Lisa has received multiple accolades for her book Stitching Love and Loss: A Gee’s Bend Quilt (U. of Washington Press, 2023; paperback, 2025), including Bard Graduate Center’s Horowitz Book Prize. She was also selected as a 2025–2026 Getty Scholar, which will allow her to deepen her new book project “tending towards” during a residential fellowship at the Getty Center in Los Angeles.

Carl was awarded the fellowship for his project Resonant Coastlines, a feature-length experimental film that tethers a young man’s emerging queer identity—captured in his stream-of-consciousness filmmaking practice—to Maine’s unseen histories and forgotten landscapes.

The Scholars at Risk Network (SAR) provides funding to support an at-Risk scholar. For 2025–26 Vassar’s Drama department welcomes an award-winning writer, director, and producer with multiple publications, Patricia Achiro Olwoch. Achiro was previously an at-risk scholar at Barnard University.

Molly published the book with her 25-year mentor, scholar and poet Inés Hernández-Ávila (Nez Perce/Tejana) from UC Davis. The book is a collection of essays by contemporary Native American poets that highlight the role of poetry in Native American and Indigenous Studies.

Candy was selected for her book project Transborder Affect: The Intersection Between Emotions, Inequalities, and Healing within Oaxacan Communities. Candy’s research provides a multi-layered interpretation of Oaxacans’ own words, embodiments, and processes for discussing inequalities, emotional distress, and healing processes.

Josh received supplemental grant funding to support his current grant project “POSE: Phase II: An Open-Source Ecosystem for Behavioral Experiments.” Funding is supporting the creation of an open-source ecosystem for behavioral experiments centered around jsPsych, Josh’s established and highly-used tool for behavioral research.