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Dear SIS Community,
We are pleased to share with you our final update on faculty research accomplishments for AY 25-26!
We wish you all a wonderful summer. Know that the work of SIS Research doesn’t take a summer pause. Please continue to reach out to discuss research funding opportunities and how best to promote your work, and we will be continuing to reach out to you. In the meantime, be sure to keep an eye on our social media pages and website for 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
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External Grants and Fellowships
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- Michelle Egan and Garret Martin, European Union TANDEM, $100,280
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Dean's Research Awards
- Judith Shapiro, Garrett Graddy-Lovelace, Vicky Kiechel, Hansong Li, Jesse Ribot, and Scott Freeman, “Geopolitical Ecology Research Initiative”
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Carl LeVan, “Exporting autocracy? Assessing the impact of foreign influence in Mozambique, Cameroon, and Ghana"
- Sarah Snyder, “The Shadow of the Late Cold War over Los Angeles’ Olympic Torch”
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Tereza Varejkova, “Moral Suasion in the Field: Leveraging the Language of Promising for Job Search in Egypt”
- SIS Innovative Scholar Award
- Anthony Fontes, “Spectacles of Disappearance: Detention and Disappearance in the Americas"
- SIS Research Catalyst Award
- Susanna Campbell, "The Future of Aid and Conflict Management: Understanding the Aid and Conflict Ecosystem"
- Sarah Snyder, “A Global History of Allied Internment"
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Robin Broad, The Water Defenders: How Ordinary People Saved a Country from Corporate Greed -- A Graphic Adaptation, The Ohio State University Press, 2026. [link]
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Omekongo Dibinga, Lies about Black People: How to Combat Racist Stereotypes and Why It Matters (Paperback), Prometheus, 2026. [link]
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Ken Conca, "Environmental peace building" in Environmental Security: Approaches, Issues and Actors (Rita Floyd and Richard Matthew, eds.) Routledge, 2026. [link]
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Michelle Egan and Garret Martin, "United States: Trade and Security Ties," in Europe in the World (EU-Renew Textbook), European Union, 2026. [link]
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Garret Martin, "France's Ordering Visions: Independence, History, and Countering the Logic of Blocs," in Competing Visions for International Order Challenges for A Shared Direction in an Age of Global Contestation (Ville Sinkkonen, Veera Laine, and Matti Puranen, eds.) Routledge, 2026. [link]
- Simon Nicholson, "The evolution of climate response norms in the IPCC,” Understanding Environmental Norms (Justin Alger and Peter Dauvergne, eds.) Edward Elgar, 2026. [link]
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William Akoto, "Cyber Conflict as Statecraft: Explaining the Persistence of State-Sponsored Cyber Operations," Journal of Global Security Studies, March 2026. [link]
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William Akoto and Trey Herr, "Buried in the ground: finding the cost of cyber economic espionage," Journal of Cyber Policy, April 2026. [link]
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Agustina Giraudy, "Subnational Undemocratic Regimes in the Americas: Argentina, Brazil, Mexico, and the United States in Comparative Perspective," Studies in Comparative International Development, April 2026. [link]
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Ernest Ogbozor, "Operation Lafiya Dole and the paradox of peace by force: rethinking counterinsurgency and human security in Northeast Nigeria," Small Wars & Insurgencies, April 2026. [link]
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Tazreena Sajjad, "Still about race: white supremacy, immigration politics and Trumpism," Race and Class, April 2026. [link]
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Jordan Tama, "Elite Misperceptions in Foreign Policy," British Journal of Political Science, April 2026. [link]
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Jordan Tama, "Mechanisms for Cultivating the Societal Impact of Research," part of "Societal Impact in a Turbulent World: Researcher Competencies and Career Pathways," International Studies Perspectives, March 2026. [link]
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Policy/Working Papers and Reports
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Akbar Ahmed, "Leo Tolstoy: Apostle of Love in a Time of Chaos and Cruelty," The Senator George J. Mitchell Institute for Global Peace, Security and Justice, May 2026. [link]
- Sumitra Badrinathan, "Indian Americans in a Time of Turbulence: 2026 Survey Results," Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, February 2026. [link]
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Hrach Gregorian, "Lighting the Shadows: Understanding Emerging Terror Threats to the U.S. Homeland," Police Chief, 2026. [link]
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Trey Herr, "Fusion on paper or in practice? Making the cloud work for ISR and NATO," Atlantic Council, April 2026. [link]
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Rachel Nadelman and Anushka Bose, "Advancing Accountability in Development Finance: the Sandra Smithey Fellowship," Accountability Research Center, March 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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| SIS Scholar-Teacher of the Year: Tamar Gutner
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Congratulations to Tamar Gutner, this year's SIS Scholar-Teacher of the Year! At an on-campus celebration on April 22, last year's honoree Guy Ziv announced Tammi as the winner of this award, which honors an SIS faculty member for "outstanding and significant scholarly contributions to SIS and their discipline" as well as exceptional teaching. Tammi is on sabbatical this semester in Europe, so she accepted the award virtually.
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| AU Outstanding Scholarship Award: Patrick Jackson
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Stay tuned for all of the book launches, research cluster seminars, and SIS research events to come next academic year!
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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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Hinrich Foundation
- Russell Sage Foundation
- William T. Grant Foundation
- Environmental Research and Education Foundation
- Open Technology Fund
- Sloan Foundation
- Smith Richardson Foundation
- W.K. Kellogg Foundation
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