The Kellogg Institute welcomes six new PhD Fellows to its ranks of Doctoral Student Affiliates. This year’s recipients will enrich the Kellogg scholarly community in the years ahead with diverse perspectives shaped by their disciplines and distinct backgrounds.
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Jiahe (Andy) Cao is a PhD student in anthropology whose research explores education, youth culture, and inequality in China. She studies how students engage aspiration and navigate institutional discourses of success and citizenship through language and digital platforms.
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Juan Carlos Hernández Briones is a doctoral student in the Department of Economics whose research interests include labor and public economics, with a particular emphasis on inequality and poverty.
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Valentina Salazar is a JSD candidate who has worked on human rights, legal theory, constitutional law, criminal law, the Inter-American human rights system, and AI’s impact on human rights. She has taught at Universidad Externado Law School, presented before the Colombian Constitutional Court, and advised the Inter-American Court of Human Rights.
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Carly Sandstrom is a doctoral student studying political science. Her main research interests include conflict and political violence, gender-based violence, children’s rights, human rights, and democracy. Her previous research centered on the rights of children during armed conflict using a case study from the Syrian Civil War.
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Ryan Snyder is a PhD student in history whose work focuses on the modern Americas, with particular attention to the historical geography of capitalism, environmental history, and the US empire. His research uses the Pan-American Highway as a lens to examine how local, regional, and transnational inequalities are created and sustained.
- Ziyi Wu is a political science doctoral student who specializes in comparative politics, with a regional focus on China. His research explores state propaganda, misinformation, and censorship in authoritarian regimes, particularly in China.
Kellogg PhD Fellowships are competitive awards, bestowed before students decide to come to the University of Notre Dame as an incentive to attract outstanding students in a variety of disciplines who are committed to the study and understanding of global issues. Recipients receive funding supplemental to their departmental stipends, renewable annually for four additional academic years.