Caitlin Andrews-Lee
Graduate student
Education: B.A., History/Political Science, 2009, Colorado College
Interests: Comparative Politics, Latin America, Democratization, Political Culture, Institutional Development, Peronism
Brendan Apfeld
Graduate student
Education: B.A., Political Science, 2010; M.Ed., 2012, University of Notre Dame
Alec Arellano
Doctoral Candidate
Education: BA, Political Science, Colorado College
Interests: Tocqueville, John Stuart Mill, Nietzsche, Pascal, Democratic Theory, Classical Political Thought, American Political Thought, Constitutional Law and Theory, Jurisprudence
Ingrid Ashida
Graduate student
Education: BA, Political Science, Carlton College
Interests: Theoretical foundations of liberalism, early modern political thought, classical political thought
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.
Christina Noriega Bambrick
Doctoral Candidate
Education: MA, Government - University of Texas, BA, Philosophy and Legal Studies - Scripps College
Interests: Constitutional theory and development, American and comparative constitutionalism, rights and horizontality, republicanism, liberalism, religion and politics, political philosophy, history of political thought
Abraham Barranca
Graduate student
Education: BA, Government and Politics, University of Maryland, College Park
Interests: Democratic forms, social equity, minority inclusion, pluralism, social movements, constitutional theory, comparative constitutionalism and institutional design
Pedro M. Barros
Graduate student
Education: Master of Science (MSc), International Political Economy (Research), London School of Economics, Bachelor of Arts (B.A.), Economics - Quantitative Emphasis, University of Minnesota; Exchange Program, Harvard University
Interests: International and Comparative Political Economy in the Global South. Foreign Portfolio Investment, Foreign Direct Investment, and Domestic Institutions
Torben Behmer
Graduate student
tbehmer@utexas.edu |
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Education: MA, International Economics, Georg-August University of Goettingen
Interests: International cooperation, institutional stability, state-firm interactions in the global economy, and political methodology.
Thomas Bell
Doctoral Candidate
Education: BA, Trinity University (TX)
Interests: Public law, American Politics, Constitutional Theory, Separation of Powers, the Presidency, Congress, Interbranch Relations, American Political Thought, Tocqueville, and Religion and Politics
Zachary Bennett
Graduate student
zachary.r.bennett@utexas.edu |
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Education: B.A., Political Science, Davidson College (2011)
Interests: Political Philosophy of Jean-Jacques Rousseau; Citizenship & Civic Education; Classical & Modern Political Philosophy; American Political Thought; Public Law
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
Thomas Burt
Graduate student
Education: MA, Latin American Caribbean Studies, Columbia University
Interests: Transitions to democracy; democratic consolidation; social policy; authoritarianism; Latin America
Anthony Calacino
Graduate student
Education: BA, Political Science, University of Utah
Interests: Non-democratic politics
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: Master of Mathematics, Oxford University
Interests: Conservation for sustainable development, international relations of the Asia Pacific, capitalism and social justice, East Asian regional cooperation
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
Alexander Claycomb
Graduate student
Education: BA, Political Science and Spanish, Grinnell College
Interests: Authoritarianism and Democratization in Latin America
Hillary Corwin
Graduate student
hillary.corwin@utexas.edu |
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Education: MS, International Political Economy, The University of Texas at Dallas
Interests: Foreign policy, system effects, economic coercion, human rights, economic development, game theory
Joseph Francesco Cozza
Graduate student
Education: MS, Comparative Politics, London School of Economics, BA, Political Science, Villanova University
Interests: Constitutional theory and design, referenda processes, deliberative democracy, judicial politics
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
Graduate student
mdenly@utexas.edu |
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Education: MA, Development Management and Policy, Georgetown
Interests: Political economy of development; anti-corruption; clientelism
Drake Dragon
Graduate student
Education: BA, Political Science and History, University of California- Davis, AA, Political Science, Los Angeles City College
Interests: Ancient and late-modern political theory, history of political thought, structural realism, U.S-China security relations, ethics
Lindsay Dun
Graduate student
Education: BA, Political Science, University of Notre Dame
Interests: Political behavior, elections, computational methods
Maraam Dwidar
Graduate student
Education: B.A., Political Science, University of California, Davis
Interests: Interest groups, minority politics, bureaucratic politics, policy process
Connor Dye
Graduate student
Education: BA, Political Science, Economics, Randolph College
Interests: Inequality, public opinion and public policy, agenda setting, Veterans' Affairs policy
E.J. Fagan
Graduate student
Education: MA, University of Texas at Austin
Interests: Agenda setting, Congress, political parties, think tanks, economic policy
Megan Farrell
Graduate student
megan.farrell@utexas.edu; mmt5094@gmail.com
Interests: Terrorism, Civil Conflict, Alliances, Methodology
Henry Flatt
Graduate student
Education: BA, Political Science, University of California, San Diego
Interests: Populism, agenda setting, lobbying
Klara Fredriksson
Graduate student
Education: BS, Politics and Economics, Lund University
Interests: Political behavior, public opinion, racial resentment, ethnocentrism
Guy Freedman
Graduate student
Education: MA, Political Science, The Interdisciplinary Center (IDC) Herzliya
Interests: Democratic responsiveness, public policy, congruence of the policy agenda with public opinion and the public agenda.
David Futscher Pereira
Graduate student
Education: MA, Political Science- Security and Diplomacy Studies, Tel Aviv University
Interests: IPE, namely Sovereign Wealth Funds (SWFs) and their relation to, and impact on, the political choices states make
Kevin Galambos
Graduate student
Education: BA, Mathematics and Political Science, Emory University
Interests: Foreign policy, Slavic nations
Rachel German
Graduate student
rachelgerman@utexas.edu |
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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
Nadine Gibson
Graduate student
Education: M.S. Statistics, University of Texas at Austin
Interests: Election Administration, Voting Equipment, Voting and Elections, Political Behavior
Tara Ginnane
Graduate student
Education: LL.M, University of Chicago, BA Jurisprudence, University of Oxford
Interests: Theory and practice of external voting; nationalism; role of elections in national and political life; comparative constitutionalism; contemporary constitutional and political theory; ethnographic approaches to political theory
Iasmin Goes
Graduate student
Education: B.A. Political Science and M.A. Latin American Studies, Freie Universität Berlin
Interests: Inequality, fiscal policy and welfare in developing countries
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
Sarah Heise
Graduate student
Education: BA, Political Science, Tulane University
Interests: Voting behavior, religiosity, political socialization, campaigns and elections
Abigail Henninger
Graduate student
Education: JD, University of Chicago Law School, BA, English and Poltical Science, Wellesley College
Interests: American legal realism, the Technocracy movement, constitutional jurisprudence and interpretation, democratic theory, theories of representation, comparative institutional competence, empirical assessment of institutional capacity
Roman Hlatky
Graduate student
Education: BA, Political Science, Vassar College
Interests: European Union integration, former Soviet satellite states, minority politics
Colby Humphrey
Graduate student
Education: Master of Public Service & Administration, Texas A&M University
Interests: Technology & innovation; campaigns & elections; public opinion
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
Stephen Joyce
Graduate student
Education: M.Phil., Oxford University, St. Antony's College, M.A.L.A., St. John's College Graduate Institute, A.B., Middlebury College
Interests: Public Law, Comparative Politics, Latin America,
Jay Chieh Kao
Graduate student
Education: M.A., University of Texas at Austin
Interests: Politics in Authoritarian Regimes, Political Communication, Public Opinions, Comparative Political Economy, Chinese Politics, Causal Inference
Kyosuke Kikuta
Graduate student
Education: M.A. of Law, Hitotsubashi University, Japan
Interests: Civil War, Environmental Change, Research Design, GIS Analysis
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, Political Science, Transylvania University
Interests: International conflict/cooperation, international rivalry, ethnicity and conflict
Hans-Inge Lango
Graduate student
Education: M.A. in International Relations, Boston University
Interests: International conflict, civil wars, war expansion, war delegation
Cornelia Lawrence
Graduate student
Education: BS, Political Science and Writing, Texas Christian University
Interests: American Politics, Methodology, Political behavior
Louise Liebeskind
Graduate student
janelouiseliebeskind@gmail.com |
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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: Public Opinion, Political Economy, Authoritarian Regime, Chinese politics
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: Education policy and rhetorical analysis of policy and politicians
Zachary McGee
Graduate student
Education: M.A., Government, The University of Texas at Austin
Interests: U.S. Congress, political parties, intraparty organizations, agenda setting, the policy process, and social network analysis
Samuel Mead
Graduate student
Education: BA, Liberal Arts, St. John's College
Interests: Ancient political philosophy, early modern political philosophy
Jereny Mendoza
Graduate Student
mjereny@hotmail.com |
509.209.1758
Education: B.A. Government & Interdisciplinary Studies, Eastern Washington University
Interests: American Politics, Public Policy, Latino Politics, Racial and Ethnic Politics in the U.S., Race and Representation, Immigration Policy
John Meyer
Graduate student
Interests: Social and Evolutionary Psychology; Political Ethology; Qualitative Methods and Multi-Method Research; Latin America and Texas; Political Violence; Political Theater and Playwrighting; Voices of War; Military Ethics; Biography, modern British history and literature
Carolina Moehlecke
Doctoral Candidate
Interests: International Political Economy: multinational corporations, international regulation, policy diffusion, international investment law, foreign direct investment
Megan Moeller
Doctoral Candidate
megan.m.moeller@utexas.edu |
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Education: MS Statistics (2013) University of Texas, BA Political Science (2008) University of Michigan
Interests: U.S. Congress, political methodology, American politics, public policy, gender and politics
Philip Moniz
Graduate student
Education: MA, Political Science, Central European University (Budapest)
Interests: Voter competence, political knowledge, and policy reasoning
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, philosophy of law
Xin Nong
Graduate student
Interests: Political Economy of Development, Political Violence, Quantitative Methods
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
Yul Min Park
Graduate student
Education: BA Yonsei University, MA, Political Science, Yonsei University
Interests: Media, public opinion, political behavior, voting behavior, political communication, democracy, quantitative methods, big data analysis
German Petersen
Graduate student
Education: MA, Political Science, El Colegio de México
Interests: Corruption, anti-corruption, democratization, political participation, and development
Julianne Phillips
Graduate student
j.n.phillips@utexas.edu |
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Education: MA, Political Science, SUNY University at Buffalo
Interests: Nuclear Deterrence and Counterproliferation, Alliances, Interstate Conflict, Game Theory
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
Henry Quillen
Graduate student
Education: BA, Government, Morehead State University
Interests: Ancient Greek Political Thought; Medieval Islamic Political Thought; Political Philosophy & Science; Political Philosophy & Religion
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
Peter Russell
Graduate student
Education: BA, Politics and Government, University of Puget Sound
Interests: MENA, political development and political decay, political behavior in the modern world.
Rodrigo Salido Moulinie
Graduate student
Education: BA, Politics and Public Administration, El Colegio de México
Interests: Violence and conflict studies; Politics of representation; Institutions and civil-military relations; Mexico and Latin America
Nathalia Sandoval-Rojas
Graduate student
Interests: Comparative politics, judicial politics, public law, legal mobilization, Latin America
Christopher Sanfilippo
Graduate student
Education: BS, Physics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Interests: Ancient Greek political philosophy, especially Plato, Aristotle, Xenophon, and Aristophanes; the Socratic understanding of eros and of the human soul generally; the relationship between modern and classical political philosophy; Nietzsche, especially his response to Plato
Andrew Segal
Graduate student
Education: BS, Political Science, University of Louisville
Interests: Political institutions, governmental structure, electoral systems
Brooke Shannon
Graduate student
Education: MA, Political Science, University of Memphis
Interests: State and local government, social movements, Latino politics, political institutions, political trust, and political participation
Kyle Shen
Graduate student
Education: JD, Law, University of Texas School of Law
Interests: Comparative constitutional law, judicial politics, authoritarianism, human rights, international criminal law, Chinese politics
Barea Sinno
Graduate student
Education: MS, Negotiation and Conflict Resolution, Columbia University
Interests: Comparative politics, Middle East, mixed-methods, identity politics, ethnic conflict, sectarianism, text analysis
Jamie Stokes
Graduate student
Education: BA, Political Science and French, Weber State University
Interests: Political behavior, gender politics, Congress, parties, campaigns and elections
Allen Sumrall
Graduate student
asumrall@utexas.edu |
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Education: BA, Politics, Bates College
Interests: American Political Development (APD), American constitutional development, ideational and institutional development, and law, courts, and politics.
Joe Roberto Tafoya
Doctoral Candidate
Interests: Latino Politics, Race/Ethnicity Politics, Immigration Policy, Research Methods
Calvin Thrall
Graduate student
Education: BA, Political Science, Temple University
Interests: IPE, political economy of development, multinational corporations, remittances, methodology
Diego Vega
Graduate student
Education: MSc, International Relations, London School of Economics
Interests: Latin America, International Diffusion, Policy Diffusion, Policymaking, South-South Relations, Qualitative and Quantitative Methods
Stella Wancke
Graduate student
Education: MA, Political Science, University of Missouri- Columbia
Interests: International conflict, political economy
Daniel Weitzel
Graduate student
Interests: Comparative Political Parties, Public Opinion and Voting Behavior, Political Methodology
Jonathan Wensveen
Doctoral Candidate
jwensvee@gmail.com |
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Interests: The political thought of Alexis de Tocqueville; enlightenment and French liberalism; the philosophy of history; German political thought
Benjamin White
Graduate student
Education: BA, Political Science, Brigham Young University
Interests: American Politics, Comparative Politics
Avery Williams
Graduate student
Education: BA, Government, University of Texas at Austin
Interests: Classical political thought, virtue, modern liberalism
Chun-Ying Wu
Graduate student
Interests: Northeast and Southeast Asian Politics, Democratization, Political Culture, Multilevel Analysis
Wenhui Yang
Graduate student
Education: MPhil, Social Science, The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
Interests: Comparative politics, political economy, Chinese politics
Charles Zug
Doctoral Candidate
charleszug@utexas.edu |
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Interests: Demagoguery in American Politics; Political Theory (Normative and History of Political Thought); American Politics; Public Law; American Political Development
