Funded by the MIT-Japan International Studies Fund
2019 CIS Summer Study Grant Awardees
Marsin Alshamary, “Prophet and Priests: Religious Leaders and Anti-Government Protest in Iraq”
Jungwoo Chun, “Institutional Innovation, Change Agents and the Electrification of Personal Transportation”
Isadora Araujo Cruxen, “Public-Private Partnerships and the Politics of Private Investment in Urban Water and Sanitation in Latin America”
Silvia Danielak, “Infrastructural violence: Urban Conflict in the Aftermath of Natural Disaster in Al-Hoceima, Morocco”
Aria Ritz Finkelstein, “Negotiating High Seas Biodiversity”
Yonah Freemark, “Shaping Metropolitan Mobility”
Allan Hsiao, “Deforestation and the Palm Oil Industry in Indonesia”
Nicholas Intscher, “Strength in Numbers: The Political Determinants of MNCs Supply Chain Linkages”
Jia-Hui Lee, “Rodent Technologies, Peacekeeping, and International Development”
Nina McMurray, “From Recognition to Representation: Indigenous Institutions and Democratic Citizenship”
Aidan Milliff, “Making Sense and Making Do: Civilian Decision Making during the 1947 Partition”
Juan Mateo Montenegro Zarama, “Promises and Pitfalls of Bottom-Up Monitoring: Evidence From a Facebook Campaign To Monitor Elections”
Rachel Esplin Odell, “The Contest for the Free Sea: China’s Contestation of International Maritime Law in Comparative Context”
Rida Qadri, “The Drivers of Disruption: How Bike-Taxi Drivers of Jakarta Help Sustain Ride-Hailing”
Gabrielle Robbins, “Producing Artemisinin: An Ethnography of Antimalarial Manufacture in Madagascar”
Michelle Spektor, “From Documents to Data: The Politics of National Biometric Identification Systems”
Guillermo Toral, “The Political Logics of Patronage: Politicians’ Uses of Public Employment and their Effectiveness”
Joonas Tuhkuri, “Children of Crisis: The Intergenerational Effects of Manufacturing Decline”
2018 CIS Summer Study Grant Awardees
Andrea Beck, “The Politics of Solidarity”
Tugba Bozcaga, “The Social Bureaucrat: How Ethnic and Sectarian Cleavages Harm Local State Capacity in Turkey”
Allan Hsiao, “Building Healthcare Systems: Evidence from Indonesia”
Nicholas Intscher, “The Political Origins of FDI Spillovers”
Grace Kim, “The Work of Art in the Age of Its Technoscientific Restoration: Ethics of Recovery from U.S. and Italian Laboratories”
Tim McDonnell, “The Sources of US Nuclear Posture”
Andrew Miller, “The Information Game: Gangs, States, and the Fight for Authority”
Cullen Nutt, “The Causes of Covert Action”
Rachel Odell, “Compliance, Noncompliance, and Contestation: A Comparison of Three South American Countries’ Approaches to the International Maritime Regime”
Reid Pauly, “Coercive Assurance in Nuclear Nonproliferation”
Ignacio Puente, “Incubating Capitalism: Private Equity in Latin America”
Prassanna Raman, “Success Stories in Sanitation Policy Implementation: The Case of Trichy, India”
Dorothy Tang, “Exporting China’s Urban Experiments: Chinese Investment and Special Economic Zones in the Zambian Copperbelt”
Minh Trinh, “Authoritarian Solutions to Authoritarian Information Problems”
Rixt Woudstra, “Housing a Continent: Welfare, Race and Modern Architecture in British Sub-Saharan Africa (1945-1968)”
Ketian Zhang, “Calculating Bully -- Explaining Chinese Coercion”
2017 CIS Summer Study Grant Awardees
Marsin Rahim Alshamary
Christianna Bonin
Matthew Claudel
Michael Davidson
Duygu Demir
Michael Freedman
Jessica Gordon
Suzanne Harris Brandts
Faizan Jawed Siddiqi
Albert Lopez
Philip Martin
Andrew Miller
Kacie Miura
Lucas Mueller
Burcu Mutlu
Reid Pauly
Ketian Zhang
2016 CIS Summer Study Grant Awardees
Lena Andrews
John Arroyo
Elissa Berwick
Yasmin Bijani
Tugba Bozcaga
Karthik Cavale
Daniel deKadt
Elizabeth Dekeyser
Amy Johnson
Zachary Lamb
Marika Landau-Wells
Matt Lowe
Philip Martin
Tim McDonnell
Kacie Miura
Cullen Nutt
Peter Oviatt
Kelly Presutti
Colleen Xi Qiu
Luisa Reis Castro
Amanda Rothschild
Alpen Sheth
Andreas Wiedemann
2015 CIS Summer Study Grant Awardees
Rodrigo Rodrigues Adao
Elissa Berwick
Camrin Braun
Laura Chirot
Fiona Cunningham
Elizabeth Dekeyser
Kelly Heber
Daniel de Kadt
Clare Kim
Marika Landau-Wells
Emily Xi Lin
Matthew Lowe
Tom O'Grady
Amanda Rothschild
Sebastian Schmidt
Jason Spicer
Andreas Wiedemann
2014 CIS Summer Study Grant Awardees
Noel Anderson, Political Science
Mark Bell, Political Science
Ashawari Chaudhuri, HASTS
Laura Chirot, Political Science
Eric Chu, DUSP
James Conran, Political Science
Mitchell Cook, DUSP
Kian Goh, DUSP
Brian Haggerty, Political Science
Zachary Lamb, DUSP
Renato Lima, Political Science
Burcu Mutlu, HASTS
Tom O'Grady, Political Science
Shira Shmu'ely, HASTS
Stephen Wittels, Political Science
Alec Worsnop, Political Science