Next Generation of Scholars

Current and former students share their experience studying mosquito-borne viruses in the lab of Professor A. Desiree LaBeaud.

Mark Walsh received support from the King Center for his experiment studying why people are reluctant to share information about new technologies.

Former predoctoral fellow Myint discusses her research with King Center faculty affiliates and her overall experience as part of the inaugural cohort in the program.

Tocre discusses his experience and research projects as an inaugural member of the King Center's Predoctoral Research Fellows Program.

Multi-year datasets from the King Center’s African Urbanization and Development Research Initiative continue to inform research and policy insights in Ethiopia and Côte d’Ivoire.

Riaño discusses his research in political economy, namely bureaucratic nepotism and the politics of state capacity building.

With support from the King Center, Anirudh Sankar traveled to Uganda to study how small-holder farmers learn about farming practices through a novel irrigation system.

King Center support helped advance Bianca Santos’s research in Palau, where she is studying the impacts of climate change on small-scale fisheries.

Anna-Katharina von Krauland’s research on potential wind farm development in the US and India could help ease the transition to renewable energy.

King Center PhD funding recipient Kimberly Higuera’s research explores how the social status of immigrants is impacted by their decision to send money to relatives in Mexico.

Bowles discusses his research on electoral accountability, voter mobilization, and state capacity.

King Center fellowship recipient Pablo Seward Delaporte studies the tension between migrants in northern Chile and the government’s plans to resettle them.

King Center Graduate Student Research Funding recipient Feyaad Allie’s work uses both qualitative and quantitative data.

Research funding recipient Nina Buchmann is leading ground-breaking work to study and reduce discrimination and domestic violence in Bangladesh.

Crider discusses her research on WASH interventions in Bangladesh and Kenya, as well as her time spent at the King Center.

King Center graduate student research fellow Nicholas Lyon has studied urbanization in Uganda and Kenya and attitudes about LGBTQ+ rights.

Mabeu discusses her research on the relationship between colonial history, gender equity, and reproductive health across Africa.

King Center graduate student fellowship recipient Garrett Albistegui Adler, ’18, MA ’22, PhD is exploring the factors that might influence how people respond to climactic shocks.

What does it mean to make a school inclusive?

Christlee Doris Elmera, who works on a King Center initiative to reduce lead exposure, is drawn to the practical nature of research.