We are proud to share that Angelica Remache Lopez , PhD candidate in Political Science, has been selected as a Spring 2026–2027 Diversity Fellow by the American Political Science Association (APSA). In addition, she has been recognized with an Outstanding Graduate Student Instructor (GSI) Award for her excellence in teaching. Congratulations Angelica on these well-deserved honors! Learn more about the APSA Diversity Fellow Program here...
Grad Awards & Grants
PhD candidate Anna Closas will begin a Postdoctoral Prize Research Fellowship in Politics at Nuffield College, University of Oxford, on September 1, 2026. Congratulations Anna!
We are delighted to share that PhD candidates Lily Medina and Johanna Reyes will begin positions in July 2026 as Postdoctoral Fellows at the Identity and Conflict Lab at Yale University , where they will work with Professor Nicholas Sambanis . Congratulations Lily and Johanna! Learn more about Yale's Identity and Conflict Lab here .
UC Berkeley Political Science PhD candidate Margaret Kenney will serve as a postdoctoral fellow at Princeton University’s Niehaus Center during the 2026–27 academic year and will join the University of Georgia as an Assistant Professor in Fall 2027. Congratulations Margaret!
Political Science PhD candidate Rebekah Jones has accepted an Assistant Professor position at Johns Hopkins University’s School of Government and Policy, beginning Fall 2027. She will serve as a postdoctoral fellow at Princeton University’s Center for the Study of Democratic Politics during AY 2026–27. Congratulations Rebekah!
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...
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.