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Mitchell Center Fellows 2021-2022

The Andrea Mitchell Center for the Study of Democracy has awarded research fellowships to the following Penn undergraduates for projects to be begun in the summer of 2021 and completed during the 2021-2022 academic year:

Maya Essimel (Philosophy Politics and Economics), for “A Reevaluation of Judicial Ethics in Light of Emerging Social Media Phenomena”

Ruijun Liu (Communication), for “Persuading Climate Skeptics with Causal Explanations: Evidence from a Large Survey Experiment”

Brendan Lui (Political Science), for “Kept Down and Locked Out: Comparing the Exclusion of Racial and Ethnic Minority Workers in the Skilled Construction Sectors of Denmark, Italy, and the United States”

Claire Nguyen (History), for “(Dis)placed: A History of Vietnamese Refugee Americans in San Jose, California, 1975-1999”

Chinaza Ruth Okonkwo (Philosophy), for “Igbo Enwe Eze: Towards an Indigenous Igbo Conception of Democracy”

Kaitlyn Rentala (Philosophy, Politics and Economics), for “Analyzing Modern Day Surveillance Capitalism Through the Rawlsian Basic Structure”

Denali Sagner (History), for “Defense, Capitalism, and the Cold War’s Fallout in Alabama’s ‘Model City’”

Julie Sohnen (Political Science), for “More Than Just a Spy: Jonathan Pollard and the ‘Special Relationship’”

Eden Vance (History), for “Evaluating The Legacy of the Boer Wars in Edwardian-Era Reforms”

Nikita Zinzuwadia (Health & Societies), for “Criminal Justice, Mass Incarceration, and COVID-19: Understanding Prison Health and Prison Health Activism in the United States”

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