The University of Arizona LGBTQ+ Institute Research Grant Program 2024
We are excited to announce the recipients of the LGBTQ+ Institute Research Grant Program in 2024! Please join us in commending these faculty and their teams from across The University of Arizona whose unique work is reflective of the broad range of significant and innovative issues that are at the forefront of LGBTQ+ research. Updates will be shared at our annual Lightning Talks – we will be in touch with plenty of advance notice of this event.
2024 Faculty Recipients
Fabulous in STE+AM (Fostering Affirmation, Belonging and Unity for LGBTQ+-Student Opportunities Understanding Success in STE+AM):
Dr. Nadia Alvarez Mexia, W.A. Franke Honors College & Dr. Adrián Arroyo Pérez, Office of the Provost
My Prayer, Is to Linger – Reading Documents in the Eric Berne Archive in a Network of Relationships:
Dr. Reid Gomez, Department of Gender & Women’s Studies, College of Social Behavioral Sciences
Consciousness Raising: A History:
Dr. Lazz Kinnamon, Interdisciplinary Studies Program, College of Humanities
Drag Pedagogy: Research in Practice:
Dr. Harris Kornstein, Department of Public & Applied Humanities, College of Humanities
Labelling Oneself – Understanding the Meaning of Self-Identifications and Identity Development Processes among Sexual Minority Young Men in India: Implications for Designing Interventions:
Dr. Karl Krupp, Department of Public Health Practice, Policy & Translational Research, Mel & Enid Zuckerman College of Public Health-Phoenix
Acuerpandonos con la Comida (Embodying Our Foods): Building Trans and Queer Immigrant Nutritional Knowledge Through Community Participatory Research:
Alexandra Elvira Samarron Longorio, School of Nutritional Sciences & Wellness, College of Agriculture, Life & Environmental Sciences
Barriers to and Facilitators of Acceptance and Uptake of Vaccines to Prevent Hepatitis and STIs among Sexual and Gender Minority Individuals:
Dr. Purnima Madhivanan, Department of Health Promotion Sciences, Mel & Enid Zuckerman College of Public Health
Examining the Effects of Anti-LGBTQ Policies on Trans Youth and Their Parents:
Dr. Russell Toomey, Department of Family Studies & Human Development, Norton School of Human Ecology
2024 Graduate Student Recipients
Maura Beste, Ph.D Student, Department of Gender & Women’s Studies, College of Social and Behavioral Sciences
Taylor Marie Doherty, PhD Student, Department of Gender & Women’s Studies, College of Social and Behavioral Sciences
Violeta Dominguez, PhD Student, Department of Health Promotion Sciences, Mel & Enid Zuckerman College of Public Health
Taren McGray, PhD Student, Health Behavior Health Promotion in the Department of Health Promotion Sciences, Mel and Enid Zuckerman College of Public Health
India Raven Moffett, PhD Candidate, Department of American Indian Studies, The Roshan Graduate Interdisciplinary Program, College of Social & Behavioral Sciences
Lu Xin, School of Anthropology, College of Social & Behavioral Sciences