Announcing ISERP's FY27 Programmatic Award Recipients
Congratulations to the following recipients of our FY27 R1 ISERP grants!
If you’re interested in applying for our next round, we anticipate that the FY27, Round 2 calls will be released in September 2026.
Social Science of Pandemics
After Zero-COVID: Recognition, Trust, and the Making of Patient Expertise in China
Gil Eyal, Sociology; Eugenia Lean, East Asian Languages & Cultures
Hospital Quality and Capacity Strain: Evidence from the Covid-19 Pandemic
Gautam Gowrisankaran, Economics
Liminal Zones: The Politics of Borders, Migrants, and Disease in South Asia and South East Asia
Kavita Sivaramakrishnan, Mailman School of Public Health; Kalyani Ramnath, History; Mark Harrison, Oxford; Atsuko Naono, Oxford
Seed Grants
Mapping Toxic Entanglements: Kepone’s Global Itineraries
Vanessa Agard-Jones, Anthropology
Global Value Chains and the Domestic Politics of Climate Policy: Evidence from Brazilian Agribusiness
Daniela Campello, Political Science and SIPA
Transforming Long-Term Care: The Health and Labor Market Impacts of Minnesota’s Nursing Home Standards Board
Adam Reich, Sociology; Suresh Naidu, Economics and SIPA; Niharika Singh, London School of Economics and Political Science; Aaron Sojourner, Upjohn Institute
Conferences
Legacy of Habermas Memorial Conference
Jean Louise Cohen, Political Science; Axel Honneth, Philosophy; Seyla Benhabib, Columbia Law School
State-of-the-Field Conference on Cyber Risk to Financial Stability
Jason Healey, SIPA; Patricia Mosser, SIPA; Sigríður Benediktsdóttir, SIPA
5th Media Effects Empirical Workshop (MEEW)
Eunji Kim, Political Science
Graduate Women in Economic Theory at Columbia
Qingmin Liu, Economics; Laura Doval, Columbia Business School
Unhomely Earth: The New Geopolitics of the Underground and the Extraterrestrial
Rosalind Morris, Anthropology
New Development in AI for Social, Economic, and Policy Research
Xi Song, Sociology; Mario Small, Sociology; Anzhi Chen, PhD Student, Sociology; Jonathan Ben-Menachem, PhD Student, Sociology
Nature and the International: Theories and Histories
James Stafford, History; Or Rosenboim, University of Bologna
Liberalism and Democracy in the Age of Populism: Contemporary and Comparative Perspectives
Nadia Urbinati, Political Science; David Ragazzoni, University of Toronto
Green industrial policy as state-making and unmaking in the EU, China, and the US
Josh Whitford, Sociology; Matthias Thiemann, Sciences Po; Nils Kupzok, Columbia World Projects
Graduate Student Conferences
East Africa Studies
Lorna Kimaiyo, PhD Student, History; Eunice Akoth Ochieng, Masters of International Affairs, SIPA
Faculty Mentor: Rhiannon Stephens, History
“Conjuncture”: Vietnamese Studies Graduate Conference
Ton-Nu Nguyen, PhD Student, History; Quynh Hai Luong, PhD Student, East Asian Languages & Cultures; Jacqueline Yu, PhD Student, East Asian Languages & Cultures; Thanh Nguyen, PhD Student, Yale; Quang Trinh, PhD Student, NYU
Faculty Mentor: Lien-Hang T. Nguyen, East Asian Languages & Cultures
The American Century: Histories and Historiography of the 20th Century
Kate Reeve, PhD Student, History; Aaron Freedman, PhD Student, History; Ana Laura Zuñiga Loreto, PhD Student, History; Veronica Hylton, PhD Student, History
Faculty Mentor: Kim Phillips-Fein, History
Workshops
Theory and Practice in a Disordered World
Elizabeth Saunders, Political Science; V. Page Fortna, Political Science; Jack Snyder, Political Science