MA Program News and Highlights
2025-2026 Academic Year
Api Dhadda and Ze Cai presented research at the 2025 Annual Meeting of the Northeastern Political Science Association in Philadelphia.
Congratulations to Azam Zarchi, who is the recipient of the Iranian American Women Foundation’s Graduate Scholarship.
Ze Cai presented his research on the adjustment of Chinese local governments to relative performance evaluation at the 2025 International Political Science Association World Congress in Seoul and the 2025 Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association in Vancouver.
2024-2025 Academic Year
Congratulations to the following students and recent alumni who have been accepted to and are starting PhD programs in political science this fall:
- Yidian Liu – University of California, San Diego – Political Science
- Eylül Begüm Sağlam – University of California, San Diego – Political Science
- Clara Sedzro – University of Toronto – Women & Gender Studies
- Jerry (Qimo) Wu – Florida State University – Political Science
Congratulations to Makenzie Rodrigues, who is the recipient of the Parke Fellowship through the NYU Democracy Project. As a Parke Fellow, Makenzie will spend the summer conducting public opinion research with the Democracy Program at the Brennan Center for Justice.
Yidian Liu presented his thesis research on social media censorship at the 2024 Annual Meeting of the Northeastern Political Science Association in Boston.
2023-2024 Academic Year
Congratulations to the following students and recent alumni who have been accepted to and are starting PhD programs in political science this fall:
- John Maina – Queens University
- So Jeong Noh – New York University
- Seden Yilmazturk – Stony Brook University
And congratulations to Sasha Phillips, who will begin law school at Georgetown University.
Alexandra Shpitalnik has been awarded a Thesis Research Summer Fellowship from the Graduate School of Arts & Science. Sasha will carry out interviews in Berlin and Tbilisi.
Congratulations to recent alumna Clara Sedzro, who has been awarded the New England Political Science Association’s 2023 Robert C. Wood Prize for Best Paper Written by a Graduate Student for her paper "Nationalism Through a Gendered Lens: Women’s Movements During the Anti-Colonial Struggle in South Africa."
Diana Flores, Tess Gellert, and Emelia McLaughlin presented papers at the 2023 Annual Meeting of the Northeastern Political Science Association held in Boston.
Congratulations to Jin Choi and Diana Flores, who have both been selected for the 2023-2024 Social Sector Leadership Diversity (SSLD) Fellowship Cohort.
2022-2023 Academic Year
Congratulations to our 2023 graduating class! Congratulations to Eylül Begüm Sağlam, who has been selected as the Class Representative for the GSAS Convocation, and to Clara Sedzro, who has been selected as the GSAS Class Representative for the NYU Commencement ceremony.
Congratulations to Diego Diaz De La Vega and Divya Sasidhar, who are both recipients of the Summer 2023 LEAD Fellowship through the NYU Democracy Project.
Congratulations to the following students and recent alumni who have been accepted to and are starting PhD programs this fall:
- Misbah Mukhtar – University of Edinburgh – Science, Technology and Innovation Studies
- Eylül Begüm Sağlam – University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign – Political Science
- Faizan Tariq – Emory University – Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies
- Huijie Xu – Florida State University – Political Science
- Lingyun Zhang – Princeton University – Politics
And congratulations to Victoria Sawchuk, who will begin law school at Pace University.
Eylül Begüm Sağlam presented her thesis research on populism in Western Europe at the 80th Annual Midwest Political Science Association Conference.
Congratulations to the following students who presented their research at the 2023 GSAS Threesis Academic Challenge: Millen Alley, Yidian Liu, Emelia McLaughlin, Eylül Begüm Sağlam, Clara Sedzro, and Jorge Valderrabano.
Rebeca Brea Paredes, Xinyu Chi, Tess Gellert, So Jeong Noh, and Clara Sedzro presented their research at the 2023 Annual Meeting of the New England Political Science Association held in April in Mystic, Connecticut.
Eylül Begüm Sağlam and Huijie Xu presented papers at the 2022 Annual Meeting of the Northeastern Political Science Association held in Boston.
Congratulations to Clara Sedzro, who has been selected to be part of NYU’s Social Sector Leadership Diversity (SSLD) Fellowship 2022-2023 Cohort.
2021-2022 Academic Year
Congratulations to the following students and recent alumni who have been accepted to and are starting PhD programs this fall:
- Ian Delabie – The University of Pittsburgh – Political Science
- Natasha Gordon – Columbia University – Political Science
- Hashim Malallah – Florida State University – Political Science
- Sofia Rivera Sojo – Vanderbilt University – Political Science
- Zeve Sanderson – Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam – Communications and Media Studies
- Zitian Sun – McGill University – Sociology
- Yang Yang – The Pennsylvania State University – Political Science
Maite Guerra and Eylül Begüm Sağlam presented papers at the 2022 Annual Meeting of the New England Political Science Association held in Bretton Woods, New Hampshire.
Congratulations to the following students who presented their thesis research at the 2022 GSAS Threesis Academic Challenge: Natasha Gordon, Audrey McCabe, Zitian Sun, and Huijie Xu.
Congratulations to Madeleine Greenberg, who is the recipient of the LEAD Fellowship through the NYU Democracy Project. As a LEAD Fellow, Madeleine works as a Voter Engagement Fellow at HeadCount.
Hashim Malallah presented his thesis research at APSA’s International Security Section and ISA’s International Security Studies Section (IS-ISSS) Joint Annual Conference and the ISA Midwest 2021 Annual Conference.
Hashim Malallah, Zitian Sun, Noah Truesdale, and Huijie Xu presented papers at the 2021 Annual Meeting of the Northeastern Political Science Conference held in November.
Alice Timken presented her thesis research on US Refugee integration at the 2021 Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association.
2020-2021 Academic Year
Congratulations to the following students and recent alumni who will begin doctoral programs in political science this fall:
- Shanze Rauf – Duke University
- Alice Cho Timken – Syracuse University
- Martin Guo – Vanderbilt University
Congratulations to Natasha Gordon, who has been awarded an Expansions Fellowship from the Society of Political Methodology. As part of the fellowship, Natasha will take courses through the ICPSR Summer Program in Quantitative Methods and will have the opportunity to work as a research assistant with a faculty mentor.
Mason Palissery and Yang Yang presented papers at the 78th Annual Midwest Political Science Association Conference.
Natasha Gordon and Sara Mejias Gonzalez presented their research at NYU Nexus: Master’s Cross-Disciplinary Research Conference.
2019-2020 Academic Year
Congratulations to the following students and recent alumni who have been accepted to and will start PhD programs this fall:
- Rodrigo Karolczak – University of Illinois Chicago – Political Science
- Manuel Martinez Novillo – The University of Buenos Aires - Philosophy
- Daniel Quiroga – Northwestern University – Political Science
- Mishella Romo Rivas – Princeton University – Politics
- Julieta Valenzuela – New York University - Politics
Myungha Kim, Misbah Mukhtar, Mishella Romo, and Julieta Valenzuela presented papers at the 2019 Northeastern Political Science Association Annual Conference in Philadelphia.
Daniel Quiroga and Mishella Romo presented papers at the 2019 Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association in Washington, D.C.
2018-2019 Academic Year
Congratulations to the following recent graduates who are starting PhD programs this fall:
- Andre Batchelder-Schwab – Boston University - Linguistics
- Eduardo Gonzalez – USC Annenberg - Communication
- Alfredo Guerra Guevara – NYU – Politics-JD Dual Degree Program
- Itay Machtei Samov – UNC – Chapel Hill – Political Science
- Deepika Padmanabhan – Yale University – Political Science
Congratulations to Alexander Ruiz, who has been selected to take part in the 2019 John Brademas Center Summer Congressional Internship Program.
Congratulations to Eduardo Gonzalez, whose paper based on his thesis research, "Stereotypical Depictions of Latino Criminality: U.S. Latinos in the Media during the MAGA Campaign," has been published in the journal Democratic Communiqué.
Mishella Romo, Sofia Rivera Sojo, and Xiaoqi Sun presented papers at the 2018 Northeastern Political Science Association Annual Conference in Montreal.
Congratulations to Georgina Tzanetos, who is the recipient of an NYU Global Research Initiative Fellowship with which she will conduct thesis research at NYU Athens.
Katarina Hall received the UFM Fellowship to attend the 2018 Mont Perlin Society General Meeting held in the Canary Islands.
2017-2018 Academic Year
Congratulations to Alina Zheng who will start the PhD program in Political Science Department at the University of Pennsylvania.
Congratulations to Eduardo Gonzalez, Logan Jacobs, and Timothy Lai who are part of the first graduating class of GSAS Pathway’s Fellows. They each presented their research at the Pathways to the PhD Program’s 1st Master’s Cross-Disciplinary Research Conference in March.
Timothy Lai presented his paper "How Cohesive are Lesbians, Gays and Bisexuals in the United Kingdom?" at the 2018 Midwest Political Science Association’s Annual Conference.
Congratulations to Katarina Hall, who was selected for the Association for Private Education’s 2018 Young Scholar Program. She presented her work at the APEE’s annual meeting in Las Vegas.
Sayaf Iqbal, Itay Machtei Samov, Deepika Padmanabhan, Shanze Fatima Rauf, Sofia Rivera Sojo, Catherine Spagenberg, and Xiaoqi Sun presented papers at the 2018 New York State Political Science Association Annual Conference.
Katarina Hall’s paper "Gated Communities or Open Communities: Guatemala City’s Bottom-Up Approach to Insecurity" was selected for publication on the Marron Institute or Urban Management’s blog.
2016-2017 Academic Year
Congratulations to the following recent graduates who are starting PhD programs this fall:
- Andrew Scott Bledsoe – George Mason University
- Uğurcan Evci – University of California, Irvine
- Eunseong Oh – Stanford University
- Ahmad Qabazard – The University of Iowa
- Yile Zhang – University of California, San Diego
2015-2016 Academic Year
Congratulations to the following students who have been accepted to and will be starting PhD programs this fall:
- Ji Min Kim - Georgetown University
- Khobaib Osailan - University of California, Santa Barbara
- Liana Reyes - Rice University
- Kim Tran - The Pennsylvania State University
And congratulations to Dichun Duan on her acceptance into NYU’s School of Law.
Congratulations to Shafeka Hashash on her second-place finish in the GSAS Threesis Academic Challenge.
Congratulations to Andrew Tripodo for being selected as the Banner Bearer for the GSAS Master’s Convocation.
Aziza Sultan has been selected as a recipient of a 2016 NYU President’s Service Award for her commitment to community service and civic engagement.
Ji Min Kim and Eunseong Oh presented papers at the 2016 New York State Political Science Association Annual Conference.
Alizeh Khohari is the recipient of the Walter and Betsy Cronkite Fellowship awarded by the Overseas Press Club Foundation. As part of her fellowship, she will spend the summer conducting research at the Reuters bureau in Mexico City.
Khobaib Osailan and Kim Tran presented papers at the 2015 Northeastern Political Science Association Conference. Kim also presented a second paper at the 2015 International Studies Association-Northeast Conference.