Mustapha Hashim Kurfi Defends Dissertation
In spring 2018, graduate student Mustapha Hashim Kurfi successfully defended his doctoral thesis: “Religion, Gender and Civil Society: The Role of Muslim Women’s Association in the Evolution of Nigerian Society.” Mustapha will return to Bayero University, Kano-Nigeria to continue teaching and research. Congratulations, Mustapha!
Graduate Student Meghan Tinsley Offered Prestigious Fellowship
Meghan Tinsley, who completed her PhD this spring, was offered the position of Presidential Fellow in Inequalities and Ethnicity at the University of Manchester, UK. Dr. Tinsley’s dissertation is titled We Will Re-Member Them: Muslims in the British and French World War I Centenary. The position is housed in the Department of Sociology, and is a […]
Graduate Student Brittany Frederick named Pardee Center Summer Fellow
Brittany Frederick, a second year PhD student in Sociology, has won a Pardee Center Summer Fellowship. She will compare international race discourse surrounding Black Lives Matter and analyze the diffusion of narratives and experiences that have motivated the global response to the movement. The Graduate Summer Fellows will spend 10 weeks at the Pardee House […]
Meghan Tinsley’s paper to appear in Current Sociology
Graduate student Meghan Tinsley’s paper, “Decolonizing the Civic/Ethnic Binary” has been accepted for publication in the journal Current Sociology. Congratulations, Meghan!
Graduate Student Adrienne Lemon becomes Dr. Lemon
Graduate student Adrienne Lemon successfully defended her dissertation, “Dying to Dream: Exploring Citizen Political Participation in Conflict and Post-Conflict Periods in Berundi,” which completes her PhD work in Sociology. Congratulations, Adrienne!
Graduate Student Meaghan Stiman becomes Dr. Stiman
Graduate student Meaghan Stiman successfully defended her dissertation, “The City or The Country: Second Homeownership in Urban and Rural Contexts,” which completes her PhD in sociology. Congratulations, Meaghan!
Jon Shaffer & Sasha White win Pardee Fellowships
Graduate Students Jonathan Shaffer and Alexandre (Sasha) White have both won Pardee Center 2017 Summer Fellowships! Each summer 8 graduate students are selected for these fellowships. The Graduate Summer Fellows will spend 10 weeks at the Pardee House developing research papers to be considered for publication as part of the Pardee Center’s publication series. In […]
Graduate Student Taylor Cain wins City of Boston Fellowship
Graduate student Taylor Cain won the City of Boston Summer Fellowship in the Mayor’s Office of New Urban Mechanics. The opportunity sprang from a partnership between the Initiative on Cities and the Boston City Government. The fellowship is only awarded to one graduate student each summer. Congratulations, Taylor!
Graduate Student Jon Shaffer wins Prestigious NSF grant
Doctoral student Jonathan Shaffer (in his first year) has won the National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship! This is a very prestigious and competitive award that provides multi-year full funding for excellent research in the sciences. Congratulations, Jon!
Graduate Student Sasha White offered Johns Hopkins Postdoctoral Fellowship
Alexandre (“Sasha”) White has received an offer for the Johns Hopkins University Provost’s Postdoctoral Fellowship. This opportunity is a competitive and prestigious postdoctoral fellowship that awards at least one year of salary and research resources while in residency at Johns Hopkins, and is devoted to helping postdoctoral scholars develop their research profile in preparation for […]