Announcing FY26 R2 ISERP Award Recipients

Congratulations to the following 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. 

Conferences

Long COVID: Can Participatory Science Collaborations Between Patients and Researchers Address the Crisis of Mistrust in Medical Science?

Gil Eyal, Professor of Sociology

A Conference Honoring Andrew Gelman’s 60th Birthday (AG60+)

Justin Phillips, Eaton Professor of Political Science, Benjamin Goodrich, Lecturer in the Discipline of Statistics

Climate Riskscapes: An Interdisciplinary Conference on Living and Knowing Under Environmental Precarity

Pamela Smith, Seth Low Professor of History, Rhiannon Stephens, Professor of History, Max Mauerman, Senior Staff Associate, Columbia Climate School International Research Institute for Climate and Society

Supported by Fredrick C. Harris’s initiative for criminal justice research

The Block is Hot: A Symposium on Carceral Power in Long 1970s New York

Sarah Haley, Associate Professor of History, Jack Halberstam, Professor of the Humanities, Department of English and Comparative Literature

Justice & Injustice Conference

Andrew McCall, Assistant Professor of Political Science

Graduate Student Conferences

Columbia Political Theory Graduate Conference 2026

Milan Kende Loewer, PhD Student, Political Science, Tim Vanable, PhD Student, Political Science, Rachel Finlayson, PhD Student, Political Science, Rodrigo Mendoza, PhD Student, Political Science, Ana Rodriguez, PhD Student, Political Science, Robab Vaziri, PhD Student, Political Science, Lauren Adamo, PhD Student, Political Science

Faculty Mentor: Turkuler Isiksel, Associate Professor of Political Science

Animals Across Borders: Rethinking More-than-Human Geographies

Josias Augustin Mendez, PhD Student, History

Faculty Mentor: Karl Jacoby, Allan Nevins Professor of American History

Interdisciplinary PhD Workshop in Sustainable Development (IPWSD)

Cameron Scalera, PhD Student, SIPA Sustainable Development

Faculty Mentor: John C. Mutter, Professor of Earth and Environmental Sciences and of International and Public Affairs

Seed Grants

Political Geographies

Caterina Chiopris, Assistant Professor of Political Science

The American Lawsuit: Civil Litigation from the Revolution to the Age of Jackson

Hannah Farber, Associate Professor of History

Reconstruction and the Law in the United States: Southern Courts, 1865–1876

Stephanie McCurry, R. Gordon Hoxie Professor of American History in Honor of Dwight D. Eisenhower, Kellen Funk, Columbia Law School, Michael E. Patterson Professor of Law

Adrift in the Indian Ocean: Coastal Livelihoods and the Unmaking of Maritime Sovereignty

Kalyani Ramnath, Assistant Professor of History

Co-Sponsored with the Columbia Population Resource Center

EMBRace

Riana Anderson, Associate Professor of Social Work, Columbia School of Social Work, Brandi Summers, Associate Professor of African American and African Diaspora Studies, Minh Duc Pham, Postdoctoral Research Scientist in the Faculty of Social Work

Workshops

Latin American and Caribbean Studies Graduate Workshop: Governance, Inequality, and Civic Life

M. Victoria Murillo, Professor of Political Science and International and Public Affairs, Eduardo Moncada, Claire Tow Associate Professor of Political Science, Barnard College

Seminar: Mapping AI

Pamela Smith, Seth Low Professor of History, Madi Whitman, Lecturer in the Discipline of Anthropology

Black Archipelago and the Crisis of Place

Brandi Summers, Associate Professor of African American and African Diaspora Studies

Data Acquisition Initiative

Qualitative and Quantitative Data on Federal Anti-Klan Enforcement Cases, 1870-1875

Isabelle Grant, PhD Student, History