July 16, 2025

2024–25 funded research projects involving UCF College of Arts and Humanities personnel include:

Projects by Name

  • American Indian Heritage at Fort Marion (US Dept. of Interior/National Park Service)
  • Applied Puppetry in Carceral Contexts: Artistic Self-Expression and Multilingual Interview Practice for Reintegration into Our Town (National Endowment for the Arts)
  • CODUS: HIV Outcome Quality Measure Evaluation and Stigma- 2024-25 (Florida Department of Health through University of Florida)
  • Collaborative Research: CCRI: Grand: Virtual Experience Research Accelerator (VERA) (National Science Foundation)
  • CUE-M: Mobilizing CAHSI Institutions to Infuse Ethical Reasoning in CS Curricula through Contextualized AI Scenarios (National Science Foundation)
  • Expanding CHDR Challenge Grant (National Endowment for the Humanities)
  • Exploring Language Learning with Educational Computer and VR Games (US Dept. of Education)
  • Faith and Health Campus Grants (Interfaith America)
  • Florida Coalition for Higher Education in Prison (Laughing Gull Foundation)
  • Longitudinal evaluation of Myoelectric Prosthetic Devices in Children with Upper Congenital Limb Deficiency (Independent Donor(s))
  • LSI Orlando Health AP – Clinical Trial A (Independent Donor(s))
  • Project English-Learner Infused Training and Experience (ELITE) (US Dept. of Education)
  • Prosthesis Control Training Through Play: USA-Sweden Universities’ Gamified Training Collaborative Initiative (US Dept. of State)
  • Reaching for the Stars as a Global Citizen: An Intellectual Journey of Asia and the World (Yr 3) (Eurasia Foundation)
  • Reimagining Space/Place: Historic Black Communities Across the Diaspora (Florida Humanities)
  • Religion and Sex Abuse (Luce Foundation through University of California – Riverside)
  • Research Experiences in Pediatric Prosthetics (National Science Foundation)
  • The Dawn of Latinx Creative Writing in Florida: Culture, Identity, and Community in Key West & Tampa (Florida Humanities)
  • Theatre Communications Group Grant (Theatre Communications Group)
  • Understanding and Assessing Team Cognitive Functions for Complex Military Environments (US Army Contracting Command)
  • Writing and Wellbeing Among Rhetoric and Composition Graduate Students (Conference on College Composition and Communication)

Faculty and Staff PIs receiving awards:

  • Beever, Jonathan* (3)
  • Beiler, Rosalind*
  • Bishop, Louise*
  • Bowdon, Melody
  • Dombrowski, Matt (5)
  • Earley, Tiffany*
  • Fiore, Stephen* (3)
  • Fisher, Tyler*
  • Flanagan-Feddon, Christy*
  • French, Scot* (2)
  • Gannon, Barbara
  • Giroux, Amy* (3)
  • Gleig, Ann*
  • Janz, Bruce
  • Johnson, Emily*
  • Joyner, Veronica*
  • Kamrath, Mark* (2)
  • Korosy, Alice
  • Kourova, Alla* (2)
  • Kuang, Lanlan*
  • Lester, Connie*
  • Lyons, Amelia*
  • Mihai, Florin
  • Miller, Brook (2)
  • Nalbone, Lisa
  • Oldham, Jessie
  • Pegoraro, Evelin
  • Redmon, Maria (2)
  • Robertson, Sherry
  • Scott, Blake* (2)
  • Shier, Mike (2)
  • Sousa, Sandra
  • Taczak, Kara*
  • Vitanova, Gergana
  • Wainstein, Michael*
  • Watson, Keri* (2)

*Principal Investigator

Before a research grant is awarded, considerable time and effort go into preparing the proposal. We recognize and thank CAH faculty and staff involved in research grant proposals in 2024-25:

Faculty and Staff involved in proposal submissions:

  • Anderson, Thad
  • Beever, Jonathan* (2)
  • Bowdon, Melody
  • Bubriski, Anne*
  • Dombrowski, Matt
  • Dukes, Demetrius* (2)
  • Flanagan-Feddon, Christy*          I
  • French, Scot*
  • Giroux, Amy* (2)
  • Gleig, Ann*
  • Holic, Nathan
  • Kourova, Alla* (3)
  • Kuang, Lanlan*
  • Lapka, Christine
  • Lester, Connie*
  • Lubaroff, Scott
  • Lyons, Amelia*
  • Mihai, Florin
  • Miller, Brook
  • Pineda, Yovanna*
  • Pomerleau, Julie*
  • Redding, Jeffery
  • Redmon, Maria* (2)
  • Robertson, Sherry* (3)
  • Robkin, Jessica*
  • Salter, Anastasia* (3)
  • Schneier, Joel
  • Scott, Blake*
  • Shier, Mike (2)
  • Stanfill, Mel* (2)
  • Stephens, Sonia*
  • Taczak, Kara* (4)
  • Velez, Meghan* (3)
  • Wainstein, Michael*
  • Watson, Keri*
  • Young, Beth*