Past Grantees and Fellows

This project explores how climate finance interventions in northern Kenya impact pastoralist communities, using collaborative ethnographic methods to center herders' perspectives and critically assess the social and ecological consequences of financialized climate resilience efforts.

Through comparative fieldwork in Poland and Hungary, this project examines how the pluralism and autonomy of civil society organizations shape their responses to illiberal regimes, revealing why some withdraw support while others remain loyal.

Focusing on clinical conversations involving neurodegenerative disorders, this project explores stakeholder preferences for transcribing non-lexical sounds, aiming to improve speech recognition technologies by highlighting their diagnostic and communicative value across patient care, research, and technology design.

By examining how pairs of neighboring but organizationally distinct schools in Boston respond to neighborhood violence, this project uncovers how institutional diversity and school-level autonomy shape divergent approaches to external disruption.

This project explores how publicly funded local food procurement programs in U.S. emergency food systems shape power dynamics and equity for small-scale, socially disadvantaged farmers, using qualitative interviews to uncover more just and sustainable practices.

Through one-on-one interviews with recent participants, this project evaluates the North Country Fruit and Vegetable Prescription Program’s impact on rural health, food security, and social support, addressing data collection challenges and enriching the understanding of program outcomes beyond standard surveys.

This project explores how urban designers assess, adopt, and adapt AI-powered tools to scale participatory design processes, investigating their strategies, rationales, and organizational challenges through interviews, participant observation, and collaborative workshops.

Focusing on the U.S. influencer marketing industry, this dissertation analyzes the rise of talent managers, agents, and other intermediaries to reveal how professionalization processes reinforce social hierarchies and power dynamics, using interviews, document analysis, and participant observation to identify paths toward greater equity and regulation.

This project investigates how ideological and demographic alignment between OAS election monitors and host-country officials influences the stringency of electoral assessments, using mixed methods to uncover patterns of bias in international election monitoring.

This project investigates how the crisis of representation in Chile and Spain drives citizens to protest, abstain, or support populist parties, arguing that new anti-establishment and inclusionary cleavages explain divergent political responses to institutional disaffection.

This project engages conflict-driven migrants on the Thai-Myanmar border in using participatory photography and storytelling to counter-map their experiences and alternative futures amid forced migration and state violence.

This project examines how visual-olfactory interactions shape emotional and spatial experiences in New York City’s public spaces, focusing on differences between neurotypical and neurodivergent residents in navigating sensory congruence and conflict.