The National Science Foundation awarded a $174,657 Project Grant to the University of California Irvine under the Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences federal grant program (CFDA 47.075) on May 1, 2022 for completion by April 30, 2023. The grant funds a study to assess psychological reactions to the ongoing war in Ukraine among a nationally representative sample of over 6,500 Americans previously surveyed since March 2020 regarding the COVID-19 pandemic. The study will examine how factors...
This National Science Foundation Project Grant of $200,000 awarded on February 1, 2022 will fund research to gather and analyze survey data on citizen perspectives regarding peace, security, and human rights in a post-conflict environment. Under the Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences program (CFDA 47.075), the University of Massachusetts will field three public opinion surveys in a post-conflict country using random domain intercept technology to collect anonymous samples. The...
This Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences program ($149,426) supports a comparative study of public opinion and elite rhetoric in the United States, United Kingdom, and Germany during the Russian invasion of Ukraine from May 2022 through April 2023. Led by researchers at Stony Brook University, the award allows for collection and analysis of survey and social media data to examine concepts like "rally around the flag" and...
This $216,778 federal Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences (CFDA 47.075) program supports a collaborative research study to assess how the design of transitional justice institutions in post-conflict and post-authoritarian countries affects public opinion and long-term national outcomes like regime type and conflict recurrence. The research team will employ a mixed-methods approach, combining survey experiments in Colombia,...
This $288,747 federal Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences (CFDA 47.075) program will support a collaborative research study on the legitimacy and efficacy of transitional justice institutions in Colombia, Iraq, and Ukraine. The principal investigators will employ a mixed-methods approach, combining survey experiments, qualitative evidence from focus groups and interviews, and original cross-national data, to investigate three key...
This Project Grant award of $283,654 was provided by the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences (CFDA 47.075) program and awarded to The Pennsylvania State University on August 15, 2024. The project, titled "Collaborative Research: How International Reputation Accrues Across Multiple Policy Domains", aims to develop a comprehensive theoretical framework to explain how a state's past foreign and domestic policy actions influence its likelihood of...
This Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences program (CFDA 47.075) provides $836,874 to the University of Maryland, College Park from October 2022 through September 2025. The award will fund research on the effectiveness of drones, air power, and modern coercion in armed conflict. Specifically, the Principal Investigator will generate new cross-country data on the use of offshore military capabilities in interstate disputes from 2001-2021...
The National Science Foundation (NSF) Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences (CFDA 47.075) program awarded a $101,769 Project Grant to the University of Connecticut (UConn) on July 1, 2025. The grant supports the "Subnational Nonstate Actor Governance (SNAG) Project," which introduces a new measurement strategy and public dataset to track territorial control of non-state actors within conflict zones over time. The project uses machine learning and natural language processing to...
The National Science Foundation Division of Social and Economic Science awarded a $167,154 project grant to Texas A&M University from June 2021 through May 2023. The grant supports the "Integrative International Interventions: Militant Violence and Human Security in Contemporary Conflicts" project under the Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences program (CFDA 47.075). The project aims to contribute to scientific understanding of basic research and education in social, behavioral...
This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation Division of Social and Economic Science provides $263,320 to the University of Alabama from June 15, 2022 to May 31, 2023. The funding supports a collaborative research project to enhance understanding of how Ukrainian small business owners cope with and recover from crisis and loss caused by war. Specifically, researchers will assess personality, social, and trauma factors associated with resilience among small business owners...