Graduate Student Successes

We are very proud of the accomplishments of our graduate students. Here are some of their successes since 2009.

• Recent Fellowships and Awards
  • Professor Brooke Ackerly and Miguel Cruz have received the New Political Science Christian Bay Award for their paper, “Hearing the Voice of the People: Human Rights as if People Mattered”
  • Camille Burge has been awarded the John A. Garcia Scholarship for ICPSR
  • John Hudak, Gbemende Johnson, and Daniel Montalvo have been awarded College of Arts and Science Social Science Dissertation Fellowships
  • Camille Burge has been awarded a 2010 National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship
  • Stacy Clifford has been awarded a 2010-2011 Robert Penn Warren Center for the Humanities Graduate Student Fellowship
  • Jennifer Anderson has been awarded a Dissertation Enhancement Grant from the National Science Foundation
  • Farhana Loonat has been awarded the International Peace Scholarship from the Philanthropic Educational Organization Sisterhood for the 2009-2010 academic year
  • Brian Faughnan has been awarded the Tinker Field Research Grant from the Center for Latin American Studies at Vanderbilt for pre-dissertation research
  • Daniel Montalvo has been awarded the Simon Collier Travel Award from the Center for Latin American Studies at Vanderbilt for dissertation research.
  • Daniel Montalvo, Gbmende Johnson, Diana Orces, Stacy Clifford have been awarded Summer Research Awards from the College of Arts and Science
  • Miguel Cruz has been awarded a College of Arts and Science Social Science Dissertation Fellowship
• Recent Graduate Student Publications
  • Mason Moseley has article accepted at Electoral Studies: “Subnational Electoral Regimes and Crisis Recovery in Argentina and Mexico” (with Professor Jon Hiskey and Jed Goldberg)
  • Diana Orces has article accepted at Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science: “Transition Shocks and Emigration Profiles In Latin America” (with Professor Jon Hiskey)
  • Abby Córdoya has chapter published in Migration and Remittances: Trends, Impacts, and New Challenges, edited by Alfredo Cuecuecha and Carla Pederzini.  “Measuring Migration Connections Across Latin America” (with Professor Jon Hiskey)
  • Jason Husser has article accepted in Journal of Elections, Public Opinion, and Parties: “Plus ça Change: Race, Gender, and Issue Retrospections in the 2008 U.S. Presidential Election”  (with Professor Christian Grose and Antoine Yoshinaka)
  • Patrick Bentley has article accepted at Journal of Theoretical Politics: “Power Concentration and Interstate Conflict: Is There a Connection?”  (with Professor Jim Ray)
  • Diana Orces has article accepted at Latin American Politics and Society: “"Democratic Values and Public Opinion Toward Immigrants: The Case of Ecuador"
• Recent Placements
  • Jose Miguel has accepted a Visiting Professor position at the Department of Politics and International Relations at Florida International University in Miami
  • Sonalini Sapra has accepted a tenure-track joint appointment in Political Science and Women’s Studies at Saint Mary’s College (South Bend, IN)
  • Rae Manacsa has accepted a tenure-track appointment in Political Science at the University of the South (Sewanee)
  • Jeremiah Garretson has accepted a tenure-track position at Stony Brook University
  • Jenna Lukasik has accepted a tenure-track position at Wheaton College
  • Juan Carlos Donoso has accepted a tenure-track position at Universidad San Francisco de Quito, Ecuador
  • Daniel Moreno has accepted a position as Researcher and Community Organizer for Ciudadania, Comunidad do Estudios Sociales y Accion Publica, Cochabamba, Bolivia
  • Jeremiah Garretson has accepted a Post-Doctoral Fellowship at the State University of New York, Stony Brook beginning fall 2009