Chase Brown (she/her) is a first year PhD student at George Washington University and an alumni of Rice University, where she graduated cum laude with a double major in political science and Spanish, and a minor in African American politics. Currently she studies American politics and research methods. She was inspired to pursue a PhD in order to combine her leadership experience from the Rice Black Student Association with her policy research experience which expanded during her work in the 2022 Cohort Jesse Jones Leadership Center Summer in D.C. Policy Research Internship Program. Particularly, Chase has an interest in social movements, political organizing, racial politics, and intersectional identity. She is currently working on a paper studying the partisan factors which influence support for gender-affirming care, which she will present at the 2025 APSA Conference. Chase has dedicated her research agenda in graduate school to producing research which solves the problems that affect intersectionally marginalized communities. She loves connecting with other people, and welcomes interested scholars and advocates to reach out to her at chaseb@gwmail.gwu.edu.
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 their first or second year as of Spring 2025. Please join us in congratulating the 2025-2026 class of fellows.
- Learn more about DFP at https://apsanet.org/dfp
- Meet the 2025-2026 class of DFP Fellows