Diversity Fellowship Program

Amanda S. Chen is a first-year Ph.D. student at Cornell University studying the effects of institutional constraints on American political development, specifically as it relates to race and ethnicity politics and historical institutionalist analysis. During her […]

Alianna Casas (she/her/ella) is a second-year Ph.D. student at the University of Arizona’s School of Government and Public Policy. Her subfields are international relations and comparative politics. Her research interests include gender in conflict, rebel governance, […]

Congratulations to the 2024-2025 APSA Diversity Fellowship Program Spring Recipients The APSA Diversity Fellowship Program (DFP), formerly the Minority Fellowship Program, was established in 1969 as a fellowship competition to diversify the political science profession. […]

Cristina Torija graduated with high honors from the University of Puerto Rico, Rio Piedras in 2023, where she earned a BA in political science and government. Her research interests include Latin American politics, political violence, legacies of […]

Anson Cheuk-Hin Chung (he/him) is an MA student in political science at the University of Toronto. He studies both the politics of immigration policies and judicial politics on constitutional interpretations. His current research focuses on how […]

Brittany Pryor Jones recently completed her MSc in social research at Birkbeck, University of London. Her master’s dissertation project focused on the effects of co-ethnic bias on the support of the second amendment amongst southern Americans. […]

Cayleb Bryant Stives graduated from the University of Texas at El Paso (UTEP) with a BA in communication studies and an MA in political science. His research interests include political communications, extrajudicial communications, and political psychology. […]

Erica Riray graduated from Loyola Marymount University with honors in political science and Asian Pacific American studies in 2022. After graduating, she joined the Berggruen Institute’s Renovating Democracy program, where she currently studies democratic innovation and […]