Congratulations to Allen Hicken for being awarded $3 million in funding to lead a Minerva Project!
The Minerva Research Initiative, a university-based social science research initiative sponsored by the U.S. Department of Defense, has awarded more than $3 million in funding for a research project led by Allen Hicken, a University of Michigan professor of Political Science and a research professor at the Center for Political Studies at the Institute for Social Research.
Hicken will oversee the project team that includes Dan Slater, James Orin Murfin Professor of Political Science at the University of Michigan and also an affiliate of the Center for Political Studies; Thomas Pepinsky, Walter F. LaFeber Professor of Government at Cornell University, and Anil Menon, U-M Political Science Ph.D. Alumni and Assistant Professor of Political Science at the University of California, Merced.
The project was one of 19 university-based proposals selected by the Minerva Research Initiative, which announced $46.8 million in grants this year to support research in social and behavioral sciences on topics relevant to future challenges and U.S. national security.
