From grants and papers to conferences and awards, AU’s changemaking faculty are making an impact in their fields across DC and around the world. 

• Michael Brenner (CAS) was the only American named to the German commission reappraising the terrorist attack on Israeli athletes at the 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich.  

• Three SIS professors received distinguished scholar awards during the International Studies Association’s annual conference. Mohammed Abu-Nimer received the peace studies award, Amitav Acharya earned the global international relations award, and Miles Kahler was honored with the international political economy award. 

• Malini Ranganathan (SIS) received the Harold M. Rose Award for Anti-Racism Research and Practice from the American Association of Geographers. 

• Asia Thomas Uzomba (SOE) was selected as a postdoctoral fellow and assigned to a research staff led by professors Brian McGowan and Corbin Campbell, who are building a playbook for equity-based college teaching through a grant from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. 

• Anthony Fontes (SIS) won a Wenner-Gren grant to support his research on state-criminal collusion in Guatemala and its effect on Central American asylum seekers. 

• Scholar in residence Karen Baehler (SPA) served as senior editor of The Oxford Handbook of Governance and Public Management for Social Policy.