Dissertation Year Fellowships - Past Recipients
2010-2011
Ezequiel Gonzalez Ocantos
Dorini Fellow
(Political Science)
“Supreme Courts and the Justiciability of Human Rights in Latin America’s Third Wave of Democratization”
Lourdes Hurtado
(History)
“The Future of Peru is in the Hands of a Woman: Gender and Military Nationalism in Peru (1960 – 1980”)
Krystin Krause
Dorini Fellow
(Political Science)
“The Politics of the Iron Fist: Media Framing, Public Opinion, and Political Rhetoric in Latin America”
Stephen Morgan
(History)
“Surrendering Souls: The Role of Rhenish Missionaries in the Herero Genocide, 1904-1908”
Maria Rogacheva
(History)
“Soviet Scientific Intelligentsia from Stalin to Gorbachev, 1956-1985: A History of a Town That Did Not Exist”
2009 - 2010
Michael Driessen
(Political Science)
“Religion and Democratization in the Mediterranean”
Shannon Drysdale Walsh
Dorini Fellow
(Political Science)
“State Response to Violence Against Women in Latin America”
Kathryn Gardner
(Political Science)
“Politicizing Religion: A Comparative Look at the Origins and Development of Muslim Incorporation Policies in France, Great Britain, and the United States, 1945-2008”
Lucas Gonzalez
(Political Science)
“Primus Contra Pares: Presidents, Governors, and the Politics of Distribution of Federal Resources in Argentina and Brazil”
Kunle Owolabi
(Political Science)
“The Colonial Origins of Dictatorship and Democracy: British Rule and the Post-Independence Regimes of the Caribbean and Africa”
Nicolás Somma
(Sociology)
“How Do Governments Shape Insurgency? Nation-States, Democracy, and Armed Insurgency in Post-Independence Latin America, 1820-1920”
2008 - 2009
Sergio Bejar
(Political Science)
“Explaining Variation in Vote Buying: Political Competition, Information Flows, and Political Trust in Mexico”
Cora Fernandez
(Political Science)
“The Impact of Social Movements on Public Policy. Women and Human Rights Movements in Argentina, Chile, and Uruguay”
Michael Kelly
(History)
“The First Sin, the Master Sin, and the Common Sin: Sacrilege in Early Modern England”
Kunle Owolabi
(Political Science)
“The Colonial Origins of Dictatorship and Democracy: British Rule and the Post-Independence Regimes of the Caribbean and Africa”
Susy Sanchez
(History)
“Dictatorship, Revolution, and Democracy: Nicaraguan Political Regimes, National Representations and Uses of the Past (1936 - 1996)”
Charles Strauss
(History)
“Religious Mission, Central American Conflict, and U.S. Cold War Politics, 1944-1996”
2007 - 2008
Carlos Gervasoni
(Political Science)
“A Rentier Theory of Subnational Democracy: The Politically Regressive Effects of Redistributive Fiscal Federalism in Argentina”
Lucas Gonzalez
(Political Science)
“Primus Contra Pares: Presidents, Governors and the Politics of Distribution of Federal Resources in Argentina and Brazil”
Özlem Kayhan Pusane
(Political Science)
“Insurgencies, Counterinsurgencies, and Civil-Military Relations: When, How and Why Do Civilians Prevail?”
Carlos Lisoni
(Political Science)
“Political Parties and Electoral Mobilization in Argentina”
Roberto E. N. Rivera
(Sociology)
“The Couples for Christ: Organizational Framing and Socio-Political Mobilizations in the Catholic Charismatic Renewal”
2006 - 2007
Annabella Espana-Najera
(Political Science)
”Party Systems and Democracy after the Conflicts”
Gavin Foster
(History)
“The Social Structure and Cultural Politics of the Irish Civil War”
Carlos Lisoni
(Political Science)
“Political Parties and Electoral Mobilization in Argentina”
Carlos Mendoza
(Political Science)
“Political Elites and Indigenous Peoples: Explaining Multicultural Institutions in Central America
2005 - 2006
Alejandra Armesto
(Political Science)
"Subnational Particularism: Decentralization, Political Competition, and the Composition of Local Public Goods in Latin America"
Gilberto Libanio
(Economics and Econometrics)
"Three Essays on Aggregate Demand and Growth"
Juan Andres Moraes
(Political Science)
"Public Support and Democracy: Identifying Causal Mechanisms for Erosion of Democracy in Latin America"
Kate Nicholls
(Political Science)
"Regimes and Policy-making on the European Periphery: New Spaces, Actors, and Ideas in the Forging of Responses to Labor Market Challenges in Greece, Ireland, and Portugal, 1975-2005"
Mariana Sousa
(Political Science)
"Political Economy of Banking Regulation and Supervision in Latin America"
2004 - 2005
Firat Demir
(Economics)
"Three Essays on Financial Liberalization and Low Growth Traps in Argentina, Mexico and Turkey"
David Ortiz
(Sociology)
"The Relationship between Collective Action and State Repression: A Dynamic, Continuous Time-Model"
Saika Uno
(Political Science)
"Public Support and Democracy: Identifying Causal Mechanisms for Erosion of Democracy in Latin America"
Edurne Zoco
(Political Science)
"The Collapse of Party Systems: Italy, Peru and Venezuela"
2003 - 2004
Mark McCarthy
(History)
“Religious Conflict and Social Order in Late Nineteenth-Century Russia”
Harsh Pant
(Political Science)
“The NPT vs. Great Power Politics: Re-examining the Nuclear Proliferation Puzzle”
Claire Smith
(Political Science)
“Cartel or Catch-all? Political Finance and Party Organization in Federal Systems”
Xiao-Qing Wang
(Sociology)
“How Has a Chinese Village Become Catholic? Local Culture and the Interculturation of Catholicism in Northern China”
2002 - 2003
Peter Baker
(Political Science)
"Policy Making in Transition: Decision Rules, Decision Makers, and Distributive Politics in Lithuania and Ukraine"
Viviana Andrea Bomparde
(Sociology)
"Sources and Processes of Cultural Innovation: A Comparison Between Local and Center Communities in the Making of the Mercosur"
Andrés Mejía-Acosta
(Political Science)
"Through the Eye of the Needle: Legislative Coalitions, Information Institutions and Economic Reform in Third Wave Democracies"
Paul Vasquez
(Political Science)
"Shouldering the State Security Burden: The Composition of Militaries, Regime Type and International Conflict Behavior"
2000 - 2001
Katharine Belmont
(Government)
"War and Peace in Sri Lanka and Malaysia: Nationalism and Ethnic Politics in Divided Societies"
Joanna Kaftan
(Sociology)
"Reconstructing National Identity: Religious Nationalism in Post-Communist Poland"
Gabriel X. Martínez
(Economics)
"Stabilization-cum-Liberalization and Endogenous Financial Crises"
J. Esteban Montes
(Government)
"Changes in the Chilean Party System after the Transition: Causes and Consequences"
