2025–2026 Recipients of Graduate Student Fellowships
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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.
2025–2026 Academic Year
| Name | School/Department | Project | Thematic Areas |
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| Daliah Al-Shakhshir | School of Business | The Work Permit Regime in Israel/Palestine: Socioeconomic and Political Dynamics | 
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| Alvaro Calderon | Department of Economics | Can the expansion of transportation infrastructure cause conflict? Evidence of hidden costs from Railroads Construction in 19th | 
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| Melissa Franco-Galicia | Department of Health Research & Policy | Mathematical models for cancer decision-making considering healthcare system and access constraints | 
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| Florencia Hnilo | Department of Economics | RCTs, Awareness, and Assignment Bias |
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| Akhila Kovvuri | Department of Economics | The Geography of Gender: Spatial Constraints to Women's Economic Opportunities in India | 
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| Venolia Rabodiba | Department of Anthropology | Assembling Regional Community: Infrastructural Triumphalism and (dis)connectivity in southern Africa |
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| Natalia Vasilenok | Department of Political Science | The Full-Scale Invasion of Ukraine and the Market for Political Ideas in Russia |
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