The National Science Foundation SBE Office of Multidisciplinary Activities awarded a $143,000 project grant to support research titled "Women’s Political Participation in a Transitioning Democracy" from September 1, 2021 to August 31, 2023. The grant was awarded under the Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences program (CFDA 47.075), which aims to promote basic research and education in the social sciences through funding research that contributes to scientific understanding and...
This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) under the Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences (CFDA 47.075) program provides $400,000 to Princeton University to engage, attract, and retain a diverse array of scholars, particularly women, in the subdiscipline of political methodology. The key objectives are to: 1) provide excellent methods education for undergraduate students, 2) fund a women's conference in political methodology, 3) support women to attend events and...
This National Science Foundation project grant of $399,998 will fund research exploring the relationship between conflict and the expansion of women's political citizenship from 1900 to 2022. Funded under the Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences program (CFDA 47.075), the award was made on July 15, 2022 to the University of Wisconsin-Madison for the period through June 30, 2024. The project will examine how women's suffrage and political representation have often increased more rapidly...
The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a Project Grant under the Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences (CFDA 47.075) program to The University of Iowa, totaling $207,685 with a project period from October 1, 2024 to April 25, 2025. The grant supports the "Journeys in World Politics" program, which provides peer-mentorship workshops for junior women scholars in the field of international relations. The project aims to mitigate the underrepresentation of women in academia...
This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) under the Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences (CFDA 47.075) program aims to provide peer mentorship workshops for junior women scholars in international relations. The $127,124 award to the University of California, San Diego will fund the "Journeys in World Politics" workshop program, which has mentored young women scholars since 2004. The project will host annual 3-day workshops supporting 18-20 participants,...
This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences (CFDA 47.075) program provides $115,272 to the University of Maryland, College Park to conduct research investigating the effects of democratic governance on public service provision, long-term economic growth, and citizen well-being. The project will digitize a unique historical dataset on democratic transitions in local governments and use quasi-random variation in elected versus appointed...
This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (CFDA 47.075 - Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences) provides $115,189 to the University of Wisconsin-Madison to host annual three-day peer-mentorship workshops for junior women scholars in international relations. The project aims to promote high-quality scholarship and increase the success of mentored women in academia by fostering professional networks, providing feedback and support, disseminating information, and encouraging...
The National Science Foundation awarded a $215,304 Project Grant to The Washington University under the Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences program (CFDA 47.075). The two-year grant will fund collaborative research on electoral systems as incentive structures for interparty and intraparty politics. The research is intended to contribute to scientific understanding of how electoral rules shape political competition and strategy within and between political parties. The grant will support...
This $288,779 National Science Foundation project grant under the Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences program (CFDA 47.075) will fund research at the University of Iowa from September 2022 through August 2024 to advance understanding of gender gaps in academic science. The interdisciplinary team will analyze publication records of over 90 million researchers worldwide to develop novel topic fit indices measuring subject congruence between new collaborations and existing work. These indices...
This National Science Foundation (NSF) Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences (CFDA 47.075) Project Grant award provides $241,331 to Duke University to conduct research on the unintended consequences of policies that aim to increase female economic empowerment. Specifically, the research project will study the effects of a new system of digitized and centralized land records on female land inheritance, human capital investments, and marriage outcomes in an agricultural region. The researchers...