The APSA Diversity and Inclusion Advancing Research Grants provide support for research that examines political science phenomena affecting historically underserved communities and underrepresented groups and communities. In July 2025, APSA awarded 11 projects for the APSA Diversity and Inclusion Advancing Research Grant for Early Career Scholars for a combined total award amount of $22,000. Read more about the funded projects here: https://apsanet.org/diversity/diversity-fellowship-program/travel-grant-application/2025-advancing-research-grants-for-early-career-scholars-recipients/

PROJECT TITLE: The Latino Vote in the US

FRANCESCO BROMO

Francesco Bromo is a postdoctoral research fellow at the University of Oxford.

LINDSEY P. GONZÁLEZ

Lindsey P. González is a PhD student in political science at Texas A&M University.

MANUELA MUÑOZ

Manuela Muñoz is an assistant professor of political science at Texas Tech University.

KRISTY PATHAKIS

Kristy Pathakis is an assistant professor of political science at Texas A&M University.

PROJECT TITLE: Fixing Gender: Authoritarianism, Knowledge, and the Politics of Epistemic Control

ELIZABETH CORREDOR

Elizabeth Corredor is a visiting assistant professor of political science at Bryn Mawr College. She received her PhD in political science from Rutgers University in 2021. She also holds an MA in Latin American studies from the University of Chicago (2006) and a certificate in Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality studies from Rutgers University (2018). Her research and teaching are interdisciplinary, situated at the intersections of political science; women’s, gender, and sexuality studies; trans studies; sociology; Latin American studies; and peace and conflict studies. Her book manuscript, based on her award-winning dissertation, argues that to fully understand the gendering of peace negotiations and agreements, we must examine not only how many and which women are at the table, but also the gendered and spatial logics embedded in peace processes. Using the 2010–2016 Colombian peace process as a case study, she draws on an original framework that traces the efforts, locations, and gendered logics of both women’s and LGBTIQ+ groups, as well as those of the formal negotiation table. Her analysis reveals how these agendas were accepted, co-opted, and/or resisted within the negotiations and the final agreement. Emerging from this book project, Dr. Corredor also studies how anti-gender and anti-trans mobilizations contribute to epistemological and ontological violence and insecurity—both within the state and at the grassroots level. She is particularly interested in how these campaigns attempt to destabilize and erase identities and knowledge systems through public discourse and policy.

PROJECT TITLE: Middle Eastern and North African (MENA) American Identity in the United States

AMANDA SAHAR D’URSO

Amanda Sahar d’Urso is an assistant professor of government at Georgetown University. Her research details how Middle Easterners and North Africans (MENA) have been racialized throughout the 20th and 21st century. Her work is published in Perspectives on Politics, Political Science Research and Methods, and the Journal of Race and Ethnic Politics, as well as in public outlets such as Good Authority, The London School of Economics, and The Monkey Cage. During the 2023-2024 academic year, she was a Provost’s Distinguished Faculty Fellow.

PROJECT TITLE: Gender in the Journals Revisited: A Comprehensive Look at Trends Across Five Decades

CHRISTINA GAHN

Christina Gahn is a postdoctoral researcher in the department of government at the University of Vienna (Austria). She earned her doctorate in political science from the Berlin Graduate School of Social Sciences at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin (Germany) in 2025. Her research focuses on political parties, electoral campaigns, and public opinion polls, with her work published in journals such as the European Journal of Political Research, Party Politics and the International Journal of Press/Politics. She is also an active advocate for gender equality in academia, serving as one of the co-organizers of her department’s women’s group, where she works to support female scholars and address structural issues in the field. Building on this interest, Christina’s current research examines systemic hurdles to gender equity in political science publishing, analyzing authorship trends over five decades.

MICHAEL IMRE

Michael Imre is a postdoctoral researcher in the department of government at the University of Vienna (Austria). He completed his doctorate in political science from the Graduate School of Economic and Social Sciences at the University of Mannheim (Germany) in 2025. His research interests include political parties and party competition, intra-party politics, coalition governments, and constitutional politics. His work has been published in journals such as the British Journal of Political Science, Electoral Studies, and Party Politics.

PROJECT TITLE: Developing to Deport: Race, Citizenship, and the Fringes of US Miitary Social Welfare, 1917-1978

ALFREDO GONZALEZ

Alfredo Gonzalez is an assistant professor of political science at the University of California, Santa Barbara. His research explores how immigrant and non-citizen military service shapes views on political acculturation, and the extent to which Congress, courts, and veterans’ organizations weigh naturalization as part of a broader scheme of military social welfare benefits. Gonzalez served in the US Marine Corps and is a veteran of Operation Iraqi Freedom.

PROJECT TITLE: ALL THE BELOVED I COULDN’T DESCRIBE: Queer-of-Color Illegibility and the 21st Century Crisis of Identity

ISABEL FELIX GONZALES

Isabel Felix Gonzales is a Rising Scholars Postdoctoral Fellow in the department of women, gender, and sexuality at the University of Virginia and a 2025 New City Arts Fellow. Their written and visual work explores the political, material, and popular cultures of the early 21st century. Isabel is particularly interested in how sexuality and gender identity function as important sites for consolidating and re-naturalizing racial capitalism in the aftermath of Obama-era multiculturalism and LGBTQ+ mainstreaming. But also the forms illegibility, unruliness, kin-making, escape, and refusal that queer, trans, and nonbinary people of color employ in response. Their work has been published in The Palgrave Handbook of Fashion and Politics, Terrorism and Popular Culture, and Politics, Groups, and Identities, and in community-run zine collections, including Mala Leche x Sound Justice Lab: Our Bodies, Our Futures and SWARM: Answering the Call. Isabel received a PhD in political science from the University of California, Irvine and is currently working on their first book, ALL THE BELOVED I COULDN’T DESCRIBE: Queer Illegibility and 21st Century Crisis of Identity.

PROJECT TITLE: Racialising Climate Change Mobilities in UK, US, and French News Media Coverage

LYDIA AYAME HIRAIDE

Lydia Ayame Hiraide is a lecturer at Soka University in the Graduate School of International Peace Studies (SIPS). Her research takes an interdisciplinary approach to the key questions that we are grappling with around a changing climate, gender, identity and inequities, social justice, and the relationship between the Global North and Global South. Previously, Lydia Ayame was a postdoctoral research fellow with the Feminist Centre for Racial Justice (FCRJ), a Teaching Fellow in the department of Politics and International Relations at SOAS, University of London, and Associate Lecturer in the Politics department at Goldsmiths, University of London. Lydia Ayame holds a PhD in politics and international relations from Goldsmiths, University of London which was funded by the UK Arts and Humanities Research Council.

PROJECT TITLE: Does My Wheelchair Slow Me Down? The Interactive Effects of Disability, Race, and Gender in Political Elections

KYLE HULL

Kyle Hull is an assistant professor of political science at Fitchburg State University and formerly a visiting assistant professor at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, where he also completed his PhD. He holds broad research and teaching interests in political psychology, political behavior, public policy and state and local politics. His primary area of research explores how voters perceive, evaluate, and support political candidates with physical disabilities as well as determinants of support for disability policies.

PROJECT TITLE: Beyond Demographics: Investigating the Influence of Minority-Owned Businesses on Minority Political Participation

JONGWOO JEONG

Jongwoo Jeong is an assistant professor of political science at Georgia State University. His research focuses on American political behavior and institutions, with particular emphasis on race, immigration, and polarization. His work has appeared or is forthcoming in journals such as AJPS, JOP, BJPS, Political Behavior, and Politics, Groups, and Identities. He is currently leading a project that investigates how minority-owned businesses shape political participation, ambition, and representation in high-minority communities across the United States, with a particular focus on Georgia, with this opportunity. Recognizing these communities as both vulnerable to political marginalization and rich in civic potential, the project underscores the importance of understanding how place-based institutions foster political resilience and grassroots mobilization. He also collaborates with criminology scholar Young-An Kim to examine how these businesses influence the policy behavior of street-level bureaucrats and local crime patterns. He earned his PhD from Texas A&M University in 2022 and completed a postdoctoral fellowship at Washington University in St. Louis.

PROJECT TITLE: Contesting the Inclusionary Turn: Feminist and Antifeminist Narratives in Latin America and the United States

CAMILA PAEZ

Camila Paez holds a PhD in political science from Arizona State University, supported by Fulbright. She currently serves as an assistant professor at the University of Cincinnati’s School of Politics and International Affairs. Her research concentrates on women’s contentious politics and policies in Latin America, employing ethnography, interviews, text analysis, and OLS to examine political violence and women’s involvement in social movements. With experience leading projects for women’s rights in government bodies and NGOs, Camila is adept at designing, executing, and managing research and social initiatives. She is also an expert in teaching comparative politics, with a focus on the Global South and women’s roles in politics.

PROJECT TITLE: Puerto Rico Public Opinion Laboratory

VIVIANA RIVERA-BURGOS

Viviana Rivera-Burgos is an assistant professor in the political science department at Baruch College in the City University of New York. She received her PhD and MA from Columbia University and her BA from the University of Puerto Rico-Mayagüez. Viviana specializes in American public opinion and political behavior, particularly as they relate to racial and ethnic minorities. Her current work focuses on Latinos’ racial attitudes and their support for police-reform policies and the Black Lives Matter movement. She is also an Investigator on the Puerto Rico Public Opinion Lab (PR-POL), the first large-scale, nationally representative survey of Puerto Ricans on the island. Her research has been funded by the Eugene M. Lang Junior Faculty Research Fellowship, the Black, Race, and Ethnic Studies Initiative (BRESI), PSC-CUNY, and Columbia’s Center on African American Politics and Society, the Division of Social Science, and the Institute for Social and Economic Research Policy.