2020 Recipients
Summer Centennial Center Research Grants:
Nadia Brown, (Purdue University), “#PSSistahScholar Zoom Meet-Up.” (Centennial Fund)
Rebecca Ploof, (The City College of New York), “‘A Fruit of Every Clime’? Rousseau’s Environmental Politics.” (Artinian Fund)
Nadia Brown (Purdue University) and Janelle Wong (University of Maryland), “Assessing Statements About and Addressing Structural Racism in Political Science.” (Centennial Fund)
Eric Gonzalez Juenke, (Michigan State University), “Candidate Characteristics Cooperative Virtual Workshop.”
Jing Li, (University of Delaware), “Chinese Private Entrepreneurs and Economic Policy-making in China:Ways and Avenues.”
Anna Gunderson, (Louisiana State University), “Does Breaking the Brass Ceiling Improve Perceptions of Police?”
Soohyun Cho, (Ohio State University), “Female Protectionism: Women’s Rational Responses to the Gendered Labor Market.”
Daniela Osorio Michel, (Vanderbilt University), “Gender Bias in the Perceptions of Political Leadership.”
Seo Nyeong Jo, (University of Minnesota, Twin Cities), “Gender Matters in the Judiciary: Adjudicating Sexual Assault in Korea.”
Suparna Chaudhry, (Lewis & Clark College), “Gender Violence and Public Attitudes towards Punishment.”
Jeong Hyun Kim, (Louisiana State University), “Heuristic Cues and Leader Evaluations During a Public Health Crisis.”
Lauren Pinson, (University of Pennsylvania), “How Exposure to Gun Violence influences Perspectives on Gun Control.”
Sally Nuamah, (Northwestern University), “How Public Perceptions Shape the Punishment of Black Girls.”
Amanda Edgell, (University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa), “Institutional Adaptation and Women’s Political Engagement in Kenya.”
Andres Gannon, (University of California, San Diego), “Interstate Security Alignments and the Distribution of Military Capabilities.”
Andrew Marshall, (Georgetown University), “Language Policy and the Nation in East Africa.”
Valerie de Koeijer, (Johns Hopkins University), “Local Government and International Influence on Disaster Relief Outcomes.”
Yelena Biberman-Ocakli, (Skidmore College), “Militarization, Education, and Attitudes toward Violence among Youth in Kashmir.”
Andrea Vilan, (Princeton University), “Monitoring Treaty Incorporation.”
Jian Xu, (Emory University), “Multinational Corporations’ Forum Shopping Behavior in Rights Protection.”
Takiyah Harper-Shipman, (Davidson College), “Overcoming Barriers: Transnational Black Womxn Scholars of African Politics Network.”
Abigail Post, (Anderson University), “Principled Positions: Rhetoric and Compromise in Foreign Policy.”
Yu-Hsien Sing, (University of South Carolina), “Prosecutorial policies:district attorneys, public opinion, and localized rule of law.”
Alina Oxendine, (Hamline University), “Race and the Income Gap”
Kiela Crabtree, (University of Michigan, Ann Arbor), “Racially-Targeted Violence and Political Behavior in the United States.”
Juan Prieto Sanabria, (Universidad de los Andes), “Reaching Urban Outsiders in a Pandemic: COVID-19 Aid in Colombia.”
Emma Rosenberg, (University of Notre Dame), “Religious Rhetoric and Right-Wing Populist Parties in Central Europe.”
Zoe Nemerever, (University of California, San Diego), “Rural Representation Gaps in the American States.”
Euiyoung Noh, (Vanderbilt University), “Schooling and Political Engagement: A Natural Experiment in Korea.”
Matthew Simonson, (Northeastern University), “Shoot a Stranger, Save a Neighbor: Social Networks Under Fire.”
Michelle Jurkovich, (University of Massachusetts Boston), “State Food Assistance Policies during COVID-19.”
Natalie Letsa, (University of Oklahoma), “The Autocratic Citizen: Partisanship and Political Behavior under Dictatorship.”
Erica De Bruin, (Hamilton College), “The Causes and Consequences of Militarized Policing.”
Benjamin Marquz, (University of Wisconsin, Madison), “The Professionals: Latinx Organizations in the Age of Grantmaking.”
Karin Kitchens, (Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University), “The Revolution Will Be Routine: Social Legacies of Contraband Camps.”
Ajenai Clemmons, (Duke University), “The Whats, Whys, and Whens Behind Civilian Assessment of Police.”
Laura Jenkins, (University of Cincinnati), “Women in Political Science: An Oral History Project.”
Monica Lineberger, (University of Wisconsin-Whitewater), “Women on Track: Cultivating Networks and Innovating Scholarship.”
Spring Centennial Center Research Grants (previously Small Research Grants):
Isabel Castillo, (Universidad Adolfo Ibáñez (Chile)), “Evangelicals and the Repoliticization of Religion: Chile’s Constitutional Process in Comparative Perspective.”
Craig Lang, (Franklin & Marshall College), “The Impact of Transitional Justice on the Development of the Rule of Law in Post-Conflict States.”
Adam Myers, (Providence College), “Fiscal Federalism and State Taxation Policy in the Mid-Twentieth Century.”
Philip Rocco, (Marquette University), “Counting in a pandemic: how state and local officials shape census-taking during Covid-19.”
Kris-Stella Trump, (University of Memphis), “Lazy Natives” and “Hard Working Immigrants”: Comparing the Impact of Deservingness Cues on Perceptions of Deservingness
Nicholas Micinski, (Boston University), “Migration Management and Democratic Governance in Africa.”
David Buckley, (University of Louisville), “Studying Security Service Responses to Religion in the Philippine Drug War.”
Laila Farooq, (Institute of Business Administration), “Ties that Help or Ties that Restrain; the effect of advocacy network connections on the peasants’ movement outcomes in Okara Pakistan.”
Menevis Cilizoglu, (St. Olaf College), “Examination of Turkish Public Attitudes towards U.S. Sanctions.”
Rebecca Glazier, (University of Arkansas, Little Rock), “Online Teaching in Political Science in the Wake of COVID-19.”
Louise Davidson-Schmich, (University of Miami), “The Alternative for Germany and Gendered Legislative Discourse.”
Edward Kammerer, (Idaho State University), “The Politics of New Pride.”
Laura Huber, (Cornell University), “Beyond `Thoughts and Prayers’: The Gendered Dimensions of Civilian Targeting and Support for Counterterrorism.”
Yesola Kweon, (Utah State University), “We See Symbols, But Not Saviors: Gender Representation and Political Attitudes of Pink-Collar Workers.”
Alena Wolflink, (University of California, Santa Cruz), “Claiming Value: From Aristotle to Black Lives Matter.”
Laura Grattan, (Wellesley College), “Race and Radical Imagination in a Prison Nation.”
Debra Leiter, (University of Missouri-Kansas City), “The Crowding of Social Isolation: How Personal Relationships Shape Compliance with and Attitudes Towards Social Distancing Policies.”
2019 Recipients
Spring Centennial Center Research Grants (previously Small Research Grants):
Eric Arias, (College of William and Mary), “The Fed Curse: How US Monetary Policy Shapes Governance in the Developing World.”
Marco Bochesse, (University of Illinois at Chicago), “Between Progress and Politics: Explaining State Cooperation with International Prosecutions.”
Alexsi Chan, (Hamilton College), “Beyond Coercion: The Political Logic of Inequality in China.”
Kiku Huckle, (Pace University), “Race, Sex, and Gun Rights.”
Xinhui Jiang, (University of Berlin), “State in, Women Out? Gendering the Local Urban Governance of China .”
Ben Kantack, (Georgia Gwinnet College), “Ideological Attacks and Information Search in Primary Elections.”
Amber Knight, (The University of North Carolina at Charlotte), “Disability, Autonomy, and the Politics of Motherhood.”
John McAndrews, (University of Toronto), “Terrorism as Tool of Coercive Federalism: The Case of the Portland Christmas Tree Bomber.”
Catilin McMullin, (University of Montreal), “Co-production and sustainability: How do co-production projects progress over time?”
Indira Palacios-Valladares, (Missouri State University), “Contemporary Student Movements in Argentina, Chile, and Uruguay: Grievances and Mobilization.”
Jack Reilly, (New College of Florida), “Measuring Rurality.”
Suzanne Scoggins, (Clark University), “Constructing State Legitimacy.”
Xiaoye She, (California State University, San Marcos), “One Authoritarian State, Many Welfare Mixes: Politics of Social Policy Reform in Contemporary China.”
Randall Smith, (Franklin College), “Hear, See, and Speak No Evil: Executive Agreements and Legislative Abdication.”
David Tatarczyk, (Albion College), “The Catholic Church as the Guardrail of Democracy in Poland?”
Emeka Thaddues Njoku, (University of Ibadan Nigeria), “Rethinking Victimhood: Counter-Terrorism, Sexual Violence and Peacebuilding efforts of Humanitarian Workers in Northeastern Nigeria.”
Sule Yaylaci, (University of British Columbia), “Terrorism and Elections: Contingency of Voting Choice on Source and Types of Attacks and Respective Threat Perceptions.”
Paula Ganga, (Columbia University) “State and Market Property Rights Redistribution after Conflict: The Case of Karachi following the India‐Pakistan Partition.”
Alma Ostrom and Leah Hopkins Awan Civic Education Fund:
Tanushree Goyal, Nuffield College, University of Oxford), “Proxy women? The consequences of gender and scheduled caste quota policy on candidate supply and electoral participation in India.”
Bernard Tamas, (Valdosta State University) “Does Voter Suppression and Malapportionment Inflate Electoral Bias? A district-level analysis of US House election.”
Edward Artinian Fund for Publishing:
Amber Knight (UNC Charlotte), “Theorizing the Politics of Disability.”
Second Century Fund:
Mara Revkin, (Yale Law School), “Can Community Policing Increase State Legitimacy After Conflict? Evidence from Iraq.”
Heath Brown, (City University of New York), “The Co-Authored Podcast: Disseminating How the Big Collaborations Happened.”
Diane Wong, (New York University) and Danielle Lemi (Michigan State University), “Junior Women of Color Pre-Conference Writing Retreat.”
Michael Aklin, (University of Pittsburgh) and Maxfield Peterson, (University of Pittsburgh), “Democratic Climate Governance: Representatives of Non-State Actors in Climate Negotiations.”
Women and Politics Fund:
Margaret Brower (The University of Chicago), “What the #MeToo Movement can tell us about the politics of intersectionality.”
2018 Recipients
Centennial Center Research Grants (previously Small Research Grants):
December Recipients
Abosede Omowumi Babatunde (University of Ilorin), “Oil Politics, Petro-Conflict and Gender Dynamics in Nigeria’s Niger Delta.”
Christina Bejarano, (University of Kansas), “Deepening Democratic Engagement: Moving Women of Color from Reliable Voters to Candidates for Public Office.”
Evelyne Brie, (University of Pennsylvania), “Politics of Resentment: Explaining Electoral Support for Extreme Political Parties in E. Germany.”
Sebastian Elischer, (University of Florida), “Salafism and Political Order in Sub-Saharan Africa.”
Allison Evans, (University of Nevada, Reno), “Protest and Elite Strategies in Russia’s Company Towns: The Case of Surgut.”
Ashley Fabrizio, (Stanford University), “Contingent Radicalization: Differential Effects of Gov. Repression on Ethnonationalist Political Mobilization.”
Magdalena Krajewska, (Wingate University), “The Politics and History of Identification Documents in the United States.”
Tanu Kumar, (University of California, Berkley), “How social welfare programs can improve governance: evidence from Mumbai, India.”
Milli Lake, (London School of Economics), “Evidence of Atrocity: An Ethics-Based Methodological Toolkit for Political Violence Data.”
Erica MacDonald, (University of Connecticut), “Formally Informal: Sex Work, Sex Workers’ Rights and the State.”
Sara Niedzwieki, (University of California, Santa Cruz), “Immigrants’ Access to Social Protection in Latin America.”
Angela Ocampo, (University of Michigan), “A novel approach and new measure of Latino ethno-racial resentment.”
Miguel Pereira, (Washington University in St. Louis), “The Nature of Elite Beliefs: How Representatives Build their Image of the Electorate.”
Stephen Roblin, (Cornell University), “Race and Moral Concern for Wartime Civilian Harm.”
Leslie Schwindt-Bayer, (Rice University), “Improving Gender Equality in Legislative Studies.”
Fernando Tormos, (University of Missouri), “Strengthening the Pathway for Graduate Studies in Political Science.”
June Recipients
Ahmed Alowfi, (University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign), Nathr.net (Academic Translation Blog)
Antonella Bandiera, (New York University), “A Bonanza for Bad Politicians: Informal Gold Mining and Criminal Candidates in Peru.”
Joshua Basseches, (Northwestern University), “Delegation in Unexpected Places: Why the Most Professionalized State Legislature Handed Over Its Authority to the Other Party’s Agency.”
Estefania Castaneda Perez, (University of California, Los Angeles), “Transborder (In)Securities: Perceptions on Enforcement at the U.S.-Mexico Border.”
Alona Dolinsky, (Johns Hopkins University), “Parties’ Representational Claims and Their Implications for Inter- and Intra-Party Competition.”
Mathilde Emeriau, (Stanford University), “Learning to be Unbiased.”
Adriane Fresh, (Vanderbilt University), “Enfranchisement and Incarceration after the 1965 Voting Rights Act.”
Holly Ann Garnett, (Royal Military College of Canada), “Who Runs Elections? Electoral Management Roles and Responsibilities in Comparative Perspective.”
Mneesha Gellman, (Emerson College), “Cultural Competency, Citizen Formation, and Mobility: Education Policy in California and Mexico.”
Edward Lawson, (University of South Carolina), “Racial Identity and Perceptions of Police Violence.”
Oliver McClellan, (Columbia University), “Legislator Influence on Constituent Beliefs and Behavior.”
Ana Oaxaca, (University of California, Los Angeles), UCLA Immigration Data Lab
Marzia Oceno, “Explaining Heterogeneity in Women’s Support for Female Candidates: Feminists’, Non-Feminists’, and Non-Labelers’ as Political Subgroups.”
Aykut Ozturk, (Syracuse University), “What Does It Take to Develop a Partisan Identity: Exploring Partisanship in Turkey.”
Stephen Silvia, (American University), “Transnational Cooperation in the United Auto Workers’ Efforts to
Organize Workers at Foreign-owned Vehicle Assembly Plants in the Southern United States.”
Eleanor Thornton, “Between Race and Culture: Diaspora, Nativity and Multicultural Exclusion in Trinidad and Mauritius.”