Past Recipients

The Institute of American Cultures, in conjunction with the American Indian Studies Center, the Asian American Studies Center, Bunche Center for African American Studies, and the Chicano Studies Research Center, invites applications for support of research on African Americans, American Indians, Asian Americans, and Chicanas/os. The Institute also invites proposals on interethnic relations that will increase collaboration between the Centers and/or between the Centers and other campus units.

Below are past recipients of the IAC research grant and their project titles:

2017-2018

• Amanda Bailey
  Reclaiming Wellness for Landscapes and Communities at a Tribal College in Montana
• Marcus Bear Eagle
  Retaining Language & Identity in the Face of Urbanism: An Analysis of Methods Used by Taiwan’s Indigenous Population and Other Ethnic Minorities
• Sina Bear Eagle
  Lakota Interests and Oral Histories in National Park System Areas
• Patrick Burtt
  Reclaiming Washoe History, California Gold Rush (1848) to the Comstock Lode (1859)
• Lydia Faitalia
  A Matriarchs Tautua: Commodifying Matai (Chief) titles and its effect on PI diaspora.
• Allison Ramirez
  United We Rise, Divided We Fall: Selection and Resistance in Pan-Indian Entities
• Shena Sanchez
  Urban Girls of Color On The Beaten Track: Disciplined And Tracked Out Of College Opportunities
• Gregson Schachner
  Hopi Perspectives on the Archaeology of the Hopi Mesas
• Melo-Jean Yap
  Sister Scientist Outsider: Women of Color Community College and Transfer STEM Students in Los Angeles

2016-2017

• Randall Akee
  “Income Inequality and Income Mobility for American Indians, Alaska Natives, Native Hawaiians and Pacific Islanders”
• Jessica Cattelino
  “Citizenship and Territoriality in the Everglades: Synthesizing Settler Colonialism, Racialized Labor, and White Property Ownership”
• Clementine Bordeaux
  “UNTITLED (Mitákuye Oyás’iŋ)”
• Megan Baker
  “Promised Zone: Reconciliation through Choctaw Economic Development”
• Vanessa Cisneros
  “Saginaw Anishinaabe Tribal Observer: Strong Voice, Strong Nation”
• Serena Does
  “Mistaken Identity: Development and Validation of Internal and External Racial Categorization Scale in Monoracial and Multiracial Contexts”
• Preston McBride
  “A Lethal Benevolence: Institutionalized Negligence, Epidemiology, and Death in American Indian Off-Reservation Boarding Schools, 1879-1934”

2015-2016

• Felicia Hodge
  Examining Type 2 Diabetes among California American Indians
  
• Preston McBride
  Institutionalized Negligence: The Mechanics of Disease and Death at California’s Perris Indian School and Sherman Institute. 1892-1930
  
• Jan Hauck
  Language Shift, Hybridization, and Revitalization in an Aché community
  
• Juan Delgado
  Black as Indigenous: The Non-Ethnoracial Origins of “Black Communities” in Colombia
  
• Temryss Lane
  Native Americans and an Emerging Identity in Soccer

2014-2015

• Randall Akee, Silvia Jimenez, and Paul Ong
  Asset Building for Native Americans
  
• Maylei Blackwell
  Remapping Abya Yala: The Continental Indigenous Women’s Network and the Politics of Scale
  
• Jacinta Arthur de la Maza
  Ka Haka Hoki Mai Te Mana Tupuna: The Repatriation Movement in Rapa Nui
  

2013-2014

• Clementine Bordeaux
  Saint Kateri Tekakwitha: Voices from the Pine Ridge Reservation
  
• Alexandra Mojado
  Does Public Law 280 Contribute to Domestic Violence on Southern California Indian Reservations
  
• Jose Serrano
  Making Human Rights Civil Rights: Chicana/o Indigenous Consciousness and Transnational Human Rights
  
• David Shorter
  Lutu Chuktiwa Film Repatriation: Giving Back a Film to Yoeme Community Member
  
• Chantal Walker
  The Owens Valley Paiutes and their History of Water and Water Rights
  

2012-2013

• Logan Clark
  UNESCO Safeguarding at the Local Level: Effects on Maya-Achí traditional dance
  
• Elizabeth Fasthorse
  Components to Creating a Luiseno Language and Arts Project to Further American Indian Education
  
• Alfred Flores
  Landowners and Laborers: The U.S. Military Expansion of Guam, 1945-1975
• Ann Foster
  Documenting Q’anjob’al in Los Angeles and Guatemala
  
• Ryan Koons
  Oral History of a Native American Elder
  
• Paul Kroskrity
  Toward an Arizona Tewa Dictionary: Language Ideologies and Lexicography
  
• Lawrence Mojado
  Self, Place, and Memory on the Pala Indian Reservation
  
• Christine Samuel-Nakamura
  U in the plant-animal-human food chain near abandoned mining sites/structures in an AI community
  

2011–2012

• Meredith Duarte
  Repatriation and the National Museum of the American Indian
• Caitlin Keliiaa
  Washiw Wagayay Maŋal: Reweaving the Washoe Language