Dear SIS Community,
Welcome back to campus! We hope everyone had both restful and productive summer months.
We are pleased to share with you an update on our faculty's research accomplishments over the summer months, including grants and awards as well as a variety of publications. We also have a number of exciting events this semester, including the first book launch of the year on September 16 for Nicholas Micinski's new book Aiding Autocrats.
We are looking forward to working with you and supporting your research endeavors this academic year.
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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- Susanna Campbell, IMPACT Journal, Arnold Ventures, $50,000
- Jonathan Fox, "From Monitoring to Advocacy," Humanity United, $150,000
- Rachel Nadelman, “Collaboration in Practice: Civil Society, Private Sector Development, and Development Outcomes," IDB Invest, $7,000
- Rachel Nadelman, "Toward a Renewed IDB Civil Society Engagement Strategy Supplement," Inter-American Development Bank, $70,000
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Natalia Piland, "Energy Systems Infrastructure: A place-based case study," New York State Research and Development Authority, $199,441
- Joseph Torigian, "Nuclear China - 1969", Smith Richardson Foundation, $168,058
- Nina Yamanis, "Formative Research for a National Community Health Worker Program to Support HIV Prevention Services in Tanzania," Fulbright, $92,330
- Mark Bertolone, “Taiwan Intensive Language Program.” American Councils for International Education, $4,000
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Mariam Durrani, AU Humanities Truck Fellowship, $10,000
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External Awards and Recognition
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Akbar Ahmed, National Pluralism Award recognizing bridge builders around America, Center for Pluralism
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Nicholas Micinski, Aiding Autocrats: Migration Management, Governance, and Repression in Africa, Cambridge University Press, 2026. [link]
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Shameer Modongal (ed.), Reimagining Democracy in West Asia: Voices, Movements, and Moral Claims, Nova Publishers, 2026. [link]
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Paul Williams (ed.), Building Durable Peace, Edward Elgar, 2026. [link]
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Anthony Fontes, "Gangster, Brother, Prisoner, Son: Chepas and the Mara Salvatrucha in Guatemala" in Gang Lives: Global Portraits from the Streets and Beyond (Dennis Rodgers, ed.), Bloomsbury, 2026. [link]
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Jordan Tama, "The use of sanctions in U.S. foreign policy" in Research Handbook on American Foreign and Security Policy (David Skidmore, ed.). Edward Elgar, 2026. [link]
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Amitav Acharya, "To Create a New World Order, Look to History," Current History, July 2026. [link]
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William Akoto, Samantha Bradshaw, and Trey Herr, "Do data localization policies really improve cybersecurity outcomes?," Journal of Cybersecurity, August 2026. [link]
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Arman Azedi and Dana Fisher, "Surveying a Crowd: A Field Experiment Comparing Data Collection Techniques at Protest Events," Sociological Methodology, June 2026. [link]
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Sumitra Badrinathan, "Home and Away: Explaining the Paradoxical Political Attitudes of Indian Americans," Political Behavior, June 2026. [link]
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Lauren Carruth, "Diets, politics, and camel economies: a qualitative One Health study of zoonotic disease risk in pastoralist regions of eastern Ethiopia," Social Science & Medicine, August 2026. [link]
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Michelle Egan, "Single markets, federalism and governance in the US and EU," Comparative European Politics, July 2026. [link]
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Jonathan Fox and Abrehet Gebremedhin, "Learning from action research" in Development in Practice, July 2026. [link]
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Agustina Giraudy, "Pathways of Subnational Undemocratic Regime Erosion: Varieties of Federalism in the Americas," Publius, June 2026. [link]
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Garret Graddy-Lovelace and Malini Ranganathan, "Food as necropolitics: The starvation of Palestinian sovereignty and stakes of geopolitical ecology," Political Geography, September 2026. [link]
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Claudine Kuradusenge-McLeod, "“Sorry, I Don’t Understand:” When Assimilation Means Death Of A Language," Nationalism and Ethnic Politics, August 2026. [link]
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Shameer Modongal, "Beyond widening and deepening?: BRICS security narrative revisionism and its limits," Global Change, Peace & Security, August 2026. [link]
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Jordan Tama, "The Domestic and International Sources of Legislative Action on Economic Sanctions," Foreign Policy Analysis, July 2026. [link]
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Jordan Tama, "How Polarization Weakens the Foreign Policy of Democracies," Political Science Quarterly, August 2026. [link]
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Policy/Working Papers and Reports
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Amitav Acharya and Louis Goodman, "The International Cooperation Agreements Database (ICAD): A Methodological Note," Institut Barcelona d'Estudis Internacionals (IBEI), 2026. [link]
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Boaz Atzili, "The Fog of the Future: Scenarios for the U.S. Role in the Israel-Palestine Conflict,” Palestine-Israel Journal of Politics, August 2026. [link]
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Miles Kahler, "Global Governance in the Twenty-First Century: Sustain, Reform, Transform. Carnegie Endowment for International Peace," Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, June 2026. [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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We have two book launches already scheduled for this semester, as well as a variety of internal workshops and 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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SIS Research and Research-Related University Events:
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- Research Bootcamp: September 22, 1:00 - 2:00pm, SIS 300 (Calendar invite coming soon)
- SIS Research is excited to host a Research Bootcamp to provide practical support around different stages of the research process and highlight the ways our team can partner with you across the research lifecycle: developing ideas, securing funding, managing awards, and promoting your work.
- Internal Awards Learning Session: October 1 (Time TBA)
- Come hear from SIS colleagues who have received an internally funded research award to learn about their research projects and tips for applying for an award of your own.
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Action Research for Accountable Governance: October 22, 3:00-6:00pm, Founders Room
- A panel event and reception celebrating 10 years of the Accountability Research Center (ARC)
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Tracing the Impact of 9/11 Forever Wars: From 2001 to the Present (Ethnographies of Empire Cluster)
- September 11, 4:00-6:00pm, Founders Room
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Book Talk with Eladio Bobadilla on Dangerous Migration: Mexican Labor and the Fight for Immigrant Rights (Historical International Studies Cluster)
- October 2, 11:30-1:00pm, Founders Room
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Book Talk with Julide Etem on Film Diplomacy: A Media History of Turkey-US Relations (Ethnographies of Empire Cluster)
- Research Methods Seminar
- October 7, 11:30-1pm, SIS 349
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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!
Additionally, the AU Office of Research has launched a centralized funding database, updated daily with new grants, where you can search by keyword to find what fits, or set up a Pivot profile to save searches and get notifications about new and ongoing grants in your field.
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- National Science Foundation (NSF)
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Environmental Research and Education Foundation
- Open Technology Fund
- Russell Sage Foundation
- Sloan Foundation
- Smith Richardson Foundation
- Wilson Center Research Fellowships (2027-2028)
- W.K. Kellogg Foundation
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