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Previous SPG Winners

MSU programs and activities are not restricted based on race, sex, ethnicity, national origin, or other protected identity. This opportunity is open to all qualifying applicants without preference based on protected identity, and all are welcome to apply.

2025 Grantees

Spring 2025

 

"AfroFutures Now Digital Archive"

  • Leonora Souza Paula, English and Global Studies in Arts and Humanities, MSU

"Collaborative Global Panels on Gender-Based Violence: Prevention, Response and Leadership"

  • Laura Rugless, Office for Civil Rights and Title IX Education and Compliance, MSU
  • Kelly Schweda, Prevention Outreach and Education, MSU
  • Amy Jamison, Alliance for African Partnership, MSU

2024 Grantees

Fall 2024

 

"Comparing Intersectional Power Relations and Resistance in Fishing Communities: Connecting with COBI in Mexico"

  • Mark Axelrod, James Madison College, MSU
  • Abigail Bennett, Fisheries and Wildlife, MSU

"Critically Examining the Inclusion of Gender Diverse People in Identity Systems"

  • Megh Marathe, Communications, MSU
  • Kristen Renn, Education, MSU

"Home is where rice and fish are: A changing agriculture-culture in West Bengal"

  • Krista Isaacs, Plant, Soil, and Microbial Sciences, MSU
  • Sejuti Dasgupta, James Madison College, MSU

"Pilot Study of Kidney Stone Disease (KSD) among Female Patients: the Long-term Implications and Health Challenges in Yucatan, Mexico"

  • Qing Xia, Institute for Global Health, MSU
  • Juan Pablo Flores Tapia, Hospital Regional de Alta Especialidad de la Peninsula de Yucatan, Mexico
  • Ruben Kenny Biceno, Institute for Global Health, MSU; Hospital Victor Lazarte Echegaray, Peru
  • Rene Hinojosa, Institute for Global Health, MSU
  • Ilce Medina Meza, Department of Food Science and Human Nutrition

Spring 2024

 

"Strategic Partnership for Interdisciplinary Forest and Climate Science, Gender, and Interculturality in Peru"

  • Lauren Cooper, Forestry, MSU
  • Rowenn Kalman, Anthropology, MSU
  • Eric Cosio, Sciences, Catholic University of Peru, Institute for Nature, Earth and Energy (INTE-PUCP)
  • Rudy Valdivia, National Forest Conservation Program of Peru (PNCB)

"Global Gender Equity in Higher Education Workshops"

  • Stephanie Nawyn, Sociology, MSU
  • Sara Bano, Education, MSU
  • Banu Kavakli, Sociology, TOKAMER, Altinbas University
  • Fulya Aksu, International Relations, TOKAMER, Altinbas University

"Develop a Pilot AI-Based and Secure Smartphone Application for the Multi-Dimensional Needs of Female TB Caregivers in Trujillo, Peru"

  • Qing Xia, Institute for Global Health, MSU
  • Kenny Briceno, Ostheopatic Medicine, MSU
  • Ilce Meza Medina, Institute for Global Health, MSU
  • Arpon Shahed, Institute for Global Health, MSU
  • Fei Sun, Institute for Global Health, MSU

2023 Grantees

"Loy Polloi: Feminist Collective Exploring the Poetic Dramas of Mina Loy"

  • Alison Dobbins, Theatre, MSU
  • Alexis Bacon, Music, MSU
  • Alex Goody, Education, Humanities and Languages, Oxford Brookes University
  • Laura Scuriatti, Reading, Bard College Berlin
  • Suzanne Churchill, English, Davidson College
  • Melissa Thompson, Theater, University of Maine, Farmington

"Building an International Research Triangle Between MSU, Bristol University (UK), and Autonomous Feminists in Central America"

  • Elena Ruiz, Arts and Letters, MSU
  • NiCole Buchanan, Psychology, MSU
  • Goya Wilson Vasquez, Education, University of Bristol
  • CMC-VEG

"Building and Extending North-South(-South) Partnerships"

  • Trixie Smith, Writing, Rhetoric, and Cultures, MSU
  • Grace Pregent, Writing, Rhetoric, and Cultures, MSU
  • Godson Gatsha, Student Services, Botswana Open University
  • Tebogo Seretse, Agriculture and Natural Resources, Botswana Open University
  • Bantu Morolong, Social Sciences, Botswana Open University
  • Baakile Motshegwa, Botswana Open University
  • Changu Batisani, Botswana Open University
  • Deborah Sanoto, Botswana Open University
  • Mmabaledi Seeletso, Botswana Open University
  • Sheila Sefhedi, Botswana Open University
  • Lekopanye L. Tladi, Botswana Open University
  • Mmaba Mogalakwe, University of Botswana
  • Irene Segopolo, University of Botswana
  • Doreen Masire, University of Botswana

"Collaboration with University of Galway to Create a Gender Curriculum"

  • Megan Maas, Human Development, MSU
  • Sara Prior, Sociology, MSU

"Mediterranean Women Writers and Identity"

  • Camelia Suleiman, Language, Linguistics and Cultures, MSU
  • Miguel Cabanas, Romance and Classics, MSU
  • Manuela Consonni, Jewish History and Contemporary Jewry, Hebrew University of Jerusalem

"Youth Education for Global Environmental and Gender Justice Through Visual Methodologies" 

  • Elizabeth Drezler, Anthropology, MSU
  • Amanda Flaim, Sociology, MSU

 

2022 Grantees

"Emergency Response Archive of Puerto Rico"

  • Christina Boyles, Writing, Rhetoric, and American Cultures, MSU
  • Andy Boyles Petersen, MSU Libraries MSU
  • Mirerza Gonzalex Velez, English, University of Puerto Rico-Rio Piedras
  • Nadjah Rios, English, University of Puerto Rico-Rio Piedras
  • Ricia Chansky, English, University of Puerto Rico-Mayaguez

2021 Grantees

"Returns at Risk: COVID-19 and Girls’ Education in Malawi"

  • Alyssa Morley, Education, MSU
  • Rachel Silver, Education, York University

"Understanding tobacco use amongst sexual minority young adults in Lima, Peru"

  • Ashley Sanders-Jackson, MSU
  • Julie Phillips, Human Medicine, MSU
  • Peter Busse, Communication, University de Lima

"Research and Workshop on Gender-Based Violence in Kenyan Schools"

  • Jonathan Choti, Arts and Humanities, MSU
  • Sarah Prior, Sociology, MSU
  • Damaris Parsitau, Philosophy, History and Religious Studies, Egerton University

2020 Grantees

"Promoting Urban Gardening for Food Security in Vanatu"

  • Chelsea Wentworth, Human Medicine, MSU
  • Krista Isaacs, Plant, Soil and Microbial Sciences, MSU
  • Sara James, Agriculture and Rural Development, Vanuatu Ministry of Agriculture
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