Weinberg College awards grants to 27 faculty to address pandemic-related research recovery

Weinberg College recognizes that the COVID-19 pandemic has disrupted the research of many faculty members. In response, 27 faculty were awarded the Weinberg Research Recovery Grant to provide support for research recovery.

The grant proposals were reviewed by a faculty panel for quality, creativity, the potential impact of the proposed research, and the potential to address pandemic-related research recovery.

The Weinberg Research Recovery Grant supports either one course release or one quarter of graduate student support and may include a request for research funds, and may include a request for research funds.

The grant proposals that were awarded included 10 for research funds, 25 for course releases, and two for one quarter of funding for a graduate student. Awards will be made in three cycles, for use in the remainder of FY21 through FY22.

For award research funds for the July cycle, the maximum research funds awarded was $5,000 per project.

All full-time tenured or tenure-line Weinberg College faculty members are eligible to apply for the Weinberg Research Recovery Grant, but priority was given to untenured assistant professors followed by associate professors seeking to complete a project in advance of promotion to full professor.

Learn more about the Weinberg Research Recovery Grant process.

Weinberg College congratulates the following faculty recipients of the Weinberg Research Recovery Grant:

Assistant Professors

Department of Political Science 

• Daniel Krcmaric
• Julie Merseth
• Loubna El Amine
• Mary McGrath
• Sarah Bouchat

Department of English 

• Justin Mann
• Kalyan Nadiminti
• Michelle Huang

Department of History 

• Michaela Kleber

Department of Asian Languages and Cultures

• Thomas Gaubatz

Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences

• Daniel Ethan Horton

Department of Neurobiology 

• Hojoon Lee (grad quarter)

Associate Professors

Department of History

• Ipek Yosmaoglu
• Michael Allen
• Rajeev Kinra
• Scott Sowerby

Department of English 

• Jay Grossman
• Katharine Breen

Department of French and Italian 

• Cynthia Nazarian (French)
• Nasrin Qader (French)

Department of Anthropology

• Ana Aparicio (Latino Studies)
• Katherine Hoffman

Department of Philosophy 

• Kyla Ebels-Duggan

Full Professors

Department of Anthropology 

• Cynthia Robin (grad quarter)

Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences

• Suzan van der Lee

Department of Physics & Astronomy

• Farhad Yusef-Zadeh

Department of Philosophy

• Rachel Zuckert