news
Research
04 April 2017

Seven new research projects won by Graduate Institute researchers

March has been a happy month for research at the Graduate Institute.


March has been a happy month for research at the Graduate Institute as faculty members have won seven research grants.

Professor Nico Krisch, from the Department of International Law, has been awarded a prestigious ERC (European Research Council) consolidator grant for his project “The Paths of International Law: Stability and Change in the International Legal Order”.

Five faculty members have won SNSF (Swiss National Science Foundation) project grants:

  • Assistant Professor Filipe Calvão, from the Department of Anthropology and Sociology of Development, for a 36-month project entitled “Transparency: Qualities and Technologies of the Global Gemstone Industry”
  • Associate Professor Stephanie Hofmann, from the Department of International Relations/Political Science, for a 48-month project entitled To Save and To Defend: Global Normative Ambiguity and Regional Order
  • Professeur titulaire Marc Hufty, from Development Studies, for a 48-month project entitled “The Global Political Ecology of Lithium Commodity Chain (LITHIUM)”
  • Associate Professor Annabelle Littoz-Monnet, from the Department of International Relations/Political Science, for a 36-month project entitled “Explaining International Organizations’ Mission Creep: How International Bureaucrats Shape Bioethics”
  • Associate Professor Rahul Mukherjee, from the Department of International Economics, for a 36-month project entitled “Financial Globalization and Real Reallocation in the Market for Corporate Control”

Finally, Professor Davide Rodogno, from the Department of International History, has been a successful co-applicant, together with Professor Thomas David, from the University of Lausanne, and Professor Ludovic Tournès, from the University of Geneva, for a SNSF project entitled “Rockefeller Fellows as Heralds of Globalization: The Circulation of Elites, Knowledge, and Practices of Modernization (1920s–1970s).

The recent accomplishments of the Institute’s researchers in winning ERC projects and the increased success rate of their SNSF project submissions (50 percent success rate at the September 2016 call) are two very encouraging signs of the positive research dynamics at the Institute.