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College of Social Sciences

COSS Emerging Scholars

 

2025-26 Projects


Amelia Bick

Required Qualifications: No experience required outside of course research skills.

Preferred Qualifications: Literature review development, survey development/deployment, data management, data collection, data analysis, data science, data evaluation.

Skills to Acquire: Literature review development, survey development/deployment, data management, data collection, data analysis, project management, data science, data evaluation


Amber Crowell

Required Qualifications: Data analysis

Preferred Qualifications: Data management, community engagement, creative work, project-based community outreach and work, ability to speak and write Spanish. 

Skills to Acquire: Literature review development, survey development/deployment, data management, data collection, data analysis, project management, The ability to effectively communicate in writing and orally; critical thinking skills; both collaborative and independent research experience; and experience working as a member of a research team.

espana

Required Qualifications: Literature review development.

Preferred Qualifications: Data management, data analysis, community engagement.

Skills to Acquire: Literature review development, survey development/deployment, data management, data analysis, project management, community engagement, data evaluation.


Michael Eze

Required Qualifications: Democracy, Interdisciplinary, Cultural Awareness, Critical Thinking, Intellectual History

Skills to Acquire: Literature review development, data management, data collection, data analysis, project management, community engagement, data evaluation, creative work, project-based community outreach and wor

Justin Myers

Required Qualifications: Data collection, data analysis, creative work.

Skills to Acquire: Data collection, data analysis, creative work

Nkenna

Required Qualifications: Data management, data collection

Preferred Qualifications: Literature review development, data analysis

Skills to Acquire: Literature review development, data management, data collection, data analysis

Melanie

Required Qualifications: Reading or research in the social sciences (e.g. for upper division classes); some awareness or thinking about organizational behavior and/or the interactions or relations between countries through formal study, reading, and/or following news.

Preferred Qualifications: Literature review development, one or more courses successfully completed in international relations (e.g. PLSI 120) or about organizations.

Skills to Acquire: Literature review development, data collection, data analysis, writing, communication, and organizational skills.

Cecilia Ruesta

Required Qualifications: Community engagement, creative work, project-based community outreach and work, Interest in social justice issues.

Preferred Qualifications:  Eagerness and openness to connect with local student/community organizers.

Skills to Acquire: Project management, community engagement, creative work, project-based community outreach and work, Leadership, and advocacy skills.

Everette

Required Qualifications: Commitment to learning and time management.

Preferred Qualifications: literature review development, survey development/deployment, data management, data collection, data analysis, project management, and some working proficiency of Spanish (i.e., reading and speaking).

Skills to Acquire: Literature review development, survey development/deployment, data management, data collection, data analysis, project management, The ability to effectively communicate in writing and orally; critical thinking skills; both collaborative and independent research experience; and experience working as a member of a research team.