Olivia Gawehnidi Porter is an enrolled citizen of the Seneca Nation and member of the Turtle Clan from the Nation’s Allegany Territory. She is a current graduate student at Stanford University, pursuing an MA in philosophy with a focus on ethics and political philosophy. She earned her BA in political philosophy from Syracuse University, where she graduated magna cum laude with honors. She wrote her honors thesis on the influence of European political theory on the persistence of settler colonialism in the United States and Canada. Olivia plans to continue this research in a PhD program by studying the relations between Haudenosaunee (Iroquois) political thought and Western political philosophy. She is specifically interested in how Haudenosaunee treaties and agreements with settler governments (e.g., the United States and Canada) contributes to or resists subjugation by these states.
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 2026. Please join us in congratulating the 2026-2027 class of fellows.
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