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Min Woo Ahn PhD Student Email: minwooahn@email.arizona.edu Min Woo Ahn’s research interests revolve around how to improve democratic accountability of government in the complex governance system. [more information] |
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Emily Bell PhD Candidate Email: emonken@email.arizona.edu Emily Bell is a 5th year PhD candidate in Public Policy and Management. Her research focuses on ways to systematically conceptualize belief systems of decision makers, how beliefs influence formation of cooperative ties in water governance, and the implications this has for adoption of water... |
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Alejandro Beltran PhD Student Email: alejandrobeltran@email.arizona.edu Alejandro Beltran is a second year PhD student in Public Policy with a focus on how democracy and federalism affect taxation and budgeting. More specifically, observing how democratic competition is an incentive for local governments to collect more taxes. Alejandro is currently exploring how... |
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Paul Bezerra PhD Email: bezerra@email.arizona.edu Paul's disseration asks: under what conditions will bilateral aid donors experience greater strategic aid effectiveness? To answer this question, I develop a framework for understanding when bilateral donors – in the... |
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Andrew Braden PhD Student Email: dbraden9@email.arizona.edu Andrew Braden is a third year PhD student in International Relations with a focus on major powers, specifically their foreign aid giving behavior in response to terrorism. Andrew is also interested in states foreign aid giving behavior in response to terrorism both inside and outside the... |
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Tingjia Chen PhD Student Email: tingjiachen@email.arizona.edu My research area is in public policy and management, especially policy diffusion theory with regard to ... |
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Xiran Chen PhD Student Email: chenxiran@email.arizona.edu [more information] |
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Jie MIng Chong PhD Student Email: chongjieming@email.arizona.edu [more information] |
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Tiffany Chu PhD Candidate Email: tiffanychu@email.arizona.edu Tiffany S. Chu is a Ph.D candidate of political science in the School of Government and Public Policy at the University of Arizona. Her research focuses on conflict processes, decisions taken by forced migrants, and government repression and marginalization of societal actors. Her research is... [more information] |
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Matthew Cobb PhD Student Email: cobbmr@email.arizona.edu Matthew R. Cobb is a third-year PhD student in International Relations. His research interests center on armed conflict and political instability. His current projects include research on the urban-rural dynamics of civil conflict as well as analysis of international influences on military... |
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Joseph Cox PhD Student Email: josephmcox7@email.arizona.edu [more information] |
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Justin Curtis PhD Student Email: justin89@email.arizona.edu I am broadly interested in authoritarian politics, especially the interactive effects of repression and cooptation in regime durability. I have a regional focus on the Muslim world, which has led me to a study of political Islam in the context of authoritarian, hybrid, and democratizing states.... |
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Cheryl Ellenwood PhD Student Email: cheryle@email.arizona.edu Office: Room 300, Social Sciences Building Cheryl is a fourth year Ph.D. student in the School of Government and Public Policy. Her major subfield is Public Policy and Management. She has research interests in philanthropy, non-profit management, social enterprises and hybrid organization forms. Her research examines the relationships... |
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Edna Liliana Gómez Fernández PhD Student Email: elgomezfernandez@email.arizona.edu Liliana studies urban water governance and innovation in management. Her research encompasses governmental fragmentation, collaboration among local governments in metropolitan areas, and network analysis. [more information] |
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Kelly Gordell PhD Student Email: kellygordell@email.arizona.edu Kelly is an International Relations PhD student at the School of Government and Public Policy. Her research interests surround armed conflict and its impact on human security. She focuses on the international community and its developmental role in post-conflict environments through the use of... |
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Maria Hardman PhD Student Email: hardman@email.arizona.edu [more information] |
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Sangmi Jeong PhD Candidate Email: sjeong@email.arizona.edu Sangmi Jeong is an International Relations PhD Candidate in the School of Government and Public Policy; her research interests are domestic sources of foreign policy, protests, state repression, political institutions in authoritarian regimes, and international relations of East Asia. She holds... |
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Eunbee Kim PhD Student Email: eunbeekim@email.arizona.edu I am studying international relations focusing on the Middle East area. My research interest lies in examining the roles of females in the security realm. [more information] |
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Qianhui Li PhD Student Email: qianhuil@email.arizona.edu [more information] |
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Nicholas Liendo PhD Student Email: nliendo@email.arizona.edu My research interest lies on the emergence and survival of political parties in Latin America. [more information] |
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Fiorella Lopez-Jimenez PhD Candidate Email: flopezjimenez@email.arizona.edu Fiorella López-Jiménez is a PhD candidate in Comparative Politics. Her work looks at the effect of religious market structures on the quality of democracy in Latin american states. [more information] |
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Michael McCamman PhD Student Email: michaelmccamman@email.arizona.edu TEL: 202-258-5009 [more information] |
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Georgia Pfeiffer PhD Candidate Email: gwpfeiffer@email.arizona.edu Georgia is a PhD candidate in Public Policy and Management. Her research interests include renewable energy policy, diffusion of innovation, and network analysis. [more information] |
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Leah Pieper PhD Student Email: lpieper@email.arizona.edu [more information] |
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Joshua Ridenour PhD Candidate Email: jridenour@email.arizona.edu Joshua is a PhD candidate in American Politics, focusing on political psychology. His primary research interests center on the role that religion plays in influencing political behavior, with a particular emphasis on understanding how individuals draw their personal connections between religion... |
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Jan Rydzak Ph. D. Student Email: janrydzak@email.arizona.edu TEL: (520) 243-0832 Jan's research revolves around digital media, the use of ICTs (information and communication technologies) by both regimes and those who oppose them ('repression tech' vs. 'liberation tech'), control of information flows in the Internet, and social networks in wired societies, especially where... |
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Elizabeth Schmitt PhD Student Email: ejschmitt@email.arizona.edu Elizabeth is a PhD student in American Politics at the School of Government and Public Policy. Her primary research interest is political decision making. She is particularly interested in the use of emotion when making decisions, as well as how various identities (LGBT, gender) contribute to... |
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Benjamin Seigel PhD Student Email: bseigel@email.arizona.edu Benjamin is a second-year PhD student majoring in public policy and research methodology. His research interests focus on the role that latent environmental beliefs play in individual policy support and political behavior. Specifically, his interests center on understanding the connection... [more information] |
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Kijoon Soh PhD Student Email: kijoonsoh@email.arizona.edu [more information] |
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Ariel Tinney PhD Candidate Email: arielt@email.arizona.edu Ariel is a PhD student in Public Policy and Management, focusing on collaborative governance. Her primary research interests center on the role of initiating leadership as a driver of cross-boundary... |
