Dear SIS Community,
We are pleased to share with you an update on our faculty's research accomplishments the past few months including grants, awards, publications, and highlights from the ISA conference in Chicago earlier this month.
We are also excited to welcome Nick O’Connell to SIS and to SIS Research! Nick has joined us as Associate Director for Research Development and Pre-Award. Nick looks forward to meeting and collaborating with faculty and leveraging his business development expertise to expand the School’s extramural funding, and faculty can reach Nick at noconnell@american.edu to discuss concept note development or an upcoming planned submission.
As always, be sure to keep an eye on our social media pages and website for regular research highlights and updates.
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External Grants, Fellowships, and Awards
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Sumitra Badrinathan, 2025 Rajni Kothari Award for best paper on South Asian Politics for "Misinformation and support for vigilantism: An experiment in India and Pakistan."
- Dana Fisher, "Workforce Development Around Disaster Response, Recovery, and Resilience," AmeriCorps Continued Funding, $397,857
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Judith Gearhart, “Learning Exchanges on Worker-led Solutions in the Seafood Industry,” Multiplier, $159,847
- Trey Herr (Center for Security, Innovation, and New Technology), “Communicating & Consolidating on the Costs of Cyber Espionage”, Microsoft Operations, $100,000
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Trey Herr (Center for Security, Innovation, and New Technology), “Buying Security: Analyzing the Relationship between Funding and Securing Practices in Open-Source Software Projects”, Sovereign Tech Agency, $77,938
- Rachel Nadelman (Accountability Research Center), 12 month grant period extension, Mott Foundation, $75,000
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Sarah Snyder, Franklin Research Grant from the American Philosophical Society to help with expenses for her upcoming book "Unofficial Diplomats: How Overseas Americans Have Shaped U.S. Foreign Relations"
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SIS/AU Intramural Funding and Awards
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- SIS Faculty Exceptional Research Awards
- Samantha Bradshaw
- Lauren Carruth
- Carl LeVan
- Claudine Kuradusenge-McLeod
- Joseph Torigian
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Tamar Gutner, The Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank: China's Multilateral Experiment, Oxford University Press, 2025. [link]
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Joshua Rovner, Strategy and Grand Strategy, Routledge, 2025. [link]
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Jeff Bachman, "Bench Stacking and Biases: The ICJ’s Partial Decision in Yugoslavia v. NATO Members," Comparative Perspective in Genocide Studies and Prevention, December 2024. [link]
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Claire Brunel, "Out of the Frying Pan: Weather shocks and internal migration in Brazil," World Development, December 2024. [link]
- Garrett Graddy-Lovelace, "Agrarianizing climate accords & discord: food, agriculture & agrarian movements at UNFCCC Conference of the Parties," Special Issue of Climate & Development on Collaborative event ethnography of the UNFCCC process, January 2025. [link]
- Carl LeVan, "A Cross-National Analysis of Trust and Support for Pandemic Response Measures," Political Science Quarterly, February 2025. [link]
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Ernest Ogbozor, "Counterinsurgency airstrike mishap, intelligence failure and civilian harm in northern Nigeria – 2014 to 2024," Journal of Policing, Intelligence and Counter Terrorism, January 2025. [link]
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Stephen Silvia, “The UAW’s Southern Gamble: The Sequel,” Perspectives on Work, 2024.
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Doga Eralp, "Agonistic Democracy: The Way Forward to Sustain Functional Coexistence in the Western Balkans?" in Functional Coexistence in Socio-Political Conflict: Enabling Social Change Across Decades (Tatsushi Arai & Margarita Tadevosyan, eds.), Routledge, 2025. [link]
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Louis Goodman, "Migration and North American Integration" in International Migration Governance and Public Goods (Diego Caballero-Vélez and James C. Roberts, eds.), Palgrave MacMillan, 2025. [link]
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Angela Pashayan, "Kenya" in A Casebook for Comparative Politics: An Open and Collaborative Educational Resource (Mark L. Johnson, ed.), 2025. [link]
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Working and Policy Papers
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Akbar Ahmed, "From Brydon to Biden: Trump Should Seek a Reset in Afghanistan," Wilson Center, January 2025. [link]
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Sumitra Badrinathan, "Foreign Policy Attitudes of Indian Americans: 2024 Survey Results," Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, March 2025. [link]
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Claudia Hofmann, "Spyware and Cyberattacks: The Growing Threat of Non-State Actors” (German), German Council on Foreign Relations, December 2024. [link]
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Yerevan Saeed, "BP's Return to Kirkuk," The Arab Gulf States Institute in Washington, February 2025. [link]
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Jordan Tama, "Congress Can Check the President on Foreign Policy—Even Under Trump," Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, January 2025. [link]
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We encourage you to visit us on Twitter/X at @research_sis 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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The SIS reception at the 2025 ISA conference was held on Monday, March 3rd at the Hilton Chicago. We loved welcoming SIS faculty, staff, PhD students, alumni, and friends to a celebration of our community. We also showcased our faculty's research accomplishments from the past year in a slideshow that ran throughout the event. You can read more about faculty and PhD student research that was highlighted during the ISA conference in our recap here.
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We have one final book launch for this academic year coming up next Monday, as well as our annual SIS Scholar-Teacher of the Year Celebration in April. Stay tuned for more information!
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- March 31, 2-3:30pm, Founders Room
- April 23, 4-5:40pm, Founders Room
- SIS Scholar-Teacher of the Year Celebration
- Date TBD:
- Dean's Research Award Research Highlights
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