Claudette Alexandra Medina is a current MA student in political science at the University of Central Florida. Her research focuses on American politics regarding race, ethnicity, class, gender, and feminist theory. Currently, she is examining fascist feminism within the United States. Ms. Medina obtained her BA in political science at the University of Central Florida. She graduated, completing an undergraduate thesis paper through the honors college examining generational attitudes towards socialism in December 2023. Ms. Medina was provided a teaching assistantship and fellowship at the master’s level, where she fostered a learning environment in addition to being a full-time student. She recently wrote a paper in her quantitative analysis class regarding sex work and women’s rights from a Marxist-feminist lens. Now an APSA scholar, she seeks to enter a Ph.D. program in which she can develop her research interests through a quantitative praxis.
The APSA Diversity Fellowship Program, formerly the Minority Fellowship Program, was established in 1969 as a fellowship competition to diversify the political science profession. The DFP provides support to students applying to, or in the early stages of, a PhD program in political science. APSA has once again awarded a new cycle to provide support for students currently in the process of applying to political science PhD programs for Fall 2025. Please join us in congratulating the 2025-2026 class of fellows.
- Learn more about DFP at https://apsanet.org/dfp
Miss.Claudette, you are the best student, and go on. I feel so proud of you.