Caitlin Andrews
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
Graduate student
alec.arellano88 [at] gmail [dot] com
Education: BA, Political Science, Colorado College
Interests: Tocqueville, John Stuart Mill, Nietzsche, Claude Lefort, Democratic Theory, Classical 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
Omar Awapara
PhD Candidate
Interests: Comparative Politics, Political Economy, Political Regimes and Institutions, Latin American Politics
Christina Noriega Bambrick
Doctoral Candidate
Education: MA, Government - University of Texas, BA, Philosophy and Legal Studies - Scripps College
Interests: Constitutional theory and development, 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. International trade, foreign direct investment, foreign aid, and domestic institutions
Torben Behmer
Graduate student
Education: MA, International Economics, Georg- August University of Gottingen
Interests: International political economy, foreign direct investment, international trade, foreign aid
Thomas Bell
Graduate student
Education: BA, Trinity University (TX)
Interests: Public law, American Politics, Constitutional Theory, Separation of Powers, American Constitutional Development, 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: Jean-Jacques Rousseau; Citizenship & Civic Education; Classical & Modern Political Philosophy; Public Law
Christine Bird
Graduate student
Education: JD, Oklahoma City University School of Law, BA, Political Science, University of Oklahoma
Interests: Law and Politics, Judicial Politics, Civil Rights, Women in Law and Politics, Human Rights, Nonprofit Organizations
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
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
Thomas Conroy
Graduate student
Education: BA, Political Science and Psychology, University of Illinois, Urbana
Interests: Political institutions and political behavior
Hillary Corwin
Graduate student
hillary.corwin@utexas.edu |
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Education: MS, International Political Economy, The University of Texas at Dallas
Interests: Political Economy of Multinational Corporations, Economic Development; International Political Economy, Methodology
Joseph Cozza
Graduate student
Education: MS, Comparative Politics, London School of Economics, BA, Political Science, Villanova University
Interests: Constitutional theory and design, institutional design, judicial systems and public law, democratization, civil-military relations, and issues regarding national identity and nation-building in divided societies, constitutional/national referenda
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
Education: MA, Development Management and Policy (distinction), Georgetown
Interests: Anti-corruption; governance; clientelism; international development; Latin America; political economy
Jacob Dizard
Graduate student
Education: BA, University of Wisconsin-Madison; MA, Johns Hopkins University
Interests: Comparative Politics, Public Law
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, lobbying coalitions, minority politics, bureaucratic politics, agenda setting
Alexander Dwyer
Graduate student
Education: BA, Political Science & Music, Southern Methodist University
Interests: The Middle East, ethnicity, separatism, democratization, language and society
Connor Dye
Graduate student
Education: BA, Political Science, Randolph College
Interests: Wealth inequality and the political process
Rebecca Eissler
Graduate student
Education: B.A. in Political Science, Tulane University
Interests: American Politics, Political Institutions, Public Policy
Thomas Elliott
Graduate student
Education: BA in Political Science and Spanish, Whittier College
Interests: Institutions, institutional change, labor regulation, political economy
Klara Fredriksson
Graduate student
Education: BS, Politics and Economics, Lund University
Interests: Political behavior, voter behavior, political participation
Kevin Galambos
Graduate student
Education: BA, Mathematics and Political Science, Emory University
Interests: Foreign policy, Slavic nations
Rachel German
Graduate student
Education: BS, 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: BA, Political Science, 2012, Virginia Tech ; BA, French Language and Literature, 2012, Virginia Tech
Interests: Political Behavior, Voting and Elections
Tara Ginnane
Graduate student
Education: LL.M, University of Chicago, BA Jurisprudence, University of Oxford
Interests: Constitutional theory, comparative constitutionalism, republican political theory
Iasmin Goes
Graduate student
Education: B.A. Political Science and M.A. Latin American Studies, Freie Universität Berlin
Interests: Authoritarianism, inequality, fiscal policy and welfare
Zachary Goldberg
Graduate student
Education: MA, Liberal Arts, St. John's College, BA, Government, Harvard University
Interests: History of political philosophy, Tocqueville, Plato, Aristotle, Xenophon, American constitution, American founding, American political development, contemporary American politics
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
Benjamin Hardee
Graduate student
lycosinternational@hotmail.com
Education: BA; BS, The University of Texas at Austin
Interests: Public Law, Political Theory
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
Alexander Hudson
Graduate student
Education: BA, Pensacola Christian College; MA, University of Waterloo
Interests: Constitution-making processes; comparative study of constitutions; state building; e-democracy
Colby Humphrey
Graduate student
Education: MPA, Public Management, Texas A&M University, BA, Journalism, Baylor University
Interests: The intersection of political parties and policy; how institutions are impacted by political parties; campaigns & elections
Joanne D. Ibarra
Graduate student
Education: BA, University of California, Berkeley
Interests: American Politics, Methodology
Anthony Ives
Graduate student
Education: MA, University of Texas at Austin; M.Ed, Arizona State University; BA, Washington and Lee
Interests: American Political Development, Congress, The Founding, Early Modern Political Thought, American Political Thought, Political Thought of Frederick Douglass
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: B.A., National Chengchi University, Taiwan
Interests: Authoritarian Politics, Political Persuasion, Public Opinions, Experiment, Causal Inference, Chinese and Taiwanese Politics
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
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: B.S. Political Science, Towson University
Interests: U.S. Congress, political parties, policy process, agenda setting, elections
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
Erica Mirabitur
Graduate student
Education: BA, Political Science, University of Michigan
Interests: Foreign aid, multilateral organizations, public opinion
Carolina Moehlecke
Graduate student
Education: BA in International Relations, 2014, La Salle University (Brazil)
Interests: International political economy, economic and human development and the political economy of the developing world. Research methods.
Megan Moeller
PhD 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: Public opinion, political knowledge and psychology, electoral competitiveness, representation
Ashley Moran
Graduate student
Education: MALD, Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy
Interests: Comparative constitutional law, the intersection of constitutional order and conflict, state fragility, and democratic legal and institutional reform
Margaret Moslander
Graduate student
Education: BA, Middlebury College
Interests: Public Law, American Politics
Austin Nelson
Graduate student
Education: MPPA, Political Science, Baylor University, BA, Politics and Philosophy & Religious Studies, Hendrix College
Interests: American constitutional law, American constitutional development, judicial politics, law and social science, philosophy of law
Xin Nong
Graduate student
Education: MPA, International Public Affairs, University of Wisconsin- Madison, BA, International Relations, Peking University, BA, International Liberal Studies, Waseda University
Interests: Political economy, statistical methods, international conflicts, exchange rates, foreign aid, terrorism, leaders’ trait and foreign policy
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
Hillel Ofek
Graduate student
hillel.ofek@gmail.com |
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Education: B.A., Kenyon College
Interests: Foreign policy, international relations theory, history and practice of international strategy and diplomacy, classical and modern political thought, American constitutional theory, history of science.
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
Luke Perez
Doctoral Candidate
lukemperez@utexas.edu |
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Education: B.A. The Ohio State University, M.A. Villanova University
Interests: American Political Development, American Political Thought, International Relations Theory, Grand Strategy, Congress
German Petersen
Graduate student
Education: MA, Political Science, El Colegio de Mexico
Interests: Institutional change, public policy, corruption, anti-corruption and democratization
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
Henry Quillen
Graduate student
Education: BA, Government, Morehead State University
Interests: Socratic political rationalism and its alternatives; classical political thought; religion and politics, esp. medieval Islamic political thought; history of political philosophy; and the tension between philosophy and politics
Annelise Russell
Doctoral Candidate, Director of Undergraduate Research for the Policy Agendas Project
anneliserussell8892@gmail.com |
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Education: BA; MA, University of Oklahoma; University of Texas
Interests: American Politics, Public Policy, Political Communication
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.
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
Robert Shaffer
Graduate student
Education: B.A., Political Science, University of California, Berkeley
Interests: Comparative law, statutory design, natural language processing, computational methods, environmental policy
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
Ahmed Siddiqi
Graduate student
Education: BA/BS, University of North Texas
Interests: History of Political Thought
Jose Sierra Castillo
Graduate student
jose.sierra.castillo@utexas.edu
Education: MA Economics, Duke University
Interests: Comparative and international political economy
Barea Sinno
Graduate student
Education: MS, Negotiation and Conflict Resolution, Columbia University
Interests: Comparative politics, Middle East, mixed-methods, identity politics, ethnic conflict, sectariansim, political psychology, behavioral studies
John Stanley
Graduate student
Education: BS, Humanities, US Air Force Academy
Interests: Classical Greek political theory
Jamie Stokes
Graduate student
Education: BA, Political Science and French, Weber State University
Interests: Political behavior, gender politics, Congress, parties, campaigns and elections
Andrew Stravers
Graduate student
stravers@utexas.edu |
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Education: BA, University of Wisconsin
Interests: International Lending; American Foreign Policy; International Political Economy; Overseas Basing Policy
Allen Sumrall
Graduate student
asumrall@utexas.edu |
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Education: BA, Politics, Bates College
Interests: American Political Development (APD), constitutional law, American constitutional development, race and citizenship in APD, jurisprudence and the judiciary, ideational and institutional development, and law, courts, and politics.
Joe Roberto Tafoya
PhD Candidate
Interests: Latino Politics, Race/Ethnicity Politics, Immigration Policy, Research Methods
Calvin Thrall
Graduate student
Education: BA, Political Science, Temple University
Interests: International political economy, foreign investment, international organization
Diego Vega
Graduate student
Education: MSc, International Relations, London School of Economics
Interests: Latin America, Africa, political economy, international organizations, foreign policy, global south, postcolonial relations
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
Graduate student
jwensvee@gmail.com |
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Education: M.A., Political Science, Carleton University, 2013; B.A. (Hon.), Political Science, University of Lethbridge, 2011
Interests: Political Theory, Public Law
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 "William" Yang
Graduate student
Education: MPhil, Social Science, The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
Interests: Violence, political economy, Chinese politics
Charles Zug
Graduate student
charleszug@utexas.edu |
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Interests: The relationship between Political Philosophy and History; Grand Strategy and Imperialism in Classical Political Thought; American Political Thought
