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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
AY 2023-24
Upcoming Funding Opportunities
AY 2024-25
Release date: April 2025
Closed Funding Opportunities
AY 2022-23
AY 2021-2022
AY 2021-2022
AY 2020-2021
Grants
AY 2022-2023
Kyrstin Mallon Andrews, Anthropology
Decompression sickness in depleted seas: Exploring the physiological consequences of climate change on commercial fishers in the Caribbean
Kristy Buzard, Economics
What attracts and deters women and underrepresented minorities from economics?
Robert Bifulco, Public Administration and International Affairs
Evaluating effectiveness of early literacy policies: Comparing retention, retention plus student supports, and retention plus accountability policies
Jun Li, Public Administration and International Affairs
Preliminary analyses of health inequities experienced by older people with ADRD using home health care
Gretchen Purser, Sociology
When work reappears: A collaborative ethnography of chip manufacturing in Syracuse
Becky Schewe, Sociology
Flooding and infrastructural inequality: Human decisions drive flood risk
AY 2021-2022
Mona Bhan, Anthropology
De (humanizing) war: Artificial intelligence weapons and the future of the human
Julia Carboni, Public Administration and International Affairs
Research to practice: Hunger-free communities collective impact framework
Scott Landes, Sociology
COVID-19 vaccination outcomes among disabled and nondisabled adults
Andrew London, Sociology
Attitudes toward extramarital relationships in the context of spousal Alzheimer's Disease
AY 2020-2021
Kristy Buzard, Economics
Quantifying GATT trade liberalization
Margarita Esteves-Abe, Political Science
Politics of childcare in the US: Comparative study of states and cities
Johannes Himmelreich, Public Administration and International Affairs
The philosophical foundations of data science
Sebastian Karcher, Political Science
Developing standards and practices for verifying qualitative and multi-method research
Andre Ortega, Geography and the Environment
Comparative counter-cartographies, subaltern placemaking, and sustainable urbanization in the Global South
AY 2019-2020
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
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
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
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?
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
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
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
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
