Each of our undergraduate fellows works together with a graduate student mentor on a project in international studies. For more information on the program, visit its main page. Meet our current graduate student mentors here.
Anirvan Chowdhury
Graduate Student
Political Science
Center on the Politics of Development
Anirvan Chowdhury is a graduate student at UC Berkeley’s department of political science. His broad research interests lie in comparative politics and the political economy of development. His current projects centre on women’s political mobilisation and collective action, ideology in...Read more about Anirvan Chowdhury
Pranav Gupta
Graduate Student
Political Science
Pranav Gupta is a Ph.D. candidate in Political Science at the University of California at Berkeley. Prior to joining UC Berkeley, he had completed an M.Sc. in
Johnathan Guy
Graduate Student
Political Science
Johnathan Guy is pursuing a Ph.D. in Political Science at the University of California, Berkeley, with a focus on the comparative political economy of energy and climate change. More specifically, he is interested in how decarbonization (or lack thereof) in low-income societies can be...Read more about Johnathan Guy
Nicholas Kuipers
Graduate Student
Political Science
Center on the Politics of Development
Nicholas Kuipers joined the Center on the Politics of Development in August 2017. He is pursuing a Ph.D. in Political Science at the UC Berkeley. His research interests include comparative politics and political economy, with a particular focus on the origins and consequences of democracy and...Read more about Nicholas Kuipers
Adan Martinez
Graduate Student
Political Science
Adan Martinez is pursuing a Ph.D. in Political Science at the University of California, Berkeley, with a focus on comparative politics, political economy, and
Oren Samet
Graduate Student
Political Science
Oren Samet is pursuing a PhD in Political Science at the University of California, Berkeley. His research interests include comparative politics and comparative democratization, with a particular focus on political transitions, parties, and elections in Southeast Asia. Before coming to Berkeley...Read more about Oren Samet
Surili Sheth
Graduate Student
Political Science
Surili Sheth is pursuing a Ph.D. in Political Science at the University of California at Berkeley. Her research interests center on identities (such as gender,
Alexander Stephenson
Graduate Student
Political Science
Alexander Stephenson is a PhD Student in the Travers Department of Political Science at UC Berkeley. His primary research interests are military organizations, policing, the determinants of political violence, and causal inference. He is also interested in creating tools to make software easier...Read more about Alexander Stephenson
Juan Campos
Graduate Student
Political Science
Juan Campos is a Ph.D. student in political science at the University of California, Berkeley. He is generally interested in studying security institutions, political violence, and corruption in Latin America. His most recent research assesses the causes and consequences of drug trafficking...Read more about Juan Campos