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Research by Maxwell Graduate Students Recognized by American Political Science Association
Three graduate students聽in the聽聽have been awarded grants by the聽聽(APSA) in support and recognition of their work.
Research grants were awarded to Ph.D. candidates Jingding Wang and Hannah Radner, and a third candidate, Nicholas D鈥橝mico, received an award for his dissertation proposal.
Doctoral dissertation research improvement grants support dissertation research that aims to advance knowledge and understanding of citizenship, government and politics.
Wang is examining how access to central bank digital currencies鈥攄igital versions of government-issued money鈥攃reates new forms of power, affecting the global financial landscape. The grant will fund fieldwork abroad, enabling Wang to study cross-border payment networks that link different types of currencies.
Radner鈥檚 research examines the ways political parties adjust their campaigns based on the scope of their elections and seeks to determine if parties deliberately change their messaging to better connect with local voters in subnational elections. She will use the grant to support a trip to the United Kingdom to study campaign strategies in the upcoming Scottish and Welsh parliamentary elections.
D鈥橝mico was honored with the organization鈥檚 Kenneth Sherrill Prize for the best dissertation proposal for an empirical study of lesbian, gay, bisexual or transgender (LGBT) topics in political science.
His proposal, titled 鈥淩ainbow Participation? Assessing the Forces Motivating LGBTQ Participation and Political Identity in the United States,鈥 seeks to explain why LGBTQ Americans tend to be more politically active and consistent in their views. He will conduct interviews and surveys while analyzing pre-existing research to test his idea that shared experiences鈥攁nd the way those experiences shape a sense of community鈥攑lay a key role in LGBTQ political identity and behavior. D鈥橝mico is one of nine 2025 APSA Dissertation Award recipients.
Story by Catherine Scott
