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Dear SIS Community,
We are pleased to share with you our final update for 2025 of our faculty's research accomplishments from the past few months, including grants and awards as well as a variety of publications.
As always, be sure to keep an eye on our social media pages and website for regular research highlights and updates.
We wish you a safe and joyful holiday season!
Simon Nicholson, Associate Dean for Research- simon.nicholson@american.edu
Nick O'Connell, Research Development - noconnell@american.edu
Emma Vitale, Research Promotion - vitale@american.edu
Externally Funded Project Implementation Support - sisofo@american.edu
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External Grants and Fellowships
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Michelle Egan, Garret Martin, “Promoting a New Liberal International Order in a Turbulent Age,” European Union, $98,194.
- Dana Fisher, “Developing Research Strategies to Assess the Expanding Work on Climate Adaptation, Resilience, and Mitigation at AmeriCorps,” Corporation for National and Community Service, $1,057,938.
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Jonathan Fox, "Indigenous Community Health Rights Defenders," Margaret A Cargill Philanthropies, $2,300,000.
- Jim Goldgeier, “Center for International Security and Cooperation Visiting Fellowship," Stanford Freeman Spogli Institute, $55,000.
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Jennifer Poole, “Can Protection Become Promotion? The Interactive Effects of Labor and Financial Frictions on Women Entrepreneurs,” Inter-American Development Bank, $20,000.
- Jennifer Poole, “Cross-Border Investment and Digital Technology Adoption: Firm-Level Evidence from Korea,” Asian Development Bank, $25,000.
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Nina Yamanis, “Evaluating the Camino intervention to reduce HIV risk and poor care outcomes among Latin Americans,” National Institutes of Health, National Institute of Mental Health, $608,698.
- Nina Yamanis, “Pilot Project on Digital Literacy and Long-Acting PrEP,” Fordham University, $56,575.
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External Awards and Recognition
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Jim Goldgeier, elected President of the International Studies Association (ISA) for 2027-28. [link]
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Laura Field, Furious Minds: The Making of the MAGA New Right, Princeton University Press, 2025. [link]
- James Mittelman, Runaway Capitalism, Routledge, 2025. [link]
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Stephen Silvia, “Gewerkschaften und Arbeitgeberverbände [Unions and Employers Associations]” in Handbuch Gewerkschaften in Deutschland [Guide to Trade Unions in Germany]. (Wolfgang Schroeder and Samuel Greef, eds.) Wiesbaden: Springer VS Verlag, 2025.
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Akbar Ahmed, "An anthropologist for our times," The UNESCO Courier, November 2025. [link]
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Arman Azedi, "Selective attention? Human rights organizations and Anti-state naming and shaming, 1995–2018," Social Problems, September 2025. [link]
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Samantha Bradshaw, "Messaging and Mobilization: Investigating the Online Momentum of Canada’s Trucker Convoy through Narrative Frames," Canadian Journal of Communication, December 2025. [link]
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Garrett Graddy-Lovelace, "Rural Root Shock," Antipode, December 2025. [link]
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Taylor McDonald, "Canada's Feminist Foreign Policy Amidst Russia's war in Ukraine: An Ontological Security Approach," International Journal, November 2025. [link]
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Jesse Ribot, "To know is not enough: Adaptation requires means," Science Advances, December 2025. [link]
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Judith Shapiro, "Book Review: Cutting the Mass Line: Water, Politics, and Climate in Southwest China," The Journal of Asian Studies, August 2025. [link]
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Guy Ziv, "The War Within: Gaza, Netanyahu and Israel’s Security Services," Survival, November 2025. [link]
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Policy/Working Papers and Reports
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Akbar Ahmed, "Gurudev Tagore: The Bard of Bengal," The Senator George J. Mitchell Institute for Global Peace, Security and Justice, November 2025. [link]
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Susanna Campbell and Pauline Zerla, "The University as Public Good Provider: What political science can learn from other disciplines," Research on International Policy Implementation Lab (RIPIL), October 2025. [link]
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Benjamin Jensen, "Chinese Coercion of Taiwan’s Energy Lifelines: A Contest Taiwan and the West Can’t Afford to Lose," Foundation for Defense of Democracies, November 2025. [link]
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Derrick Cogburn, Conventions on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD) Disability Data Dashboard: the first comprehensive interactive platform tracking CRPD implementation across 143 countries through five document types spanning the complete UN reporting cycle from 2010–2025 — mapping how nations translate disability rights into policy, practice, and progress. [link]
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Agustina Giraudy, Subnational Politics Project: a new initiative dedicated to the systematic study of subnational politics in Latin America through providing consistent, high-quality, and easily visualized data to enable both detailed within-country analysis and robust cross-national comparisons of subnational political dynamics. [link]
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We encourage you to visit us on Twitter/X at @research_sis, LinkedIn, and Bluesky to see more about what our faculty have been up to. To name just a few, in the past few months our faculty were busy writing and talking about:
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Akbar Ahmed, America at the Crossroads
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Akbar Ahmed and panelists John Milewski, Tehmina Khan, Frankie Martin, and AU Trustee Dr. Mehdi Heravi discussed what it means to be American today amid racial reckoning and political polarization, and his book's overall themes of peace and bridge building.
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Laura Field, Furious Minds
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SIS Professor Patrick Thaddeus Jackson moderated a discussion with author Laura Field and panelists Samuel Kimbriel (Aspen Institute), Osita Nwanevu (The New Republic), and author Sarah Posner about the rise of the New Right, the network of academics, public intellectuals, and influencers who provide ideological fuel to Trumpism.
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We have two book launches already scheduled for early next year, as well as several upcoming research cluster events. Register at the links below, and feel free to reach out to sisresearch@american.edu with any questions or inquiries on launching your next book or joining a research cluster!
Book Launches:
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- December 17 and 18, 9:30am-4:00pm, SIS 300
- Research Methods Cluster Writing Retreat
- January 14, 12:00-1:30pm, SIS 300
- February 4, 12:00-1:30pm, SIS 300
- Research Methods Cluster discussion with Jordan Matsudaira (AU SPA)
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A Sampling of Upcoming Funding Opportunities |
Nick O’Connell is working to identify relevant funding opportunities and connecting them to particular faculty and projects. Here are a few upcoming opportunities of more general interest. Please be in touch with Nick (noconnell@american.edu) if you’d like to learn more.
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Russel Sage Foundation, Social, Political, and Economic Inequality: March 11, 2026
- Russel Sage Foundation, Future of Work: March 11, 2026
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Environmental Research and Education Foundation, Research Grants: Rolling
- W.K. Kellogg Foundation, Racial Equity: Rolling
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Open Technology Fund, Grants & Fellowships: Rolling
- Smith Richardson Foundation, International Security and Foreign Policy: Rolling
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