Incite's graduate fellows take home major prizes - Incite at Columbia University

Incite is home to several graduate fellows who are central to our intellectual community.

Graduate fellows contribute to ongoing projects, organize workshops, and add to the intellectual liveliness of our office. This summer, several have earned some notable recognition for their work. This summer, the work of our graduate fellows has been recognized with major awards.

We are thrilled to share that graduate fellow Amy Weissenbach has been awarded Columbia's Lindt Fellowship for 2025-26, a competitive fellowship that supports exceptional PhD candidates as they complete their dissertations. Each year, this highly selective fellowship is only awarded to 1-2 PhD students across Columbia's departments of Anthropology, Economics, Political Science, and Sociology.

Graduate fellows Jack LaViolette and Seungwon Lee are also set to receive awards at this year’s American Sociological Association (ASA) meeting in Chicago. LaViolette will receive the Richard A. Peterson Award for Best Student Paper from the Culture section for his submission "Seeing Aliens: How Ecological Affordances Produce UFO Sightings." Moreover, Professor Andreas Wimmer, Seungwon Lee, and Jack Laviolette will receive the Charles Tilly Best Article Award from the Comparative and Historical Sociology section. The award recognizes their article "Diffusion Through Multiple Domains: The Spread of Romantic Nationalism Across Europe, 1770–1930," published earlier this year in AJS.

Congratulations, Amy, Jack, and Seungwon!