Graduate Students

 Vinicius de Aguiar Furuie *20 (Anthropology) successfully defended his dissertation, “Argonauts of the Amazon: River Trade and Rights in the Xingu Basin” on September 3, 2020 (Committee: Ryo Morimoto, Carolyn Crouse, João Biehl and Joerg Niewohner from Humboldt University of Berlin).  Vinicius is an Environmental Fellow at The Harvard University Center for the Environment.

Marian Miguel Bedran *20 (Spanish and Portuguese) successfully defended her dissertation “A Turn to Amazonia: Experimental Art, Indigeneity, and the Rise of Political Ecology in Brazil” on August 27, 2020.  Marina has accepted a tenure-track position at Johns Hopkins University as an assistant professor of Lusophone Literatures and Cultures in the Department of Modern Languages and Literatures.

Daniela Barba-Sanchez *20 (Politics) successfully defended her dissertation, “Private Gains and Human Rights Violations: Collateral Damage in Mexico’s War on Drugs” on September 9, 2020 (Committee: Deborah Yashar, Grigore Pop-Eleches, Carles Boix). 

Ingrid Brioso Rieumont was awarded a 2019 Fulbright-Hays Doctoral Dissertation Research Abroad Fellowship. The fellowship is conferred to recognize individual doctoral students whose dissertation will make an unusually significant contribution to their discipline. The program provides funding to conduct research in modern foreign languages and area studies for periods of 6 to 12 months.

Vinicius de Aguiar Furuie was awarded the Porter Ogden Jacobus Fellowship.  This fellowship was established in 1905 by Clara Cooley Jacobus and is awarded to doctoral students who, in the judgement of the University faculty demonstrate the highest scholarly excellence.  Previous Jacobus winners have gone on to become leaders in all fields including academia, business, industry, and government. The fellowship supports his final year of study at Princeton.

Brandon Hunter was awarded the 2019 Fulbright-Hays Doctoral Dissertation Research Abroad Fellowship. This program funds individual doctoral students who conduct research in other countries, in modern foreign languages and area studies for periods of six to 12 months. He was also awarded a National Science Foundation DDRI Grant in the Cultural Anthropology section for the same project.