Congratulating the 2025-26 Dissertation Fellows

Each year, a limited number of dissertation fellowships are awarded to SSD doctoral students sufficiently advanced to the writing stage of their program. With this support, students focus their full attention on completing and defending their dissertation and are expected to graduate in this academic year. 

Members of this year’s cohort are:

Benjamin Bloom Dissertation Completion Fellowship
Michael Cuna, Kenneth C. Griffin Department of Economics
Molly Tallberg, Department of Psychology

Dixit-Foged Fellowship
Anna Corriveau, Department of Psychology
Ana Restrepo Lachman, Department of Psychology

Michael and Ling Markovitz Dissertation Completion Fellowship
Ramanpreet Chhina,  Kenneth C. Griffin Department of Economics
Rachel King, Department of Psychology

Provost’s Dissertation Completion Fellowship
Liang Cai, Department of Sociology 
Daniel Epstein, Department of Political Science
Xiaoyu Gao, Department of History
Ed Jee, Kenneth C. Griffin Department of Economics
Can Mert Kokerer, Department of Sociology
Arthur Schott Lopes, Department of History
Haruka Uchida, Kenneth C. Griffin Department of Economics
Chong Zhao, Department of Psychology