The University of Missouri Division of Research, Innovation and Impact awarded 26 College of Arts and Science faculty members Research Council grants during the 2024-25 academic year.

Funded researchers received these internal grants of up to $15,000 for projects and activities leading to book contracts, juried performances, art exhibits, peer-reviewed articles, the generation of pilot data for grant proposals and more. In the last five years, Mizzou has awarded $2.27 million to faculty leading 197 projects. 

Below are the College of Arts and Science investigators who received this year’s grants.

Arts, humanities, social and behavioral sciences

• Kristy Wilson Bowers, associate professor, history, College of Arts and Science
• Signe Cohen, associate professor, religious studies, College of Arts and Science
• Beiyin Deng, assistant professor, religious studies, College of Arts and Science
• Merve Fejzula, assistant professor, history, College of Arts and Science
• John Frymire, associate professor, history, College of Arts and Science
• Seth Howes, associate chair and associate professor, School of Languages, Literatures and Cultures, College of Arts and Science
• Jennie Ikuta, associate professor, political science, College of Arts and Science
• Ilyana Karthas, associate professor, history, College of Arts and Science
• Suhwon Lee, teaching professor, statistics; director, Center for Applied Statistics and Data Analysis (co-investigator), College of Arts and Science
• Willie Mack, assistant professor, Black studies, College of Arts and Science
• Michael Marlo, associate professor, English, College of Arts and Science
• Dominic Meng-Hsuan Yang, associate professor, history, College of Arts and Science
• Desireé Moore, assistant professor, visual studies, College of Arts and Science
• M. Michelle Morris, associate professor, history, College of Arts and Science
• Anne Myers, associate professor, English, College of Arts and Science
• Joseph Pintz, professor, visual studies; director, graduate studies, College of Arts and Science
• Linda Reeder, professor, history, College of Arts and Science
• Brian Silvey, professor, music education and director of bands, School of Music, College of Arts and Science
• James van Dyke, associate professor and director of graduate studies, visual studies, College of Arts and Science
• Robert Walker, associate professor, anthropology, College of Arts and Science
• Lydia Tackett, visiting associate professor, geological sciences (co-investigator), College of Arts and Science

Science, technology, engineering and mathematics

• Rex Cocroft, professor, biological sciences, College of Arts and Science
• Sarah Jacquet, assistant professor, geological sciences, College of Arts and Science
• Tara Selly, research assistant professor, geological sciences (co-investigator), College of Arts and Science
• Lydia Tackett, visiting associate professor, geological sciences (co-investigator), College of Arts and Science
• Carlos Wexler, professor, physics, College of Arts and Science