AY 2021–2022 Award Recipients

KATHERINE D. DAWSON
Assistant Professor, Department of Environmental Science, School of Environmental and Biological Sciences, Rutgers University–New Brunswick
Project Title: Development of a transition metal carbide film for methane tracking in environmental sediments, soils, and waters

ANGELICA L. GONZALEZ GJARDO
Assistant Professor, Department of Biology and Center for Computational and Integrative Biology, Faculty of Arts and Sciences, Rutgers University–Camden
Project Title: Understanding the interactive effects of temperature and nutrients on ecological processes across scales

MARYA (MAYTE) GREEN-MERCADO
Assistant Professor, Department of History, School of Arts and Sciences, Rutgers University–Newark
Project Title: Mediterranean Displacements: Morisco Migration in the Pre-Expulsion Period (1501–1609)

DOMINGO MOREL
Assistant Professor, Department of Political Science, School of Arts and Sciences, Rutgers University–Newark
Project Title: A Pension is a Promise: The Politics of Public Sector Pension Reform in the U.S.

KELCIE M. RALPH
Assistant Professor, Edward J. Bloustein School of Planning and Public Policy, Rutgers University–New Brunswick
Project Title: Why Is ‘Induced Demand’ Missing from Engineering Education?

HANA SHEPHERD
Assistant Professor, Department of Sociology, School of Arts and Sciences, Rutgers University–New Brunswick
Project Title: Sources of Perceptions of Racial Norms: A Conjoint Survey Experiment

CAROL J. SINGLEY
Professor, Department of English, Faculty of Arts and Sciences, Rutgers University–Camden
Project Title: The Complete Works of Edith Wharton

ALESSANDRA WILLIAMS
Assistant Professor, Department of Dance, Mason Gross School of the Arts, Rutgers University–New Brunswick
Project Title: Yorchhā: Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion in Contemporary Dance Training

ANITA BAKSHI
Assistant Teaching Professor, Department of Landscape Architecture, School of Environmental and Biological Sciences, Rutgers University–New Brunswick
Project Title: The Meaning of the Seed - A New Jersey Environmental Justice Story

VANDEEN CAMPBELL
Assistant Research Professor, Cornwell Center for Metropolitan Studies and the Department of Urban Education, School of Arts and Sciences, Rutgers University–Newark
Project Title: What School Conditions Support Freshman On-Track? Race, Poverty and Equity in New Jersey High Schools

GAIL CAPUTO
Professor, Department of Sociology, Anthropology, and Criminal Justice, Faculty of Arts and Sciences, Rutgers University–Camden
Project Title: Felony Women: Oppression and Resistance over the Life Course

CATI COE
Professor, Department of Sociology, Anthropology, and Criminal Justice, Faculty of Arts and Sciences, Rutgers University–Camden
Project Title: To Stay or Go? Migration Decision-Making and the Pursuit of Wellbeing among Aging Immigrants from West Africa

D. ASHER GHERTNER
Associate Professor and Graduate Director, Department of Geography, School of Arts and Sciences, Rutgers University–New Brunswick
Project Title: At Home on the Camp: Mapping the Legal Geography of Farmworker Housing in New York

REGINA MARCHI
Associate Professor, Department of Journalism and Media Studies, School of Communication and Information, Rutgers University–New Brunswick
Project Title: Day of the Dead in the USA: The Internet, Hollywood, and Latinx Cultural and Political Expression

ANDREA MARSTON
Assistant Professor, Department of Geography, School of Arts and Sciences, Rutgers University–New Brunswick
Project Title: Latin America’s “Green” Frontiers: Strategic Metals, Biofuels, and Socially Just Energy Transitions

DAWNE M. MOUZON
Associate Professor, Edward J. Bloustein School of Planning and Public Policy, and Core Faculty, Institute for Health, Health Care Policy and Aging Research, Rutgers University–New Brunswick
Project Title: Racial Discrimination, Coping, and Mental Health: An Investigation of Black American Resilience and Vulnerability During America’s 2020–2021 Racial Reckoning

Research Team:
HUIXIN HE (PI)
Professor, Department of Chemistry, School of Arts and Sciences, Rutgers University–Newark

Co-PIs:
PHILIP E. BATSON
Distinguished Research Professor, Department of Physics and Astronomy, School of Arts and Sciences and Materials Science and Engineering, School of Engineering, Rutgers University–New Brunswick

ERIC GARFUNKEL
Distinguished Professor, Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, School of Arts and Sciences, Rutgers University–New Brunswick and Vice President for Global Affairs, Rutgers Global

Research Team:
TAMARA SEARS (PI)
Associate Professor, Department of Art History and South Asian Studies Program, School of Arts and Sciences, Rutgers University–New Brunswick

Co-PIs:
CHIE IKEYA
Associate Professor, Department of History and South Asian Studies Program, School of Arts and Sciences, Rutgers University–New Brunswick

ALLAN PUNZALAN ISAAC
Associate Professor and Chair, Department of American Studies and Associate Professor, Department of English, School of Arts and Sciences, Rutgers University–New Brunswick

PAMELA MCELWEE
Associate Professor, Department of Human Ecology, School of Environmental and Biological Sciences and Department of Geography, School of Arts and Sciences, Rutgers University–New Brunswick

JULIA STEPHENS
Associate Professor, Department of History and South Asian Studies Program, School of Arts and Sciences, Rutgers University–New Brunswick

Research Team:
JULIANNE GRIEPENBURG (PI)
Assistant Professor, Department of Physics and Center for Computational and Integrative Biology, Faculty of Arts and Sciences, Rutgers University–Camden

JINGLIN FU (Co-PI)
Associate Professor, Department of Chemistry, Faculty of Arts and Sciences, Rutgers University–Camden

Research Team:
PENNY VENETIS (PI)
Clinical Professor of Law and Director of the International Human Rights Clinic, Rutgers Law School–Newark, Rutgers University–Newark

Co-PIs:
VICTORIA BANYARD
Professor, Associate Dean for Faculty Development, and Associate Director, Center on Violence Against Women, School of Social Work, Rutgers University–New Brunswick

NOA'A SHIMONI
Associate Professor and Chair, Department of Family Medicine, New Jersey Medical School, Rutgers Biomedical and Health Sciences

Research Team:
DANIEL SHAIN (PI)
Professor, Department of Biology and Center for Computational and Integrative Biology, Faculty of Arts and Sciences, Rutgers University–Camden

Co-PIs:
GRACE BRANNIGAN
Associate Professor, Department of Physics and Center for Computational and Integrative Biology, Faculty of Arts and Sciences, Rutgers University–Camden

ANTHONY J. GENEVA
Assistant Professor, Department of Biology and Center for Computational and Integrative Biology, Faculty of Arts and Sciences, Rutgers University–Camden

GUILLAUME LAMOUREUX
Associate Professor, Department of Chemistry and Center for Computational and Integrative Biology, Faculty of Arts and Sciences, Rutgers University–Camden

Research Team:
WOOJIN JUNG (PI)
Assistant Professor, School of Social Work, Rutgers University–New Brunswick and Global Health Institute at Rutgers

Co-PIs:
TAWFIQ AMMARI
Assistant Professor, Department of Library and Information Science, School of Communication and Information, Rutgers University–New Brunswick

DIMITRIS N. METAXAS
Distinguished Professor, Department of Computer Science, School of Arts and Sciences, Rutgers University–New Brunswick

DIMITRIOS NTARLAGIANNIS
Associate Research Professor, Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, School of Arts and Sciences, Rutgers University–Newark

Research Team:
JACOB FELDMAN (PI)
Professor, Department of Psychology and Center for Cognitive Science, School of Arts and Sciences, Rutgers University–New Brunswick

Co-PIs:
MUBBASIR T. KAPADIA
Assistant Professor, Department of Computer Science and Center for Cognitive Science, School of Arts and Sciences, Rutgers University–New Brunswick

FRED S. ROBERTS
Distinguished Professor, Department of Mathematics, School of Arts and Sciences, Director of the Center for Discrete Mathematics and Theoretical Computer Science, and Director of Command, Control and Interoperability Center for Advanced Data Analysis, Rutgers University–New Brunswick

KARIN STROMSWOLD
Professor, Department of Psychology, Center for Cognitive Science, School of Arts and Sciences, Rutgers University–New Brunswick

Research Team:
ELIN WICKS (PI)
Assistant Teaching Professor, Department of Industrial Engineering, School of Engineering, Rutgers University–New Brunswick

Co-PIs:
WAHEED U. BAJWA
Associate Professor, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, School of Engineering, and Department of Statistics, School of Arts and Sciences, Rutgers University–New Brunswick

GERALDINE L. COCHRAN
Assistant Professor of Professional Practice, Department of Physics and Astronomy, Office of Stem Education, School of Arts and Sciences, Rutgers University–New Brunswick

CALVIN YU
Assistant Professor and Director of Assessment at the Office of Undergraduate Instruction, Division of Life Sciences, School of Arts and Sciences, Rutgers University–New Brunswick

TAO JIANG
Associate Professor, Department of Religion and Director of Rutgers Center for Chinese Studies, School of Arts and Sciences, Rutgers University–New Brunswick
Book Title: Origins of Moral-Political Philosophy in Early China

CHLOE S. KITZINGER-SHEDLOCK
Assistant Professor, Department of Russian and East European Languages and Literatures, School of Arts and Sciences, Rutgers University–New Brunswick
Book Title: Mimetic Lives: Tolstoy, Dostoevsky, and Character in the Novel

EMILY MARKER
Assistant Professor, Department of History, Faculty of Arts and Sciences, Rutgers University–Camden, and the Center for African Studies, School of Arts and Sciences, Rutgers–New Brunswick
Book Title: Black France, White Europe: Decolonizing Belonging in the Postwar Era

MAURICE WALLACE
Associate Professor, Department of English, School of Arts and Sciences, Rutgers University–New Brunswick
Book Title: King's Vibrato: Blackness, Modernism and the Sonic Life of Martin Luther King, Jr.

AZZAN YADIN-ISRAEL
Professor, Department of Jewish Studies, School of Arts and Sciences, Rutgers University–New Brunswick
Book Title: How the Forbidden Fruit Became an Apple