Nicolas Cardenas-Miller is a Ph.D. student at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill studying political economy with a regional focus on Latin America using causal inference applied to observational data. He completed undergraduate degrees in economics (B.S.) and political science (B.S.) from the Schreyer Honors College at the Pennsylvania State University in 2025. During his undergraduate studies, Nicolas also pursued multidisciplinary research in linguistics and psychology, receiving the National Science Foundation Partnerships for International Research and Education (PIRE) fellowship to conduct socio-phonetic experiments at the Universidad de Granada, Spain. Subsequently, his work in psychology, which focused on visual attention and memory, was published in the journal Memory & Cognition in 2023. At Chapel Hill, Nicolas is interested in examining the microfoundations of economic preferences in Latin America under information constraints and biases. He is interested in the ways in which these foundations influence policy decisions from the bottom up. After graduate school, Nicolas plans to pursue a research career to advance understandings of political economy and to continue to pursue multidisciplinary approaches to political science.
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 2026. Please join us in congratulating the 2026-2027 class of fellows.
- Learn more about DFP at https://apsanet.org/dfp
- Meet the 2026-2027 class of DFP Fellows
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