GPD Trainees
The Graduate Program in Development is currently home to 40 trainees. All GPD trainees are pursuing PhDs in Economics, Political Science, Anthropology, or Sociology, while also receiving advanced interdisciplinary training in the area of development and inequality. A number of GPD trainees are supported by generous fellowships from the National Science Foundation’s Integrated Graduate Education and Research Traineeship (IGERT).
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Tatiana Andia Ray
I am a PhD student in the Sociology Department at Brown. My broad research interests are on the global political economy of development; state building and institutions in developing countries; trade, industrial policy and development; and... Read more -
Gayatri Singh
I joined Brown University's Sociology Department to pursue a PhD in 2007 and was awarded the GPD Fellowship in 2008. My primary research interests broadly span the areas of social inequality, urban sociology, social demography and the ... Read more -
Michael Dickerson
A graduate student in political science, I am interested in inequality, basic education, aid, and gender issues, particularly in India. I have a BA in economics and an MA in international affairs, both from Washington University in St. Louis.... Read more -
Sukriti
I am a PhD candidate in Sociology with interests in the law and urban governance, low-income housing, public goods provision, and spatial methods. Prior to coming to Brown, I completed a Masters degree at Cornell University.... Read more
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Colin
I am a PhD candidate in the department of Political Science and also a trainee with the Population Studies and Training Center at Brown. Broadly, my research investigates the extent to which public resources and political inclusion are distributed... Read more
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Krystle
I am a PhD candidate in Political Science. My primary research interests revolve around the interactions between water scarcity, energy security, insurgency, and ethnic conflict. My geographical foci are South Asia and the Middle East.... Read more
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Peter
I am a PhD student in the Department of Sociology at Brown, with broad interests in environmental sociology, international development, and political sociology. I am currently working on three projects. One, for my dissertation research, I examine state-society... Read more
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Carla
I am a PhD candidate in the Political Science Department at Brown. My research interests focus on Comparative Politics, especially on Latin America. In particular, I am researching the case of Bolivia and the Movimiento al Socialismo (MAS)... Read more
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Diego
I am a PhD student in the Political Science Department at Brown. My field is comparative politics, focusing on Latin America. My research interests are the determinants of programmatic and non-programmatic... Read more
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Irene
I am a doctoral student in the Department of Sociology. I am interested in the internal dynamics and processes of capitalism and problems of development and inequality, particularly as they are manifested in China and India. My... Read more
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Puneet Bhasin
I am a PhD student in Political Science at Brown University. I am interested in political economy, issues of inequality, and the politics of economic ideas. As a GPD trainee, I seek to explore why and how ideas of market liberalism undermine the collective... Read more -
Daniel
I am a graduate student in the Political Science Department. I am hoping that my research will lead me to better understand the nature and impact of the political process in Uttar Pradesh, India. I completed a BA in History from Johns Hopkins University.... Read more
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Myung Ji
I am a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Sociology. I am a comparative sociologist who studies the politics of development using qualitative methods. My current work is particularly concerned with the nexus between authoritarian... Read more
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Bala
I am a PhD student in the Department of Political Science at Brown. I am interested broadly in the politics and political economy of development with a regional focus on India. At this stage, my particular research interests include identity... Read more
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Pellumb Kelmendi
I am a graduate student in the Political Science Department at Brown. I focus on Comparative Politics and International Relations. My research interests include ethnic conflict, state-building and the political economy of post-conflict... Read more -
Joshua Eubank
I am a sociologist and ethnographer, interested in the process and limits of capitalist development. Before coming to Brown, I completed a Master’s degree at the University of California, Berkeley. My current research is focused on two themes: The... Read more -
Poulomi Chakrabarti
I am a PhD student in political science at Brown University. My research interests include political economy of development, identity politics, public service delivery and local governance with a regional focus on South Asia. My current research... Read more -
Megan
I am a graduate student in Brown’s Political Science Department. My research interests primarily revolve around the interaction between inequality, ethnic conflict, and democratic consolidation in the case of Nigeria. I am interested in the ways in which... Read more
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Marcelo
I am a PhD student in the Department of Sociology. I am interested in development and ethnic/racial inequality. Adopting a mixed-method approach, my research seeks to understand the causes behind social... Read more
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Jazmin
I am a PhD student in Political Science. My research interests are centered on the political economy of development, particularly state-business relations. My current work focuses on open economy industrialization politics and, in particular, the... Read more
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Alex
I am a PhD candidate in the Economics Department at Brown. My primary interests are in applied microeconomics, behavioral economics, and development. As an economist, I plan to use economic theory together with quantitative and qualitative data to better understand how mothers in rural areas of the developing world make... Read more
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Jamie
As a doctoral student in sociology, I am interested in understanding the issues of development and social inequality and will focus my research specifically on health inequalities in major cities of India. Access to health care is critical for the well-being of urban citizens and the development of more livable,... Read more
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Paula
I am a PhD student in Brown’s Anthropology Department, studying the intersection of offshore oil development and identity politics among Afro-descendant quilombo communities in Brazil. My interests include the anthropology of development, political anthropology, identity and resource politics, and race and ethnicity. My MA project, based on two months of... Read more
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Morgan
I am pursuing a PhD in economics, hoping to improve my ability to investigate the many questions that I have concerning inequality and poverty. I want to use my training to better identify, understand the causes of, and find possible solutions for unnecessary suffering. As an IGERT fellow, I will... Read more
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Elizabeth Bennett
I am a PhD student of international relations and comparative politics. Before coming to Brown, I earned a graduate degree in political economy and a graduate certificate in international development from The Fletcher School at Tufts University, interned at USAID in Washington DC, taught social justice at a public high... Read more -
Trina Vithayathil
I am a PhD student in the Department of Sociology at Brown. My research interests are in social demography, urban studies, and political sociology. I am currently working on two research projects related to social and political processes in urban India. The first project (with Gayatri Singh) examines residential segregation... Read more -
Susan
I am a PhD candidate in Anthropology studying the anthropology of foreign aid, public policy, and democracy assistance, conflict, and political subjectivity. I have a BA in anthropology from Washington University in St. Louis and a Masters of Theological Studies (MTS) from Harvard University. My MA thesis examined the proliferation... Read more
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Mujun
I am a graduate student in Sociology, and my research interests are in political sociology, sociology of knowledge, urban studies, and social theories. I am doing research on the transformation of civil society in urban China, with a particular focus on two questions: how the mass organization system, as a... Read more
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Bhawani Buswala
I am a graduate student in the Anthropology Department at Brown. My research interests include questions of power and inequality. I am also interested in linguistic aspects of power. I study these questions in caste, class, and gender subjectivities. I do my ethnographic fieldwork in Rajasthan, India. I have an... Read more -
Dikshya Thapa
I am a PhD candidate in the Department of Sociology at Brown. I have a Masters from the London School of Economics in Globalization, Gender, and Development and a BA in Economics from Lancaster University. My research areas have been in development (aid effectiveness, trade), gender and political sociology. Currently,... Read more -
Sohini
I am a PhD candidate in Anthropology, interested in the anthropology of economy and finance, and in the intertwining of people’s economic and ethical lives. I have a BA in Economics and French from Columbia University and an MA in Social Sciences from the University of Chicago. My dissertation research... Read more
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Shruti Majumdar
I am a doctoral candidate in the Department of Sociology at Brown. My research and teaching interests include the political economy of development, urban sociology and political sociology. I am currently writing my dissertation on urban governance issues in Indian cities, focusing particularly on explaining different forms of claim-making among... Read more -
Erin
I am a PhD candidate from Rochester, NY, with a BA in International Business Studies from Providence College and an MA in Political Science from Brown University. I was twice awarded a Graduate Program in Development Summer Travel Fellowship, and in 2008 was awarded the P. Terrence Hopmann Award for... Read more
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Aisalkyn Botoeva
I am a graduate student in the Sociology Department at Brown. My research interests generally revolve around issues of interaction between market and state, informal economies, emerging capitalist economies and development in post Soviet countries. In my current project, which will potentially feed into my doctoral dissertation, I am focusing... Read more -
Stephanie Savell
I am a doctoral student in Brown’s Anthropology Department, studying citizenship and social change in urban Brazil. My interests include social mobilization, grassroots leadership, and the relation between citizens and the state. My MA project, based on ethnographic research in a favela in Rio de Janeiro, investigates local civil society from... Read more -
Cecilia
I am a graduate student in Political Science, interested in comparative politics, Latin American politics, and international development. Previously, I earned an MA in Economics of Development at the Institute of Social Studies in The Hague, and a BA in Economics at Universidad Católica del Perú. My PhD dissertation explores... Read more
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Gareth
I am pursuing a PhD in economics within the fields of development and growth, and my research interests center mainly on development in the Middle East and Africa. My past projects have dealt with the role of political economy and Islamophobia in Turkey’s financial crisis and exclusion from the EU,... Read more
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Manabu Nose
I am a PhD candidate in Economics. My dissertation is about economic development after the Tsunami in Aceh, Indonesia using micro survey data. Ongoing research focuses on (a) the within village allocation politics of disaster-relief aid, (b) the micro-channels and how new opportunities and uncertainties of aid affected household’s decision-making,... Read more -
Amy
I am a graduate student in the Sociology Department at Brown. My interests focus primarily on development, urban governance, and political sociology. Over the last four years I have conducted a substantial amount of fieldwork on these issues in South Africa. My dissertation examines how variation in urban governance regimes... Read more
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Diana Graizbord
I am a graduate student in the Department of Sociology. I hold a BA from Sarah Lawrence College and an MA in International Affairs and Development from The New School. Broadly my research and learning is motivated by questions that lie at the intersection of development, globalization, and inequality. Specifically,... Read more
