PhD Candidate Kathryn Dura receives a Jeanne Guillemin Prize from the Center for International Studies
Three PhD candidates receive Trailblazer Grants
PhD Student Research Grants are awarded by the MIT Center for International Studies to PhD candidates whose work focuses on international studies.
Political Science PhD candidate Kathryn Dura has received one of the two Jeanne Guillemin Prizes awarded this year by the MIT Center for International Studies for her research on "Perception, power, and innovation: Defense elites and the politics of emerging technologies." This prize is reserved for women pursuing doctoral studies in international affairs.
Three Political Science PhD candidates received Trailblazer Grants which will provide them resources for their particularly ambitious research projects:
Jingtian Chen: "The political origins of market structures in China, the European Union and the United States"
Christine Liu: "National power and global supply chains"
Terrence Roh: "Governing the periphery: Spatial fragmentation and collective action in Lima, Peru"
The following six Political Science PhD candidates received Student Research Grants:
- BreAnne Fleer, Political Science, "Who teaches the nation? Religious schooling and the politics of linguistic assimilation"
Darren Janz, Political Science, "Religious authority, Islamic revivalism, and political transformation in West Africa"
Fanisi Mbozi: Political Science, "From campaigns to construction: How campaign organization shapes public goods allocation"
Lucas Nobrega Augusto: "How social media reshapes political representation in Brazil"
Tyler Sagerstrom: "Global economic integration and public goods"
Lydia Shaw: "Merit, loyalty, and the architecture of governance: How bureaucratic state-building shaped modern Morocco"