Maxwell School Research

Maxwell’s unique strength derives from its multidisciplinary approach to the study of contemporary policy issues. Within the school’s research units, you will find faculty scholars and practitioners with expertise across the full spectrum of social sciences and public affairs specialties analyzing and problem solving alongside our students.

From aging, population, and public health, to the environment, conflict resolution, and the governance of autonomous systems, Maxwell faculty and students engage in the sort of silo-busting work that is essential to developing solutions and educating tomorrow’s effective leaders.

Interdisciplinary Research Centers and Institutes

Maxwell scholars and students conduct wide-ranging research through 15 interdisciplinary centers, each of which focuses on a topical area within public affairs, such as social and economic policy, conflict and collaboration, public wellness, aging, energy and environment, national security, and regional studies, among others.

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NIA Awards $3.8 Million for Maxwell Sociologists’ Health and Longevity Research Networks

Research networks led by Jennifer Karas Montez and Shannon Monnat will use two five-year grant renewals to study adult health and aging trends in the United States.

Christopher DeCorse

AIA Selects Christopher DeCorse as Joukowsky Lecturer

The archaeology professor will give four lectures about his findings on England’s 17th century-involvement in the West African slave trade.
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NSF Awards Saba Siddiki, Fellow Researchers, $1.5 Million to Study Bus Fleet Electrification

The team hopes to develop tools for effective and data-driven decision making and to assess collaborative governance in public bus fleet electrification.
Johanna Dunaway

Johanna Dunaway Selected for Prestigious Carnegie Fellowship

The professor and research director for the Institute for Democracy, Journalism and Citizenship will receive funding to advance her research into the causes of political polarization.
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Amy Fairchild Receives Mellon Foundation Grant for Project Focused on Pandemic Backlash, Public Health

The project uses humanities methods to document and explore pandemic backlash and the experiences of public health officials.
Thomas Keck

Thomas Keck Named a 2024 Guggenheim Fellow

The prestigious honor will support the Maxwell political scientist’s research on judicial responses to free speech restrictions in the United States and Europe.
Tessa Murphy

Mellon Foundation Names Tessa Murphy a New Directions Fellow

The honor comes with funding for training for qualitative analysis of archival information in her research of people who were enslaved in British Crown Colonies.

Research Support Services

The Maxwell Research Office provides support and resources for identifying internal and external funding sources, writing and submitting grant applications, and managing awards.

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Portrait of Haowei Wang

Nov 27, 2024

Older Adults’ Descendants and Family Networks in the Context of Global Educational Expansion

Aging, Child & Elder Care

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Austin Zwick

Nov 27, 2024

Emerging Regulation of GHG Emissions in the Transportation-for-Hire Industry

Europe, Infrastructure, International Agreements, Latin America & the Caribbean, State & Local, Sustainability, United States

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Odlanyer Hernandez de Lara

Nov 25, 2024

Hernández de Lara article published in Revista Científica De Arquitectura Y Urbanismo

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Daniel McDowell

Nov 19, 2024

The Impact of Inflation on Support for Kamala Harris in the 2024 Presidential Election

Economic Policy, U.S. Elections, United States