Offered by Center on Democracy, Development, and the Rule of Law
CDDRL is pleased to invite applications for its 2026 summer undergraduate research program, through funding provided by Stanford’s Vice Provost for Undergraduate Education and CDDRL.
Provide in-classroom support to high school students and facilitate socioemotional learning opportunities at our partner high school, Menlo-Atherton High School.
The Abbasi Program invites proposals from continuing undergraduate, co-term and graduate students for projects pertaining to the study of Islam as well as Muslim-majority or Muslim-minority communities and societies.
Field experiment testing how refugee entrepreneurs rebuild business networks: does helping with first contact or sustaining follow-up matter more? Summer 2026 in Uganda with ~450 participants.
Education reforms are framed as advancing gender equality, yet even highly repressive states adopt gender-rights language. This project explains why, and examines how governments define gender rights and which areas they stress or sidestep.
Migrant worker families are vital to the U.S. food system yet face health, legal, and social risks. This project studies migrant families from Mexico in California, focusing on child labor, schooling, health care access, and environmental impacts.
This project will use machine learning to identify risk factors and causes of stillbirth from verbal autopsies collected in Bangladesh, India and Pakistan.
Countries of the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) have struggled to achieve levels of economic growth on par with emerging economies in other parts of the world. How can we characterize economic development trajectories in the MENA region?
