Fall 2021 Internal Research Award Outcomes

December, 2021

On the recommendation of the Research Awards Committee, 132 research awards were made this semester, including 18 Annual Research Grants, 19 GU Research Leaves, 23 Pilot Research Grants, 5 Research Infrastructure Awards, and 67 Summer Salary Supplements.  The total value of grants made, excluding GURLs, was nearly $1.5m, a significant increase over recent years.

Summaries of the awards, including breakdowns by gender, rank, and discipline of the recipient’s home academic unit, can be found here .

Individual award recipients, to whom we offer our congratulations, are listed below.

Summer Salary Supplement (SSS)
Full Name Rank Academic Unit
Ahmad Alqassas Associate Professor Department of Arabic and Islamic Studies
Michael Bailey Professor Department of Government
Katherine Benton-Cohen Professor Department of History
Jennifer Boum Make Assistant Professor Department of French
Laurent Bouton Professor Department of Economics
Denise Brennan Professor Department of Anthropology
Lara Bryfonski Assistant Professor Department of Linguistics
Raphael Calel Assistant Professor McCourt School of Public Policy
Claire Catenaccio Assistant Professor Department of Classics
Isaac Cervantes Sandoval Assistant Professor Department of Biology
Kate Chandler Assistant Professor Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service
Erin Cline Professor Department of Theology
Elizabeth Cross Assistant Professor Department of History
Marwa Daoudy Associate Professor Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service
Brandon Dotson Associate Professor Department of Theology
Molly Elizabeth Borowitz Assistant Professor Department of Spanish and Portuguese
Brett Evans Assistant Professor Department of Classics
Victor Fernandez-Mallat Assistant Professor Department of Spanish and Portuguese
Mark Fisher Assistant Professor Department of Government
Emily Francomano Professor Department of Spanish and Portuguese
Garance Genicot Professor Department of Economics
Desha Girod Associate Professor Department of Government
Ariel Glucklich Professor Department of Theology
Derek Goldman Professor Department of Performing Arts
Dayo Gore Associate Professor African American Studies Department
Bradley Gorski Assistant Professor Department of Slavic Languages
Jay Hammond Assistant Professor Department of Performing Arts
Toshihiro Higuchi Assistant Professor Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service
Travis Holman Professor Department of Chemistry
Joseph Johnson Assistant Professor Department of French
Yuki Kato Assistant Professor Department of Sociology
Verena Kick Assistant Professor Department of German
Ami Ko Assistant Professor Department of Economics
Jonathan Ladd Associate Professor McCourt School of Public Policy
Ning Leng Assistant Professor McCourt School of Public Policy
Tod Linafelt Professor Department of Theology
Sarah Lucena Assistant Professor Department of Spanish and Portuguese
Raj M Desai Professor Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service
Kathryn M. de Luna Associate Professor Department of History
Manus M. Patten Professor Department of Biology
Anna Maria Mayda Professor Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service
Sarah McNamer Professor Department of English
Joel Michael Reynolds Assistant Professor Department of Philosophy
Rosemary N. Ndubuizu Assistant Professor African American Studies Department
Marden Nichols Associate Professor Department of Classics
Hans Noel Associate Professor Department of Government
Michael Obiri-Yeboah Assistant Professor Department of Linguistics
Lindsay Oldenski Associate Professor Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service
J.R. Osborn Associate Professor Communication, Culture, and Technology Program
Mak Paranjape Associate Professor Department of Physics
Cóilín Parsons Associate Professor Department of English
Heath Pearson Assistant Professor Department of Anthropology
Kristin Perkins Assistant Professor Department of Sociology
Alexandre Poirier Assistant Professor Department of Economics
Jonathan Ray Professor Department of Theology
Jessica Roda Assistant Professor Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service
Lutz Sager Assistant Professor McCourt School of Public Policy
Cristina Sanz Professor Department of Spanish and Portuguese
Arjun Shankar Assistant Professor Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service
Daniel Shore Professor Department of English
Joel Simmons Associate Professor Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service
Iris Smorodinsky Professor Department of French
Andrew Sobanet Professor Department of French
Nate Strawn Assistant Professor Department of Mathematics and Statistics
Michael T. Williams Assistant Professor Department of Performing Arts
Kathryn Temple Professor Department of English
Rajesh Veeraraghavan Assistant Professor Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service
Annual Research Grant (ARG)
Full Name Rank Academic Unit
Peter Armbruster Professor Department of Biology
Katherine Benton-Cohen Professor Department of History
Alexandra DeCandia Assistant Professor Department of Biology
Dagomar Degroot Associate Professor Department of History
Leanne Doughty Assistant Professor Department of Physics
Christine Evans Professor Department of Performing Arts
Mark Fisher Assistant Professor Department of Government
Jay Hammond Assistant Professor Department of Performing Arts
Jeffrey Huang Associate Professor Department of Biology
Sebastian Jilke Associate Professor McCourt School of Public Policy
Brian McCabe Associate Professor Department of Sociology
Jennifer Natalya Fink Professor Department of English
Hans Noel Associate Professor Department of Government
Mak Paranjape Associate Professor Department of Physics
Jessica Roda Assistant Professor Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service
Mark Rom Associate Professor Department of Government
Sarah Stoll Professor Department of Chemistry
Michael T. Williams Assistant Professor Department of Performing Arts
GU Research Leave (GURL)
Full Name Rank Academic Unit
Killian Clarke Assistant Professor Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service
Michael David-Fox Professor Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service
Rhonda Dzakpasu Associate Professor Department of Physics
Jeremy Fineman Associate Professor Department of Computer Science
Jong-In Hahm Professor Department of Chemistry
Anna Johnson Associate Professor Department of Psychology
Catherine Keesling Professor Department of Classics
Verena Kick Assistant Professor Department of German
Ivana Komunjer Professor Department of Economics
Kai Liu Professor Department of Physics
Anna Maria Mayda Professor Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service
Jamie Martin Assistant Professor Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service
Meredith McKittrick Associate Professor Department of History
Kathleen McNamara Professor Department of Government
Judith Miller Professor Department of Mathematics and Statistics
Anne O’Neil-Henry Associate Professor Department of French
Kathryn Temple Professor Department of English
Erik Voeten Professor Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service
Michelle Wang Associate Professor Department of Art & Art History
Pilot Research Project Grant
Full Name Rank Academic Unit
Esther Braselmann Assistant Professor Department of Chemistry
Isaac Cervantes Sandoval Assistant Professor Department of Biology
Jishnu Das Professor McCourt School of Public Policy
Dagomar Degroot Associate Professor Department of History
Nagarjuna Gavvalapalli Assistant Professor Department of Chemistry
Travis Holman Professor Department of Chemistry
Shareen Joshi Associate Professor Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service
Diana Kapiszewski Associate Professor Department of Government
Karah Knope Associate Professor Department of Chemistry
Joanna Lewis Associate Professor Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service
Kathryn M. de Luna Associate Professor Department of History
Ian M. Lyons Assistant Professor Department of Psychology
Abigail Marsh Professor Department of Psychology
Steven Metallo Associate Professor Department of Chemistry
Alfonso Morales-Front Associate Professor Department of Spanish and Portuguese
Donald Moynihan Professor McCourt School of Public Policy
Mak Paranjape Associate Professor Department of Physics
Jennifer Swift Professor Department of Chemistry
YuYe Tong Professor Department of Chemistry
Edward Van Keuren Professor Department of Physics
Rajesh Veeraraghavan Assistant Professor Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service
Richard Weiss Professor Department of Chemistry
Sabrina Wesley-Nero Associate Professor Program in Education, Inquiry and Justice
Research Infrastructure Award (RIA)
Full Name Rank Academic Unit
Travis Holman Professor Department of Chemistry
Thomas M. Coate Associate Professor Department of Biology
Mak Paranjape Associate Professor Department of Physics
Nathan Schneider Assistant Professor Department of Linguistics
Edward Van Keuren Professor Department of Physics