EXTERNAL FUNDERS AND CONTRACTORS
grants & contracts
2024 Lumina Foundation
External, principal investigator
Lifting Hoosier Voices
Funded $140,000
2023 Knight Foundation
External, key personnel
Expansion of the Center for Communication and Civic Renewal
2022 The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation
External, key personnel, phase 2
Rapid Response Media Messaging Research will Promote Health and Racial Equity
2022 The Miami Fund, John S. and James L. Knight Foundation
External, principal investigator
News through Trusted Messengers in Black Communities
Funded: $137,525
2022 Color of Change
External, co-principal investigator with Deen Freelon
White supremacy and shows about policing
Funded: $8742
2021 Vaccine Confidence Fund
External, co-principal investigators with Indian University OSoMe
Vax that thing up: Social contagions and social media’s potential to help with vaccine hesitancy
Funded: $248,776
FundFu
2019 John S. and James L. Knight Foundation
Key Personnel
Observatory on Social Media, Technology & Society
2018 Mass Communication & Society Research Grant, AEJMC
External, Co-PI with Rachel R. Mourão
News media effects, attitudes toward Black protest movements and the intersections of injustice
Funded: $10,000
2018 Emerging Scholars Grant, AEJMC
Disrupting the Protest Paradigm
Funded $3,500
INTERNAL FUNDING
2021 Health Disparities Pilot Grant
Co-PI
University of Minnesota Program in Health Disparities Research
Fund to develop a protocol to help change Black women to engage with conversations about breast cancer screening on social media websites
Funded: $25,000
Ff
2019 Kemp Teaching Development Grant
Funding the development of an undergraduate research curriculum course focusing on social media reporting, journalism, and virality.
Funded: $8,000