CARNEGIE SCHOLARS LIST
An alphabetical list of Carnegie Scholars organized by the year during which their grant began.
Year Scholar Affiliation Amount Project Title Stephen Massachusetts Institute 2000 Ansolabehere of Technology $93,100 The Rise of Money in American Elections
Ideal Vouchers, Ideal Charter School Tuition: Price University Mechanisms That Solve 2000 Caroline Hoxby Harvard University $49,300 Problems Potentially Created by School Choice
Richard New Emissaries and No Emissaries: The 2000 Langhorne Rutgers University $100,000 Representation of New Voices in Global Politics
Steven University of North Forgotten Superpower: The Economic Case for 2000 Rosefielde Carolina $100,000 Arms Control and the Russian Federation
What Money Can Buy: Markets, Morals, and 2000 Michael Sandel Harvard University $100,000 Civic Life
2000 Ian Shapiro Yale University $99,900 Democracy and Distribution in the United States
School Reform, Corporate Style: The Nexus of Politics, Business and Education Change in 2000 Dorothy Shipps Baruch College $74,200 Twentieth Century Chicago
A Plague Upon the Nations? Proliferation Concerns from the Former Soviet Bioweapons 2000 Kathleen Vogel Cornell University $78,400 Complex
A Study of the Political and Economic Determinants of Africa’s Development Experience, with Emphasis on Governance and 2001 Robert Bates Harvard University $95,237 Conflict
Public vs. Private Security Forces and The Rule of Massachusetts Institute Law: The Transformation of Policing in South 2001 Diane E. Davis of Technology $99,100 Africa, Russia and Mexico
Georgi M. The Globalization of Mafia Enterprise: From 2001 Derluguian Northwestern University $89,991 Diagnosis to Civil Society Counteraction
Georgetown University 2001 Laura Donohue Law $99,440 Security and Freedom in the Face of Terrorism Matthew Will Russia Go the Way of the Soviet Union? 2001 Evangelista Cornell University $97,700 Lessons of the Chechen Wars
Economic Policy 2001 Jeff Faux Institute $100,000 Toward a North American Social Contract
Promotion and Graduation Tests: How Do They Affect Student Learning and Progress and How 2001 Jay Heubert Columbia University $100,000 Can Proper Test Use be Promoted?
Benjamin University of California, African American Representation in the U.S. 2001 Highton Davis $100,000 Congress
Donald Constitutional Design for Severely Divided 2001 Horowitz Duke University $100,000 Societies
Institute of Development Widening Global Income Gaps: Causes, 2001 Richard Jolly Studies $99,800 Remedies, and Policy Proposals
The UN in Conflict Resolution: The Role of the 2001 James Jonah $78,689 International Civil Servant
Institutions, Integration, and Geography: The Analytics and Empirics of International 2001 Dani Rodrik Harvard University $100,000 Development
University of Civic Horizons: Achieving Democratic 2001 Rogers M. Smith Pennsylvania $99,340 Citizenship in Modern America
Nina The Sociology of Danger: Weapons 2001 Tannenwald Brown University $99,600 Stigmatization in International Politics
Our Own Worst Enemy? Bureaucratic Organizational, and Political Constraints on U.S. Efforts to Combat the Proliferation of Weapons 2001 Sharon Weiner Princeton University $100,000 Expertise in the Former Soviet Union
Amy Stuart In Search of Uncommon Schools: Charter School 2001 Wells Columbia University $56,967 Reform in Historical Perspective
Europe’s Long Struggle with Ethnic Conflict: Central European From the League of Nations to the European 2002 Erin Jenne University $81,893 Union
2002 Carol Lancaster Georgetown University $75,750 Fifty Years of Foreign Aid: An Analytical History
Color-Blind Affirmative Action: Assessing the Trade-off between Efficiency and Representativeness in College Admissions in a 2002 Glenn Loury Brown University $100,000 World without Racial Preferences Pre-Eighteenth Century Muslim Women’s The University of Scholarship and Social Activism in West and 2002 Beverly Mack Kansas $98,600 North Africa
Constitutional Configurations of the Past: A Comparative Study of India, Israel, South Africa, 2002 Uday S. Mehta Amherst College $100,000 and the U.S.
Islam and the Politics, Foreign Policy, and 2002 Rajan Menon $100,000 National Security of the Russian Federation
School Accountability in the U.S. and Germany: Heinrich University of California, Learning from Common Challenges and Different 2002 Mintrop Berkeley $99,845 Paths
Developing a Database and Mapping Program to Evaluate the Role Played by the Tazara Railroad 2002 Jamie Monson $93,220 in the Rural Development of Southern Tanzania
Sharyn More than the License Plates: Majority-Minority 2002 O’Halloran Columbia University $100,000 Voting Districts and Representative Democracy
Race in American Life: What It Is, What It 2002 Adolph L. Reed $96,442 Isn’t/How It Works, How It Doesn’t
James A. Understanding the Institutional Determinants of 2002 Robinson Harvard University $100,000 Comparative Development
When Cultures Collide: The Multicultural 2002 Richard Shweder University of Chicago $100,000 Challenge in Liberal Democracies
Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs, Syracuse 2002 Brian D. Taylor University $100,000 State Power and Russia’s Regions
Stacking the Bench: The Politics and Process of 2003 Sarah A. Binder Brookings Institution $100,000 Federal Judicial Selection
Council on Foreign With Us or Against Us? The Making of US Policy 2003 Rachel Bronson Relations $100,000 Toward Saudi Arabia 1945 to the Present
The Technopolitics of Information Infrastructure in South Africa: Apartheid, Regime Change and 2003 Paul Edwards University of Michigan $94,800 Legitimate Sovereignty
David B. 2003 Edwards Williams College $98,035 Civil Society and Terrorism in Afghanistan
2003 James K. University of Texas $99,959 Global Inequality and Financial Disorder: The Galbraith Need for a New System
Michael Islam, Citizenship and Identity in Indonesia, 2003 Gilsenan $59,548 Malaysia and Singapore
2003 Stephen Holmes New York University $94,000 A New Approach to Russian Legal Reform
A Reevaluation of Three School Voucher 2003 Alan B. Krueger Princeton University $99,232 Experiments
Images of Good Students and Good Classrooms: Teachers College Enhancing Teacher Awareness of Their Own and 2003 Xiaodong Lin Columbia University $100,000 Student Cultural Beliefs
2003 Daniel N. Posner UCLA $100,000 Ethnicity and Africa’s Growth Tragedy
2003 Darius Rejali Reed College $100,000 Approaches to Violence: A Citizen’s Toolkit
Diagnosing New Dangers: A Sociology of 2003 Ian Roxborough Stony Brook University $99,318 Military Strategy and Threat Assessment
Promoting Public Understanding of the American 2004 Larry Bartels Princeton University $100,000 Electoral Process
2004 Bill Berkeley The New York Times $100,000 The Iran Hostage Crisis: A Reconsideration
A Sociological Study of the Islamicization of University of Illinois at Chicago’s Arab Community: Implications for 2004 Louise Cainkar Chicago $100,000 Democratic Integration
Christopher Massachusetts Institute Uncle Sam Wants You: Political Obligations in 2004 Capozzola of Technology $93,000 World War I America
University of Notre Islam, Identity and Conflict in Central Asia and 2004 Kathleen Collins Dame $100,000 the Caucuses
2004 Adeed Dawisha Miami University $99,906 The Resuscitation of Iraqi Democracy
Between Power and Principle: A Political Theory 2004 Oona Hathaway Yale University $100,000 of International Law
Globalization and its Mal(e)contents: The Gendered Moral and Political Economy of the 2004 Michael Kimmel $99,079 Extreme Right
Michael E. Johns Hopkins America the Hegemon: The United States in The 2004 Mandelbaum University $100,000 World of the Twenty-First Century
2004 Robert A. Pape University of Chicago $100,000 The Strategic Logic of Suicide Terrorism 2004 Richard Pildes New York University $98,000 The Constitutionalization of Democratic Politics
The Relationship Between Economic Growth and 2004 Gustav Ranis Yale University $99,790 Human Development
Hispanic Students’ Achievement in the Elementary Grades: Effects of Immigration Status, 2004 Sean Reardon Stanford University $100,000 English Proficiency, and Language Policy
Local Control and Federal Reform: The Politics of 2004 Douglas Reed Georgetown University $100,000 Implementing No Child Left Behind
Elizabeth Sherwood- Transforming Transatlantic Relations: A New 2004 Randall $100,000 Agenda for a New Era
Carrie Rosefsky The Path to Moderation: Lessons from the 2004 Wickham Emory University $100,000 Evolution of Islamism in the Middle East
Khaled M. Abou Reconstituting Jihad: From Making War to 2005 El Fadl $100,000 Constructing Peace
Washington University 2005 John R. Bowen in St. Louis $100,000 Shaping French Islam
University of Justice in Education: Principles and Institutional 2005 Harry Brighouse Wisconsin–Madison $87,000 Reform
After the American Century: Globalism and the Brian T. Circulation of “American Civilization” in North 2005 Edwards Northwestern University $100,000 Africa and the Middle East
Women's Foreign Policy A seminar series on Islam highlighting Carnegie 2005 Patricia E. Ellis Group $25,000 Scholars
Noah R. 2005 Feldman Harvard Law School $100,000 Constitutional Change in the Islamic World
Emergent Forms of Life, Deep Play, and Ethical Plateaus in the Social and Technoscientific Michael M. J. Massachusetts Institute Infrastructures: Shaping Muslim Democratic 2005 Fischer of Technology $100,000 Futures
Sohail H. Islamic International Law and Public International 2005 Hashmi Mount Holyoke College $100,000 Law: Convergence or Dissonance?
2005 Bernard Haykel Princeton University $100,000 Saudi Arabia and the Global Salafi Movement
Partisans of Allah: Meanings of Jihad in South 2005 Ayesha Jalal Tufts University $100,000 Asia Amaney A. Citizenship, Political Agency, and Democracy in 2005 Jamal Princeton University $98,500 the Arab World: The Mediating Effects of Islam
Ebrahim E.I. Inside Madrasas: The ‘Ulama Search for 2005 Moosa Duke University $99,915 Authenticity
2005 Charles Payne University of Chicago $82,650 School Reform in International Perspective
2005 Lawrence Rosen Princeton University $100,000 Everyday Muslim Thought and its Encounters
Elizabeth F. 2005 Thompson University of Virginia $99,900 Seeking Justice in the Middle East
Muhammad Internal Criticism and Religious Authority in 2005 Qasim Zaman Princeton University $100,000 Modern Islam
Asma University of Notre Striving in the Path of God: Discursive Traditions 2006 Afsaruddin Dame $100,000 on Jihad and the Cult of Martyrdom
Defying Islamic Conformity: Skeptics, Heretics 2006 Abbas Amanat Yale University $100,000 and Rebelling Dervishes
Said A. Islam and Constitutional Reconstruction in the 2006 Arjomand Stony Brook University $100,000 Middle East
The Contemporary Islamic Wassatteyya Raymond W. (Mainstream): Understanding the Resilience and 2006 Baker Trincoll College $98,300 Appeal of Islam in a Global Age
Arbitrating Identity: High Courts and the Politics of Islamic-Liberal Reconciliation in the Muslim 2006 Eva R. Bellin Hunter College $96,300 World
Zvi Ben-Dor 2006 Benite New York University $100,000 Islam and the Emergence of Modern China
Highlighting and disseminating the work of the 2006 Debra Chasman Boston Review $75,000 Carnegie Scholars program
Devin A. Historical and Critical Perspectives on Islam in 2006 DeWeese Indiana University $100,000 Central Asia
Science and Secularism in the Arab World after 2006 Marwa Elshakry Harvard University $97,000 Darwin
2006 Fawaz A. Gerges Sarah Lawrence College $100,000 The Intra-Jihadist War
Kambiz A History of Islam in America Since the Colonial 2006 GhaneaBassiri Reed College $98,900 Period Ellis Jay University of Sovereignty, Community and Citizenship in 2006 Goldberg Washington $100,000 Contemporary Arab Political Thought
Marion Holmes Contesting the Mosque: Debates over Muslim 2006 Katz New York University $85,100 Women’s Ritual Access
Understanding Soviet Islam: The Roots of 2006 Adeeb Khalid Carleton College $100,000 Contemporary Central Asia
Remapping the Cultural Geography of Iran: Islam, 2006 Farzaneh Milani University of Virginia $100,000 Women, and Mobility
2006 Yitzhak Nakash Brandeis University $100,000 Governance and Leadership in Modern Islam
Gauging the Prospects for the Rise of “Muslim Democratic” Political Parties and Platforms in 2006 Vali Nasr Tufts University $100,000 Muslim Democracies
Jen’nan Ghazal Multiple Identities and Muslim American Political 2006 Read Duke University $100,000 Incorporation
Abdulaziz Islam and Human Rights: A Clash of 2006 Sachedina University of Virginia $85,000 Universalisms
Christian Evangelism and Western Imperialism in the Modern Middle East: The Long-Term Heather J. University of Consequences of American Missionary 2006 Sharkey Pennsylvania $93,000 Encounters with Muslims
The New Enlightenment: How Muslim Women University of Chicago Are Bringing Religion and Culture Out of the 2006 Madhavi Sunder Law School $100,000 Dark Ages
The Graduate Center, City University of New In Their Own Image: Americans and Middle 2007 Beth Baron York $100,000 Eastern Muslim Women
2007 Ahmad S. Dallal Georgetown University $79,600 Islam, Science and the Challenge of History
Islam and the Formation of Political Identities in Rutgers, The State Post-Ba’thist Iraq: Implications for a Democratic 2007 Eric Davis University of New Jersey $98,800 Transition
Finbarr Barry The Trouble with Images: “Cartoon Wars” in 2007 Flood New York University $98,500 Context
Karen J. A series of public conferences on Western and 2007 Greenberg New York University $49,100 Islamic theories of law
2007 Robert W. Boston University $73,800 Islamic Education and Democratization in Hefner Indonesia
Weatherhead Center for International Affairs, Empires through Diasporic Eyes: The U.S., 2007 Engseng Ho Harvard University $100,000 Militant Islamism, Indian Ocean Precedents
Counter-Terrorism, Speech, Regulation, and 2007 Aziz Z. Huk New York University $100,000 Muslim Minorities in the West
2007 Jytte Klausen Brandeis University $100,000 European Muslims and the Secularization of Islam
Ricardo René 2007 Laremont Binghamton $100,000 Islamic Law and Politics in Nigeria, 1803–2007
Clark B. University of Muslim Judges as a New Voice in Islamic 2007 Lombardi Washington $100,000 Discourse
University of California, 2007 Saba Mahmood Berkeley $100,000 Defining the Secular in the Modern Middle East
Khalid M. Joining Jihad: A Comparative Political Economy 2007 Medani McGill University $99,800 of Islamist Militancy and Recruitment
2007 Ali Mirsepassi New York University $100,000 Western Influence on Political Islam
Carnegie Council for Ethics in International A seminar series on Islam featuring Carnegie 2007 Joanne Myers Affairs $25,000 Scholars
2007 David S. Powers Cornell University $100,000 Wifely (Dis)obedience in Muslim Societies
University of Southern Punishment and Appropriate Justice in Islamic 2007 Megan H. Reid California $99,400 Societies
University of North Reforming Islam in the “Axis of Evil”: Contesting 2007 Omid Safi Carolina $100,000 Islam in Post Revolutionary Iran
Elora Women at the Muslim Center: Islamist Ideals and 2007 Shehabuddin Rice University $89,000 Democratic Exigencies
Islam is the Religion of My State: A Study of the Competing Interpretations of a Widespread 2007 Kristen Stilt Northwestern University $100,000 Constitutional Provision in the Muslim World
The Center for African Negotiating Democracy in Muslim Contexts: Leonardo Studies, University of Political Liberalization and Religious 2007 Villalon Florida $89,800 Mobilization in the West African Sahel
Financial Practices and Networks in Islamic 2007 Ibrahim Warde $96,000 Countries: Implications for the Financial War on Terror
Lila Abu- Do Muslim Women Have Rights? An 2008 Lughod Columbia University $92,200 Anthropologist’s View
2008 Hisham Aidi Columbia University $98,200 Identity, Inclusion and Muslim Youth
North Carolina State Holy Ground: Strategies of Sharing Islamic 2008 Anna Bigelow University $100,000 Sacred Spaces
Kanchan 2008 Chandra $84,900 Islam and Democracy: The Effect of Institutions
Indiana University- Edward E. Curtis Purdue University The Transnational History of African American 2008 IV Indianapolis $97,200 Islam
The Experience of War: Muslims in the Middle 2008 Leila Fawaz Tufts University $100,000 East and South Asia, 1914–1920
Re-Thinking Secularism and Sectarianism in the 2008 Michael Gasper Yale University $100,000 Lebanese Civil War (1975–1990)
The Continuation of the Philosophical Tradition 2008 Frank Griffel Yale University $100,000 within Muslim Theology
Charles University of California, The “Moorish Problem” and the Politics of 2008 Hirschkind Berkeley $98,000 Multiculturalism in Spain
Bruce B. Christian and Muslim minorities as secular 2008 Lawrence Duke University $100,000 citizens in Africa and Asia
Framing Islam: How Media Cover Muslims & 2008 Susan Moeller University of Maryland $100,000 Terrorism—and Why That Matters
Islamic Law and Legal Contention in Egypt, 2008 Tamir Moustafa Simon Fraser University $100,000 Pakistan, and Malaysia
Tahera Classical Arabic Oratory: The Politics and 2008 Qutbuddin University of Chicago $100,000 Rhetoric of Public Address in the Islamic World
The American University The Redefinition of Shari’a in Modern Egyptian 2008 Amr Shalakany in Cairo $95,500 Legal Thought: 1798–Present
The Ethnic Politics of Muslim Secularism: North 2008 Paul Silverstein Reed College $95,752 Africa at the Crossroads
2008 Monica Toft Harvard University $100,000 Religion, Islam and Civil Wars
2008 Muhammad S. Northwestern University $100,000 Pragmatism and Pluralism in the Traditional Umar Islamic Thought of al-Shaykh Ibrahim Saleh of Nigeria
Ashutosh Ethnocommunal Conflict, Civil Society and the 2008 Varshney University of Michigan $100,000 State
State Power and Islamic Authority: A 2009 Hussein Agrama University of Chicago $100,000 Comparative Ethnography of the Fatwa
Abdullahi Ahmed An- Emory University School Enhancing Citizenship: American Muslims and 2009 Na’im of Law $75,000 American Secularism
University of Southern Islam vs. Nationalism in Arab State Post- 2009 Laurie Brand California $98,500 Independence Narratives
George Washington 2009 Nathan J. Brown University $99,200 Islamist movements in Arab Politics
2009 Richard Bulliet Columbia University $99,800 Islam and Military Rule
The Migration of Islamist Militancy to Urban 2009 Nora Ann Colton Drew University $100,000 Poverty Belts
Muslims without Borders?: Empires, States, and Transnational Communities from the Caucasus to 2009 Robert Crews Stanford University $100,000 the Hindu Kush
2009 Dale Eickelman Dartmouth College $100,000 Mainstreaming Islam: Taking Charge of the Faith
Mona El- 2009 Ghobashy Barnard College $100,000 Petition and Protest in Authoritarian Egypt
Children of the Revolution: Iran and America 2009 John Ghazvinian $100,000 from the Mayflower to the Mullahs
Susannah The Monotheistic Triangle: Judaism and Islam in 2009 Heschel Dartmouth College $100,000 the Modern Christian World
University of Illinois at Islamic Sectarianism Reconsidered: Ibadi Islam in 2009 Valerie Hoffman Urbana-Champaign $92,700 the Modern Age
2009 Asim Khwaja Harvard Kennedy School $100,000 The Hajj: Islam’s Global Gathering
2009 Miriam Lowi Princeton University $99,400 Islam and Oil: The Economy of Meaning
Rice University A Mutual Concern: U.S.–Arab Relations 1820– 2009 Ussama Makdisi University $100,000 1920
2009 Tarek Masoud Harvard Kennedy School $100,000 Why Islam Wins: Electoral Ecologies of Political Islam in Four Muslim-Majority Countries
University of Lost in Non-Translation: What’s missing when we 2009 Asifa Quraishi Wisconsin–Madison $100,000 say “shari’a”
Islamic Criminal Law and Legal Change: The 2009 Intisar Rabb Yale University $75,000 Internal Critique
Understanding How the U.S. Government 2009 Samuel Rascoff New York University $100,000 Understands Islam
2009 Sadiq Reza New York Law School $99,600 Due Process in Islamic Criminal Law
Ideology and Architecture: Transnational 2009 Kishwar Rizvi Yale University $100,000 Mosques in the Contemporary Middle East
The Encounter Between Modern European 2009 George Saliba Columbia University $100,000 Science and Islamic Societies
Islamist Electoral and Parliamentary Participation 2009 Samer Shehata Georgetown University $100,000 in Egypt, Morocco, and Kuwait
Muslims in Western Parliaments: Muslim Abdulkader Minority Representation in Western Democratic 2009 Sinno Indiana University $99,500 Institutions
Thomas Jefferson’s Qu’ran: Islam and the 2009 Denise Spellberg University of Texas $100,000 Founders
Shirin Tahir- 2009 Kheli $75,000 America and the Muslim World After 9/11
2009 Mark Tessler University of Michigan $100,000 Arab Attitudes Toward the Political Role of Islam
Yvonne Yazbeck Sayyid Qutb: From Village Boy to Islamist 2009 Haddad Georgetown University $100,000 “Martyr”
Sacred Politics: Islam and the State in the Middle 2009 Malika Zeghal University of Chicago $100,000 East
Hussein Anwar Crusade for Jihad: Beyond Tolerance and 2010 Fancy University of Michigan $96,000 Intolerance in the Medieval Mediterranean