Provost's 2021 Grant Recipient and Author Honorees
Rose Aslan – from the National Endowment for the Humanities for her research on art, spirituality
and culture in Turkey; and from the Center for Islam in the Contemporary World at
Shenandoah University for her research on Muslim prayer in the United States.
Regina Biddings-Muro and Kelly Owens – from the Amgen Foundation for the Community Scholars for Black Lives program.
Chia-Li Chien – from the CBC Credit Union to offer a financial literacy non-credit course to CBC
employees and Cal Ä¢¹½ÊÓƵ faculty and staff.
Brian Collins – from Philosophy Ä¢¹½ÊÓƵ and Teaching Organization for the Summer Philosophy Institute.
Jamshid Damooei – from the Ventura County Office of Government to prepare the Socio-Economic Profile
of Ventura County.
Cynthia Duarte, Adrianne Sarreal, and Matthew Ward – from California Volunteers and the Corporation for National and Community Service
for the AmeriCorps program.
Matthew Fienup and Dan Hamilton – from Ventura County Community Foundation to lead the research design for a COVID-19
antibody test; from Southern California Association of Governments to serve as on-call
economic advisors for the Annual Ventura County Economic Outlook Report; from The
Nature Conservancy to support the Fox Canyon Water Market; from CoBank to support
the Fox Canyon Water Market; from Latino Donors Collaborative to produce the state-level
Latino GDP Report; and from Bank of America Charitable Foundation to produce the state-level
Latino GDP Report.
Molly George, Jamshid Damooei and Lisa Abell – from Ventura Council of Governments to evaluate the Ventura County Family Justice
Center.
Haco Hoang and Amanda ElBassiouny – from the American Political Science Association to examine Cal Ä¢¹½ÊÓƵ’s Title
IX program.
Richard Holigrocki – from the City of Thousand Oaks for the counseling services for low-income residents
of Thousand Oaks.
Andrea Huvard – from the PADI Foundation to study the accumulation of microfibers in sediment and
filter feeders.
Elena Jaloma – from the U.S. Department of Education to fund the Support Services program for
the next five years.
Dena Jenson – from the Amgen Foundation to support the Board Equity in Governance Initiative;
and from the Smith-Hobson Fund at Ventura County Community Foundation to underwrite
organizational memberships for arts and cultural organizations.
Daniel Kuntz and Matthew Ward – from the NCAA, Division III to partially support a new Assistant Director of Athletics
position.
Cindy Lewis – from Bank of America Charitable Foundation for the 4 A Cause Internship program.
Jacqueline Lyons and Cindy Keitel – from California Humanities for the Voices of a Nation poetry series.
Nancy Myers– from University of California, San Diego to develop a cadre of Results mentor teachers
at school sites in the Rio School District.
Ray Pickett – from the Lilly Foundation to engage in planning for a certificate program equipping
leaders to address racism.
Michaela Reaves – from the California State Library to create an online K-12 curriculum on civil
liberties.
Yvonne Wilber – from the Statewide California Electronic Library Consortium to purchase equipment
from the library to improve virtual instruction.
Sheridan Wigginton – from the Dominican Studies Institute at the City University of New York for a fellowship
to research Dominican representation in introductory-level Spanish textbooks in the
U.S.
Sheridan Wigginton, Kirstie Hettinga and Laverne Seales – from Gannett Foundation to create a Spanish Media Minor.
Jamie Bedics – Handbook of Dialectical Behavior Therapy: Theory, Research, and Evaluation
Samuel Claussen – Chivalry and Violence in Late Medieval Castile
Sabithulla Khan – Remittances and International Development: The Invisible Forces Shaping Community
Barbara Obermeier – Photoshop Elements 2021 for Dummies