PhD students Jerik Cruz, Angie Jo, Gabrielle Péloquin-Skulski, and Ye Zhang win APSA Awards
Jerik Cruz, Angie Jo, Gabrielle Péloquin-Skulski and Ye Zhang have won APSA awards for papers on science, technology, and environmental politics; state politics and policy; political communication; and comparative democratization.
Four MIT Political Science PhD students have won awards from the American Political Science Association:
Jerik Cruz has won the Paul A. Sabatier Best Conference Paper Award for Best Paper on Science, Technology, and Environmental politics presented at the previous year's APSA Annual Meeting. The title of his paper is “World Wide Webs: How Migrant Networks and Porous Bureaucracies Forged the Knowledge Economy in the Global South.”
Angie Jo has won the award for the Best Paper on State Politics and Policy Written Soley by a Graduate Student Author. The title of her paper is “Relief or Reform? Federal Crisis Funds and the State-Level Politics of Debt Restructuring.”
Gabrielle Péloquin-Skulski has won the Timothy Cook Best Paper on Political Communication. The title of her paper is “It Bleeds, It Doesn’t (Mis)lead: How Tone Shapes the Belief and Spread of Political (Mis)information.”
Ye Zhang '26 has won the award for the Best Paper on Comparative Democratization. The title of her paper is “Political Control in the Workplace: How Autocracies Discipline Workers Without Distorting Firm Behavior.”