Oguzhan Alkan
Graduate student
Education: M.A. Political Science, Sabanci University
Interests: Voting behavior, political behavior, party politics, political polarization
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
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.
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: 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: M.A. Economics, Sabanci University
Interests: Conflict, terrorism, civil war, ethnic conflict
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: I study Latin American politics, with an eye towards left-wing revolutionary movements, regime change, populism, and diffusion theory.
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: Comparative Constitutionalism, Democratic Theory, Party Politics, European Politics, Judicial Politics, Legitimacy
Kendall Curtis
Graduate student
Education: B.A., Political Science, International Studies, Economics, Philosophy, Baylor University
Interests: Democratization, democratic institutions, populism, Latin America, Europe, quantitative, party systems
Emily Davis
Graduate student
Education: B.A., Political Science, Classics, Kenyon College
Interests: The origin of the divide between ancient and modern political philosophical thought, classical political philosophy (especially Plato and Aristotle), political parties and regime change in Eastern and Western Europe, rhetoric in ancient and modern political philosophy
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 |
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Education: MA, Development Management and Policy, Georgetown University
Interests: Political economy of development; anti-corruption; natural resources; foreign aid
Megan Dias
Graduate student
Education: M.A., Political Science, The University of British Columbia
Interests: Behavior, institutions, diversity, policy, elections
Lindsay Dun
Graduate student
Education: BA, Political Science, University of Notre Dame
Interests: Political behavior, elections, computational methods
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: MA, Liberal Arts, St. John's College
Interests: Classical political philosophy, tyranny, Socratic psychology and epistemology, modern political philosophy and natural science, the old quarrel between philosophy and poetry
Klara Fredriksson
Graduate student
Education: BSc, Politics and Economics, Lund University
Interests: Political psychology, political behavior, criminal justice, voting rights
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
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: BA, Political Science, Kenyon College
Interests: Ancient political philosophy (especially Plato, Xenophon, and Aristophanes), human draw to the beautiful, views surrounding death, the shortcomings of American liberal democracy, worldwide retreat of liberal democracy, American liberalism and conservatism, and the possibility of ancient solutions for contemporary political issues.
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
Tara Ginnane
Graduate student
Education: LL.M, University of Chicago, BA Jurisprudence, University of Oxford
Interests: Contemporary political theory, especially democratic theory and political membership and belonging; territory; nationalism; constitutional theory and law; comparative constitutionalism.
Iasmin Goes
Doctoral candidate
Education: MS Statistics, University of Texas at Austin; BA Political Science and MA 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
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
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
Jay C. Kao
Graduate student
Education: M.A., University of Texas at Austin
Interests: Politics in Authoritarian Regimes, Political Communication, Political Behavior and Opinion, Causal Inference
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, 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, Campaigns and Elections, Survey Research
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: Human rights, genocide, international security, global governance, cybersecurity, East Asia
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: Public Opinion, Political Economy, Authoritarian Regime, Chinese politics
Zhizhen Lu
Graduate student
Education: M.A., International Trade and Investment Policy, The George Washington University
Interests: International political economy (international finance and multinational corporations)
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
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, coalition, international organization, methodology
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
Ling Miao
Graduate student
Education: M.A., Political Science, Duke University
Interests: Political economy, democratization, informal institutions
Abigail Moncrieff
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
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, 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, Civil-Military Relations, 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
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
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
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
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: 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
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
Sam Selsky
Graduate student
Education: Master of Theological Studies, Islamic Studies, Harvard Divinity School
Interests: Ethnic politics, human rights
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
Katy Smith
Graduate student
Education: B.A., Political Science, Brigham Young University
Interests: Political identity (gender and language), Middle East and Southeast Asia
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
Graduate student
asumrall@utexas.edu |
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Education: MA, Government, University of Texas at Austin, BA, Politics, Bates College
Interests: American Political Development (APD), American constitutional development, ideational and institutional development, and law, courts, and politics.
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
Alexander Wais
Graduate student
Education: M.Sc., Economics, University College London
Interests: Political economy, development
Daniel Weitzel
Doctoral Candidate
Interests: Comparative Political Parties, Public Opinion and Voting Behavior, Political Methodology
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
Seung Wook Yoo
Graduate student
Education: MA, Political Science, Yonsei University
Interests: Political psychology, political communication, public opinion, statistics, computational method
Tarek Zaher
Graduate student
Education: BA, Government, European Thought, Core Texts & Ideas, Philosophy (Minor), University of Texas at Austin
Interests: Classical political thought; Classical conceptions of happiness, meaning, and virtue; Moderns vs. Ancients
