EXTERNAL FUNDERS AND CONTRACTORS
grants & contracts
2024 Lumina Foundation
External, Co-PI with Jarrad Henderson
Lifting Hoosier Voices
Funded $140,000
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2023 Knight Foundation
External, key personnel
Expansion of the Center for Communication and Civic Renewal
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2022​ The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation
External, key personnel, phase 2
Rapid Response Media Messaging Research will Promote Health and Racial Equity
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2022​ The Miami Fund, John S. and James L. Knight Foundation ​
External, principal investigator
News through Trusted Messengers in Black Communities
Funded: $137,525
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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
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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
External, Co-PI with Summer Harlow
Disrupting the Protest Paradigm
Funded $3,500
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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
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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
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