The American Political Science Association is pleased to announce the Doctoral Dissertation Research Improvement Grant (DDRIG) Awardees for 2025. 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 grants for the 2025 award cycle.
- Oguzhan Alkan, University of Texas, Austin
- Clayton Becker, University of California, Los Angeles
- Lucas Borba, Vanderbilt University
- Akash Chopra, Boston College
- Haley Daarstad, University of California, Davis
- Rex Weiye Deng, Washington University of St. Louis
- Alper Sukru Gencer, New York University
- Simal Gerot, University of Iowa
- Natalie Jones-Kerwin, University of Wisconsin, Madison
- Benjamin Krick, Duke University
- Jérémie Langlois, University of Wisconsin, Madison
- Francy Luna Diaz, University of Michigan
- Jerry Jie Min, Harvard University
- Isabella C. Montini, University of California, Berkeley
- Emirhan Ozkan, Rutgers University
- Hannah Radner, Syracuse University
- Aditya Sarkar, Tufts University
- Florian Sichart, Princeton University
- Tiago Tasca, University of California, Santa Cruz
- Allison Verrilli, University of Texas, Austin
- Jingding Wang, Syracuse University
- Meghna Yadav, New York University