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Society of Professional Journalists •

Winner of Sigma Delta Chi Awards - Society of Professional Journalists for Foreign Correspondence

The Society of Professional Journalists is pleased to announce the recipients of the 2021 Sigma Delta Chi Awards for excellence in journalism.

Judges chose the winners from entries in categories covering print, radio, television and online. The awards recognize outstanding work published or broadcast in 2021.

Dating back to 1932, the awards originally honored six individuals for contributions to journalism. The current program began in 1939, when the Society granted the first Distinguished
The Foreign Correspondents' Club, Hong Kong | FCC •

Covering the Coup: A Myanmar Journalist Reports

Chronicling events on the ground in Yangon, Arakanese freelance journalist Kyaw Hsan Hlaing documents an increasingly perilous situation for journalists in the wake of the military coup.

When my roommate woke me early on 1 February with the news that the Myanmar military had staged a coup, I knew that as a freelance journalist focused on human rights I could become a target.

I deactivated my Facebook account and requested the editor at an international news agency delete my byline from some se
Frontier Myanmar •

Myanmar politics must be re-made, not restored

The growing democracy movement needs to look beyond Aung San Suu Kyi and the NLD, and listen closely to ethnic voices.

On the morning of February 1, my hopes disappeared when I learned that the civilian government had been overthrown in a military coup. Growing up under army rule, I did not have access to quality education or healthcare, and couldn’t use the internet until 2014. Terrified of the military, my parents always warned me to stay away from politics or activism. Now, I don’t want the
TIME •

My Family and Friends Are Living Under the World's Longest Internet Shutdown in Myanmar

Kyaw Hsan Hlaing grew up in Myanmar’s conflict-torn Rakhine State where his family and friends are among more than 1.4 million people affected by a prolonged internet ban. In place since June 2019 in parts of Rakhine and neighboring Chin State, the ban was imposed by the government amid escalating fighting with an ethnic armed group. Human rights groups have criticized the shutdown for hampering access to information about COVID-19, as well as making it harder to distribute food and medical aid...
American Political Science Association (APSA) •

Meet DFP Spring Fellow, Kyaw Hsan Hlaing, Cornell University -

Kyaw Hsan Hlaing is a PhD student in the department of government at Cornell University and a 2024 recipient of the Paul & Daisy Soros Fellowships for New Americans. He studies comparative politics with a focus on regime change, political violence, authoritarianism, and rebel politics. Before enrolling at Cornell, he resumed his undergraduate studies at the University of Hawai’i at Mānoa in January 2023—following a seven-year hiatus from his studies at Yangon University of Distance Education at...
Civil War Paths •

Civil War Paths Fellow 2025-26

Over 4,000 readers from 70 countries have accessed our blog in the last few years. Our seminars feature world-leading scholars of civil war and political violence, and our workshops engage scholars and practitioners.
We publish contributions from our Fellows on the Civil War Paths Blog and host a seminar series showcasing cutting-edge research by Fellows and broader networks. Other events will focus on the Civil War Paths project’s outcomes to date.

Fellows will receive a monthly newsletter with invitations to events and updates from the Centre.

Fellows will be required to:
– Attend our Seminar Series and
– Contribute to our Blog or Annual Conference.
American Political Science Association (APSA) •

Spring 2025-2026 - American Political Science Association (APSA)

The following students were named as 2025-2026 APSA Diversity Fellowship Program recipients during the spring 2025 application cycle. These fellows are currently in the first or second year of PhD programs in political science.



Chase Brown (she/her) is a first year PhD student at George Washington University and an alumni of Rice University, where she graduated cum laude with a double major in political science and Spanish, and a minor in African American politics. Currently she studies Amer...
Kyaw Hsan Hlaing •

ဒုက္ခသည်ဘဝမှ ပညာရှင်အိပ်မက် အကောင်အထည်ဖော်နေသူ By VOA Burmese

အမေရိကန်ပြည်ထောင်စုမှာရဖို့ခက်ခဲတဲ့ ပညာသင်ဆုကိုရလိုက်တဲ့အတွက် ပညာရှင်တယောက်ဖြစ်ချင်တဲ့ သူ့အိပ်မက်ကို အကောင်အထည်ဖော်နိုင်တော့မှာဖြစ်သလို ဆောင်းပါးရှင်တယောက်အနေနဲ့ နိုင်ငံတကာ သတင်းစာကြီးတွေမှာ မြန်မာ့အရေးဆောင်းပါးတွေ ဆက်ရေးသွားမယ်လို့ ဒီနှစ် Paul & Daisy Soros Fellowship ပညာသင်ဆုရခဲ့သူ ကိုကျော်ဆန်းလှိုင်က ပြောပါတယ်။

ငယ်ငယ်က နွမ်းပါးတဲ့ဒေသတခုမှာကြီးပြင်းခဲ့လို့ ပညာကောင်းကောင်းသင်ခွင့်မရခဲ့ပေမဲ့ အမေရိကန်ပြည်ထောင်စုကို ဒုက္ခသည်အဖြစ်ရောက်လာတဲ့ နှစ်ပိုင်းအတွင်းမှာပဲ B.A ဘွဲ့ယူနိုင်ပြီး မကြာခင်မှာတော့ ထိပ်တန်းတက္ကသိုလ်ကြီးတခုမှာ Ph.D ဘွဲ့သင်ယူတော့မယ့် ကိုကျော်ဆန်းလှိုင်ရဲ့ ဖြတ်သန်းမှုတချို့ကို မခင်ဖြူထွေးက စုစည်း တင်ဆက်ထားပါတယ်။

လွန်ခဲ့တဲ့ ၂ နှစ်ကျော်ကမှ ဒုက္ခသည်အဖြစ် ရောက်လာခဲ့တဲ့ ရခိုင်တိုင်းရင်းသားလူငယ် ကိုကျော်ဆန်းလှိုင်ဟာ သိပ်မကြာခင် လပိုင်းအတွင်းမှာတော့ အမေရိကန်ထိပ်တန်းတက္ကသိုလ်ကြီးတခုဖြစ်တဲ့ Cornell တက္ကသိုလ်မှာ နိုင်ငံရေးသိပ္ပံဘာသာရပ်နဲ့ Ph.D ပညာကိုသင်ယူတော့မှာပါ။ ခုလို အခြေအနေမျိုးကို သူ လွယ်လွယ်ကူကူ ရခဲ့တာတော့ မဟုတ်ပါဘူး။ https://burmese.voanews.com/.../kyaw-san.../7615384.html
VOA Burmese •

ခက်ခဲတဲ့ Paul & Daisy Soros ပညာသင်ဆုရသူ

အခြေခံပညာကို ရခိုင်ပြည်နယ် ပရဟိတကျောင်းတခုမှာ သင်ယူခဲ့ပေမဲ့ အမေရိကန်ကို ဒုက္ခသည်အဖြစ် ရောက်လာပြီး ၂ နှစ်ကျော်မှာ ရဖို့ခက်ခဲတဲ့ Paul & Daisy Soros Fellows ပညာသင်ဆုနဲ့ အမေရိကန် ထိပ်တန်းတက္ကသိုလ်ကြီးတခုမှာ Ph. D ဘွဲ့သင်ယူတော့မယ့် ကိုကျော်ဆန်းလှိုင်ကို မခင်ဖြူထွေးက မေးမြန်းထားပါတယ်။
Cornell Chronicle •

Kyaw Hsan wins Soros Fellowship for New Americans

Journalist Kyaw Hsan Hlaing, who exposed the realities of violence perpetrated by the military in his native Myanmar, has been awarded a Paul and Daisy Soros Fellowship for New Americans to support his work toward a Ph.D. in political science at Cornell.

Kyaw Hsan is among the 30 immigrants or children of immigrants selected from more than 2,300 applicants for their drive, creativity, intellectual spirit and commitment to the values at the heart of the United States Constitution.
Department of Asian Studies •

Kyaw Hsan Hlaing Receives Soros Fellowship for PhD at Cornell University – Department of Asian Studies

Asian Studies BA student Kyaw Hsan Hlaing has been selected to receive a 2024 Paul & Daisy Soros Fellowship for New Americans. The fellowship will support him in pursuing a PhD in Political Science at Cornell University.

On track to graduate in Summer 2024, Kyaw Hsan Hlaing is not your typical undergraduate student. An internationally-acclaimed journalist and refugee from Myanmar, his studies were interrupted by poverty and violence. Upon arriving in the US already well known for his reporting

ပညာသင်ဆု ($90,000) နှင့်အတူ အမေရိကန်ရှိ ကမ္ဘာ့ထိပ်တန်းတက္ကသိုလ်တွေမှာ ပညာသင်ကြားခွင့်

မနေ့ညက The Paul & Daisy Soros Fellowships for New Americans မှ 2024 ခုနှစ်အတွက် ပညာသင်ဆု (fellowships) ရရှိသော အယောက် (၃၀) ကို လျောက်လွှာပေါင်း၂၄၀၀ နီးပါးမှ ရွေးချယ်ပြီး The New York Times Newspaper ကနေတစ်ဆင့် ကြော်ငြာလိုက်ပါတယ်။
University of Hawaii at Manoa •

From refugee to scholar: Mānoa student wins competitive fellowship

A student who fled political persecution in Myanmar is on the brink of earning his BA from the Asian studies department at the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa and has won a highly competitive fellowship to pursue a PhD. Kyaw Hsan Hlaing is one of 30 students, selected from nearly 2,400 applicants in the country, recently awarded the Paul & Daisy Soros Fellowship for New Americans, which provides him $90,000 in funding for graduate school.
The Paul & Daisy Soros Fellowships for New Americans •

Meet the Class of 2024

The 2024 Class of Paul & Daisy Soros Fellows is made up of 30 outstanding immigrants and children of immigrants from all over the country and world who are pursuing graduate school here in the United States. Selected from more than 2,300 applicants, each of the recipients was chosen for their potential to make significant contributions to the United States and will receive up to $90,000 in funding over two years.
University of Hawaii at Manoa •

https://manoa.hawaii.edu/undergrad/urop/student-feature-kyaw-hsan-hlaing/

Kyaw Hsan Hlaing (Asian Studies major) is not like most other UROP funding recipients. At the age of 26 and before receiving his undergraduate degree, he already has an extensive publication record encompassing dozens of news articles in international press outlets and a book manuscript under contract with the University of Hawai‘i Press. He is also a refugee from Myanmar who fled his home country after the February 2021 coup that gave rise to a bloody, ongoing civil war.