2017 Recipients
Elizabeth Baisley
Elizabeth’s dissertation explores the formation of political cleavages in the United States and Canada. It does so by studying one stage of this process: interactions between social movement organizations and political parties.
.M Dan Berbecel
The topic of Dan’s dissertation is hyperpresidentialism, where he seeks to determine the structural conditions that allow a president to usurp power from congress and the judiciary. In Argentina and Chile, Dan seeks to determine why Argentine presidents have been able to concentrate power to such a great degree whereas Chilean presidents have been significantly more constrained by institutions of horizontal accountability.
Winston Chou
Winston is using his Bobst award to conduct fieldwork and a survey of urban and rural voters in northern France. The survey results will complement a larger study of income inequality and political populism in Europe.
Killian B. Clarke
Killian Clarke used his Bobst grant to conduct research on political and social mobilization among Syrian refugees in the Middle East, traveling to refugee camps and settlements in Turkey, Lebanon and Jordan to conduct interviews with members of refugee communities, aid and UN organizations and government representatives.
Harris Doshay
Harris’s dissertation examines the relationship between religious leaders and the state in authoritarian countries. He is using his Bobst grant to conduct fieldwork in China to examine the effects of tight religious control on religious organizations and their practices.
Dayna Judge
Dayna Judge’s dissertation examines the paths to power for women. She is using her Bobst grant to conduct fieldwork in the UK and Turks and Caicos to determine how moments of crisis affect women’s ability to attain political office.
Rachael S. McLellan
Rachael’s dissertation explores the effects of decentralization reforms on political contestation in sub-Saharan Africa. She will use her Bobst grant to fund fieldwork in Tanzania. During fieldwork, she plans to create a community-level dataset of service provision and electoral control.
Christoph Mikulaschek
A research grant from the Mamdouha S. Bobst Center for Peace and Justice and the Niehaus Center for Globalization and Governance enables Christoph to investigate the effect of multilateral approval of U.S. interventions in two separate contexts; this research design yields findings with greater external validity than previous studies.