Selected New Faculty Grants and Fellowships in 2025/26

Kabria Baumgartner, Dean’s Associate Professor of History and Africana Studies

Save Us Alive: Caring for Black Children a Post-Conflict Society

University of Basel Forum Basiliense

Philip Thai, Associate Professor of History and Asian Studies

Front Companies and Red Capitalists: How China Circumvented Economic Containment in the Cold War

National Endowment for the Humanities

Nicole Guidotti-Hernandez, Professor of English; Director of Latinx, Latin American, and Caribbean Studies (LLACS)

LA Times Distinguished Fellow in Residence

Huntington Library

Phil Brown, University Distinguished Professor of Sociology and Health Sciences; Director, Social Science Environmental Health Research Institute

Advancing protective action for the public’s health related to per and polyfluoroalkyl substances

Robert Wood Johnson Foundation

Kathleen Creel, Assistant Professor of Philosophy and Computer Science, & John Basl, Associate Professor of Philosophy

Cultivating Robust AI and Society Research Capacity and Community

Alfred P. Sloan Foundation

Megan Denver, Co-Director of the Corrections and Reentry Lab; Associate Professor of Criminology and Criminal Justice

Examine the Impact of Tablet-Based Educational Programming on Improved Outcomes and Desistance Signals for Incarcerated Individuals

Arnold Ventures

Beatrice Magistro, Assistant Professor, AI Governance

Creative Destruction, AI, and Political Sustainability

Institute for Humane Studies

Eric Piza, Lipman Family Professor of Criminology and Criminal Justice, Director of Crime Analysis Initiatives

Does gunshot detection technology improve shooting survivability? A matched quasi-experiment in Paterson, NJ 

Gun Violence Research Center, Rutgers University

Ann Thresher, Assistant Professor of Philosophy and Religion and Public Policy and Urban Affairs

Conference on Responsible Telescope Siting

Heising-Simons Foundation

Mark Wells, Assistant Teaching Professor of Philosophy

Buddhist Ethics Symposium

The Robert H. N. Ho Foundation

Elizabeth Bucar, Professor of Religion; Dean’s Leadership Fellow

Sacred Writes Public Scholarship Training for Buddhist Studies Scholars

American Council of Learned Societies

Kristen Raub, Senior Research Scientist at the Global Resilience Institute

Identifying the usefulness of flood forecast attributes in support of impact-based decision-making

National Oceanic Atmospheric Administration

Amy Farrell, Director and Professor of Criminology and Criminal Justice; Co-Director of the Violence and Justice Research Lab; and Katherine Hazen, Assistant Research Professor of Criminal Justice and Health Sciences

Commercial sexual exploitation of children multidisciplinary team core standards implementation evaluation

Massachusetts Immigrant and Refugee Advocacy Coalition

Austin Smith, Associate Data Scientist, Economics

The Boss in Blue: Supervisors and Police Behavior

Arnold Ventures