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

Kishauna Soljour
2025 Career Enhancement Fellowship for Junior Faculty
Institute for Citizens & Scholars
$17,500

Alvin Henry
Advancing Ethnic Studies and Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies by Building Inclusive, Decolonial Internships
California State University Office of the Chancellor
$100,000

Mathias Schulze and Christopher Brown
Defense Language Institute (DLI) Language Immersion Training
US Department of Defense
$67,784

Alvin Henry
Social Justice Through Asian American Stories: Building Asian American Studies and Asian American Community in San Diego
Andrew W Mellon Foundation (The)
$850,000

Joseph Sabia
Disparities in SSI, SSDI, and OASI Take-Up Among LGB and non-LGB Populations: Evidence from COVID-19 Pandemic Shocks
University of Wisconsin-Madison
$194,055

Hilary McMillan
Improving the fidelity of the NextGen NWM through process synthesis across N America Non-Competing Renewal
Consortium of Universities (CUAHSI)
$45,256

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
$30,000

Mathias Schulze and Christopher Brown
Defense Language Institute (DLI) Language Immersion Training
US Department of Defense
$443,660

Paula De Vos
The Powers of Heaven and Earth: The Concept of Dunamis from the Ancient Mediterranean to the Early Modern Atlantic World
DHHS National Library of Medicine
$107,200

Rebecca Lewison, Jessica Barlow, and Douglas Stow
SDSU TCTAC for EPA Region 9: Center for Community Climate Action, Energy and Environment Justice
Environmental Protection Agency
$3,000,000

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

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