Political Science PhD candidate Sharik Laliwala has been awarded the APSA Religion and Politics Small Grants Award for his project “Political Demolition Cycle: Electoral Incentives and Muslim Housing Demolitions in Urban India.” The Religion & Politics section of the American Political Science Association supports small grants of up to approximately $2,500 for research that advances theoretical, empirical, and practical understanding of religion and politics. These...
Grad Awards & Grants
Political Science PhD candidate Sharik Laliwala has received a new NSF ACCESS-CI Allocation to support his project on digitizing India’s voter rolls using advanced supercomputing infrastructure. The ACCESS program provides researchers with computing and data resources to advance research and scholarship as part of the National Science Foundation’s cyberinfrastructure ecosystem. This new allocation is larger than his previous award and gives him expanded computational capacity...
Chloe Prendergast won a John Simpson Research Fellowship in International and Area Studies.
Sharik Laliwala won an NSF ACCESS grant to create usable datasets from India’s publicly-available voter rolls. Sharik also won a John Simpson Research Fellowship and a Global Democracy Commons grant to support his dissertation research.
Isabella Montini won an APSA-NSF Doctoral Dissertation Research Improvement Grant.
Sarah Daniel won a Reinhard Bendix/Allan Sharlin Fellowship to support her dissertation research.
Matt Brundage won the Franklin L. Burdette/Pi Sigma Alpha Award for the best paper presented at the previous year’s APSA conference. Matt also was selected as a Civil Justice and Innovation Fellow at Stanford Law School’s Rhode Center and as a Berkeley Empirical Legal Studies (BELS) Graduate Fellow.
Yosef Tadesse receives the John Simpson Research Fellowship to support his dissertation research.
In alumni news, Rachel Bernhard won a 1.5 million dollar grant from the European Research Council for her multi-year research agenda on the role of complexity in politics.
Ph.D. candidate Rebekah Jones has been selected as an Emerging Scholar by the Harry Frank Guggenheim Foundation in recognition of her dissertation research on how decentralization undermines justice in U.S. local governments. The award supports promising scholars whose work addresses issues of violence, conflict, and peace. Learn more about the scholars here . Congratulations, Rebekah!