January 31, 2024

Five graduate students and one undergraduate student awarded grants from a competitive pool of applicants.
The 2024 CAS Research Travel Grant call received numerous applications from graduate students and undergraduates across UC Merced. The faculty review committee awarded grants to five graduate students and one undergraduate student from this competitive pool.Â
STUDENT AWARDS
- Style as Resistance and Liberation, Bethany Padron, IH Graduate Student
- Perception of African American Women Filmmakers’ Representation of Race, Gender, and Relationships among New Nigerian Migrants in the US, Ejemen Ogbebor, IH Graduate Student
- Marriage and Women Economic Empowerment in Igboland: Patterns and Dynamics of Conflict, Genevieve Egbunno, IH Graduate Student
- Experiences of African Refugees in California, Joy Omeiza, IH Graduate Student
- Gender, Violence, and Pentecostalism in Nigeria, Omowumi Omole, IH Graduate Student
- The Traffic of Enslaved Africans and their Descendants in Colonial Mexico, Virginia Mateo, History Undergraduate Student
