Graduate Student
Kellogg PhD Fellows Research Presentation
Tue
Dec
01
Join the Kellogg Institute in celebrating our PhD Fellows who are on the final stretch of their academic journeys. Six will share their research in abbreviated presentations and field questions among a supportive Kellogg community. Presenters are: Matthew Coetzee, Rasheed Ibrahim, Debora Rogo, Aitor Valdesogo, Juan Vargas Hernandez, and Coleson Weir.
This event is restricted to only University of Notre Dame Faculty, Graduate Students, and staff.
Speakers / Related People
Matthew Coetzee
Matthew Coetzee is a PhD student in sociology at the University of Notre Dame and a PhD Fellow at the Kellogg Institute for International Studies. His research is focussed within the subfields of political and cultural sociology with an emphasis on how societies negotiate past injustices, diversity and collective identities. Before coming to Notre Dame, Matthew was a Yale-China Fellow with the Yale-China Association...
Rasheed Ibrahim
Rasheed Ibrahim is a doctoral student in political science at the University of Notre Dame and a PhD fellow at the Kellogg Institute of International Studies. He is interested in examining the logic of ethnic voting in the African context. His research aims to understand how voting along ethnic affiliations may or may not hinder democratic accountability in African countries...
Debora Rogo
Debora Rogo (history and peace studies) is a Kenyan attorney and human rights advocate. She received her Juris Doctor from Washington University in St. Louis School of Law and her Bachelor of Arts in Political Science from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill...
Aitor Valdesogo
Aitor Valdesogo is a PhD student in the Department of History at the University of Notre Dame. He earned his BA in History (2019) and his Master’s degree in Latin American Studies (2021) from the University of Salamanca in Spain. His master’s thesis explored the historical evolution of human rights and Latin America's influential role in globalizing human rights discourse during the late 20th century...
Juan Vargas Hernandez
I am a doctoral student at the University of Notre Dame, where I study Indigenous and Black Royalism during Colombia’s independence process. I focus on understanding the reasons to fight against the republic, and the lasting consequences faced by inhabitants of royalist bastions through the consolidation of the Republic...