Grants and Publications
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, 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
Recent & Upcoming Book Publications
ZAMIRA ABMAN
"Coerced Liberation: Muslim Women in Soviet Tajikistan"
2024
University of Toronto Press
EDWARD BEASLEY
"A Male Hysteria: Diabetes and the Victorian Mind"
2024
University of Pennsylvania Press
OLIVIA CHILCOTE
"Unrecognized in California: Federal Acknowledgment and the San Luis Rey Band of Mission Indians"
2024
University of Washington Press
VICTORIA GONZÁLEZ-RIVERA
"Five Hundred Years of LGBTQIA+ History in Western Nicaragua"
2024
University of Arizona Press
JOANNE M. FERRARO
"The Renaissance and the Wider World"
2024
Bloomsbury Publishing
JACOB HUBBARD
"Sounds of Yesterday: A Novel"
2024
Celestial Seaside Publishing
MICHAEL JAMES ROBERTS, KRISTIN LAWLER, DAVID P. CLINE (eds.)
"Roll and Flow: The Cultural Politics of Skateboarding and Surfing"
2024
SDSU Press
NORAH P. SHULTZ (ed.)
"Revising the Curriculum and Co-Curriculum to Engage Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion"
2024
Routledge
JESS WHATCOTT
"Menace to the Future: A Disability and Queer History of Carceral Eugenics"
2024
Duke University Press
ZHENG-SHENG ZHANG
"Chinese Signs: An Introduction to China's Linguistic Landscape"
2024
Cambridge University Press
TAHARKA ADÉ
"W. E. B. Du Bois’ Africa: Scrambling for a New Africa"
2023
Anthem Press
RICHARD L. CARRICO
"Monsters on the Loose: The True Story of Three Unsolved Murders in Prohibition Era San Diego"
2023
WildBlue Press
JONATHAN GRAUBART
"Jewish Self-Determination beyond Zionism: Lessons from Hannah Arendt and Other Pariahs"
2023
Temple University Press
PETER C. HERMAN
"Early Modern Others: Resisting Bias in Renaissance Literature"
2023
Routledge
AMANDA KEARNEY
"Jakarda Wuka (Too Many Stories): Narratives of Rock Art from Yanyuwa Country in Northern Australia's Gulf of Carpentaria"
2023
with li-Yanyuwa li-Wirdiwalangu, Liam M. Brady, and John Bradley
Sydney University Press
MATTHEW LAUER
"Sensing Disaster: Local Knowledge and Vulnerability in Oceania"
2023
University of California Press
SETH MALLIOS
"Historic Walking Tours of San Diego State"
2023
Montezuma Publishing
STEPHEN-PAUL MARTIN
"Twenty Twenty"
2023
Spuyten Duyvil
EMILY SCHUCKMAN MATTHEWS
"Sex Work in Contemporary Russia: A Cultural Perspective"
2023
Rowman & Littlefield
STEPHEN L. WEBER
"Reflections in the Mirror of Life: A Philosopher's Notebook"
2023
San Diego State University Press
AMY WONG
"Stories of Survival: The Paradox of Suicide Vulnerability and Resiliency among Asian American College Students"
2023
Oxford University Press
MONICA J. CASPER
"Babylost: Racism, Survival, and the Quiet Politics of Infant Mortality, from A to Z"
2022
Rutgers University Press
DAVID P. CLINE
"Twice Forgotten: African Americans and the Korean War, An Oral History."
2022
The University of North Carolina Press
ENIKO CSOMAY
"The Routledge Handbook of Corpora and English Language Teaching and Learning"
2022
with Reka R. Jablonkai (eds.)
Routledge
JENNIFER SHEPPARD
"Writer/Designer: A Guide to Making Multimodal Projects" (3rd edition)
2022
with Cheryl Ball and Kristin Arola
Macmillan Learning
ELISA SOBO
"The anthropology of power, agency, and morality: The enduring legacy of F. G. Bailey"
2022
with Victor de Munck (eds.)
Manchester University Press