Congratulations to our department award winners

2022 Department Award Winner portraits
Each year our department awards excellence in scholarship

Congratulations to our award winners.  In the 2021-22 academic year, our graduate students continued to produce important scholarship in preparation for publication and the job market. 

 

OUTSTANDING DISSERTATION

Diego Romero.
"Connections and Privileged Access: Essays on The Political Economy of Corruption"
 

OUTSTANDING MA THESIS

Qi Liu.
“Moral Hazard in Hierarchical International Agreements: Bilateral Swap Agreements, Reserve Accumulation, and the Private Sector”
 

OUTSTANDING PRELIMINARY EXAM

Lucy Right.
"The Democratic Returns of Pluralism in Autocracy: Opposition Representation and Local Development in Cambodia’s Commune Councils"

Emily Myers.
"Insurgent Conscription for Capacity and Control: State Violence and Forced Recruitment in Civil War"