The Office of Research would like to thank members of the University Research Council for their review of all 2020-2021 Faculty Scholarship Initiative (FSI) proposals – and congratulate the following faculty members on their successful FSI proposals:

Shuya Lu
Monte Ahuja College of Business
Department of Marketing

Textual and Visual Communication Effectiveness Online

Myong-Hun Chang
College of Liberal Arts and Social Sciences
Department of Economics

Learning to Vaccinate: Endogenous Vaccination and the Dynamics of Infectious Diseases

Neda Zawahri
College of Liberal Arts and Social Sciences
Department of Political Science

The Politics of Water in the Middle East and North Africa: Exploring domestic and international politics

Barbara Hoffman
College of Liberal Arts and Social Sciences
Department of CAS

Historical Foundations of Habitat and Culture Change in French West Africa, 1895-1959

Guowei Jian
College of Liberal Arts and Social Sciences
Department of Communication

Veterans' Translation of Leadership from Military to Civilian Context: A Qualitative Research and Grounded Theory Development

Bill Kosteas
College of Liberal Arts and Social Sciences
Department of Economics

Student Debt, Salary Expectations, and Career Choices

Julie Burrell
College of Liberal Arts and Social Sciences
Department of English

Performing Diasporic Time: Enactments of African American History

J. Mark Souther
College of Liberal Arts and Social Sciences
Department of History

Outside the Gate City: Metropolitan Ambitions on Georgia's Fall Line

Karen Sotiropoulos
College of Liberal Arts and Social Sciences
Department of History

The Airlift: American Racial Liberalism and the Fracturing of Black Atlantic Dreams

Heather Russell
College of Liberal Arts and Social Sciences
Department of Music

Investigating folk dance as a teaching tool in secondary music ensembles

Charles Hersch
College of Liberal Arts and Social Sciences
Department of Political Science

Arendt/Bakhtin: Towards a Dialogic Politics

Todd Nelson
College of Liberal Arts and Social Sciences
Department of Political Science

Comparative Memorialization of the Holocaust in Poland and Ukraine

Kimberly Fuller
College of Liberal Arts and Social Sciences
Department of Social Work
Elizabeth Goncy; Shereen Naser
College of Sciences and Health Professions
Department of Psychology
Katherine Clonan-Roy
College of Education and Human Services
Department of Curriculum & Foundations

Midwestern Transgender Youth's Healthcare Experiences

David Anderson; Tony Sahley; Michael Hammonds
College of Sciences and Health Professions   
Department of Chemistry; School of Health Sciences; School of Health Sciences

Establishing Locus Coeruleus Activation as a Mechanism of Dynorphin Release in the Brain

Ingrid Hogge
College of Education and Human Services
Department of CASAL

A mixed methods study of financial strain amongst university students