Graduate Student
Tsuguta Yamashita
Graduate Student
Degree Pursued: PhD
Anticipated Degree Year: 2026
Committee Chair/Advisor: Chiara Formichi
Discipline: Asian Studies
Primary Countries: Indonesia, Japan
Research Interests: Urbanism, Architecture, Technology, Diplomacy, Japan–Southeast Asia Relations, Transpacific Studies
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IAD PhD Field Research Grant
Details
IAD offers research grants to enrolled Cornell PhD students to conduct field research in Africa.
Eligibility
Eligible candidates must have a substantive research focus on Africa and research must be conducted in Africa. Grants are not intended to cover international travel costs (flights from the U.S. to the country of study) but may supplement additional grants from the Einaudi Center Travel Grant. Awards range between $1,500 - $4,000. Students who have previously received an IAD Field Research grant may not apply again.
Criteria
- Research is directly related to African development; proposal and research plan are detailed, feasible, and can be done in the allotted time; research budget is reasonable, and field research is integral to the applicant’s dissertation
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Upasana 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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Anurag Koyyada
Graduate Student, Reppy Fellow 2025-26
Anurag Koyyada is a JD candidate at Cornell Law School. He enjoys interpreting rules and designing technologies in defense, national security, and space contexts. Anurag is interested in how law, society, and technology interact in military and surveillance contexts. His work, as it relates to conflict and security, examines how emerging technologies both mirror and mold societal power, both constraining and enabling peace.
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Program
Role
- Student
- PACS Current Graduate Fellow
- Graduate Student
Contact
Email: ak2542@cornell.edu
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.