Graduate Student Research Funding Recipients

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.

2025–2026 Academic Year

Name	School/Department	Project	Thematic Areas
Juan Torres Alarcon	Department of Economics	The Market for Deference
Stephanie Caddell	Department of Oceans	Community Voices: The Story of the Galapagos Marine Reserve
Eliza Ennis	Department of Health Policy	Identifying the causal impact of contraceptive access on health outcomes in Colombia
Naiyu Jiang	Department of Political Science	AI and Democratic Responsiveness in Emerging Democracies: A Field Experiment in Malaysia
Ameze Belo-Osagie	Department of Political Science	Bullets, Bribes, & Ballots: Malpractice in Nigerian Elections
Maggie Poulos	Emmett Interdisciplinary Program in Environment and Resources (E-IPER)	Exploring Women-Led Coastal Conservation and Livelihoods: Gendered Resource Access through Kenya's Beach Management Units
Kylie Wadkowski	School of Sustainability	Predicting Bofedal Stability Across the Andes through Integrated Socio-Environmental Modeling

2024–2025 Academic Year

Name	School/Department	Project	Thematic Areas
Simi Aluko	Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering	Bridging Ethnography and Engineering Design Science Research to Advance Industrialized Construction in Developing Contexts
Mariana Calvo	Department of History	The Empire That Never Left: European Capital and the Business of Sovereignty in Post-Independence Latin America
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
Leticia Fernandes	Department of Economics	Unsecured Installment Credit, Household Debt and Development
Hanna Folsz	Department of Political Science	The Price of Dissent: Economic Coercion and Opposition Under Authoritarian Dominant Parties
Joao Francisco Pugliese	Department of Economics	Regressive rotating finance: theory and evidence from Brazil
Rwaida Gharib	Emmett Interdisciplinary Program in Environment and Resources (E-IPER)	Unstuck: Understanding the policy roadblocks for climate induced migration
Florencia Hnilo	Department of Economics	RCTs and Belief Distortion
Matthew Illing	Department of Oceans	Reconstructing southwestern Indian Ocean climate and socio-environmental histories from Mauritian corals
Jlateh Jappah	Department of Health Policy	Do non-cash incentives increase blood donation: Evidence from Ghana and Sierra Leone, West Africa
Rabia Kutlu Karasu	Department of Political Science	Governing Perceptions: Elite Framing, Performance Legitimacy, and Voter Behavior in Backsliding Regimes
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
Mateus Morante Mazzaferro	Department of Developmental and Psychological Sciences (DAPS)	Executive Function Evaluation in The Outback (EFEITO)
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
Natalya Adam-Rahman	Department of Political Science	Women's Environments, Work, and Politics: How Norms & Resources Shape Civic Engagement
Vlasta Rasocha	Department of Economics	Hiring Discrimination, Affirmative Action and Minority Hiding
Sonya Schoenberger	Department of History	Oceanic Sovereignties: Decolonization, Marine Resource Landscapes, and the Rise of Large Ocean States
Jason Weitze	Department of Economics	The Motherhood Penalty Revisited: The Role of Household Production in Brazil
Cherrie Zheng	Emmett Interdisciplinary Program in Environment and Resources (E-IPER)	Balancing Perspectives: Multi-Stakeholder Insights on Nature-Based Climate Solutions in West Kalimantan

2023–2024 Academic Year

Name	School/Department	Project	Thematic Areas
Ishita Ahmed	Department of Developmental and Psychological Sciences (DAPS) - SHIPS	Leave No Child Behind: Validating Novel Executive Function Measures Representing Children's Experiences in Rural Bangladesh
Jonathan Altamirano	School of Medicine - Epidemiology and Population Health	Mental Health, Gender-based Violence, and HIV Medication Adherence among AGYW in Western Kenya: A Longitudinal Cohort Study
Sumhith Aradhyula	Department of Economics	Estimating Preferences Over Links to Communities in Networks
Adrian Blattner	Department of Economics	The Costs and Benefits of Depolarization Interventions: Evidence from Brazil [Autumn Quarter]
Adrian Blattner	Department of Economics	Contact on the Job - An Experiment on Labor Market Discrimination in Brazil [Winter Quarter]
Alvaro Calderon	Department of Economics	Can Market Access lead to Conflict and the Disruption of Property Rights? Evidence from Railroads Construction in 19th Century Peru
Alicia Chen	Department of Political Science	The Speed-Cost Trade-Off in Infrastructure Development
Chris Dann	Department of Political Science	Compliance and Development: Evidence from Rwanda's Umuganda
Camille DeJarnett	Department of Political Science	Estimating the Impact of Language Policy Choice on Civic Participation in Post-colonial Sub-Saharan Africa
Joao Francisco Pugliese	Department of Economics	Politicians' Communication and Accountability
Melissa Franco	Department of Health Policy	A Cancer Modeling Framework with Healthcare System Constraints in Low-to-middle Income Countries
Michelle Ha	Department of Modern Thought and Literature	Henequén Plant/Fiber Classification & Decortication in the Yucatán Peninsula
Seyedeh Zahra Hejrati	Department of Management Science & Engineering	Refugee Entrepreneurs Network Disruption & Opportunity Recognition: Evidence from a Randomized Field Experiment in Uganda
Kolawole Heyward-Rotimi	Department of Modern Thought and Literature	The Development of Smart Cities in Southwestern Nigeria
Florencia Hnilo	Department of Economics	RCTs and Belief Distortion (previously called 'Breaking Ties?')
Swan Htut	Department of Sociology	Chin Refugees in Mizoram
Jlateh Jappah	Department of Health Policy	Do Non-cash Incentives Increase Blood Donation: Evidence from Sierra Leone, West Africa
Naiyu Jiang	Department of Political Science	Market-dominant Minority as Middleman: How Chinese investment influences ethnic relations in Malaysia
Mridul Joshi	Social Sciences, Humanities, and Interdisciplinary Policy Studies in Education (SHIPS)	Evaluating the Effectiveness of a Digital Empowerment Curriculum for College Students in India
Anna Kogler	Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering	Field Testing and Business Models for Integrating Urine Valorization into Sustainable Sanitation and Agricultural Systems
Akhila Kovvuri	Department of Economics	Interdependence in Female Labor Supply: Role of Numbers and Composition
Karventha Kuppusamy	Department of History	Agrarian Developmentalism and Ecological Crisis in South India: Writing Situated Histories of the Green Revolution
Douglas Leonard	Department of Political Science	The Political Economy of the Conservation of Tropical Rainforests
Eva Lestant	Department of Economics	Selling (Together): Fostering Economies of Scale through Retail Cooperatives
Cesar Lopez	Emmett Interdisciplinary Program in Environment and Resources (E-IPER)	Social Network Structure for Agricultural Development: Evidence from the Irrigation Sector in Bolivia
Tamar Matiashvili	Department of Economics	Talent, Trust and Health: The Effects of the First Female Physicians
Kaitlyn Mitchell	Department of Biology	Plastic Pollution and Human Health in the lower Senegal River Basin
Aadhityaa Mohanavelu	Doerr - Civil & Environmental Engineering	Developing a Consistent Water Equity Metric for Developing Countries
Oluchi Obinegbo	Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering	Maximizing the Benefits of Energy Interventions in Sub-Saharan Africa
Quinn Parker	Oceans Department	Gendered Impacts of Global Change in Small-scale Fisheries: Comparisons in Equity and Wellbeing Across Southern Madagascar
Maggie Poulos	Emmett Interdisciplinary Program in Environment and Resources (E-IPER)	Local Marine Conservation in Kenya and Tanzania: Community-based and Biocultural Approaches
Poornima Rajeshwar	Department of Anthropology	Lives and Livelihoods: An ethnographic study of dimensions of well-being
Vlasta Rasocha	Department of Economics	Contact at Work: Exposure to Political Opinions in the Brazilian Labor Market [Autumn Quarter]
Vlasta Rasocha	Department of Economics	Hidden Identities and Stereotype Persistence [Spring Quarter]
Matthew Ribar	Department of Political Science	Land Titles and Local Politics: Evidence from a Natural Experiment in Cote d'Ivoire
Christian Robles-Baez	Department of History	The Making of an Improbable Global Market: Coffee 1808-1850
Emily Russell	Department of Political Science	Legacies of Forced Labor
Isabel Salovaara	Department of Anthropology	Government Jobs, Student Politics, and the Caste Census in Bihar, India
Sergio Sanchez	Emmett Interdisciplinary Program in Environment and Resources (E-IPER)	Replicability of the Favorable Conditions of Lithium Extraction in the Atacama Region
Anirudh Sankar	Department of Economics	The Role of Mechanistic Explanations in Technology Adoption Across Contexts: Evidence from Uganda
Chen Shen	Department of Anthropology	Redemptive Power: Intersectional Energy Transitions in Rural China
Sahana Subramanyam	Department of Economics	Investigating Parental Beliefs and Norms in Childcare: A Field Study in India
Kylie Wadkowski	Department of Earth System Science	Evaluating Mangrove Restoration Projects in The Gambia

2022–2023 Academic Year

Name	School/Department	Project	Thematic Areas
Daliah Al-Shakhshir	Graduate School of Business	Opportunities or Concessions: The Political Consequences of Economic Integration Under Occupation
Simi Aluko	Doerr - Civil & Environmental Engineering	Industrializing Vernacular House-Building: Towards a Community-Centered, Sustainable Construction Methodology for Urban Africa
Paras Arora	Department of Anthropology	A Home Away from Home: Tracing the Rise of Family-Led Institutional Care for Autistic Adults in Delhi, India
Mathew Ayodele	Department of History	Missionaries, Midwives, and Indigenous Maternity Care in Colonial Nigeria, 1900 – 1970
Ameze Belo-Osagie	Department of Political Science	Nigeria Decides: Campaign Strategy in the 2023 Election
Adrian Blattner	Department of Economics	Breaking the Bubble - The Determinants and Effects of Contact
Nina Buchmann	Department of Economics	Paternalistic Discrimination
Alicia Chen	Department of Political Science	Losing Hearts and Minds: The Backlash to Chinese Development Aid
Ronald Chen	Department of Anthropology	No Country for Old Laws?: Tribal Law as Alternative Dispute Resolution in Jordan
Ayodele Dada	Department of Psychology	Framing Education as a Legacy to Reduce Gender Disparities in Nigeria
Camille DeJarnett	Department of Political Science	From Cacophony to Community? Assessing the Political Potential of Cross-ethnic Languages in Post-colonial sub-Saharan Africa
Joao Francisco Pugliese	Department of Economics	The Effects of Increasing Access to and Reading of Professionally-Produced News
Harsh Gupta	Department of Economics	The Role of Patient Beliefs and Physician Incentives in Influencing Pharmaceutical Brand Preferences
Ian Harryman	Department of Earth System Science	Social Networks, Environmental Change, and Health Among Shodagor Communities in Bangladesh
Jamie Hintson	Department of Political Science	Potemkin State-Building: Understanding State Expansion in Contemporary Africa
Florencia Hnilo	Department of Economics	Playgrounds in India: Impacts on the Community
Harman Jaggi	Department of Biology	Understanding Land Use Change as Pathways to Socio-ecological Development: with Evidence from Indian Trans Himalaya
Christopher Knight	Department of Biology	Social-Ecological Connections Between Seafood Borne Disease and Food Security in the Central Pacific
Akhila Kovvuri	Department of Economics	Strength in Numbers: Role of Coordination and Critical Mass in India's Female Labour Force Participation
Joy Kumagai	Department of Biology	Seagrasses and Urbanization: Understanding the Drivers of Seagrass Loss within Palau
Cesar Lopez	Emmett Interdisciplinary Program in Environment and Resources (E-IPER)	Social Networks and Public Investments in Small-scale Irrigation Infrastructure in Developing Countries: Evidence from Bolivia
Eva Lestant	Department of Economics	The Art of Selling: Food Retailers
Mae MacDonald	Department of Political Science	What are the Effects of Employment Rights for Refugees and Their Asylum Countries? The Case of Kenya
Victor Manuel Marquez Padrenan	Department of Anthropology	Governance and Pastoral Work. State-building Processes in Chiapas, Mexico, and Temuco, Chile
Tamar (Tamri) Matiashvili	Department of Economics	The Effects of Introduction of Modern Medicine: the Case of the Russian Empire
Bill Nadeem	Department of Anthropology	Charting Trauma Care in a Refugee Camp: An Ethnographic Study of Critical Injury
Fridah Nyakundi	Emmett Interdisciplinary Program in Environment and Resources (E-IPER)	Impact of Aggregations on Productivity and Commercialization of Aquaculture among Intermediary Aquaculture Farmers in Kenya
Caylee O'Connor	Department of Economics	Can Unconditional Salary Increases Improve Education Quality? Evidence from the Dominican Republic
Natalya Rahman	Department of Political Science	Paths into the Labor Force and Women's Empowerment in Pakistan
Poornima Rajeshwar	Department of Anthropology	The Gender of Policing: An Ethnography of Women's Police Labor in India
Vlasta Rasocha	Department of Economics	Breaking the Bubble - The Determinants and Effects of Contact
Christian Robles-Baez	Department of History	Setting-Up the Coffee Empire: The United States and Brazil in the Early 19th Century
Emily Russell	Department of Political Science	Policing the Plantation: The Long-Run Influence of Plantation Labor on Coercion in Assam
Siddharth Sachdeva	Emmett Interdisciplinary Program in Environment and Resources (E-IPER)	Using AI to Enable Climate Finance for Agroforestry in India
Esteban Salmon Perrilliat	Department of Anthropology	Power to the Prosecution? An Ethnography of Charging Decisions in Mexico City
Anirudh Sankar	Department of Economics	Learning About Irrigation Through Intermediaries
Eli Scott	Department of Political Science	Assessing the Influence of Rural Values, Identity, and Consciousness in South Africa
Sahana Subramanyam	Department of Economics	Information as Bargaining Power
Ceyenna Tillman	Department of Biology	Investigation of Community Impacts on Fisheries of Seagrass Loss in Palau
Sumer Vaid	Department of Communications	Digital Media and Wellbeing in India: A Digital Phenotyping Study
Mark Walsh	Department of Economics	Choosing Your Words Wisely? Filtered Communication and Mobile Banking Information Diffusion in Pakistan
Shan Yang	Department of Anthropology	Surviving Austerity: Infrastructure, Debt and Informal Livelihoods in Kenya

2021–2022 Academic Year

Name	School/Department	Project	Thematic Areas
Ishita Ahmed	School of Education	Measurement Matters: Designing and Validating Holistic Child Development Measures in Rural Bangladesh
Daliah Al-Shakhshir	Graduate School of Business	Local Integration of Palestine Refugees in Jordan
Feyaad Allie	Department of Political Science	Power, Exclusion, and Identity: The Politics of the Muslim Disadvantage in India
Nina Buchmann	Department of Economics	Paternalistic Discrimination in Bangladesh
Alvaro Calderon	Department of Economics	Deliberation and Political Accountability
Gloria Chikaonda	School of Law	Zimbabwean Marriage Reforms: Stakeholders, State Power and the Challenge of Social Engineering
Aria Duncan	Department of Earth System Science	Protecting Rice from Coupled Climate and Arsenic Threats
Tiên-Dung Hà	Department of Anthropology	The Rise and Fall of Vietnam's COVID-19 Pandemic Preparedness Infrastructure: How COVID-19 Affects Vietnam's Economy, Science and Politics
Seyedeh Zahra Hejrati	Department of Management Science and Engineering	How Can Digital Platforms and Data-Driven Algorithms Foster Entrepreneurship Among Refugees?
Kimberly Higuera	Department of Sociology	Migrating Money: The Social Status Implications of US-Mexico Remittances
Jamie Hintson	Department of Political Science	State Consolidation in the Shadow of Civil Conflict
Florencia Hnilo	Department of Economics	Breaking Ties?
Rupali Kaul	Graduate School of Business	Assessing the Impact of Relational vs Transactional Selling Approaches: Field Experiment with Small Firms in Latin America
Akhila Kovvuri	Department of Economics	Role of Labor Demand in Explaining Low Female Labor Force Participation in India
Alexandr Lenk	Department of Economics	Can Moral Nudges Play a Role in Development? Evidence from a Field Experiment with Promises
Angela Leocata	Department of Anthropology	Navigating Aspirational Trajectories: Underemployment in Minas Gerais, Brazil
Lily Liu	Department of Economics	Gender Differences in Advice-giving: Evidence from Lab-in-the-field Experiment
Sebastian Lucek	Department of Political Science	Social Re-Engineering: Political Coalitions and Social Change in India
Nicholas Lyon	Department of Political Science	Varieties of Urbanism: Within-City and Across-City Variation in Urban Experiences in Uganda
Mae MacDonald	Department of Political Science	Explaining Variation in Violence Against Women in Refugee Camps
Andrés Felipe Rodriguez	Department of Economics	Governance Institutions and Cooperation: An Experiment in Sierra Leone
Janice Ndegwa	Department of History	Indigenous Expertise, Inventive Uses of Language, and Practical Experience as Archives of Technological Knowledge: Insights from Youth in Cameroon
Shantanu Nevrekar	Department of Anthropology	Banking on Community? Cooperative Banks and Markets of Financial Inclusion in Small Town India
Teathloach Wal Nguot	Department of Anthropology	At the Coast: Mobility and Diaspora in Macaronesia
Joao Francisco Pugliese	Department of Economics	News Consumption in Developing Countries: Consumption Patterns and the Effects on Increasing Consumption on Information Knowledge and Political Preferences
Matthew Ribar	Department of Political Science [Autumn Quarter]	Who Wants Property Rights? Evidence from Niger
Matthew Ribar	Department of Political Science [Spring Quarter]	Who Wants Property Rights? Land Titles and Perceptions of Land Security
Emily Russell	Department of Political Science	Linking Formal and Informal Governance for Tribal Communities in Madhya Pradesh
Alexa Russo	Department of Anthropology	Imagining Agrarian Alternatives: Sustainable Agriculture, Gender, and Cooperatives in India
Anirudh Sankar	Department of Economics	Improving Technology Adoption through Participatory Scientific Empowerment: Evidence from Uganda
Bianca Santos	Emmett Interdisciplinary Program in Environment and Resources	Social and Ecological Impacts of Climate Change on Small Scale Fisheries in Palau
Priyam Saraf	Graduate School of Business	Cognitive Communities, Managerial Decision-Making and Organizational Technology Adoption in Bangladesh
Chinmay Sonawane	Department of Biology	Benefits of Lions to Low-Income Farmers in Kenya
Catherine Thomas	Department of Psychology	Enculturating Behavioral Science for Development: Beyond the WEIRD, Independent Paradigm
Sarah Thompson	Department of Political Science	According to Tradition: Compliance and Legitimacy in Tribal Communities in Pakistan
Angela Tsao	Department of Earth System Science	Scalable Mapping of Cashew Plantations in Mozambique for Climate-Smart Tree Cropping
Mark Walsh	Department of Economics	Understanding Peer Effects in Platform Industries: Experimental Evidence from Mobile Money in Pakistan
Renan Chaves Yoshida	Department of Economics	Stigma, Beliefs, and Productivity

2020–2021 Academic Year

Name	School/Department	Project	Thematic Areas
Feyaad Allie	Department of Political Science	Why Do Marginalized Groups Remain Underrepresented? The Case of Muslims in India
Cauê Dobbin	Department of Economics	Financial Aid, and the Supply and Demand for Higher Education
Emilia Groupp	Department of Anthropology	Cultivating the Sun: Solar Development in Rural Tunisia
Haemin Jee	Department of Political Science	Effects of the Social Credit System on Political Attitudes in China
Mian (Jason) Luo	Department of Political Science	AI, Big Data, and Economic Development: the Rise of Digital Governance in China?
Nicholas Lyon	Department of Political Science	Tolerance in the Metropolis? Urbanization and Inter-group Relations in Africa
Andres Felipe Rodriguez Martinez	Department of Economics	The Caged Economy: Do Traditional Leaders Create Distortions Through Redistribution? Evidence From a Lab-in-the-Field Experiment in Sierra Leone
Ana Trindade Ribeiro	School of Education	Can a Growth Mindset Intervention Reduce the Gender Gap in Challenge-Seeking Behavior and Competitiveness?
Alexa Russo	Department of Anthropology	Imagining Agrarian Alternatives: Sustainable Agriculture, Gender, and Cooperatives in India
Aliz Tóth	Department of Political Science	The State of Land Acquisition: How Conflict Over Land Undermines State Capacity and Development
Natalia Vasilenok	Department of Political Science	Should I Stay or Should I Go? Peasant Responses to the Land Reform in the Late Russian Empire
Réka Zempléni	Department of Economics	How to Best Leverage Personality Tests for Supporting Entrepreneurs in Developing Countries?
Floyd Zhang	Graduate School of Business	A Study of the Political Economy of Nationalism in Autocracies: Identity, Redistribution, and Growth

2019–2020 Academic Year

Name	School/Department	Project	Thematic Areas
Nina Buchmann	Department of Economics [Spring Quarter]	Paternalistic Discrimination in Bangladesh - Evidence from the Lab and from the Field
Nina Buchmann	Department of Economics [Autumn Quarter]	The Economics of Domestic Violence - Evidence from Bangladesh
Yiming He	Department of Economics	The Effects of Slum Clearance on Its Residents: Evidence from Victorian England
Seyedeh (Zahra) Hejrati	Department of Management Science and Engineering	How Can Digital Platforms and Data-Driven Algorithms Foster Entrepreneurship Among Refugees?
Kimberly Higuera	Department of Sociology	The Migration of Money: The Social Life of Mexican Remittances
Suhani Jalota	School of Medicine [Spring Quarter]	Social Signaling of Male Pride in Husband-Wife Pairs and Women's Employment in Digital Jobs from Home
Suhani Jalota	School of Medicine [Autumn Quarter]	Raising the Bar: Increasing Women's Own Aspirations and Men's Expectations of Them
Rupali Kaul	Graduate School of Business	Understanding Role Marketing Analytics And Business Development in Emerging Markets: A Field Experiment with SMEs in Rwanda and Nigeria
Abísola Kúsimo	Department of Mechanical Engineering	Engineering the Arts: Scaling up Collective Efforts to Increase the Yield of Successful Novice Ghanaian Product Developers and Innovators at a Start Up School
Jiwon Kim	Department of Political Science	Voting for Peace? How Conflict Shapes Vote Choice in Myanmar
Alexandr Lenk	Department of Economics	Improving Neighborhood Safety in Developing Cities via Non-Monetary Public Prestige Channels: Experimental Evidence from Dar-es-Salaam, Tanzania
Jonas Metzger	Department of Economics	Friends Don't Lie: Allocating Digital Credit via Peer Information
Erxiao (Marshall) Mo	Department of Economics	Protest to Win Hearts and Minds: Experimental Evidence from Hong Kong's Anti-Extradition Movement
Beatriz Pousada	Department of Economics	Consequences of Domestic Labor Outsourcing to the Employment Relationship
Aliz Tóth	Department of Political Science	Development vs. Democracy: The Politics of Land Acquisition and Resistance
Réka Zempléni	Department of Economics [Autumn Quarter]	Too Much or Too Little Faith? Behavioral Biases and Opportunity Entrepreneurship in Colombia
Réka Zempléni	Department of Economics [Spring Quarter]	Evaluating a Novel Approach for Expanding the Pool of Entrepreneurs Creating Small and Growing Business in Myanmar
Dai (Adela) Zhang	Department of Anthropology	Is Good Governance "Good" Development? Dialogue and Local Political Cultures in Peru
Ruxi (Anna) Zhang	Department of Political Science	Redistribution and Territorial Control: Evidence from China
Tianrong (Sally) Zhang	Department of Economics	Imperfect Information and Hidden Expenditures: A Lab-in-the-Field Experiment in Tanzania

2018–2019 Academic Year

Name	School/Department	Project	Thematic Areas
Aala Abdelgadir	Department of Political Science	Islamic Conservatism and Women's Empowerment
Levi Boxell	Department of Economics	Politicians, Information, and Gender Discrimination in Ghana
Nina Buchmann	Department of Economics	Domestic Violence and the Emergence of Social Norms, A Randomized Control Trial in Bangladesh
Kim Connor	Department of Anthropology	Immigrant Diets, Past and Present: Dining at the Grosse Île Quarantine Station in 1847
Shreya Deshmukh	Department of Bioengineering	Microscale magnetic levitation to detect drug resistance in malaria-infected blood at the point of care in resource-limited settings, with a pilot study in Busia, Uganda
Yiming He	Department of Economics	The Long-Term Impact of Slum Demolition on Its Residents: Evidence from Victorian London
Jitka Hiscox	Department of Civil Engineering	Beyond Happiness: The Effect of Water Connections on Premises on Maternal Stress, Caregiving and Child Development in Rural Western Uganda
Shreya Kankanhalli	Graduate School of Business	Going Cashless in Emerging Market Retail: Evidence from a Field Experiment in Guadalajara
Wanyi Li	Department of Management Science and Engineering	Afforestation Incentive Design for Smallholder Farmers in Uganda
Nic Lyon	Department of Political Science	Transnational Advocacy and Same-Sex Rights in Uganda
Odyssia Ng	Department of Economics	Do Men Make More, or Report Making More? Measuring Microenterprise Profits in India
Beatriz Pousada	Department of Economics	Consequences of Domestic Labor Outsourcing for the Employment Relationship
Christine Pu	Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering	Tracking the Culprit: Quantifying Sources of Campylobacter Transmission Routes in Rural India through Next Generation Microbial Tools
Ana Trindade Ribeiro	School of Education	Do What I Do, or Do What I Say? How Parents' Attitudes and Expectations Shape the Gender Gap in Competition for the Next Generation
Evan Rosenman	Department of Statistics	Identifying Preventive Measures for Sexual Violence in Areas of Conflict
Catherine Thomas	Department of Psychology	"Personal Initiative" versus "Interpersonal Initiative:" Testing the Psychological, Social, and Economic Effects of Two Models of Women's Agency in Niger
Aliz Tóth	Department of Political Science	India's Urban Voter Problem: Theory and Evidence
Chun-Yu (Jo Ann) Wang	Department of Anthropology	Refining Politics: Oil Development, Environmental Activism, and Political Improvisation in Rural Malaysia
Tianmei Wang	Department of Earth System Science	Coupled Effects of Climate and Soil Arsenic on Rice Yield and Quality in China
Hugh Xiaolong Wu	Graduate School of Business	The Value of Delegation in Hiring
Tongtong Zhang	Department of Political Science	Fining for Living: Central-Local Struggle in the Relaxation of One-Child Policy

2017–2018 Academic Year

Name	School/Department	Project	Thematic Areas
Travis Baseler	Department of Economics	Information Asymmetries and the Perceived Returns to Migration: Experimental Evidence from Kenya
Gabriel Chiu	Department of Sociology [Autumn Quarter and Spring Quarter]	The Spirit of Entrepreneurship in China
Shreya Deshmukh	Department of Bioengineering	Microscale magnetic levitation to detect drug resistance in malaria-infected blood at the point of care in resource-limited settings, with a pilot study in Busia, Uganda
Jenna Forsyth	Emmett Interdisciplinary Program in Environment and Resources	Exploring Lead Chromate Adulteration of Turmeric in Bangladesh
Khonika Gope	Department of Management Science and Engineering	The Effects of Customized Entrepreneurship Training Programs on Entrepreneurial Ventures in Developing Economies
Diego Jiménez Hernández	Department of Economics	Should your Government Sell you Goods? Evidence from the Milk Market in Mexico
Andrew Hume	Emmett Interdisciplinary Program in Environment and Resources	Identifying Environmental Data Gaps for Improved Coastal and Marine Resource
Isabel Jones	Department of Biology	Solutions to Improve Health and Alleviate Poverty in Madagascar
Chao Long	School of Medicine	An Anthropological Exploration of Skin Donation in Kathmandu, Nepal
Hernán Felipe Barahona Kunze	Department of Economics	Quasi-Experimental Evidence on Public-Private Wage Differentials from Brazil
Elisabeth van Lieshout	Department of Political Science	Demanding Deals: Developing Countries' Behind-the-Border Commitments in Trade
Marshail Malik	Department of Political Science	How Do Ethnic Parties Decline? The Microfoundations of Identity Politics in Pakistan's Megacity
Anna Popova	Department of Education	Education Technology in Developing Countries: Does Replacing Teachers with Computers Really Improve Student Learning?
Leonardo Rosa	School of Education	School Dropout and Juvenile Crime in Latin America: Evidence from Brazil
Daniel Smith	Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering	Optimal Chlorination of Drinking Water in Dhaka, Bangladesh
Ashutosh Thakur	Graduate School of Business	Matching Problem of Civil Service
James Winter	Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering	Introduction of On-Premises Piped Water Access to Rural Households in Southern Zambia: Implications for Poverty Alleviation, Female Entrepreneurship, and Water Quality
Dai (Adela) Zhang	Department of Anthropology	Provincialized Poverty: Encountering the 'State' through Resource-Based Development in Peru
Ruxi (Anna) Zhang	Department of Political Science	Nation-building and Redistribution in China

2016–2017 Academic Year

Name	School/Department	Project	Thematic Areas
Cauê Dobbin	Department of Economics	Returns to Tertiary Education: Evidence From an Unintended Experiment in Brazil
Emanuele Colonnelli	Department of Economics	Corruption and Firms: Evidence from Brazil
Joshua Kim	Department of Economics	Food Labelling and (Mis)Information: Evidence from the Chilean Industry
Christiana Parreira	Department of Political Science	Kinship, Religious Identity, and Local Service Provision in Weak States: Evidence from Postwar Lebanon
Anna Popova	Department of Education	Education Technology in Developing Countries: Does Replacing Teachers with Computers Really Improve Student Learning?
Shiran Shen	Department of Political Science	Breaking the Pollution Cycle: Career Incentives of Local Leaders and Air Pollution Control in China

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