Student News: Spring 2021

Student News: Spring 2021

Ankita Aggarwarl (level II) published “Why are MNREGA wages so low?” in Ideas For India.
Fernando Aquino (level III) is running for New York City Council’s 14th District.
Harry Blain (level III) published “America’s Lame Duck Period is Palestine’s Nightmare,” in Foreign Policy in Focus and “Civil Liberties and the Post-Trump Constitution: Thinking Beyond Executive Power,” in The Thought Project. Harry also received an Early Research Initiative Catalyst Grant. 
Rebecca Krisel (level III) published “Why is Income Inequality Growing?” in Contexts Magazine and received the Early Research Initiative Digital Initiatives Connect New York summer fellowship. She also presented “Internet Dance Communities and the Right to the Internet” at the “Augmented Cities – Where did the night go?” conference organized by The Berlin Institute for Migration and Integration Studies and the Institute for European Ethnology at Humboldt University. 
Conner Martinez (M.A.) presented his paper “El Pueblo Unido: How Threats Increased Latino Turnout in Arizona’s 2020 General Election” at Arizona State University’s Politics of Race, Immigration, and Ethnicity Consortium Conference.
Ariel Mekler (level III) received an Early Research Initiative PublicLabs Public Research grant. 
David Monda (level II) was awarded a Fellowship for the Covid-19 Impact Project from the CUNY Humanities Alliance as well as the GC Digital Research Fellowship from the Graduate Center Digital Research Institute. David also published “Reimagining foreign policy: Joe Biden’s first foreign policy speech and its implications for international affairs” in the GC Advocate
Cassie Morales (level I) published, “How mutual aid can help save America” in Daily News.
Javier Padilla (level I) provided research support for Market Economy, Market Society: Interviews and Essays on the Decline of European Social Democracy (Phenomenal World 2021) and published “Coronavirus and American Elections: A Story of Polarization” in The Thought Project. He was also featured in El País for his upcoming book on rock and politics in Spain’s Andalucia during the 60s and 70s. 
Heidi Andrea Rhodes (level III) published “Impossible Word: Toward a Poetics of Aphasia” in Poetry. She also published  “Defense Strategies” in the Hic Rosa Collective’s edited collection, Falsework, Smalltalk: Political Education, Aesthetic Archives, Recitations of a Future in Common (Some Beloved 2021). Rhodes was awarded a Spring 2021 Mellon Arts and Practitioners Fellowship at the Yale Center for the Study of Race, Indigeneity, and Transnational Migration.
Brahim Rouabah (level III) published “The Colonial Counter-Revolution: the People’s Revolution in Algeria (Hirak)” in the Review of African Political Economy. He also received an Early Research Initiative Pre-Dissertation Summer Research grant. 
Dean Schafer (level III) received an Early Research Initiative Catalyst Grant.
Sarah Shah (level III) received the World Politics and Statecraft Fellowship by the Smith Richardson Foundation for her dissertation titled “The Politics of Post-Counterinsurgency Statebuilding in Northwestern Pakistan.” She also received an Early Research Initiative Catalyst Grant.
Sally Sharif (level III) presented three papers at the ISA Convention 2021: “Volatility and Violence: A Duration Model of Economic Instability and Intrastate War;” “Subnational Variation in Building Peace: Why Only Some Demobilization Camps Succeed;” and “When are Disarmament, Demobilization, and Reintegration (DDR) Programs Successful? Introducing the DDR-18 Dataset (1980-2018).”
B Stone (level III) received an Early Research Initiative Archival Research Award for American Studies. 
Leo Tamamizu (level I) published “Australia to ANZUS Kiki, Doumei Gakai ni okeru Meihou no Ninski to Taiou [Australia and the ANZUS Crisis, 1984-1986 : The Third Ally’s Perception and Reactions under the Intra-Alliance Dispute between the Other Allies],” in Kokusai-Seiji. Tamamizu was invited to speak at the 2020 Annual Conference of the Japan Association of International Relations.
Thuy Anh Tran (level III) was awarded a 2020 Doctoral Dissertation Research Improvement Grant by the American Political Science Association.