Lipitz Professor 2026-2027 Lisa Moren, Professor, Visual Arts
CAHSS Staff Award (Exempt) 2026 Molly Timko, Academic Advisor, CAHSS
CAHSS Staff Award (Non-Exempt) 2026 Morgan Dowty, Program Management Specialist, American Studies
CAHSS Early-Career Faculty Excellence Award 2026 Emily K. Yoon, Assistant Professor, English
CAHSS Mid-Career Faculty Excellence Award 2026 Christine Mair, Associate Professor, Sociology, Anthropology & Public Health
CAHSS Excellence in Teaching Award 2026 Lindsay Johnson, Associate Professor, Music
Pedagogy and Teaching Award (PAT) & John Jeffries Fellowship for Internationalizing the Curriculum
Haniyeh Barahouie Pasandi, Associate Professor, MLLI
Business French (FREN 329): Launching the “French for Professions” Curriculum Initiative
Adam Mendelson, Associate Teaching Professor, Theatre
Re-filming of tutorial videos for THTR 262
Jungwon Yeo, Associate Professor, EDHS
Developing a first ever EDHS faculty-led study abroad course: “Comparative Emergency and Disaster Management Systems between U.S. and East Asia” (Also received the 2025-2026 John Jeffries International Fellowship)
CAHSS Research Fellowship (CRF) 2026–2027
Christine Mair, Associate Professor, Sociology, Anthropology and Public Health Risks of “Kinlessness” in Later Life: Lack of Empirical Evidence & Theorization
Dena Smith, Associate Professor, Sociology, Anthropology and Public Health Beyond Psychoanalysis: Talk Therapy in the 21st Century
Christy Chapin, Associate Professor, History The Great Banker War: Banker Infighting through Panics, Federal Reserve Debates, and the Great Depression
CAHSS Dean’s Research Fund (CDRF)
Charissa Cheah, Professor, Psychology Never Too Early to StAART Talking about Race: A focus on Asian American Families with Young Children
Chulwoo Park, Assistant Professor, Sociology, Anthropology and Public Health The Effects of Anti-Asian Hate Crimes on Asian Populations’ Mental Health During the COVID-19 Pandemic: Leveraging Social Media Data from X for Retrospective Sentiment Analysis in the United States
Karrie Godwin, et al, Associate Professor, Psychology Academic Success and Social-Emotional Development Post-COVID-19 for Children with and without Disabilities
Nikki Hartman, Professor, Theatre Doll Parts… 2026 Artist Residency at The Voxel Theatre, Baltimore, MD
Mark Durant, Professor, Visual Arts Confessions of a Working Class Artist
CAHSS Student Research Assistance for Faculty Research and Creative Achievement (SRA)
Matthew Baker, Professor, Geography and Environmental Systems
Undergraduate student assistant
Mirela Cengher, Associate Professor, Psychology
Graduate student assistant
Jun Chu, Assistant Professor, Sociology, Anthropology & Public Health
Undergraduate student assistant
Mercedez Dunn-Gallier, Assistant Professor, Sociology, Anthropology & Public Health
Graduate student assistant
Molly Franz, Assistant Professor, Psychology
Graduate student assistant
Maggie Holland, Associate Professor, Geography and Environmental Systems
Undergraduate student assistant
Tania Lizarazo, Associate Professor, Modern Languages, Linguistics & Intercultural Communication
Graduate student assistant
Lulu Mwangi, Assistant Professor, Music
Undergraduate student assistant
Nkiru Nnawulezi, Assistant Professor, Psychology
Undergraduate student assistant
Chulwoo Park, Assistant Professor, Sociology, Anthropology & Public Health
Graduate student assistant
Corrie Parks, Associate Professor, Visual Arts
Undergraduate student assistant
Brandy Wallace, Associate Professor, Sociology, Anthropology & Public Health
Graduate student assistant
Nicholas Welcome, Assistant Teaching Professor, Sociology, Anthropology & Public Health
Undergraduate student assistant
Center for Innovation, Research and Creativity in the Arts (CIRCA)
2026 CIRCA Pedagogy Fellowship
$8400 for 2 course releases – awarded to Lisa Moren, Professor, Visual Arts
2026 CIRCA Summer Fellowship
$6000 to Nigel Semaj, Assistant Professor, Theatre and $6000 to Nikki Hartman, Associate Professor, Theatre
2026 CIRCA-IMET Artist in Residence Fellowship Edgar Reyes, Assistant Professor, Visual Arts
2026 CIRCA Professional Development Grants $800 to $1500 each: Lisa Moren, Lulu Mwangi, Brian Kaufman, Elizabeth Palmer, McCoy Chance, Irene Chan, Philip Mann, Eric Dyer
Center for Social Science Scholarship (CS3)
2026 Summer Fellowship Michael Andrews, Associate Professor, ECON – The Meritocracy Shock and the Changing Geography of Talent Jé St Sume, Assistant Professor, POLI – Red, White, and Black: What Black Participation Teaches Us about American Democracy
2026 Research Award
Enrico Berkes, Assistant Professor, ECON – The Decline in the Transmission of Scientific Idea
Imaging Research Center (IRC) Research Fellows
Eric Millikin, Assistant Professor, VART, Fiona Bell, Assistant Professor, IS, Sust(A.I.)Inable Entanglements: Collaboratively Creating with Bio-Digital Hybrid IntelligencesJennifer Maher, Associate Professor, ENGL, Rebecca Williams, Assistant Professor, CSEE, Mapping bias in and through AI Rhetorics
Dresher Center for the Humanities
2026 Dresher Summer Fellowship for Tenured and Tenure-Track Faculty Haniyeh Barahouie, Associate Professor, MLLI, Sahelian Sisterhood Lisa Cassell, Assistant Professor, PHIL, Logic’s Own Epistomology
2026 Dresher Center Summer Fellowship for Lecturer and Adjunct Faculty Iris Blake, Assistant Teaching Professor, AMST, Undisciplining the Voice
Public Health Research Center
Summer 2026 Collaborative Grant Writing Awards
Jude Agboada, Assistant Professor, Visual Arts
Trang Ta, Assistant Teaching Professor, Global Studies Program
Bambi Chapin, Associate Professor, Sociology, Anthropology & Public Health
Charissa Cheah, Professor, Psychology
Jiyoon Lee, Associate Professor, Education
Lira Yoon, Associate Professor, Psychology
Hasan Shahid, Assistant Professor, Economics
Aneeka Ratnayake, Assistant Professor, Sociology, Anthropology & Public Health
Brian Soller, Associate Professor, Sociology, Anthropology & Public Health
Christine Mair, Associate Professor, Sociology, Anthropology & Public Health
Eric Stokan, Professor, Political Science
Mirjam Voerkelius, Assistant Professor, History
Jinghong Zhang, Assistant Professor, History
Amy Froide, Professor, History
Jungwon Yeo, Associate Professor, Emergency & Disaster Health Systems
Charles Park, Assistant Professor, Sociology, Anthropology & Public Health
Presidential Awards
Presidential Teaching Professor Award Lindsay DiCuirci, Associate Professor, English
USM Board of Regents Award for Excellence in Creative Activity Brian Kaufman, Associate Professor, Music