Diversity Fellowship Program

Meet DFP Spring Fellow, Hana Abdulla, University of California, Irvine

Hana Abdulla is a first-year PhD student in the Department of Political Science at the University of California, Irvine. Her subfields are comparative politics and international relations. Her research focuses on authoritarianism, surveillance, environmental politics, and […]

Diversity Fellowship Program

Meet DFP Spring Fellow, Jaime Carbajal, University of Texas at Austin

Jaime Andres Carbajal is a second-year Ph.D. student studying American politics and political methodology in the Department of Government at the University of Texas at Austin. Using experimental methods, his research focuses on public opinion and […]

Diversity Fellowship Program

Meet DFP Spring Fellow, Madia Harris, Northwestern University

Madia Harris is a second-year PhD student in political science at Northwestern University, where she studies American politics. Madia is a 2024 graduate of the illustrious North Carolina A&T State University, where she graduated summa cum […]

Diversity Fellowship Program

Meet DFP Spring Fellow, Maya Kerr Coste, Penn State University

Maya Kerr Coste is a second-year PhD student in Penn State’s Political Science Department. Her subfield is American politics. Maya’s research examines how the boundaries of “legitimate” political violence shift during periods of racial and political […]

Diversity Fellowship Program

Meet DFP Spring Fellow, Nicolás Cárdenas-Miller, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Nicolas Cardenas-Miller is a Ph.D. student at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill studying political economy with a regional focus on Latin America using causal inference applied to observational data. He completed undergraduate degrees […]

Diversity Fellowship Program

Meet DFP Spring Fellow, Niko Dawson, Washington University in St. Louis

Nikolas Dawson (he/they) is a second-year political science PhD student at Washington University in St. Louis, specializing in formal theory and American politics. His fields of study include political behavior, elites, and minority politics (broadly […]