2018 Conference, Seed Grant, and Start-Up Center Awards
We are delighted to announce the recipients of the 2018 Institute for Social and Economic Research and Policy Conference, Seed Grant, and Start-Up Center Awards. The following project proposals demonstrate excellent intellectual merit and the potential to develop new theories, new areas of methodological innovation, and bridge different Substantive domains.
2018 ISERP CONFERENCE AWARDS
2nd Biennial Sustainable Development Research Symposium
Douglas Almond
Professor of Economics and School of International Public Affairs
Two Hegemonic Restructuring Projects in Diachronic Perspective: America's Marshall Plan (1948-1951) and China's Belt & Initiative (2013 -)
Victoria De Gracia
Moore Collegiate Professor of History
Madeleine Zeline
Dean Lung Professor of Chinese Studies; Director Weatherhead East Asian Institute
How International Transnational and Global History Conquered the World, A Conference in Honor of Adam McKeown
Ira I. Katznelson
Professor of Political Science and History
Eugenia Y. Lean
Associate Professor of East Asian Languages and Cultures
Jose C. Moya
Adjunct Senior Researcher in the Institute of Latin American Studies
Policing & Violence: An Interdisciplinary Conference
Shamus Khan
Professor and Chair of Sociology
Ten Years After the Financial Crisis
Sharyn O'Halloran
Professor of SIPA; Senior Vice Dean and Chief Academic Officer in the School of Professional Studies
Thomas Groll
Lecturer in the Discipline of International and Public Affairs
Spring 2018 The Bureau for Research and Economic Analysis of Development (BREAD) Conference
Cristian Pop-Eleches
Associate Professor of International and Public Affairs
Eric Verhoogen
Professor of International and Public Affairs and Economics; Vice Dean for Academic Affairs, SIPA
Shaping the Future of DACA: Bridging Research and Policy
Van Tran
Assistant Professor of Sociology
Yao Lu
Assistant Professor of Sociology
Neeraj Kaushal
Professor of Sociology
Sally Findley
Professor of Population and Family Health & Socio Medical Sciences
The Success of Failure: Perspectives from the Arts, Sciences, Humanities, Education, and Law
Pamela Smith
Seth low Professor of History
Stuart Firestein
Professor of Biological Sciences
Eileen Gillooly
Executive Director, Heyman Center
Jeremy Kessler
Associate Professor of Law
Xiaodong Lin
Professor of Cognitive Studies
Impairment in the Social World
Gil Eyal
Professor of Sociology
Adam Reich
Assistant Professor of Sociology
2018 ISERP SEED GRANT AWARDS
How much of the waste in public procurement in Amazonas, Brazil is because good suppliers don't want to sell to the government? Do people not pay property taxes in Brazil because they think they are unfair? Can big data and machine-learning techniques reduce tax evasion in Jordan?
Michael Best
Assistant Professor, Department of Economics
Francois Gerard
Professor, Department of Economics
Ancestral rice: tracing the development of irrigated riziculture in highland Madagascar
Zoe Crossland
Associate Professor of Anthropology
Does Political Empowerment Improve the Welfare of Urban Migrants? A Field Experiment on Voter Registration
Nikhar Gaikwad
Assistant Professor, Department of Political Science
Understanding the Structure of Retail Financial Markets Using Administrative Data
Tobias Salz
Assistant Professor of Economics
2018 ISERP START-UP CENTER AWARDS
The Center for the Lifecourse Approach to Adolescent Well-Being (CLAWW)
Shamus Khan
Professor and Chair, Department of Sociology
Jennifer S. Hirsch
Professor and Deputy Chair for Doctoral Studies, Department of Sociomedical Studies