Grants and Awards

RESEARCH GRANTS AND AWARDS

Student Creative Activities and Research Fund Award                                                 

Graduate and Professional Students Council, Southern Illinois University

Spring 2023

Virginia Gray Graduate Student Research Award                                                                 

Political Organizations and Parties Section, American Political Science Association

July 2022

Matching Grant, Department of Political Science, Southern Illinois University                

Southern Illinois University of Carbondale

Summer 2022

Research Grant       

Association for the Study of the Middle East and Africa

Summer - Fall 2021

Media in Context Research Grant

Media in Context Workshop                                    

University of Exeter

Spring 2021

Outstanding Achievement Certificate, Akan Twi, 

Summer Language Workshop                               

Indiana University

Summer 2021

Summer Research Grant

Department of Political Science              

University of California Irvine

Summer 2014, 2011, 2009, 2008, 2007

Aznar-Argyros Fellowship (Summer Research Grant)                                                

Center for the Study of Democracy, University of California Irvine

Summer 2008, 2007

FELLOWSHIPS AND SCHOLARSHIPS                                                              

Dissertation Research Assistantship,

Graduate School

Southern Illinois University

Summer 2023 – Spring 2023

EITM ICPSR Scholarship

EITM Institute                                                                 

Summer 2023

Hamilton Lugar School Summer Language Scholarship

Indiana University

Bloomington, IN 

Summer 2021

Orville Alexander Scholarship

Department of Political Science

Southern Illinois University         

Summer 2021

Q-Step Scholarship, Q-Step Center

College of Social Sciences

University  of Glasgow

Spring 2018 – Fall 2018

Graduate Student Fellow

Center for the Study of Democracy

University of California Irvine         

Fall 2006 – Fall 2014

Associate Dean’s Fellowship

University of California Irvine                                                

Fall 2012

John A. Garcia Scholarship

Society for Political Methodology                                        

Summer 2008

Mirzayan Science & Technology Fellow

National Research Council                               

Summer 2001

Trustees’ Fellowship

University of Chicago                                               

Fall 1997 – Spring 1999

Full Tuition Academic Scholarship

Oberlin College                                              

Fall 1987 – Spring 1991

CONFERENCE TRAVEL GRANTS                                                                 

International Studies Association                                                                                       

Spring 2022, 2021, 2013, 2012

American Political Science Association           

Summer/Fall 2023, 2022, 2021, 2017, 2014, 2012, 2011

Democracy and Dictatorship Workshop, University of Tampere, Finland                            

Summer 2012