The American Political Science Association is pleased to announce the Doctoral Dissertation Research Improvement Grant (DDRIG) Awardees for 2023. The APSA DDRIG program provides support to enhance and improve the conduct of doctoral dissertation research in political science. Awards support basic research which is theoretically derived and empirically oriented.
The following PhD candidates have been awarded the grants for the 2023 award cycle.
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Suhyen Bae (Duke University), The Political Consequences of Loneliness: A General Framework for Loneliness and Political Participation |
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Clara Bicalho (University of California, Berkeley), Communal Land Regimes, Local Governance, and Political Participation |
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Aaron Christensen (Columbia University), Legibility and Statebuilding in North and West Africa |
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Sofia Elverdin (Yale University), After Success: What Sustains Social Movements? Evidence from Contemporary Feminist Movements in Argentina |
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Bo Feng (Boston University), Strategic Allocation of Discretionary Power in Authoritarianism: Political Control, Politicians’ Preferences, and Policy Trade-offs in China
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Hanna Folsz (Stanford University), Understanding the Paradox of Extreme Opposition Parties in Democratic Backsliding Regimes |
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Gustavo Guajardo (Rice University), Electoral Incentives and Political Support for Anticorruption Reform: Evidence from Latin American Legislatures |
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Yifan Flora He (University of California, Santa Barbara), The distributive politics of deforestation in Bolivia |
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Minhye Joo (University of California, Riverside), How Does Contact with Street-Level Bureaucrats Impact Immigrant Incorporation? |
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Dahjin Kim (Washington University in St. Louis), Virtual Group Identity in the Battle Against Misinformation: Strategies for Effective Correction in Online Communities |
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Da In Diana Lee (Columbia University), Minority Candidate Emergence in the U.S.: Barriers, Motivations and Strategies |
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Jacob Lollis (University of Virginia), Race, Representation, and Intergroup Contact in Legislative Committees |
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Laura Lopez Perez (University of Notre Dame), High-risk activism in criminal wars: the collective action of families of victims in Mexico |
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Mary McLoughlin (Syracuse University), Transnational Transphobias: Feminist and Traditionalist Anti-Trans Advocacy Coalitions and Normative Contestations |
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Preeti Nambiar (Vanderbilt University), Natural Disasters and Local Politics |
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Jieun Park (University of California, Los Angeles), Gendered Xenophobia: Explaining the Attitudes toward Female Immigrants in Japan and South Korea |
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RyuGyung Rio Park (University of California, Davis), Do Ends Justify Means? |
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Melissa Pavlik (Yale University), Producing precarity: Exploitation and coercion through state restraint |
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Ishana Ratan (University of California, Berkeley), Chasing the Sun: The Politics of Solar Investment in the Global South |
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Andrew Roskos-Ewoldsen (University of California, Davis), Do Unto Others: Reciprocity, Public Opinion, and International Security |
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Oren Samet (University of California, Berkeley), Challenging Autocrats Abroad: Opposition Parties on the International Stage |
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Daniel Smith (Ohio State University), Bringing “The Rest” Back In: A Dataset of Eurasian Political Institutions, 1000-1800 CE |
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Sedef Topal (Washington State University), Pathways to Cooperation: A Relational Theory of Rebel Alliance Formation |
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Ye Zhang (Massachusetts Institute of Technology), Political Control in the Workplace: How Autocrats Use Private Firms to Control Citizens |