2025 CSWS Research Grant and Fellowship Awardees

Jane Grant Dissertation Fellow

  • Malvya Chintakindi, Anthropology, “Pursuing the ‘Good Life’: Intersections of Caste, Class, and Gender in Urban Slums of India.”

Graduate Writing Completion Fellows

  • Olivia Wing, History, “Common and Contested Ground: Chinese and Japanese American Youth Culture in the Pacific Northwest, 1920s-1960s” (Giustina Fund).
  • Jinsun Yang, Sociology, “Decolonizing Sex-Segregation in Sports: Global Gender Policing and LGBTQ+ Sports Activism in South Korea.”

Graduate Student Research Grantees

  • Precious Adejumobi, Anthropology, “Negotiating Health and Gender: Women’s Experiences of Endometriosis in Nigeria.”
  • Tari Azebi, Global Studies, “Feminist Environmental Justice in Practice: Women as Agents of Change in the Niger Delta’s Oil Conflict.”
  • Kaito Campos de Novais, Anthropology, “Crear Arte, Cultivar Lucha: The Politics of Art and Resistance among Queer and Trans Latine Immigrants.”
  • Gloria Macedo Janto, Romance Languages, “New Methods of Reading Indigenous Latin America: Andean Women's Resistance in the Discourses of Political Violence in Peru.”
  • Nicolette Molina, Psychology, “Navigating Structural Inequities: Rethinking Self-injurious Thoughts and Behaviors in Postpartum Populations.”
  • Ogbonnaya Okoro, Folklore and Public Culture, “The Impacts of Colonialism on Changing Gender Relations in Igboland through the Lens of Folklore and Storytelling.”
  • Nishat Parvez, School of Journalism and Communication, “The ‘Cha’ (Tea) Connection: Evaluating Gender, Religion, and Media Impacts in Bangladesh’s Informal Political Space.”
  • Sanjula Rajat, Philosophy, “The Colonial Politics of Impurity: Anti-Trans Politics in India and the Consolidation of a Hindu Nation-State.”
  • Bentolhoda Sobhani, Law, “That Night.”
  • Yui Yamada, Asian Studies, “Same-Sex Love among Girls under the Censorship and Nationalism in the Wartime Japan: Analysis of the Readers’ Column of a Girls’ Magazine.”

Faculty Research Grantees

  • Joyce Chen, Music, “Cherchez la femme: Music by Baroque Women Composers.”
  • Solmaz Kive, Interior Architecture, “Gendered Dimensions of Hostile Design” (Giustina Fund).
  • Audrey Lucero, Education Studies, “Why Can You Just Be A ‘Nice’ Teacher?”
  • Lanie Millar, Romance Languages, “Gender and Empire in Contemporary Lusophone Culture.”