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Political science doctoral candidate Ricardo Vega León has received the 2023 Fund for Latino Scholarship award from the American Political Science Association. His research interests include the intersections of the history of political thought and political economy, political theory of race and empire, and transnational politics of slavery and abolition.  (Read More, 10/9/2023)

Congratulations to Mohsen Jalali for receiving and accepting a tenure-track Assistant Professor position in the political science department at Midwestern State University in Texas. He was hired to teach in Global Affairs, American politics and Middle Eastern politics. Congratulations to Mohsen and kudos to his Dissertation Chair, Regine Spector.

Ph.D. candidate Adam Eichen is co-author of an opinion piece supporting a bill before the Massachusetts legislature that would restore voting rights to convicted felons. Eichen, who is also a fellow at the UMass Amherst Poll, cites the Poll’s recent findings that 49 percent of Massachusetts residents support the change. (CommonWealth, 5/9/23)

Candice published a piece in the Washington Post's Monkey Cage section on Patriot Front after their march in Boston over Independence Day weekend. She distills her work on right-wing and white nationalist groups, highlighting the threat they pose and showing their effective recruitment strategies. (Washington Post, 7/25/22)

And the 3MT winner is...Kira Tait, PhD candidate in Political Science! Kira was named the 2020 Three Minute Thesis winner by the judges and received the People's Choice Award, voted on by the audience. Next, Kira will be competing in Quebec City in April in the next stage of the competition. #UMassAmherst3MT

by Seth Oldmixon and Arafat Kabir

"Rohingya Refugees Pose A Global Humanitarian Crisis. They May Become A Global Security One"

An article about the status of the Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh, the concerns about the rising crime rate and drug addictions in the camps and their concerns about the extremist education within the camps. The authors outline the root cause of the crisis which is that the refugees lack a clear path to a meaningful future outside the camps.

Congratulations to Luz Maria Sanchez Duque who was awarded a Graduate School Fieldwork Grant for her dissertation work. These grants were very competitive, with only 34% of applications awarded funding. Congratulations Luz Maria on this important accomplishment!

 

Congratulations to Ben Nolan PhD student at the Department of Political Science UMass Amherst for being awarded the Mellon International Dissertation Research Fellowship (IDRF) Program, funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. Ben Nolan was one of seventy provisional awardees, selected from a total of 956 submitted applications from graduate students at 100 universities.

Congratulations to Usmaan Farooqui for being awarded the highly competitive Mellon/American Council for Learned Societies (ACLS) Dissertation Completion Fellowship for his dissertation, "Precarious Pipes: Governance, Informality and the Politics of Access in Karachi."

Michael Stein, Ph.D student and Director of Corporate and Foundation at UMass Amherst recently had a journal article published in the South Atlantic Quarterly entitled "The Authoritarian Personality and the Limits of American Social Science". 

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