia, 2021.
Mason Core Award, George Mason University, 2021.
Online Course Development Grant, The Stearns Center, George Mason University, 2021.
CHSS Term Faculty Development Grant, George Mason University, 2020.
Adjunct Faculty Teaching Excellence Award, The Stearns Center, George Mason University, 2017.
4-VA Course Development Stipends, George Mason University, 2016 & 2018.
Faculty Recognition Award, Montgomery College, Maryland, 2013.
Dissertation Research Grant, The University of Maryland, College Park, 2011.
Grants
Grants
Lincoln A. Mullen and John G. Turner, “Mapping American Religious Ecologies,” Humanities Collections and Reference Resources grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (2023–2026): $350,000.
John G. Turner and Lincoln A. Mullen, “American Antisemitism: A History Podcast,” Faculty Research and Development Award from College of Humanities and Social Sciences, George Mason University (2023): $15,000.
John G. Turner, Lincoln A. Mullen, and Jeanette Patrick, “The History of American Antisemitism: A Podcast,” Henry Luce Foundation (2022–): $50,000.
Lincoln A. Mullen and John G. Turner, “The Denig Bible Project,” Winterthur Museum, Garden, and Library (2022–): $80,500.
Mills Kelly, Jessica Otis, and Lincoln A. Mullen, “Building Financial Resilience in the Digital Humanities,” Andrew W. Mellon Foundation (2021–2025): $1,000,000.
“America’s Public Bible: Machine-Learning Detection of Biblical Quotations across Library of Congress Collections via Cloud Computing,” Computing Cultural Heritage in the Cloud, Library of Congress Labs (2021–2022): $77,500.
Lincoln A. Mullen, John G. Turner, Jessica Mack, and Zev Eleff, ”Collecting Together: A Portal and Coordinated Collecting Effort for the American Jewish Community During COVID-19,” Lippman Kanfer Foundation for Living Torah, Jim Joseph Foundation, Charles and Lynn Schusterman Family Foundation, and The Russell Berrie Foundation (2021–2023): $137,000.
“Micro-Donations for Galleries, Libraries, Archives, and Museums via Web Monetization and the Omeka S Platform,” Grant for the Web (2020–2021): $49,949.
Jessica Otis and Lincoln A. Mullen, “DataScribe: Enabling Structured Data Transcription in the Omeka S Web Platform,” Digital Humanities Advancement Grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (2019–2022): $324,733.
Lincoln A. Mullen and John G. Turner, “Mapping American Religious Ecologies,” Humanities Collections and Reference Resources grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (2019–2022): $349,971.
Young Scholars in American Religion, Center for the Study of Religion and American Culture, IUPUI (2019–2020).
Lincoln A. Mullen, Stephen Robertson, and Sheila Brennan, “Gerda Henkel Postdoctoral Fellow in Digital History,” contract with German Historical Institute (2018–2021): $28,991.
Stephen Robertson and Lincoln A. Mullen, “Model Articles for Argumentative Digital History,” grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation (2018–2021): $125,000.
Lincoln A. Mullen and John G. Turner, “Mapping American Religion,” Faculty Research and Development Award from College of Humanities and Social Sciences, George Mason University (2018): $7,998.
Stephen Robertson and Lincoln A. Mullen, “Arguing with Digital History,” grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation (2017): $29,500.
Sheila Brennan and Lincoln A. Mullen, “Mapping Early American Elections,” Humanities Collections and Reference Resources grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (2016–2019): $200,000.
Grants
2025 Student Travel Grant, Korean and Korean American Sociologists Community of American Sociological Association
2025 ASA Student Forum Travel Fund, American Sociological Association
2025 Dissertation Completion Grant, George Mason University
2024 Summer Doctoral Fellowship, Center for Humanities Research, George Mason University
2022-2024 Doctoral Research Scholars Award, George Mason University
2022 Summer Research Fellowship, George Mason University
2022 Dissertation Research Fellowship, Department of Sociology and Anthropology,
George Mason University
2021 IFKU Scholarship, International Foundation for Korea University
Grants
Mason Core Teaching Award: Spring 2019, Fall 2020.
Cullman Center for Writers and Scholars, New York Public Library. 2015-16 Fellow in
Poetry.
Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Studies, Harvard University. 2013-14 Fellow in
Poetry.
Grants
AllState Foundation Youth Leadership Research Award (2024, 2025)
Principal Investigator. Research award for study on increasing youth access to high quality leadership development and community engagement interventions.
Impact Fellowship, Aspen Institute (2023)
Aspen Impact Fellows are content experts who support the strategy and launch of major initiatives in Aspen’s Youth Leadership Programs Office. Fellows engage in thought partnership, provide critical feedback, and build affiliation with the Aspen network of policy, leadership, and community programs.
Career Development Faculty Development Research Award (FDRA) (2021)
Recipient of CHSS award to provide research and professional development support to enhance the career development of mid-career faculty pursuing promotion to full professor.
Provost’s Curriculum Impact Grants (CIGs) (2019)
Member of the team that received competitive internal grant to develop a four-year developmental Bonner Leadership Program at Mason. The Bonner Program seeks to provide diverse, predominantly low-income students with access to education and opportunities to serve the community.
Bringing Theory to Practice Research Grant (Association of American Colleges & Universities (2015-2018)
Principal Investigator. Recipient of competitive research grant titled “Thriving Together: Leveraging Well-Being and Civic Engagement as Pathways to Flourishing for First Generation College Students”.
Council for the Advancement of Higher Education (CAS) Research Grant
Principal Investigator. Recipient of competitive research grant to quantitatively assess the extent to which each of the thirteen component parts of the CAS standards for Student Leadership Programs (SLPs) predict leadership outcomes related to social change and leadership efficacy at over 100 institutions of higher education.
Grants
Korea Research Foundation, Three-year group research project grant, 2018-2021
Yonsei University Future-leading Research Initiative’ Fellowship, 2015 & 2016
Northeast Asia Council of the Association for Asian Studies Grant, Short-term Research Travel Outside North America, Spring 2013
Postdoctoral Fellowship, University of Southern California, 2012 - 2013
Graduate Dean’s Dissertation Fellowship, UC Irvine, 2012
Grants
Title: Characterizing moderators of gender differences in recovery from TBI (Niemeier PI) (2013-2015)
Role: Co-Investigator
Sponsor: Carolinas Healthcare Foundation, Center of Excellence Award
Title: AIMS: A Multi-Center, Parallel Group, Randomized, Double-Blind, Placebo-Controlled Trial of Amantadine Hydrochloride in the Treatment of Chronic TBI Irritability and Aggression: A Replication Study (1 Oct 2008 – 30 Sep 2014)
Role: Site Project Manager
Sponsor: National Institute of Disability Rehabilitation & Research Grant #H133A080035 (Hammond)
Title: Improving Outcomes in Acute Rehabilitation for Traumatic Brain Injury through Practice Based Evidence and Individualized Planning for the first year following Acute Rehabilitation
Grant # RO1HD050439 (Susan Horn ISIS/Hammond) (2007-2013)
Role: Project Manager
Sponsor: National Institute of Health (NIH)
Title: Post-TBI Irritability and Aggression: An Evidence-Based Approach to Management (1 Oct 2007 – 30 Sep 2013)
Role: Project Manager
Sponsor: National Institute of Disability Rehabilitation & Research (NIDRR)
Title: Spinal Cord Injury Rehabilitation Improving Outcomes through Practice-Based Evidence (1 Oct 2005 – 30 Sep 2011)
Role: Project Manager
Sponsor: National Institute of Disability Rehabilitation & Research Grant subcontract with Craig Hospital Colorado
Title: Macromolecular Synthesis and Analysis and DNA Sequencing Facility (1998 – 2005)
Role: Co-Director (2003 – 2005)
Sponsor: NCI Shared Resource Grant CCSG CA 16672
Grants
GRANTS
- Paradoxical Lucidity in Dementia, 2020-2022, National Institute on Aging (NIH), PIs: A. Peterson and J. Karlawish (UPenn)
- The Coming Home Project, 2018-2019, National Endowment for the Humanities, PIs: J. Kirkpatrick (Mason) and E. Barrett (US Naval Academy); Co-PI: Peterson
- The Ethics of Severe Brain Injury, 2018-2021, Greenwall Foundation Faculty Scholars Program, PI: A. Peterson
- The Ethics of Neuroimaging After Serious Brain Injury, 2014-2018, Canadian Institutes of Health Research, PIs: C. Weijer (Western) and A.M. Owen (Western); Collaborator: A. Peterson
- Ethical and Epistemological Issues in The New Science of Consciousness, 2013-2016, Vanier Canada Graduate Scholars Program, PI: A. Peterson
Grants
"Electroencephalography (EEG) Feedback In Rapid Decision-Making" - Army Research Office
“Command and Control of Mixed Human and Robotic Forces.” - Provost’s Multidisciplinary Research Initiative
Grants
The ALPHAs lab is grateful to be funded by the Air Force Office of Scientific Research, the National Science Foundation, and the GMU Office of Research, Innovation, and Economic Impact.
Grants
Previously Served as a Center Fellow-Center for the Study of the Presidency
Grants
NCTE/CCCC Research Initiative Grant, with Courtney Wooten, Brian Fitzpatrick, Ariel M. Goldenthal, Kerry Folan (& previously with Lourdes Fernandez)
Grants
Center for Humanities Research Fellow, Fall 2023
SITPA Fellow- Duke University, 2022-2024
Predoctoral Fellow-MIT, 2021-22
Grants
- 2023 – 2025: Breaking cycles of crime through employment: A study of Tempus Novo’s successful rehabilitation model. GMU Office of Research Innovation and Economic Impact (ORIEI): Take it to the Next Level – Multidisciplinary Research Seed Funding ($100,000). Principal Investigator: Daniel Houser. Co-Principal Investigators: Cesar J. Rebellon and Jia Liu.
- 2017 – 2023: The interplay of emotion, cognitive, and authority factors in the Legal Socialization Model ($373,597). National Science Foundation, Grant #147904. Principal investigator: Ellen S. Cohn. Co-principal investigators: Cesar J. Rebellon and Karen T. Van Gundy.
- 2010 – 2015: Legal Socialization and Rule-Violating Behavior ($250,000). National Science Foundation, Grant #1026803. Principal Investigator: Ellen S. Cohn. Co-Principal Investigators: Cesar J. Rebellon and Karen T. Van Gundy.
- 2006 – 2010: Cognitive Developmental Factors and Rule-violating Behavior: The Role of Personal Attributes, Attitudes, and Peers ($254,918). National Science Foundation, Grant #0550145. Principal Investigator: Ellen S. Cohn. Co-principal Investigators: Cesar J. Rebellon and Karen T. Van Gundy.
Grants
- Visiting Professor Shivadasani Fellowship, Oxford University/ Oxford Centre for Hindu Studies, England, April-June, 2016; Delivered Shivdasani lectures and seminars on Vaishnava, Saiva and Natha Siddha traditions, rituals and yoga practices in south India.
- American Academy of Religion Individual Research Grant, 2013, for conducting research & fieldwork on Bathukamma festival in Telangana.
- Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Post-Doctoral Fellowship, Northwestern University, 2001-03 for writing book on Srisailam in Andhra Pradesh.
- American Academy of Religion Individual Research Grant, 2001 for conducting research and fieldwork on the Goddess temple of Srisailam.
- Harvard University Research Grant, 1999, for writing dissertation on Srisailam
- Samuel Kress Foundation Travel Fellowship, 1996, for conducting fieldwork on the Kakatiyan temples of Telangana.
Grants
Fulbright Research Grantee / Visiting Scholar, Royal Museum for Central Africa, Tervuren, Belgium (2018-2019)
- Project Title: “Strange Stories: Folklore and Coloniality in the Congo from Stanley to Mobutu”
Fulbright-Hays Seminar Abroad: Religion and Diversity in West Africa (5-week funded seminar in Dakar, Senegal) (Summer 2016) (declined)
Grants
National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Stipend, 2019, book project: Orson Welles, Macbeth, and Africa: Collaborative Genius in the Age of Segregation.
Text and Academic Authors Association Publication Grant, 2008.
Mednick Grant, Virginia Foundation for Independent Colleges, 2007.
National Endowment for the Humanities, “We the People” American History Summer Stipend, 2004.
Everett Helm Visiting Fellowship for Travel & Research, Lilly Library, 2001, 2006.
Marshall Fishwick Travel Grant, Popular Culture Association, 2004.
Grants
Stearns Center for Teaching and Learning “Thank-a-teacher” Program Recipient (2017, GMU)
Provost Summer Research Fellowship (2017, GMU)
Interdisciplinary Curriculum Collaborative Research Grant (2017, GMU)
Presidential Scholar Summer Fellowship (2015, 2016, GMU)
Presidential Scholar Fellowship (2013-2016, GMU)
Funds for Excellence in Graduate Recruiting Fellowship (2010-2011, PSU)
Grants
Clarke, C., PI, Rowan, K. E., Co-PI, Zhao, X., Co-PI, Besley, J., Seiter, C., & Hathaway, J. (2019-2023) Assessing science communication training. Funded, $164, 932.
Akerlof, K. L., PI, Clarke, C., Co-PI, Rowan, K. E., Co-PI, & Olds, J. Co-PI (2019-2020). Conservation and environmental science communication. Development of a transdisciplinary curriculum. Curriculum Impact Grant. Funded by the Office of the Provost, George Mason University for $38,750.00.
Gest, J., PI, Schar School of Policy and Government, & Rowan, K. E., Co-PI (2018-2019). Policy Communication, Curricular Impact Grant. Funded by the Office of the Provost, George Mason University, $9,000.
Rowan, K. E. Contractor, & Hathaway, J. R. (2019). Workshop developer and report author Triaging the News from Hundreds of NHLBI Studies: A Workshop Where YOU Help Shape Criteria and Processes, $1,500 from ICF Strategic. Presented to the National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD.
Rowan, K. E. Contractor, & Hathaway, J. R. (2018). Communicating YOUR Science. Workshop for the National Institutes of Health Office of Behavioral and Social Science, Bethesda, MD. $3,000.
Rowan, K. E., and Akerlof, K. L. (2013-2017). Science communication education for VASG Fellows. Funded, Virginia Sea Grant, $56,000.
Maibach, E. W., Rowan, K. E., & Wilson, K. (2009-2011). Co-principal investigator, National Science Foundation, Enabling TV meteorologists to provide viewers with climate change-related science education based on ISE “best practices," $1 million.
Grants
National Science Foundation. A Multi-Level Investigation of Engagement in Technology Transfer.
National Science Foundation. Computational Modeling from Narrative Scenario Development: A Pedagogy for Generating Novel Research Questions to Address Critical Societal Issues.
National Science Foundation. The Micro-Process of Social Responsibility in Organizations: A Bottom Up Perspective.
Virginia Department of Corrections. Correctional Officer Trait Assessment.
Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada. Corporate Social Responsibility in Employee Ability, Motivation, Opportunity, and Performance.
Douglas W. Bray and Ann Howard Grant, Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology Foundation, Using Technology to See in the Dark: Capturing and Examining Decision Making Strategies within Managerial Assessment and Development Centers.
State Farm Companies Foundation. Corporate gift to the University of Illinois Institute of Labor and Industrial Relations to fund the research being conducted by the Rupp DACLab
Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada. The Transnational Constitution of Sustainability: Governance, Finance and Regulation.
Korean Psychological Testing Institute. Funding for research on the validity of global, long distance, and high tech developmental assessment centers.
Douglas W. Bray and Ann Howard Award, Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology Foundation, Validity Evidence for Developmental Assessment Centers.
Center for Human Resource Management, University of Illinois, Inconsistency in Job Performance: Measurement Error or Something More?
Center for International Business Education and Research, University of Illinois, Corporate Social Responsibility: The Mediating Role of Employee Justice.
University of Illinois Campus Research Board, Organizational Justice and Corporate Social Responsibility: A Multilevel Cross-Cultural Investigation.
Center for Human Resource Management, University of Illinois. Maximizing Human Resource Potential through Corporate Social Responsibility.
University of Illinois Campus Research Board. Using Assessment Centers for Employee Development.
The University of West Florida Scholarly and Creative Activity Grant, Perceptions of Age in the Workplace: Job Stereotypicality and Attributions for Performance.
Grants
Gaea Foundation, Andy Warhol Foundation, Nathan Cummings Foundation, Open Society Foundations, CrossCurrents Foundation, Lambent Foundation, Trust for Mutual Understanding, Quixote Foundation, Metabolic Studios, George Mason University Office of Student Scholarship, Creative Activities, and Research, National Endowment for the Arts, New York State Arts Council, DC Commission on the Arts and Humanities, Mid-Atlantic Arts Foundation, Institute for Museum and Library Services, Washington Post Companies, Philip L. Graham Fund, Meyer Foundation, Knight Foundation, Glen Eagles Foundation, Philip Morris Companies, US WEST, Best Buy, Abell Foundation, Cordish Company
Grants
Professor Sadana's most recent grants and fellowships include:
Faculty Fellowship, Center for Humanities Research (CHR)
National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Stipend (NEH)
American Council of Learned Societies Fellowship (ACLS)
Weatherhead Fellowship, School for Advanced Research (SAR)
American Institute of Indian Studies Senior Fellowship (AIIS)
Grants
CHSS Study Leave (Spring 2025) and GMU Center for Humanities Research funding (Summer 2022) for research into the role of slavery and enslaved people in the early history of Lewinsville Presbyterian Church.
GMU Term Faculty Development Fund Grants: for research/curricular development for "Virginia Stories: Settlement to Nat Turner" (2019-2020), for developing the English 302 OER collection (2016), and for incorporating Omeka into an introductory literature class (2014).
Mason 4-VA OER grants to support development of the English 302 OER Collection, 2018 and 2016/2017.
Mellon Research Fellowship, Virginia Historical Society, 1 week, 2011-2012.
Grants
Curriculum Grant with an Inclusive Teaching Focus, 2024-25 PI: C., Adams Wooten
Language Equity and Inclusion in Action: Redesigning Mason’s Written Communication Curriculum through the Lens of Linguistic Justice Pedagogy
Collaborator (17%)
Grants
Dissertation Fellowship, Harry Frank Guggenheim Foundation, 2018-2019.
Dissertation Year Fellowship, U.S. Army Center of Military History, 2017-2018.
Presidential Scholar, George Mason University, 2013-2016.
Grants
RECENT
Principal Investigator. (2023-2025). Expanding pathways to higher education for underserved populations through an augmented reality (AR) campus tour. 4-VA and ADVANCE.
Principal Investigator. (2023-2024). Unpacking the history of higher education in the United States. National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) Institutes for Higher Education Faculty
Principal Investigator. (2020-2022). Reimagining the history of higher education in the digital age. 4VA grant extension in collaboration with Virginia Tech, College of William and Mary, University of Virginia, and James Madison University. https://higheredhistory.gmu.edu
Principal Investigator. (2020-2023). Expanding the commons: Supporting emerging world history scholars and community colleges through the World History Commons OER. American Council of Learned Societies Digital Extension Grant.
Grants
Royal Economic Society Price for Best Paper 'Kin networks and institutional development' published in The Economic Journal
Emergent Venture Fellow
“Institutional legacy and interventions for cultural change: the role of pre-existing conditions for public policies effectiveness”, Cultural Evolution Society Transformation Grant, 2022 (£100K, CO-I with Macro Fabbri (PI) and Daniele Nosenzo)
“Religion, Family Structure and the Origins of Individual Freedom and
Economic Prosperity”, John Templeton Foundation, 2021 ($2.54 mio., Co-PI with Joseph Henrich)
“Honesty as a Moral Currency: a Cross-Cultural Study”, Honesty Project at Wake Forest University & John Templeton Foundation, 2021 ($200k, Co-PI with Ori Weisel (PI) and Shaul Shalvi)
Grants
Purchase Line School District, Tutoring assistance to local rural school district, $3,900, August 2008
Association of International Education Administrators, Harold Josephson Award for Outstanding Promise in International Education $1,000, December 2005.
University of Pittsburgh, School of Education Research Grant, Internationalization of the Academic Profession: An Exploratory Study of Faculty Attitudes, Beliefs and Involvement at Public Universities in Pennsylvania, $450, December 2005
U.S. Department of Education, Patricia Roberts Harris Fellowship Program (co-directed with Dr. David M. Lynch), $95,572 (1994-95); $48,000 (1992-93); $128,000 (1991-92); $32,000 (1991-92); $112,000 (1990-91)
Grants
-Fellowship, Boren National Security Graduate Fellowship, Fall 2007 and Spring 2008.
-Republic of China Ministry of Education Language Scholarship,Fall 2007
-Senior Visiting Student Fellowship, Peking University, Spring 2008
-Graduate Research Award, UC Irvine Center for Asian Studies, Spring 2008
-U.S. Army Center for Military History, Dissertation Fellowship, 2012-2013
-Smith-Richardson World Politics and Statecraft Fellowship 2013
-Taiwan, Center for Chinese Studies Fellowship 2014
Grants
2019-2020: Faculty Research and Development Award. "Parenting Stress, Emotion Regulation, and Recovery: Transactional Mechanisms Underlying Intergenerational Transmission of Opioid Addiction and Risk for Relapse." Funding Source: College of Humanities and Social Sciences (CHSS), George Mason University
2015-2018: Individual Postdoctoral Fellowship (F32-DA039626). "Parent Emotion Socialization and Child Emotion Regulation: Mechanisms of Intergenerational Transmission of Addiction." Agency: NIH (National Institute on Drug Abuse).
2011-2012: Institutional Predoctoral Training Fellowship (T32-HD0007376), The Center for Developmental Science. Agency: NIH (National Institute of Child Health and Human Development).
Grants
Shaw, T.H. (PI). Grant with the Air Force Office of Scientific Research, “Evaluating factors that affect trust calibration: the influence of trust strategy and risk”. August 2015 – February 2019 $887,009.08.
Shaw, T.H. (PI). Subcontract with Charles River Analytics. Sponsored by the U.S. Naval Air Systems Command, “System to Evaluate and Assess Holistic Aircrew Workload (SEAHAWK). June 2016 – July 2017. GMU Direct cost = $44,997.
Shaw, T.H. (PI), Dalal, R. (Co-PI), Zaccaro, S. (Co-PI). Cooperative Agreement with the Army Research Institute, “The Validation of a Domain-General Systems Thinking Assessment Test (STAT) for Personnel Selection and Classification” September 2015- September 2016, $500,000
Grants
National Endowment for the Humanities, Research Fellowship, July 2013-July 2014
National Endowment for the Humanities, Research Fellowship, July 2006-July 2007
Spencer Library Travel Grant, University of Kansas, October 2002
Grants
Fred W. Smith National Library for the Study of George Washington at Mount Vernon Residential Fellowship, 2014-2015.
Grants
The Luce Foundation grant (2012-19), Russian Perspectives on Islam
The NEH Scholarly Editions and Translations grant (2015-20), Russian Perspectives on Islam
Grants
2017-2018 Archie Green Fellowship, the American Folklife Center of the Library of Congress
Grants
2019: Artist Residency, The Booth, Scalloway, Shetland, Scotland
2017: Artist Residency, Timespan Museum & Cultural Centre, Helmsdale, Scotland
2017: Faculty Research & Development Award
2015: Faculty Study Leave, Fall Semester
2014: Artist Residency, Sweeney's Bothy, Isle of Eigg, Scotland
2014, 2013, 2011: GMU Creative Awards
2011: Foreword Reviews Small Press Book of the Year, Bronze Award, for Gallowglass
2008, 2002: Residency Fellowships, Hawthornden International Retreat for Writers, Scotland
2007: Chad Walsh Prize, Beloit Poetry Journal, for "Stork"
2007: Runes Poetry Prize, for "Ice or Salt"
2006: Indiana Review Poetry Prize, for "Gallowglass"
Grants
2016 (with Dr. Sonia Balasch-Rodríguez, Dr. Lisa M. Rabin and Dr. Colleen A. Sweet) Course Redesign: Using Open Educational Resources (OER) Grant. Mason 4-VA in collaboration with the University Libraries and Mason Online. George Mason University. Fairfax, VA.
Grants
Grants
| 2022-2024 | $299,977 |
NSF EAGER Grant, NSF, ”Inclusive-ScamBuster: Inclusive Scam Detection Methods for Social Media to Design Assistive Tools for Protecting Individuals with Developmental Disabilities” (PI Hemant Purohit, GMU Information Sciences & Technology; Co-PI Géraldine Walther, GMU English/Linguistics; Co-PI Matt Peterson, GMU Psychology; Co-PI Yoosun Chung, GMU Special Education) |
| 2022 | $40,000 |
CCI Impact of Human Behavior on Cybersecurity, Commonwealth Cyber Initiative, NoVa Node, VA, “Characterizing Biases in Automated Scam Detection Tools for Social Media to Aid Individuals with Developmental Disabilities” (PI Hemant Purohit, GMU Information Sciences & Technology; Co-PI Géraldine Walther, GMU English/Linguistics; Co-PI Matt Peterson, GMU Psychology; Co-PI Yoosun Chung, GMU Special Education) |
| 2021-2024 | $449,709 |
NSF DEL/DLI Grant, NSF, ”Collaborative Research: DLI-DEL: Language Documentation with an AI Helper” (PI Antonios Anastasopoulos, GMU Computer Science; Co-PI Géraldine Walther, GMU English/Linguistics; Co-PI David Chiang, Notre Dame Computer Science and Engineering) |
| 2021-2022 | $29,928 |
CAHMP Seed Grant, Center for Advanced Human and Machine Partnership (CAHMP). "ScamBuster: Detecting Emergent Scam Networks on Social Media during Disasters" (PI Hemant Purohit, GMU Information Sciences & Technology; Co-PI Géraldine Walther, English/Linguistics.) |
| 2016-2018 |
€8,000 |
IXXI/ISH, “Sur le bout de la langue” modélisation mathématique de la compétition entre langues’, (with Morgane Bergot, Université Claude Bernard, Lyon (France)) |
Awards
| 2014-2016 | ~ €100,00 |
Postdoctoral fellowship, ASLAN Excellency cluster, ”Advanced Studies on LANguage complexity (ASLAN), CNRS, Lyon (France): two years of funding plus monthly salary, benefits, and additional expenses (conferences, research visits, summer schools) for developing a personal research project on “A typological approach to structural properties of morphological systems”. |
| 01-02/2012 | €2,850 |
Networds visiting grant, European Science Foundation, Surrey Morphology Group, University of Surrey (UK): six week visiting grant, collaboration on Canonical Typology with Prof. Greville G. Corbett and Prof. Dunstan Brown, on computational morphology with Prof. Dunstan Brown, on general typology with Maris Camilleri (Maltese) and Dr. Enrique Palancar (Chinantec). |
| 2007-2010 | ~ €115,000 |
PhD funding, ENS-LSH & Université Paris Diderot, Paris (France): three years of funding plus monthly salary, benefits, and additional expenses (conferences, research visits, summer schools) for PhD research “Sur la canonicité en morphologie: perspective empirique, formelle et computationnelle.” [“On canonicity in morphology: an empirical, formal, and computational approach”] |
| 2003-2007 | ~ €120,000 |
École Normale Supérieure de Lyon (Lettres et Sciences Humaines), Lyon (France): Admission to the ENS-LSH: fully paid selective 4-year studentship with monthly salary and benefits and supplementary courses in Linguistics, and German Language and Literature. |
Grants
Book finalist for the Albert J. Raboteau Prize in Africana Religions, American Academy of Religion (2017)
Woodrow Wilson Career Enhancement Fellowship. (2004-2005)
Brown University Dissertation Fellowship. (1999)
Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Grant. (1999)
Brown University Graduate Fellowship in Research. (1994-1995)
Tougaloo College English Department Award for outstanding student in English and American literature. (1993)
Woodrow Wilson Exchange Program to University of Washington, Seattle. (1992)
United Negro College Fund/Andrew W. Mellon Undergraduate Fellowship in English. (1991)
Alpha Lambda Delta Honor Society inductee, Tougaloo College chapter. (1990).
Grants
Mason Grant Submission Team (2024). Access to Excellence Outreach Initiative. State Council of Higher Education for Virginia Pell Initiative.
Holmes, K., Thompson, A.D., Agbeshie-Noye, I. (2018). Perceptions of sense of belonging in transfer students. Association for Orientation, Transition, and Retention in Higher Education. 2018 – 2019 Catalyst Grant Recipients
Grants
Recipient, Fiction, Maryland State Arts Council Individual Artist Award
Recipient, Fiction, RUBYs Artist Grant, Greater Baltimore Cultural Alliance (named in honor of Ruby Lerner, founder and director emeritus, Creative Capital)
Participant, Sewanee Writers' Conference (University of the South), DISQUIET: International Literary Program in Lisbon (Dzanc Books), First U.S. Publishers Delegation to Cuba (Publishers Weekly), Minnesota Northwoods Writers Conference (Bemidji State University), and numerous annual writers' conferences including moderating panels at the Association of Writers and Writing Programs conference
Grants
AWARDS AND HONORS
2020 Nomination, George Mason University Teaching Excellence Award
2019 American Research Center in Egypt research and travel grant/fellowship
2018 Mathy Junior Faculty Award, Sabbatical Research Support, George Mason University
2017 Nelson Travel and Research award, George Mason University
2017 Highest Rated student core requirement course, George Mason University
2013-2014 Visiting Faculty and Research Associate, Harvard University, Women’s Studies in Religion and Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations
2012 Petrie Museum Grant, research at Kom el-Nana
2010-2012 American Council of Learned Societies/Mellon New Faculty Fellow
Post-Doctoral Fellow Faculty Lecturer, Near Eastern Studies, University of California Berkeley
2006 Singleton Research Fellow to the Villa Spelman, Florence, Italy
2004-2005 Fulbright Fellow, dissertation research grant in Egypt
2004-2005 American Research Center in Egypt Fellow (deferred)
2002 Dean’s Fellow, teaching excellence grant, Johns Hopkins University
1998-2009 Graduate Fellowship, Near Eastern Studies, Johns Hopkins University
Grants
River of Resistance: Fighting for Indigenous Rights and Environmental Justice in the Peruvian Amazon. 2024-25. School of Integrative Studies, George Mason University--SIS Faculty Research Grant, $1,500.
River of Resistance: Fighting for Indigenous Rights and Environmental Justice in the Peruvian Amazon. 2024. College of Humanities and Social Sciences, George Mason University—Faculty Research and Development Award, $10,000.
River of Resistance: Fighting for Indigenous Rights and Environmental Justice in the Peruvian Amazon. Center for Humanities Research Residential Fellowship. Spring 2024, George Mason University.
Building Bridges and Capacity: An Innovative Model for US-Peruvian Educational Exchange. 2018. United States Department of State, $25,000 (Co-PI; Principal Investigator M.P. Gilmore).
Stories from the Forest: A Place-Based Biography of an Amazonian Indigenous Leader. 2018. College of Humanities and Social Sciences, George Mason University—Faculty Research and Development Award, $14,265 (Principal Investigator; Co-PI M.P. Gilmore).
Food Systems Leadership Institute. 2016. George Mason University—4-VA Innovation Grant, $20,000 (Principal Investigator).
Inventing a Sustainable Food Systems Curriculum at George Mason University. 2014. United States Department of Agriculture, $136,500 (Co-PI; Principal Investigator M.P. Gilmore).
Virginia Sustainable Food Coalition. 2014. George Mason University—4-VA Innovation Grant, $24,200 (Principal Investigator).
Grants
see CV
Grants
Ohrstrom Foundation - Science education for K-12 faculty
SENCER - National Science Foundation funded.
OSCAR undergraduate research
Grants
2022- NSF Faculty Early Career Development Award (CAREER) #BCS 2142340: CAREER: Documenting temporal contrasts in an endangered language via community linguistics.
2018- NSF Documenting Endangered Languages Grant (Principal Investigator) #BCS 1760977: Navigating the New Arctic: Collaborative Research: Integrating Language Documentation and Computational Tools for Yupik, an Alaska Native Language.
2020 George Mason University College of Humanities and Social Sciences Faculty Research and Development Award: Building and Assessing Resources for Language Documentation and Revitalization
2018 The Mathy Junior Faculty Award in the Arts and Humanities
Grants
Title: Using targeted social media to communicate culturally sensitive and interactive environmental risk information about breast cancer to mothers
Role: Principal Investigator/Project Director: Kevin B. Wright, Ph.D.
$344,901
Funding Period: 6/01/17 – 6/01/19
Funding Agency: National Institutes of Health (NIH)
NIH Program: National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences
Award #1R21ES027417-01
Title: Collaborative research: Modeling the efficacy of inventory for extreme event preparedness decision making in interdependent systems.
Role: Co-Principal Investigator
Principal Investigator: Kash Barker, Ph.D.
Funding Period: 8/15/09 - 8/15/11
$239,225
Funding Agency: National Science Foundation (NSF)
NSF Program: Infrastructure Management and Extreme Events
Award #0927299
Grants
GMU Center for Teaching and Faculty Excellence (CTFE), Faculty Learning Community (FLC) grant, 2017-18 (co-facilitator with Eric Anderson and Tamara Harvey)
Fenwick Fellowship, GMU Libraries, 2017-18
Study Leave, George Mason University, 2007-08
NEH Faculty Workshop Grant (with John Foster, Amal Amireh, Tamara Harvey, and Joel Foreman), Fall 2005-Fall 2006
Mathy Junior Faculty Fellowship, George Mason University, Spring 2000
Mellon Postdoctoral Fellowship, 1992-94
Cornell Graduate Fellowship, 1988-89
Mellon Fellowship in the Humanities, 1986
A.D. White Fellowship, Cornell University, 1986
Commonwealth Fellowship, Great Britain, 1986 (declined)
Social Sciences & Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC) Special M.A. Scholarship, 1986 (declined)
Grants
2025-2026 Principal Investigator. “Enhancing Crisis Intervention Training with Practitioners.” Virginia CIT Coalition. ($35,536).
2022-2026 Principal Investigator. “Coalition to Enhance the Capacity of Policing Mental Health Problems in Virginia.” Bureau of Justice Assistance. ($1,483,000).
2022-2023 Co-Principal Investigator. “DHS SIMEX FY22” (with Stephanie Dailey, PI). Contracted through MITRE Corporation. ($40,000).
2021-2023 Principal Investigator. “Partners in Crisis: Improving Police Response to Individuals in Moments of Crisis by Providing Service Alternatives.” National Institute of Justice. ($385,434)
2015-2019 Principal Investigator: “Improving Police Response to Mental Health Crisis in a Rural Area” (with Charlotte Gill, Co-PI). Bureau of Justice Assistance (Smart Policing Initiative) 2015-WY-BX-0007. (Total funding: $627,482 to Roanoke County Police Department. GMU funded amount: $250,000.)
2017-2019 Co-Principal Investigator. “An Examination of the Rising Star Hypothesis in Formal Mentoring” (with Changya Hu, PI). Ministry of Science and Technology. Taiwan. ($547,537).
2013-2015 Principal Investigator: "Exploring the Mechanisms of Social Control in a Relational Society: A Comparison of the Explanatory Effects of Social Ties and Collective Efficacy in Taiwan." National Science Council. Taiwan ($70,000).
2013-2014 Principal Investigator: “Eco-Terrorism and the Corresponding Legislation Efforts to Intervene and Prevent Future Attacks.” The Canadian Network for Research on Terrorism, Security, and Society (TSAS). ($10,876).
2012-2013 Principal Investigator: “Examining the Mechanism Underlying the Perceptions of Disorder.” National Science Council. Taiwan ($25,000).
Grants
Teacher of Distinction, Stearns Center for Teaching and Learning, George Mason University, Spring 2024
Travel Awards, CHSS Interdisciplinary Programming Support Fund, George Mason University, April 2023
Professional Development Awards, The 27th AATK Annual Conference and Professional Development Workshop, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, June 2022
Online Couse Development Grant, The Sterns Center, George Mason University, June–August 2020
Grants
- Conference Fund from The Academy of Korean Studies, June 2024
- Travel Awards, CHSS Interdisciplinary Programming Support Fund, George Mason University, March 2024
- International Grant for Korean-English Translation Dictionary of Pre-Modern Korean Media Publications from The Academy of Korean Studies, November 2021-2024
- International Award for the Jikji, the World's Oldest Original Metal Type Print, The Jikji Cultural Foundation, July 2021
- Online Course Development Grant, The Sterns Center, George Mason University, 2021
- Mason Core Award, George Mason University, 2020
- National Grant for the 2019 CIBER Business Language Research and Teaching Awards, the 15 CIBER’s U.S. Department of Education (USDOE) Title VI grants, 2019
- International Funding Award for the International World Korean Educators Conference, The King Sejong Institute Foundation, July 2019
- Conference Travel Grant, The Korean Studies Center, George Mason University, June 2019
- Grant for Departmental Professional Development/Conference, The Asian Studies Program in School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University, January 2017
Grants
George Mason University, Stipend to develop INYO 105 for Mason Korea, 2018
George Mason University, Ali Vural Ak Research Grant, Global Islamic Studies, 2015
Trans-Atlantic Summer Institute in European Studies Fellow, 2013
George Mason University, Interdisciplinary Curriculum Collaborate Scholarship, 2013
George Mason University, Ph.D. Program Stipend, Cultural Studies, 2013–2014
George Mason University, Teaching Fellowship, MCL, 2012
Finalist, Paper Award: Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe in Berlin: The
Spectacular [A]ffect of ‘Vergangenheitsbewältigung’, Žižek Conference, 2012
George Mason University, Outstanding Graduate Student Award, Sociology, 2012
Marymount University, Literature & Languages, M.A. Program Funding, 2007 – 2008
Marymount University, 1st Price, “Gypsy Souls,” BlueInk Literary Arts Magazine, 2007
Grants
See attached CV.
Grants
Her dissertation research has been supported by the Provosts Research Fellowship, twice supported by the Interdisciplinary Curriculum Collaborative Award, and she has been a Davis Fellow at the Middlebury Institute of International Studies. Before coming to George Mason University, she was a fellow of the India-China Institute at The New School.
Grants
2025 Jablin Dissertation Award, International Leadership Association and Jepson School of Leadership Studies
2025 Chapman Dissertation Award, Network of Leadership Scholars and Academy of Management
2023 Dissertation Research Award, American Psychological Association
2022 Free Inquiry Grant, Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression
2022 Graen Grant for Student Research on Leaders and Teams, Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology
2021 Kenneth E. Clark Student Research Award, International Leadership Association and the Center for Creative Leadership
2021 Outstanding Graduate Student Instructor, GMU Department of Psychology