Empowering Scholarship: Faculty Awarded Gender Studies Research Grants

The Gender Studies Program in the Fulbright College of Arts and Sciences is pleased to announce its latest cohort of faculty fellowship awardees to support research on gender studies projects. Recipients receive $1,500 to cover expenses related to research including travel, transcription, registrations fees, archival acess, proofreading services, and other justifiable research costs.

2026 Awardees

Lexi Almy (sociology and criminal justice) to attend the National Women's Studies Annual Conference and the 7th International Conference on Gender Studies and Sexuality.

Ginger Blackstone (journalism and strategic media) investigates the framing of childfree/childless women on TikTok. She and her collaborator will present the research at the Association for Educators in Journalism and Mass Communication Annual Convention in New Orleans.

Jee Young Chung (journalism and strategic media) will conduct mixed method research on her project "From Americanized Beauty to Algorithmic Beauty: Global Media, Platform Exposure, and Women's Body Image Across Cultures."

Christianne Corbett (sociology and criminology) will attend the American Sociological Association meeting in New York City to present her research on status-based inequality and intersectionality titled "Engineering Occupational Segregation."

Marco Dehnert (communication) will attend the 11th International Conference on Love and Sex with Robots (LSR) in Montreal to present his research on human-machine communication, personal relationships, and sexuality and gender studies.

Reilly Kincaid (sociology and criminology) will attend the Work-Family Researcher Network conference in Montreal to present her research on "Cultural Variation in the Link between Family Planning Activities and Family-to-Work Conflict."

Consuelo Lollobrigida (art history) will conduct archival research in France and participate in a conference at the Louvre to further her project "Virginia da Vezzo and Women Artists in Baroque Rome."

Luis Fernando Restrepo (world languages and cultures) will travel to the Latin American Studies Association (LASA) conference in Paris to present gendered lamentations of death in his paper "War and Suffering in the Epics of the Conquest."

Ryan Calabretta Sajder (world languages and cultures) will attend the Multi-Ethnic Literature of the United States (MELUS) conference and present his research "Feasting on Grief: Queer Materiality, Foodways, and Italian American Cultural Theory in Lanzillotto's Works."

Maria Scaptura (sociology and criminology) will fund summer support for research assistant to assist in her project "Masculinity Under Threat: Turning to Violence When Men's Dating Expectations Don't Meet Reality."

Lora Walsh (english) will attend Life Surge events to examine Christian personal finance advice to women for her project "Super Savers: Gendering Success at Christian Personal Finance Rallies.