Dear SIS Community,
We are pleased to share with you an update on our faculty's research accomplishments the past few months, including grants and awards as well as a variety of publications.
As always, be sure to keep an eye on our social media pages and website for regular research highlights and updates.
Have a joyful and safe holiday season!
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External Grants and Fellowships
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Anthony Fontes, “Escape from the Criminal State: Mapping the Transnational Governance of Forced Migration from Northern Central America to the United States," Russell Sage Foundation, $75,000.
- Jonathan Fox (Accountability Research Center), "Social Organization Dialogues on Democratic Governance," Ford Foundation, $1,000,000.
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Shadi Mokhtari, “MENA Human Rights Book Manuscript,” Open Society, $10,000.
- Sara Nawaz (Institute for Responsible Carbon Removal), "Piloting a model for community-oriented deliberations on marine carbon dioxide removal (mCDR)," Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, $951,463.
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Simon Nicholson (Institute for Responsible Carbon Removal), “Year 2 of the Climate Justice Fellows Program,” Chan Zuckerberg Initiative, $130,000.
- Malini Ranganathan, 2024 Anthony Leeds Book Award by the Critical Urban Anthropology Association for her book Corruption Plots: Stories, Ethics, and Publics of the Late Capitalist City.
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Nina Yamanis, "Center for AIDS Research at Emory University Adalante Program," National Institute of Health (NIH), $31, 935.
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SIS/AU Intramural Funding and Awards
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- Dean's Research Award
- Malini Ranganathan
- Jesse Ribot
- Douaa Sheet
- SIS Faculty Exceptional Research Awards
- Anthony Fontes
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Nanette Levinson
- Jordan Tama
- Joseph Torigian
- Faculty-Student Collaboration Awards
- Garrett Graddy-Lovelace and Laurel Levin
- Carl LeVan and Nichole Grossman
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Jeff Bachman and Esther Brito Ruiz, A Modern History of Forgotten Genocides and Mass Atrocities, Routledge, 2024. [link]
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Sumitra Badrinathan, "The link between changing news use and trust: longitudinal analysis of 46 countries," Journal of Communication, November 2024. [link]
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Samantha Bradshaw, "Technical infrastructure as a hidden terrain of disinformation," Journal of Cyber Policy, November 2024. [link]
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Claire Brunel, "The Distributional Politics of Inventing: Evidence from Woman's Labor Force Participation in World War II," SSRN, December 2024. [link]
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Ken Conca, "The international (in)security order and the climate-conflict-security nexus," Environment and Security, October 2024. [link]
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Agustina Giraudy, "Digging deeper: Unpacking the subnational political drivers of Chinese extractive investment in Latin America," The Extractive Industries and Society, October 2024. [link]
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Tamar Gutner, "Conceptualizing and evaluating how international organizations collaborate," World Development, October 2024. [link]
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Claudine Kuradusenge-Mcleod, "Democracy by the “Other”: How Ethiopian Diaspora Communities in Virginia Engage in Political Participation," Diaspora, December 2024. [link]
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Sara Nawaz, "Carbon removal for a just transition," Climate Policy, November 2024. [link]
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Judith Shapiro, “China’s Modern Ecological History: Bringing the Politics Back In,” Modern China, November 2024. [link]
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Elizabeth Thompson, "Denying 'The Right to Have Rights': Europe’s Imposition of Mandates in Greater Syria and the Rise of Islamist Movements," Nationalities Papers, September 2024. [link]
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Claudine Kuradusenge-Mcleod, "The 7 Role of the 1972 Genocide in Burundi and Its Ramification in the Great Lake Region," in A Modern History of Forgotten Genocides and Mass Atrocities (Jeff Bachman and Esther Brito Ruiz, eds.), Routledge, 2024. [link]
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Working and Policy Papers
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Akbar Ahmed, "AI, Silicon Valley Ideologies And The Meaning Of Humanity," The Friday Times, November 2024. [link]
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Sumitra Badrinathan, "Indian Americans at the Ballot Box: Results From the 2024 Indian American Attitudes Survey," Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, October 2024. [link]
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Samantha Bradshaw and Monzima Haque, "Strategic Authoritarian Narratives in the Sahel," National Democratic Institute, November 2024. [link]
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Miles Kahler, "Foreign Influence and Democratic Governance: Defining and Countering Malign Influence," Council on Foreign Relations, October 2024. [link]
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Jennifer Poole, "Investment Facilitation for Sustainable Development, T20 Policy Brief, December 2024. [link]
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Yerevan Saeed, "China's Rise in Iraq's Energy Sector: From Newcomer to Dominant Player," The Arab Gulf States Institute in Washington, October 2024. [link]
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Tazreena Sajjad, "Sexual and Gender-based Violence in the Displacement Continuum: The Experiences of Rohingya Women and Girls," University of Oxford's Border Criminologies, December 2024. [link]
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Jordan Tama, "US Opinion Leaders Deeply Divided on Israel-Gaza War," Chicago Council on Global Affairs, November 2024. [link]
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Jordan Tama, "What's Worrying US Foreign Policy Leaders Ahead of the 2024 Election," Chicago Council on Global Affairs, November 2024. [link]
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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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| Jeff Bachman: Genocide Studies: Pathways Ahead (Oct 22)
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Emily Sample (Fund for Peace) and Esther Brito Ruiz joined Jeff in an important discussion about genocide, including its definition and whether that matters, and how genocide has changed in the 21st century.
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| Ken Conca: After the Floods: The Search for Resilience in Ellicott City (Oct 30)
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Based on lived experience and interviews with residents, Ken's book explores how a small town in Maryland responded to two recent events of catastrophic flooding. He catalogs how the community has (and hasn't) built its resilience to climate change and the role of local organizing and politics.
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| Akbar Ahmed: The Flying Man: The Golden Age of Islam & its Contribution to Science (Nov 12)
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Distinguished Professor Akbar Ahmed and an interfaith panel discussed his new book "The Flying Man" and what its themes of cross-religious knowledge and understanding during Andalusia's "golden age" of Islam can teach us about today's world.
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We have two book launches already lined up for next semester, along with two workshops for faculty on open access publications and seeking and securing fellowship opportunities. Stay tuned for more information!
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- January 16, 2:00-3:00pm, SIS 300
- Workshop on seeking applied research funding with Samantha Bradshaw, Jonathan Fox, and Jordan Tama
- February 24, 3-4:30pm, Founders Room
- March 20, 2-3:30pm, Founders Room
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Workshop on seeking and securing fellowship opportunities with Julie Taylor, Director of Academic Relations for Fulbright
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