Congratulations to our Fall 2024 Weidenbaum Center Small Grant Awardees! 

The Weidenbaum Center provides research funding to WashU tenure-track faculty for both Small Grant and Impact Grant Proposals. Generally, this funding is provided to faculty in the Departments of Economics, Political Science, and Sociology. 

Small grants awards are typically under $15,000 and funding is provided for up to one year. Awards are given for research that focuses on social science and/or public policy. These awards fund research supporting collaborative efforts, research with a high probability of prominent publication, and research leading to an application for external funding. 

Below we list our Fall 2024 Small Grant awardees. To see a list of our past awardees, click here. 

Deniz Aksoy and Amaan Charaniya, Department of Political Science, Territorial Disputes and Public Opinion 

Daniel Butler, Department of Political Science, Gerrymadering's Polarizing Impact on Primary Electorates 

George-Levi Gayle, Martin Garcia Vazquez, and Limor Golan, Department of Economics, Place-Based Policies, Family Structure, and the Geography of the American Dream 

Philipp Grübener, Department of Economics, Why has the ETIC Expanded So Much? Intensive and Extensive Elasticities Over Time 

Jaclyn Kaslovsky and Michael Olson, Department of Political Science, Constituent Communications in an Era of Polarization 

Lucia Motolinia Carballo, Department of Political Science, (When) Are Populists Bad for the Environment? 

Peng Peng, Department of Political Science, Does the China Model Challenege the Liberal World Order?

Werner Ploberger, Department of Economics, Martingales, Filtrations, and Probability Measures 

Amy Pond and Timm Betz, Department of Political Science, Corporate Campaigning in Brazil 

Yongseok Shin, Department of Economics, Employment and Hours Over the Business Cycle 

Margit Tavits and Rex Weiye Deng, Department of Political Science, Exploiting Extremism: Strategic Responses of Radical Right Parties to Right-Wing Violence in Europe 

Carly Wayne and Alexis Jang, Department of Political Science, Women on the Frontlines: Military Conscription and Perceptions of Female Political Leadership