Recent PhD Awards

2023 Global Studies PhD Field Grant Awards (funded via the Global Studies Department)
- Jahan Ahmed (Advisor: Distinguished Professor Mark Juergensmeyer)
- Project: Co-Constructing Islamic Glory – American Orientalism in Cold War Pakistan
- James Altman (Advisor: Distinguished Professor Jan Nederveen Pieterse)
- Project: Research in Former Soviet Regional Archives in the Caucasus and Central Asia
- Christina Guirguis (Advisor: Professor Paul Amar)
- Swaroopa Lahiri (Advisor: Associate Professor Aashish Mehta)
- Project: Erratic Rain, Exiting Men: Female Farm Operators and the Shifting Agricultural Landscape in Rural India
- Mariah Miller (Advisor: Distinguished Professor Jan Nederveen Pieterse)
- Project: Comparing Social Enterprises in Chengdu, China; Barcelona, Spain; and San Francisco, USA
- Amanda Pinheiro (Advisor: Associate Professor Nadege T. Clitandre)
- Project: Haitijuana: Anti-Black Border Regimes, Haitian Migration and Resistance in Brazil, Mexico, and the United States
- Mesadet Sozmen (Advisor: Professor Paul Amar)
- Project: Nurturing the Nation, Uplifting the ‘East’: Women’s Duty in Welfare, Charity, and Solidarity
- Leila Zonouzi (Advisor: Professor Janet Afary)
- Project: The Second Wave of MENA Academic Migration: Mass Migration of Academics from Iran, Egypt, and Turkey in the 21st Century