Dear SIS Community,
We are pleased to share with you our first update on faculty research accomplishments of 2024! This includes grants and awards, a variety of publications, and book launch reports from December through early March.
It has been a productive start to the semester for our faculty and office, and we look forward to finishing the 2023-2024 term strong! In the meantime, be sure to keep an eye on our social media pages and website for more updates.
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External Grants, Fellowships, and Awards
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Mohammed Abu-Nimer, Niwano Peace Prize in recognition of his lifelong commitment to peace and interfaith dialogue
- Samantha Bradshaw, “Information Manipulation and Authoritarian Narratives,” National Democratic Institute, $6,000
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Dana Fisher, “Saving Ourselves: From Climate Shocks to Climate Action” Travel Grant, MacArthur Foundation, $10,000
- Dana Fisher, CECE Environmental Justice Fellowship Grant, American Institute for Research (AIR), $149,000+
- Dana Fisher, “Addressing Climate Change in Service of our Nation,” USDA/US Forest Service, $82,000+
- Ji-Young Lee, "The Great Power Next Door," East-West Center POSCO Visiting Fellowship in Honolulu, Hawaii (March 2024 to February 2025)
- Johanna Mendelson Forman, “Conflict Cuisine in Times of Crisis,” Mann-Paller Foundation, $146,000
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Sarah Snyder, “Unofficial Diplomats: How American Expatriates Have Shaped U.S. Foreign Relations,” National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship, $60,000
- Nina Yamanis, “Adelante” Project Grant, Emory University (NIH), $16,000+
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SIS/AU Intramural Funding
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SIS Faculty Exceptional Research Awards
- Sumitra Badrinathan
- Maria De Jesus
- Jordanna Matlon
- Angela Pashayan
- Sarah Snyder
- Michael Stanaitis
- Jordan Tama
- Yang Zhang
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Van Kirk Fund (Book Promotion)
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Dana Fisher, Saving Ourselves: From Climate Shocks to Climate Action, Columbia University Press, 2024. [link]
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Judith Shapiro, China's Environmental Challenges (Third Edition), Polity, 2024. [link]
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Angela Pashayan, Development in Africa's Informal Settlements: Below the Proletariat, Vernon Press, 2024. [link]
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Guy Ziv, Netanyahu vs. The Generals: The Battle for Israel's Future, Cambridge University Press, 2024. [link]
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William Akoto, "Who spies on whom? Unravelling the puzzle of state-sponsored cyber economic espionage," Journal of Peace Research, February 2024. [link]
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Samantha Bradshaw, "An investigation of social media labeling decisions preceding the 2020 U.S. election," Plos One, November 2023. [link]
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Lauren Carruth, "The Multispecies Sociality of Digestion and the Microbiopolitics of the Belly Among Somalis in Ethiopia," Medical Anthropology, January 2024. [link]
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Derrick Cogburn, "Towards an understanding of global ‘private ordering’ in ICANN: text mining 23 years of Uniform Domain-Name Dispute-Resolution Policy (UDRP) Decisions," Journal of Cyber Policy, December 2023. [link]
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Maria De Jesus, "Mobility paradoxes: disruptors, benefits, and agency among mobile female sex workers living with HIV in the Dominican Republic and Tanzania," BMC Global and Public Health, January 2024. [link]
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Julia Fischer-Mackey, "What Do Practitioners Want from Research? Exploring Ugandan and American Development Practitioners’ Interest in Research," Journal of Development Studies, December 2023. [link]
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Anthony Fontes, "Taxation and incarceration in Guatemala: Prisons, protection rackets, and citizenship," European Review of Latin American and Caribbean Studies (Special Collection), December 2023. [link]
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Ji-Young Lee, "Japan-Korea Relations: The Year 2023—Major Turning Point and Blossoming Cooperation,” Comparative Connections, January 2024. [link]
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Carl LeVan, "Varieties of Mistrust and American Epistemic Fragility," Political Research Quarterly, January 2024. [link]
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David Morrow, "Prioritizing Non-Carbon Dioxide Removal Mitigation Strategies Could Reduce the Negative Impacts Associated with Large-Scale Reliance on Negative Emissions," Environmental Science & Technology, January 2024. [link]
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Sara Nawaz, "Grappling with a sea change: Tensions in expert imaginaries of marine carbon dioxide removal," Global Environmental Change, March 2024. [link]
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Simon Nicholson, "Solar geoengineering research in the global public interest: A proposal for how to do it," One Earth, December 2023. [link]
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Angela Pashayan, "Political trust in the age of coronavirus: experiences in Mukuru, Nairobi, Kenya," Frontiers in Political Science, March 2024. [link]
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Josh Rovner, "History is Written By the Losers: Strategy and Grand Strategy in the Aftermath of War" Journal of Strategic Studies, February 2024. [link]
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Guy Ziv, "Civil-Military Relations in the Age of Populist Nationalism: The Case of Israel," Political Science Quarterly, Spring 2024. [link]
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Susanna Campbell, "Foreign Policy and Development" in The Oxford Handbook of Foreign Policy Analysis (Juliet Kaarbo and Cameron G. Thies, eds.), Oxford Academic Press, 2024. [link]
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Sarah Snyder, "Brother’s Brother Foundation in Costa Rica: A Case Study in Public-Private Partnerships and Global Health in the American Century,” in Public Health and the American State (Gaetano Di Tommaso, Dario Fazzi, Giles Scott-Smith, eds.), Edinburgh University Press, 2024. [link]
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Working and Policy Papers
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Samantha Bradshaw, "Freedom of Thought, Social Media and the Teen Brain," Center for International Governance Innovation, February 2024. [link]
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Jonathan Fox, "Disentangling Government Responses: How Do We Know When Accountability Work Is Gaining Traction?" Accountability Research Center, January 2024. [link]
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- Carl LeVan, Journal of Modern African Studies, Cambridge University Press.
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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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| Dana Fisher: Saving Ourselves (Jan 17) |
Dana Fisher's book launch featured an engaging and timely discussion with Lund University Professor Kimberly Nicholas and Associated Press science writer Seth Borenstein about how climate shocks can lead to climate action.
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| Angela Pashayan: Development in Africa's Informal Settlements (Feb 1) |
Interviewed by Director of International Programs and Partnerships Christine Gettings, Angela Pashayan discussed her experiences with and development lessons learned from inhabitants of Nairobi's Mukuru slum.
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| Judith Shapiro: China's Environmental Challenges (Feb 27) |
Judy Shapiro included two insightful SIS students, Yuefeng Shi and Annie Robertson, in the discussion of the third edition of her book which emphasizes China's global environmental impact in addition to the domestic elements.
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We have a few more exciting SIS-OR events coming up this semester, including the ISA 2024 Reception and the Scholar-Teacher of the Year Celebration! The SIS research clusters have also had an active semester, with a number of exciting speakers coming to campus.
SIS-OR Events:
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- Guy Ziv, Netanyahu vs. The Generals: The Battle for Israel's Future
- March 26, 11:30am-12:30pm, Kerwin 301
- A Conversation with NSF Program Officers: James Walsh and Lee Walker (Co-Sponsored with SPA)
- April 5, 7:30-8:30pm, Yosemite C Room, Hilton San Francisco Union Square
- “Antoine the Fortunate: One Man at the Crossroads of Empires” Film Premiere (co-sponsored by the HIS cluster and Farsi Chair of Islamic Peace)
- April 23, 4:30-6pm, Founders Room
- Scholar-Teacher of the Year Celebration
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- April 3, 2:30-4 pm, MGC 200: Ilana Feldman (GWU) "Humanitarian Danger and Palestinian Life in Gaza"
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April 17th, 11:30-1pm (MGC 247): Casey McNeill (Fordham) "Mistaking Order for Anarchy: Territory, Mobility and Security in the Sahel"
- Global Economy and Development:
- March 18th, 11:30am-1pm. SIS 300: Omar Garcia-Ponce (GWU) "Criminal Violence and Attitudes Towards Immigrants in Mexico"
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April 1st, 11:30am-1pm, SIS 300: Priyanka Anand (GMU) "Access to Paid Leave: New Evidence from Machine Learning Classification Models"
- April 15th,11:30am-1pm, SIS 300: Nicolas Morales (FRB Richmond) "The Impact of Immigration on Firms and Workers: Insights from the H-1B Lottery"
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April 29th,11:30am-1pm, SIS 300: Fiona Shen-Bayh (UMD) "Idioms of Empire: Political Narratives of Colonialism in the French Parliament, 1881-2005"
- Historical International Studies:
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March 19, 2-3:30pm, SIS 300: Sabri Ates (SMU) “Shaping a Boundary in Four Hundred Years: The Ottoman-Iranian Borderland”
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April 15, 2:30-4:00pm, Library Room 150 (TBC): Victor Cha (Georgetown) & Ramon Pacheco Pardo (King's College London) “Korea: A New History of South and North” moderated by Ji-Young Lee
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