Past Fellows

2020-2021 Harvard Immigration Research Fellows

Victoria Asbury

Harvard Sociology

Victoria S. Asbury is a doctoral student in Sociology at Harvard University. Her research focuses on racial attitudes,...

Ludmilla Bogdan

Harvard Sociology

Ludmila Bogdan...

Xuemei Cao

SUNY Albany

Xuemei Cao is a Ph.D. candidate in sociology at the University at Albany, State University of New York. She is broadly interested in... Read more about Xuemei Cao

Estefania Castañeda Pérez

UCLA

Estefania Castañeda Pérez is doctoral candidate at the UCLA Department of Political Science. Trained as an interdisciplinary...

Yareli Castro Sevilla

Harvard American Studies

Yareli Castro Sevilla is a PhD Candidate in American Studies at Harvard University, with a secondary field in Latinx Studies....

Somayeh Chitchian

Harvard Graduate School of Design

Somayeh Chitchian is a doctoral candidate at the Harvard Graduate School of Design. As a trained architect, her work focuses on...

Irina Chukhray

Irina Chukhray...

Reva Dhingra

Government

Reva Dhingra is a PhD candidate in government, where she researches forced migration, public service provision, and the political economy of... Read more about Reva Dhingra

Martha Franco

Harvard Graduate School of Education

Martha C. Franco (she/her/hers) is a doctoral candidate at Harvard University. Broadly, her research examines the educational...

Ramon Garibaldo Valdez

Yale

Ramon Garibaldo Valdez is a Ph.D. Candidate at Yale's Political Science Department. His research looks at the ways that...

Maheen Haider

Boston College

Maheen Haider is currently a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Sociology at Boston College, where she studies issues of...

Nicole Kreisberg

Brown University

A. Nicole Kreisberg is a doctoral candidate in Sociology at Brown University. Her research examines the social, legal, and...

Jaein Lee

Harvard Graduate School of Education

Jaein Josefina Lee is a PhD candidate in Education at Harvard University, concentrating in Culture, Institutions and Society....

Eric Macias

SUNY Albany

Eric Macias is a PhD Candidate in the Latin American, Caribbean, and Latina/o Studies Department at the University at...

Angie N. Ocampo

University of Pennsylvania

Angie N. Ocampo is a Ph.D. student in the Department of Sociology at the University of Pennsylvania. Ocampo’s research focuses...

Sascha Riaz

Harvard Government

Sascha Riaz is a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Government at Harvard. His research focuses on the effects of international migration on... Read more about Sascha Riaz

Joel C Sati

Joel C. Sati is a Ph.D. Candidate in Jurisprudence and Social Policy at the University of California, Berkeley, and a J.D. candidate at Yale Law School.... Read more about Joel C Sati

Ana Cristina Sedas

Harvard Kennedy School

Ana Cristina Sedas is a Mexican-American physician, especially interested in the intersection of migration and health. She is...

Stacy Topouzova

Stacy Topouzova worked in refugee camps in Greece, Turkey, and Bulgaria over the span of six years. During this time, she carried out...

Sandra Veronica Portocarrero

Columbia University

Sandra Veronica Portocarrero is a Ph.D. candidate in sociology at Columbia University. She studies diversity, equity, and...

Javier L. Wallace

University of Texas at Austin

Javier Wallace is a Ph.D. candidate at The University of Texas at Austin. He researches issues surrounding race, class, gender,...

Olivia Woldemikael

Harvard Government

Olivia Woldemikael's research focuses on host community reception of refugees in the Global South. Her project is particularly...

2019-2020 Harvard Immigration Research Fellows

Angie Bautista Chavez

Angie M. Bautista-Chavez is a PhD candidate in Government at Harvard University. Her research examines contemporary U.S. immigration enforcement from a...

Sarah Bruhn

Sarah Bruhn is a PhD candidate in Education at Harvard University, concentrating in Culture, Institutions and Society. Broadly, her research...

Hardeep Dhillon

Hardeep Dhillon is a Ph.D. Candidate in the History at Harvard University with a secondary in Women, Gender, and...

Jenny Hsi

Jenny Hsi is a Doctor of Public Health (DrPH) candidate at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. Her doctoral thesis focuses on...

Keish Kim

Keish Kim is a Ph.D. Candidate in American Studies at Harvard University. Keish is a migrant from the southern Korean Peninsula who grew up in...

Abigail Niebuhr

Abigail Niebuhr is a PhD Candidate in African and African American Studies and Anthropology at Harvard University. Her current research focuses on the...

Daphne Penn

Daphne Penn is a Harvard Presidential Scholar and PhD candidate in Education at Harvard University, concentrating in Culture, Institutions, and...