Multicultural Research Awards (MRA)

SPRING 2024

Nisha Botchwey
Hubert H. Humphrey School of Public Affairs, University of Minnesota Twin Cities
UMN Black Faculty Community Building Initiative

Gail Ferguson
College of Education and Human Development, University of Minnesota Twin Cities
Direct-To-Consumer Marketing of an Online Health Intervention to Somali American Adolescents

Cindy Garcia
College of Liberal Arts, University of Minnesota Twin Cities
Contours ArteCalle: Transnational Feminist Futurities

Viann Nguyen-Feng
University of Minnesota Duluth
Feasibility, Acceptability, and Preliminary Effectiveness of an Embodied Radical Healing Intervention for Racial

Roozbeh Shirazi
College of Education and Human Development, University of Minnesota Twin Cities
Beyond Austerity: Community Visions for Public Education in Puerto Rico

Cat St. Croix
College of Liberal Arts, University of Minnesota Twin Cities
Tin-Cities Untenured Philosophers Working Group

Shannon Walsh
University of Minnesota Duluth
Constrained Success: Justice System Responses to Gender-Based Violence against Women in Latin America

FALL 2023

Lorenzo Fabbri
College of Liberal Arts, University of Minnesota Twin Cities
We Were Here: A Documentary on the Untold History of Blackness in Renaissance Europe

Bonie Klimes-Dougan
College of Liberal Arts, University of Minnesota Twin Cities
The Neural Correlates of Sexual and Gender Minority Stress

SPRING 2023

Judy Temple
Hubert H. Humphrey School of Public Affairs, University of Minnesota Twin Cities
Roll out of public school-based preschool across the United States: which students gain access?

Bonnie Klimes-Dougan
College of Liberal Arts, University of Minnesota Twin Cities
The Neural Correlates of Sexual and Gender Minority Stress

FALL 2022

Gregory Donofrio
College of Design, University of Minnesota Twin Cities
Human Tolls: Public Histories and Community Responses to Twin Cities’ Freeways

Katherine Montag Schafer
Medical School, University of Minnesota Twin Cities
Kho Dua Mus - Keeping Diabetes Managed in the Hmong Community

Elizabeth Sumida Huaman
College of Education and Human Development, University of Minnesota Twin Cities
Labor, violence, and life aspirations across three generations of Quechua women

Nomi Ostrander
College of Education and Human Development, University of Minnesota Twin Cities
The Impact of COVID-19 on Transgender Mental Health and Lessons for Future Community Health Crises Proposal 

SPRING 2022

Ananya Chatterjea
College of Liberal Arts, University of Minnesota Twin Cities
Investigating Performance in times of pandemic and political uprising

Gail Dubrow
College of Design, University of Minnesota Twin Cities
Japonisme Revisited: How Racism Shaped the lives and careers of America's earliest architects of Japanese ancestry

FALL 2021

Mary Caprioli
University of Minnesota Duluth
Breaking Boundaries: A sociopolitical explanation of adolescent female gender identity alternatives

Jose Debes
Medical School, University of Minnesota Twin Cities

Maryam Khaleghi Yazdi
University of Minnesota Duluth
Interactive textile art projects that narrate the stories of immigrants

Elizabeth Wrigley-Field
University of Minnesota Twin Cities
Stolen Time: Racial Disparities in Enjoyable and Meaningful Time

SPRING 2020

Richard Lee
College of Liberal Arts, University of Minnesota Twin Cities
COVID-19 Wellness survey for the University of Minnesota community

2019

Fernando Burga
Hubert H. Humphrey School of Public Affairs, University of Minnesota Twin Cities

Brenna Greenfield
University of Minnesota Duluth

Julie Grossman
College of Food, Agriculture, and Natural Resource Science, University of Minnesota Twin Cities

Wendy Haight
College of Education and Human Development, University of Minnesota Twin Cities

Hyunjii Im
College of Design, University of Minnesota Twin Cities

Aparna Katre
University of Minnesota Duluth

Zorrista Keremidchieva
College of Liberal Arts, University of Minnesota Twin Cities

Nicola Alexannder
College of Education and Human Development, University of Minnesota Twin Cities

Kim Nicholas
Medical School, University of Minnesota Twin Cities

Carrie Oelberger
Hubert H. Humphrey School of Public Affairs, University of Minnesota Twin Cities

Marizen Ramirez
School of Public Health, University of Minnesota Twin Cities

Angela Hume
University of Minnesota Morris
Lyric Interiors: The Ecological Poetics of Women's Health Writing and Activism, 1970s-Present

Carolyn Liebler
College of Liberal Arts, University of Minnesota Twin Cities
Generations of Child Removal Policies Impacting American Indian/Alaskan Native Families: Links between Mandatory Boarding School and Adoption in the US

Enid Logan
College of Liberal Arts, University of Minnesota Twin Cities
American Indian Racialization and the Sociological Study of Race

Terrion Williamson
College of Liberal Arts, University of Minnesota Twin Cities
Why did they die? A Serial Murder Podcast

2017

Molly Dingel
University of Minnesota Rochester

2016

Olihe Okoro
University of Minnesota Duluth

2014

Ceballos
University of Minnesota Morris

OTHER

Ona Egbue
University of Minnesota Duluth
Evaluating peer mentoring

Zenzele Isoke

Lena Gutenkunst Palacios