Current and Past Recipients of the President's Research in Diversity Travel Assistance
Spring 2024 Award Recipients
Polina Popova
Department of Liberal Arts/History, University of Illinois Chicago
Conference: REECAS Northwest, the 30th annual ASEEES Northwest Regional Conference for Russian, East European and Central Asian Studies
Individual Paper: The USSR, LVPG, and LGBT: the Cult Russian Book that Became a Big Problem
Nicolas Soto
College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, University of Illinois Chicago
Conference: Midwestern History Conference
Panel: Migrants and Pickles: A Dynamic History of How Seasonal Workers Shaped the Midwest Heartland, 1942 to 1994
Smirity Kaushik
School of Information Sciences, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Conference: ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Individual Paper: Cross-Country Examination of People’s Experience with Targeted Advertising on Social Media
Destiny Williams-Dobosz
Department of Educational Psychology, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Conference: American Psychological Association
Poster: Resilient Yet Vulnerable: Understanding the Academic Experiences of Black Girls and Women
Ashley Dequilla
Department of Art History, University of Illinois Chicago
Conference: Orphan Fim Symposium
Individual Paper: The Filipino American Historical Society of Chicago: The Estrella Alamar AV Collection
Keunhee Kim
College of Education, Dept. of Special Education, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Conference: American Educational Research Association (AERA)
Shared Paper: Unveiling General Education Teachers’ Challenges Experienced in Inclusive Classes
Allison Woosley
Department of Psychology, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Conference: Society for Research on Adolescents Annual Meeting
Other: Estimating the Magnitude of Differential Discipline in Gender Conforming and Gender Nonconforming Youth in the ABCD Study
Marina Alvarez
Department of Art History, University of Illinois Chicago
Conference: Reactions and Resistance: Imagining Possible Futures in the Americas
Individual Paper: “Los rasgos de la resistencia [Traits of Resistance]: Feminist Graffiti & Muralism in Mexico”
Wallace Golding
College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, Dept. of Communication, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Conference: Rhetoric Society of American Biennial Conference
Individual Paper: Ancestry and the Chronopolitics of Race in Contemporary Reparations Rhetoric
Namhee Kim
Department of Education/Special Education, University of Illinois at Chicago
Conference: The American Educational Research Association (AERA)
Poster: Collaboration between Korean Immigrant Parents of Children with Autism Spectrum Disorder and Teachers
Fall 2023 Award Recipients
Daniela Markazi
Department of Informatics, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Conference: The 26th ACM Conference on Computer-Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing (CSCW)
Individual Paper: Shifting Paradigms: Towards Inclusive Sustainability in CSCW by Centering Youth and Underrepresented Voices
Adriana Terol Aveiro
Department of Special Education, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Conference: 25th International Conference on Autism, Intellectual Disability & Developmental Disabilities
Poster: Demographic and Clinical Predictors of Age of Autism Diagnosis in Paraguay.
Courtney Richardson
School of Information Sciences, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Conference: Association for Library and Information Science Education (ALISE) 2023 Annual Conference
Poster: Art as Information: Re-reading Quicksand
Peiyu Pan
Department of Education, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Conference: Vocab@Vic 2023
Individual Paper: Role of Classroom Discussion in Incidental Acquisition of General Academic Vocabulary
Jonathan Pye
Department of Spanish & Portuguese, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Conference: Linguistic Association of the Southwest (LASSO) 2023
Individual Paper: British Latino: Investigating the semiotic construction of a mediatized figure of personhood
Sahel Moein
Department Kinesiology and Community Health, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Conference: American Occupational Therapy Association (AOTA) INSPIRE 2024 Annual Conference & Expo
Poster: The Falls Concern Scale for Wheelchair and Scooter Users: Development, Reliability, and Validity Assessment
Danielle Westnedge
School of Public Health, University of Illinois Chicago
Conference: American Public Health Association
Poster: Formative research to adapt a responsive parenting intervention for low-income Latino/a/x families in Chicago
Diana Casteel
Department of Communication, University of Illinois Chicago
Conference: Association of Internet Researchers 24th Annual Conference
Shared Paper: re We Dating the Same Guy?”: Collective Sensemaking as a Moral Responsibility in Facebook Groups
Sara Castro Cantu
Department of Spanish & Portuguese, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Conference: Bilingualism in The Hispanic and Lusophone World (BHL) 2024
Individual Paper: Un nuevo valor del bilingüismo en el paisaje lingüístico de la Ciudad de México: El caso de La Condesa y Roma Norte
Victoria Fields
Department of Communication, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Conference: National Women Studies Association (NWSA)
Panel: A Racialized History of U.S. Reproductive Injustice and Resistance
Spring 2023 Award Recipients
Kimberly Beaudreau
Department of College of Arts and Sciences, History Department, University of Illinois Chicago
Conference: Organization of American Historians Annual Meeting
Panel: Climate Change, Refuge, and Migration Policy in the Americas: A Roundtable on María Cristina García’s Book State of Disaster (UNC Press, 2022)
Megan Farnworth
Department of Communication, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Conference: Annual International Communication Association Conference
Individual Paper: Problematic Integration and Managing Uncertainty in Abortion Care and Disclosure
Eleanor Junkins
Department of Department of Psychology, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Conference: Association for Research in Personality biennial conference
Symposium: Testing equal processes: Cross-sectional associations of personality, social experiences, and health in a sexual and gender diverse sample
Shiyu Sun
Department of Educational Psychology, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Conference: Association for Psychological Science 2023 Annual Convention
Poster: The Intersectionality of Racial/ Ethnic Identity and Generations in US on People's Sense of US Belonging
Kayla Martensen
College of Liberal Arts and Sciences/Criminology, Law and Justice, University of Illinois Chicago
Conference: Same Problem, Different Day: Recognizing and Responding to Recurring Social Problems
Paper: Shifting the Carceral Landscape: The Move Away from Incarceration and Toward Community-Based Services.
Emily Gerlikovski
College of Liberal Arts and Sciences/Communication, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Conference: 73rd Annual International Communication Association Conference
Individual Paper: Sex Talks Between LGBTQ+ Parents and Children
Sabrina Jamal-Eddine
College of Nursing / Dept of Human Development Nursing Science, University of Illinois Chicago
Conference: Disability Impact: The Annual Conference of Interdisciplinary, Intersectional, and International Disability Studies
Shared Paper: The function of health/care in society: Health as commodity fetish
Dilara Caliskan
Department of Anthropology, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Conference: Seventh Annual Meeting of the Memory Studies Association (Communities and Change)
Panel: 'A family of bad bad girls' - Transgender Approaches to Memory, Language, and Family
Deja Rollins
Department of Communication, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Conference: 73rd Annual ICA Conference: Reclaiming Authenticity in Communication
Shared Paper: Cultivating Copaganda: Black audiences’ consumption of Black law enforcement TV characters and attitudes toward law enforcement
Joshua Gomez-Ortega
Department of Art History, University of Illinois at Chicago
Conference: Seventh Annual Symposium for Latin American Art
Individual Paper: “Mapping Pulquerías: Subversive Spaces and Corruptive Places in the Visual Culture of New Spain”
Fall 2022 Award Recipients
Rifat Alam
Department of Kinesiology and Community Health, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Conference: American Neurological Association (ANA) 147th Annual Meeting
Poster: Interpersonal Skills in Kindergarten Predict Executive Function in Fifth Grade among Monolingual Latinx Children
Siyao Cheng
School of Information Sciences, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Conference: The 85th Association for Information Science and Technology (ASIS&T)
Poster: Census Racial Metadata: Categories Used for Different Racial Groups Across Countries and Time
Ana Lisa Eberline
Department of Communication, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Conference: National Communication Association Annual Conference
Individual Paper: Rhetorics of a DREAMer: Navigating the Immigrant Narrative
Kendra Friar
Department of Education Policy, Organization and Leadership, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Conference: 2022 National Association for Music Education National Conference
Individual Paper: Scott Joplin: A Guide for K-12 Music Educators
Evgenia Kapousouz
Department of Public Administration, University of Illinois Chicago
Conference: World Association for Public Opinion Research
Individual Paper: Validity of Social Desirability Scales. A Cross-Cultural Analysis
Aminah McBryde-Redzovic
Department of Community Health Sciences, University of Illinois Chicago
Conference: American Public Health Association Annual Meeting
Poster: Racial/ethnic difference in pandemic related stressors and resources in Chicago
Sekordri Ojo
Department of History, University of Illinois Chicago
Conference: Association of Black Women Historians National Symposium-“Shining Threads and Heavy Loads | Where We Enter and When We Exhale: Black Women Making History.”
Individual Paper: Edmonia Highgate: The Works, Ideas, and Everyday Practices of an Academic Liberator
Manuel Perez
Department of Educational Policies, Organization & Leadership, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Conference: "Dreaming of Otherwise Worlds and Alternate Nows: Unsettling Colonialisms and Racism in the Social Foundations of Education"
Shared Paper: Culturally Responsive Islander Scientists (CRIS): Rethinking Underrepresented Minorities in Sciences
Laura Quintero Silva
Department of Kinesiology and Community Health, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Conference: APHA 2022 Annual Meeting & Expo
Poster: Covid-19 pandemic and the evolving delivery of palliative and end-of-life care in the US: a provider perspective.
Meagan Richard
Department of Educational Policy Studies, University of Illinois at Chicago
Conference: University Council of Educational Administration
Individual Paper: Equity-Oriented School Leadership: A Practice-Grounded Framework
Spring 2022 Award Recipients
Kathleen Thursby
Department of Psychology, University of Illinois Chicago
Conference: Biennial meeting: Redefining Possibilities and Amplifying Marginalized Voices
Poster: The Role of Family in Latinx Students' Science Education Careers
Destiny Williams-Dobosz
Department of Educational Psychology, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Conference: American Educational Research Association's Annual Meeting: Cultivating Equitable Education Systems for the 21st Century
Shared Paper: We Have to Be Twice as Good!”: A Review of Achievement Goals for Black, Indigenous, and People of Color Learners
Krysten Stein
Department of Communication, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Conference: International Communication Association (ICA) Conference
Panel: Peeking Behind the Screen: Understanding Drag Queen TikTokers Perspectives on Representations of Sexuality, Gender, and Race in U.S. Media
Sadia Anjum Ashrafi
Department of Community Health, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Conference: National Kidney Foundation Spring Clinical Meetings 2022
Poster: Racial disparities in healthcare access among chronic kidney disease patients
Paul Michael Atienza
Department of Anthropology, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Conference: Association of Asian American Studies Annual Conference
Panel: Q&A V: Queer Genealogies and Cultures of Asian North America
Caitlyn Lackey
Department of Liberal Arts & Sciences/ Communication, University of Illinois Chicago
Conference: International Communication Association's Human-Machine Communication Pre-Conference
Panel: Machine ex Machina: A framework decentering the human in AI design praxis
Daniel DeVinney
Department of Communication, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Conference: 20th Biennial Conference of the Rhetoric Society of America
Individual Paper: Post-racial Colorwashing: Erasing Blackness from Obama Hope to Big Tech Aesthetics
Sydney Erlikh
Department of Applied Health Sciences/Disability and Human Development, University of Illinois Chicago
Conference: 15th NOFOD Conference: Moving, relating, commanding. Choreographies for bodies, identities and ecologies.
Other: SHARED TIME: Collaborative Inclusive Dance Making at a Distance
Spencer Harrison
Department of English Department, University of Illinois Chicago
Conference: Writing Centers as Spaces of Empowerment
Other: Translingualism in the Writing Center>/span>
Zachary Fitzpatrick
Department of LAS / Department of Germanic Studies, University of Illinois Chicago
Conference: Twenty-Eighth International Conference of Europeanists
Individual Paper: Shifting Focus: A Digital Humanities Approach to Asian Representation in German Film
Spring 2020 Award Recipients
Marina Alvarez
Department of Museum and Exhibition Studies, University of Illinois at Chicago
Conference: Inclusive Museum Conference
Individual Paper: Landscapes and Memory: El Parque Cultural de Valparaiso/Ex-cárcel in Chile
Leah Becker
Department of English, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Conference: C19:Dissent
Other: Radical Ecofeminist in Sentimental Literature
Tanya Cordoba
College of Education-Curriculum and Instruction, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Conference: American Educational Research Association's Annual Meeting: The Power and Possibilities for the Public Good
Individual Paper: Tree of Life: Responding with children to extremist hate
Tuyet Mai Hoang
Department of Disability and Human Development, University of Illinois at Chicago
Conference: American Psychological Association (APA) Annual Convention 2020
Poster: Construction and Validation of the Consequences of Race-Related Motivated Reasoning Scale
Courtney Mullin
Department of Museum and Exhibition Studies, University of Illinois at Chicago
Conference: National Association of People Supporting Employment First (ASPE) Conference
Panel: Disability, Diversity, and Inclusion in Large Businesses: Learning from Success Stories
Sumithra Murthy
Department of Disability and Human Development, University of Illinois at Chicago
Conference: 5th International Association for the Scientific Study of Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities (IASSIDD) Asia Pacific Regional Conference
Individual Paper: Social participation among adults with intellectual and developmental disability: Three-year follow up
Adeyosola Oke
Department of Kinesiology and Community Health, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Conference: Nutrition 2020
Other: Assessing the Moderating Effect of Parental Feeding Styles on the Association Between Satiety Responsiveness and Child BMI Z-Scores in Chilean Preschoolers Aged 3-5 Years
Kristina Rios
Department of Special Education, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Conference: American Association on Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities (AAIDD) 2020
Poster: Parent Intervention Programs for Families of children with IDD: A Systemic Literature Review
Ananya Tiwari
Department of Education, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Conference: Society for Research in Child - Construction of the 'Other': Development, Consequences, and Applied Implications of Prejudice and Discrimination conference
Poster: Assessing the measurement characteristics of prominent socioemotional skills among marginalized Indian girls
Fikriyah Winata
Department of Geography and Geographic Information Science, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Conference: American Association of Geographers (AAG) Annual Meeting
Individual Paper: Spatial and Socioeconomic Inequalities in the Availability of Community Health Centers (CHCs) in the Jakarta Region, Indonesia
Fall 2019 Award Recipients
Jennifer Brooks
Department of Teacher Education, University of Illinois at Springfield
Conference: Kappa Delta Pi Convocation
Shared Paper: From Brown v. Board to Freedom to Choose: A look into current educational segregation
Hannah Valdiviejas
Department of Educational Psychology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Conference: Cognitive Development Society
Poster: Expression of Metacognition in Online STEM Courses: Functions and Effects
Christopher Bass
Department of Graduate College/English Department, University of Illinois at Chicago
Conference: National Council for the Teachers of English Annual Conference
Panel: Fostering inclusive Inquiry in the ELA classroom: Asset-Based Approaches that Break Inclusion Barriers
Veronica Shepp
Department of Criminology, Law and Justice, University of Illinois at Chicago
Conference: American Society of Criminology Annual Meeting 2019
Panel: Interactions with Offenders Post-Assault and Its Impacts on Recovery: A Qualitative Study of Sexual Assault Survivors and Support Providers
Ana Lisa Eberline
Department of Communications, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Conference: National Communication Association Annual Convention
Individual Paper: Family Communication About Race and Culture: Do White Families Talk About Race?
Isabelle Martin
College of Architecture, Design and the Arts/Art History, University of Illinois at Chicago
Conference: Bryn Mawr College Twelfth Biennial Graduate Group Symposium
Individual Paper: Fugitivity and Disavowal in Dawoud Bey's Night Coming Tenderly, Black
Oejin Shin
School of Social Work, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Conference: Gerontological Society of America
Poster: Gender Differences in the Mechanism of Involuntary Retirement on Loneliness
Melissa Kapheim
Department of Community Health Sciences, University of Illinois at Chicago
Conference: American Public Health Association 2019 Annual Meeting
Individual Paper: Lonely Neighborhoods: Prevalence, determinants, and the spatial relationship of loneliness in a diverse urban sample of adults
Amari Simpson
Department of Educational Policy and Organizational Leadership, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Conference: Association for the Study of African American Life and History: Black Migrations
Shared Paper: Black Roots: Addressing Heritage and Lineage through the Usability of an App
K Milam Brooks
Department of Education, University of Illinois at Chicago
Conference: Annual Meeting of the Association for the Study of African American Life and History
Shared Paper: Black Roots: Addressing Heritage and Lineage through the Usability of an App
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