Kellogg Institute Award for Outstanding Doctoral Student Contributions
Inaugurated in 2016–17, this annual award recognizes a doctoral student affiliate for outstanding contributions to the intellectual life of the Kellogg Institute. The recipient of the Kellogg Institute Award for Outstanding Doctoral Student Contributions, which carries a monetary prize of $500, will be announced at the Institute’s Year-End Celebration in April.
Eligibility
Nominees must be current Kellogg Institute doctoral student affiliates.
Criteria
Award winners will display a sustained, dynamic engagement that advances the distinctive intellectual community of the Kellogg Institute. In addition, they will have made a significant contribution in one or more of the following areas:
- Advancement of independent research on Kellogg themes that achieves external recognition (e.g., conference presentations, publications, awards);
- Research collaboration with a faculty fellow that has produced or has the potential to produce significant outputs;
- Development and/or implementation of Institute programming that benefits the graduate community as a whole (e.g., coordinating working groups or organizing conferences, workshops, or other events).
Nomination Procedure
Any member of the Kellogg community, encompassing faculty fellows, students, staff members, and visitors, can provide a one-page letter outlining the nominee’s contributions.
Please send nominations to Senior Program Manager of Visiting Fellowships and Graduate Student Affairs Lupe Ramírez at gramirez@nd.edu..
Recipients
Natán Skigin (political science)
Award Recipient 2024
PhD Fellow 2018-23
Benjamin Garcia Holgado (political science)
Award Recipient 2023
PhD Fellow 2017-22
Paul Friesen (political science)
Award Recipient 2022
Dissertation Year Fellow 2021-22
PhD Fellow 2016-2021
Bernardo Pulido Marquez (law)
Award Recipient 2021
Dissertation Year Fellow 2020-21
PhD Fellow 2018-20
Camilo Nieto-Matiz (political science)
Award Recipient 2020
Dissertation Year Fellow 2019-20
Stefanie Israel de Souza (sociology)
Award Recipient 2019
Dissertation Year Fellow 2017-18
PhD Fellow 2011-16
Lucia Tiscornia (political science)
Award Recipient 2018
Dissertation Year Fellow 2018-19
PhD Fellow 2012-17
Juan Guillermo Albarracín Dierolf (political science)
Award Recipient 2017
Dissertation Year Fellow 2017-18
PhD Fellow 2011-16