Faculty Profile

Andrew Nelson

Title
Associate Professor
Department
Anthropology
College
College of Liberal Arts and Social Sciences

    

    

      


                          

            
Curriculum Vitae

            

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Education

            



  

  


  
PhD, University of Virginia, 2013. 
Major: Anthropology
MA, University of Virginia, 2008. 
Major: Anthropology
MA, University of London, School of Oriental and African Studies, 2004. 
Major: Anthropology of Media
BA, Grinnell College, 2000. 
Major: Anthropology





          

        
                

          
Current Scheduled Teaching*


          
ANTH 1150.200, World Cultures Through Film, Summer 2023 


          
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Previous Scheduled Teaching*


            
                    

                    ANTH 5021.100, Anthropological Thought and Praxis II, Spring 2023  SPOT
                    

                    ANTH 5950.109, Applied Thesis, Spring 2023 
                    

                    ANTH 5950.209, Applied Thesis, Spring 2023 
                    

                    ANTH 4760.100, Inequality, Social Justice and the City, Spring 2023 Syllabus SPOT
                    

                    ANTH 4920.109, Internship in Anthropology, Spring 2023 
                    

                    ANTH 5950.109, Applied Thesis, Fall 2022 
                    

                    ANTH 5950.209, Applied Thesis, Fall 2022 
                    

                    ANTH 5950.109, Applied Thesis, Summer 10W 2022 
                    

                    ANTH 5950.209, Applied Thesis, Summer 10W 2022 
                    

                    ANTH 1150.200, World Cultures Through Film, Summer 8W1 2022 Syllabus SPOT
                    

                    ANTH 5021.200, Anthropological Thought and Praxis II, Spring 2022 Syllabus SPOT
                    

                    ANTH 5950.109, Applied Thesis, Spring 2022 
                    

                    ANTH 5950.119, Applied Thesis, Spring 8W2 2022 
                    

                    ANTH 5950.209, Applied Thesis, Spring 2022 
                    

                    ANTH 5760.100, Advanced Studies in Urban Anthropology, Fall 2021  SPOT
                    

                    ANTH 5950.109, Applied Thesis, Fall 2021 
                    

                    ANTH 5950.309, Applied Thesis, Fall 2021 
                    

                    ANTH 5031.100, Ethnographic and Qualitative Methods, Fall 2021  SPOT
                    

                    ANTH 4760.100, Inequality, Social Justice and the City, Fall 2021 Syllabus SPOT
                    

                    ANTH 5900.309, Special Problems, Fall 2021 
                    

                    ANTH 5910.109, Special Problems, Fall 2021 
                    

                    ANTH 5910.209, Special Problems, Fall 2021 
                    

                    ANTH 5910.309, Special Problems, Fall 2021 
                    

                    ANTH 5950.109, Applied Thesis, Summer 5W2 2021 
                    

                    ANTH 1150.200, World Cultures Through Film, Summer 8W1 2021 Syllabus SPOT
                    

                    ANTH 5021.200, Anthropological Thought and Praxis II, Spring 2021 Syllabus SPOT
                    

                    ANTH 5021.300, Anthropological Thought and Praxis II, Spring 2021 Syllabus SPOT
                    

                    ANTH 5950.109, Applied Thesis, Spring 2021 
                    

                    ANTH 5950.209, Applied Thesis, Spring 2021 
                    

                    ANTH 5950.309, Applied Thesis, Spring 2021 
                    

                    ANTH 3700.200, Peoples and Cultures of South Asia, Spring 2021 Syllabus SPOT
                    

                    ANTH 3700.300, Peoples and Cultures of South Asia, Spring 2021  SPOT
                    

                    ANTH 5760.001, Advanced Studies in Urban Anthropology, Fall 2020 Syllabus SPOT
                    

                    ANTH 5950.109, Applied Thesis, Fall 2020 
                    

                    ANTH 5950.209, Applied Thesis, Fall 2020 
                    

                    ANTH 5950.309, Applied Thesis, Fall 2020 
                    

                    ANTH 5031.001, Ethnographic and Qualitative Methods, Fall 2020 Syllabus SPOT
                    

                    ANTH 4760.001, Inequality, Social Justice and the City, Fall 2020 Syllabus SPOT
                    

                    ANTH 5300.200, Migrants and Refugees, Fall 2020 Syllabus SPOT
                    

                    ANTH 5300.300, Migrants and Refugees, Fall 2020 Syllabus SPOT
                    

                    ANTH 5900.309, Special Problems, Fall 2020 
                    

                    ANTH 5950.109, Applied Thesis, Summer 5W2 2020 
                    

                    ANTH 4920.109, Cooperative Education in Anthropology, Summer 8W1 2020 
                    

                    ANTH 1150.200, World Cultures Through Film, Summer 8W1 2020 Syllabus SPOT
                    

                    ANTH 1150.300, World Cultures Through Film, Summer 8W1 2020 Syllabus SPOT
                    

                    ANTH 5021.200, Anthropological Thought and Praxis II, Spring 2020 Syllabus
                    

                    ANTH 5021.300, Anthropological Thought and Praxis II, Spring 2020 Syllabus
                    

                    ANTH 5950.109, Applied Thesis, Spring 2020 
                    

                    ANTH 5950.209, Applied Thesis, Spring 2020 
                    

                    ANTH 3700.200, Peoples and Cultures of South Asia, Spring 2020 Syllabus
                    

                    ANTH 4900.109, Special Problems, Spring 2020 
                    

                    ANTH 5950.709, Applied Thesis, Fall 2019 
                    

                    ANTH 5950.809, Applied Thesis, Fall 2019 
                    

                    ANTH 5031.810, Ethnographic and Qualitative Methods, Fall 2019 Syllabus SPOT
                    

                    ANTH 5031.820, Ethnographic and Qualitative Methods, Fall 2019 Syllabus SPOT
                    

                    ANTH 5900.909, Special Problems, Fall 2019 
                    

                    ANTH 4701.004, Topics in Sociocultural Anthropology, Fall 2019 Syllabus SPOT
                    

                    ANTH 5700.014, Topics in Sociocultural Anthropology, Fall 2019 Syllabus SPOT
                    

                    ANTH 4920.709, Cooperative Education in Anthropology, Summer 5W2 2019 
                    

                    ANTH 4701.037, Topics in Sociocultural Anthropology, Summer 3W1 2019 
                    

                    ANTH 5700.037, Topics in Sociocultural Anthropology, Summer 3W1 2019 
                    

                    ANTH 1150.810, World Cultures Through Film, Summer 8W1 2019 Syllabus SPOT
                    

                    ANTH 5021.001, Anthropological Thought and Praxis II, Spring 2019  SPOT
                    

                    ANTH 5950.709, Applied Thesis, Spring 2019 
                    

                    ANTH 5950.809, Applied Thesis, Spring 2019 
                    

                    ANTH 3700.810, Peoples and Cultures of South Asia, Spring 2019 Syllabus SPOT
                    

                    ANTH 5950.709, Applied Thesis, Fall 2018 
                    

                    ANTH 5950.809, Applied Thesis, Fall 2018 
                    

                    ANTH 5300.810, Migrants and Refugees, Fall 2018  SPOT
                    

                    ANTH 5300.820, Migrants and Refugees, Fall 2018  SPOT
                    

                    ANTH 5900.709, Special Problems, Fall 2018 
                    

                    ANTH 5910.909, Special Problems, Fall 2018 
                    

                    ANTH 4701.004, Topics in Sociocultural Anthropology, Fall 2018 Syllabus SPOT
                    

                    ANTH 5700.014, Topics in Sociocultural Anthropology, Fall 2018  SPOT
                    

                    ANTH 1150.810, World Cultures Through Film, Summer 8W1 2018 Syllabus SPOT
                    

                    ANTH 1150.820, World Cultures Through Film, Summer 8W1 2018 Syllabus SPOT
                    

                    ANTH 5021.001, Anthropological Thought and Praxis II, Spring 2018  SPOT
                    

                    ANTH 5950.809, Applied Thesis, Spring 2018 
                    

                    ANTH 5950.909, Applied Thesis, Spring 2018 
                    

                    ANTH 3700.810, Peoples and Cultures of South Asia, Spring 2018 Syllabus SPOT
                    

                    ANTH 5900.709, Special Problems, Spring 2018 
                    

                    ANTH 5950.709, Applied Thesis, Fall 2017 
                    

                    ANTH 5950.809, Applied Thesis, Fall 2017 
                    

                    ANTH 5031.810, Ethnographic and Qualitative Methods, Fall 2017  SPOT
                    

                    ANTH 5031.820, Ethnographic and Qualitative Methods, Fall 2017  SPOT
                    

                    ANTH 5900.709, Special Problems, Fall 2017 
                    

                    ANTH 5900.809, Special Problems, Fall 2017 
                    

                    ANTH 5900.909, Special Problems, Fall 2017 
                    

                    ANTH 4701.004, Topics in Sociocultural Anthropology, Fall 2017 Syllabus SPOT
                    

                    ANTH 5700.014, Topics in Sociocultural Anthropology, Fall 2017  SPOT
                    

                    ANTH 4011.001, Anthropological Fieldmethods, Spring 2017 Syllabus SPOT
                    

                    ANTH 5021.001, Anthropological Thought and Praxis II, Spring 2017  SPOT
                    

                    ANTH 5950.809, Applied Thesis, Spring 2017 
                    

                    ANTH 4900.709, Special Problems, Spring 2017 
                    

                    ANTH 1150.810, World Cultures Through Film, Spring 2017 Syllabus SPOT
                    

                    ANTH 1150.820, World Cultures Through Film, Spring 2017 Syllabus SPOT
                    

                    ANTH 5950.709, Applied Thesis, Fall 2016 
                    

                    ANTH 5950.809, Applied Thesis, Fall 2016 
                    

                    ANTH 5300.810, Migrants and Refugees, Fall 2016  SPOT
                    

                    ANTH 5300.820, Migrants and Refugees, Fall 2016  SPOT
                    

                    ANTH 4701.004, Topics in Sociocultural Anthropology, Fall 2016 Syllabus SPOT
                    

                    ANTH 5700.014, Topics in Sociocultural Anthropology, Fall 2016  SPOT
                    

                    ANTH 1150.810, World Cultures Through Film, Summer 8W1 2016 Syllabus SPOT
                    

                    ANTH 1150.820, World Cultures Through Film, Summer 8W1 2016 Syllabus SPOT
                    

                    ANTH 4011.001, Anthropological Fieldmethods, Spring 2016 Syllabus SPOT
                    

                    ANTH 5950.709, Applied Thesis, Spring 2016 
                    

                    ANTH 5950.809, Applied Thesis, Spring 2016 
                    

                    ANTH 3700.001, Peoples and Cultures of South Asia, Spring 2016 Syllabus SPOT
                    

                    ANTH 5900.709, Special Problems, Fall 2015 
                    

                    ANTH 5900.809, Special Problems, Fall 2015 
                    

                    ANTH 4701.004, Topics in Sociocultural Anthropology, Fall 2015 Syllabus SPOT
                    

                    ANTH 1150.810, World Cultures Through Film, Fall 2015 Syllabus SPOT
                    

                    ANTH 1150.810, World Cultures Through Film, Summer 8W1 2015 Syllabus SPOT
                    

                    ANTH 4011.001, Anthropological Fieldmethods, Spring 2015 Syllabus
                    

                    ANTH 5950.709, Applied Thesis, Spring 2015 
                    

                    ANTH 2300.002, Culture and Society, Spring 2015 Syllabus
                    

                    ANTH 5300.810, Migrants and Refugees, Spring 2015 
                    

                    ANTH 5300.820, Migrants and Refugees, Spring 2015 
                    

                    ANTH 4900.709, Special Problems, Spring 2015 
                    

                    ANTH 1150.810, World Cultures Through Film, Spring 2015 Syllabus
                    

                    ANTH 2300.001, Culture and Society, Fall 2014 Syllabus
                    

                    ANTH 1010.810, Introduction to Anthropology, Fall 2014 Syllabus
                    

                    ANTH 5900.709, Special Problems, Fall 2014 
                    

                    ANTH 4701.004, Topics in Sociocultural Anthropology, Fall 2014 Syllabus
                    

                    ANTH 1150.810, World Cultures Through Film, Fall 2014 Syllabus
                    

                    ANTH 4701.029, Topics in Sociocultural Anthropology, Summer 5W1 2014 Syllabus
                    

                    ANTH 1150.810, World Cultures Through Film, Summer 8W1 2014 Syllabus
                    

                    ANTH 4011.001, Anthropological Fieldmethods, Spring 2014 Syllabus
                    

                    ANTH 2300.002, Culture and Society, Spring 2014 Syllabus
                    

                    ANTH 1150.810, World Cultures Through Film, Spring 2014 Syllabus
                    

                    ANTH 2300.001, Culture and Society, Fall 2013 Syllabus
                    

                    ANTH 1010.810, Introduction to Anthropology, Fall 2013 Syllabus
                    

                    ANTH 1150.810, World Cultures Through Film, Fall 2013 Syllabus
                    

                    ANTH 1010.810, Introduction to Anthropology, Summer 8W1 2013 Syllabus
                    

                    ANTH 1150.810, World Cultures Through Film, Summer 8W1 2013 Syllabus
                    

                    ANTH 4011.001, Anthropological Fieldmethods, Spring 2013 Syllabus
                    

                    ANTH 2300.002, Culture and Society, Spring 2013 Syllabus
                    

                    ANTH 1010.810, Introduction to Anthropology, Spring 2013 Syllabus
                    

                    ANTH 3700.001, Peoples and Cultures of South Asia, Spring 2013 Syllabus
                    

                    ANTH 2300.001, Culture and Society, Fall 2012 
                    

                    ANTH 2300.810, Culture and Society, Fall 2012 
                    

                    ANTH 1010.002, Introduction to Anthropology, Fall 2012 
                    

                    ANTH 1010.810, Introduction to Anthropology, Fall 2012 

          


          
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  higher education to make available to the public, a syllabus for
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Published Publications



  

  
Published Intellectual Contributions


  
Bibliography
Onta, P., Nelson, A. S., Linder, B., Maharjan, M. R. (2019). Some Recent Articles on Kathmandu: A Short Bibliography.  Kathmandu: Martin Chautari. http://www.martinchautari.org.np/files/bibliography/Some-Recent-Articles-on-Kathmandu_A-Short-Bibliography_CBS-2016-3.pdf
Book
Nelson, A. S., Curran, R.  (2022). Journey Without End: Migration from the Global South through the Americas.  Nashville, Tennessee: Vanderbilt University Press. https://www.vanderbiltuniversitypress.com/9780826504852/journey-without-end/
Nelson, A. S., Rödlach, A., Willems, R.  (2018). The Crux of Refugee Resettlement: Rebuilding Social Networks.  Lanham, Maryland: Lexington Books. https://rowman.com/ISBN/9781498588898/The-Crux-of-Refugee-Resettlement-Rebuilding-Social-Networks
Book Chapter
Nelson, A. S. (2022). Seeking Samaj: Refugee Resettlement Beyond Self-Sufficiency and Dispersal. Loss, Transition and Resilience: Refugee Struggles to Retain Dignity and Self-Sufficiency in the United States. 138-152. Routledge. 
Nelson, A. S. (2021). The Free Trade Zone and the Ethnic Restaurant: South Asian Emergent Space in a Chilean City of Labor Migrants. Emergent Spaces: Change and Innovation in Small Urban Spaces. 85-104. Palgrave Macmillan. 
Nelson, A. S. (2018). 'There Will Never Be a Foreclosure in Our Community': Networks of Dependence in the Secondary Relocation of Nepali-Bhutanese Refugees. The Crux of Refugee Resettlement: Rebuilding Social Networks. 215-235.  Lanham, Maryland: Lexington Books. 
Nelson, A. S. (2018). Between Here and There: The Accidental South Asian Diaspora of Quito, Ecuador. Porous Borders, Invisible Boundaries? Ethnographic Perspectives on the Vicissitudes of Contemporary Migration. 111-116. Society for Urban, National, Transnational and Global Anthropology. http://sunta.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/Porous-Borders-Invisible-Boundaries.Nov_.2018.pdf
Nelson, A. S., Rödlach, A., Willems, R.  (2018). Introduction. The Crux of Refugee Resettlement: Rebuilding Social Networks. xv-xxxiv.  Lanham, Maryland: Lexington Books. 
Nelson, A. S. (2011). “‘No Horn Please’: Sociality and Self-Governance in a Kathmandu Housing Colony.”. Urban Navigations: Politics, Space, and the City in South Asia. 213-238.  New Delhi, India and Abingdon, UK: Routledge. 
Book Review
Nelson, A. S. (2021). Book Review of Ends of Kinship: Connecting Himalayan Lives between Nepal and New York. Other. 80(1), . https://asianethnology.org/articles/2349
Nelson, A. S. (2018). Review of Caste and Kinship in a Modern Hindu Society: The Newar City of Lalitpur, Nepal. Himalaya. 38(1), 216-217. https://digitalcommons.macalester.edu/himalaya/vol38/iss1/31/
Nelson, A. S. (2017). Review of Refugees of Shangri-La. Himalaya. 37(1), 159-161. http://digitalcommons.macalester.edu/himalaya/vol37/iss1/30/
Nelson, A. S. (2016). The Brave New World of Ethnicity in Nepal: A Review of Nationalism and Ethnic Conflict in Nepal: Identities and Moblization after 1990, edited by Mahendra Lawoti and Susan Hangen.. 
Nelson, A. S. (2015). Review of Mediating the Global: Expatria's Forms and Consequences in Kathmandu by Heather Hindman.. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/aman.12314
Journal Article
Nelson, A. S., Stam, K.  (2021). Bhutanese or Nepali? The Politics of Ethnonym Ambiguity. South Asia: Journal of South Asian Studies. 44(4), 772-789. https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/00856401.2021.1951460
Nelson, A. S. (2020). From Romance to Tragedy: House Ownership and Relocation in the Resettlement Narratives of Nepali Bhutanese Refugees. Journal of Refugee Studies. 
Nelson, A. S. (2019). Architectural Tradition and Modernity as Crypto-Colonial Ways of Seeing: a Comparison of Kathmandu's 1934 and 2015 Post-quake Reconstructions. History Compass. 17(8), . https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/hic3.12587
Nelson, A. S. (2018). Dalal Middlemen and Peri-Urbanisation in Nepal. Economic and Political Weekly. 53(12), 61-67. https://www.epw.in/journal/2018/12/special-articles/dalal-middlemen-and-peri-urbanisation-nepal.html
Nelson, A. S. (2017). Betrayed by the Neoliberal State, Neglected by the “Jangali” Company: The Anxiety of Autonomy in an Elite Housing Colony in Kathmandu, Nepal. City & Society. 29(1), 35-58. Wiley-Blackwell. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/ciso.12111
Nelson, A. S. (2017). Prestigious Houses or Provisional Homes? The ghar as a Symbol of Kathmandu Valley Peri-Urbanism. Himalaya. 37(1), 57-71. http://digitalcommons.macalester.edu/himalaya/vol37/iss1/11/
Nelson, A. S. (2015). Land and Ethnicity in a Time of Urbanization: The Case of Plot #7 in Western Kathmandu Valley. Studies in Nepali History and Society. 20(2), 249-277. 
Nelson, A. S. (2012). Khattam Kathmandu: The Question of Place in Samrat Upadhyay’s Fiction. Studies in Nepali History and Society. 17(1), 3-23. 
Nelson, A. S. (2009). From ‘Unmodern Sherpas’ to Madhesi Cricketers: Towards a History of Nepali Sport. The International Journal of the History of Sport. 28(12), 1823-1839. 
Magazine/Trade Publication
Nelson, A. S. (2009). “The Rise of Interior Designing, or Why Kathmandu Architects Hate Vastu Shastra.”. Other. 
Nelson, A. S. (2009). “The New Kathmandu of Housing.”. Other. 
Nelson, A. S. (2009). “Re-thinking the Social Meaning of Nepali Architecture.”. Other. 
Nelson, A. S. (2009). “Anthropology, the City, and Kathmandu.”. Other. 
Newsletter
Nelson, A. S., Nunez-Janes, M. E., Re Cruz, A.  (2020). An Invitation to a Sentipensante Practice through Experiential Learning at the U.S.-Mexico Border. Other. 
Nelson, A. S. (2013). “Teaching Nepal in the American Classroom.”. 1, . South Asia News (University of Virginia's Center for South Asian Studies Newsletter). 
Newspaper
Nelson, A. S., Curran, R.  (2020). She cooks the native dishes of global migrants who stream through Mexico. Dallas Morning News. https://www.dallasnews.com/opinion/commentary/2020/02/23/she-cooks-the-native-dishes-of-the-global-immigrants-who-stream-through-mexico/
Nelson, A. S., Curran, R.  (2020). The Border has shifted 2000 miles to the south. Dallas Morning News. https://www.dallasnews.com/opinion/commentary/2020/02/23/the-border-crisis-continues-only-now-migrants-wait-2000-miles-south/
Nelson, A. S., Curran, R.  (2019). An Arrival, but not an Ending. Dallas Morning News. https://www.pressreader.com/usa/the-dallas-morning-news/20190623/283420603163767
Nelson, A. S., Curran, R.  (2018). 12,000 Miles to America: 3-part commentary. Dallas Morning News. https://www.dallasnews.com/opinion/commentary/2018/11/04/worlds-longest-migration-route-ends-texas
Nelson, A. S. (2015). Classquake: What the Global Media missed in Nepal Earthquake Coverage. The Conversation. http://theconversation.com/classquake-what-the-global-media-missed-in-nepal-earthquake-coverage-41063
Other
Nelson, A. S. (2013). “The Mobility of Permanence: The Process of Relocating to Kathmandu.”. Kathmandu, Nepal: Centre for the Study of Labour and Mobility. 
Research Report
Nelson, A. S. (2021). Doubling Up in College as an Adaptation to Student Housing Insecurity (with students of ANTH 5031). 
Nelson, A. S. (2020). House of Cards: College Student Housing Insecurity during the SARS-CoV-2 Pandemic (with ANTH 5031 students). UNT Dean of Students. 
Nelson, A. S. (2019). A ‘Necessary Evil’ reflective of a ‘Broken Promise’: An Ethnography of Student Debt Discontent (With students of ANTH 5031).  Washington, D.C.: New America. 
Nelson, A. S. (2017). (with ANTH 4011 students) Planning Town-Gown Relations: An Ethnographic Study of Denton’s University Neighborhood District.. City of Denton. 
Nelson, A. S. (2017). (with ANTH 5031 students) Working with Affordable Housing: An Ethnography of Seekers/Recipients of Housing Assistance.  Washington, D.C.: National Housing Conference. 
Nelson, A. S., Morrison, J.  (2016). Dallas National HIV Behavioral Surveillance (HET4) Primary Data Formative Research Report. Texas Department of State Health Services and Texas A&M Public Policy Research Institute. 
Nelson, A. S. (2014). Dallas National HIV Behavioral Surveillance (MSM4) Primary Data Formative Research Report. Texas Department of State Health Services and Texas A&M Public Policy Research Institute. 
Webpage
Nelson, A. S. (2015). ‘We need an even bigger one’: Disasters of Inequality in Post-Quake Kathmandu Valley.. Aftershocked: Reflections on the 2015 Earthquakes in Nepal. Cultural Anthropology 'Hot Spots'. https://culanth.org/fieldsights/729-we-need-an-even-bigger-one-disasters-of-inequality-in-postquake-kathmandu-valley



	
		
		
	  

	

	

  
    
	

	

	  

		

		   
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Grant - Research   
Nelson, A. S., "Scholarly and Creativity Award," Sponsored by College of Liberal Arts and Social Sciences, University of North Texas, $2360 Funded. (January 1, 2020 – August 31, 2020).
Nelson, A. S., "Global Venture Fund," Sponsored by UNT International Affairs, University of North Texas, $5000 Funded. (January 6, 2019 – August 31, 2020).
Nelson, A. S., "CREATE Grant," Sponsored by Office of Faculty Success, University of North Texas, $5000 Funded. (July 1, 2019 – July 31, 2019).
Nelson, A. S., "CLASS Small Grant," University of North Texas, $1000 Funded. (March 2018 – July 2018).
Nelson, A. S., "Conference Support Grant," Sponsored by Office of Faculty Success, University of North Texas, $1000 Funded. (March 2017 – March 2017).
Nelson, A. S., "Junior Faculty Summer Research Grant," University of North Texas, $5000 Funded. (2016 – 2016).
Grant - Teaching   
Nuñez-Janes, M. (Co-Principal), Nelson, A. S. (Co-Principal), Re Cruz, A. (Co-Principal), "Career Connect Experiential Learning Grant," University of North Texas, $2700 Funded. (August 2018 – August 2018).
Nelson, A. S., "Charn Fund," Sponsored by UNT International Affairs, University of North Texas, $900 Funded. (January 10, 2017 – April 8, 2017).



	
		
		
	  

	

	

	
	

  
  
  

  	

		

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