Congratulations to the recipients of the Spring 24 Student Travel and Research Grants and Interdisciplinary Scholarships! We received many applications for grants over this grant cycle, covering an impressive array of projects and research. We are excited to be able to fund or partially fund projects or travel for 10 students during this round of funding. 

The grants support students’ research activities, conference participation, and other academically-oriented travel needs.  

The Interdisciplinary Programs Scholarship is designed to support students who are enrolled in any of the undergraduate or graduate CES interdisciplinary programs: American Indian Studies minor, Asian American Studies minor, Latina/o Studies minor, or Latina/o Studies Graduate Interdisciplinary Specialization.

The next round of grant funding will occur during the Autumn 24 semester, with applications becoming available in mid-semester, and awardees notified in mid-October. Announcements will be sent out via listserv, on our website and on our social media. Interdisciplinary scholarship applications will be available in early spring semester.

Congratulations to the following recipients: 

Spring 2024 Travel and Research Grant Recipients

Annelise Duque (graduate student, Art): This May, Annelise will use her grant to travel to the Philippines to visit where her father was born. As an artist, an embodied experience is crucial to her video, performance, and photographic work. As she explores the relationships of her ancestors, and most crucially, to the women who came before her, this travel research is imperative to the development of her art and research. While there, she plans to visit sites of both historical and personal relevance.

Anna Freeman (graduate student, Arts Administration, Education and Policy): Anna intends to use her grant to finance the use of coding systems and programs to complete interviews with participants for her dissertation research on Indigenous topics.

Julie Kim (graduate student, English): Julie plans to use her grant to visit the archives of members of the Unbound Feet Collective at the University of California. The Unbound Feet Collective was an Asian American, explicitly feminist, literary and performance group that was formed in the late 1970s and early 1980s. Julie is interested in looking at their personal correspondences, friendships, and organizing and how that translated into their political views on identity, socialism, and race and influenced their writing. Using the research that she has done in the archives, she will write chapters for her thesis project that will be a creative nonfiction book manuscript.

Andrew Mitchel (graduate student, Anthropology): Andrew's grant will support his fieldwork in June of 2024 in Oaxaca City, Oaxaca, Mexico. During this work, he will continue interviews with chefs where he asks them to define success, how they adapt their foodways, and in what ways they express their Oaxacan identity. This is part of his larger dissertation project in cultural anthropology here at OSU, in which he has also completed fieldwork locally in Central Ohio, and in Los Angeles, California.

Nupur Sachdeva (graduate student, Arts Administration, Education and Policy): Nupur used her grant money to present her research at the 2024 National Art Education Association National Convention (NAEA) in a panel titled "Putting Critical Theory into Practice: Centering Positionalities of the Global Majority for Art Education." The conference took place from April 4-6 in Minneapolis, MN. All speakers in this panel identified as part of the global majority. She presented her ongoing research that critically examines the gaps in the history of art education that invisibilize marginalized identities intertwined with her identity as a South Asian woman. She utilized various arts-based praxes within the conceptual framework of transnational feminist theories to conduct oral history interviews. She then activated these archives through exhibitions to take-and-make space for her research to catalyze change within the field and acknowledge the contributions of these communities in the broader history of art education.

Jackie Saldana (undergraduate student, Health Sciences): Jackie will use her grant to support her medical internship in Cuzco, Perú this July. She will be a part of a group setting up mobile clinics and providing basic medications to local communities. 

Amy Schofield (graduate student, Dance): With her grant, Amy will travel to Buenos Aires, Argentina in July to attend and present research at this year's Dance Studies Association Annual Conference. She will present a paper analyzing the work of two US-based Chicanx flamenco artists to explore how Chicanx flamenco can bring the art form’s inherent hybridity to even greater expanses of inquiry through a focus on community involvement, social justice, indigeneity, and an emphasis on cultural pride set in motion by the Chicano Movement of the 1960s and 1970s.

Charlize Wang (graduate student, Multilingual Language Education, Teaching and Learning): Charlize's grant will be used for a research activity, involving travel to a professional development workshop hosted at the University of Minnesota. The workshop aims to develop lesson units focusing on social justice in world language classrooms.

Irma Zamora (graduate student, English): Irma will use the award from CES to fund her travel and attendance at the biennial Latinx Studies Association conference in Tempe, Arizona. She will present her paper, "Siempre Picheando" y Perreando: Bad Bunny and New Reggaetonero Masculinities", which is an excerpt from her dissertation that explores the shifting discussions of Latinidad across media. She hopes to gather more feedback for her chapter and to expand her network when attending the conference.

2024-2025 Interdisciplinary Programs Scholarship

Ianni Acapulco (undergraduate student, English)