Faculty & Research

MCCAMC Research, Scholarship, and Creative Activity Awards for 2024-2025:

• Daniela Gerson (Journalism) – Reassigned time to support project “My Father, A Dreamer” short radio documentary
• Liviu Marinescu (Music) - Reassigned time to support project “In Rhythm, A Composition for Percussion Ensemble and Electronics”
• Jose Luis Benavides (Journalism) – Mini-grant to support the film project “Hope and Dignity: The Farmworker Movement”
• Melissa Wall (Journalism) – Reassigned time to support project “Gender, Social Media and Mis/disinformation in Southeast Asia”
• A.J. McCaffrey (Music) – Mini-grant to support the recording project “Murmurations and Doppelgänger: New Recordings of Original Works for Chamber Ensembles"
• Melissa Tindage (Communication Studies) - Reassigned time to support the study “Memorable Messages as Motivation for Student of Color Success”
• Kristin Taylor (Art & Design) – Reassigned time to support the art project “Expanding The Art Education ColLab: Mentoring to Reduce Art Teacher Attrition in California

MCCAMC Research, Scholarship, and Creative Activity Awards for 2023-2024:

• Aimee Carrillo Rowe (Communication Studies)— Reassigned time to support publication project “Decolonization Across Communication Contexts”
• Paula DiMarco (Art & Design)— Reassigned time to support exhibition design project concerning histories of LGBTQ Latinx communities in LA at the Museum of Social Justice
• Peri Klemm (Art & Design) — (Mini-grant to support the film project Siique: Oromo Women’s Scepter of Power
• Elizabeth Leister (CTVA)— Reassigned time to support the art installation project The Sybil Prophecies
• Sun Lin (Communication Studies)— Reassigned time to support the publication project The Business of Mediated Nationalism
• Dmitry Rachmanov (Music)— Mini-grant to support recording project of music by 20^th Century women composers from Russia and Ukraine
• Tina Raymond (Music)— Mini-grant to support Divinations recording project

MCCAMC Research, Scholarship, and Creative Activity Awards for 2022-2023:

• David Blumentrantz (Jounalism) - Participatory Photography Project to Empower Girls Experiencing Urban Poverty in Kibera, Kenya
• Daniela Gerson (Journalism) - Travel and research for Zamosc, a migration memoir
• Candice Greathouse (Art) - Portraits of Imelda Marcos, A Documentary Project
• Julia Heinen (Music) - "Fantasy Voices in White I" - Solo Recitals of Divergent Composers using Fantasy at the 2022 European Clarinet Festival
• John Kephart (Communication Studies) - Violence Agains Women and the Limits of Acceptable Protection: Public Arguments Over Reauthorizing the Violence Against Women Act
• J'aime Morrison (Theatre) - Bodies of Water - an Experimental Documentary Film
• Kristin Taylor (Art) - CSUN/CSULB Art Education ColLab: A Mentoring Community of Practice for Beginning Visual Arts Teachers
• Melissa Wall (Journalism) - Misinformation, disinformation, and conspiracy theories: Rethinking journalism as social practice art to reach audiences
• Meiqin Wang (Art) - Two Cases of Eco-Public Art in Taiwan

MCCAMC Research, Scholarship, and Creative Activity Awards for Spring 2021:

• Elizabeth Leister (CTVA)—Beatrice
• Alexandra Monchick (Music)—Reviving Non-Canonical Opera after #MeToo

MCCAMC Research, Scholarship, and Creative Activity Awards for 2019-2020:

• David Blumenkrantz (Journalism)—Homeless Initiative Phase III
• Patsy Cox (Art)—Japanese Ceramics In Context
• Aimee Carillo Rowe (Communication Studies)—A Long Walk Home: Decolonizing the #MeToo Movement
• Melissa Wall (Journalism)—Social Inclusion and the Information Practices of Syrian Armenian Refugees
• Samantha Fields (Art)—Solo Painting Exhibition at E.C. Liná
• Stephanie Bluestein (Journalism)—Book Project: The Newspaper Career of Agness Underwood (1902-1984)
• Yue Zheng (Journalism)—Can Artificial Intelligence Change Journalism Research?

Additional travel funding:

• Lynette Henderson (Art)—Presentation of “Teaching from the Left: Visual Literacy and Social Transformation in the 21^st Century” at the Fourteenth International Conference on the Arts in Society
• Julia Heinen (Music)—“Oceans and Earthquakes: Forever Sounds” — Solo Recitals of California Composers at ClarinetFest and the European Clarinet Festival

Awards from the University’s RSCA competition:

• Paula DiMarco (Art)—Emergency Preparedness Guide App for the Los Angeles Fire Department
• Owen Doonan (Art)—Creating an interactive VR historical interface with the city of Sinop, Turkey
• Monica Gallegos (Communication Studies)—Examining the Impact of a Faith-based Parenting Program in a Women’s Prison: Implications for Relationships and Health
• Liviu Marinescu (Music)—Guiseppe Guarneri Reinvented: A Sonata for Violin and Electronics

Reassigned Time

• Bernardo Attias (COMS): Revisiting Morse v. Frederick: Student Speech Rights in a Rhetorical Frame
• Melissa Brough (COMS): Ethical Design for Whom? Amplifying Underrepresented Youth Voice for Equitable Digital Technology Design.
• Patsy Cox (ART): Dunhuang Residency Dissemination.
• Jinah Kim (COMS): Nuclear Entanglements: The Military Imaginaries of US-Korea in the 21^st Century.
• Jessica Retis (JOUR): Immigration and Mobility in the Digital Age: Asian Latinos in the remapping of the Transpacific area.
• Melissa Wall (JOUR): Precarious Connections: Syrian Refugees Navigate Displacement.
• Meiqin Wang (ART): Voice from Below: Socially Engaged Art in Contemporary China.

Travel Support Awards

• David Blumenkrantz (JOUR): Intangible Cultural Heritage Documentary, China.
• Julia Heinen (MUS): “On That Note”—Solo Recitals of American and American-inspired works at ClarinetFest and the European Clarinet Festival.
• A.J. McCaffrey (MUS): Visiting Artist Residency at Scola de Música Superior de Catalunya, Barcelona, Spain (new work for Ensemble FUNKTION).

Release Time Awards

• Bernardo Attias (Communication Studies) – Rhetoric, Work, and the “Traffic in Women”
• Marcella DeVeaux (Journalism) – The Great Migration: Digital Documentary Storytelling
• Alexandra Monchick (Music) – Second Dance: Second Chance: Musical Prolongations and Broken Narrative in Adaptations of The Great Gatsby
• J’aime Morrison (Theatre) – Mourning Surf: Dancing on Waves of Grief
• Michelle Rozic (Art) – Cast Dimensional Prints

Travel Support Awards

• Larry Biederman (Theatre) – The Sisyphus Project
• Hillary Miller (Theatre) – Playwright Interviews for Playwrights in TV: Stages Transformed
• Meiqin Wang (Art) – Voice from Below: Socially Engaged Art in Contemporary China

Release Time Awards

• A.J. McCaffrey—Completion of commission for the Argus String Quartet
• David Blumenkrantz—“One of Us: Documenting and Advocating on Behalf of the Homeless Population of Los Angeles”
• Jose Luis Benavides—“Border Voices”
• Melissa Brough—“Low Income Parents’ Strategies to Promote Digital Learning”
• Aimee Carillo Rowe—“Settler Colonialism and Cultural Studies”
• Jinah Kim—“Unruly Dead Across the TransPacific” (funded by the CSUN RSCA Competition)
• Liviu Marinescu—Conventions and Disruptions: A Study of Parallels and Intersections between Music and Politics in the 2016 Presidential Election Campaign (funded by the CSUN RSCA Competition)
• Mario Ontiveros—“The Great Wall of Los Angeles: Judith F. Baca’s Experiments in Collaboration and Concrete”
• Melissa Wall—“Journalism in Digital Spaces”

Travel Support Awards

• David Grewe—“The Club Nobody Wants to Belong To”
• Julia Heinen—“Promoting the Art of the Clarinet Worldwide”
• Andrew Surmani—“Inclusion of Music Industry Studies in the K-12 Music Curriculum”

Release Time Awards

• Stephanie Bluestein (Journalism) – Journal article on Agness (Aggie) Underwood
• Patsy Cox (Art) – 74th Scripps Ceramic Annual Curating Project
• Samantha Fields (Art) – Solo Exhibition at the Museum of Art and History, Lancaster
• Dave Keating (Communication Studies) – Clearing the Air: Developing Persuasive Message Strategies to Promote a Smoke-Free Campus
• A.J. Kim (Theatre) – World Theatre Handbook: Interweaving World Theatre and Performance Cultures
• Liviu Marinescu (Music) – Contradictions: A Composition for Violin and Electronics, followed by local and international performances
• John Whitener (Music) – Mongolian and Chinese Public School Music Education Practices

 Travel Support Awards

• David Blumenkrantz (Journalism) – Intercultural Communication Research/Photography in China
• Peri Klemm (Art) – Travel to Ghana to Conduct Exhibition Research and Attend a Conference
• Jessica Retis (Journalism) – Asian Latino Diasporas in Global Cities

Reassigned Time

• Melissa Brough, Comm Studies. Youth, Power, and Participation: Forging Participatory Public Culture in the Digital Age
• Pasty Cox, Art. Urban Rebutia at Long Beach Museum of Art.
• Jinah Kim, Comm Studies. Postcolonial Grief and the Afterlives of the Pacific Wars in the Americas. 
• A.J. McCaffrey, Music. Doppelgänger for two pianos.
• Alexandra Monchik, Music. Designing a Research Methods Course for the Graduate Student in Music Performance.
• Jessica Retis, Journalism. The Handbook of Diasporas, Media and Culture. 
• John Whitener, Music. Music Teacher Training and Public School Music Teaching in Mongolia and China. 

Travel Support Awards

• Marcy DeVeaux, Journalism. Oral Histories of the Great Migration into New England.
• Julia Heinen, Music. The Black and Silver Screen: Hidden Gems from Hollywood.
• Liviu Marinescu, Music. International Musicology Symposium and Masterclasses
• Jeanine Minge, Comm Studies. Implementing the Cultural Archive Project with the Floating Doctors and the Ngabe Tribe in Panama.
• Melissa Wall, Journalism. Communication Practices and the Syrian Refugee Crisis.

• Ron Borczon, Music, "Music Therapy: A Fieldwork Primer”
• Eric Edson, CTVA, “More Story Solutions: 16 Plot Forms for Creating Great Heroes”
• Gina Giotta, Comm Studies, “Author(iz)ing the Gase: Fashion Blogging, Media Authorship, and the Boyfriend Photographer”
• Ah-jeong Kim, Theatre,  “A New World Theatre Textbook by Rutledge”
• Jeanine Minge, Comm Studies, “The Cultural Archive Project: The Ngabe Tribe and the Floating Doctors”
• J’aime Morrison, Theatre,  “Written in Dust: Translating the Words of John Fante’s Ask the Dust into Dance”
• Mario Ontiveros, Art,  “Beyond Reflection: Unflinching Criticality and the Transformation of Self-Portraiture”
• Aimee Carrillo Rowe, Comm Studies, Queer Xicana: Performance, Affect, and the Sacred”
• Larry Stoffel, Music, “CSUN Wind Ensemble CD’s Projects”
• Scott Sturgeon, CTVA, “Bushed, a Half-Hour Comedy Pilot for Premium Cable”
• Steve Thachuck, Music, "Annotated Works Catalogue of Reginald Smith Brindle (section of Book)”
• Melissa Wall, Journalism, “Citizen and Mobile Journalisms: Reimagining the Field”

• Patsy Cox, Art, 3D Software for Printing Art
• Owen Doonan, Art, Publications related to the Sinop (Turkey) Regional archaeological Project
• Mario Ontiveros, Art, The Great Wall Institute of Los Angeles at CSUN's University Art Gallery
• Christian Tedeschi, Art, Telegaph-Tin Can Transmissions: 10 years in the making
• Meiquin Wang, Art, Urbanization and Contemporary Chinese Art
• Bernardo Attias, Communication Studies, Cultural Hybridity and Commercial Opportunity: The Politics of Location in Electronic Dance Music Culture
• Jose Luis Benavides, Journalism, "Spanish-Language Newspapers," bibiiographic article for publication in Oxford University's Press's Oxford Bibliographies in Latino Studies
• Ron Borsczon, Music, Investigation, classification and analyzation of images generated from a specific music program in order to find constants within the images based upon the style and instrumentation of the music
• Julie Heinen, Music, Something Borrowed, Something New (a broadranging series of performance for piano and clarient)
• Dmitry Rachmonov, Music, Something Borrowed, Something New (a broadranging series of performance for piano and clarient)
• LIviu Marinescu,  Music, Bent: A Composition for Piano and Electronics, Followed by an International Concert Tour and Recording
• Alexandra Monchick, Music, "Achtung, Aufnahme!!! and the Elegy to silent Film"
• Steve Thachuk, Music, Engraving & Publishing Recently Discovered Guitar Works of Reginald Smith Brundk

• Patsy Cox
  Art 3D 
  Project Title -- Printing and its potential applications for artists

• Scott Sturgeon
  CTVA 
  Project Title -- Exiled In The Land of the Free: A History of Oren Lyons and the Iroquois

• Melissa Wall
  Journalism 
  Project Title -- The Syrian Refugee Crisis: Mapping Communication Needs