2011 Graduate Grantees

CES has awarded the following graduate students funding to pursue their dissertations.


Graduate Dissertation Research Fellowship Recipients

Graduate Dissertation Research Fellowships fund graduate students who plan to spend up to a year in Europe conducting dissertation research.

Eleni Arzoglou (Sociology),
Legitimacy & the Symbolic Capacity of the State: A US, France, Greece, and Ireland Comparison

Colin Brown (Government),
Constituents at the Gate: European Political Parties & Immigrant Voters

Charlotte Cavaille (Government & Social Policy),
The Politics of Inequality in Developed Democracies: A View From the Top

Joan Cho (Government), War Mobilization & the Rise of Democracy in Western Europe

Joshua Itzkowitz Shifrinson (Political Science, MIT),
Life on the Downward Slope: Explaining State Decisions to Support or Exploit Declining Great Powers

Timea Pal (Political Science, MIT),
The Promise of Regulatory Complementarities in Global Production Networks

Steven Press (History),
The Price of Sovereignty: 1757 to the Present

Alvaro Santana-Acuna (Sociology),
From Royal Academicians to Experts: Shifting Platforms of Knowledge & Organizational Change in France

Sarah Shortall (History),
Soldiers of God in a Secular World: The Politics of French Catholic Theology, 1901-1962

Vaughn Tan (Sociology and Org. Behavior),
Joining and Formation Processes in Self-Forming Groups: A Comparative Study of R&D in Europe and the US

Hyewon Yoon (History of Art & Architecture),
Continuations & Dislocations of Memory: The Photographic Constructions of Modern European Exile





Graduate Dissertation Completion Fellowship Recipients

Graduate Dissertation Writing Fellowships are intended to support doctoral candidates as they complete their dissertations. The award allows students to spend a final year dedicated to writing.


Joshua Cherniss (Government),
Liberal Political Principles and Institutions in 20th Century Political Thought

Ward Penfold (History),
Beyond the Civil Code: Sociological Jurisprudence in France and the US, 1900-1940

George Soroka (Government),
Politics Projected into the Past: Proximate Historical Legacies and Post-Communist Political Discourses in Contemporary Poland, Russia and Ukraine

Andrew Spadafora (History),
Freedom from Value Judgments: Values and Objectivity in German Social Science, 1880-1914