GPD Trainees and Fellows
The Graduate Program in Development is home to over 50 trainees. All GPD trainees are pursuing PhDs in anthropology, economics, history, political science, or sociology, while also receiving advanced interdisciplinary training in the area of development and inequality. Between 2010 and 2016, many of our GPD trainees were supported by generous fellowships from the National Science Foundation’s Integrated Graduate Education and Research Traineeship (IGERT).
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Haoming
I am a PhD student in the Sociology Department. My research interests lie in the overlapping areas of family studies and inequality. Particularly, I am interested in the recent changes in family structures and relationships as well as how they contribute to the reproduction and transmission of different forms of... Read more
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Aaron
I am a third-year PhD student in the Economics Department, specializing in Urban Economics and Development Economics. My current work focuses primarily on urban disasters, rebuilding, and the resulting shifts in long-run city outcomes. My other research interests focus on slums, property... Read more
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Amy Jo-Shin Wang
I am a first year PhD student in the Political Science Department. My interest in political science is rooted in the confluence of ethics and science. I intend to focus my research in the field of International Political Economy with an emphasis on development, climate change, and inequality in the... Read more -
Jonathon
I am a PhD student in sociology. I earned my BA in Political Science (Theory tract) and Ethnic Studies at Brown University. As an undergraduate, I was a research assistant for Kay Warren, an anthropologist, studying human trafficking, prostitution, and labor migration in Latin America and East... Read more
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Shanelle
I am a PhD student in the Sociology Department. I focus on political and civil society organizations that position themselves to influence foreign policy discourse toward sustainable development solutions in sub-Saharan Africa. I am also interested in policy formulation processes that impact ... Read more
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Daniel
I am a first-year PhD student in the Political Science Department. I am particularly focused on the politics of Turkey, Russia, and Eastern Europe. My research interests include ethnopolitics, conflict, secularism, religion in politics, and nationalism. I hold a BA in History and Literature (Russian) from Harvard College... Read more
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Jocelyn
I am a PhD student in Sociology. My research interests are organizations, gender, and political sociology. I focus on questions related to anti-human trafficking, transnational social movements, women’s empowerment, and the role of organizations in advocacy and collective action. I hold an MA in ... Read more
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Rui F.
I am a doctoral student in the Sociology department. My current areas of academic interest are: race and ethnicity, (international) migration, urban sociology, and social theory. I am interested in understanding why (and how) people migrate, and what are the constraints they face in: making their decisions... Read more
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Megan
I am a first year sociology PhD student. I obtained my BA at the College of the Holy Cross (right down the road!) in Political Science and French and studied abroad in Strasbourg, France for a year, taking classes at the Institut Robert Schuman. After graduation, I spent a few months... Read more
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Keenan
I am a PhD student in the Sociology Department. My research is in political and comparative historical sociology. I’m interested in labor movements and political change in the Middle East and North Africa and I am currently working on the emergence and organization of unions in Tunsia. I received my... Read more
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Danielle
I am a PhD student in the Sociology Department. I focus on environmental sociology and critical development with a specific emphasis on climate change. My research looks at the intersections of climate change and development policies in Bangladesh and the multi-scalar inequalities revealed in their... Read more
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Samee
I am a PhD student in the Anthropology Department. My research interests include disability studies, citizenship, sovereignty, political movements, violence, war, medical anthropology, secularism, sectarianism, and Islam in Lebanon, Palestine, and the broader Middle East. I am currently researching the... Read more
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Kaustav Chakrabarti
I am a third year graduate student in the Department of Political Science. I am interested in understanding the development of political order during civil wars. I want to explore variation in the use of violent and non-violent repertoires by states to generate social control during violent conflict. I have... Read more -
Amanda
I am a PhD student in the Sociology Department. My research interests are in urban and political sociology. I focus on questions related to ethnic conflict, displacement, urbanization, urban social movements, and the social and political use of space by urban refugees. I hold a BA in Sociology and Peace... Read more
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Katherine Thompson
I am a PhD student in the Anthropology Department. My research interests include higher education, language ideology, popular culture, sound studies, and space and place. I focus on how Nigerian university students construct and enact ideologies of national development through engagement... Read more -
Janet Carolina Lopez
I am a graduate student in the Department of Economics at Brown University, focusing on development economics and applied microeconomics. My interests are issues of education, human capital, and gender. Specifically, I am interested in the way in which non-cognitive skills affect cognitive... Read more -
Sertac
I am a PhD student in the Department of Anthropology. My research interests include civil-military relations, spatial analysis, urbanization, infrastructures, and affect theory. My current research concerns the relationship between military power and urban as well as regional development in Turkey, ... Read more
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Ieva
I am a PhD student in the Sociology Department. My research interests are in social exclusion, gender inequalities in work and family, and related policies in developing countries. Currently, I am
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researching these issues in China and India. I hold an MA in Comparative Business Economics... Read more -
Hannah
I am a first year graduate student in the Political Science Department. My research focuses on the domestic and international politics of diverse Latin American countries. I am interested in questions of inequality, informal institutions, and development, particularly the rights of women, indigenous peoples, and... Read more
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Selim
I am a first year graduate student in International Relations. My research focuses on strategy and security. My interests include the theory and practice of nuclear deterrence, dynamics of nuclear proliferation, alliance politics, civil-military relations and security policy-making, particularly in the Middle East. I am... Read more
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Zhe
I am a PhD student in Department of Political Science at Brown University. My study interests mainly focus on comparative politics and international relations, especially ethnic politics and development in China. I have a MA degree in political science from Columbia University, a MA in journalism from the University of... Read more
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Aimee
I am a PhD candidate in political science. My research interests include comparative federalism and decentralization, social policy, and state-society relations. My dissertation focuses on the distributive politics of housing policy, with a focus on Mexico. Prior to coming to Brown, I earned a BSc in... Read more
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Daniel
I am a PhD student in the Department of History at Brown, studying modern Latin America.
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I am particularly interested in the intersection of social movements, consumption, and democratization. My research project focuses on grassroots urban social movements, NGOs, and the consumer rights... Read more -
Whitney
I am a PhD student in the Anthropology Department. I work on issues of tuberculosis detection programs in Ghana. My current research focuses on tuberculosis control initiatives by the Ghanaian state, focusing on access to medication and mechanisms of care for rural populations in the Central... Read more
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Kristen
I am a PhD student in the Sociology Department. My research interests are at the intersection of gender, policy, and international development: how are policy interventions in developing countries experienced differently by women and men, and how do these interventions contribute to... Read more
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Rehan Rafay Jamil
I am a graduate student in the Department of Political Science at Brown, studying comparative
politics. My research interests
include political economy of development, poverty and social service provision in South Asia.
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Mahesh
I am a PhD student in the Department of Economics specializing in development economics and applied microeconomics. In particular, I am interested in issues related to education, health, migration, poverty and inequality. I have an MA in Economics from Brown University ... Read more
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Jerome
I am a third year graduate student in the Political Science Department. My research focuses on development, democratization, and human rights, as well as how these are impacted by violent non-state actors, such as drug cartels. More specifically, my research (and preliminary fieldwork) is in forced displacement and... Read more
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Shishav
I am a PhD student of Political Theory in the Political Science Department. My interests include history of political thoughts, and I make use of Post/Marxist and critical theory traditions to understand the phenomena of cultural hegemony and revolutionary violence. Currently, I am exploring the categorization of... Read more
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Alice
I am a PhD student in the Anthropology Department. I work on issues of illness, treatment, and medicine relating to infant and child health. My research explores the discursive construction of best practices of infant care in the Republic of Cabo Verde, with a specific focus on everyday ... Read more
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Syeda Quratulain Masood
I am a graduate student in sociology. My research interests include racial and ethnic minorities, nation building, democracy and the state. I am particularly interested in how people navigate intersecting identities in politics as well as every day life in a post colonial context. I have several years of work experience in... Read more -
Anindita Adhikari
I am a first year doctoral student in the Sociology Department. My interests lie in studying social inequality in the context of deep democratic contestation and rights-based development interventions in India and eventually in comparable contexts in the global south. I’m interested in how the interaction ... Read more -
Esha
I am a graduate student in sociology. My research interests broadly span the areas of development and inequality; social demography; and gender, work, and family. Particularly, I am interested in examining how socio-economic and political institutions and relationships shape health and well-being of ... Read more
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Girija
I am a PhD candidate in the Department of Economics specializing in development economics and applied microeconomics. In particular, I am interested in issues related to education, health, and gender with a regional focus on South Asia. My current research examines the... Read more
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Rebecca Bell-Martin
I am a PhD student in the Political Science Department. I study comparative politics and international relations with special interests in Latin America. My research agenda includes political violence, violent non-state actors, and political participation under conditions of physical insecurity. ... Read more -
Chantel
I am a doctoral student in the Department of Sociology. Generally, I look to understand the experience of exclusion of migrants from critical services in urban and peri-urban places in the global South. My current research focuses on the process and politics of development, international migration,... Read more
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Rachel
I am a second year graduate student in Comparative and American politics. I have a BA in history and Latin American studies from Bard College. My research interests include populist & cultural political appeals in Latin America and the United States, neoliberal economic policies, media and cultural studies... Read more
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Emily
I am graduate student in the Department of Anthropology. My current research focuses on transplantation, primarily bone marrow stem cell donor recruitment in South Africa, as well has more broadly how immunology and public transplant advocacy are linked with race and ethnicity and ... Read more
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Sara
I am a first-year doctoral student in the Department of Anthropology. My research focuses on Middle Eastern immigrants and refugees in Europe and how they navigate concepts of identity and citizenship. Specifically, I am interested in the social consequences of food and foodways in shaping the memories and... Read more
Hefny
