Lisette Gallarzo Guerrero is a second-year PhD student in the department of political science at the University of California, San Diego. Before pursuing her doctorate, Lisette earned her BA in government from Cornell University, where she was a Ronald E. McNair scholar. She is currently a member of UCSD’s Race and Ethnic Politics (REP) Lab and the Latine Graduate Student Association (LGSA). Specializing in both American and comparative politics, Lisette’s research interests focus on intraregional migration in Latin America, Latine political behavior and partisanship, misinformation, and immigration attitudes more broadly. Her current project explores the drivers of anti-immigrant sentiment in Latin America, looking at public opinion in Colombia. She plans to extend this line of research to additional countries in the region and explore the role of misinformation in shaping these attitudes. After completing her PhD, Lisette aspires to pursue a position in academia, where she can continue conducting research that supports Latine and immigrant communities, while also empowering first-generation and underrepresented students through mentorship.
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