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Dear SIS Community,
Welcome back! We hope everyone had both restful and productive summer breaks.
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 book launches for four of our SIS faculty authors.
Here's to a great year ahead at SIS!
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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Samantha Bradshaw, "Are LLMs Transforming Cyber-Criminal Operations? A Study of LLMs on Dark Web Marketplaces," UK AI Security Institute, $142,802
- Samantha Bradshaw, "Mainstreaming Trust & Safety in Online Gaming within Digital Rights CSOs," Center for Democracy and Technology & NYU, $20,605
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Scott Freeman, "Monitoring changes to land use and value in Northern Haiti through collaborative ethnographic and remote sensing approaches," National Science Foundation, $246,755
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External Awards and Recognition
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Wil Burns, appointed to Editorial Board of Carbon Management
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Wil Burns, appointed to Roster of Experts, Appeals and Grievances, Article 6.4 Mechanism, Paris Agreement (United Nations Climate Change Secretariat)
- Jordan Tama, 2025 Best Annual Conference Discussant Award of the Foreign Policy Section of the American Political Science Association
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Akbar Ahmed, America at the Crossroads: Race, Islam, and Leadership, Beacon Books, 2025. [link]
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Nanette Levinson, Geopolitics at the Internet's Core, Palgrave Macmillian, 2025. [link]
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Shameer Modongal, Women Empowerment: Issues and Challenges, New Century Publications, 2025. [link]
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Joseph Torigian, The Party's Interests Come First: The Life of Xi Zhongxun, Father of Xi Jinping, Stanford University Press, 2025. [link]
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Ernesto Castañeda and Maria De Jesus (eds.),"Special Issue Reprint, Migration and Migration Status: Key Determinants of Health and Well-Being," International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, June 2025. [link]
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Susanna Campbell and Jordan Tama, "Bridging the gap in international relations" in Elgar Handbook of International Relations (Cameron G. Thies, ed.), Edward Elgar Publishing, 2025.
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Patrick Thaddeus Jackson, "Philosophy of science and international studies: a chronicle of a fraught relationship" in Elgar Handbook of International Relations (Cameron G. Thies, ed.), Edward Elgar Publishing, 2025.
- Jesse Ribot, "Access Failure: Deep Explanation of Climate-Related Crises" in The Oxford Handbook of Land Politics, (Saturnino M. Borras and Jennifer C. Franco, eds.), Oxford University Press, 2025.
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- Mohammed Abu-Nimer, "Violence and Organized Crime Among Palestinians in Israel: Searching for a Savior," Religions, June 2025. [link]
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Gregory Aftandilian, "Armenian-American Soldiers as Liberators against Nazism," International Journal of Armenian Genocide Studies, June 2025. [link]
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Jeff Bachman and Esther Brito Ruiz, "From East Timor to Gaza: How the United States Contributes to and Distances Itself from the Atrocities of Others (and How Genocide Studies Lets the United States Get Away with It)", Journal of Genocide Research, September 2025. [link]
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Sumitra Badrinathan, "The Religious Roots of Belief in Misinformation: Experimental Evidence from India," British Journal of Political Science, August 2025. [link]
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Sumitra Badrinathan, "The small effects of short user corrections on misinformation in Brazil, India, and the United Kingdom" Harvard Kennedy School Misinformation Review, July 2025. [link]
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Samantha Bradshaw and Monzima Haque, "True Costs of Misinformation: The Global Spread of Misinformation Laws," International Journal of Communication, 2025. [link]
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Lauren Carruth, “Ecological grief among farmers and pastoralists in Ethiopia and Kenya,” SSM-Mental Health, June 2025. [link]
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Derrick Cogburn, "Uncovering policy priorities for disability inclusion: NLP and LLM approaches to analyzing CRPD state reports," Data and Policy, September 2025. [link]
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Ken Conca, "The many voices of environmental cooperation: A relational analysis of 30 years of environmental peacebuilding over shared waters in Israel, Jordan, and Palestine," Environment and Security, July 2025. [link]
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Doga Eralp, "Agonistic Democracy at Work: Managing Minorities in Bosnia-Herzegovina and Kosovo," Peace Review, July 2025. [link]
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Dana Fisher, "Up and Down With… Polarisation? Intrinsic and Instrumental Polarisation Dynamics in US Climate Policy Debates," Politics and Governance, September 2025. [link]
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Jonathan Fox and Jeffrey Hallock, "USAID's Locally-Led Development Agenda: Open Government and Independent Monitoring," Public Administration and Development, May 2025. [link]
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Claudine Kuradusenge-McLeod, "Erasing Refugees: Displaced Memories of Camps as Killing Fields in the First Congo War," Journal of Genocide Research, June 2025. [link]
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Claudine Kuradusenge-McLeod, "Lessons from the Field: Experts Weigh in on Years of Conducting Fieldwork in Post-Atrocity Zones," Journal of Genocide Research, May 2025. [link]
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James Mittelman, "The decline of research freedom and what to do about it," Global Change, Peace & Security, July 2025. [link]
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Shameer Modongal, "Sociology of Nuclear Research in India," Journal of Polity and Society, May 2025. [link]
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Shadi Mokhtari, "The Reverse Savages, Victims, Saviours metaphor of human rights," Review of International Studies, August 2025. [link]
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Anastassiya Perevezentseva, "Swimming against the populist tide: lessons from Central and Eastern Europe," Frontiers in Political Science, September 2025. [link]
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Malini Ranganathan, "Corruption plots in an age of authoritarian populism," Dialogues in Human Geography, April 2025. [link]
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Rachel Sullivan Robinson, "Assessing a Syndemic of Discrimination, Material Insecurity, Depression, Substance Use, and Violence Among Sexual and Gender Minorities in Nigeria Using Mixed Methods," AIDS and Behavior, August 2025. [link]
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Yang Zhang, "Review essay: Changing China in Sociological Eyes," American Journal of Sociology, July 2025. [link]
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Guy Ziv, “Military Reservists and the Resistance To Netanyahu's Legal Overhaul," Middle East Policy, May 2025. [link]
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Working and Policy Papers
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Akbar Ahmed, "Francis the Saint," The Senator George J. Mitchell Institute for Global Peace, Security and Justice, July 2025. [link]
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Akbar Ahmed, "Goethe – Europe’s Rumi," The Senator George J. Mitchell Institute for Global Peace, Security and Justice, September 2025. [link]
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Dana Fisher, "Mobilizing Young People to Help Communities Recover from Disaster," Center for Environment, Community, and Equity, July 2025. [link]
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Dana Fisher, "Workforce Development and the 4Rs in California and Vermont," Center for Environment, Community, and Equity, July 2025. [link]
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Garret Martin, "Four scenarios for the future of transatlantic relations: European autonomy and the American challenge," Finnish Institute of International Affairs, September 2025. [link]
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Jennifer Poole, "Can labour policy support workers in the new digital economy?" VoxDev, September 2025. [link]
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Yerevan Saeed, "The Kurdish Gas Gambit," New Lines Institute, July 2025. [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 four book launches already scheduled for this semester, as well as a variety of 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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October 8, 11am-12:30pm, Founders Room
- Amitav Acharya, The Once and Future World Order: Why Global Civilization Will Survive the Decline of the West
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October 17, 12-1:30pm, Virtual Zoom Webinar
- Nanette Levinson, Geopolitics at the Internet's Core
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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 (RSVP coming soon):
- Laura Field, Furious Minds: The Making of the MAGA New Right
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- September 30, 11:30am-12:30pm, PHRCR Suite - SIS 235 (Africa Cluster)
- Prof Kwaku Nuamah, “Promises and Pitfalls: Evaluating Trump's Transactional Approach to African Conflict Resolution
- October 20, 3:00-5:00pm, SIS 300 (Historical International Studies Cluster)
- Amsale Alemu (Howard University), “University Subjects: Cold War Architectures of Ethiopian Anti-Imperial Revolt (1954–1977)"
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October 30, 5:30-7:00pm, Founders Room (Historical International Studies Cluster and the Center for Security, Innovation, and New Technology)
- Gretchen Heefner (Northeastern University), “Sand, Snow, and Stardust: How US Military Engineers Conquered Extreme Environments”
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November 12, 2:30-4:00pm, SIS 300 (Ethnographies of Empire Cluster)
- Mary-Collier Wilks (UNC Wilmington), "Reimagining Aid: Foreign Donors, Women’s Health, and New Paths for Development in Cambodia"
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November 13th, 5:30-7:00pm, Butler Board Room (Historical International Studies Cluster and the History Department)
- Alan MacPherson (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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- October 15
- October 29
- December 31
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