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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. A renewal of the SIS Jean Monnet Center of Excellence.
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Dana Fisher, “Developing Research Strategies to Assess the Expanding Work on Climate Adaptation, Resilience, and Mitigation at AmeriCorps,” Corporation for National and Community Service. An augmentation of an ongoing multi-year project.
- Jennifer Poole, “Can Protection Become Promotion? The Interactive Effects of Labor and Financial Frictions on Women Entrepreneurs,” Inter-American Development Bank.
- Jennifer Poole, “Cross-Border Investment and Digital Technology Adoption: Firm-Level Evidence from Korea,” Asian Development Bank.
- 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.
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Nina Yamanis, “Pilot Project on Digital Literacy and Long-Acting PrEP,” Fordham University.
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External Awards and Recognition
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Mohammed Abu-Nimer, winner of the 2025 Peace Scholar-Educator award from the Peace and Justice Studies Association
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Sumitra Badrinathan, Best Paper Award from the American Political Science Association’s Experimental Research Section for "Countering Misinformation Early: Evidence from a Classroom-Based Field Experiment in India"
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Sumitra Badrinathan, Sage Best Paper Prize (Honorable Mention) from the American Political Science Association’s Comparative Politics Section
- Sarah Snyder, elected Vice President and President-Elect of the Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations
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Sarah Snyder, selected as a 2026 Visiting Professor at the Helsinki Institute for Social Sciences and Humanities
- Joseph Torigian, appointed a Senior Fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations
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Carolyn Gallagher, Building a Green Wall: Irish America's Resurgence Post-Brexit, Bristol University Press, 2025. [link]
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Miles Kahler, "Reconsidering Engagement with China: Authoritarian Power and International Order" in Rethinking the 1990s: Liberal World Order-Building in the Aftermath of the Cold War (G. John Ikenberry and Peter Trubowitz, eds.), Oxford University Press, 2025. [link]
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Robert Kelley, "Outsiders Running Amok: Disruption, Dissent, and Diplomatic Representation in Disruption and Dissent in Public Diplomacy (Anna Popkova, ed.), Palgrave Macmillan, 2025. [link]
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Sumitra Badrinathan, "Countering Misinformation Early: Evidence from a Classroom-Based Field Experiment in India," American Political Science Review, October 2025. [link]
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Dana Fisher and Arman Azedi, "What’s radical? Comparing how climate activists and the general public perceive social movement tactics," Environmental Research, October 2025. [link]
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Walter Flores, "Community-driven strategies for primary health care resilience in response to shocks in Latin America and the Caribbean," The Lancet Regional Health - Americas, September 2025. [link]
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Scott Freeman, "Lessons for Nature-Based Carbon Removal: Learning From the Politics of Environmental Conservation," WIREs Climate Change, September 2025. [link]
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Claudine Kuradusenge-McLeod, "Kwibuka and its Silencing of Trauma: How Reconciliation Initiatives Became Narratives of Violence," Journal of Genocide Research, October 2025. [link]
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Sara Nawaz, "Beyond impact assessment: an iterative model of social assessment for the climate transition," Environmental Research: Energy, July 2025. [link]
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Joshua Rovner, "Sand in the gears: Sabotage in world politics," European Journal of International Security, October 2025. [link]
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Policy/Working Papers and Reports
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Samantha Bradshaw and Kate Munro, "AI Governance and the Geopolitics of Extraction," Centre for International Governance Innovation, October 2025. [link]
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Susanna Campbell, "Controlling the Corridors in Sudan: Humanitarian Aid and Emergency Response Rooms," Research on International Policy Implementation Lab (RIPIL), October 2025. [link]
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Julia Fischer-Mackey, "Ten Dimensions of Network Strengthening: Lessons from Health Rights Advocates in Guatemala, Mexico, and the Philippines," Accountability Research Center, October 2025. [link]
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Agustina Giraudy, "Chinese Investment in Mexico: Trade Wars, Nearshoring, and Place-Based Policies," Tecnológico de Monterrey School of Government and Public Transformation, October 2025. [link]
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Sara Nawaz and Giulia Belotti, "Engaging Coastal Communities on Ocean Alkalinity Enhancement," Institute for Responsible Carbon Removal, April 2025. [link]
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Malini Ranganathan, "The Caste-Climate-Labor Nexus: Migrant Journeys in India," Fourteen Magazine. [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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Amitav Acharya, The Once and Future World Order
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Moderated by three SIS seniors, Amitav Acharya and panelists Ravi Agrawal (Foreign Policy) and Akbar Ahmed (SIS) discussed how the decline of Western dominance in the world order could be an opportunity to build a more inclusive world based on historical examples from multiple non-Western civilizations.
Watch the recording here.
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| Nanette Levinson, Geopolitics at the Internet's Core
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SIS Professor and Co-Director of the Internet Governance Lab Derrick Cogburn moderated a virtual panel discussion with SIS Professors Nanette Levinson and Fiona Alexander, as well as co-authors Laura DeNardis (Georgetown University) and Francesca Musiani (Center for Internet and Society) about internet technology and global governance.
Watch the recording here.
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We have two more book launches this semester and two 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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- November 3, 3-4:30pm, Founders Room
- Akbar Ahmed, America at the Crossroads: Race, Islam, and Leadership
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November 18, 5:30-7pm, Founders Room
- Laura Field, Furious Minds: The Making of the MAGA New Right
- January 28, 5:30-7pm, Founders Room
- Joseph Torigian, The Party's Interests Come First: The Life of Xi Zhongxun, Father of Xi Jinping
- February 9, 12-1:30pm, Founders Room
- James Mittelman, Runaway Capitalism
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- November 12, 2:30-4:00pm, SIS 300 (Ethnographies of Empire Cluster)
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Mary-Collier Wilks (UNC Wilmington), "Reimagining Aid: Foreign Donors, Women’s Health, and New Paths for Development in Cambodia"
- November 13th, 5:30-7:00pm, Butler Board Room (Historical International Studies Cluster and the History Department)
- Alan McPherson (Temple University), "The Breach: Iran-Contra and the Assault on American Democracy"
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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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Environmental Research & Education Foundation, Research Grants on GHG Emissions: December 1, 2025, 5pm ET
- Carnegie Corporation of New York, Movements of People and Non-State Actors: December 1, 2025, 11:59pm ET
- Spencer Foundation, Education Small Research Grants: December 15, 2025, 1pm ET
- Open Technology Fund, Grants & Fellowships: Rolling
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Smith Richardson Foundation, International Security and Foreign Policy: Rolling
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