Dear SIS Community,
We are pleased to share with you our final update on faculty research accomplishments for AY 23-24! This includes grants, awards, and a variety of publications from the past few months, as well as a recap of our 2023-24 Scholar-Teacher of the Year and our reception at the 2024 ISA conference in early April.
It was a great year for our SIS community and our SIS Research office: we fully integrated our new Grants and Projects Managers into the SIS Departments, held 10 book launches and 2 research colloquiums, released 5 research roundup newsletters and 5 article highlight newsletters, and launched 3 new research initiatives: the Global Kurdish Initiative for Peace, Korea in Global Affairs Initiative, and Gender and Sexuality Research Initiative.
We wish you all a wonderful summer, and we look forward to welcoming our community back in a few months. In the meantime, be sure to keep an eye on our social media pages and website for research highlights and updates.
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External Grants and Fellowships
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- Samantha Bradshaw, Perry World House Fellowship (University of Pennsylvania), 2024-25, $50,000+
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Jonathan Fox, “Support for the Strengthening of the Observatory for Territorial Peace-Building and the Protection of Human Rights in Choco,” Humanity United, $150,000
- Trey Herr, “Tracking Spyware through Export Control Changes,” Atlantic Council, $44,000+
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Malini Ranganathan, American Institute of Indian Studies Senior Fellowship 2024-25, $10,000+
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External Awards and Recognition
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Jordanna Matlon, International Studies Association John Ruggie Annual Best Book Award Winner for her book A Man Among Other Men: The Crisis of Black Masculinity in Racial Capitalism.
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Shadi Mokhtari, International Studies Association Human Rights Section Best Paper Award Honorable Mention for her 2023 conference paper “Human Rights as Mockery of Morality, Manifesting Morality, and Moral Maze."
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SIS/AU Intramural Funding and Awards
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- AU Outstanding Service to the University Community
- SIS 2024 Scholar-Teacher of the Year
- SIS 2024 Research and Teaching Fellows Awards
- Samantha Bradshaw, William Akoto, and Trey Herr: SIS Collaborative Research Award (CRA)
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Anthony Fontes and Claire Brunel: SIS High-Performing Scholar (HPS) Award
- Maria De Jesus and Garrett Graddy-Lovelace: SIS Innovative Teaching Fellow Award
- SIS Gunther Eyck Award: Sarah Cleeland Knight
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SIS William Cromwell Award for Outstanding Teaching: Lou Goodman and Toni Tileva
- SIS Outstanding Teaching in an Adjunct Position: Johanna Mendelson-Forman
- SIS Outstanding Scholarship, Research, Creative Activity, & Other Prof. Contributions: Jordanna Matlon and Guy Ziv
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SIS Outstanding Contributions to Fostering Collaborative Scholarship: Michelle Egan and Simon Nicholson
- SIS Distinguished Service Award: Mike Schroeder
- SIS Darrell Randall Award for Outstanding Service: Tammi Gutner, Vicky Kiechel, and Claudine Kuradusenge-McLeod
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Outstanding Faculty Administrator: Claudia Hofmann
- SIS Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Award: Nina Yamanis
- SIS Outstanding Faculty Mentor: Susan Shepler and Gina Lambright
- Excellence in Research Assistance: Monzima Haque
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Samuel Sharp Memorial Prize, for best paper: Grace Benson
- William C. Olson Award for teaching: Matthew Hartwell
- Mentor Award: Yang Zhang
- SIS Faculty Exceptional Research Awards
- Jeff Bachman
- Patrick Thaddeus Jackson
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Guy Ziv
- Dean's Research Awards Summer 2024
- Anthony Fontes
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Shadi Mokhtari
- Tazreena Sajjad
- Alexandria Wilson-McDonald
- Faculty-Student Travel Awards
- Jonathan Fox and Jeffrey Hallock
- Jeff Bachman and Ester Brito
- Van Kirk Fund Award (SIS Faculty-Student Joint Publication)
- Carl LeVan, Assen Assenov, and Kimberly Tower
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Lauren Carruth, "Key Considerations: Social, Structural and Community Dynamics of Cholera Transmission and Mortality in Ethiopia," Social Science in Humanitarian Action, April 2024. [link]
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Anthony Fontes, “The kidnappers are the police”: Criminal governance and forced migration in Central America," Political Geography, January 2024. [link]
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Garrett Graddy-Lovelace and Malini Ranganathan, "Geopolitical ecology for our times," Political Geography, December 2023. [link]
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Rachel Sullivan Robinson, "The Missing Millions: Uncovering the Burden of Covid-19 Cases and Deaths in the African Region," Population and Development Review, March 2024. [link]
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Nina Yamanis, "‘You are looked upon as a luxury tool’: Young Tanzanian women’s perception of community norms supporting partner violence during transactional sex (kudanga)," Culture, Health & Sexuality, April 2024. [link]
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Lauren Carruth, "Humanitarian Nomads: The Mobilities and Disjunctures Inherent to Aid Work in the Global South" in African Perspectives on South–South Migration (Meron Zeleke and Lahra Smith, eds.), Routledge Studies on African and Black Diaspora, 2024. [link]
- Dana Fisher, "AnthroShift" in Elgar Encyclopedia of Environmental Sociology (Christine Overdevest, ed.), Elgar Online, 2024. [link]
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Working and Policy Papers
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Mohammed Abu-Nimer, "Delinking Religious Prophecies of Destruction from the War on Gaza," American Political Science Association MENA Politics Newsletter, April 2024. [link]
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Earl Anthony Wayne, "Strengthening USMCA and North America’s economic cooperation," Brookings, March 2024. [link]
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Angela Pashayan, "Informal settlements and climate change in the ‘last mile of urbanization’," Brookings Foresight Africa 2024, February 2024. [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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Scholar-Teacher of the Year |
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Congratulations, Rachel Sullivan Robinson!
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Rachel Sullivan Robinson was named the 2023-24 Scholar-Teacher of the Year at our celebration on April 23rd. In addition to being a dedicated teacher and mentor, Rachel conducts important and impactful research on global health interventions in sub-Saharan Africa.
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April 5th in San Francisco
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The SIS reception at the 2024 ISA conference was held on Friday, April 5th at the Hilton hotel in San Francisco's Union Square. 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.
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We have three book launches already scheduled for this fall— congratulations to our authors, and stay tuned for more details!
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- September 24, 3-5pm, Founders Room
- Patrick Thaddeus Johnson, Facts and Explanations in International Studies...and beyond
- October 22, 1-2:30pm, Founders Room
- Jeff Bachman, Genocide Studies: Pathways Ahead
- October 30, 4-5:30pm, Founders Room
- Ken Conca, After the Floods: The Search for Resilience in Ellicott City
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