Grants

Our reputation for excellence is built on scholarship and practice. A strong research agenda ensures that the College of Arts and Letters is a major contributor to the growing body of knowledge in the humanities and social sciences. 

Selected Recent Grants

Daniel Sousa
Wilfdire and Prescribed Fire Characterization and Risk
University of California at Santa Barbara
$51,596

Edward Blum, Devanshi Hilsabeck, and Megan Welsh
The Work of Self-Government: A Year Long Examination of the Declaration of Independence and Its Value Today
Jack Miller Center
$10,000

Madison Swayne and Jessica Barlow
Statewide Inventory of Brownfields in California
California EPA Toxic Substances Control Department
$80,000

Daniel Sousa
Southern California-based Field and Analytic Support for Pre-, Active-, and Post-Fire Characterization
National Aeronautics and Space Administration
$115,000

Todd Butler and Aileen Taylor-Grant
CAL Advance: Second Year Pathways
Modern Language Association
$10,000

Edward Blum
A Republic that Counts: Numerical Information and Origins of American Federalism
Center for the Study of Federalism (CSF)
$11,600

David Cline
State Archives Oral History Project Non-Competing
California State Library
$25,000

Iana Castro, Amanda McClain, Atsushi Nara, Madison Swayne, and Shiloh Williams
Improving Health Outcomes and Advancing Health Equity in Imperial County Rural Communities through Increasing Healthy Food Access
DHHS Nat Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities
$899,820

Natalie Santizo
Mexican Foodways in the San Gabriel Valley: Regional Identity and Placemaking in El Monte, Baldwin Park, and La Puente, California, 1890-1950
Institute for Citizens & Scholars
$35,000

Hye Kwon
Historicizing K-beauty: Gender, Labor, and Multimedia, Post-1945
Academy of Korean Studies
$20,000

Erin Riley
Safer crossings: Implementing artificial canopy bridges to mitigate road impacts on the Endangered moor macaque (Macaca maura)
Re:wild
$3,692

Daniel Sousa
Comparative analysis of hyperspectral mixing spaces: To what extent does fine particulate cover affect impervious surface reflectance in global built environments?
National Aeronautics and Space Administration
$90,000

Daniel Sousa
Graduate Student Support for Go-Ship Scientific Research Cruise
University of California at San Diego
$8,846

Edward Blum
JMC-SDSU 2026 Grad Course Support Costs
Jack Miller Center
$21,762

Mathias Schulze
Language Sustainment for Marine Corps Language Analysts
DOD US Marine Corps
$10,652

Fernando De Sales
Fire impacts on precipitation through land-atmosphere interactions in savannas
University of California at Los Angeles
$74,000