Ph.D. Candidates Marco M. Aviña and Julio S. Solís Arce have received the APSA Advancing Research Grants for Indigenous Politics. The grants are awarded to scholars dedicated to advancing understanding in Indigenous Studies, Indigenous Political Science, Sovereignty, Tribal Governance, and Native Studies, with grants ranging from $2,000 to $2,500. These funds will support diverse research…
Ph.D. candidate Andrew O’Donohue is chosen as a 2025 Harvard Horizons Scholar. Andrew is one of eight appointees – who are studying topics from photochemistry, youth psychotherapies, human learning artificial intelligence, and more. The group forms the twelfth class of the Society of Horizons Scholars, a fellowship cohort that offers opportunities for long-lasting community, mentorship,…
António Câmara, a third-year Ph.D. student, has been awarded a graduate research fellowship through the National Science Foundation (NSF). The NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Program (GRFP) recognizes and supports outstanding graduate students who have demonstrated the potential to be high-achieving scientists and engineers, early in their careers. The program aims to ensure the quality, vitality, and diversity…
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…
The Edmond & Lily Safra Center for Ethics has announced its 2024-25 fellows, with three current or former PhD students named Fellows-in-Residence and Graduate Fellows – as well as a number of our concentrators appointed as Undergraduate Fellows. Adriana Alfaro Altamirano – PhD alumni of the Department of Government – has been appointed a Fellow-in-Residence…
Recently graduated Ph. D. students, Naima Green-Riley and Andrew Leber, recently published Whose War is it Anyway? Explaining the Black-White Gap in Support for the Use of Force Abroad in the Security Studies Journal. This article started as a final paper for Professor Ansolabehere’s Public Opinion class and has culminated as a fresh take on…
The following dissertation awards were announced at the Department of Government’s doctorand reception on May 24. The Department of Government prize for the best dissertation on a topic of Race, Ethnicity/or Migration and Politics is awarded to Briitta van Staalduinen for her dissertation, “Ethnic Inequality in the Welfare State”. The Department of Government prize for the best…
Government professor, Joshua Kertzer, was named the John Zwaanstra Professor of International Studies and of Government. In addition to all the wonderful work he does as Director of Graduate Studies, he was also awarded the 2023 Harvard Joseph R. Levenson Memorial Teaching Prize for excellence in undergraduate teaching. Congratulations!…
Government PhD candidates Soren Dudley and Emma Ebowe were named Edmond J. Safra Graduate Fellows. Congratulations!…
Akshay Dixit, a PhD student in government and political economy, shared some of his findings regarding how Indians view equality and inequality with GSAS News….
