The Office of The Vice President for Research provides resources to support meritorious research and scholarship in all disciplines across the university, including the liberal arts, humanities and social sciences. The Excel Funding Program was founded in 2022 to help faculty in these fields pursue top-quality research, scholarly and creative projects. By providing seed funding to liberal arts, humanities and social sciences faculty, Excel also aims to bolster their competitive edge in applying for subsequent external funding.
This year, the VPR is excited to fund 23 Excel projects by faculty from 17 different departments across the USC Columbia and Palmetto College campuses.
Please join us in congratulating the 2024 Excel funding recipients.
2024 Excel Projects
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Primary Investigator(s)
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Department and College
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Project Title
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| Applegate, Brandon | Criminology & Criminal Justice - College of Arts and Sciences | Multimorbidity and Victimization of Incarcerated Persons |
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Broussard, Rebekah
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Sociology - College of Arts and Sciences
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The Determinants of Unrealized Fertility among Women in the United States
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Chun, Elaine
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English Language and Literature - College of Arts and Sciences
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Exposing Racist Language: Genres and Theories of Anti-Racism
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Collins, Alyssa
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English Language and Literature - College of Arts and Sciences
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Cellular Blackness
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Dubinsky, Stanley
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English Language and Literature - College of Arts and Sciences
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The Wordification Project
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Edmunds, Sarah
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Psychology - College of Arts and Sciences
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Equity-Focused Adaptation of a Challenging Behavior Parenting Intervention for Toddlers
with Autism
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Fang, Man
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School of Music
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Staging the Final Scene of the Opera "Golden Lily"
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Fenimore, Wanda
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Speech - University of SC Sumter
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A Radical Heart: Mrs. Ruby Cornwell's Ceaseless War for Dignity and Justice
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Garane, Jeanne
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Languages, Literatures & Cultures - College of Arts and Sciences
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Translating and Publishing Oui, Mon Commandant!
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Garner, David
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School of Music
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Recording Mr. Baptiste
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Gavin, Michael
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English Language and Literature - College of Arts and Sciences
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Measuring Cultural Contact: An Indicator for Global Conflict
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Ha, Byeongwon
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School of Visual Art and Design - College of Arts and Sciences
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Make America Great Again and Again
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Harrison, Carol
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History - College of Arts and Sciences
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A Women's History of Vatican I
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Liu, Xiaofeng
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Educational & Developmental Science - College of Education
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Bias correction for effect size estimates in the social sciences
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Lu, Kelan
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Political Science - College of Arts and Sciences
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Modeling the Determinants of Bilateral Foreign Direct Investment Flows (FDI) between
Adversarial States
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Melvin-Koushki, Matthew
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History - College of Arts and Sciences
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Mapping Consciousness and Paranormality: An Empiricist Manual of Neoplatonism from
Medieval Islamic Spain
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Nagel, Caroline
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Geography - College of Arts and Sciences
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Overseas-Trained Teachers in South Carolina's Public Schools
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Quinn, Joseph
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Sociology - College of Arts and Sciences
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Manipulating the Perceived Similarity of Out-Group Interaction Partners and Measuring
Downstream Interactions
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Stawkowski, Magdalena
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Anthropology - College of Arts and Sciences
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Radioactive Pastures: Livestock Breeding on the Soviet-era Semipalatinsk Nuclear Test
Site in Kazakhstan
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Stoeltzner, C. Michael
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Philosophy - College of Arts and Sciences
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The Emergence of Fluctuations-Vienna Indeterminism and Its Experimental Traditions
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Tu-Keefner, Feili
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School of Information Sciences - College of Information & Communication
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Creating a Framework with Service Guidelines and Professional Toolkits for Disaster
Information Services for Libraries
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Williard, Ashley
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Languages, Literatures & Cultures - College of Arts and Sciences
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Disruptive Minds: Madness in the Early French Atlantic
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Wright, Parrish
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Languages, Literatures & Cultures - College of Arts and Sciences
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The Gabii Legacy Data Project
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1 February 2024