Tara Grillos
Please join me in congratulating Tara Grillos, assistant professor of political science, for winning a $632,188 grant from the National Science Foundation for a project where she will serve as principal investigator.
Tara and co-PI Michael Touchton of the University of Miami will conduct research in Kenya in partnership with Innovations for Poverty Action and the Elgeyo-Marakwet County Government. Their findings will inform the creation of a new participatory budgeting initiative in Elgeyo-Marakwet, and the research will be relevant to policymakers and practitioners implementing participatory processes around the world.
The project, “Collective Decision Making and Local Public Good Provision: Experimental Evidence,” builds upon Tara’s previous research that the College of Liberal Arts funded with an Exploratory Research in the Social Sciences Grant.
Congratulations, Dr. Grillos!
David A. Reingold
Justin S. Morrill Dean
College of Liberal Arts