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 2022-2023
Lamis Abdelaaty, Political Science
Refugees in Crises
Kristy Buzard, Economics
Research and Development Laboratories in the Production Process
Omar Cheta, History
How Commerce Became Legal: Merchants and Market Governance in Late Ottoman Egypt
Matthew Cleary, Political Science
Multiculturalism in a Homogenizing State: Indigenous Politics in Oaxaca, Mexico
Christopher DeCorse, Anthropology
Cultural Entanglement and Foodways at Bunce Island, Sierra Leone
Azra Hromadžić Vlasak, Anthropology
"Tourism Will Kill Us All!" Eco-populism and Eco-opportunism in Bosnia and Herzegovina
Jenn Jackson, Political Science
Policing Blackness: How Intersectional Threat Shapes Black Politics
Hugo Jales, Economics
Baby Bonus Boom: The Effects of a Large Increase in South Korea's Baby Bonus Program
Amy Kallander, History
Between Colony and Metropole: Race, Empire, and French Carceral Systems
George Kallander, History
Animals in Early Modern Korea and East Asia
Minju Kim, Political Science
Do International Organizations Nurture or Select their Bureaucrats?
Gabriela Kirk, Sociology
"Alternatives" to Punishment and Social Inequality
Prema Kurien, Sociology
Claiming Citizenship: Race, Religion, and Belonging among New Ethnic Americans
Amy Lutz, Sociology
Access to Selective Colleges Pre- and Post-Grutter in Different Affirmative Action Contexts
Kyrstin Mallon Andrews, Anthropology
Crosscurrents of Risk: Navigating Changing Climates, Health, and Conservation in Dominican Seascapes
Daniel McDowell, Political Science
Racially Biased Monetary Policy and Public Opinion of the Federal Reserve
Ryan Monarch, Economics
Import Price Inflation across Different U.S. Demographic Groups
Shannon Novak, Anthropology
Transnational Ritual Ecologies in the Wake of Plantations
Thomas Pearson, Economics
How Migration Impacts Fertility at Origin: Evidence from Mexican Migration to the U.S.
Thomas Perreault, Geography and the Environment
Food and Water Security in a Changing Environment: Preliminary Research on the Bolivian Altiplano
Gretchen Purser, Sociology
The Rise of "Alt-Labor" Around the Globe
Yüksel Sezgin, Political Science
The Muslim Family Law in Non-Muslim Democracies
Gregory Smith
What Constitutes Victory? Individual Perceptions of Battlefield Success
Junko Takeda, History
The Japanese Indo-Portuguese Slave who Sued the Compagnie des Indes: The Story of Madame Constance, Maria Guyomar de Pinha, Thao Thong Kip Ma
Simon Weschle, Political Science
What Do Voters Use Their Democratic Vote For?
Robert Wilson, Geography and the Environment
Snow Farmers: Snowmaking, Irrigation Technology, and the Future of Skiing in a Warming World