Roscoe Martin Fund for Dissertation and Thesis Research
The Roscoe Martin Fund honors the memory of Roscoe C. Martin, Professor of Political Science and founding scholar of the Public Administration discipline. A professor at Syracuse University from 1949 until he died in 1972, Martin served as the eighth president of the American Society for Public Administration from 1949 to 1950. His many popular publications included New Horizons in Public Administration (1945), the first book published by the University of Alabama Press.
Active Funding Opportunities
AY 2025-2026
Closed Funding Opportunities
AY 2024-2025
AY 2023-2024
AY 2022-2023
AY 2021-2022
AY 2020-2021
AY 2019-2020
Grants
AY 2024-2025
Rachel Ameen, Geography and the Environment
Forever Wildlife: The Past, Present, and Future of Animals and Recreation in the Adirondacks
Erika Arias, Political Science
Beyond Violence: The Struggle for Accountability in Post-Repression Mexico
Nola Aycock, History
Anti-Subversive Activity in the Alabama Legislature
Almila Basak, Political Science
Welfare State Policies: Window for Party Politics?
Madison Burhenn, Anthropology
Mapping Mobile Nations: Visualizing Indigenous Nationhood
Sueun Chae, History
Life for Morality: Ideological Discontent with Western Models of Ideas, Systems and Values in Late Nineteenth-Century Korea and Japan
Nitya Chagti, History
Padua and the Politics of History: Tyranny, Empire, and Neoclassicism, ca. 1270-1318 CE
Nicholas D'Amico, Political Science
Rainbow Consciousness? Assessing the Contours and Political Outcomes of Queer Political Identity
Joshua Grove, Sociology
Religion, Identity, and Risk: How Religiosity Shapes Substance Use Trajectories from Adolescence through Midlife
Abdela Hilo, Public Administration and International Affairs
Improving Access to Healthcare in Underserved Regions of Developing Countries
Brianna Hinkley, Anthropology
Understanding Kinship: Queer Family Building via ART in the Post-Roe Era
Michael Kelly, Geography and the Environment
Tracing the geopolitical roots of New York land and housing markets in the long-durée
Bramsh Khan, Social Science
Infrastructural Politics in Balochistan, Pakistan
Kaia Kirk, Political Science
The Black Cabinet: The Role of Civil Rights Organizations on Institutional Development and Policy Change
Gunyeop Lee, Political Science
Survey Experiment on Cyber Command Recruitment
Melissa Lopoo, Social Science
The Emotional Labor of College Football Players
Brooklyn Montgomery, Geography and the Environment
Water Access as a Mechanism of Power: The Lived Experiences of Drinking Water Projects in India
Katherine Mott, Sociology
Exploring Cultures of Solidarity and Resignation in Retail Grocery Work
Avia Nahreen, Geography & the Environment
Water Accessibility at Peri-Urban Sites: Role of Inequality in Manifesting Injustices
Mehdi Nejatbakhsh, Sociology
Iranian Diaspora Media Archives in Los Angeles
David Okanlawon, Anthropology
Archaeological Insights into Foodways at Bunce Fort, Sierra Leone
Matthew O'Leary, Anthropology
Entangled Frontiers, Entangled Collections: Material Culture of French Fort St. Frédéric, New York
Sobia Paracha, Political Science
Entrenched or Abandoned? Nationalism and Political Contestation in Territorial Disputes
Jenny Paszik, History
Defining and Investigating Human-Domesticated Animal Relations in Premodern Korea
Hector Sanchez, History
Sex, Relationships, and Knowledge: Male-Male Intimacy in Chosŏn Korea, 1392–1910