Encouraging Fresh Perspectives
Social Justice Research Fellowships
The Social Justice Institute Leadership Team members represent a wide variety of disciplines and research interests and are always looking to expand their knowledge and extend the university's reach. Case Western Reserve University students are no less inquisitive and committed to pursuing social justice in a myriad of ways.
To encourage innovation and scholarship, the institute has established a Social Justice Research Fellowship Program that, through grants, funds faculty and student research that advances social justice work, from humanistic inquiry to action research.
Previous grants have supported proposals that focus on issues that are both local and global. From youth development to elderly care; from political systems to individual recovery efforts, these projects have represented the same diversity as their recipients. The Social Justice Institute is proud to announce the faculty, graduate and undergraduate research fellows, past and present:
2017-2018
Human Rights Violations in the Occupied Palestinian Territory
Avidan Y. Cover
Associate Professor of Law
2017-2018
Using Photovoice to Capture Diverse Experiences of Cleveland's Opioid Crisis
Project Collaboration with Allison Schlosser
Lee Hoffer
Associate Professor, Department of Anthropology
2016-2017
Anthropology-Engineering Collaborative (AEC): Designing Interdisciplinary Solutions to Global Health Problems
With Co-Researcher Andrew Rollins
Janet W. McGrath
Professor of Anthropology
2016-2017
Anthropology- Engineering Collaborative (AEC): Designing Interdisciplinary Solutions to Global Health Problems
With Co-Researcher Janet W. McGrath
Andrew Rollins
Professor of Biomedical Engineering and Medicine
2016-2017
In Search Of . . . Smarter and Fairer Approaches to Federal Tax Subsidies
Matthew J. Rossman
Professor of Law
2015-2016
Lost and Found - Collective Identity Recovery through Legacy
Project collaboration with Morgan Bulger + Keimei Sugiyama
Diana Bilimoria
KeyBank Professor and Chair of the Department of Organizational Behavior at the Weatherhead School of Management
2015-2016
Forest Hill Neighborhood Study - How Racial and Cultural Affinities Inform Residential Preferences and Considerations of Neighborhood Desirability
Cassi Pittman
Assistant Professor, Department of Sociology
2014-2015
The Quest for Rights & Justice in Authoritarian Enclaves
Kelly McMann
Associate Professor of Political Science
2014-2015
Masculinities, Fatherhood, and Marginalized Urban Communities
Timothy Black
Associate Professor of Sociology
2014-2015
An Interdisciplinary Engineering-focused Social Justice Capstone
Daniel Lacks
C. Benson Branch Professor of Chemical Engineering
2017-2018
An Investigation of the Detroit Shoreway Developing Neighborhood
Lacey Caporale
Graduate Student, Department of Sociology
2016-2017
The Effects of TRAP Laws on the Timing of Abortion
Elizabeth Nalepa
Graduate Student, Department of Sociology
2016-2017
Masculinity, Gender Norms and HIV Risk in Low-Income Communities in Kampala, Uganda: An ethnographic pilot study
Megan Schmidt-Sane
Graduate Student, Medical Anthropology (Graduate School of Arts + Sciences)
2015-2016
Transnational Health Care in Urban Brazil
Frank Manzella
Graduate Student, Department of Anthropology
2014-2015
Belonging and Experience: An Ethnographic Study of Addiction Treatment in the Post-Welfare United States
Allison Schlosser
Graduate Student, Department of Anthropology
2014-2015
Family Care Arrangement and Elder Mistreatment for Dementia Patients in China
Yan Zhang
Graduate Student, Department of Medical Anthropology
2017-2018
"I Do Wanna Dance": The Lived Experiences of Professional Dancers of Color
MaryTherese Escueta
Senior, Sociology and Dance
2017-2018
A Dynamic Analysis and History of Street Medics in the United States
Anjana Renganathan
Senior, Biology
2014-2015
Hip-Hop Education and Learning (HEAL)