Evangelista Graduate Fellows 2026-27

Our Evangelista Fellows are master's, doctoral, and law students at Cornell who receive unique opportunities for professional networking and development in the field of peace and conflict studies. Meet the 2026–27 cohort.

Boyang Liu (Spring)

Carmine Couloute 

Carmine Couloute is a PhD student in the Department of Government, specializing in International Relations. Her research focuses on ethnographically examining the enduring impact of French colonialism in Francophone West Africa. She aims to explore how protests over 'war taxes' facilitate practices of sovereignty and self-determination during political upheaval.

Cassidy Fowler 

Cassidy Fowler is a PhD student at Cornell University’s Department of Government. Her research focuses on international security, with a particular interest in nuclear weapons strategy and operations, IR theory, and security studies.

Filip Galic (Spring)

Filip Galić studies the evolving relationship between capitalist ideology post empire — as read through transnational circuits of capital, expertise, and architectural production — and the articulations of national consciousness and sovereignty in post-Ottoman Non-Aligned geographies throughout the 20th century, focusing on Yugoslav–MENA relations. Members of his doctoral committee are Esra Akcan, Tracy McNulty, and Raymond Craib.

Prior to doctoral studies at Cornell, Galić received a postgraduate degree with distinction in History and Critical Thinking from the Architectural Association in London, and B.Arch. and M.Arch. from the University of Split, FGAG. He is a licensed architect and has practiced at Alison Brooks Architects, Bjarke Ingels Group, Powerhouse Company, and Joan Alomar Arquitectura.

Mahasti Yuanita  

Mahasti Yuanita is an MPA student at Cornell University’s Jeb E. Brooks School of Public Policy. Her research interests focus on economic governance, emerging technologies, inequality, and conflict vulnerability in domestic, transnational, and global policy issues. Before coming to Cornell, she worked on macroeconomic and fiscal policy in Indonesia, with experience in policy analysis, cross-ministerial coordination, and international economic cooperation. Her work explores how economic shocks, technological change, and financial governance shape state capacity, social cohesion, and equitable policy responses.

Nikky Suárez

Or Aroch

Or Aroch is a PhD student in the Department of Anthropology. His research explores how young children become political subjects in the context of Israel/Palestine. Focusing on elementary schools in Israel, he examines how educators seek to create a sense of normalcy during times of war and civic upheaval. The project traces how these efforts are negotiated across state curricula, school activities, classroom interactions, and children's everyday lives, inquiring into their normalizing effects on children's political subjectivities.

Shruthi Ramani

Yousef Alay

Ziyi Wang

Ziyi Wang is an Economics PhD and JD candidate at Cornell University. She holds a Bachelor of Science in Foreign Service from Georgetown University’s School of Foreign Service in Washington, D.C. Her research interests include Economic Development, Industrial Organization, Innovation, Platform Economics, and Empirical Legal Studies. She is a Research Associate at the UN75 Global Governance Forum. She is from Beijing, China.