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.
During the 2023-2024 academic year, CAL faculty and staff were awarded $10M+ in external funding.
Selected Recent Grants
Daniel Sousa
Mapping and Monitoring Oak Woodlands at Randall Preserve and Dye Creek Preserve With Multitemporal Satellite Imagery
Nature Conservancy (The)
$50,000
Jessica Barlow
Sage Project: Broadening Participation of Women Veterans in the STEM Workforce through Service Learning
Data Elevates
$ 104,207
Daniel Sousa, Trent Biggs, and Natalie Mladenov
Hyperspectral Remote Sensing of Estuarine and Inland Water Quality: Empirical Line Method-based Atmospheric Correction and Data Fusion with Manifold Learning
National Aeronautics and Space Administration
$200,000
Thomas Herman
South Region Evaluation: First 5-Healthy Development Services for Children
SBCS Corporation
$77,677
Trent Biggs
Global Food Security - Support Analysis Data (GFSAD)
DOI United States Geological Survey
$62,040
Gregory Daddis
Hub & Spoke Post-Doctorate Fellowship
Florida State University
$107,944
Natalie Santizo and Erika Esquivel
Unearthing the Chicana/o Movement in San Diego: Digitizing the Education Movimiento
Council on Library Resources
$300,000
Douglas Stow
Remote sensing of forest health and fire effects
USDA Forest Service
$26,964
Daniel Sousa
Southern California fieldwork to support 2024 FireSense airborne science objectives: post-fire regrowth and pre-fire mapping of vegetation structure, live fuel moisture, soil moisture, and burn temperature
National Aeronautics and Space Administration
$131,162
Isaac Ullah and David Cline
Community Heritage Empowerment Toolkit (CHET): A Standards-Based Toolkit for Documenting a Structure's Life History for Grassroots Heritage Preservation Organizations
University of Central Florida
$22,974
Olivia Chilcote
Learning Our Truth & Reclaiming Our Land
San Luis Rey Band of Mission Indians
$24,500
Ming-Hsiang Tsou, Audrey Beck, Gabriela Fernandez, Xiaobai Liu, Atsushi Nara
Analyzing Spatiotemporal changes of Urban Homeless distribution and Neighborhood Environments using Geospatial Artificial Intelligence (GeoAI) with Street View Images and Satellite Images
NSF Division of Social and Economic Sciences
$450,000
Daniel Sousa
Southern California-based Field and Analytic Support for Pre-, Active-, and Post-Fire Characterization
National Aeronautics and Space Administration
$172,500
Ricardo Vasconcelos
Portuguese Language Assessor Agency Project
Luso-American Development Foundation FLAD
$16,137
Janet Franklin
Collaborative Research: Archaeological analysis and dynamic modeling of ecosystem change and adaptive human foraging across glacial cycling in coastal South Africa
NSF Division of Behavioral and Cognitive Sciences
$108,757
Lisa Lamont and Jessica Barlow
Preserving Tijuana's Culturo-Historical Archives
National Endowment for the Humanities
$336,762
Sergio Rey
POSE: Phase II: An Open Source Ecosystem for Spatial Data Science
NSF Directorate for Technology, Innovation and Partnership
$1,484,914
Nicole Mathwich
Archaeology and Agaves: Exploring the culturally-made landscapes
DOI National Park Service
$60,769
David Cline
State Archives Oral History Project
California State Library
$25,000
Ramona Perez
Collaborative Research: The Plurality of Police Oversight: A Multi-Sited Ethnography of Democracy, Race, and Power
NSF Division of Behavioral and Cognitive Sciences
$47,376
Christine Knott
Building Resilient Blue Places? The importance of Equity and Blue Space in Assembling a Blue Economy in the context of Climate Change (Blue Places) (the Project)
Ruralis
$41,566
Mathias Schulze and Christopher Brown
SDSU-LARC National Language Training Center for DoD
Institute of International Education
$1,499,999
Fernando De Sales
Fire Impacts on Precipitation through Land-atmosphere Interactions in Savannas
University of California at Los Angeles
$42,471