Research
The Center on Climate Change and Urbanism (CCU) offers funding for faculty research projects and research undertaken by undergraduate and graduate students.
Faculty Research Grant Awards
The 2024-2025 faculty research funding cycle has concluded. Applications for the 2025-2026 grant awards will be due in November, 2025. Please revisit this page and/or subscribe to the CCU email list to receive announcements for the 2025-2026 grant cycle.
To apply, please submit a cover letter, proposed budget, and a short 200-500 word abstract to ccu@tulane.edu by November 15, 2024. All permanent TuSA faculty (tenured, tenure-track and professors of practice) are eligible to apply for research funding from CCU. Collaborations with non-TuSA faculty are acceptable and encouraged, as long as a permanent TuSA faculty member is the project lead. Research questions and methods grounded in design, science, social science, applied science, humanities, and applied practices in the built environment are welcome. Faculty applicants should identify the research question, scholarly contribution, and anticipated outcomes and outlets for their supported research. Preference is given to projects that are anticipated to support peer review journal article publication. The development and execution of courses, seminars, studios, and public symposia or lectures are eligible under this award. Successful applicants must expend the full distribution of the awarded research funds within 18 months of the award date. Individual grant awards are anticipated to range between $5,000 and $10,000 per project. Funds may be used for eligible expenses under university and school policies, as well as summer salary. Proposals will be reviewed and grants will be selected by the leadership team of CCU.
Student Research Grant Awards
The 2024-2025 student research funding cycle has concluded. Applications for the 2025-2026 grant awards will be due in November, 2025. Please revisit this page and/or subscribe to the CCU email list to receive announcements for the 2025-2026 grant cycle.
Undergraduate and graduate students interested in applying for research support should first secure a faculty sponsor for their project. Eligible applicants are current undergraduate major, minors, or graduate students in any of TuSA's programs. Projects undertaken as part of an independent study or thesis are eligible for funding. Students should submit a cover letter explaining the project and listing the faculty sponsor, proposed budget, and a short 200-500 word abstract to ccu@tulane.edu by November 15, 2024. Proposals will be reviewed and grants will be selected by the leadership team of CCU.
Please check back shortly for more information on funded research projects from the inaugural cohort of Faculty Fellows and Tulane School of Architecture faculty.
The Gulf Coast Climate Futures Project
This program is a design research program, funded by the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine's (NASEM) Gulf Research Program, to prepare the next generation of professionals to identify, visualize, explore, and propose interdisciplinary design-based interventions to critical challenges in the Gulf of Mexico. Please visit the GCCF Project webpage for more information.
Recent Research Publications
Camuti, L. (2024). Another Gulf Is Possible: Desired Futures Beyond Petrocolonialism. Journal of Architectural Education, 78(2), 456–477. doi: 10.1080/10464883.2024.2381432
Keenan, J.M., Mattiuizzi, E., & Council, D. (2024). Bridging Community Investment and Resilience in the Community Reinvestment Act. In What’s Possible: Investing NOW for Prosperous, Sustainable Neighborhoods. New York, NY.: Federal Reserve Bank of New York.
Strelzoff, A., Henslee,A., Stoddard, K., Dozier, H., Abraham, A., Fries, S., Trump, B., Keenan, J.M. & Linkov, I. (2024). Resilient Construction of Critical Infrastructure: Anticipating and Measuring Supply Chain Delays from Global Disruptions. Journal of Infrastructure Systems. doi: 10.1061/JITSE4.ISENG-2347
Keenan, J.M., Trump, B.D., Kytöma, E, Adlakha-Hutcheo, G.,& Linkov, I. (2024). The Role of Science in Resilience Planning for Military-Civilian Domains in the U.S. and NATO. Defence Studies. doi: 10.1080/14702436.2024.2365218
Galaitsi, S., Cox, S.A., Joseph, G., McConney, P., Cashman, A., Springer, C., Keenan, J.M., Cummings, C., Trump, B.D., & Linkov, I. (2023). Balancing climate resilience and adaptation for Caribbean Small Island Developing States (SIDS): Building Institutional Capacity. Integrated Environmental Assessment and Management. doi: 10.1002/ieam.4860
Galaitsi, S.E., Pinigina, E., Keisler, J.M., Pescaroli. G., Keenan, J.M. & Linkov, I. (2023). Business Continuity Management, Operational Resilience, and Organizational Resilience: Commonalities, Distinctions, and Synthesis. International Journal of Disaster Risk Science. doi: 10.1007/s13753-023-00494-x
Marcus, A. (2024). 3D Printed Architectural Facades for Climate Adaptation. Conference Proceedings of the 2024 Earth USA Conference.
Marcus, A., & Rossi-Mastracci, J. (2023). Earthen Tectonics: Digitally Fabricated Form Liners for Modular Rammed Earth Fabrication. In A. Crawford, N. M. Diniz, R. Beckett, J. Vanucchi, & M. Swackhamer (Eds.), Habits of the Anthropocene: Scarcity and Abundance in a Post-Material Economy - Proceedings of the 43rd Annual Conference of the Association for Computer Aided Design in Architecture, ACADIA 2023; Vol. 1 (pp. 160-165). Association for Computer Aided Design in Architecture.
Marcus, A., Kim, J., & Reichert, M. (2023). Lines of Flight: Facade Design for Multispecies Migrations. In M. Akbarzadeh, D. Aviv, H. Jamelle, and R. Stuart-Smith (Eds.), Hybrids and Haecceities. Proceedings of the 42nd Annual Conference of the Association for Computer Aided Design in Architecture (pp. 486-497). Association for Computer Aided Design in Architecture.
Marcus, A., Ikeda, M., & Jones, E. (2024). Floating With: Buoyant Ecologies of Collaboration and Solidarity. In A. Parr Zaretsky & M. Zaretsky (Eds.), Transspecies Design: Design for a Posthumanist World. New York: Routledge. doi: 10.4324/9781003403494-8
Roberts, L. C., Marcus, A., & Falliers, C. (2022). Ecopoesis: Ecological Gatherings Towards Multi-disciplinary Solidarity. In E. Tilley (Ed.), Creative Activism: Research, Pedagogy and Practice. UK: Cambridge Scholars Press.