Pardee School Students Awarded UROP Grants

Several Pardee School students and faculty are amongst those at Boston University who will be receiving Spring and Summer research awards under the Undergraduate Research Opportunities Program (UROP). UROP facilitates undergraduate participation in faculty-mentored research projectsUROP’s mission is to nurture curiosity, to capture imagination, and to cultivate relationships between faculty and students beyond the classroom to shape independent, innovative, and collaborative leaders.

Pardee School faculty and students have been heavily engaged with UROP at Boston University (read story about Prof. Jeremy Menchik receiving the UROP outstanding mentorship award).

A complete list of this years awardees can be found here.

Spring 2020 awardees, and their faculty menotors, at the Pardee School of Graduate Studies include:

  • Sophia Abeles
    Islands of Stability in Fragile States
    Faculty Mentor: Michael Harsch 
  • Melissa Bui
    Outsourcing Security, Managing Risk: Hiding the National Security State in Global Markets
    Faculty Mentor: Kaija Schilde
  • Amir Daneshmand
    Directions in Politics and Public Policy Within Poland, Romania, and Eastern Germany
    Faculty Mentor:Vesko Garcevic
  • Julien Dresbach
    African Religion and Politics Project
    Faculty Mentor: Timothy Longman
  • Nikta Khani
    Future’s Uncertain and the End Is Always‚ Near?
    Faculty Mentor: Joshua Shifronson
  • Luis Enrique Moya Canovas
    Outsourcing Security, Managing Risk: Hiding the National Security State in Global Markets
    Faculty Mentor: Kaija Schilde
  • Sarah Safi
    The Association Between Household Wealth and Use of Family Planning Services: Evidence From Rural India
    Faculty Mentor: Mahesh Karra
  • Avantika Tandon
    Examining the Association Between Spousal Differences in Education and Female Autonomy: Evidence From Rural India
    Faculty Mentor: Mahesh Karra 

Summer 2020 awardees, and their faculty menotors, at the Pardee School of Graduate Studies include:

  • Evelyn Bergman
    Ethnic Democracies and Minority Rights: Comparing Arab-Israeli and Kurdish Experiences Within Illiberal States
    Faculty Mentor: Ingrid Anderson
  • Charles Collier
    An Ethnographic Study of Syrian Refugee Resettlement and Asylum-Seeking in the United States, Canada, and Germany
    Faculty Mentor: Heba Gowayed
  • Tima Dasouki
    Outsourcing Security to Global Markets: An Escape from Bureaucracy or an Obscurity from the Public Eye?
    Faculty Mentor: Kaija Schilde
  • Xuan Do
    Foreign Direct Investment in Vietnam: A Political-Economic Analysis
    Faculty Mentor: William Grimes
  • Muskaan Khemani
    British Presence In India After The Partition Of British India From 1947 Until 1965
    Faculty Mentor: Jayita Sarkar
  • Niki Kiani
    Trump, Refugees, and Political Cartoons: How the Portrayal of Migrants Has Shifted Since the Election of Donald Trump
    Faculty Mentor: Kaija Schilde
  • Olivia Leone
    Islands of Stability: Strengthening Subnational Security in Fragile States
    Faculty Mentor: Michael Harsch
  • Clara Martiny
    The Waves of White Nationalism in Western Europe
    Faculty Mentor: Jeremy Menchik
  • Birhanemeskel Mulaw
    Church Politics in Africa: The Case of Ethiopia
    Faculty Mentor: Timothy Longman

Congratulations to all the award winners and faculty mentors!