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FELLOWSHIPS & GRANTS:
Watson Internship and Research Grant
- Emma Blake ’22, International and Public Affairs
Gender-Based Violence and State-Sponsored Aggression: An Analysis of the Relationship Between Intimate Partner Violence nd State Militarization - Erik Brown ’23, International and Public Affairs
Research and Events Internship, Center on the United States and Europe, Foreign Policy - Zina Dolan ’23, International Relations
El Camino de Santiago - Simon Giordano ’22.5, International Relations
Supplanting the 21st Century East-Asian Developmental Model onto Challenges in Contemporary Latin America - Claire Hodges ’22, Public Policy
When the Sound of Silence is Lethal - Finnian Lowden ’22, Public Policy
Unlikely Partners: Oil Companies and Environmental Nonprofits - Jay Philbrick ’24, International and Public Affairs
Research Internship at the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (Office of the Investor Advocate) - Hannah Ponce ’22, Public Policy
Braceros and Border Walls: US Guest Worker Programs and Intragroup Conflict Between Mexican American and Mexican Migrant Workers - Ariela Rosenzweig ’24, International and Public Affairs
Peace-Building Research Intern - Annie Schwerdtfeger ’23, Cognitive Science and History
Social Science Works - Summer Intern - Spencer Sheppe ’24, International and Public Affairs
Duke-UNC China Leadership Summit - Lucie Smith ’23, International and Public Affairs
Digital Content Creation Intern at Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development - Danny Xu ’23, International and Public Affairs
Summer Intern: Demographics and Political Economy
Watson Institute Language Study Grant
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Charlinda Banks '24, International and Public Affairs
- Lina Halim '24, International and Public Affairs
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Olwyn Kells '24, History of Art and Architecture
- Charles Key '24, Undeclared
- James Langan '24, International and Public Affairs
- Spencer Scheppe '24, International and Public Affairs
- Salonee Singh '24, International and Public Affairs
Watson Institute for International and Public Affairs Outstanding Thesis Award
- Hanna Barakat '22 (DS)
Roots and Routes: Palestinians Navigating Im/mobility and Making Space Amidst Fragmentation - Simon Giordano '22.5 (IR: Security)
Pilot Agencies and the Origins of Late Industrial Development: A Comparative Case Study of Development State Institutions
Honorable Mention for Outstanding Thesis Prize
Lachlan MacKenzie '22
Jack Ringer Summer in Southeast Asia Fellowship
- Matthew Loie ’24, International and Public Affairs
Fellowship in Southeast Asia
John P Birkelund Fund For Diplomacy
- Caroline Allen '22, International Relations
State Department internship with the US Mission to the Human Rights Council -
Erik Brown '23, International and Public Affairs
Research Internship, Center on the United States and Europe, Foreign Policy (Brookings) IAPA - Zina Dolan '22, International Relations
Foreign Policy Interrupted Editorial Intern
Mark and Betty Garrison Prize
- Dylan Moore '22 (IAPA: Security)
The Exploitative Implications of Gendered Power Inequality: A Framework for Assessing Gendered Vulnerability to Forced Labor
Noah Krieger Award
- Andrew Steinberg '22 (IAPA: Policy and Governance)
Tip of the Spear: Deported US Veterans and the Strategic Use of Respectability Politics
Richard C. Barker Award
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Rose Houglet '23, International and Public Affairs
Confining Contradictions and Transformative Collaborations at the Intersection of Anti-Trafficking and Prison Abolition with Professor Shih - Jack Doughty '23, International and Public Affairs
The Intersections of Housing, Mass-Incarceration, and Policing — Comparative and Domestic Research Study - Selia Jindal '23, International and Public Affairs
Repairing Global Democratic Erosion & Confronting Domestic Extremism in the US Military by Analyzing the US Mil's Branding
Marla Ruzicka International Public Service Fellowship
- Ali Martinez ’22, International and Public Affairs
Research project - Children at the Border: The Effects of U.S. Immigration Policies on the Experiences of Migrant Children
Happy and John Hazen White, Sr. Internship Funding
- Caroline Allen ’22, International Relations and History concentrator
US Mission to the UN Human Rights Council - Liam Bendicksen ’22, Public Policy and Public Health concentrator
SENATE Help Committee - Claire Hodges ’22, Public Policy and French Studies concentrator
The Sabin Center for Climate Change at Columbia University - Saoirse Maher Greene ’21, Independent Concentration in Social Trauma Studies
Rhode Island for Community & Justice - Margherita Micaletti-Hinojal ’23, Political Science and Philosophy concentrator
Refugee Representation Division of Human Rights First - Bailee Peralto ’21, Public Policy concentrator
Mental Health Association of Rhode Island - Emily Reed ’22, Public Policy and Africana Studies concentrator
Bud to Blossom Project - Emery Shelley ’22, International and Public Affairs and Computer Science concentrator
Rhode Island Center for Justice - Gina Sinclair ’22, International Relations and History concentrator
United States Department of State and International Crisis Group - Andrew Steinberg ’22, International and Public Affairs concentrator
Legal Services Center's Safety Net Project at Harvard Law School
Sarmiento Fellowships
- Juan Pedro Ronconi, Economics
- Santiago Hermo, Economics
HONORS:
Honors in DS
- Hannah Barakat ’22
Honors in IAPA
- Gabrielle Agnew ’22
- Emma Blake ’22
- Marzia Giambertoni ’22
- Alexandra Martinez ’22
- Eamon McKeever ’22
- Deborah Meirowitz ’22
- Dylan Moore ’22
- Leonardo Moraveg ’22
- Annika Prinz ’22
- Andrew Steinberg ’22
- Jillian Talenda ’22
- Nicole Tsung ’22
- Hannah Yazdani ’22
Honors in IR
- Michael Chen ’22
- Simon Giordano ’22.5
- Lachlan MacKenzie ’22
- Anna Susini ’22
- Yue Yue Teng ’22
Honors in PLCY
- Johanna Bandler ’22.5
- Isabelle Beckwith ’22
- Liam Bendicksen ’22
- Lauren Fung ’22
- Claire Hodges ’22
- Finnian Lowden ’22
- Hannah Ponce ’22
PRIZES:
Public Policy Capstone Prizes
- Best Reflection Essay: Lara Kosar ’22 for Hey, Save Some Housing for the Rest of Us! One Small Non-Profit's Small Victories
- Best Policy Brief: Shira Small ’22 for, Magnet Schools in the Providence Public School District: Ameliorating or Exacerbating Inequality
- Best Capstone on Law & Public Policy: Abigail Barton ’22 for, Renting in Rhode Island: Explaining and Exploring Tenant Rights in RI
- Most Original Policy Capstone: Jack Stebbins ’22 for, The Fax: A Comedy Pilot on Entertainment Journalism
Academic Excellence in IAPA
- Jamila Beesley ’22
- Joyce Lee ’22
- Maria Zou ’22
- Robert Combs ’22
- Dylan Moore ’22
- Daviana Perez ’22
- Alexandra Martinez ’22
- Rachel Yan ’22
- Emily Reed ’22
- Abigail Barton ’22
- Liam Bendicksen ’22
- Trevor Labuda ’22
- Whitney Yu ’22
- Claire Hodges ’22
Academic Excelence in IR
- Duncan Grant ’22
- Yue Yue (Emily) Teng ’22
- Kamran King ’22
- Emma Blake ’22
Academic Excellence in DS
- Hannah Barakat ’22
CCSA Undergraduate Paper Prize
- Aryan Srivastava ’22
Hate at Scale: Elections, Leader Identity and Hate Speech in Rural Uttar Pradesh
*Co-authored by Aarushi Kalra & Saket Tiwari - Catherine Nelli ’22
Krishna Drinking Flames: A Kaṅgra Painting of the Bhāgavata Purāṇa - Leo Fleissig ’22
The Story of Ekalavya: an Embodiment of Hopelessness or a Beacon of Hope
CCSA Thesis Prize in South Asian Studies
- Jamila Beesley ’22
The Architects of the Solutions They Need: Dalit Feminism in the U.S. Caste Abolition Movement - Lavanya Krishnan ’22
The Politics of Privatisation in India - Akshaan Parikh ’22
Let Us Alone to Die: Plague Camps in Bombay City, 1896–1902
CLACS Dissertation Awards
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Lauren Deal ’22, Department of Anthropology
- Melanie White ’22, Department of Africana Studies
LACA Thesis Awards
- Nell Salzman '22, Department of English and CLACS concentrator
Pre-Dissertation Field Research in Latin America Grant
- Augusta da Silveiera, Department of History
- Débora Duque, Department of Political Science
- Jay Loomis, Department of Music
- Alexandria Miller, Department of Africana Studies