Life After Lafayette:
How to Apply to and Thrive in Graduate School Programs
Q&A with Kelly Senters Piazza (’13; Government and Law & International Affairs)
Dr. Kelly Piazza (Senters) is an Assistant Professor of Political Science at the United States Air
Force Academy. She received her B.A. from Lafayette College in May 2013 and her Ph.D. from
the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in August 2018. Dr. Piazza specializes in
comparative politics and studies gender, corruption, political regime transitions, the political
economy of development, civil-military relations, and strategic competition both in Brazil and in
the broader Latin American region. She has published on these topics in World Development,
the Latin American Research Review, and Latin American Politics and Society, among other
outlets, and the Lemann Foundation, the Tinker Foundation, and the United States Departments
of Education and Defense have supported her professional development and research.
Monday, November 21, 2022
12:15-1:30 pm
Kirby 206
Lunch will be provided
Please contact Professor Seo-Hyun Park (parksh@lafayette.edu) for more information.
Sponsored by the Department of Government and Law & International Affairs Program