2024–2025 Recipients of Graduate Student Fellowships

Graduate student fellowships can provide one to two quarters of support in the form of tuition and a graduate student stipend for students pursuing dissertation research on topics related to global poverty and development. 

2024–2025 Academic Year

Ishita Ahmed, Social Sciences, Humanities, and Interdisciplinary Policy Studies in Education (SHIPS)
Roots of Learning: Grounding Executive Functions in Rural Bangladesh

Emilia Groupp, Department of Anthropology
Cultivating the Sun: Solar Development in Rural Tunisia

Jamie Hintson, Department of Political Science
Potemkin State-Building: Pathways to State Expansion in Contemporary Africa

Akhila Kovvuri, Department of Economics
Navigating Spatial and Social Barriers to Female Employment in India

Shantanu Nevrekar, Department of Anthropology
Banking on Community: Cooperative Credit, Caste, and Politics in India

Caylee O'Connor, Department of Economics
Can Unconditional Teacher Salary Increases Improve Education Quality? Evidence from the Dominican Republic

Alexa Russo, Department of Anthropology
Imagining Agrarian Futures: Sustainable Agriculture, Cooperatives, and Gender in India