Books and Publications
• In her new book, "Constitutional Engagement in a Transnational Era" (Oxford University Press, 2009), law professor
Vicki Jackson explores how treaties, customary international law, the decisions of foreign or international tribunals and other transnational influences affect understanding of constitutions and of courts deciding constitutional cases. Jackson, an associate dean and Carmack Waterhouse Professor of Constitutional Law, analyzes currents of convergence, resistance and engagement with the transnational in constitutions and constitutional law in the United States, Australia, Canada, Colombia, France, Germany, India, Israel, South Africa and elsewhere.
Research Grants
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YuYe Tong, associate professor of chemistry, received a $450,000 grant from the National Science Foundation for the project "International Collaboration in Chemistry: Nanoscale Single Crystal Ensemble Electrocatalysis for Fuel Cell Applications." The professor will work with a counterpart in China to develop a new paradigm of research for studying nanoscale electrocatalysts.
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James Freericks, professor of physics, and
Marcos Rigol Madrazo, assistant professor of physics, received a $750,000 grant from the National Science Foundation for their project "Collaborative Research: Development of Efficient Petascale Algorithms for Inhomogeneous Quantum-Mechanical Systems." The project will fund an interdisciplinary team to look at problems of inhomogeneous quantum mechanics.
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Mehran Kamrava, interim dean of the School of Foreign Service-Qatar, will use $45,872 from the Qatar National Research Fund for "Conflict Resolution by Qatar and Saudi Arabia: New Roles in Regional Diplomacy." The research examines the causes, processes and likely sustainability of conflict resolution efforts by Qatar and Saudi Arabia.
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Doris Goldstein, director of the Kennedy Institute of Ethics’s library and information services and
Frieda Wiebe, director of the School of Foreign Service-Qatar’s library, received a $349,999 from the Qatar National Research Fund for their project "Developing an Information Resource to Support Research on Islamic Medical and Scientific Ethics." The funds will be used to add contemporary writings covering Islamic views on medical ethics to the university’s libraries.
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Alexis Antoniades, visiting assistant professor of economics, received a $350,000 from the Qatar National Research Fund for "Understanding Inflation and its Implications for GCC Countries Using Highly Disaggregated Data." The research explores understanding of inflation measures, examines the consequences of a common currency and monetary authority and evaluates prices of identical goods across regions.
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Susan Martin, the Herzberg Professor of International Migration, received $325,201 from the Barrow Cadbury Trust for her project "Undocumented Migrant Children." Martin will identify and present recommendations to address problems facing undocumented migrant children and the challenges facing the communities in which they reside.
