June 1, 2026

2025–26 funded research projects involving UCF College of Arts and Humanities personnel include:

Projects by Name

  • A Study on Students’ Knowledge of Socioculturally-Informed Student Learning Outcomes in First-Year Composition at a Hispanic-Serving Institution (Council of Writing Program Administrators)
  • American Indian Heritage at Fort Marion (US Dept. of Interior/National Park Service)
  • Building a Digital Humanities Generative AI Learning Community (National Endowment for the Humanities)
  • Conservation Hallway Augmented Reality Enhancements (Orlando Science Center)
  • Enhanced Supervisory Control of Robotic Weapons (ESCRoW) (Lockheed Martin Corporation)
  • Florida Prison Education Project 25-27 @UCF (Laughing Gull Foundation)
  • French Beyond the Classroom: Immersive Engagement for Student Recruitment and Retention (Albertine Foundation)
  • Kerkenes Project 2026 
  • Mobilizing CAHSI Institutions to Infuse Ethical Reasoning in CS Curricula through Contextualized AI Scenarios (National Science Foundation)
  • Project English-Learner Infused Training and Experience (ELITE) (US Dept. of Education)
  • Reaching for the Stars Lecture Series Year 4 (Eurasia Foundation)
  • Travel Grant NCHEP 2026 (Laughing Gull Foundation)
  • UCF Summer 2026 Research Collaboration (HKS Architects, Inc.)
  • UCF Veterans Legacy Grant Program 2025 (US Dept. of Veterans Affairs/National Cemetery Administration)
  • Virtual Experience Research Accelerator (VERA) (National Science Foundation)

Faculty and Staff PIs receiving awards:

  • Beever, Jonathan (3)
  • Dukes, Demetrius*
  • Fiore, Stephen*
  • Giroux, Amy* (2)
  • Kuang, Lanlan*
  • Lyons, Amelia*
  • Mahroug, Sanaa* 
  • Mihai, Florin
  • Miller, Brook
  • Pomerleau, Julie
  • Robkin, Jessica  
  • Salter, Anastasia*
  • Shier, Mike (2)
  • Stanfill, Mel
  • Treadway, Joshua*
  • Watson, Keri* (2)
  • Wood, Shane*

*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 2025-26:

Faculty and Staff involved in proposal submissions:
  • Beever, Jonathan
  • Cicchino, Amy
  • Dukes, Demetrius*
  • Fiore, Stephen* (3)
  • Flanagan-Feddon, Christy* (3)
  • Johnson, Emily* (3)
  • Kamrath, Mark (3)
  • Kennedy, Vee*
  • Kourova, Alla* (2)
  • Kuang, Lanlan*
  • Lyons, Amelia* (2)
  • Mahroug, Sanaa*
  • Miller, Brook (5)
  • Oury, Marie
  • Pegoraro, Evelin
  • Pomerleau, Julie
  • Redmon, Maria (2)
  • Robertson, Sherry
  • Robkin, Jessica (2)
  • Salter, Anastasia
  • Sousa, Sandra
  • Stanfill, Mel
  • Taczak, Kara*
  • Treadway, Joshua*
  • Velez, Meghan
  • Vitanova, Gergana (2)
  • Wainstein, Michael* (2)
  • Watson, Keri* (3)
  • Wood, Shane*
  • Young, Beth* (3)
  • Zargar, Cyrus (3)

*Principal Investigator