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 Fellowship Grant Awards
The 2024-2025 faculty research funding cycle has concluded. We are now accepting applications for the 2025-2026 cycle of CCU Faculty Fellows.
Eligibility: All permanent Tulane School of Architecture and Built Environment (TuSABE) faculty (tenured, tenure-track, and professors of practice) are eligible to apply for research fellowship funding from CCU.
Description: The intent of this fellowship grant program is to support interdisciplinary research into the built environment’s role in causing, mitigating, and adapting to climate change. Preference will be given to projects that consist of collaborations with non-TuSABE Tulane faculty in other disciplines, as a way to catalyze and support interdisciplinary research in which a permanent TuSABE 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. In their proposals, faculty applicants should identify the interdisciplinary collaborator(s), 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.
Expectations: Individual grant awards are anticipated to range between $5,000 and $10,000 per project. Successful applicants must expend the full distribution of the awarded research funds within 18 months of the award date. Funds may be used for eligible expenses under university and school expense policies, as well as summer salary. Faculty Fellows will be expected to give a short lunchtime presentation during the academic year, and submit a brief summary of activities for documentation of the research at the end of the grant. CCU should be acknowledged as a funder of the research in all publication and dissemination of the work.
Application: To apply, please submit a cover letter, proposed budget, and a short 200-500 word abstract to ccu@tulane.edu by August 29, 2025. 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. We are now accepting applications for the 2025-2026 cycle.
Eligibility: Current undergraduate majors, minors, or graduate students in any of TuSABE’s programs (with graduation date of May 2026 or later).
Description: Undergraduate and graduate students interested in applying for research support should first secure a faculty sponsor for their project. Projects undertaken as part of an independent study or thesis are eligible for funding.
Expectations: Individual grant awards are anticipated to range between $1,000 and $3,000 per project. Successful applicants must expend the full distribution of the awarded research funds by the end of the 2025-26 academic year. Student grantees will be expected to submit a brief summary of activities for documentation of the research at the end of the grant. CCU should be acknowledged as a funder of the research in all publication and dissemination of the work.
Application: 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. Applications will be due mid-fall (TBD) 2025. Proposals will be reviewed and grants will be selected by the leadership team of CCU.
Latin America and Caribbean Research Grants
Eligibility: All permanent Tulane University faculty (tenured, tenure-track and professors of practice from TuSABE and all other Tulane schools) are eligible to apply for research funding associated with Latin American and the Caribbean from CCU. Collaborations with faculty from the School of Architecture and Built Environment are encouraged, but they are not required.
Description: The intent of this grant program is to support interdisciplinary research into the built environment’s role in causing, mitigating, and adapting to climate change, with a focus on Latin American and Caribbean contexts and impacts. Research questions and methods grounded in science, social science, applied science, humanities, and applied practices are welcome. The proposed research should serve as an adjunct to the themes of urbanism and urbanization in the context of climate change mitigation and adaptation. For instance, engineers may be working on nature-based solutions in urban areas and public health scholars may be researching the health impacts of climate change on urban dwellers. 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, and public symposia or lectures are eligible under this award.
Expectations: Individual grant awards are anticipated to range between $5,000 and $10,000 per project. Successful applicants must expend the full distribution of the awarded research funds within 18 months of the award date. Funds may be used for eligible expenses under university and school expense policies, as well as summer salary. Grantees will be expected to give a short lunchtime presentation during the academic year, and submit a brief summary of activities for documentation of the research at the end of the grant. CCU should be acknowledged as a funder of the research in all publication and dissemination of the work.
Application: To apply, please submit a cover letter, proposed budget, and a short 200-500 word abstract to ccu@tulane.edu by August 29, 2025. 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 and Built Environment 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
Dulin, S., Smith, M., Ellinport, B. et al. Quantifying the compounding effects of natural hazard events: a case study on wildfires and floods in California. npj Nat. Hazards 2, 40 (2025). doi: 10.1038/s44304-025-00090-7
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.