APSA Member Spotlight

Member Spotlight: Samantha Chapa, University of Houston

Meet Samantha Chapa, Ph.D., University of Houston APSA Member since 2020 Ph.D. candidate in Political Science Samantha Chapa is a PhD candidate in Political Science at the University of Houston. Her research interests include migration […]

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Meet Raquel Centeno, 2024 Fund for Latino Scholarship Recipient

Raquel Centeno is a Ph.D. candidate studying American politics and quantitative methods in the Political Science and International Relations department at the University of Southern California. Her research falls largely in the areas of public […]

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Meet Indiana Garcia, 2024 Fund for Latino Scholarship Recipient

Indiana Garcia, a former Fulbright scholar from Nicaragua is pursuing a Ph.D. in public affairs at the University of Missouri, focusing on immigration policy and qualitative research methods. With nearly two decades of nonprofit experience, […]

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Meet Francy Luna Diaz, 2024 Fund for Latino Scholarship Recipient

Francy Luna Diaz is an ABD in political science at the University of Michigan. Her mixed-methods research centers on transnationalism and misinformation, with a dissertation exploring how Latinos who maintain transnational ties differ in their […]

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Meet Bruna Dalmas, 2024 Fund for Latino Scholarship Recipient

Bruna Dalmas is a graduate student in political science at the University of Missouri. Her research focuses on transitional justice mechanisms and their effects on violence in conflicted democracies. Specifically, she investigates how transitional justice […]