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 2020-2021 academic year, CAL faculty and staff were awarded $5M+ in external funding.
Recent Grants
Elizabeth Pollard
Building a Comics and Social Justice Curriculum
National Endowment for the Humanities
$149,998
David Cline
Relevancy and History Pilot Project
California Department of Parks and Recreation
$142,074
Daniel Sousa
Analyzing the Land-Use Change Impacts of Oil and Gas Exploration Related Infrastructure
Changes on Arctic Communities
NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory
$50,000
Consuelo Salas
Creating Expansive Approaches to the Teaching of Writing in a Southern California
Border Region
National Endowment for the Humanities
$145,832
Gregory Daddis
Faith and Fear: War and America in the Long Cold War Era
Charles Koch Foundation
$54,915
Erika Robb Larkins
The Making of Modern Brazil: Marginal Spaces, Race, and Urban Life
National Endowment for the Humanities
$214,999
Hilary McMillan
Missing the Main Load? Quantifying Marine Debris Loadings From Storm Drain and River
Margin Sources in the San Diego River.
DOC National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
$293,846
Joseph Sabia
Center for Health Economics & Policy Studies (CHEPS)
Charles Koch Foundation
$442,500
Recent Book, Edited Volume and Special Journal Issue Publications
- BARTEL, REBECCA. 2021. Card Carrying Christians: Debt and the Making of Free Market Spirituality in Colombia. University of California Press.
- BLUM, EDWARD J. 2021. War is all Hell: The Nature of Evil and the Civil War. University of Pennsylvania Press.
- BORGSTROM, MICHAEL. 2021. Befriending the Queer Nineteenth Century: Curious Attachments. Routledge.
- BRAJE, TODD, Jon Erlandson, and Torben Rick. 2021. Islands Through Time: A Human and Ecological History of the Northern Channel Islands. Roman & Littlefield.
- CARRUTHERS, DAVID and Kristen Hill Maher. 2021. Unequal Neighbors: Place Stigma and the Making of a Local Border. Oxford University Press.
- CASPER, MONICA J. 2022. Babylost: Racism, Survival, and the Quiet Politics of Infant Mortality, from A to Z. Rutgers University Press.
- CLINE, DAVID P. 2022. Twice Forgotten: African Americans and the Korean War, An Oral History. The University of North Carolina Press.
- DE LA PEÑA, MATT (author) and Christian Robinson (Illustrator). 2021. Milo Imagines the World. G.P. Putnam's Sons Books for Young Readers.
- DEL CASTILLO, ADELAIDA R. and Gibrán Güido(eds.). 2021. Fathers, Fathering, and Fatherhood: Queer Chicano/Mexicano Desire and Belonging. Palgrave Macmillan.
- GANSTER, PAUL and Kimberly Collins. 2021. The U.S.-Mexican Border Today: Conflict and Cooperation in Historical Perspective, Fourth Edition. Rowman & Littlefield.
- HILL MAHER, KRISTEN and David Carruthers. 2021. Unequal Neighbors: Place Stigma and the Making of a Local Border. Oxford University Press.
- JAFFE, HAROLD. 2021. Brut: Writings on Art & Artists. Anti-Oedipus Press.
- JOASSART-MARCELLI, PASCALE. 2021. The $16 Taco: Contested Geographies of Food, Ethnicity, and Gentrification. University of Washington Press.
- KEATING, G. D., M.J. Leeser, & W. Wong (Eds.). 2021. Research on second language processing and processing instruction: Studies in honor of Bill VanPatten. Philadelphia/Amsterdam. John Benjamins. DOI: 10.1075/sibil.62
- NARA, ATSUSHI and Ming-Hsiang Tsou (Eds.) 2021. Empowering Human Dynamics Research with Social Media and Geospatial Data Analytics. Springer Nature.
- NERICCIO, WILLIAM, Antonio Rafele, and Frederick Luis Aldama. 2021. Cultural Studies in the Digital Age: An Anthology of 21st Century Interdisciplinary Inquiries, Postulations, and Findings. Hyperbole Books.
- POLLARD, ELIZABETH, Jeremy Adelman, & Robert Tignor. 2021. Worlds Together, Worlds Apart: A History of the World from the Beginnings of Humankind to the Present. W. W. Norton & Company.
- SHEPPARD, JENNIFER, Cheryl Ball, and Kristin Arola. 2022. Writer/Designer: A Guide to Making Multimodal Projects, 3rd edition. Macmillan Learning.
- TSOU, MING-HSIANG and Atsushi Nara (Eds.) 2021. Empowering Human Dynamics Research with Social Media and Geospatial Data Analytics. Springer Nature.