The Strauss Center’s Climate Change and African Political Stability Program (CCAPS) has awarded its 2013-14 pre-doctoral fellowships to Nicholas Seltzer of Stony Brook University, Jessica Steinberg of the University of Michigan, and Daniel Strandow of Uppsala University. The three doctoral students will study under the CCAPS program and be in residence at the University of Texas at Austin for the 2013-2014 academic year.

Incoming CCAPS pre-doctoral fellow Nicholas Seltzer is a Ph.D. student in the Department of Political Science at Stony Brook University. Mr. Seltzer’s dissertation explores cooperation and conflict as responses to ecological change. He holds an M.A. in security policy from George Washington University and a B.A. in political science and philosophy from the University of California, Davis. He is currently an instructor and graduate assistant at Stony Brook University, and has prior research experience with the National Defense University’s Institute for National Strategic Studies and Evidence Based Research, Inc.

Incoming CCAPS pre-doctoral fellow Jessica Steinberg is a Ph.D. student in the Department of Political Science at the University of Michigan, studying the geography of non-state goods provision and local conflict in Africa. She conducted her dissertation field research in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Mozambique, and Zambia. Ms. Steinberg has served as a graduate student instructor for several courses at the University of Michigan, including modeling political processes, comparative politics, and world politics. She holds a B.A. in political science from Stanford University and an M.A. in political science from the University of Michigan.

Incoming CCAPS pre-doctoral fellow Daniel Strandow is a Ph.D. student in the Department of Peace and Conflict Research at Uppsala University, Sweden. His dissertation examines the impact of international assistance and emergency aid on conflict risks, and he is currently developing a database to detail conflict actors’ territorial influence. Mr. Strandow has served as the course director for a conflict resolution course, lecturer in bargaining theory and conflict courses, and research associate at Uppsala University. He holds a B.S. in peace and conflict research from Uppsala University.

The Climate Change and African Political Stability Program is a collaborative research program based at the Robert S. Strauss Center for International Security and Law at the University of Texas at Austin, conducted in partnership with the College of William and Mary, Trinity College Dublin, and University of North Texas. CCAPS analyzes how climate change, conflict, governance, and aid intersect to impact African and global security. CCAPS is funded by the U.S. Department of Defense’s Minerva Initiative.