2024–2025 Recipients of Graduate Student Research Funding
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Graduate student research funding supports faculty-supervised doctoral student research activities, particularly field-based work on global poverty and economic development in middle- and low-income countries.
| Name | School/Department | Project | Thematic Areas |
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| Simi Aluko | Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering | Bridging Ethnography and Engineering Design Science Research to Advance Industrialized Construction in Developing Contexts | 
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| Mariana Calvo | Department of History | The Empire That Never Left: European Capital and the Business of Sovereignty in Post-Independence Latin America | 
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| Monisha Dhingra | Department of Psychology | Does Hindu Unity Entail Equality? An empirical examination of status of Dalits in the Ideological Universe of the Hindu State | 
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| Leticia Fernandes | Department of Economics | Unsecured Installment Credit, Household Debt and Development | 
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| Hanna Folsz | Department of Political Science | The Price of Dissent: Economic Coercion and Opposition Under Authoritarian Dominant Parties | 
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| Joao Francisco Pugliese | Department of Economics | Regressive rotating finance: theory and evidence from Brazil |
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| Rwaida Gharib | Department of Emmett Interdisciplinary Program in Environment and Resources (E-IPER) | Unstuck: Understanding the policy roadblocks for climate induced migration | 
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| Florencia Hnilo | Department of Economics | RCTs and Belief Distortion |
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| Matthew Illing | Department of Oceans | Reconstructing southwestern Indian Ocean climate and socio-environmental histories from Mauritian corals |
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| Jlateh Jappah | Department of Health Policy | Do non-cash incentives increase blood donation: Evidence from Ghana and Sierra Leone, West Africa | 
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| Rabia Kutlu Karasu | Department of Political Science | Governing Perceptions: Elite Framing, Performance Legitimacy, and Voter Behavior in Backsliding Regimes |
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| Alex Landry | Graduate School of Business | Self-Dehumanization as a Novel Driver of Intergroup Violence | |
| Sebastian Lucek | Department of Political Science | Why do national versus regional parties succeed in diverse democracies? Evidence from India |
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| Mateus Morante Mazzaferro | Department of Developmental and Psychological Sciences (DAPS) | Executive Function Evaluation in The Outback (EFEITO) |
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| Quinn Mitsuko Parker | Department of Oceans | Equity, agency and vulnerability in small-scale fisheries: A focus on gender-based violence in the Bay of Ranobe, Madagascar |
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| Natalya Adam-Rahman | Department of Political Science | Women's Environments, Work, and Politics: How Norms & Resources Shape Civic Engagement |
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| Vlasta Rasocha | Department of Economics | Hiring Discrimination, Affirmative Action and Minority Hiding |
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| Sonya Schoenberger | Department of History | Oceanic Sovereignties: Decolonization, Marine Resource Landscapes, and the Rise of Large Ocean States |
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| Jason Weitze | Department of Economics | The Motherhood Penalty Revisited: The Role of Household Production in Brazil |
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| Cherrie Zheng | Department of Emmett Interdisciplinary Program in Environment and Resources (E-IPER) | Balancing Perspectives: Multi-Stakeholder Insights on Nature-Based Climate Solutions in West Kalimantan |
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