CIS awards 17 PhD research grants

Seventeen doctoral students in international affairs at MIT were awarded PhD Student Research Grants. Included in this group are Sylvia Jimenez Riofrio and Kathryn Dura, who received the seventh annual Jeanne Guillemin Prize. Awardees of the Trailblazer Grants include Christine Liu, Terrence Roh, and Jingtian Chen.

The PhD Student Research Grants provide funding for research projects to PhD candidates whose work focuses on international studies and requires travel for field research and/or visits to archives. The Guillemin Prize is reserved for women pursuing doctoral studies in international affairs and was established by a longtime colleague of CIS. The Trailblazer Grants provide resources for particularly ambitious research projects that may require additional field research, local research assistants, and survey enumerators. Awarded annually, the Center is pleased to support the work of an outstanding and varied cohort from across the Institute.

Learn more about the Center’s PhD Student Research Grants.

• Sylvia Jimenez Riofrio, Urban Studies and Planning, "Heat and health planning in practice: Double roof as a local knowledge heat adaptation strategy in Manaus, Brazil" (Jeanne Guillemin Prize)
• Lucas Nobrega Augusto, Political Science, "How social media reshapes political representation in Brazil"
• Fanisi Mbozi, Political Science, "From campaigns to construction: How campaign organization shapes public goods allocation"
• Muhammad Feteha, Architecture, "Building on pious foundations: Waqf, public works, and heritage preservation in Cairo 1863-1952"
• Ashley Vicary, Urban Studies and Planning, "Climate shocks, internal migration, and left-behind children in rural China"
• JS Tan, Urban Studies and Planning, "High- versus low-road development in the China’s cloud computing sector"
• Joshua Tan, Architecture, "Prosperity and cooperation: The architecture of Japanese reparations, debt, and economic cooperation in Southeast Asia, 1951–1990"
• Darren Janz, Political Science, "Religious authority, Islamic revivalism, and political transformation in West Africa"
• Tyler Sagerstrom, Political Science, "Global economic integration and public goods"
• BreAnne Fleer, Political Science, "Who teaches the nation? Religious schooling and the politics of linguistic assimilation"
• Lydia Shaw, Political Science, "Merit, loyalty, and the architecture of governance: How bureaucratic state-building shaped modern Morocco"
• Adeposi Adeogun, Urban Studies and Planning, "Archipelagos of infrastructure: Mapping community-led governance and resilience in Lagos, Nigeria"
• Kathryn Dura, Political Science, "Perception, power, and innovation: Defense elites and the politics of emerging technologies" (Jeanne Guillemin Prize)
• Tathagat Bhatia, Science, Technology, and Society, "The Earth: Constituting the planet in the age of postcolonial worldmaking"
• Christine Liu, Political Science, "National power and global supply chains" (Trailblazer Grant)
• Terrence Roh, Political Science, "Governing the periphery: Spatial fragmentation and collective action in Lima, Peru" (Trailblazer Grant)
• Jingtian Chen, Political Science, "The political origins of market structures in China, the European Union and the United States" (Trailblazer Grant)