First-Generation Scholars

Meet Chirasree Mukherjee, 2021 First Generation Scholar in the Profession

Chirasree Mukherjee is a doctoral candidate at the School of Politics and Global Studies at Arizona State University. She specializes in International Relations and Comparative Politics. Her dissertation grapples with intractable conflicts, especially those fought on religious grounds. She […]

First-Generation Scholars

Meet Irmak Yazici, 2021 First Generation Scholar in the Profession

Irmak Yazici is a doctoral candidate (ABD) and lecturer in political science at the University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa. Her research broadly focuses on secularism within the context of comparative and global politics. Her dissertation entitled “Seeing through […]

First-Generation Scholars

Meet Qingyan Wang, 2021 First Generation Scholar in the Profession

Qingyan Wang is a Ph.D. candidate in the School of Public and International Affairs at the University of Georgia. Her research interests are media politics and civic engagement. Her dissertation will try to understand how state-sponsored propaganda […]

First-Generation Scholars

Meet Aminu Dramani, 2021 First Generation Scholar in the Profession

Aminu Dramani is a Ph.D. candidate in Peace and Conflict studies in the Sociology and Social Work Department at Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, Kumasi. Aminu earned his MPhil in Political Science from the University of Ghana. He […]

First-Generation Scholars

Meet Gong Chen, 2021 First Generation Scholar in the Profession

Gong Chen is a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Political Science at Georgia State University. His research interests are international political economy and political psychology, with a focus on public opinion, social identity, and intergroup […]