Launched in 2014, the Tenth Decade Project is a ten-year initiative that aims to focus attention on and celebrate the centennial of the Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs in 2024. Grant funding associated with the Tenth Decade Project operationalizes a defined goal of the Maxwell Academic Strategic Plan to “promote research involving faculty on innovative, high impact projects, applying social science methods and data analysis to address grand, global challenges such as democracy and civic engagement, inequality, urban poverty and development, governance and security, environmental change, and health policy.”

Active Funding Opportunities

Multidisciplinary Discovery

Funding: $5,000 to $25,000

Deadline: Rolling

A central theme of the Maxwell Academic Strategic Plan is multidisciplinary discovery. Thus, the funds associated with this Call for Proposals will support multidisciplinary research collaboration around themes identified in the strategic plan: citizenship, policy, and international affairs, including issues of security, technology and autonomous systems, health, governance, cities, inequality, development, and environment and sustainability. Applications are accepted and evaluated on a rolling basis. Click on the image below for full details.

Closed Funding Opportunities

Confronting Systemic Racial Inequality

Funding: $5,000 to $20,000

Deadline: April 30, 2021 (extended from September 30, 2020)

As part of Maxwell’s commitment to making our school, our university, and our communities more inclusive and just for all, this Special Call for Proposals invites research projects that bring attention to systemic racial inequality and offer evidence-based solutions for how to address persistent inequities. Click on the image below for full details.

Tenth Decade Project News

09/21/20: Jackson wins Tenth Decade grant to study Black Americans, group threat

10/02/19: Tenth Decade Fund supports new scholarly projects

Grants

Race, Risks, and Responses: Mapping Black Americans’ Responses to Group Threat

Jenn M. Jackson, Political Science

July 2020 | Confronting Systemic Racial Inequality

Moonlighting Politicians: Causes, Consequences, and Implications

Simon Weschle, Political Science

March 2020 | Multidisciplinary Discovery

Graduate Student Workshop: Religion, Law, and Politics in the Middle East

Yüksel Sezgin, Political Science

October 2019 | Multidisciplinary Discovery

Challenges to Sovereignty, Order, and Conflict: Multidisciplinary Working Group

Ryan Griffiths, Political Science

August 2019 | Multidisciplinary Discovery

The Impact of State Laws and Policies on the Developmental Disability Mortality Disadvantage: Creating a Comprehensive Database to Allow for Multi-Level Analysis

Scott Landes, Sociology and Aging Studies Institute

August 2019 | Multidisciplinary Discovery

Intellectual and Developmental Disability (IDD) Age at Death Tracker
Landes, S.D., McDonald, K.E., Wilmoth, J.M. and Carter Grosso, E. (2021), Evidence of continued reduction in the age-at-death disparity between adults with and without intellectual and/or developmental disabilities. J Appl Res Intellect Disabil, 34: 916-920. doi.org/10.1111/jar.12840
Landes, S.D., Wilmoth, J.M., McDonald, K.E., and Smith, A.N.. (2022), Racial-ethnic inequities in age at death among adults with/without intellectual and developmental disability in the United States, Preventive Medicine, 156. doi.org/10.1016/j.ypmed.2022.106985.

The United States and the World Workshop Series

Osamah Khalil, History

August 2019 | Multidisciplinary Discovery

Citizenship across Borders: An International Conference

Carol Faulkner, History

August 2019 | Multidisciplinary Discovery