PhD student Katharin Tai receives World Politics and Statecraft Fellowship
Fellowship awarded by the Smith Richardson Foundation
MIT Department of Political Science PhD Student Katharin Tai
Photo courtesy of Katharin Tai
MIT Department of Political Science PhD student Katharin Tai has been selected to receive a World Politics and Statecraft Fellowship by the Smith Richardson Foundation for PhD dissertation research on "The Paper Ghost in the High-Tech Machine: How Bureaucracies shape, limit and enable High-Tech Governance."
The Smith Richardson Foundation sponsors this annual grant competition to “support Ph.D. dissertation research on American foreign policy, international relations, international security, strategic studies, area studies, and diplomatic and military history.
“The purpose of the program is to strengthen the U.S. community of young scholars and researchers conducting policy analysis in these fields by supporting the research and writing of policy-relevant dissertations through funding of field work, archival research, and language training. In evaluating applications, the Foundation will accord preference to those projects that could directly inform U.S. policy debates and thinking, rather than dissertations that are principally focused on abstract theory or debates within a scholarly discipline.”
Up to twenty grants are awarded each year.