Summer

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.

Apply machine learning to a novel WHO global dataset to define risk of mortality associated with clinical signs of illness in young infants

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?

We seek an RF to support studies on evidence-based global health interventions. The RF will contribute to lab activities. Current projects include housing health impacts, malaria prevention, and climate resilience metrics area.

Join Stanford peers and top Chinese students in Beijing for a three-week seminar that centers on culturally situated and arts-based approaches to qualitative data analysis through discussions, writing workshops, and field trips in China.