Oguzhan Alkan
Graduate student
Education: B.A. Economics, Bogazici University; M.A. Political Science, Sabanci University
Interests: Voting behavior, comparative political behavior, media and political behavior, political polarization, and quantitative methods
Maria Avila Ordonez
Graduate student
Education: Master of Laws in Legal Theory, New York University School of Law
Interests: Comparative politics in Latin America, Constitutional theory and comparative constitutionalism, Constitutional change, Women in Law and Politics and Political philosophy.
Abraham Barranca
Graduate student
Education: BA, Government and Politics, University of Maryland, College Park
Interests: public policy, policy process, political economy, local politics, cities, gentrification, inequality, racial and ethnic politics, spatial econometrics
Christine Bird
Graduate student
Education: JD, Oklahoma City University School of Law (2016), MA, Government, The University of Texas at Austin (2018), BA, Political Science, University of Oklahoma (2013)
Interests: Courts, Law and Politics, Judicial Politics, Civil Rights, Agendas, Public Policy
Abby K Blass
Graduate student
Education: BA Political Science, University of Michigan
Interests: Judicial Politics, American Politics, Comparative Politics, Constitutional Law
Anthony Calacino
Graduate student
Education: BA, Political Science, University of Utah
Interests: Comparative politics, methodology, envrionmental politics, Latin America, Brazil, regime change
Chris Cassella
Graduate student
Education: BA, Political Science and Philosophy, Politics, Economics, and Law, University of Richmond
Interests: Gun policy, civil rights, political behavior, gender politics, policy feedback theory, political institutions, LGBTQ politics
Olgahan Cat
Graduate student
Education: B.A. in Economics, Bogazici University; M.A. in Economics, Sabanci University
Interests: Ethnic, racial, and gender aspects of political violence, predictive analysis, text analysis, game theory.
Jiseon Chang
Graduate student
Education: MA, Global Affairs and Policy, Yonsei University
Interests: Political economy of development, Official Development Assistance (ODA), socio-economic development, inclusive growth, inequality, poverty, social enterprises, political power
Kai Yue "Theodore" Charm
Graduate student
Education: BA, MMath, Mathematics, University of Oxford
Interests: Game theory, experiments, Bayesian statistics, contentious politics, East Asia
Keith Chew
Graduate student
Education: BA, Humanities, Asian Cultures and Languages, Government, University of Texas at Austin
Interests: Party politics, comparative party recruitment strategies, comparative political regimes in East & Southeast Asia
Danissa Contreras Guzman
Graduate student
Education: BA and MA, Political Science, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile
Interests: Comparative politics, state-building, religion and politics, Latin America
Hillary Corwin
Graduate student
hillary.corwin@utexas.edu |
Batts 1.118
Education: MS, International Political Economy, The University of Texas at Dallas
Interests: Foreign policy, system effects, economic coercion, human rights, economic development, game theory
Danny Cowser
Graduate student
Education: MA, Political Science, The University of Wisconsin-Madison
Interests: Experimental methods, development and aid efficacy, human rights, conflict resolution
Joseph Francesco Cozza
PhD Candidate
Education: MS, Comparative Politics, London School of Economics, BA, Political Science, Villanova University
Interests: Comparative Constitutionalism, Judicial Politics, Democratic Theory, Political Legitimacy, Party Politics, European Politics
Andrés Cruz
Graduate student
Education: BA and MA, Political Science, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile
Interests: Causal inference, computational social science, business and politics, data and politics
Kendall Curtis
Graduate student
Education: B.A., Political Science, Economics, and Philosophy, Baylor University
Interests: Political parties, coalitions, political behavior, populism, and European politics
Emily Davis
Graduate student
Education: AB, Political Science and Classics, Kenyon College
Interests: Charismatic leadership in political theory and in comparative politics literature; ancient political philosophy, especially Plato and Aristotle; comparative political parties and institutions
Laura De Castro Quaglia
Graduate student
Education: MA, International Stategic Studies, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, BA, International Relations, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul
Interests: National security institutional design and evolution in the US, Europe, and South America
Michael Denly
Ph.D. Candidate
mdenly@utexas.edu |
Mezes 3.232
Education: MA, Development Management and Policy, Georgetown University
Interests: Political economy of development, corruption, external validity, foreign aid, natural resources
Megan Dias
Graduate student
Education: BA, University of Toronto at Mississauga; MA, Political Science, The University of British Columbia
Interests: immigration, integration, and incorporation; public policy; political participation
Lindsay Dun
Graduate student
Education: BA, Political Science, University of Notre Dame
Interests: Political behavior, elections, computational methods
Peter Dunphy
Graduate student
Education: BA in Government and American Studies, Wesleyan University
Interests: American political behavior and political development, comparative democratic institutions, race & ethnic politics, computational methods, and the U.S. South
Connor Dye
Graduate student
Education: BA, Political Science, Economics, Randolph College
Interests: Inequality, public opinion and public policy, agenda setting, Veterans' Affairs policy
Henry Flatt
Graduate student
Education: MA, Government, The University of Texas at Austin
Interests: Bureaucracy, agenda setting, policy processes, policy implementation, industrial relations, organized labor
Derek Foret
Graduate student
Education: AB, Mathematics, Kenyon College; MA, Liberal Arts, St. John's College
Interests: Classical political philosophy, Socratic psychology and epistemology, theology, tyranny, modern philosophy and science
Klara Fredriksson
Graduate student
Education: BSc, Politics and Economics, Lund University; MA, Government, University of Texas at Austin
Interests: Political behavior and participation, politics of criminal justice and the carceral state
Guy Freedman
Graduate student
Education: MA, Political Science, The Interdisciplinary Center (IDC) Herzliya
Interests: The congressional committee structure and its affect on the congressional policy agenda; and the use of machine learning algorithms in political science, their application in data collection and their potential for automatically coding policy agenda topics.
David Futscher
Graduate student
Education: MA, Political Science- Security and Diplomacy Studies, Tel Aviv University
Interests: History of Political Thought; Classical Greek Political Philosophy; Medieval Political Thought (Averroes and Maimonides); Nietzsche
Kevin Galambos
Graduate student
Education: BA, Mathematics and Political Science, Emory University
Interests: Foreign policy, Slavic nations
Evan Gee
Graduate student
Education: AB, Political Science, Kenyon College
Interests: Ancient political philosophy (especially Plato, Xenophon, and Aristophanes); human draw to the beautiful; views surrounding death; Tocqueville and the shortcomings of American liberal democracy; American liberalism and conservatism; the possibility of classical solutions to contemporary political issues
Rachel German
Graduate student
rachelgerman@utexas.edu |
MEZ 3.232
Education: PhD Candidate, The University of Texas at Austin
Interests: Public Policy, American Politics
Michael Gibbs
Graduate student
Education: BA, Public and International Affairs, 2012, Princeton University
Interests: Authoritarianism, civil-military relations
Kimberly Gouz Guiler
Graduate student
Education: M.A. in Social Sciences, The University of Chicago; B.A. in Political Science and B.S. in Journalism, The University of Florida
Interests: Middle East politics; voting behavior; Islamist movements; religion and politics; hybrid regimes; survey, experimental and quantitative methodologies
Chin Guo
Graduate student
Education: M.P.P., Public Policy, University of Maryland
Interests: Political behavior, democracy trends, electoral systems, voter behaviors
Sarah Heise
Graduate student
Education: BA, Political Science, Tulane University
Interests: Voting behavior, religiosity, political socialization, campaigns and elections
Roman Hlatky
Graduate student
Education: BA, Political Science, Vassar College
Interests: Ethnic Politics, Nationalism, Political Parties, Central and Eastern Europe
Colby Humphrey
Graduate student
Education: Master of Public Service & Administration, Texas A&M University
Interests: Technology & innovation; campaigns & elections; public opinion
Nivedita Jhunjhunwala
Graduate student
Education: B.A. in Political Science and Global & International Studies, State University of New York at Oswego (SUNY Oswego)
Interests: Politics of International Law, International Relations and Technology, International Institutions, International Organizations
Jonathan Jiang
Graduate student
Education: BA, Liberal Arts, St. John's College
Interests: Classical political philosophy, early enlightenment political philosophy, Chinese politics
Siyun Jiang
Graduate student
Education: M.Phil Social Science, The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
Interests: Comparative politics, political economy, authoritarian regime
Cody Kuhn
Graduate student
Education: M.A., Political Science- Constitutional Studies, University of Texas, Dallas
Interests: Gender studies, consent and the law, biological essentialism and civil rights
Woong Kwon
Graduate student
Education: MA, Political Science, Yonsei University, BA, Political Science and Diplomacy, Yonsei University
Interests: Immigration and social policies in advanced political economies
Joshua Landry
Graduate student
Education: BA in Political Science, Transylvania University; MA in Government, UT Austin
Interests: international security, war and its long-term effects, military expenditure, interstate military cooperation, game theory
Cornelia Lawrence
Graduate student
Education: BS, Political Science and Writing, Texas Christian University
Interests: American Politics, Methodology, Campaigns and Elections, Survey Research
Jessica Lee
Graduate student
Education: BA, Political Science and Economics, National Taiwan University; MA, Political Science, National Taiwan University
Interests: Political economy of development, authoritarian politics, state-business relations
Jonatan Lemus Avila
Graduate student
Education: MA, Business Administration, UNIS Business School
Interests: Judicial politics, political parties, Latin American politics, subnational authoritarianism, United Nations intervention in developing countries, classical liberalism, institutionalism
Huimin Li
Graduate student
Education: MA, International Relations, New York University
Interests: International organizations, international law, international political economy, cybersecurity, data privacy
Louise Liebeskind
Graduate student
janelouiseliebeskind@gmail.com |
Bats 1.118
Education: PhD in Government, University of Texas at Austin
Interests: Ancient and early modern political philosophy
Shengqiao Lin
Graduate student
Education: MA, Public Administration, Tsinghua University
Interests: State-Business Relationship, Comparative and International Political Economy, Political Institutions
Zhizhen Lu
Graduate student
Education: M.A., International Trade and Investment Policy, The George Washington University
Interests: Multinational corporations, Foreign economic policy, Sovereignty, International system
Ian Macfarlane
Graduate student
Education: BS, Physics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Interests: Classical political thought (Plato, Aristotle, Xenophon)
Katherine Madel
Graduate student
Education: BA, Political Science and English, North Central College
Interests: Public Policy, Policy Purpose, and Political Communication
Matthew Martin
Graduate student
Education: BA, Political Science, Legal Studies, University of Massachusetts
Interests: Judicial politics, Latin America, immigration politics, human rights
Yuji Masumura
Graduate student
Education: Bachelor of Laws, International Relations, Hitotsubashi University
Interests: International conflict, hegemony, alliance, international organization, survey research, text as data, game theory
Samuel Mead
Graduate student
Education: BA, Liberal Arts, St. John's College
Interests: Ancient political philosophy, early modern political philosophy
Ling Miao
Graduate student
Education: M.A., Political Science, Duke University
Interests: Political economy
Abigail R. Moncrieff
Graduate student
Education: JD, University of Chicago Law School, BA, English and Poltical Science, Wellesley College
Interests: Constitutional law and theory, American political institutions, American bureaucracy, American Legal Realism, technocratic political thought, liberal theory, comparative institutional competence
Philip Moniz
Graduate student
Education: BS, Film, Boston University; MA, Political Science, Central European University (Budapest)
Interests: Political psychology, perceptions of social problems, policy attitudes, voter competence, congressional travel behavior
Ashley Moran
Graduate student
Education: MALD, Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy
Interests: Comparative constitutional law, divided societies, state fragility, democratic legal and institutional reform, the Middle East
Ian Myers
Graduate student
Education: BA, Classical Languages and Mathematics, University of Texas at Austin
Interests: Ancient Greek political philosophy; early modern political philosophy; religion and politics; the relationship between poetry and philosophy for the Greeks; natural science and human self-understanding
Austin Nelson
Law and Government (JD/PhD) Student
austinnelson@utexas.edu |
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Education: MPPA, Baylor University; BA, Politics and Philosophy & Religious Studies, Hendrix College
Interests: American constitutional law, American constitutional development, administrative law, judicial politics, law and social science, legal history, philosophy of law
Jeremy Nicot-Cartsonis
Graduate student
Education: BA, History, University of Texas at Austin
Interests: Interstate warfare in the 21st century, United States grand strategy, military/ civilian relationship, adapting military policy to technology in the 21st century
Xin Nong
Graduate student
Interests: Political Violence, Leaders and War, State-Building, Civil-Military Relations
Alexander Norris
Graduate student
Education: MA, Middle Eastern Studies, The George Washington University
Interests: Institutions and institution building, nation building, authoritarian politics, democratization, political economy of development, public opinion, the Middle East and North Africa
James O'connor
Graduate student
Education: BA, Political Science, University of Maine
Interests: Early modern political thought, American constitutional law, David Hume and Jean Jacques-Rousseau, the relationship between faith and reason in both epistemology and government
Daniel O'toole
Graduate student
Education: BA, Claremont McKenna College
Interests: Political Theory, Public Law
God'swill Osa
Graduate student
Education: M.A., Political Science, University of Texas, Dallas
Interests: Voter perception, political attitudes, policy outcomes, public opinion
Paul Oshinski
Graduate student
Education: B.A., Political Science and International Affairs, University of Georgia
Interests: Political behavior, neuropolitics, moral foundations theory
Yul Min Park
PhD Candidate
Education: BA Yonsei University, MA, Political Science, Yonsei University
Interests: Political communication, news media effects, public opinion, voting behavior, quantitative methods, big data analysis, survey experiment
Julie Phillips
Graduate student
Julianne.Phillips@austin.utexas.edu |
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Education: MA, Political Science, SUNY University at Buffalo
Interests: Nuclear Deterrence and Counterproliferation, Alliances, Interstate Conflict, Game Theory
Ariel Pitre Young
Graduate student
Education: BA, Government, French, University of Texas at Austin
Interests: Intersection of politics and music, Eastern Europe
Eoin Power
Graduate student
Education: BA, Political Science & Philosophy, Middlebury College; MA, Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
Interests: Ethnic politics, institutions, southeast Europe & the Balkans, post-communist Europe & Eurasia, political economy of central banking, defense-industrial policy
Max Prowant
Graduate student
Education: BA, Government and Spanish, Morehead State University
Interests: Middle East politics, democratization, liberalism, 20th century Islamic political thought, political liberalization, modern ideologies, classical political thought, enlightenment political thought, communism and post-communist transitions, American foreign policy
Md Muhibbur Rahman
Graduate student
Education: MA, Political Science, McGill University
Interests: International security, foreign policy decision-making, domestic politics of interstate crisis bargaining and dispute settlement, and the politics of rising powers: China and India
Beckett Rueda
Graduate student
Education: BA, Skidmore College
Interests: Foundations of justice; early modern political theory; Medieval political theory/theology; origins of modern natural science & the status of nature; theater and literature; methodology/hermeneutics; religious toleration; free will; Leo Strauss; Michael Oakeshott; Quentin Skinner; John Rawls
Sam Selsky
Graduate student
Education: Master of Theological Studies, Islamic Studies, Harvard Divinity School
Interests: Middle East politics, human rights, ethnic politics, religion and politics, politics of forced migration
Brooke Shannon
Graduate student
Education: BA, University of Colorado Denver; MA, Political Science, University of Memphis
Interests: Urban and local politics, public policy, and race in American Politics
Kyle Shen
Graduate student
Education: A.B., The University of Chicago; JD, Law, University of Texas School of Law
Interests: Comparative constitutional law, Southeast Asian politics, human rights, international law
Katy Smith
Graduate student
Education: B.A., Political Science, Brigham Young University
Interests: Gender, Language, and Social Movements in Southeast Asia and the Middle East
JC Sullivan
Graduate student
Education: BA, University of Notre Dame, MA, Social Sciences, University of Chicago
Interests: American constitutional and political development, constitutional theory, American political history, religion and politics, history of liberalism, liberal and democratic theory
Allen Sumrall
(on leave)
Graduate student
asumrall@utexas.edu |
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Education: BA, Politics, Bates College; JD, University of Texas School of Law; MA, Government, University of Texas at Austin
Interests: American Political Development (APD), American constitutional development, ideational and institutional development, and law, courts, and politics.
Candace Terman
Graduate student
Education: B.A. in Politics, Hillsdale College; J.D., William & Mary Law School
Interests: Natural-law theory, legal and political philosophy, legal history
Calvin Thrall
Graduate student
Education: BA, Political Science, Temple University
Interests: International Political Economy, International Law, Multinational Corporations, Public-Private Governance, Diplomacy.
Diego Vega
PhD Candidate
Education: BA, Social Sciences, Universidade de São Paulo; BA, Journalism, Faculdade Cásper Líbero; MSc, International Relations, London School of Economics
Interests: Latin America, International Diffusion, Policy Diffusion, Policymaking, South-South Relations, Qualitative and Quantitative Methods
Allison Verrilli
Graduate student
Education: B.A. Political Science, Spanish, University of Notre Dame
Interests: Racial and ethnic politics, group identity, political behavior, public opinion
Alexander Wais
Graduate student
Education: M.Sc., Economics, University College London
Interests: Political Economy of Development, Foreign Aid, Inequality, Redistribution, Democracy
Daisy Ward
Graduate student
Education: BA in Political Science, BA in Spanish, University of Montana
Interests: Historical and comparative political economy, taxation, education, state formation, bureaucracy and public administration, Latin America and indigenous politics
Benjamin White
Graduate student
Education: BA, Political Science, Brigham Young University
Interests: Political psychology, gender and politics, public opinion and voter behavior, experimental methods
Clinton Willbanks
Graduate student
Education: BA in Political Science, BA in Policy Studies, Rice University
Interests: Public opinion; political behavior, campaigns and elections; survey and experimental methods
Avery Williams
Graduate student
Education: BA, Government, University of Texas at Austin
Interests: Classical political thought, virtue, modern liberalism
Bridget Wu
Graduate student
Education: BA, Liberal Arts, St. John's College, Santa Fe
Interests: Ancient political philosophy, especially Plato; American politics
Chun-Ying Wu
Graduate student
Interests: Northeast and Southeast Asian Politics, Democratization, Political Culture, Multilevel Analysis
Seung Wook Yoo
Graduate student
Education: MA, Political Science, Yonsei University
Interests: Group consciousness and experimental methods
