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What is the intent of this initiative?

The College has made it a priority to set aside funding each year to provide reassigned time, mini-grants, or additional travel support to faculty members engaged in research, scholarship, and/or creative activity (RSCA) that will represent a significant contribution to the profession. The expectation is that, once completed, this work will be peer reviewed according to the personnel procedures of the appropriate department. The goal is to incentivize faculty in the College to carry out substantial projects that raise the visibility and RSCA productivity of the College. Any unique aspects of the projects should be emphasized in the proposal.

What are the awards?

There are three types of MCCAMC RSCA Awards:听

• Reassigned time: typically 3 weighted teaching units but up to 3.9 when that is a typical course for a faculty member;听
• Mini-grant: up to $5,000 and may be used for student assistants, travel to conduct research, materials and supplies, and/or equipment;听
• Additional Travel Support: up to $2,000 for travel needs that go above and beyond what is usually supported.

Who is eligible for these awards?

All probationary faculty in their third year on campus or beyond as well as all tenured faculty are eligible (not including faculty in the FERP program). The rationale for the exclusion from this initiative of probationary faculty in their first and second years is that they are already receiving reassigned time to launch their RSCA agendas.
This reassigned time may be used in conjunction with other awarded reassigned time provided that it is for clearly different work.
Faculty may apply for the additional travel funds for use during a sabbatical semester.
Two faculty members may apply as a collaborative team in which each would receive reassigned time for one course.

For reassigned time, when should the work be accomplished?

A significant amount of the work should be carried out during the semester in which reassigned time is given, though the work may be started prior to the semester and/or completed after the semester is over.

For mini-grant, for what and when should the funds be used?

Awards given should be used in the fiscal year. The college spending deadline is May 30, 2021. Expense items may include student assistants, travel, supplies & materials, rentals, equipment (excluding printers), editorial contracts, or other categories appropriate to the听research. Please note that the awarded funds may not be used for hospitality, food, and payments of salary to faculty members.

For travel support, when should the travel take place?

Awards given may include travel in the summer, fall, spring and summer. For any summer travel, eTravel Travel Approvals must be completed by May 30 (no retroactive approvals)

Who will decide who gets the awards?

The Department Chairs or their designees will serve as the review committee, although they will not have a vote when reviewing applicants from their own departments. Their rankings will serve as a recommendation to the Dean.

Additional Requirements

Faculty receiving an award will be required to submit a short activity report including peer reviewed outcomes early in the following semester and present their work at a college research colloquium.

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

• Daniela Gerson (Journalism)听鈥� Reassigned time to support project 鈥淢y Father, A Dreamer鈥� short radio documentary
• Liviu Marinescu (Music)听- Reassigned time to support project 鈥淚n Rhythm, A Composition for Percussion Ensemble and Electronics鈥�
• Jose Luis Benavides (Journalism)听鈥� Mini-grant to support the film project 鈥淗ope and Dignity: The Farmworker Movement鈥�
• Melissa Wall (Journalism)听鈥� Reassigned time to support project 鈥淕ender, Social Media and Mis/disinformation in Southeast Asia鈥�
• A.J. McCaffrey (Music)听鈥� Mini-grant to support the recording project 鈥淢urmurations and Doppelg盲nger: New Recordings of Original Works for Chamber Ensembles"
• Melissa Tindage (Communication Studies)听- Reassigned time to support the study 鈥淢emorable Messages as Motivation for Student of Color Success鈥�
• Kristin Taylor听(Art & Design) 鈥� Reassigned time to support the art project 鈥淓xpanding 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)鈥� Reassigned time to support publication project 鈥淒ecolonization Across Communication Contexts鈥�
• Paula DiMarco (Art & Design)鈥� 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)听鈥� (Mini-grant to support the film project听Siique: Oromo Women鈥檚 Scepter of Power
• Elizabeth Leister (CTVA)鈥� Reassigned time to support the art installation project听The Sybil Prophecies
• Sun Lin (Communication Studies)鈥� Reassigned time to support the publication project The Business of Mediated Nationalism
• Dmitry Rachmanov (Music)鈥� Mini-grant to support recording project of music by 20th听Century women composers from Russia and Ukraine
• Tina Raymond (Music)鈥� Mini-grant to support听Divinations听recording project

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

• David Blumentrantz (Journalism) - 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 Against 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) - 快活林性息/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)鈥擝eatrice
• Alexandra Monchick (Music)鈥擱eviving Non-Canonical Opera after #MeToo

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

• David Blumenkrantz (Journalism)鈥擧omeless Initiative Phase III
• Patsy Cox (Art)鈥擩apanese Ceramics In Context
• Aimee Carillo Rowe (Communication Studies)鈥擜 Long Walk Home: Decolonizing the #MeToo Movement
• Melissa Wall (Journalism)鈥擲ocial Inclusion and the Information Practices of Syrian Armenian Refugees
• Samantha Fields (Art)鈥擲olo Painting Exhibition at E.C. Lin谩
• Stephanie Bluestein (Journalism)鈥擝ook Project: The Newspaper Career of Agness Underwood (1902-1984)
• Yue Zheng (Journalism)鈥擟an Artificial Intelligence Change Journalism Research?

Additional travel funding:

• Lynette Henderson (Art)鈥擯resentation of 鈥淭eaching from the Left: Visual Literacy and Social Transformation in the 21st听Century鈥� at the Fourteenth International Conference on the Arts in Society
• Julia Heinen (Music)鈥斺�淥ceans and Earthquakes: Forever Sounds鈥� 鈥� Solo Recitals of California Composers at ClarinetFest and the European Clarinet Festival

Awards from the University鈥檚 RSCA competition:

• Paula DiMarco (Art)鈥擡mergency Preparedness Guide App for the Los Angeles Fire Department
• Owen Doonan (Art)鈥擟reating an interactive VR historical interface with the city of Sinop, Turkey
• Monica Gallegos (Communication Studies)鈥擡xamining the Impact of a Faith-based Parenting Program in a Women鈥檚 Prison: Implications for Relationships and Health
• Liviu Marinescu (Music)鈥擥uiseppe 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 21st听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): 鈥淥n That Note鈥濃�擲olo Recitals of American and American-inspired works at ClarinetFest and the European Clarinet Festival.
• A.J. McCaffrey (MUS): Visiting Artist Residency at Scola de M煤sica Superior de Catalunya, Barcelona, Spain (new work for Ensemble FUNKTION).

Release Time Awards

• Bernardo Attias (Communication Studies) 鈥� Rhetoric, Work, and the 鈥淭raffic in Women鈥�
• Marcella DeVeaux (Journalism) 鈥撎�The Great Migration: Digital Documentary Storytelling
• Alexandra Monchick (Music) 鈥� Second Dance: Second Chance: Musical Prolongations and Broken Narrative in Adaptations of听The Great Gatsby
• J鈥檃ime Morrison (Theatre) 鈥� Mourning Surf: Dancing on Waves of Grief
• Michelle Rozic (Art) 鈥� Cast Dimensional Prints

Travel Support Awards

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

Release Time Awards

• A.J. McCaffrey鈥擟ompletion of commission for the Argus String Quartet
• David Blumenkrantz鈥斺�淥ne of Us: Documenting and Advocating on Behalf of the Homeless Population of Los Angeles鈥�
• Jose Luis Benavides鈥斺�淏order Voices鈥�
• Melissa Brough鈥斺�淟ow Income Parents鈥� Strategies to Promote Digital Learning鈥�
• Aimee Carillo Rowe鈥斺�淪ettler Colonialism and Cultural Studies鈥�
• Jinah Kim鈥斺�淯nruly Dead Across the TransPacific鈥澨�(funded by the 快活林性息 RSCA Competition)
• Liviu Marinescu鈥擟onventions and Disruptions: A Study of Parallels and Intersections between Music and Politics in the 2016 Presidential Election Campaign (funded by the 快活林性息 RSCA Competition)
• Mario Ontiveros鈥斺�淭he Great Wall of Los Angeles: Judith F. Baca鈥檚 Experiments in Collaboration and Concrete鈥�
• Melissa Wall鈥斺�淛ournalism in Digital Spaces鈥�

Travel Support Awards

• David Grewe鈥斺�淭he Club Nobody Wants to Belong To鈥�
• Julia Heinen鈥斺�淧romoting the Art of the Clarinet Worldwide鈥�
• Andrew Surmani鈥斺�淚nclusion of Music Industry Studies in the K-12 Music Curriculum鈥�

Release Time Awards

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

听Travel Support Awards

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

Reassigned Time:

• Ben Attias (Communication Studies). 鈥淎ppropriation as Argumentation in Electronic Dance Music Cultures."
• David Blumenkrantz (Journalism). "Humanizing Homelessness: Portraits and Personal Stories."
• Amy Carrillo-Rowe (Communication Studies). 鈥淨ueer Xicana: Performance, Affect, and the Sacred."
• A.J. McCaffrey (Music). Here Come the Waterworks for viola, piano, and electronics.
• Ali Monchick (Music). 鈥�'Undertones of Overtones鈥�: Paul Hindemith and Proto-Spectralism,鈥� a chapter for the Oxford Handbook of Spectral Music
• J鈥檃ime Morrison (Theatre). 鈥淐horeographing in the Curl: Dance, Movement and Evolutions in Surfing Style."听

Travel Support Awards

• Julia Heinen. 鈥淎ll that Jazz!鈥� A solo recital of American works for the Clarinet at the 6th European Clarinet Festival.
• Lynette Henderson. Interdisciplinary Collaboration at Moneague College, Jamaica.
• Melissa Wall. 鈥淪yrian Refugees in Canada: The Role of Media in their Integration."

Reassigned Time

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

Travel Support Awards

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

• Ron Borczon, Music, "Music Therapy: A Fieldwork Primer鈥�
• Eric Edson, CTVA, 鈥淢ore Story Solutions: 16 Plot Forms for Creating Great Heroes鈥�
• Gina Giotta, Comm Studies, 鈥淎uthor(iz)ing the Gase: Fashion Blogging, Media Authorship, and the Boyfriend Photographer鈥�
• Ah-jeong Kim, Theatre, 听鈥淎 New World Theatre Textbook by Rutledge鈥�
• Jeanine Minge, Comm Studies, 鈥淭he Cultural Archive Project: The Ngabe Tribe and the Floating Doctors鈥�
• J鈥檃ime Morrison, Theatre, 听鈥淲ritten in Dust: Translating the Words of John Fante鈥檚听Ask the Dust听into Dance鈥�
• Mario Ontiveros, Art, 听鈥淏eyond Reflection: Unflinching Criticality and the Transformation of Self-Portraiture鈥�
• Aimee Carrillo Rowe, Comm Studies, Queer Xicana: Performance, Affect, and the Sacred鈥�
• Larry Stoffel, Music, 鈥溈旎盍中韵� Wind Ensemble CD鈥檚 Projects鈥�
• Scott Sturgeon, CTVA, 鈥�Bushed,听a Half-Hour Comedy Pilot for Premium Cable鈥�
• Steve Thachuck, Music, "Annotated Works Catalogue of Reginald Smith Brindle (section of Book)鈥�
• Melissa Wall, Journalism, 鈥淐itizen and Mobile Journalisms: Reimagining the Field鈥�

• Patsy Cox, Art,听3D Software for Printing Art
• Owen Doonan, Art,听Publications related to the Sinop (Turkey) Regional archaeological Project
• Mario Ontiveros,听Art, The Great Wall Institute of Los Angeles at 快活林性息's University Art Gallery
• Christian Tedeschi, Art,听Telegaph-Tin Can Transmissions: 10 years in the making
• Meiquin Wang, Art,听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,听"Spanish-Language Newspapers," bibiiographic article for publication in Oxford University's Press's Oxford Bibliographies in Latino Studies
• Ron Borsczon, Music,听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,听Something Borrowed, Something New (a broadranging series of performance for piano and clarient)
• Dmitry Rachmonov, Music,听Something Borrowed, Something New (a broadranging series of performance for piano and clarient)
• LIviu Marinescu, 听Music,听Bent: A Composition for Piano and Electronics, Followed by an International Concert Tour and Recording
• Alexandra Monchick, Music,听"Achtung, Aufnahme!!! and the Elegy to silent Film"
• Steve Thachuk,听Music,听Engraving & Publishing Recently Discovered Guitar Works of Reginald Smith Brundk

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

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

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