This summer, the Global Diversity Lab welcomes our third cohort of Pathways to Political Science summer research interns! The interns are assisting MIT Political Science faculty and graduate students with research work while also conducting their own independent research projects. The internship program includes weekly research workshops and skills training sessions aimed at preparing interns…

This summer, the Global Diversity Lab hosted our second cohort of Pathways to Political Science summer research interns! The cohort included six undergraduate students at universities in Puerto Rico, Texas, Minnesota, Virginia, and Massachusetts; and two masters’ students at universities in Ghana. Interns assisted with GDL research and conducted independent research projects under the supervision…

As GDL begins the second year of our Pathways to Political Science internship program, we caught up with internship alumni Mohammed Bah, Saumyaa Gupta, Sikelelwe Mtshizana, and Yvonne Ilupeju. Mohammed, Saumyaa, and Yvonne will all begin graduate programs in the fall, and Sikelelwe is completing her Master of Social Sciences program at the University of…

Yvonne Ilupeju and Sikelelwe Mtshizana were 2023 Summer Research Interns with the Global Diversity Lab (GDL) at MIT’s Department of Political Science. Yvonne is a Master of Philosophy student at Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology in Ghana and Sikelelwe is a Masters student at the University of Cape Town in South Africa. Which…

Autumn Green was a 2023 Summer Research Intern with the Global Diversity Lab (GDL) at MIT’s Department of Political Science. This summer, she assisted graduate student Jasmine English on research related to racial attitudes and discourse in America and conducted an independent research project on civil rights litigation. She is now a junior at the…

Mohammed Bah was a 2023 Summer Research Intern with the Global Diversity Lab (GDL) at MIT’s Department of Political Science. This summer, he assisted MIT Political Science professors Noah Nathan and Evan Lieberman on research projects related to precolonial legacies in Ghana and climate challenges in Liberia. He graduated from the University of Rochester in…