Dear SIS Community,
We are pleased to share with you an update on our faculty's research accomplishments over recent months, including grants and awards as well as a variety of publications. We also have a number of exciting events still remaining this semester, including two book launches.
As always, be sure to keep an eye on our social media pages and website for regular research highlights and updates.
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
|
|
|
|
| Common Justice: Interpolitical Thought in Western, Indian & Chinese Traditions (Hansong Li) |
Date: December 1
Time: 1:00-2:30pm
Location: SIS Founders Room
RSVP Here
|
|
|
|
| Trigger Words: How Political Language Has Made America Less Inclusive (Omekongo Dibinga) |
Date: December 8
Time: 3:00-4:30pm
Location: SIS Founders Room
RSVP Here
|
|
|
|
Research Cluster and Other Related Events |
|
|
|
- Geopolitical Ecology roundtable
- October 29, 12:00-2:00pm, SIS 300
- Global Economy and Development Cluster Seminar: Jenny Aker (Tufts University), "Capturing Rain at Scale"
- November 9, 11:30am-1:00pm, SIS 300
-
Ethnographies of Empire Cluster Seminar: Gala Rexer (University of Warwick), "Demographic Anxieties: Bodies, Borders, and Reproductive Justice in Palestine/Israel"
- November 9, 2:00-3:30pm, SIS 300
-
Decolonizing Interreligious Encounters in the Age of Genocide (Sponsored by the Ethnographies of Empire cluster, Department of Peace, Human Rights, and Cultural Relations and the Abdul Aziz Said Chair for Peace and Conflict Resolution)
-
November 16, 4:00-6:00pm, Founders Room
- Research Methods Seminar: Sveta Milusheva, World Bank
- December 2, 11:30am-1:00pm, SIS 300
-
Historical International Studies Cluster Book Talk with guest speaker Fabio Capano on Cold War Trieste Nationalism, Diplomacy, and "Italianita" in a Contested Borderland
- December 8, 5:30-7:00pm, Founders Room
- Research Methods Fall Writing Retreat
- December 16 and 17, 9:30am-4:00pm, SIS 300
|
|
|
|
External Grants and Fellowships
|
- Samantha Bradshaw, C-SIPA, US Embassy Manama, $90,000
- Lauren Carruth, Ernesto Castaneda, and Maria De Jesus, "Shifting Policies, Diminished Opportunities: How Legal Uncertainty and Expanded Deportability Affect Recent Immigrants and Asylum Seekers in New York City and Washington, D.C," Russell Sage Foundation Presidential Grant, $75,000
-
Michelle Egan, "Research Network on Trade Politics in North America and Europe," Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council, $78,287
- Dana Fisher, "Employing a Mobile Platform to Measure Civic Health, Community Service, and Community Needs During Extreme Events," AmeriCorps, $1,050,000
-
Judy Gearhart, "Seafood Worker Solutions for Supply Chain Ethics," Packard Foundation, $500,000
- Judy Gearhart, "Strengthening Market and Regulatory Incentives to Protect Migrant Fishers," Humanity United, $200,000
- Trey Herr, "Is War Worth It?" Peaceshares Fund, $100,000
|
External Awards and Recognition
|
-
Sarah Snyder, elected President of the Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations
-
Amy Stambach, New Directions Prize from the American Anthropological Association's General Anthropology Division recognizing work that brings anthropological perspectives to publics beyond the academy
|
|
|
|
-
Vanita Datta, Education and Conflict in Northeast Nigeria: Navigating Learning and Peacebuilding, Bloomsbury Academic, 2026. [link]
-
Matthew Taylor, Evaluating Political Risk: Modes of Thinking and Models of Analysis, Wiley, 2026. [link]
|
-
Akbar Ahmed and Frankie Martin, "The Compassion of Rowan Williams: Lessons for Interfaith Dialogue," Journal of Interreligious Studies, October 2026. [link]
-
Boaz Atzili, "Buffer Zones," Oxford Research Encyclopedia of International Studies, September 2026. [link]
-
Horace Bartilow, "Financialization and the global decline of liberal democracy: The mediating effects of rentier capitalism," The Social Science Journal, September 2026. [link]
-
Agustina Giraudy, "Chinese Investment in Mexico: Trade Wars, Nearshoring and Place-Based Policies," The World Economy, October 2026. [link]
-
C. Randall Henning, "China’s Bureaucratic Fragmentation and the Evolution of the Regime Complex for Sovereign Debt Restructuring," Global Studies Quarterly, October 2026. [link]
-
Trey Herr and Ido Levy, "Explaining Cybercrime as a Rebel Financing Strategy in Myanmar," Civil Wars, September 2026. [link]
-
Claudine Kuradusenge-McLeod, "The White credibility Paradigm and the silencing of Global South scholars," Race, Ethnicity and Education, October 2026. [link]
-
James Mittelman, "“Interrogating Mittelman’s Runaway Capitalism: A Reply,” Globalizations, September 2026. [link]
-
Sara Nawaz, "Expert opinions on soil carbon dioxide removal," Climatic Change, August 2026. [link]
-
Sara Nawaz, "Rethinking ocean alkalinity enhancement," Nature Reviews Earth & Environment, October 2026. [link]
-
Sara Nawaz and Giulia Belotti, "Measuring what matters for carbon removal," Environmental Science & Policy, July 2026. [link]
-
Sara Nawaz and Giulia Belotti, "Reimagining ownership and governance for carbon dioxide removal (CDR): exploring existing alternative models to advance equity and justice," Carbon Management, July 2026. [link]
-
Ernest Ogbozor, “Paying for Protection: Everyday Negotiations with Bandits in Rural Zamfara, Northwest Nigeria," Global Change, Peace & Security, September 2026. [link]
- Jennifer Poole, "An analysis of the new geoeconomic order for Vietnam's women," October 2026.
|
Policy/Working Papers and Reports
|
- Dana Fisher, "Mapping the Ecosystem of Climate Communication in the US and Canada: A Landscape Assessment," Center for Environment, Community & Equity, July 2026. [link]
-
Ido Levy, "The Army of Kurdistan," Middle East Institute, August 2026. [link]
|
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:
|
|
|
|
| Nicholas Micinski, Aiding Autocrats |
Along with his co-author Kelsey Norman, Nick Micinski presented core themes and case studies from his new book, explaining how migration management aid impacts governance and enables repression in African countries. Micinski and Norman were then joined in discussion by SIS Professor Tazreena Sajjad for an engaging Q&A period.
|
|
| |
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.
|
- National Science Foundation (NSF)
-
Environmental Research and Education Foundation
- Open Technology Fund
- Russell Sage Foundation
- Sloan Foundation
- Smith Richardson Foundation
- W.K. Kellogg Foundation
|
|
|
|
| 4400 Massachusetts Avenue NW
Washington, DC 20016
sisresearch@american.edu
|
|
| |
Manage your preferences | Opt Out using TrueRemove™
Got this as a forward? Sign up to receive our future emails.
View this email online.
|
4400 Massachusetts Avenue NW | Washington, DC 20016 US
|
|
|
|
This email was sent to .
To continue receiving our emails, add us to your address book.
|
| |
|
|
