We are delighted to announce that five of our graduate students were awarded dissertation prizes at our commencement celebration on May 22.
The Department of Government prize for the best dissertation on a topic of race, ethnicity/or migration and politics was awarded to Olivia Woldemikael for her dissertation, “The Local Consequences of Migration Policies in Latin America, Africa, and North America.”
The two Senator Charles Sumner Prizes are bestowed upon the best dissertations “from the legal, political, historical, economic, social, or ethnic approach, dealing with any means or measures tending toward the prevention of war and the establishment of universal peace”. Caterina Chiopris and Dimitri Halikias were awarded the two prizes for their respective dissertations on “Regional Inequalities and Spatial Integration: Essays on the Political Economy of Europe, 1629-2022” (Chiopris) and “Slaves without Masters: The Feudal Imagination and the Critique of Impersonal Domination” (Halikias).
The Edward M. Chase Prize for the best dissertation on a subject relating to the promotion of world peace was awarded to Andi Zhou for his essay, “The Causes and Consequences of Territorial Nationalism”.
Last, but by no means least, Tyler Simko won the Robert Noxon Toppan Prize for the best dissertation on a subject of political science with his paper “Geographic Policy Evaluation in US State and Local Politics”.
Well done to Olivia, Caterina, Dimitri, Andi, and Tyler for their fantastic work and contributions to their respective fields.