Grants

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Read the Introduction Chapter: What’s Racism Got To Do With It? Black Women & Girls, Sexual Abuse, & Liberation

Center for Institutional Courage

2022- Center for Institutional Courage; Initial Validation of the Religious Betrayal Multidimensional Inventory: Dissociation & Sexual Abuse in the Catholic Church; $1,500

Student PI: Logan Zelenak; Faculty Advisor: Dr. Jennifer M. Gómez

2022

ISSTD 2021-22 David Caul Research Grant

2021-22- International Society for the Study of Trauma & Dissociation (ISSTD) 2021 David Caul Research Grant; Initial Validation of the Religious Betrayal Multidimensional Inventory: Dissociation & Sexual Abuse in the Catholic Church; $1,500

Student PI: Logan Zelenak; Faculty Advisor: Dr. Jennifer M. Gómez

2021

Stanford University CASBS Fellowship

Dr. Jennifer M Gómez has been awarded the Stanford University CASBS Fellowship for the 2021-22 academic year!

CASBS, or the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences at Stanford University, brings together deep thinkers from diverse disciplines and communities to advance understanding of the full range of human beliefs, behaviors, interactions, and institutions. A leading incubator of human-centered knowledge, CASBS facilitates collaborations across academia, policy, industry, civil society, and government to collectively design a better future.

This Fellowship will partially fund ($50,000) her work on her academic book project: The Cultural Betrayal of Black Women & Girls: A Black Feminist Approach to Healing from Sexual Abuse (Publisher: American Psychological Association).

Filmed January 2022, I discuss the content of the book and my writing process in Cultural Betrayal & ‘Conundrums’: The Making of a Book, at the BUSSW Equity & Inclusion Speaker Series.

2021-22

National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) Grant

With the Michigan Opera Theatre as the PI, Dr. Jennifer M. Gómez is a special advisor on the $175,000 National Endowment for the Humanities Grant, Transformation through the Arts. 

As such, Dr. Gómez is involved in multiple panel discussions that will be filmed and freely available in late 2020 and early 2021 regarding the ballet Passage, Dance Theatre of Harlem and legendary co-founder Arthur Mitchell, and how the arts can help us all heal from violence and racism. 

In Conversation- Passage: A conversation with Passage choreographer, Claudia Schreier and composer, Jessie Montgomery, with moderator Jennifer M Gómez, Ph.D.

2020-21

National Endowment of the Arts (NEA) Grant

With Eisenhower Dance Detroit (EDD) as the PI, Dr. Jennifer M. Gómez is research consultant of the $10,000 National Endowment of the Arts (NEA) Arts Project Grant, The Transparency Project.

As such, she is collaborating with EDD on a research study that will assess audience members’ perceptions of contemporary dance and their role as patrons of the arts. 

2020-21

The Michigan Center for Urban African American Aging Research (MCUAAAR) Grant

Along with fellow Co-PI, Dr. Samuele Zilioli, Dr. Jennifer M. Gómez received a $25,000 MCUAAAR Grant for their study, Cultural Betrayal Trauma as a Novel Social Determinant of Cardiovascular Disease among Urban African American Elders.

2020-21

Michigan Humanities Council Grant

With Michigan Opera Theatre as the PI, Dr. Jennifer M. Gómez was a special advisor on the $15,000 Michigan Humanities Council Grant, Taking the Stage—The Changing Voice of Opera & Dance.

As such, Dr. Gómez gave talks about how co-founder, Arthur Mitchell, and Dance Theatre of Harlem use the arts to promote equality to The Charles H. Wright Museum of African American History, Michigan Opera Theatre, and Detroit Public Schools. 

2019-20

Ford Foundation Postdoctoral Fellowship

Awarded the Ford Foundation Postdoctoral Fellowship, administered by the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, & Medicine

2018-19

Ford Foundation Dissertation Fellowship

Awarded the Ford Foundation Dissertation Fellowship, administered by the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, & Medicine

2015-16

Internal Funding

• 2020, PI: Wayne State University Academy of Scholars Junior Research Award; $1,000
• 2020, PI: Wayne State University Research Grant; $10,000
• 2020-22, PI: Wayne State University Start Up Funds