EI Awards 2010 Eisenhower/Roberts Fellowships
The Eisenhower Institute has awarded its 2010 Eisenhower/Roberts Graduate Fellowships to doctoral candidates Dipali Mukhopadhyay and Michael Beckley in support of their doctoral dissertation work at The Fletcher School at Tufts University and Columbia University, respectively. Roberts Fellows are usually invited to present a Roundtable on their topic at EI.
Dipali Mukhopadhyay is currently completing a doctorate on the state-building project in Afghanistan and has spent the last several years investigating the interaction between informal power and provincial governance through an in-depth study of two warlord-governors in northern and eastern Afghanistan. Her research has taken her to Afghanistan four times since 2004. In addition to her academic research, she has engaged the U.S. policymaking community on Afghanistan through work with the Department of Defense, the U.S. Military, and the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. She has also enjoyed teaching at The Fletcher School, most recently with academic dean Peter Uvin in the fall of 2008, when they co-designed and co-taught a course on state formation in the developing world.
Michael Beckley is a doctoral candidate in the department of political science at Columbia University. His dissertation explains why the United States remains so much more militarily powerful and technologically advanced than other countries despite rising globalization. Prior to Columbia, Michael held positions at the Pentagon's Policy Planning Office, the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, and the Carter Center. In 2008 he received the International Studies Association's Carl Beck Award, and in 2009 he was awarded the Journal of Strategic Studies' Amos Perlmutter Prize for best article of the year.
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