Faculty Awards & Grants

2026 Wells Grant Recipients

• Rebecca de Schweinitz (FHSS-History)  From "Aids to Voters" to "Active Citizens"; Girls in American Electoral Politics from the 1920s to the 1970s 
• Brice Peterson (HUM- English) A New Critical Edition of Aemilia Lanyer's Salve Deus Rex Judaeorum 
• Brett Pickett (LS- Microbiology and Molecular Biology) Analyzing Gene Expression to Identify Improved Therapeutic Targets and Diagnostics for Endometriosis 
• Olga Stoddard (FHSS- Economics) The Visible Costs of Invisible Household Labor 

2026 Women’s Research Institute Grant Recipients

• Sarah Coyne and Lauren Barnes (FHSS- Family Life) Body Image Variability Across the Menstrual Cycle 
• Liz Dibble,  (CFAC- Dance) Seeds (20 minute choreographic project) 
• Melissa Jones (FHSS Psychology) Online Trial of a Treatment for Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder 
• Sara Phenix (HUM- French and Italian)  Chapter in Bodice Politic book 
• Evan Thacker (LS- Public Health) Women's Health in a Vulnerable Population: Waste Pickers in Brasilia, Brazil 

Past Wells and WRI Grant Recipients

GWS Faculty Affiliates:

• Does your research focus on issues related to women?
• Do you have a conference paper, book chapter, or article for which you’d like some research support?
• Do you want to bolster your CFS file by mentoring students in a research project?
• Do you need to travel for your research?

If you answered YES to any of these questions, you should apply for one (or more) of the GWS-related grants listed below.

GRANT OPPORTUNITIES

BYU faculty members can apply for research support on specific projects via the university Emmeline B. Wells Grant or the Women’s Research Initiative Grants, which are administered through the Office of the Associate Academic Vice President for Research and Graduate Studies. Each year a small group of Global Women’s Studies faculty affiliates participates in the review committee for these grants. Recipients of these grants may be invited to present their findings at the Global Women’s Studies colloquium as they work on and complete their research.