Graduate Research Assistantship (GRA) Program: AY2024-25 Recipients

Each year, funds contributed by the Graduate Student Association (GSA), the Office of Graduate Studies (OGS), and The Office of Research and Creative Scholarship (ORCS) are awarded as a small number of competitive grants to full-time faculty, for the purpose of hiring a graduate student during the academic year. Through this program, we also hope to encourage external grant applications that include graduate research assistants.

The Office of Research and Creative Scholarship is pleased to announce the awardees of this year’s Graduate Research Assistantship (GRA) Program:

	Full Name	Department	Project Title
	Lisa Haines	WLP	VIRGINIA’S DAUGHTER, a memoir
	Lisa Wisman Weil	Communication Studies	Child Language Sample Transcription and Analysis
	Matthew McMahan	Performing Arts	Funny Moves: Migration and Comedy in the United States
	Tushar Mathew	Performing Arts	(Machine) Learning to Be at the Huret and Spector Gallery at Emerson College
	Katie Williams	WLP	Popular Fiction Professional Database
	Maria San Filippo	VMA	SCREENING WOMEN FILMMAKERS publishing project
	Amy Beecher	VMA	Lifestyle Pictures: An Interdisciplinary Gallery Exhibition Combining Performance and Image
	Catherine Nguyen	WLP	Children Born of War, Adoptees Made by War

About the GRA:
Made possible with support from the Graduate Student Association and the Office of Graduate Studies, the Graduate Research Assistantship Program intends is to extend the student’s classroom learning, expose them to current challenges in their discipline, build analytical skills, and provide a meaningful work experience that will also benefit faculty in the development of their research and scholarship agenda.