Sonia A. Vargas

Sonia A. Vargas

PhD Student, University of Maryland. Second generation immigrant socialization & political behavior.

Posts

2024

My Time at the Washington Post!

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Within the University of Maryland’s Government and Politics department, the Center for Democracy and Civic Engagement offers a fellowship with the Washington Post. This year I was chosen out of multiple applicants to be the 5th polling fellow under this 10-week program. Under the polling team I will work in a fast-paced environment on survey curation, data analysis and validation, writing content for articles, and more. Here I will keep a list of links to pieces I helped with or even wrote!

2023

APSA Diversity Fellowship

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is a fellowship competition for individuals from underrepresented backgrounds applying to or in the early stages of doctoral programs in political science. In the 2023-2024 fellow cycle I was offered this fellowship during my second year of my PhD.

2021

Gainesville Sun Editorial

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This editorial was written by fellow classmates and me for an undergraduate course on political behavior in my senior year at the University of Florida. We chose a relevant topic at the time and analyzed data for a term paper. We chose to turn this into a journalistic style article with help from Professor Hannah Alarian.