The Appleby-Mosher Fund reflects the Maxwell School’s longstanding commitment to supporting faculty research and the production of exceptional scholarship. The Fund honors the first two deans of the Maxwell School, William E. Mosher and Paul H. Appleby. Mosher founded and served as the first president of the American Society of Public Administration before becoming Maxwell’s first dean in 1924. He later used this position to launch Maxwell’s one-year Public Administration program, which consistently ranks as the top Public Affairs program in the United States. Appleby maintained Mosher’s enthusiasm for Public Affairs after assuming the role of dean in 1947, declaring that “public administration in modern society is … an effort to inject into political situation the fruits of scientific thinking and…its concern for moral values and human beings.”
Upcoming Funding Opportunities
AY 2024-2025
Release date: October 2024
Closed Funding Opportunities
AY 2023-2024
AY 2022-2023
AY 2021-2022
AY 2020-2021
AY 2019-2020
Grants
AY 2023-2024
Lamis Abdelaaty, Political Science
Refugees in Crises
Brian Brege, History
The Global Merchants of Florence
Kristy Buzard, Economics
The Visible Costs of Invisible Labor
Matthew Cleary, Political Science
Multiculturalism in a Homogenizing State: Indigenous Politics in Oaxaca, Mexico
Monica Deza, Economics
The Effects of Peer Gender Ratios on Risky Health Behaviors
Sean Drake, Sociology
Precarious Hope: Race and Refugees in a Rust Belt City
Peng Gao, Geography and the Environment
Determining the Spatial Distribution of Peatland Depths in the Zoige Basin, China
Samantha Kahn Herrick, History
The Transmission of Historical Memory in Medieval Arles
Catherine Herrold, Public Administration and International Affairs
(Re)Mobilizing the Masses: Civil Society and Social Change in the 21st Century
Azra Hromadžić Vlasak, Anthropology
Migrant Encounters and Local Infrastructures on the Balkan Migrant Route
Jenn Jackson, Political Science
To Be a Radical: How Intersectional Organizing Remade Social Movements
Denisa Jashari, History
Santiago’s Urban Battleground: Space and the Production of the Working Poor in Chile, 1872-1994
Seth Jolly, Political Science
Party Competition and Representation in Europe
George Kallander, History
A Song of Emperors and Kings (Chewang un’gi), Yi Sŭnghyu, and Premodern Korea
Meghan Kelly, Geography and the Environment
Storytelling with Satellites: A User Study of Satellite Data in the News
Minju Kim, Political Science
The Forging of Bureaucratic Partisanship: Careerism and Institutions in Foreign Affairs Agencies
Natalie Koch, Geography and the Environment
The Developmental State After Oil: Technocracy and Green Branding in Gulf Megaprojects
Amy Lutz, Sociology
Access to Selective Colleges Pre- and Post-Grutter in Different Affirmative Action Contexts
Andre Ortega, Geography and the Environment
Suburbs of Imperialism
Grant Reeher, Political Science
Centerfire: Gun Myths, Gun Facts, and the Paths to Compromise
Yüksel Sezgin, Political Science
The Muslim Family Law in Non-Muslim Democracies
Ying Shi, Public Administration and International Affairs
Does Exposure to Hate Crimes Affect Residential Location Choice and Voter Turnout?
Takumi Shibaike, Political Science
Who Governs Tuna? Non-state Advocacy in Regional Fisheries Management Organizations
Merril Silverstein, Sociology
Transmission of Religion, Spirituality, and Secularism Across Generations
Gregory Smith, Political Science
Vietnam War Data Preservation Project
Jessie Trudeau, Political Science
Motivations for Joining the Police in Brazil
Michiko Ueda, Public Administration and International Affairs
Understanding Barriers to Mental Health Help-seeking Among College Students
Chengzhi Yin, Political Science
Explaining China’s Choices of Alliance Balancing Strategies: A Historical Analysis
Maria Zhu, Economics
Boom or Bust: Exploring Heterogeneous Effects of Exploding Job Offers