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Throughout CCT’s 20 years as a program, various professors have received grants in order to continue research in their specific fields of politics, media studies, robotics, and beyond. Some of the most recent research grants awarded to CCT faculty include:

Associate professor and associate dean of academic affairs Matthew Tinkcom was awarded a Georgetown Senior Faculty Grant for the spring semester of 2017. This grant will allow Tinkcom the opportunity to complete 3 chapters of his new book, Allegories of Pleasure: Global Science Fiction Cinema and the Technologies of Gender[1].

In 2016, assistant professor Leticia Bode and colleagues were awarded $40,000 from the Carnegie Corporation of New York in support of their publication titled “Young Adults, Media Flows and Electoral Engagement: Understanding How Campaign Dynamics Drive Millennial’s Knowledge and Participation.” [2] Bode was also awarded a 2016 Massive Data Institute (McCourt School of Public Policy, Georgetown University) Seed grant. $38,000 to support a study titled, “Parenting and Social Media: Sources of Parenting Information and Misinformation on Twitter.”[3]

In 2015, assistant professor Evan Barba received an $875,000 grant that will last through 2020 from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to support a project titled, “An Enhanced Interface for Tele-robotic Servicing of Orbital Space Assets.”[4]

  1. ^ "Georgetown Senior Faculty Research Fellowship".
  2. ^ "$1.65 million in grants for digital media and politics projects".
  3. ^ "Leticia Bode CV".
  4. ^ "Evan Barba resume".