Sashi Juarez-Galindo is a first-year PhD student in the University of Maryland’s Government and Politics program. His work focuses on race and ethnic politics, Latino politics, intersectionality, and public opinion in the United States. Juarez-Galindo’s dissertation looks to analyze how conflict among Latinos leads to the punishment of vulnerable groups within the community, particularly emphasizing how the intersection of different identities can lead to the exacerbation or circumvention of said punishment, and how tolerance can affect their political participation. He earned his Bachelor of Arts from the University of California, Riverside, where he worked as a research assistant as part of the Minority Serving Institution Research Academy (MSIRA). At the University of Maryland, he became involved in the Interdisciplinary Laboratory of Computational Social Science (iLCSS) and the Center for Democracy and Civic Engagement (CDCE). Juarez-Galindo aims to continue working in academia after acquiring his PhD and to help other first-generation children of immigrants feel more comfortable in higher education.
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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