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.

Selected Recent Grants

Pascale Joassart-Marcelli
Transnational Approaches to Sustainable Food Futures: Integrated High-Impact Learning Experiences and Multiple Pathways to Food Careers
U.S. Department of Agriculture, National Institute of Food and Agriculture, Hispanic Serving Institution (HSI) Collaborate Educational Grant
$1,000,000

Jessica Barlow and Madison Swayne
Brownfields Community-Wide Assessment Grant: National City, CA
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
$500,000

Sergio Rey
GeoSNAP for education
Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation
$257,958

Mathias Schulze and Christopher Brown
Project GO Annual Meeting
Institution of International Education
$213,006

Daniel Sousa and Trent Biggs
Hyperspectral Remote Sensing of Estuarine and Inland Water Quality: Empirical Line Method-based Atmospheric Correction and Data
National Aeronautics and Space Administration
$199,999

Elizabeth Pollard
Building a Comics and Social Justice Curriculum
National Endowment for the Humanities
$149,998

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 

Recent Book Publications

book cover - Jewish Self-Determination beyond Zionism tan backgroundJONATHAN GRAUBART
"Jewish Self-Determination beyond Zionism: Lessons from Hannah Arendt and Other Pariahs"
2023
Temple University Press

book cover - person in boat on water near the Solomon IslandsMATTHEW LAUER
"Sensing Disaster: Local Knowledge and Vulnerability in Oceania"
2023
University of California Press

book cover - heart with bedroom in shadowEMILY SCHUCKMAN MATTHEWS
"Sex Work in Contemporary Russia: A Cultural Perspective"
2023
Rowman & Littlefield

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