Roscoe Martin Fund for Dissertation and Thesis Research

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

Alexander Anothony, Anthropology

Siaw Appiah-Adu, Anthropology

Saidakbar Askarov, Social Science

Bruce Baigrie, Geography and the Environment

Nitya Chagti, History

Avital Datskovsky, Anthropology

Ayse Durakoglu, Anthropology

Caleb Fouts, History

Falak Hadi, Political Science

Jessica Hogbin, History

Hakki Ozan Karayigit, Geography and the Environment

Kaia Kirk, Political Science

Brooklyn Montgomery, Geography and the Environment

Avia Nahreen, Geography and the Environment

David Okanlawon, Anthropology

Ilayda Ece Ova, Public Administration and International Affairs

Sobia Paracha, Political Science

Jihyuk Park, Geography and the Environment

Dustin Satterfield, Sociology

Kazi Farzana Shoily, History

Sarah Stegeman, History

 Jun Zhang, Social Science

Bruce Baigrie, Geography and the Environment

Caroline Barraco, History

Roseanna Benser,  Sociology

Brittany Jewell Bohlinger, Geography and the Environment

Julissa Collazo Lopez, Anthropology

Hannah Connolly, Social Science

Weston Fenner IV, Sociology

Caleb Fouts, History

Xiaohan Gang, Sociology

Ian Glazman-Schillinger, History

Xiwei Guo, Geography and the Environment

Odlanyer Hernandez De Lara, Anthropology

Jessica Hogbin, History

Xiaoxia Huang, Political Science 

Hakki Ozan Karayigit, Geography and the Environment

Shanel Khaliq, Sociology

Gunyeop Lee, Political Science

Ainhoa Mingolarra Garaizar, Geography and the Environment

Katherine Mott, Sociology

David Okanlawon, Anthropology

Matthew O'Leary, Anthropology

Dustin Satterfield, Sociology

Kazi Farzana Shoily, History

Zulfiya Torebekova, Social Science

Alexandria Vazquez, History

Catherine Annis, Public Administration

Siaw Appiah-Adu, Anthropology

Poonam Argade,  Social Science

Brittany Jewell Bohlinger, Geography

 Baurzhan Bokayev, Social Science

Collin Chambers, Geography

Melissa Darroch, Anthropology

Aysenur Deger, Political Science 

Claudia Diaz-Combs, Geography

Mohammad E Athar, History

Natalie Gallagher,  Social Science

Mary Helander, Social Science

Akemi Inamoto, Geography

Hakki Ozan Karayigit, Geography

 Shanel Khaliq, Sociology

Jiho Kim, Public Administration

Huseyin Zeyd Koytak, Sociology

Athena Last, Sociology

Seunghui Lee, Social Science

Sujung Lee, Sociology

Nicole Yeannine Moller Gonzalez, Geography

Amber Morris, Political Science

Brian Ohl, Public Administration

 Matthew O'Leary, Anthropology

 Jihyuk Park, Geography

 Gabriel Roth, History

Mahder Serekberhan, Political Science

Zulfiya Torebekova, Social Science

Siaw Appiah-Adu, Anthropology 

Melissa Darroch, Anthropology 

Rachel Brea Deal, Anthropology 

Matthew Greer, Anthropology 

Steven Harris, Anthropology 

Dana Olesch, Anthropology 

Maria Smith, Anthropology 

 Jewell Bohlinger, Geography 

Claudia Diaz-Combs, Geography 

 Jamie Fico, Geography 

Ainhoa Mingolarra Garaizar, Geography 

Madeleine Hamlin, Geography 

Mirella Pretell Gomero,  Geography 

 Jared Whear, Geography 

Dominic Wilkins,  Geography 

Morgan Kolakowski,  History

Farrah Brown, Political Science

Nathan Carrington, Political Science

Emma Dreher, Political Science

Sefa Secen, Political Science

 Kari Waters, Political Science

Baurzhan Bokayev, Social Science

Mariah Brennan Nanni, Social Science

Samanta Lee, Social Science

Melissa Lopoo, Social Science

Krushna Ranaware, Social Science

Zulfiya Torebekova, Social Science

Michael Branch, Sociology

Weston (Trent) Fenner, Sociology

Athena Last, Sociology

 Jinpu Wang, Sociology

Tony Chamoun, Anthropology

Melissa Darroch, Anthropology

Matthew Greer, Anthropology

Ajaya Mali, Anthropology

Maria Smith, Anthropology

Jewell Bohlinger, Geography

Tina Catania, Geography

Claudia Diaz-Combs, Geography

Xiwei Guo, Geography

Madeleine Hamlin, Geography

Akemi Inamoto, Geography

Katie MacDonald, Geography

Ainhoa Mingolarra Garaizar, Geography

Mirella Pretell, Geography

Thomas Bouril, History

Emily Hunter, History

Elizabeth (Bess) Davis, Political Science

Nathan Carrington, Political Science

Tae Hyun Lim, Political Science

Dongshu Liu, Political Science

Aykut Ozturk, Political Science

Kyungwon Suh, Political Science

Maria Laura Veramendi Garcia, Political Science

Kari Waters, Political Science

David Schwegman, Public Administration and International Affairs

Hannah Patnaik, Public Administration and International Affairs 

Saied Toossi, Public Administration and International Affairs

Nicholas Croce, Social Science

Natalie Gallagher, Social Science

Fitore Hyseni, Social Science

Darzhan Kazbekova, Social Science

Melissa Lopoo, Social Science

Jaisang Sun, Social Science

Joonsik Yoon, Social Science

Michael Branch, Sociology

Athena Last, Sociology

Claire Pendergrast, Sociology

Dalton Stevens, Sociology

Ning Zhan, Sociology

Selene Cammer-Bechtold, Sociology

Sujung Crystal Lee, Sociology 

Weston (Trent) Fenner, Sociology

Jinpu Wang, Sociology

Jewell Bohlinger, Geography

Claudia Diaz-Combs, Geography

Jamie Gagliano, Geography

Justin Hartnett, Geography

Brian Hennigan, Geography

Akemi Inamoto, Geography

James Lindberg, Geography

Katherine MacDonald, Geography

Ainhoa Mingolarra Garazier, Geography

Jared Whear, Geography

Kelsey Young, Geography

Thomas Bouril, History

Michael Britton, History

Phillip R. Davis, History

Emily Hunter, History

Morgan Kolakowski, History

Kishauna Soljour, History

Jason Blessing, Political Science

Tae Hyun-Lim, Political Science

Dongshu Liu, Political Science

Angely Martinez, Political Science

Aykut Ozturk, Political Science

Beatriz Rey, Political Science

Elise Roberts, Political Science

Katharine Russell, Political Science

Maria Veramendi, Political Science

Saied Toossi, Public Administration

Nara Yoon, Public Administration

David Schwegman, Public Administration and International Affairs

Krushna Rawaware, Social Science

Samanta Lee Seunghui, Social Science

Taveeshi Singh, Social Science

Athena Last, Sociology