Lipitz Professor 2025-2026
Erle Ellis (Professor, Geography and Environmental Systems)
CAHSS Staff Award (Exempt) 2025
Grace Castle (Academic Advisor, Global Studies)
CAHSS Staff Award (Non-Exempt) 2025
Vanessa Capuano (Academic Program Specialist, Philosophy)
CAHSS Early-Career Faculty Excellence Award 2025
Bryan Van Wyck (Assistant Professor, History)
CAHSS Mid-Career Faculty Excellence Award 2025
Felipe Filomeno (Professor, Political Science & Director, Global Studies)
CAHSS Excellence in Teaching Award 2025
Molly Jones-Lewis (Associate Teaching Professor, Ancient Studies)
CAHSS Adjunct Faculty Excellence Award 2025
Steven Gribben (Adjunct Professor, Visual Arts)
Eileen and Jerry Carroll Faculty Research Fund 2025
Julie Sayo & Yasmine Kotturi (Assistant Professor, Visual Arts, & Assistant Professor, Information Systems), Design Commons Lab: A Community-Based Approach to Design Justice among Entrepreneurs and Residents in Baltimore City
Pedagogy and Teaching Award (PAT) & and John Jeffries Fellowship for Internationalizing the Curriculum
Fall 2024
Julie Sayo (Assistant Professor, Visual Arts), Bringing History to Life: Multimodal Approaches to Teaching Design History
Erin Hogan (Associate Professor, Modern Languages, Linguistics, and Intercultural Communication)& Suzanne Sutton (Teaching Professor, Modern Languages, Linguistics, and Intercultural Communication), Tassels in Our Cap: A New MLLI Core Capstone
Spring 2025
Lisa Moren (Professor, Visual Arts), The Intermedia Lab
Lisa Dickson (Associate Professor, Economics), An International Perspective on Labor Economics Focusing on Women and the Economy
Andrew Hann (Adjunct Professor, Theatre), Teaching Contemporary Vocal Styles
Takashi Yamashita (Professor, Sociology, Anthropology, and Public Health & Director, Doctoral Program in Gerontology), Internationalizing the Interdisciplinary Global Aging and Health-Related Components in the Sociology and Gerontology Courses (PAT and John Jeffries Award Recipient)
CAHSS Research Fellowship (CRF) 2025 – 2026
William Blake (Associate Professor, Political Science),The Considered Judgment of the People
Aubrey Jackson-Soller (Associate Professor, Sociology, Anthropology and Public Health), Abortion and Invisible Women in the Shadow of the Carceral State
Tania Lizarazo (Associate Professor, Modern Languages, Linguistics, and Intercultural Communication), Beyond Accommodations
CAHSS Dean’s Research Fund (CDRF)
Fall 2024
Lynn Cazabon (Professor, Visual Arts), Losing Winter
Mercedez Dunn-Gallier (Assistant Professor, Sociology, Anthropology and Public Health) Black Girl Talk. Black Femme Communications about Sexual Pleasure and Desire
Nicole Morse (Associate Professor, Language, Literacy, and Culture Doctoral Program), Bending the Bars: An Original Album of Hip Hop by Incarcerated Artists
Orianne Smith (Professor, English), A Legion of Wollstonecrafts: Women Writers and the Collective Power of Female Anger
Ming Xie (Assistant Professor, Emergency and Disaster Health Systems), The Impact of Policies on Refugee Resettlement Agencies: Navigating Regulatory Challenges and Nonprofit Capacity
Noor Zaidi (Assistant Professor, History), Translations of Zaynab: Gender, Sectarian, and Citizenship in Shi’a Islam
Spring 2025
Guenet Abraham (Professor, Visual Arts), Crafting the Future: Exploring and Bridging Ethiopia’s Indigenous Art, Design, and Innovation
Brian Soller (Associate Professor, Sociology, Anthropology and Public Health), Mapping Mobility Networks to Examine Drug Market Activity and Overdose Risk in Baltimore
CAHSS Student Research Assistance for Faculty Research and Creative Achievement (SRA)
Fall 2024
Charissa Cheah (Professor, Psychology) – Graduate student assistant
Jun Chu (Assistant Professor, Sociology, Anthropology and Public Health) – Undergraduate student assistant
Kate Drabinski (Teaching Professor, GWST) – Graduate student assistant
Irina Golubeva (Professor, Modern Languages, Linguistics and Intercultural Communication) – Undergraduate student assistant
Silvia Escanilla Huerta (Postdoctoral Fellow, History) – Undergraduate student assistant
Lindsay Johnson (Associate Teaching Professor, Music) – Undergraduate student assistant
Doug Lamdin (Professor, Economics) – Undergraduate student assistant
Tania Lizarazo (Associate Professor, Modern Languages, Linguistics, and Intercultural Communication) – Undergraduate student assistant
Annie Nguyen (Associate Teaching Professor, English) – Undergraduate student assistant
Haniyeh Barahouie Pasandi (Associate Professor, Modern Languages, Linguistics, and Intercultural Communication) – Undergraduate student assistant
Deborah Rudacille (Professor of the Practice, English) – Undergraduate student assistant
Michelle Stites (Associate Professor, English) – Undergraduate student assistant
Eric Stokan (Associate Professor, Political Science) – Undergraduate student assistant
Christopher Tong (Associate Professor, Modern Languages, Linguistics, and Intercultural Communication) – Undergraduate student assistant
Emily Yoon (Associate Professor, English) – Undergraduate student assistant
Spring 2025
Cathy Cook (Associate Professor, Visual Arts) – Undergraduate student assistant
Dustin Donahue (Assistant Professor, Music) – Undergraduate student assistant
Je St. Sume (Assistant Professor, Political Science) – Graduate student assistant
Center for Innovation, Research and Creativity in the Arts (CIRCA)
2025 CIRCA Research Fellowship
Sarah Sharp (Associate Professor, Visual Arts), We Who Warm the Moon
2025 CIRCA Pedagogy Fellowship
Colette Searls (Professor, Theatre), Monsters, Aliens, and Robots: Global Performance of the Non-human
2025 CIRCA Summer Fellowship
Guenet Abraham (Professor, Visual Arts), Crafting the Future: Exploring and Bridging Ethiopia’s Indigenous Art, Design, and Innovation
Brian Kaufman (Associate Professor, Music), Brass for Uncommon Times
2025 CIRCA-IMET Artist in Residence Fellowship
Matt Belzer (Teaching Professor, Music), The Ocean is Aware
Center for Social Science Scholarship (CS3)
2025 Summer Fellowship
Brian Soller (Associate Professor, Sociology, Anthropology, and Public Health), Mapping Mobility Networks to Examine Drug Market Activity and Overdose Risk in Baltimore
Takashi Yamashita (Professor, Sociology, Anthropology, and Public Health and Director of the Gerontology Program), Socioeconomic characteristics, financial literacy and financial behaviors in the middle-aged and older adult population in the United States: An initial analysis of the 2023 Program for the International Assessment of Adult Competencies data.
Dresher Center for the Humanities
Spring 2025 Dresher Residential Faculty Research Fellowship
Lindsay DiCuirci (Associate Professor, English), The Vital Page: Spiritualist Print Culture and Phantasms of Reform in the Nineteenth-Century U.S
Meredith Oyen (Associate Professor, History), U.S. – China Relations: A History
2025 Dresher Summer Fellowship for Tenured and Tenure-Track Faculty
Keegan Cook Finberg (Assistant Professor, English), Utopian Resistance and Imperial Steinian Form in Harryette Mullen’s Trimmings and S*PeRM**K*T
Emily Yoon (Associate Professor, English), Little Intimacies: Ecologies of Race, Migration, and Relation in Minority Literatures
Kyun-Eun Yoon (Associate Professor, Modern Languages, Linguistics, and Intercultural Communication) K-Pop and Memes in Protest Discourse: Identity and Collective Membership in the 2024-25 South Korean Impeachment Protests
2025 Dresher Center Summer Fellowship for Lecturer and Adjunct Faculty
Natalie Groom (Affiliate Artist for Clarinet, Music), Pauline Oliveros Trio Research, Engraving, and Publication
Public Health Research Center
Summer 2025 Collaborative Grant Writing Awards
Lauren Clay (Professor, Emergency and Disaster Health Systems) & Dillon Mahmoudi (Associate Professor, Geography and Environmental Systems), Pre-planning Logistics Models that Integrate Earth Systems, built environment and social environmental data
Jason Loviglio (Professor, Media and Communication Studies) & Jun Chu (Assistant Professor, Sociology, Anthropology, and Public Health), The Impacts of Digital Modern Media and the Influencers of Health Behaviors and Health Information Access among Asian and Latino Immigrants in the US
Janelle Billingsley (Assistant Professor, Psychology) & Loren Henderson (Professor, Public Policy), Developing a Youth-Adult Partnership Intervention Model to Address Systematic Inequities in Under Resourced Communities
Karrie Godwin (Associate Professor, Psychology), Michelle Stites (Associate Professor, Education) & Susan Sonnenschein (Professor, Psychology), Supporting Academic Success and Well Being Post Covid-19 for Children with Disabilities: Lessons Learned from Teachers, Parents and Children
Molly Franz (Assistant Professor, Psychology), David Schultz (Associate Professor, Psychology) & Sandra Barrueco (Professor, Psychology), Improving Mental Health and Parenting Through Peer Support: Adapting Mom Power for Trauma-Exposed Mothers in Home Visiting Programs