Congratulations to our Spring 2025 Weidenbaum Center Small Grant Awardees! 

The Weidenbaum Center provides research funding to WashU tenure-track faculty Small 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 Spring 2025 Small Grant awardees. To see a list of our past awardees, click here. 

Caitlyn Collins, Department of Sociology, The U.S. Market for Childcare 

Michael Frachetti, Department of Anthropology, REACT-APAC (Resilience Analysis in Light of Concurrent Threats in the Asia/Pacific Region) 

Martín García-Vázquez, Philipp Grübener, both of the Department of Economics, and Martin Luccioni, Olin Business School, Understanding Skill Differences Across Countries 

Matthew Hayes, Department of Political Science, Racial Differences in Gendered Political Attitudes 

Patrick Ishizuka, Department of Sociology, Demographic Change and Adult Children's Provision of Care to Parents in the United States

Christopher Lucas, Department of Political Science, with Caleb Lucas (Indiana University), The Effect of AI on Influence Operations 

Margaret Moinester, Department of Sociology, The National Study of Fear of Deportation 

Sunita Parikh, Department of Political Science, Dialect Choice in Responding to Politicians and Constituents 

Kiara Wyndham, Department of Sociology, St. Louis Zoning Atlas Completion