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- The Society for the Scientific Study of Religion ($4,950), Jack Shand Research Grant, 2022.
- Institute of International Education’s Scholar Rescue Fund ($25,000), Vartan Gregorian Research Grant, 2022.
- Institute for National Security and Counterterrorism, Syracuse Univ. ($3,104), Andrew Berlin Family National Security Research Fund, 2018.
- Violet Jabara Charitable Trust ($20,000), Principal Investigator (PI): “Post-Revolutionary Iran: A Political Handbook,” 2016.
- Princeton University’s Mossavar-Rahmani Center for Iran and Persian Gulf Studies ($5,000), Co-PI for “Iran Data Portal Support Grant” (with Mirjam Künkler), 2014.
- Social Science Research Council ($142,000), Co-PI for “Iran Social Science Information Project” (with Mirjam Künkler), 2009-2011 (two back-to-back awards).
- United States Institute of Peace ($81,133), PI for “Iran’s Heavenly Chorus: The Political Elite of a Theocratic State,” 2008-2009.
- Conference Grant, “Mirror for the Muslim Prince: Islam and the Theory of Statecraft” ($12,000), Syracuse University Ray Smith Symposium, 2005.
- Appleby-Mosher Fund Grants, Maxwell School of Citizenship, Syracuse University ($5,000) total for five separate grants, 1988-2006.
- Merrick & Company ($10,000), Sponsorship grant for the National Security Executive Education Program, Virginia Tech, 2021.
- Carnegie Corporation of New York ($20,000), Grant to support a conference on Iranian foreign policy decision-making and negotiation held at the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) in Washington, DC, 2014.
- Association for Iranian Studies: As President of the organization, I raised over $60,000 from Roshan Cultural Heritage Institute, Foundation for Iranian Studies, McGill University, Concordia University, Tourisme Montreal, and private donors for the 2014 biennial conference of the association held in Montreal, 2014.
- Private Donors ($500,000), raised funds from Syracuse Univ. alumni to support the Middle Eastern Studies Program, 2006-2014.
- Social Science Research Council ($50,000), Co-PI for “The Shari’a, Laws of War and Post-Conflict Justice Project” (with William Banks and Keith Bybee), Institute for National Security and Counterterrorism, Syracuse University, 2011-2013.
- United States Department of Education ($179,000), Co-PI for “Strengthening the Middle Eastern Studies Program at Syracuse University,” Undergraduate International Studies and Foreign Language Program (with Miriam Elman), 2009-2011.
- Henry Luce Foundation ($370,000), co-pi for “Religion, Media & International Affairs” (with Tazim Kassam & Gustav Niebuhr), 2006-2009.
- Institute of International Education ($125,000) PI, Scholar Rescue Fund Matching-sum Fellowship Grants. These funds allowed me to bring four persecuted Middle Eastern scholars to Syracuse University, 2004-2008, 2016.
- Council for International Exchange of Scholars, Fulbright Visiting Specialist Program: Direct Access to the Muslim World, 2004.
- Syracuse University, member of the team that designed and developed the Leaders of Democracy Fellows program proposal to the U.S. Department of State’s Middle East Partnership Initiative which led to a multi-million-dollar nine-year program; also lead faculty for the Politics of the Middle East element of the program, 2007-2016.
