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President's Postdoctoral Fellowship Recipients 1996 - 1997

Social Sciences


Ming M. Chiu

Education: B.S. Columbia University, Computer Science; Ed.M. Harvard University, Education; Ph.D. University of California, Berkeley, Education, Math, Science and Technology

Dissertation: Building Mathematical Understanding during Collaboration: Students learning linear functions in an urban, public high school

Thesis Advisors: Andy diSessa, Professor of Education, University of California, Berkeley and George Lakoff, Professor of Linguistics, University of California, Berkeley

Research Topic: the effects of classroom practices on students collaboration: A comparison of mathematics and literacy classes

Mentor: Kris Gutierrez, Professor of Education, University of California, Los Angeles

Current Position: Professor, School of Education, State University of New York at Buffalo


Tirso A. Gonzales

Education: B.A. Universidad Catolica de Lima, M.S. University of Wisconsin, Madison, Sociology; Ph.D. University of Wisconsin, Madison, Sociology

Dissertation: Political Ecology of Peasantry, the Seed and NGOs in Latin America: A Study of Mexico and Perú, 1940-1995.

Thesis Advisor: Jack Kloppenburg, Jr., Professor of Rural Sociology, University of Wisconsin, Madison

Research Topic: Political Economy and Political Ecology of the Ethnic and Indigenous question in Latin America: The Case of the Andes Region

Mentor: Stefano Varese, Professor of Native American Studies, University of California, Davis

Current Position: Assistant Professor, Department of Education, Chinese University, Hong Kong


Kiron Skinner

Education: A.B. Spelman College, Political Science; A.M. Harvard University, Political Science; Ph.D. Harvard University, Political Science

Dissertation: The Politics of Weakness and the Politics of Strength: American Use of Security Linkage During the Carter Era.

Thesis Advisor: Robert Keohane, Professor of Government, Harvard University

Research Topic: Grand Strategy: International Relations Theory and the Reagan-Shultz Dynamic

Mentor: Professor Richard Rosecrance, Professor of Political Science, University of California, Los Angeles

Current Position: Associate Professor, Department of Social & Decision Sciences, Carnegie Mellon University

 

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