Each spring, the Dean’s Office invites applications from Maxwell faculty for summer funding for the graduate assistant of their choice to support preliminary research for and/or preparation of a proposal for external project funding. Successful faculty applicants are expected to submit a related proposal to an external funder and must provide a written report within one year of the issuance of the award.
Active Funding Opportunities
2022
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Upcoming Funding Opportunities
2023
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Closed Funding Opportunities
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2020
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Grants
2020
Kristy Buzard, Economics | GA: Jorge Valdebenito
Lobbying and legislative uncertainty
Peng Gao, Geography | GA: Atef Amriche
Obtaining morphological changes of braided rivers in the Qinghai-Tibet plateau using UAV, multispectral and SAR remote sensing
Erin Hern, Political Science | GA: Nneka Eke
Lessons in success: How Africa’s high performers achieved positive outcomes under adverse circumstances
Emily Wiemers, Public Administration and International Affairs | GA: Hannah Patnaik
The strength of the family safety net during the coronavirus pandemic
Yingyi Ma, Sociology | GA: Crystal Lee
Chinese students amidst COVID-19: Double binds and difficult choices
Gretchen Purser, Sociology | GA: Madeleine Hamlin
Freedom commons: Entanglements of social and penal policy in housing provisions for the poor
2019
Peng Gao, Geography | GA: Atef Amriche
Obtaining high-resolution river morphology using UAV and structure from motion photogrammetry
Colleen Heflin, Public Administration and International Affairs | GA: Akanksha Patnaik
Childcare policy research partnership
Michah Rothbart, Public Administration and International Affairs | GA: Mattie MacKenzie-Liu
Statewide, longitudinal analysis of malleable factors related to high school completion outcomes for students with disabilities
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Peng Gao, Geography | GA: Atef Amriche Obtaining high-resolution river morphology using UAV and structure from motion photogrammetry Colleen Heflin, Public Administration and International Affairs | GA: Akanksha Patnaik Childcare policy research partnership Michah Rothbart, Public Administration and International Affairs | GA: Mattie MacKenzie-Liu Statewide, longitudinal analysis of malleable factors related to high school completion outcomes for students with disabilities |
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Kristy Buzard, Economics | GA: Jorge Valdebenito Research and development laboratories in the production process Mengxiao Liu, Economics | GA: Yimin Yi The effect of mergers & acquisitions on multinational firms’ innovation decisions Sherburne Abbott, Geography Using the science of societal benefits to inform and motivate action on environment and sustainability Peng Gao, Geography | GA: Patrick Oberle Long-term evolution of Onondaga Creek and its social and cultural impact on Riparian urban communities Shana Gadarian, Political Science | GA: Akanksha Patnaik American anxieties about globalization Dimitar Gueorguiev, Political Science | GA: Aykut Ozturk China foreign policy barometer Gretchen Purser, Sociology | GA: Brian Hennigan The project, performance, and politics of job readiness Nazanin Shahrokni, Sociology | GA: Fitore Hyseni “Pink rides” go global: A comparative study of four illustrative cases of women-only taxis across the globe Merril Silverstein, Sociology | GA: Wencheng Zhang Religiosity, health, and mortality over the adult life course |
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Cecilia Van Hollen, Anthropology | GA: Alisa Weinstein Living with cancer at the crossroads: Assessing risks and seeking cures for reproductive cancers in India Cecilia Van Hollen, Anthropology | GA: Jessica Posega Cervical and breast cancer in India: A socio-cultural study Kristy Buzard, Economics | GA: Hoang Pham Lobbying, uncertainty, and the ratification of trade agreements Peng Gao, Geography | GA: Siqi Li, Science and Engineering Quantitative assessment of social and economic impacts of flooding on urban communities Julia L. Carboni, Public Administration and International Affairs | GA: Francisco Santamarina NSF Science of Organizations grant application Rebecca Peters, Public Administration and International Affairs Transportation administration in the borderlands: The moral and the material at the Zambia-Angola Border |
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Cecilia Van Hollen, Anthropology | GA: Jessica Posega Cervical and breast cancer in India: A socio-cultural study Peng Gao, Geography | GA: Gregory Ruetenik, Earth Science Evaluating uncertainty and accuracy of modeling sediment dynamics over a storm event in a medium-sized watershed in central New York Natalie Koch, Geography | GA: Tina Catania Urbano Laboratories of liberalism: The impact of American higher education in the Gulf Arab states Susan Millar, Geography | GA: Justin Hartnett Snow cover, land use, and flood hazard: Understanding the impact of urbanization on local and regional climates and flood runoff Carol Faulkner, History/Citizenship and Civic Engagement | GA: Cassandra Schmitt Citizenship and civic engagement grant research Tina Nabatchi, Public Administration and International Affairs | GA: Suyeon Jo Patient engagement strategies for understanding and improving diagnostic safety in ambulatory care |
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Guido Pezzarossi, Anthropology | GA: Paul Noe Determining market dependence in colonial Guatemala: Elemental characterization of Maya ceramic artifacts Kristy Buzard, Economics | GA: Hyunseok Jung Research and development laboratories in the production process Peng Gao, Geography | GA: Gregory Ruetenik, Earth Science Modification of an event-based watershed model, DWSM Thomas Keck, Political Science | GA: Brandon Metroka Toward a global repository of free speech jurisprudence Shana Kushner Gadarian, Political Science | GA: Logan Strother Understanding institutional interactions: Gender, race and representation Spencer Piston, Political Science | GA: Laura Rodriguez Ortiz, Public Administration The dehumanization of Black Americans in the contemporary United States Gretchen Purser, Sociology | GA: Brian Hennigan, Geography Faith-based job “readiness” programs |
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Shannon Novak, Anthropology | GA: Stephanie Gladyk, MSc Forensic Science A bioarchaeological and biomolecular approach to intersections of social identities and local biologies at the Historic Spring Street Presbyterian Church, Manhattan (ca.1810-1846 Robert Rubinstein, Anthropology | GA: Shaundel Sanchez Neighborhood trauma resulting from gun violence in Syracuse Cecilia Van Hollen, Anthropology | GA: Jonathan Jackson Socio-cultural responses to cervical and breast cancer screening projects in India Kristy Buzard, Economics | GA: Yusuf Bagir Endogenous politics and the design of international trade institutions Abdulaziz Shifa, Economics | GA: Shulin Shen Optimal taxation in a developing economy with limited fiscal capacity Jacob Bendix, Geography | GA: Michael G. Commons Geographic variation in the impacts of California riparian wildfire Peng Gao, Geography | GA: Justin Hartnett Modeling event-based nutrient movement at the watershed scale Mark Monomier, Geography | GA: Emily Bukowski Inventing cartography Ines Mergel, Public Administration | GA: Ari Epstein Open innovation and open collaboration in government Merril Silverstein, Sociology | GA: Yooumi Lee, Social Science Does a step-gap equal a caregap in the intergenerational relationships of older adults? |
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Christopher R. DeCorse, Anthropology | GAs: Samuel Amartey, Sean Reid Assessing the impacts: Coastal Sierra Leone during the Atlantic Slave Trade Kristy Buzard, Economics | GA: Jae Yoon Lee Trade policy and institutional structures Eloenora Patacchini, Gary Engelhardt, Doug Wolf; Economics, Public Administration and International Affairs | GA: Jordan Christopher Stanley, Economics The impact of social networks on the health care and living arrangements of older Americans Gladys McCormick, History | GA: Jennifer Monti, Languages, Literature, and Linguistics The untold story of political prisoners in mid-twentieth century Mexico, and the life of a forgotten hero: The case of Jacinto Lopez and his fight for rural Mexico Glyn Morgan, Political Science | GA: Ebrahim Soltani Why are some majority Muslim countries more religious than others? Ines Mergel, Public Administration and International Affairs | GA: Roza Vasileva Big data in the public sector: Institutionalization of emergent governance mechanisms Dawn Dow, Sociology | GA: Marcus Bell The Black man’s code: How African American male college students navigate racial stigma Madonna Harrington Meyer, Sociology | GA: Jessica Hausauer Grandparenting children with disabilities Janet Wilmoth, Sociology | GA: Yooumi Lee, Social Science Aging and disability |
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Peng Gao, Geography | GA: Michael Gurney Commons (1) Identifying different processes of controlling the transport of sediment and geochemical materials in poorly and well-managed watersheds (2) General patterns characterizing suspended sediment load Dynamics from supply-limited to transport-limited watersheds Hans Peter Schmitz, Political Science | GA: Lindsey Spector The rise of non-communicable diseases (NCDs) in middle-income countries: The role of TNGOs Shena Ashley, SoonHee Kim, W. Henry Lambright; Public Administration and International Affairs, Political Science | GA: Flavia Rey de Castro Pastor Global governance and public administration: The future of the discipline Robert Bifulco, Public Administration and International Affairs | GA: Sun Jung Oh The impact of race-neutral school assignment on school segregation David Van Slyke, William Banks; Public Administration and International Affairs | GA: Nicholas J. Armstrong The prospects of institutional transfer: An analysis of U.S. security assistance contracts as an inducements for developing Afghan National Security Forces Rebecca Warne Peters, Public Administration and International Affairs | GA: Megan Lee In the absence of the state: Contests over professional childbirth care and the role of international organizations in post-war Angola Cecilia Green, Sociology | GA: Yan Liu The new Chinese presence in the Anglophone Caribbean Prema Kurien, Sociology | GA: Jocelyn Killmer The political incorporation of religious minorities in Canada and the U.S. Andrew London, Janet Wilmoth; Sociology | GA: Jessica Hausauer Veteran health: Analyses of behavioral risk factor surveillance system (BRFSS) data Yingyi Ma, Sociology Why are they initially over-represented, but ultimately under-represented?: An investigation of the attainment of a science/engineering bachelor’s degree for racial minorities |
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Douglas Armstrong, Anthropology | GA: Katherine Hicks Archaeological exploration of the transition from indentured to enslaved Labor in seventeenth century Barbados John Burdick, Anthropology | GA: Melinda Gurr What difference do TNGOs make to Indigenous struggles in Brazil and Guatemala? Shannon Novak, Anthropology | GA: Anthony Faulkner The children of Spring Street: A stable isotope study Deborah Pellow, Anthropology | GA: Kwame Edwin Out The changing cartographies of embodiment in Postcolonial Ghana William Horrace, Economics | GA: Ying Deng Two-stage least squares with aggregated instruments Devavish Mitra, Mary Lovely; Economics | GA: Ian Wright Globalization and entrepreneurship in developing Asia Jamie Winders, Geography | GA: Thor Ritz Between making a living and making a place: Understanding immigrant/native-born tensions in new destinations Matthew Cleary, Political Science | GA: Ioana Emilia Matesan Indigenous autonomy in Southern Mexic Ines Mergel, Public Administration | GA: Pat Fiorenza Knowledge incubation in the public sector Amy Lutz, Sociology | GA: Gokhan Savas Immigrant-native differences in college destinations among Blacks and Whites in the post-Grutter era |
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John Burdick, Hans Peter Schmitz; Anthropology, Political Science | GA: Jesse Harasta The impact of rights based approaches (RBA) on grassroots activism and advocacy Peng Gao, Geography | GA: Maria Josefson Dynamic linkage between variable sediment sources and downstream sediment load at the watershed scale Thomas Perrault, Geography | GA: Barbara Greene Mining, water, and rural livelihoods in the Bolivian Andes Subho Basu, History | GA: Saneep Banerjee Contested homeland: Colonial geography, territoriality and Muslim nationalism in Bengal Gladys McCormick, History | GA: Robert Solonick Authoritarianism and popular mobilizations in mid-twentieth century Rural Mexico Margaret Usdansky, Sociology | GAs: Chantell Frazier, Alecea Standlee Promoting successful career trajectories among women and minority STEM faculty Prema Kurien, Sociology | GA: Anirban Acharya Globalization, religion, and ethnic politics: Indian Americans in the public sphere Yingyi Ma, Sociology | GA: Dan Zhang Higher education in China: Opportunity or quagmire? Hongying Wang, Political Science | GA: Jing Lin The political economy of China's new welfare state Tina Nabatchi, Public Administration | GA: Greg Munno CNY speaks |