Congratulations to the following recipients of our FY27 ISERP grants!
If you’re interested in applying in future funding rounds, we anticipate that the next round of calls will be released in September 2026.
For many years, SIPA professor Jeff Shrader has been trying to better understand the economic damages from climate change. Given that the world has already warmed substantially over recent decades and will continue to warm (especially in the absence of strong mitigation policy), a crucial question is: how well can people adapt to rising temperatures?
Over the past year, with the help of an ISERP seed grant, Economics professor Gautam Gowrisankaran and his co-investigators Ashley Langer (University of Arizona) and Nick Ryan (Yale) have been working to study the interconnection queue that admits new plants to the California electricity market.
ISERP is thrilled to announced that our call for proposals for FY27 is now open. Deadline April 10.
ISERP has made the slides from the Funding 101 Workshop presentations available on our administrative website
ISERP is thrilled to announce two new funding opportunities starting in Spring 2026, the Social Science of Pandemics grant and the Graduate Student Research Grant.
Congratulations to the recipients of our FY26 R2 ISERP grants!
If you’re interested in applying for our next round, we anticipate that the calls will be released in March 2026.
ISERP’s 2024–2025 Annual Report is now available. Click here to learn about ISERP’s impact at Columbia and beyond.
Professor Tunç Şen’s recently published book, Forgotten Experts: Astrologers, Science, and Authority in the Ottoman Empire, 1450–1600 (Stanford University Press, 2025), explores the lives and work of early modern Ottoman munajjims—astral experts traditionally translated as “astrologers.” This book grew out of a curiosity about how science operates not only as a body of knowledge, but also as a social practice. His research reveals that munajjims were indispensable intermediaries of knowledge in the Ottoman world, yet they rarely appear in standard narratives of Islamic or early modern…
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ISERP’s FY24 Annual Report is now available. Click here to learn about ISERP’s impact at Columbia and beyond.
Want to find out more about our programming and the resources we offer? Reach out to [email protected] and keep an eye out for this spring’s upcoming Call for Proposals.
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