Faculty Research Awards

The Sam Fox School’s Faculty Research Awards enable faculty to pursue innovative new projects or to advance ongoing creative activity and research. All Sam Fox School tenured faculty, tenure-track faculty, and full-time senior lecturers are eligible to apply. Faculty having relinquished tenure for phased retirement are ineligible for this award. Research awards are available in amounts ranging from $1,000-$10,000. Recipients will be asked to present their project outcomes to the Sam Fox School community in the form of a public presentation.

2024 Call for Applications

The Sam Fox School invites proposals for its latest round of Faculty Research Awards. Please review the application with college director prior to submission. Submit application materials to samfox-facultygrants@email.wustl.edu and copy Nicole Allen at nallen@wustl.edu. The submission deadline is March 24, 2024.

Download the guidelines and application form (PDF)

2022-23 Award Recipients

Monika Weiss, professor, to support installation costs of the US exhibition of the public sculpture, Nirbhaya, a piece honoring victims of gender-based violence.
Wyly Brown, assistant professor, for the preparation and installation of the original Weatherbreak geodesic dome in conjunction with the Smithsonian Institute and Catholic University of America.
Kelley Murphy and Heidi Kolk, assistant professors, to support the writing, editing, and assembling of the volume, Moonscape of the Mind: Japanese American Art & Design After Internment.
Jonathan Stitelman, senior lecturer, to support research and organize the Le Dolci Prospettive / The Sweet Perspectives symposium planned collaboratively with associate professor Nathanial Jones (Art History & Archaeology) in the Spring 2024.
Jonathan Hanahan, associate professor, to support research and interdisciplinary partnership with WashU Athletics exploring active sensory feedback data transmission.

2021-22

Aggie Toppins, associate professor
Shreyas R Krishnan, assistant professor
Pablo Moyano Fernandez, assistant professor
Wyly Brown, assistant professor
Linda C. Samuels, associate professor
Derek Hoeferlin, associate professor
News announcement

2020-21

Jonathan Hanahan, assistant professor
Igor Marjanović, JoAnne Stolaroff Cotsen Professor
Eric Mumford, Rebecca and John Voyles Professor of Architecture, and Shantel Blakely, assistant professor
Tim Portlock, professor
Denise Ward-Brown, professor
News announcement

2019-20

Petra Kempf, assistant professor
Derek Hoeferlin, associate professor
Meghan Kirkwood, assistant professor
Constance Vale, assistant professor
Kelley Van Dyck Murphy, assistant professor
News announcement

2018-19

Patty Heyda, associate professor
Lisa Bulawsky, professor
Tom Reed, senior lecturer
Mary Ruppert-Stroescu, associate professor
Tim Portlock, associate professor
Penina Acayo Laker, assistant professor
News announcement

2017-18

Chandler Ahrens, assistant professor
Chrissi Cowhey, assistant professor
Douglas B. Dowd, professor
Pablo Moyano, senior lecturer
Linda C. Samuels, associate professor
News announcement

2016-17

Ken Botnick, professor
Jennifer Colten, senior lecturer
Catalina Freixas, assistant professor
Jonathan Hanahan, assistant professor
Buzz Spector, professor
Stan Strembicki, professor

2015-16

Rod Barnett, professor, and Jacqueline Margetts, senior lecturer
Derek Hoeferlin, assistant professor
Stephen Leet, professor
Denise Ward-Brown, associate professor
News announcement

2014-15

Chandler Ahrens, assistant professor
Lisa Bulawsky, associate professor
Jennifer Colten, senior lecturer
Patty Heyda, assistant professor
Igor Marjanovic, associate professor
News announcement

2013-14

Catalina Freixas, assistant professor, and Pablo Moyano, senior lecturer
Kees Lokman, assistant professor
Lindsey Stouffer, senior lecturer
News announcement

2012-13

Ron Fondaw, professor
Patty Heyda, assistant professor; Natalie Yates, assistant professor; and Christine Yogiaman, assistant professor
Igor Marjanovic, associate professor
Eric Mumford, professor
Monika Weiss, assistant professor
News announcement

2011-12

Lauren Adams, assistant professor
Joan Hall, Kenneth E. Hudson Professor of Art
Robert McCarter, Ruth and Norman Moore Professor of Architecture
Christine Yogiaman, assistant professor
News announcement

2010-11

Ken Botnick, professor
DB Dowd, professor
Derek Hoeferlin, senior lecturer
Jenny Lovell, assistant professor
Arny Nadler, associate professor
News announcement

2009-10

Denise Ward-Brown, associate professor
News announcement

2008-09

Lisa Bulawsky, associate professor
Michael Byron, professor
Jenny Lovell, assistant professor
Jen Maigret, assistant professor
Heather Woofter, assistant professor
News announcement

2007-08

DB Dowd, professor
Zeuler Lima, assistant professor
Igor Marjanovic, assistant professor
Arny Nadler, assistant professor
Franklin Oros, associate professor

The Faculty Research Awards are funded by the Ralph J. Nagel Deanship Endowment.