Research Assistant Program

The Research Assistant Program (RAP) was created to support faculty members in their social justice research and to provide young scholars with an opportunity to gain valuable research experience. The Institute for Social Justice Research and Policy received 15 requests from faculty members across campus and 24 applications from students.  Ten projects were selected.  The research assistant, faculty member, and project title are listed here: 

• Communicative Practices of Resilience: How Black Men Navigate Mental Health Challenges

  Faculty Member: Jorlanditha Austin (Communications)

  Research Assistant: Craig Watkins

• Belonging as a Critical Condition for Learning and Justice

  Faculty Member: Nina Gilbert (Education)

  Research Assistant: Carter Louviere

• African American Pentecostal Biblical Hermeneutics and Social Justice in the Age of AI and Afrofuturism

  Faculty Member: Harold Bennett (Philosophy & Religion)

  Research Assistant: Andra Taylor

• Dementia Risk Among Black Older Adults

  Faculty Member: Kharine Jean (Psychology)

  Research Assistant: Jeremy Warden

• How Free Trade Protectionism Affects African Economies

  Faculty Member: Hye Ryeon Jang (Political Science)

  Research Assistant: Andrew Ratcilff

• Mapping areas of Food Insecurity in the Metro Atlanta Area

  Faculty Member: Mona Ray (Economics)

  Research Assistant: Mathias Blake

• Stop Motion Animation that uses Mythology as a Framework

  Faculty Member: Maria Korol

  Research Assistant: Pierce Newson

• Black Employee Ownership; Worker Cooperatives & the Solidarity Economy

  Faculty Member: Taura Taylor (Sociology)

  Research Assistant: Najee Wilson

• Black Military History and Local State Histories of Black Pentecostalism

  Faculty Member: Ovell Hamilton

  Research Assistant: Braxton Broady

• Landscape, Home, and Memory: Gullah Geechee People and the Radical Aesthetics of Place

  Faculty Member: Corrie Claiborne

  Research Assistant: Omar Culbreath, Jr.