Student
Adelson Teh
Graduate Student
Degree Pursued: PhD
Anticipated Degree Year: N/A
Committee Chair/Advisor: Ted O'Donoghue
Discipline: Behavioural Economics
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Lijun Zhang
Graduate Student
Degree Pursued: PhD
Anticipated Degree Year: 2028
Committee Chair/Advisor: Tamara Loos
Discipline: History
Primary Language: Chinese, Malay
Research Countries: Singapore, Malaysia
Research Interests: Chinese diaspora, gender and sexuality, social history
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Michael Miller
Graduate Student
Degree Pursued: PhD
Anticipated Degree Year: 2026
Committee Chair/Advisor: Eric Tagliacozzo
Discipline: History
Primary Language: Indonesian, Dutch
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Trifosa Iin Simamora
Graduate Student
Degree Pursued: PhD
Anticipated Degree Year: 2027
Committee Chair/Advisor: Steve Grodsky
Discipline: Natural Resources
Primary Language: Indonesian, Bataknese
Research Countries: New York, Indonesia
Research Interests: Grassland bird communities, Landscape ecology, Quantitative ecology
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Malavika Narayan
Graduate Student
Malavika Narayan is a Ph.D. student in the Department of City and Regional Planning. Her research is based in Delhi and focuses on the emergence, evolution and persistence of particular geographies of urban informal work. The project aims to challenge the framing of labor's marginality under contemporary urban development models by centering the spatial practices of informal workers in the production and maintenance of the city.
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Undergraduate Global Scholars
Details
Undergraduate Global Scholars are student leaders in the campus community. Join our next cohort of students to contribute to the campus conversation on the future of international aid.
This competitive fellowship program is open to students from all colleges and majors with a passion for big global questions and speaking across differences. We will provide a toolkit of resources for weighing challenging questions as you build your practical skills in global public discourse.
Your unique skills—whether you are a writer, scholar, activist, artist, poet, or hands-on practitioner—play an important role in imagining the future. By the end of the program, you'll be an active global citizen and champion for social impact.
Is (Cutting) International Aid Good?
The work of this year's Global Scholars contributes to the Einaudi Center's 2025–26 theme: Is (Cutting) International Aid Good?
Large cuts to U.S. foreign aid threaten global health, education, people who are migrating, peace and stability, the environment, democratic governance, food security, and more. As the landscape of international aid evolves, the world faces new questions about the impact of aid on communities, what makes international aid effective, and how to move forward.
Our Global Scholars will grapple with these questions in their capstone projects, considering the multiple perspectives that shape the global landscape of international aid and the communities impacted.
What You'll Learn
The Einaudi Center creates a space for studying and practicing how individuals and communities can engage about, with, and across difference and disagreement to work toward collective understanding and action on challenging global issues. Our focus will be on skills of discourse, empowering you to thoughtfully address big questions on campus and beyond. You will learn how to:
- Analyze complex global issues.
- Understand issues from multiple perspectives.
- Test your ideas through research.
- Respectfully interact with communities impacted by an issue.
- Responsibly engage in advocacy.
- Craft and share a capstone project with the campus community.
Mentors and Networking
As a Global Scholar, you'll meet and engage with prominent experts and leaders visiting the Einaudi Center, including this year's speakers at the Bartels World Affairs Lecture and Lund Critical Debate.
You'll attend participatory workshops led by our Einaudi Center practitioner in residence Paul Kaiser and faculty mentor Ed Mabaya—who are expert researchers and practitioners on international development. You'll also help plan and contribute to a campus showcase about the future of international aid.
Deadline
Applications for 2025-26 are due September 14, 2025.
Amount
$500 stipend
How to Apply
Fill out the online application. Selected students will be notified by early October and the program will begin mid-October.
Questions?
Visit us at the International Fair on August 27 or join us for an information session on September 4.
If you have questions about the Global Scholars program or your application, email Einaudi Center academic programs.
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Funding Type
- Fellowship
Role
- Student
Program
Matt Finck
IES Director's Fellow 2024-2025
Matt Finck is a historian of Modern Europe with a focus on intellectual and cultural history. His research explores the political culture of revolutionary socialism. His dissertation examines the influence astronomy and other reflections on celestial bodies had on the political imaginaries of socialist, anarchist, and communist thinkers and movements in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. His other research interests include democratic and political theory, utopian imaginaries, visual and material culture, and critical theory.
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Frances Cayton
IES Graduate Fellow, Spring 2026
Frances Cayton's research focuses on questions surrounding democratic backsliding, civil society, and political communication. Her dissertation, specifically, examines how the underlying level of pluralism in civil society affects the durability and degree of grassroots support available for backsliding incumbents across the Visegrad 4 (Poland, Hungary, Czechia, and Slovakia). IES support has facilitated pre-dissertation language training and fieldwork, and upcoming dissertation fieldwork that will include interviews, focus groups, and surveys.
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Chris Mingo
IES Graduate Fellow 2023-24, IES Director's Fellow 2024-25
Chris Mingo is a PhD student in the History Department specializing in modern and contemporary European history. He is broadly interested in the histories of fascism, nationalism, and European imperialism, as well as political economy, and literary studies. His dissertation research examines Fascist Italy's parallel projects of imperial expansion and the development of a corporatist economy in the wake of the 1929 Wall Street crash.
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Paige Ho Chung
Graduate Student
Degree Pursued: PhD
Anticipated Degree Year: -
Committee Chair/Advisor: Nick Salvato
Discipline: Hip-Hop Studies, Sound Studies, Vietnamese Diasporic Studies, Performing Studies
Primary Language: Vietnamese, Thai, German, English