05.01.10

CIS Competition Winners 2010

CIS would like to congratulate this year's competition winners!!!!

*CIS Dissertation Fellowship Awards 2010-11*

MARIA ARMOUDIAN, Politics and International Relations Phd candidate, USC
---"Politics of Transformation: Media's Role in Making Peace"

CHRISTINA WAGNER FAEGRI, Politics and International Relations Phd candidate, USC
---"Reconstituting the Fiscal Bargain: The Politics of Tax Reform in Latin America"

*CIS Essay Competition Winners*

1st PLACE
PETER KNAACK, Politics and International Relations Phd candidate, USC
---"The Globalization of the 'Anti-Globalizers': A Transnational Network Analysis of the Social Movement Organization ATTAC"

2nd PLACE (shared)
MARIANO BERTUCCI, Politics and International Relations Phd candidate, USC
---"Towards a Theoretical and Explanatory Turn: A Critical Assessment of Research on U.S.-Latin American Relations"

ADRIAN FELIX, Politics and International Relations Phd candidate, USC
---"Transnational Politicians: Migrant Deputies and Mexican Party Politics"

*CIS-CIBER Asia/Pacific Business Outlook Conference 2010 Awards*

THIEN-HUONG NINH, Sociology Phd candidate, USC
Research interest: Vietnamese transnational religious communities

HONG PANG, Politics and International Relations Phd candidate, USC
Research interest: investment and trade conditions in China

KATHERINE CHU, Politics and International Relations Phd candidate, USC
Research interest: Chinese film industry

*CIS-CIBER International Business Dissertation Awards 2010*

JESSICA LIAO, Politics and International Relations Phd candidate, USC
---"Varieties of Capitalism in Developing Countries: A Comparative Study of Hi-Tech Industry in East Asia"

KATE SVYATETS, Politics and International Relations Phd candidate, USC
--"Economic Efficiency, Domestic Interest Groups, and Geopolitical Considerations as Determinants of Energy Cooperation: US-Russia, US-Azerbaijan, and Russia-Germany"

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