Schilde Receives Hariri Research Incubation Award
Kaija Schilde, Associate Professor of International Relations at the Frederick S. Pardee School of Global Studies at Boston University, has received a Research Incubation Award (RIA) from the Rafik B. Hariri Institute for Computing.
Schilde received the award for her project entitled “Hiding the State: Outsourcing Security to Avoid Transparency and Accountability”
The RIA program is immensely popular, and highly competitive with Karra’s project only one of 12 that the Hariri Institute selected for funding for its Spring 2019 solicitation.
The goal of the Hariri Institute Research Incubation Awards Program is to support a portfolio of early-stage research projects with significant potential to cultivate new collaborations and to enable follow-on extramural funding in the near future. These goals are highly aligned with the Hariri Institute’s mission as an incubator which is set up to initiate, analyze, and propel transformative computational and data-driven research across the landscape of academic disciplines at BU. As an incubator, the Hariri Institute sees itself not only as a funding source, but more so as a partner.
Kaija E. Schilde is Assistant Professor at the Boston University Pardee School of Global Studies. Her primary research interests involve the political economy of security and transatlantic security. Her book, The Political Economy of European Security (Cambridge University Press, 2017) investigates the state-society relations between the EU and interest groups, with a particular focus on security and defense institutions, industries, and markets.