The Center for Global and Regional Studies offers current juniors the opportunity to apply for the annual CGRS Junior Fellowship, which aids students with work that deepens their understanding of local, regional, national, or international issues. CGRS particularly is interested in students who wish to further projects undertaken during an OCS program and especially when the work feeds into their comps.
During the 2023-2024 academic year, CGRS awarded two Junior Research Fellowships to Mitch Porter and Ellis Kondrashov.
Mitch Porter ’25, an Environmental Studies and Latin American Studies major, with a Public Policy minor, traveled to Buenos Aires, Argentina, Ushusia, Argentina, and Stanley, Falkland Islands this summer. His project title is The Falklands/Malvinas Conflict in the Age of Environmentalism: Territorializing Marine Conservation in the South Atlantic. Mitch’s plan while abroad was to conduct semi-structured interviews, as well as map how and why changes have occurred while using volunteer opportunities with a conservation NGO in the Falklands/Malvinas and prior connections with marine research in Argentia. Read more of Mitch’s abstract.
Below are images Mitch shared from his time abroad including his time researching his fellowship topic.
Ellis Kondrashov (2025), a Sociology and Anthropology major, with a Russian minor, traveled to Almaty, Kazakhstan. His project title was, Between the Mountains and the Steppe: Street Life in Kazakhstan’s Biggest City. Ellis spent his time abroad doing fieldwork, splitting time between three outdoor sites doing participant observation field work, alongside a series of short one to three-question interviews, and also longer interviews with willing participants. Since returning home and to campus he has used this information and data to develop his comps. Read more of Ellis’ abstract.
Below are images Ellis shared from his time abroad including his time researching his fellowship topic.
