Visiting Graduate Students

Ines Fynn

Fall 2019 Inés Fynn is a Ph.D. Candidate in Political Science at the Universidad Católica de Chile. She holds a B.A. in Sociology from Universidad Católica del Uruguay. Her research focuses on comparative politics, urban informality, citizen-state relations, access to citizenship, and socioeconomic inequality with a regional focus in Latin... Read more

Talia Rebeca Haro

Fall 2019 Talia Rebeca Haro is a PhD candidate in the Faculty of Political and Social Sciences at the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México. Her thesis dissertation focuses on the creation of markets for insulin in the case of Mexico at the interplay of international political economy and law (mainly... Read more

Nicolas Vidal

Fall 2019 & Spring 2020 Nicolás Vidal is a PhD student in Political Science at the Federal University of São Carlos (UFSCar) and researcher at the Center for Studies in Economic Sociology and Finance (NESEFi/UFSCar). He has a degree in Sociology from the Universidad de Buenos Aires (UBA) and a... Read more

Adedokun Sulaimon

Spring 2014 Adedokun Sulaimon is a lecturer in the Department of Demography and Social Statistics at Obafemi Awolowo University in Nigeria. He is a PhD Fellow of Consortium for Advanced Research Training in Africa (CARTA), a South-South partnership with South-North collaboration which strengthens research capacity and... Read more

Miao
Tian

Spring 2014 Miao Tian is a first-year doctoral student of sociology at Frankfurt University. She obtained her MA in political science at Sun Yat-sen University in China, and worked as a research assistant at the International Center for Joint Labor Research in Guangzhou. Her main fields of interest are... Read more

Evaline Gabriel Mcharo

Fall 2013 Evaline graduated from the University of Dar es Salaam in 2006 with a BA in Education, and in 2008 with an MA in Demography. She is currently pursuing her PhD in Population Studies at the University of Nairobi under the Consortium for Advanced Research Training in Africa (CARTA)... Read more

Fritz
Schoon

Spring 2013 Fritz is a PhD student in Sociology at the University of Cape Town, South Africa.  His research is on South African industrial policy, and the degree to which South Africa’s polices adhere with those that one would anticipate to be implemented in a “Developmental State.” He plans to compare... Read more

Alvaro
del Aguila

Spring 2013 Alvaro is a PhD candidate in Anthropology at the University of Buenos Aires. He holds bachelors degrees from the Universidad de Morón (in Health and Safety at Work) and the Universidad de Buenos Aires (in Anthropology). His research interests are Paraguayan migratory... Read more

Lavanya
Suresh

Fall 2012 Lavanya holds master’s degrees in Public Administration and Sociology from Madras University in Chennai and Indira Gandhi National Open University in New Delhi, respectively, and is currently pursuing her PhD in Political Science at the Institute for Social and Economic Change. She has recently begun research on her... Read more

Kalpana
Dixit

Spring 2012 Kalpana Dixit is pursuing her doctoral research in the Department of Political Science, Pune University, India on the topic "Changing Paradigm of Democratic Governance: A Case Study of Electricity Sector Reforms in Maharashtra." Her research interests include political economy of development, political process ... Read more

Tatenda Mukwedeya

Fall 2011 Tatenda is a PhD candidate in Sociology at the University of the Witwatersrand in South Africa. He obtained an MA in Development Sociology from the same institution and completed his Bsc Hons in Sociology from the University of Zimbabwe. His interests lie in development and political sociology, particularly... Read more

Duncan
Pieterse

Fall 2011 Duncan Pieterse is a PhD candidate in the School of Economics at the University of Cape Town in South Africa. He completed an Honours and Masters in Business Science (Economics) at the University of Cape Town. Duncan's PhD research examines the impact of exposure to violence... Read more

Mariana Chudnovsky

Spring 2011 Chudnovsky is working on her dissertation for a PhD in Political Science at Universidad Torcuato Di Tella in Argentina. She obtained a Fulbright Scholarship to pursue an MA in Politics at New York University, and also obtained an MA in Public Policy at Universidad de San Andrés in ... Read more