Graduate Student
Upsana Singh
Reppy Fellow 2025-26
Upasana Singh is a J.S.D. candidate at the Cornell Law School. She is also working as a research assistant with Carl Marks Professor of International Studies at Cornell University, Dr. Kaushik Basu. She holds an LL.M. from Cornell Law School with a focus on conflict resolution and restorative justice. She serves on the review board of the Indian Law Institute Law Review.
Prior to this, she served as an Assistant Professor of Law in India and practiced as an advocate in the Supreme Court of India and the High Court of Delhi.
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Sebastian Restrepo
Reppy Fellow 2025-26
Sebastian Restrepo is a PhD student in the Department of City and Regional Planning. His research interests focus on the institutional arrangements to improve the implementation of peace agreements in conflict or post-conflict regions. He has more than fifteen (15) years of experience designing and implementing regional development programs.
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Program
Role
- Student
- PACS Current Graduate Fellow
- Graduate Student
Contact
Email: sebas.restrepo85@gmail.com
Or Aroch
Reppy Fellow 2025-26
Or Aroch is a PhD student in the Department of Anthropology. His research focuses on education and childhood in the context of Israel/Palestine. He examines how educational processes and children’s experiences in conflict-ridden Israel transform amid war, political instability, and civic upheaval, with attention to processes of militarization and nationalization, negotiations over future visions and collective memory, and the role of democratic and peace education in these circumstances.
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Kyaw Hsan Hlaing
Reppy Fellow 2025-26
Kyaw Hsan Hlaing is a PhD student in the Department of Government. He studies comparative politics and international relations with a focus on political violence, insurgency, authoritarianism, and regime change, exploring dynamics of civil conflict and post-war transitions.
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Cassidy Fowler
Reppy Fellow 2025-26
Cassidy Fowler is a PhD student in the Department of Government. Her research focuses on international security, with a particular interest in nuclear weapons strategy and operations, IR theory, and security studies.
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Qingyin Liu
Graduate Student
Degree Pursued: MA
Anticipated Degree Year: 2026
Committee Chair/Advisor: Shaoling Ma
Discipline: Asian Studies
Primary Language(s): Malaysian
Research Countries: Singapore
Research Interests: Sinophone Popular Music, Gender, Diaspora
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IES Graduate Fellows
Details
The IES Fellows will advance their research and contribute to the European Studies community by attending and engaging in IES-hosted talks, and by organizing and taking part in collective activities such as a graduate research workshop or discussion group. The Institute supports these activities with a small research stipend to each Fellow. IES Fellows also receive priority for IES research and travel fellowships. Fellows are typically appointed for one year and may be renewed for subsequent years.
Eligibility
The IES fellows program is intended primarily for full-time doctoral students in the social sciences and the humanities, whose research focuses on some aspect of European societies or cultures, and who plan to be in residence at Cornell for the entire academic year. Semester-length participation in the program, and applications by Master’s students, will be considered on a case-by-case basis.
Amount
$500 research stipend.
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Caribbean Graduate Research Grants
Details
A rare opportunity has emerged for graduate students conducting research on Caribbean topics. As part of ongoing efforts to promote Caribbean Studies at Cornell, the Latin American and Caribbean Studies Program is offering funding to conduct research that requires students to travel to the Caribbean or to libraries, archives, or other sites outside the Caribbean that hold collections or resources for the study of the Caribbean and its diasporas. Cornell graduate students in all disciplines are eligible to apply. The research should be conducted during Summer 2025 or Academic Year 2025-2026 and grantees are expected to submit a brief report (500 words) of what they accomplished with the funding.
Applications must include a brief description of the research topic, including information about the proposed research sites, a budget, and a research schedule. This description should not exceed 500 words. Requested funds should not exceed $2,000.
The deadline to submit your applications is May 9th, 2025. Please submit applications as a word or PDF file to Ernesto Bassi (eb577@cornell.edu) and Judith Byfield (jab632@cornell.edu). If you have any questions, please email professors Bassi and Byfield.
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Funding Type
- Travel Grant
Role
- Student
Program
Ruiying Zhang
Graduate Student
Degree Pursued: PhD
Anticipated Degree Year: 2030
Committee Chair/Advisor: Shaoling Ma
Discipline: Asian Studies
Primary Language(s): Chinese, English, Japanese
Research Countries: China, Vietnam, Laos
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Nianpo Su
Graduate Student
Degree Pursued: PhD
Anticipated Degree Year: 2026
Committee Chair/Advisor: Miloje Despic, Helena Aparicio
Discipline: Linguistics
Primary Languages: Nuosu Yi, Mandarin, Japanese, Seram Timur, Indonesian, Burmese, Spanish, Vietnamese
Research Countries: China, Japan, Indonesia