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Graduate Program

Overview

Awards

Our graduate students are actively engaged in all professional aspects of the field, publishing in top journals and winning prestigious awards and grants that fund both pre-dissertation and dissertation research. Recent awards won by our graduate students include:

  1. Colm Fox was awarded a 2009 Fulbright Language Grant to study Advanced Indonesian in Salatiga, Indonesia.
  2. Colm Fox was awarded a Matsushita International Foundation grant for research on the impact of decentralization in Indonesia.
  3. Enze Han was awarded a Chiang Ching-Kuo Foundation Doctoral Dissertation Fellowship for 2009-10 to complete his work on the politics of separatism in the People's Republic of China
  4. Brian Karlsson was the recipient of a 2008-09 American Consortium on European Union Studies (ACES) Research Grant
  5. Brian Karlsson was awarded the 2009 Berlin Program for Advanced German and European Studies fellowship at Free University Berlin for field research in Germany.
  6. Jennie Schulze won the 2009 Association for the Study of Nationalities Best Doctoral Student Paper on Central Europe Award for her paper "Integration and Nation-building in Estonia and Latvia: Elite Discourses after EU Accession".
  7. Ajay Verghese was awarded a 2009 Cosmos Scholars Grant for field research in India.
  8. Maiko Ichihara received a 2008 Matsushita International Foundation Grant for field research in Japan, France, and Sweden.
  9. Kaz Obayashi received a 2008 Matsushita International Foundation Grant for field research in Sri Lanka and Uganda.
  10. Yangmo Ku and Jennie Schulze were awarded Hoffman Dissertation Awards for 2008-2009 from the Institute for European, Russian & Eurasian Studies at the George Washington Univeristy.
  11. Colm Fox was awarded a 2008 Indonesia Society Intensive Studies Program Fellowship to study in Indonesia.
  12. Ajay Verghese received a 2008 Critical Language Scholarship from the Department of State to study Hindi in India.
  13. Maryam Zarnegar Deloffre was awarded a Professional Development Grant from the Center for International Business Education and Research (CIBER) at the George Washington University.
  14. Yangmo Ku was awarded a 2008 Korea Foundation Fellowship for Field Research.
  15. Gonzalo Paz was awarded a 2008 Smith Richardson Foundation's World Politics and Statecraft Fellowship.
  16. Jennie Schulze was awarded a 2008 dissertation grant by the Association for the Advancement of Baltic Studies.
  17. Jeffrey Becker was awarded a David L. Boren Graduate Fellowship to support him while researching and writing his dissertation.
  18. James Reilly was awarded a 2007-2008 Fulbright-Hays Dissertation Grant from the U.S. Department of Education to support research in China.
  19. Michael MacLeod was awarded a 2007 Oikos PhD Fellowship at the Oikos Foundation for Economy and Ecology Summer Academy, University of St Gallen, Switzerland.
  20. Jennie Schulze has been awarded a three-year Early Stage Researcher fellowship, funded by a European Union Marie Curie grant, at Tallinn University in Estonia.
  21. Injoo Sohn, 2006-2007 Visiting Research Fellow with Princeton's Institute for International and Regional Studies, and postdoctoral fellow in the Harvard-Princeton China and the World Program at Princeton's Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs.
  22. Maryam Zarnegar Deloffre was given an Emerging Scholar Award by the Association for Research on Nonprofit Organizations and Voluntary Action at its meeting in 2006.
  23. Phillip Stalley, 2006-2007 Visiting Research Fellow in the Princeton-Harvard China and the World Program at Princeton's Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs.
  24. Jessica Lieberman, a Diplomacy Fellowship for 2006-2007 from the American Association for the Advancement of Science.
  25. Maryam Zarnegar Deloffre, a Graduate Student Research Award from the Columbian College of Arts and Sciences Committee on Graduate Studies.
  26. Craig Kauffman, 2005 2nd Runner-Up in the graduate student competition at the International Studies Association-South annual Conference in Miami.The title of the paper was "Transitioinal Justice in Guatemala: Linking the Past and the Future."
  27. Craig Kauffman, 2006 Rotary Ambassadorial Scholarship for intensive language study in Ecuador, January-July 2006.
  28. Peter McSharry, 2005-2006 David L. Boren-National Security Education Program (NSEP) Fellowship.
  29. Jeffrey Hornung, 2005-2006 Fulbright Fellowship to conduct research in Japan.
  30. Lee Ann Fujii, 2005-2006 Columbian College of Arts and Sciences Dean's Fellowship. This special award, given to only two students in the college, "allow[s] our very best students a year without duties in which to complete their Ph.D. dissertations."
  31. Gulnaz Sharafutdinova, 2005 "runner-up" for the Juan Linz Dissertation Award from the Comparative Democratization Section of the American Political Science Association. Her dissertation was entitled "The Dynamics of Postcommunist Transformations: Varieties of Authoritarianian Regimes and Paradoxes of Crony Capitalism in Russia's Regions," and her committee was Peter Reddaway (chair), Nathan Brown, and Harvey Feigenbaum.
  32. Jeffrey Hornung, 2005 Foreign Language and Area Studies (FLAS) Summer Language Fellowship for intensive study in Japanese.
  33. Peter McSharry, 2005 FLAS Summer Language Fellowship for intensive study in Chinese.
  34. Stephanie McNulty, 2004-2005 Fulbright-Hays Fellowship for dissertation research in Peru.
  35. Gonzalo Paz, 2003-2005 Fulbright Fellowship.