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Mount Holyoke professors have won Guggenheim awards, NASA grants and Carnegie Fellowships.

They receive millions in funding from national foundations, leading to unique research opportunities for students.

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John Tawa

Publication

Tawa, J. (2017). The beliefs about race scale (BARS): Dimensions of racial essentialism and their psychometric properties. Cultural Diversity and Ethnic Minority Psychology

Tawa, J. (2017). Asymmetric peer selections among Blacks, Asians, and Whites in a virtual environment: Preliminary evidence for triangulated threat theory. The Journal of Social Psychology

Tawa, J. (2017). “Walk a mile in my shoes:” A virtual world exercise in fostering students’ subjective understandings of the experiences of People of Color. In M.E. Ma & A. Oikonomou (Eds.). Serious Games and Edutainment Applications, Vol 2. New York: Springer

Tawa, J. & Tauriac, J.J. (2017). Teaching power beyond Black and White: Recognizing and working with student resistance in diverse classrooms. In E. Pinderhughes, P. Romney, & V. Jackson (Eds.). Understanding Power: A Human Service Imperative. Washington D.C.: National Association of Social Work Press.

Tawa, J., Ma, R., & Katsumoto, S. (2016). “All lives matter:” The cost of colorblind racial attitudes in diverse social networks. Race and Social Problems, 8 (2), 196 - 208.

Tawa, J., Negrón, R., Suyemoto, K.L. & Carter, A.S. (2015). The effects of resource competition on Blacks’, Asians’, and Whites’ social distances: A virtual world method. Group Processes and Intergroup Relations, 18 (6), 761 – 777.

Sabra Thorner

Grant

Mellon New Directions Fellowship, 2023-2026

Faculty Fellowship, Mount Holyoke College, 2022-2023

Australian Research Council Indigenous Discovery Project (Partner Investigator), 2020-2023

Australian Research Council Linkage Project (Research Associate), 2021-2024

Five Colleges’ Native American and Indigenous Studies (NAIS)/Andrew W. Mellon Foundation “Gathering at the Crossroads” Project. $49,660 for artists’ residency and $12,480 for course redesign (2021-22); $10,000 for course redesign (2020-21)