Graduate Student Fellowship Recipients

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

2024–2025 Academic Year

Name	School/Department	Project	Thematic Areas
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

2023–2024 Academic Year

Name	School/Department	Project	Thematic Areas
Nina Buchmann	Department of Economics	Discrimination and Violence against Women -- Evidence from Bangladesh
Suhani Jalota	School of Medicine	What Works for Her? How Work-from-Home Digital Jobs Affect Female Labor Force Participation (With Evidence from the Urban Poor)
Jason Mian Luo	Department of Political Science	The Political Economy of Information Manipulation within Autocratic Systems: Evidence from China’s Government Procurement Activities
Jerome Nowak	Department of Mechanical Engineering	Utility of 3D printing for Disease Diagnostics: Low-Cost Electricity-Free Method for Automated Thin Smearing of Whole Blood
Esteban Salmon Perrilliat	Department of Anthropology	Power to the Prosecution? An Ethnography of Criminal Investigation in Mexico City
Sarah Thompson	Department of Political Science	Justice and Identity amid Legal Pluralism: Evidence from Traditional Communities in Pakistan and Beyond
Mark Walsh	Graduate School of Education	How do Social Concerns Influence Technology Adoption?: Evidence from Digital Financial Services in Pakistan and Tanzania

2022–2023 Academic Year

Name	School/Department	Project	Thematic Areas
Jitka Hiscox	Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering	Evaluating the Relationship Between Water Access, Maternal Well-Being, Caregiving and Child Development
Anna-Katharina von Krauland	Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering	Revealing the Onshore and Offshore Potential: Wind Energy Atlas for India and the United States Accounting for Spatial Use Restrictions, Weather Variability, and Wind Speed Thresholds
Jiwon Kim	Department of Political Science	Social Identification and Political Mobilization of Conflict-stricken Ethnic Minorities
Alexandr Lenk	Department of Economics	The Role of Promises in Economic Development: A Cross-Regional Field Experiment in Egypt
Ana Trindade Ribeiro	Graduate School of Education	Can Gender Gaps in College Placement and Labor Market Outcomes Be Explained by Differences in Test-Taking Behavior?
Pablo Seward Delaporte	Department of Anthropology	Dwelling in Vulnerability: The Politics of Migrant Life in Chile
Chun-Yu (Jo Ann) Wang	Department of Anthropology	Refining Politics: Oil Development, Environmental Activism, and Political Improvisation in Rural Malaysia
Réka Zempléni	Department of Economics	What Drives Entrepreneurs in Developing Countries, and How Can They be Best Supported? Experimental Evidence from Colombia and India
Sally Zhang	Department of Economics	Asymmetric Information and Hidden Income within the Household in Developing Countries

2021–2022 Academic Year

Name	School/Department	Project	Thematic Areas
Garrett Albistegui Adler	Emmett Interdisciplinary Program in Environment and Resources	Social Order and Social Protection: Mechanisms and Moderators in Climate-Related Violent Conflict
Haemin Jee	Department of Political Science	Regulation and Control without Rule of Law: The Social Credit System in China
Jiwon Kim	Department of Political Science	Choosing Security over Identity: Political Legacies of Ethnic Conflict in Myanmar, Sri Lanka, and Beyond
Sebastián Otero	Department of Economics	Affirmative Action in Centralized College Admission Systems
Tianmei Wang	Department of Earth System Science	Unraveling and Predicting the Coupled Impacts of Climate Change and Soil Arsenic on Rice Yield and Grain Quality
Réka Zempléni	Department of Economics	Essays on Entrepreneurship and Development Economics

2020–2021 Academic Year

Name	School/Department	Project	Thematic Areas
Nina Brooks	Emmett Interdisciplinary Program in Environment and Resources	A case study of brick manufacturing in Bangladesh that quantifies health and environmental impacts, studies the policy and regulatory landscape, and identifies a path to cleaner production
Sergio Camelo Gomez	Department of Philosophy	How Should Governments Intervene to Guarantee Universal Access to Private Goods?
Diego Jiménez Hernández	Department of Economics	Choosing Security over Identity: Political Legacies of Ethnic Conflict in Myanmar, Sri Lanka, and Beyond
Suraj Malladi	Graduate School of Business	Incentivizing Smallholder Farmers to Experiment with New Technologies
Casey Maue	Emmett Interdisciplinary Program in Environment and Resources	Productivity Dynamics of the World’s Most Numerous Firms: Evidence from Smallholder Farms in Sub-Saharan Africa
James Winter	Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering	The Impact of Piped Water Systems on Time Poverty, Economic Productivity, and Health in Rural Zambian Households
You (Willow) Wu	Department of Management Science and Engineering	Entrepreneurial Strategies in Nascent Markets
Tongtong Zhang	Department of Political Science	Civil Society, Participatory Institutions, and Authoritarian Rule: The Case of China

2019–2020 Academic Year

Name	School/Department	Project	Thematic Areas
Hernán Felipe Barahona Kunze	Department of Economics	Food Labeling: Effects of Information on Nutrition and Health
Kyu Eun Lee	School of Medicine	Using a Modeling Approach to Understand Age- and Time-Trend in Harmful Use of Alcohol and to Estimate Cost and Health Impact of Scaling Up Managements for Hepatitis C Virus Infection in China
Odyssia Ng	Department of Economics	Exploring the Barriers to Women's Economic and Social Empowerment: Evidence from India
Sebastián Otero	Department of Economics	Affirmative Action, Ability and Mismatch

2018–2019 Academic Year

Name	School/Department	Project	Thematic Areas
Caroline Abadeer	Department of Political Science	Local Governance and the Authoritarian State: The Politics of Urban Planning in the Middle East
Travis Baseler	Department of Economics	Determinants of the Migration Decision and Welfare of Migrants at their Destination
Annalisa Bolin	Department of Anthropology	A Country without Culture is Destroyed: Making Rwanda and Rwandans through Heritage

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