Next Generation of Scholars
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Pioneering research to fight gender-based violence
A postdoctoral fellow recounts her journey tying economic policy to social change.
December 07, 2023
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Undergraduate research assistants help expand entrepreneurial opportunities for refugees
Natalie Milan and Faith Zehfuss received King Center funding to research and help facilitate a 10-week entrepreneurship program for refugees in Uganda.
October 25, 2023
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Studying state expansion in sub-Saharan Africa
Jamie Hintson looks closely at public infrastructure projects in dozens of countries as a part of his King Center Graduate Student Research Funding.
October 17, 2023
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Q&A with King Center Postdoctoral Fellow Karmini Sharma
Sharma describes her research, which primarily focuses on the economics of gender, and talks about why she would recommend the King Center's Postdoctoral Fellows Program.
October 13, 2023
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King Center supports undergraduate student research in infectious disease lab
Current and former students share their experience studying mosquito-borne viruses in the lab of Professor A. Desiree LaBeaud.
September 25, 2023
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Examining barriers to communication in Pakistan
Mark Walsh received support from the King Center for his experiment studying why people are reluctant to share information about new technologies.
September 20, 2023
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Q&A with King Center Predoctoral Fellow Ei Thandar Myint
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.
September 05, 2023
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Q&A with King Center Predoctoral Fellow Diego Tocre
Tocre discusses his experience and research projects as an inaugural member of the King Center's Predoctoral Research Fellows Program.
August 01, 2023
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A long-term focus on growing cities in Africa
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.
July 17, 2023
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Q&A with King Center Postdoctoral Fellow Juan Felipe Riaño
Riaño discusses his research in political economy, namely bureaucratic nepotism and the politics of state capacity building.
June 20, 2023
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Toward a better theory of learning
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.
June 05, 2023
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Keeping an eye on an island nation’s marine life
King Center support helped advance Bianca Santos’s research in Palau, where she is studying the impacts of climate change on small-scale fisheries.
March 27, 2023
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Testing the winds
Anna-Katharina von Krauland’s research on potential wind farm development in the US and India could help ease the transition to renewable energy.
March 06, 2023
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Measuring the impact of remittances
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.
January 13, 2023
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Q&A with King Center Postdoctoral Fellow Jeremy Bowles
Bowles discusses his research on electoral accountability, voter mobilization, and state capacity.
November 28, 2022
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Rethinking asylum
King Center fellowship recipient Pablo Seward Delaporte studies the tension between migrants in northern Chile and the government’s plans to resettle them.
October 24, 2022
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Examining the marginalization of Muslims in India
King Center Graduate Student Research Funding recipient Feyaad Allie’s work uses both qualitative and quantitative data.
September 26, 2022
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Researcher takes aim at discrimination and intimate partner violence
Research funding recipient Nina Buchmann is leading ground-breaking work to study and reduce discrimination and domestic violence in Bangladesh.
September 12, 2022
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Q&A with King Center Postdoctoral Fellow Yoshika Crider
Crider discusses her research on WASH interventions in Bangladesh and Kenya, as well as her time spent at the King Center.
August 08, 2022
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Assessing social change in African countries
King Center graduate student research fellow Nicholas Lyon has studied urbanization in Uganda and Kenya and attitudes about LGBTQ+ rights.
July 25, 2022