WashU's Weidenbaum Center on the Economy, Government, and Public Policy recently announced awardees of their Fall 2025 Small Grants, with multiple political science faculty and graduate students among them. 

The Weidenbaum Center Small Grants provide research funding up to $15,000 to WashU tenure-track faculty in the departments of Economics, Political Science, and Sociology. The funding is provided for up to one year for research that focuses on social science and/or public policy.

The political science faculty and graduate student awardees and their proposals are below. To see the full list of awardees visit the Weidenbaum Center's website.

Deniz Askoy, Leo Tien, and Zeynep Ceren Topac, Disarmament and Reconciliation in Ethnic Conflicts

David Carter and Alma Velazquez, How Local Communities in the Global South Evaluate Controversial Corporate Behavior when Firms Adopt Costly Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) Measures 

Jacob Montgomery, A Practical Solution for Missing Data in Social Science Experiments 

Lucia Motolinia and Diana O'Brien, Gender Effects on Candidate Platforms: When Nominating Women Matters for Policy

Peng Peng, Department of Political Science, Haohan Chen, The University of Hong Kong, and Yingtian He, Tsinghua University, Aspirational Nationalism: Enmity, Emulation, and Making of Chinese Identity (1840-1949) 

Shiran Victoria Shen, Climate Disasters and the Formation of Citizen Demand for Government-Led Climate Adaptation in China 

Betsy Sinclair, The Efficacy of Conversations with a Chatbot to "Prebunk" Against Election Misinformation

Michael Strawbridge, In the Thick of It: Operationalizing the Relationship Between Black People, Black Spaces, and Black Political Unity

Margit Tavits and Matthew Ribar, Social Cohesion, Violent Conflict, and Customary Institutions in Liberia 

Carly Wayne and Margit Tavits, Wartime Violence Exposure, Social Cohesion, and Resilience in Israel-Palestine