The APSA Diversity Fellowship Program, formerly the Minority Fellowship Program, was established in 1969 as a fellowship competition to diversify the political science profession. DFP provides support to students from underrepresented backgrounds applying to, or in the early stages of, a PhD program in political science. The goal of the program is to increase the number of scholars from minoritized backgrounds in the discipline and ultimately the professoriate. APSA has once again awarded a new cycle to provide support for PhD students currently in their first or second year as of Spring 2023. Please join us in congratulating the 2023-2024 class of fellows!
Natalie Jones-Kerwin graduated from Iowa State University, with a summa cum laude distinction, with a bachelor of arts in political science in the spring of 2021. She is currently a second-year political science PhD student at the University of Wisconsin Madison where she studies American politics. Natalie is a proud tribal member of the Bad River Band of Lake Superior Chippewa Indian tribe. In April of 2022, Natalie was selected as a National Science Foundation Graduate Research fellow. Additionally, she has been awarded the SHEP American Indian Graduate Award for the years of 2021, 2022, and 2023. Her scholarly interests center around Native American political identity and behavior. In her most recent work, pending publication, using original survey research she found that group consciousness plays a defining role in explaining intragroup variation for Native American non-tribal political behavior. In her current empirical research, she is interested in uncovering additional mechanisms that identify the relationship between Native American identity, and political behavior.