FUNDING
Internal Funding Opportunities for CGU Faculty
CGU faculty may apply during open seasons for two types of awards that are managed by the Faculty Research Committee and ORSPG and funded by restricted donations: the Fletcher Jones Foundation (FJF) Awards to support faculty research projects and the Blais Challenge Awards for Claremont intercollegiate collaborations.
Note re student researchers: For information on external fellowships and related grants for students, the Office of Advancement offers a personal fellowships search service — please contact the advisor at fellowship.research@cgu.edu. You may also consult the Financial Aid site, portals for individual schools, and the All-CGU Dissertation Awards and Transdisciplinary Studies Dissertation Awards pages. There are also useful online search engines for graduate student funding sources on the UCLA and Cornell websites.
FLETCHER JONES FOUNDATION (FJF) RESEARCH AWARDS
In 1987 the Fletcher Jones Foundation (FJF) endowed CGU with a fund that has been dedicated to providing small grants to faculty members to help support promising research projects. The FJF Faculty Research Grants of $2,000 to $8,000 are issued through an annual competitive call for proposals, which is posted on this page, emailed to all CGU faculty, and has a deadline during spring semester. This year’s deadline is May 31, 2022; for further information about these grants, the 2022 call for proposals may be downloaded here. A list of recent FJF awards is appended below.
BLAIS CHALLENGE AWARDS
The BLAIS Foundation is a CGU endowment devoted to the promotion and support of academic cooperation between CGU and the undergraduate Claremont Colleges and Keck Graduate Institute. The initiative must be led by one or more CGU core faculty member(s) and include active participation by core faculty at one or more of the undergraduate Claremont Colleges and/ or Keck Graduate Institute. BLAIS proposals must be submitted by a CGU core faculty member. The awards are generally in the range of $10,000-$25,000. The deadline for proposals is generally in late spring, and there is sometimes an additional round during the summer or fall. The current BLAIS Challenge RFP may be downloaded here. The next deadline for BLAIS Challenge applications is August 1, 2022, and funds will become available September 1, 2022. A list of recent recipients may be found below.
RESEARCH INITIATIVE FUNDING
Research Initiative Funding (RIF) is available to assist faculty in preparing for and writing proposals for external competitive research grants. RIF support is available at the level of $250-$5,000 for one or more of following: graduate students, consultants, or research staff to assist in preparing an external grant proposal; expenses to conduct preliminary studies for a proposal; travel to meet with funding agencies or potential collaborators; and honoraria for independent presubmission review. Applications for RIF support should be emailed to the Associate Provost for Research (Eusebio Alvaro), preferably after a preliminary discussion and well before the deadline for submitting the planned grant proposal. For further information, please consult the 2018 RIF RFP and associated guidelines for presubmission reviews.
BLAIS CHALLENGE AWARDS
2021
Romeo Guzmán, School of Arts & Humanities; Lisa Crane, The Claremont Colleges Library; Susan Phillips, Pitzer; Expanding a Tongva Teaching Legacy: Barbara Drake and Local Indigenous and Environmental Histories
Michael B. Imerman, The Drucker School of School of Management; Nishant Dass, Claremont McKenna College; Disrupting Finance: The Claremont Joint FinTech Initiative
Ali Nadim, Institute of Mathematical Sciences; Marina Chugunova, Institute of Mathematical Sciences; James Sterling, Keck Graduate Institute; Mathematical Modeling of Microscale Biology
CarlyWill Sloan, The School of Social Science, Policy & Evaluation; Matthew B. Ross, The School of Social Science, Policy & Evaluation; David Bjerk, Claremont McKenna College; Does More Training Mitigate Disparities in Police Use of Force? Quasi-Experimental Evidence from New Linked Data.
2020
Gregory DeAngelo, Division of Politics & Economics; Eric Helland, Claremont McKenna College: Debt Collection Cases in Los Angeles County Courts
M. Gloria González-Morales, The School of Social Science, Policy & Evaluation; Jennifer Feitosa, Claremont McKenna College: Design and (Virtual) Implementation of an Integrative Team Belonging Training
Joshua Goode, Departments of History and Cultural Studies; Lisa Crane, The Claremont Colleges Library; Lily Geismer, Claremont McKenna College; Carrie Marsh, The Claremont Colleges Library; Tamara Venit-Shelton, Claremont McKenna College: Building the Applied Humanities in the Claremont Consortium
Hovig Tchalian, The Drucker School of School of Management; Jay Chok, Keck Graduate Institute; Robin Melnick, Pomona; Michael Spezio, Scripps: Fact, Fiction or Fear? The Evolution of the Vax / Anti-Vax Debate
2019
Andrew Conway, Psychology; Lise Abrams, Pomona: An Investigation of Rationality in Older Adults
Saida Heshmati, Psychology; Marcus A. Rodriguez, Pitzer: Optimizing Daily Mindfulness Interventions Using Peer Support to Increase Well-Being in First-Year Students
Eve Oishi & Nadine Chan, Cultural Studies; Ruti Talmor, Pitzer; Gina Lamb, Pitzer; Stephanie Hutin, Pitzer: Developing Hybrid Graduate/Undergraduate Media Production Summer Intensive Courses with CGU Cultural Studies and Intercollegiate Media Studies
2018
Gregory DeAngelo, Division of Politics & Economics; Eric Helland, Claremont Mckenna College: CGU/CMC joint course and data science projects
Brian Hilton, Information Systems & Technology; Elizabeth (Lily) Rowen, Political Science; Guillermo Douglass-Jaimes, Pomona: The Legacy of Housing Segregation: Redlining in Eight California Communities and the Intersection of History, Geography, Inequality, and the Environment
Leslie Fierro, Evaluation; Tricia Morgan, Pitzer; Kathleen S. Yep, Pitzer: CGU-Pitzer Educating Socially Responsive Evaluators Project
Rebecca Reichard & Sarah Shults, Psychology; David V. Day, CMC: Leader Development Facilitated by Formal Training & Volunteering
Melissa Rogers, Politics & Policy; Tanja Srebotnjak, Harvey Mudd College: Visions in Methodology
2017
Ellis Cumberbatch & Marina Chugunova, Mathematics; Adolfo J. Rumbos, Pomona; Asuman G. Aksoy, CMC; Jemma Lorenat, Pitzer; Michael E. Orrison, HMC: Gateways to Exploring Mathematical Sciences
William D. Crano & Jason T. Siegel, Psychology; Adam Pierson, Pomona: Unplugging E-cigarettes, Big Tobacco’s Latest Threat to the Health of American Youth
DeLacy Ganley, Education; Tessa Hicks-Peterson, Pitzer; Jenessa Flores, Pitzer; Tricia Morgan, Pitzer; Truyen Tran, Jumpstart Los Angeles: Jump Beyond: A request to seed a new non-degree program
2016
C. Monica Capra, Economics; Samir Chatterjee & Galib Rustamov, Information Systems and Technology; Tahir Andrabi, Pomona: How the Timing and Source of Medical Feedback Information Affects Health Outcomes Among the Poor: A Behavioral Economics Approach
Andrew Marx, Information Systems and Technology; Donald McFarlane, Keck Science: Connecting Imagery-Based Data Science with Environmental Analysis: Collaborative Fieldwork in Costa Rica and Analysis in Claremont
Rebecca Reichard, Psychology; Ronald Riggio, Claremont McKenna: Early to Mid-Life Predictors of Leader Development
FLETCHER JONES FOUNDATION AWARDS
2021
Kathy Pezdek, Division of Behavioral & Organizational Sciences. Can Trait Dissociation Be Suggestively Influenced?
Guan Saw, School of Educational Studies. Identifying Inclusive Mentoring Practices for Underrepresented Racial/Ethnic Minority Adolescents in STEM
Jason Siegel, Division of Behavioral & Organizational Sciences. Changing public perceptions of depression and increasing help-seeking among those experiencing depression: A CGU-based poster campaign
Joshua Tasoff & C. Mónica Capra, Division of Politics & Economics. Inconvenient information: An experiment about meat consumption
2020
Jessica Clague DeHart, School of Community and Global Health. The Effect of the “Living Well After Cancer” Program on Exercise Self-Efficacy, Quality of Life and Metabolic Health: A Randomized Trial
William D. Crano, Division of Behavioral & Organizational Sciences. Can We Talk? Facilitating Communication and Persuasion in a World of Extremes
Yan Li, Center for Information Systems and Technology. Real-Time Data Processing for Acute Condition Alert (RTDPAlert) In mHealth Applications
Eve Oishi, School of Arts & Humanities. Forms of Asian American Media
JoAnna Poblete, School of Arts & Humanities. Queen Marys of St. Croix: The Female Approach to Petroleum, Colonialism, and Leadership in the U.S. Virgin Islands, 1965 to the present
2019
Christopher Krewson, Division of Politics & Economics. The Sotomayor Style
David Luis-Brown, Cultural Studies and English. Proposed Trip to Havana, Cuba, May 24-June 5, 2020 To conduct research for the book-manuscript in progress Blazing at Midnight: Slave Rebellion and Social Identity in Cuban and U.S. Culture
Javier Rodriguez, Division of Politics & Economics. The lost generation: Excess black mortality during the Reagan and H. W. Bush administrations
Saida Heshmati, Division of Behavioral & Organizational Sciences. Identifying At-Risk Informal Cancer Caregivers Using a Mobile Application and Wearable Health Device: An Ecological Momentary Assessment Study
Wallace Chipidza, Center for Information Systems & Technology. Variations in Predictive Power Across Organizational Social Networks
2018
Kathy Pezdek, Psychology. Does Eyewitness Confidence Predict Eyewitness Accuracy?
Jason T. Siegel, Division of Behavioral & Organizational Sciences. Using an Attitude Strength Diagnostic to Increase Help-seeking Intentions Among People Experiencing Depression
Paula Healani Palmer, School of Community & Global Health. Developing a Culturally-Appropriate Healthy Aging-Resilience Framework for Older Pacific Islanders
Nicole M. Gatto, School of Community & Global Health. Vegetarian dietary patterns and progression in Parkinson’s disease
2017
Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi and Jeanne Nakamura, Psychology. Attention and the Quality of Human Life
Andrew Marx, Information Systems & Technology, and Melissa Rogers, Politics & Policy. The Changing Role of Place in Rural Economic Mobility: Economic Opportunity and Barriers to Opportunity in the Southwest over the last 25 Years
Hovig Tchalian, Drucker. Movers and Shapers: Placement, Mediation and Influence in the Electric Vehicle Industry
Tamir Bechor, Information Systems & Technology. Navigating Risks in the Era of Driverless Cars
2016
Eric Bulson, English. Ulysses by Numbers
Monica Capra and Joshua Tasoff, Economics. Dread of Future Pains and the Consumption Utility of the Present
Yan Li, Information Systems & Technology. Continuing Medical Education Capacity Building for Nepal
Wendy Martin, English. Archival research for a book, Understanding Sylvia Plath
Eve Oishi, Cultural Studies. To Identity and Beyond: Framing Asian American Studies through Contemporary Art and Theory
Kathy Pezdek, Psychology. Is Memory for One’s Original Perception of an Event Biased by Viewing a Video of the Event?
Lucrecia Santaibanez, Education. Development and Testing of a Pilot Induction Program for New Teachers of English Language Learners
Hovig Tchalian, Drucker. The (Staying) Power of Words: The Persistence of Social Cues in Institutional Vocabularies, 1975-2004
PREVIOUS WINNERS, 2011 TO 2015
Jorge Barraza, Economics. Feeling and Thinking in Charitable Giving
Joshua Goode, History and Cultural Studies. Spain’s Neutral Holocaust: Memories of the Axis Alliance in Postwar Spain
Eunyoung Ha, Politics & Policy. Distributive Politics in the Era of Globalization
Brian Hilton and Gondy Leroy, Information Systems & Technology. Using Geographical Information Systems to Combine Structured Data and Unstructured Data from Text for Crime Analysis
Ruqayya Khan, Religion. Hafsa’s Codex: An Alternative Introduction to the Qur’an
David Luis-Brown, Cultural Studies and English. Blazing at Midnight: Slave Rebellion and Social Identity in Cuban and U.S. Culture
Patrick Mason, Religion. Apostle of Conservatism: Ezra Taft Benson and the Postwar American Right
Jennifer Merolla, Politics & Policy. Descriptive Representation and Its Effects on Political Engagement and Evaluations of Government
Hal Nelson & Heather Campbell, Politics & Policy. Disseminating Power Struggles Research and Improving Energy Infrastructure Project Siting Outcomes
William Perez, Education. Socioeconomic and Civic Integration of Undocumented Young Adults: Examining the Impact of Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA)
Linda Perkins, Applied Women’s Studies, Education Studies, Cultural Studies, and History. The Black Female “Talented Tenth”: A History of Black Women and Higher Education, 1850-1965
Kathy Pezdek, Psychology, with Alan Stacy and Paula Palmer, Community & Global Health and Psychology. Activating Autobiographical Memories to Reduce Smoking Relapse
Melissa Rogers, Politics & Policy. Regional Incidence of Redistributive Politics and Party Behavior, and Regional Disparity in the Developing World—Data Collection Project
Maritza Salazar, Psychology. Facilitating Creativity: The role of an integrating vision in temporally diverse multicultural teams
Jean Schroedel, Politics & Policy. Evaluating the Voting Rights Act’s Impact in Indian Country
Jason Siegel, Psychology. Honey vs. Vinegar: Are Negative or Positive Emotions Better Motivators of Organ Donor Registration Behavior?
Joshua Tasoff, Economics. A Little Learning is a Dangerous Thing: Overconfidence and Capital Investments