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.
Here's to a great year ahead at SIS!
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External Grants and Fellowships
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Ken Conca and Monzima Haque, “Shared Water Management,” United States Institute for Peace, $22,201
- Michelle Egan (Transatlantic Policy Center), “Jean Monnet Modules,” European Union – Erasmus, ~$36,000
- Dana Fisher, “Developing Research Strategies to Assess the Expanding Work on Climate Adaptation, Resilience, and Mitigation at AmeriCorps,” AmeriCorps, $278,000
- Dana Fisher (Center for Environment, Community, and Equity), “Climate in our Nation’s Service,” Hewlett Foundation, $50,000
- Garrett Graddy-Lovelace, “Palestinian Landscapes & Liberatory Ecologies: Cultivating transnational communities of practice,” Antipode Foundation – Right to the Discipline Fund, ~$13,000
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Trey Herr (Center for Security, Innovation, and New Technology), “Measuring Cyber Espionage,” Atlantic Council, $98,000
- Sara Nawaz (Institute for Responsible Carbon Removal), “Re-assessing Expert Views on Soil Carbon,” Environmental Defense Fund, $50,000
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Simon Nicholson (Institute for Responsible Carbon Removal), “Building a Carbon Removal Decision-Support Toolkit With and For Tribal Nations,” National Science Foundation – supplement to Accelerating Research Translation initiative, $299,906
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Malini Ranganathan, “A Critical Legal Geography of Caste, Land, and the Commons in Bengaluru,” American Institute for Indian Studies via the U.S. State Department's Council of American Overseas Research Centers (CAORC).
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External Awards and Recognition
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SIS/AU Intramural Funding and Awards
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- SIS Faculty Exceptional Research Awards
- Amitav Acharya
- Tamar Gutner
- Judith Shapiro
- Joseph Torigian
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Jordan Tama (ed.), Polarization and US Foreign Policy: When Politics Crosses the Water’s Edge, Palgrave Macmillan, 2024.
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Sumitra Badrinathan, "Misinformation and Support for Vigilantism: An Experiment in India and Pakistan," American Political Science Review, August 2024. [link]
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Samantha Bradshaw, "Strategic Storytelling: Russian State-Backed Media Coverage of the Ukraine War," International Journal of Public Opinion Research, July 2024. [link]
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Susanna Campbell, "Weapons of the weak state: How post-conflict states shape international statebuilding," The Review of International Organizations, June 2024. [link]
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Maria De Jesus, "Disrupting the path from depression to loneliness: Multilevel resilience among older sexual minority men with and without HIV," AIDS and Behavior, July 2024. [link]
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Maria De Jesus, "Strategies of survival, livelihood, and resistance in transit: A narrative analysis of the migration trajectory of a Guinean asylum seeker in France," Frontiers in Human Dynamics, July 2024. [link]
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Dana Fisher, "Same old story with a different ending: Homophily and preferential selection of information within the US climate policy network," Plos One, July 2024. [link]
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Jonathan Fox and Jeffrey Hallock, "Open government and US development co-operation in Colombia: Lessons for locally led development," Development Policy Review, July 2024. [link]
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Garrett Graddy-Lovelace, "Agrarianizing climate accords & discord: food, agriculture & agrarian movements at UNFCCC Conference of the Parties," Climate and Development, July 2024. [link]
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Garrett Graddy-Lovelace, "Agroecology beyond the statist quo? Transforming U.S. imperial agricultural policy," Journal of Agriculture, Food Systems, and Community Development, May 2024. [link]
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Jordanna Matlon, "Tapping imaginaries: Guinness, masculinity, and the promise of Africa Rising," International Review of Sociology, July 2024. [link]
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Jordanna Matlon, "Ten Theses of Racial Capitalism," Critical Sociology, August 2024. [link]
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Simon Nicholson, "Toward an evidence-informed, responsible, and inclusive debate on solar geoengineering: A response to the proposed non-use agreement," WIREs Climate Change, May 2024. [link]
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Working and Policy Papers
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Dana Fisher, "Addressing Climate Change Through Our Nation’s Service Corps," Center for Environment, Community & Equity, July 2024. [link]
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Earl Anthony Wayne, "Achieving North America’s Labor Market Potential Requires Workforce Investment" in Unlocking North America's Potential: Human Capital Integration through the USMCA, México ¿cómo vamos? and Baker Institute for Public Policy, August 2024. [link]
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- Daniel Esser, Associate Editorship, Oxford Development Studies.
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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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We have three book launches scheduled for this fall— congratulations to our authors, and stay tuned for more details!
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September 24, 3-5pm, Founders Room [RSVP here]
- Patrick Thaddeus Jackson, Facts and Explanations in International Studies...and beyond
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October 22, 1-2:30pm, Founders Room
- Jeff Bachman, Genocide Studies: Pathways Ahead
- October 30, 4-5:30pm, Founders Room
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Ken Conca, After the Floods: The Search for Resilience in Ellicott City
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