The APSA Committee on the Status of First Generation Scholars in the Profession works to bring focused attention to the ways in which class, economic inequality, and mobility can effect political scientists’ ability to thrive educationally and professionally throughout their careers. In October 2023, the Committee matched donations to the APSA Annual Fund to support the professional development of 129 first generation scholars in the political science discipline. This support was also made possible by the contributions from the Committee on the Status of Asian Pacific Americans, Committee on the Status of Latinos y Latinas, and the Committee on the Status of Women. The following scholars were awarded for the 2023 accessibility reimbursement grant:
Catherine Abou-Khalil, Boston University
Muhammad Hassan Bin Afzal, University of Tennessee at Chattanooga
Nancy Aguilera, University of Missouri-St. Louis
Christopher Akor, The University of Alabama
Sanjida Amin, University of Toronto
Scovia Aweko, Purdue University
Muharrem Bagriyanik, University of Florida
Dipak Kumar Biswas, West Virginia University
Mitchell Bosley, University of Michigan
Francisco Brandao, Loughborough University
Francesco Bromo, Texas A&M University
Enock Bulime, Kansas State University
You Chen Chen, Soochow University
Oripha Chimwara, North West University
ChaeEun Cho, Vanderbilt University
Seoungin Choi, University of Arizona
Gonzalo Contreras, University of Oxford
Juan Corredor Garcia, CUNY Graduate Center
Dimitri Courant, Harvard University
Jerome Patrick Cruz, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Karol Czuba, Nazarbayev University
Nicolás de la Cerda, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Alessandro Del Ponte, The University of Alabama
Larissa Doroshenko, Northeastern University
Jonathan Elkobi, University of California, San Diego
Melek Eroglu, University of Pittsburgh
Keely Eshenbaugh, University of Nevada Reno
Ingrid Faleide, University of Bergen
Yibin Fan, Univerisity of Washington
Jun Fang, University of Michigan
Maria Belén Fernández Milmanda, Trinity College
Chengyu Fu, Harvard University
Chris Gahagan, Florida State University
Natalia Galica, University of Silesia in Katowice
Ziyu He, University of California San Diego
Mehmet Hecan, Boston University
Dilara Hekimci, University of Miami
Kun Heo, New York University
Paa-Kwesi Heto, University of California, Irvine
David Houghton, London School of Economics and Political Science
R. Joseph Huddleston, Seton Hall University
Yu Jeong Hwang, University of Arizona
Sekou Jabateh, New York University
Suna Jeong, Georgetown University
Yujin Jung, University of Missouri
Jay Kao, Loyola University Chicago
Akbota Karibayeva, George Washington University
Mohit Karnani, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Ruchan Kaya, Austin College
Aleena Khan, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Yu Bin Kim, University of Missouri
Julien Labarre, University of California, Santa Barbara
Natalie Lau, The University of Edinburgh
Diana Da In Lee, Columbia University
Jesslene Lee, University of Toronto
Young-Im Lee, California State University-Sacramento
Youngjoon Lee, University of Maryland, College Park
Shengqiao Lin, University of Texas at Austin
Yue Lin, University of California, Berkeley
Ying Liu, Rutgers University-Newark
Alejandro Lopez Peceño, New York University
Haofeng Ma, The University of Iowa
Sidi Maghraoui, Al-Akhawayn University
Ali Masood, Oberlin College
Javier Matamoros Becerra, University of Extremadura
Yu Mei, University of Rochester
Ankushi Mitra, Georgetown University
Nathalie Mendez, Universidad de los Andes
Juan Micozzi, Instituto Tecnologico Autonomo de Mexico
Philip Moniz, University of Texas at Austin
Bedirhan Mutlu, George Washington University
Miwa Nakajo, Tsuda University
Kasia Nalewajko, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid
Silviya Nitsova, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Hyesang Noh, University at Albany, State University of New York
Nicola Nones, University of Toronto
Christopher Nyabira, University of the Western Cape
Nife Ogunbodede, University of Delaware
Inhwan Oh, Boston College
Yunus Orhan, North Dakota State University
Alex Osei-Kojo, University of Tennessee Knoxville
Busra Nur Ozguler Aktel, Georgia State University
Camila Paez, Arizona State University
Anmol Panda, University of Michigan
Hyunjung Park, University of Pittsburgh
So Yeon Park, Michigan State University
Yul Min Park, The University of Texas at Austin
Tereza Petrovicova, UC San Diego
Mathias Poertner, London School of Economics and Political Science
Hayley Pring, University of Oxford
Mariana Ramirez Bustamante, Vanderbilt University
Mohammad Rezwanul Haque Masud, University of Colorado, Boulder
Joan Ricart-Huguet, Loyola University Maryland
Andreu Rodilla, University of Barcelona
Rashi Sabherwal, University of Pennsylvania
Regine Schwab, Peace Research Institute Frankfurt
Miklós Sebők, Centre for Social Sciences, Budapest
Sefa Secen, Ohio State University
Didem Seyis, Binghamton University (SUNY)
Farzin Shargh, SUNY, University at Albany
Sally Sharif, Simon Fraser University
Michael Sharpe, York College/Graduate Center-CUNY
Yael Shmaryahu-Yeshurun, University of California, San Diego
EmiLee Smart, University of Kentucky
Dehua Sun, University of Rochester
Marton Szabo, University of Rochester
Hugo Tai, University of Oxford
Peter Thompson, Appalachian State University
Paul-Sewa Thovoethin, Lagos State University, Ojo Campus
Sedef Topal, Washington State University
Shu-An Tsai, SUNY Buffalo
Ozlem Tuncel Gurlek, Georgia State University
Jingding Wang, Syracuse University
Hsu Yumin Wang, Emory University
Tsukasa Watanabe, University of North Texas
Fiona Hoi-yan Wong, University of Edinburgh
Kristina Wright, University of Florida
Weifang Xu, Florida State University
Eddy Yeung, Emory University
Muhammed Yusuf Yilmaz, McGill University
Lori Young, University of Waterloo
Jermaine Young, Howard University
Jianjun Yu, University of Iowa
Shuli Zhang, University of Pittsburgh
Tongtong Zhang, Stanford University
Weidong Zhang, University of Iowa
Zhu Zhang, Fairfield University
Bang Zheng, University of Arizona
Lidiya Zubytska, Ave Maria University
James Steur, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Cigdem Unal, University of Pittsburgh
Everett Vieira, California State University, Fresno
Rui Wang, University at Buffalo
Yuan Wang, University of Georgia
“HISTORY OF THE PROFESSION”: APSA ORAL HISTORY PROJECT VIDEOS
KIMBERLY A. MEALY | SENIOR DIRECTOR, DIVERSITY, EQUITY AND INCLUSION AND STRATEGIC INITIATIVES
INDIA SIMMONS | PROGRAM MANAGER, DIVERSITY, EQUITY AND INCLUSION PROGRAMS
ISABEL THOMPSON | PROGRAM ASSISTANT, DIVERSITY, EQUITY AND INCLUSION PROGRAMS
During the 2023 National Conference of Black Political Scientists (NCOBPS) Annual Meeting held in Atlanta, Georgia, the APSA Diversity and Inclusion Department conducted a series of oral history interviews of Political Science Scholars. This collection of interviews (https://connect.apsanet.org/apsaoralhistory/home/contributions-by-scholars-of-color-series/) contributes to a continuous project that seeks to amplify the scholarship and contributions of Black, Indigenous, and People of Color to the profession and investigate the history of race and racism in the political science profession. The collection is motivated by the McClain Task Force on Systemic Inequality in the Discipline (2022). The videos premiered at the 2023 APSA Annual Meeting in Los Angeles, CA and will be shown at the 2024 NCOBPS Annual Meeting.
Interviewees include: Dr. Dianne M. Pinderhughes, Notre Dame University (former APSA President); Dr. Kathie Stromile Golden, Mississippi Valley State University (former APSA Council Member and Executive Director of NCOBPS); Dr. Elsie Scott, Howard University; and Dr. Todd Shaw, University of South Carolina (former APSA Council Member).
Learn more about the project here: https://connect.apsanet.org/apsaoralhistory/home/contributions-by-scholars-of-color-series/
