The APSA Committee on the Status of First Generation Scholars in the Profession works to bring focused attention to the ways in which class, economic inequality, and mobility can effect political scientists’ ability to thrive educationally and professionally throughout their careers. In October 2023, the Committee matched donations to the APSA Annual Fund to support the professional development of 129 first generation scholars in the political science discipline. This support was also made possible by the contributions from the Committee on the Status of Asian Pacific Americans, Committee on the Status of Latinos y Latinas, and the Committee on the Status of Women. The following scholars were awarded for the 2023 accessibility reimbursement grant:

Catherine Abou-Khalil, Boston University

Muhammad Hassan Bin Afzal, University of Tennessee at Chattanooga

Nancy Aguilera, University of Missouri-St. Louis

Christopher Akor, The University of Alabama

Sanjida Amin, University of Toronto

Scovia Aweko, Purdue University

Muharrem Bagriyanik, University of Florida

Dipak Kumar Biswas, West Virginia University

Mitchell Bosley, University of Michigan

Francisco Brandao, Loughborough University

Francesco Bromo, Texas A&M University

Enock Bulime, Kansas State University

You Chen Chen, Soochow University

Oripha Chimwara, North West University

ChaeEun Cho, Vanderbilt University

Seoungin Choi, University of Arizona

Gonzalo Contreras, University of Oxford

Juan Corredor Garcia, CUNY Graduate Center

Dimitri Courant, Harvard University

Jerome Patrick Cruz, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Karol Czuba, Nazarbayev University

Nicolás de la Cerda, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Alessandro Del Ponte, The University of Alabama

Larissa Doroshenko, Northeastern University

Jonathan Elkobi, University of California, San Diego

Melek Eroglu, University of Pittsburgh

Keely Eshenbaugh, University of Nevada Reno

Ingrid Faleide, University of Bergen

Yibin Fan, Univerisity of Washington

Jun Fang, University of Michigan

Maria Belén Fernández Milmanda, Trinity College

Chengyu Fu, Harvard University

Chris Gahagan, Florida State University

Natalia Galica, University of Silesia in Katowice

Ziyu He, University of California San Diego

Mehmet Hecan, Boston University

Dilara Hekimci, University of Miami

Kun Heo, New York University

Paa-Kwesi Heto, University of California, Irvine

David Houghton, London School of Economics and Political Science

R. Joseph Huddleston, Seton Hall University

Yu Jeong Hwang, University of Arizona

Sekou Jabateh, New York University

Suna Jeong, Georgetown University

Yujin Jung, University of Missouri

Jay Kao, Loyola University Chicago

Akbota Karibayeva, George Washington University

Mohit Karnani, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Ruchan Kaya, Austin College

Aleena Khan, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Yu Bin Kim, University of Missouri

Julien Labarre, University of California, Santa Barbara

Natalie Lau, The University of Edinburgh

Diana Da In Lee, Columbia University

Jesslene Lee, University of Toronto

Young-Im Lee, California State University-Sacramento

Youngjoon Lee, University of Maryland, College Park

Shengqiao Lin, University of Texas at Austin

Yue Lin, University of California, Berkeley

Ying Liu, Rutgers University-Newark

Alejandro Lopez Peceño, New York University

Haofeng Ma, The University of Iowa

Sidi Maghraoui, Al-Akhawayn University

Ali Masood, Oberlin College

Javier Matamoros Becerra, University of Extremadura

Yu Mei, University of Rochester

Ankushi Mitra, Georgetown University

Nathalie Mendez, Universidad de los Andes

Juan Micozzi, Instituto Tecnologico Autonomo de Mexico

Philip Moniz, University of Texas at Austin

Bedirhan Mutlu, George Washington University

Miwa Nakajo, Tsuda University

Kasia Nalewajko, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid

Silviya Nitsova, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Hyesang Noh, University at Albany, State University of New York

Nicola Nones, University of Toronto

Christopher Nyabira, University of the Western Cape

Nife Ogunbodede, University of Delaware

Inhwan Oh, Boston College

Yunus Orhan, North Dakota State University

Alex Osei-Kojo, University of Tennessee Knoxville

Busra Nur Ozguler Aktel, Georgia State University

Camila Paez, Arizona State University

Anmol Panda, University of Michigan

Hyunjung Park, University of Pittsburgh

So Yeon Park, Michigan State University

Yul Min Park, The University of Texas at Austin

Tereza Petrovicova, UC San Diego

Mathias Poertner, London School of Economics and Political Science

Hayley Pring, University of Oxford

Mariana Ramirez Bustamante, Vanderbilt University

Mohammad Rezwanul Haque Masud, University of Colorado, Boulder

Joan Ricart-Huguet, Loyola University Maryland

Andreu Rodilla, University of Barcelona

Rashi Sabherwal, University of Pennsylvania

Regine Schwab, Peace Research Institute Frankfurt

Miklós Sebők, Centre for Social Sciences, Budapest

Sefa Secen, Ohio State University

Didem Seyis, Binghamton University (SUNY)

Farzin Shargh, SUNY, University at Albany

Sally Sharif, Simon Fraser University

Michael Sharpe, York College/Graduate Center-CUNY

Yael Shmaryahu-Yeshurun, University of California, San Diego

EmiLee Smart, University of Kentucky

Dehua Sun, University of Rochester

Marton Szabo, University of Rochester

Hugo Tai, University of Oxford

Peter Thompson, Appalachian State University

Paul-Sewa Thovoethin, Lagos State University, Ojo Campus

Sedef Topal, Washington State University

Shu-An Tsai, SUNY Buffalo

Ozlem Tuncel Gurlek, Georgia State University

Jingding Wang, Syracuse University

Hsu Yumin Wang, Emory University

Tsukasa Watanabe, University of North Texas

Fiona Hoi-yan Wong, University of Edinburgh

Kristina Wright, University of Florida

Weifang Xu, Florida State University

Eddy Yeung, Emory University

Muhammed Yusuf Yilmaz, McGill University

Lori Young, University of Waterloo

Jermaine Young, Howard University

Jianjun Yu, University of Iowa

Shuli Zhang, University of Pittsburgh

Tongtong Zhang, Stanford University

Weidong Zhang, University of Iowa

Zhu Zhang, Fairfield University

Bang Zheng, University of Arizona

Lidiya Zubytska, Ave Maria University

James Steur, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Cigdem Unal, University of Pittsburgh

Everett Vieira, California State University, Fresno

Rui Wang, University at Buffalo

Yuan Wang, University of Georgia