2023-2024 Faculty Research Grants
CSW|Streisand Center offers Faculty Research Grants to UCLA faculty for research development, new project development that may lead to external funding opportunities through CSW, and project completion that could be considered for CSW publications (policy briefs, research reports).
Congratulations to our Faculty Research Grants 2023-24 Awardees
Jennifer Wagman, Assistant Professor in the Fielding School of Public Health, Department of Community Health Sciences, for the project “A Qualitative Study of Survivors’ Experiences with and Recommendations for Improving Responses to Sexual Violence at UCLA.”
Purnima Mankekar, Professor in Anthropology, Asian American Studies, Gender Studies, for the project, “Recoding Affective Labor: Feminist Perspectives on Algorithmic Care Work.”
Lieba Faier, Associate Professor in Geography and Gender Studies, for the project, “Recoding Affective Labor: Feminist Perspectives on Algorithmic Care Work.”
Tamara Levitz, Professor in Comparative Literature, for the project, “What if Zora Neale Hurston never studied with Franz Boas? Facing the Settler Colonial Legacy of North American Ethnomusicology.”
Ugo Edu, Assistant Professor in African American Studies, for the project, “Who Wants to Be Fat Again?”: Molding a Desirable Body in Nigeria.”
Alesia Montgomery, Assistant Professor in the Institute of the Environment & Sustainability, for the project, “Impacts of WaSH and REC on the Wellbeing of Mothers and Children in South Los Angeles.”
Floridalma Boj Lopez, Assistant Professor in Chicana/o and Central American Studies, for the project, “Return of the Maya: Conceptualizing Diaspora through the Experiences of Return.”
Tiffany Barber, Assistant Professor in Art History, for the project, “Undesirability and Her Sisters: Black Women’s Visual Work in the New Millennium.”
Luwei Ying, Assistant Professor in Political Science, for the project, “Sexism as a “Gateway Drug” into White Supremacist Movements.”
Courtney Thomas Tobin, Associate Professor in Community Health Sciences, for the project, “Do Psychosocial Resources Confer Psychological or Physiological Resilience? A Latent Class Analysis of Psychosocial Resources, Depression, and Allostatic Load among Black Women.”
Giuseppina Silvestri, Lecturer in Linguistics, for the project, “Empowering migrant women through fair and sustainable language learning.”
Veronica Paredes, Assistant Professor in Film, Television and Digital Media, for the project, “Performing Pocha Belonging: Representations of Feminized U.S. Cultural Assimilation in Mexican Film of the 1970s and 80s.”
