CASAA Scholarly Initiatives

• Ilija Chacon Flores, Zyah-Rose Fall, and Adrianna Watkins, "QTSOC Peer Mentoring Program" ($1200.00) supports research related to the development and implementation of a peer mentoring program for queer and trans students of color (QTSOC) at Arcadia University, funds to be used toward mentor compensation and program supplies.
• Julianna Reidell, "Women of the Haitian Revolution" ($1000.00) supports research as part of an independent study on women change agents of the Haitian Revolution, providing funds for travel to the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture in New York as well as meals and lodging.
• Drissa Sanogo, "African Victims of Police Violence" ($500.00) supports research related to the killiing of African and African-descended peoples by police across the United States, funds to be used to purchase scholarly research materials on policing and the Black experience.

Fall 2024 Awards

• Marty Eastlack and Sophie Farley's CASAA Microgrant Award ($1200.00) will support the College of Health Sciences' Interprofessional Education event, featuring Dr. Sabrina Heman-Ackah and critical conversation on the important of diversity, inclusivity, and combating anti-Black racism in the medical field and healthcare education. The proposal can be read here.
• Logan Fields's CASAA Microgrant Award ($500.00) will help purchase supplies and hygiene products for care packages that students in his PY245: Drugs and Behavior course will disperse at a community outreach event in Camden, NJ, to the underserved and those seeking substance use treatment. The proposal can be read here.
• Allyson McCreery and Stephen Tyson, Jr.'s CASAA Microgrant Award ($1000.00) will help provide transportation for students in their first-year seminars to the National Museum of African American History and Culture as well as the National Museum of the American Indian in Washington, D.C. The proposal can be read here.
• Jonathan Shandell's CASAA Microgrant Award ($800.00) will support an enrichment experience for the Theater Arts Program and the University at large, bringing a performance of Illuminating Bayard Rustin to campus, followed by a discussion and collaborative workshop on topics of identity and bias. The proposal can be read here.

• Prof. Amir Campbell and Prof. Krista Profitt, "Arcadia Public Art Project: Cheltenham High School/Arcadia University Mural Project" ($1500.00)
• Daniel Mack and Dr. Lauren Reid, "Black Graduate Students' Progress in the Face of Anti-Blackness" ($1500.00)
• Dr. Favian Martin and Dr. Kevin Revier, "Soul Searching in New Orleans: Ghost Tourism in the Slave Market of the South" ($3000.00)
• Dr. Heather F. de Vries McClintock, "Barriers and Facilitators to Implementing an Integrated Intervention Addressing Social Determinants of Health among Persons with Diabetes" ($3000.00)
• Dr. Angela McNeil, "Strategizing Campus Climate and Culture: The Black Affinity Living and Learning Community" ($1500.00)
• Dr. Katherine Moore, Jayce Owens-Boone, and Hannah Gayle, "The Effect of White Privilege Lessons on Implicity and Explicit Measures of Anti-Black Racism in Policing" ($2000.00)

• Dr. Hilary Parsons Dick, Dangerous Animals and Private Crime: Discriminatory Ontologies of Migration in U.S. Asylum Law ($1200.00) advances reserach examining the ways that asylum process in the United States functions as a racializing practice that denigrates the lives of displaced peoples from the Global South, especially Latinx and Black migrants. Dick's presentation on this research can be viewed here.
• Dr. Warren Haffar, Rachel Kuria, Prof. Allyson McCreery, Tyanna Taylor, and Samuel Wragg III, "Anti-Bias and Anti-Racism Training for NGOs" ($3000.00) supports professional trainings, workshops, and/or certifications in anti-bias and anti-racism as a foundation for developing a workshop for NGOs to address their implicit biases.
• Dr. Favian Martin and Dr. Kevin Revier, "Ghostly Images of Racism: Exploring Racism in Dark Tourism through the Lens of Ghost Criminology" ($3000.00) explores how racism and slavery are discussed in dark tourism with a specific focus on the ghost tour industry in Gettysburg, PA, using ethnographic research.
• Dr. Prash Naidu, "Air Pollution and Environmental Racism in Philadelphia" ($1200.00) supports the advancement of research examining the disproportionate health burden from air pollution on people of color in North America with a focus on environmental racism experienced by people of color in Philadelphia.
• Dr. Comfort Olorunsaiye, "COVID-19 Vaccination Experiences of Black Birthing People" ($1200.00) supports research on inequities in COVID-19 vaccination rates among birthing people of color, furthering work in addressing racist structures and systemic barriers to health promotion information, resources, and services.
• Prof. Stephen Tyson, Jr., "JLE Academy: Hip-Hop Education in Action" ($1200.00) advances research on hip-hop education curricula and the intersections between global hip-hop movements and social justice. Funds were used toward the development and marketing of Tyson's JLE Academy curriculum. Tyson's presentation on this research can be viewed here. 

• Mr. Amir Campbell, Dreams in Color
• Dr. Bruce Campbell, Jr., "Champions of Black Culture: Modern Advocates Preserving Black Music"
• Prof. Adam DePaul, "Spreading the Culture: Lenape Heritage and History"
• Dr. Michelle Reale, "'Shoving at the Thing': An Integrative Transpersonal Framework for a Personal Reckoning with Race"

• Dr. Bruce Campbell, Jr., "Dust + Dignity Podcast Special Series: Black Music's Roots in Social Justice Advocacy"
• Dr. Rachel Collins and Dr. Willow DiPasquale, "Redesigning EN101 as an Antiracist Curricular Foundation for First-Year Students"
• Dr. Hilary Parsons Dick, "U.S. Asylum Law: A Site for the Production and Resistance of White Supremacy"
• Dr. Michelle Reale, Volta: An Italian-American Reckoning with Race
• Dr. Graciela Slesaranasky-Poe, "Exploring Racism in LGBTQIA+ Student Organizations at Predominantly White Institutions of Higher Education and Ways to Combat It: A Participatory Action Research Study"