Back from the Field

In order to provide trainees with field-based research experience, GPD facilitates summer research by providing summer funding for individual projects and organizing research opportunities through collaborating institutions.

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Back from the Field

In order to provide trainees with field-based research experience, GPD facilitates summer research by providing summer funding for individual projects and organizing research opportunities through collaborating institutions.

Back from the Field Essays

Back from the Field - Carilee Osborne

The GPD summer grant allowed me to continue working on pre-dissertation exploratory research on the politics of welfare state building in post-apartheid South Africa.

Back from the Field - Isabella Schultz

This summer I focused on understanding the relationship between the changes made to the medical supply chain and the effects that were created for hospitals and health centers in the Rukwa region of Tanzania.

Back from the Field - Luiz Paulo Ferraz

Luiz Paulo Ferraz, a Ph.D. candidate in History from Brazil, has spent his Summer traveling through various Brazilian cities researching for his dissertation, tentatively titled "Becoming 'the Real Climate Leaders:' The Rise of Brazilian Indigenous Peoples as Environmental Defenders in the Global Political Arena."

Back from the Field - Manuel Moscoso

Manuel Moscoso spent his summer 2023 in two regions of Colombia, Antioquia and Magdalena Medio, advancing on two chapters of his dissertation.