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
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
Gregory Daddis
Hub & Spoke Post-Doctorate Fellowship Program
Florida State University
$95,000
Clarissa Clo
Race, Citizenship, and Hip-Hop in Italy
Institute of Italian Culture
$9,825
Amy Quandt
Climate change adaptation through agroforestry: an integrated socio-economic and biophysical assessment in two semi-arid regions
University Corporation for Atmospheric Research
$328,622
Erika Robb Larkins
Building the Humanities through Brazilian Studies
National Endowment for the Humanities
$149,998
Joseph J. Sabia
Assessing the Efficacy of Increasing Access to Tobacco Harm Reduction Products: New Evidence on Intended and Unintended Effects
Foundation for a Smoke Free World
$1,647,714
Hilary McMillan
Synthesizing Hydrologic Process Knowledge Through a Community Database
National Science Foundation
$376,029
Trent Biggs, Pascale Marcelli, Amy Quandt, and Ramona Perez
Expanding and Diversifying Careers in sustainable food systems along the US-Mexico Border
USDA Agricultural Research Service
$550,000
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
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