PhD Alumni Awards Spring 2026
We are proud of the hard work of our PhD alumni and recognize the ways they have been awarded for their dedication to the field.
Award: Distinguished Early Career Faculty Award.
Awarded by: Oklahoma State University.
Award: SSHRC Insight Grant. For "Redressing Colonialism? Truth Commissions and Indigenous Rights."
Awarded by: Government of Canada.
Award: The Teddy Amoloza Conference Award.
Awarded by: ASIANetwork.
Award: Pierre Elliott Trudeau Fellow.
Awarded by: Pierre Elliott Trudeau Foundation.
Award: Committee for Faculty Scholarship Mini Grant Award. For "God's Children: The Utility of Gender Identity and Child Sex Trafficking in MAGA Ideology and Moral Panics."
Awarded by: Rhode Island College.
Award: Dean's Opportunity Fund. For "The Human Right to Privacy: Exploring Corporate Surveillance in Four Rhode Island Jurisdictions in POL 344 Human Rights."
Awarded by: Rhode Island College.
Award: Exceptional Performance Award.
Awarded by: Rhode Island College.
Award: Andrew Carnegie Fellowship. For "Understanding the Psychological Roots of Urban-Rural Division to Reduce Polarization."
Awarded by: Carnegie Corporation of New York.
