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Min Woo Ahn PhD Student Email: minwooahn@email.arizona.edu [more information] |
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Alejandro Beltran PhD Student Email: alejandrobeltran@email.arizona.edu Alejandro Beltran is a PhD candidate in Government and Public Policy. His research tracks embezzlement of public budgets using advanced econometric methods. He is specifically interested in what motivates mayors and governors into corrupting elections. Currently, he is working on a database on... |
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Logan Blair PhD Student Email: blairlo@email.arizona.edu [more information] |
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Zachary Wyatt Boyett PhD Student Email: wyattboyett@email.arizona.edu [more information] |
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Andrew Braden PhD Candidate Email: dbraden9@email.arizona.edu Andrew Braden is a fourth year PhD candidate in International Relations with a focus on major powers, hierarchy, foreign policy substitutibility, terrorism, and regions. Andrew's dissertation focuses on threats and challenges to major power interests and their chosen foreign policy responses. ... |
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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 Xiran Chen is a PhD student majoring in comparative politics and minoring in international relations. His research interests lie in the intersection of political violence, social movements, and political institutions. He is currently working on a project that examines the relationships between... |
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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 Cadidate Email: justin89@email.arizona.edu I am broadly interested in authoritarian politics and political Islam. My dissertation explores the institutional conditions that limit Islamist violence and incentivize Islamist mobilization within political parties. [more information] |
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Daniel Detzi PhD Student Email: dwdetzi@email.arizona.edu Dan Detzi is a first year PhD student focusing on conflict, counterterrorism, and foreign policy decision-making. His regions of interest include the Middle East, North Africa, and the Sahel. [more information] |
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Cheryl Ellenwood PhD Candidate Email: cheryle@email.arizona.edu Cheryl is a fifth year Ph.D. Candidate 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 Candidate and Research Associate Email: elgomezfernandez@email.arizona.edu Liliana studies urban governance and public management. Her research encompasses governmental fragmentation, institutional collective action dilemmas, policy beliefs and collaboration among local governments in metropolitan areas. She uses network analysis and statistical methods for her... |
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Kelly Gordell PhD Candidate Email: kellygordell@email.arizona.edu Kelly is an International Relations PhD candidate 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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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 the School of Government and Public Policy at the University of Arizona. Her dissertation, Belief Segregation in Advocacy Coalitions: Where It Is and Where It Isn’t, includes three... |
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Leah Pieper PhD Student Email: lpieper@email.arizona.edu Leah Pieper is a PhD student studying Public Policy with a minor in methodology. Her substantive research interests revolve around environmental and water policy, focusing on the institutional arrangements governing water and how users and managers respond and adapt to changing conditions. [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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Elizabeth Schmitt PhD Candidate Email: ejschmitt@email.arizona.edu Elizabeth is a PhD candidate in American Politics at the School of Government and Public Policy. Her primary research interest is political decision making. Her dissertation examines the use of gender stereotypes by voters when evaluating elections. [more information] |
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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... |
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Mai Truong PhD Student Email: maitruong@email.arizona.edu Mai Truong is a PhD student majoring in comparative politics and minoring in political methodology. Mai is interested in authoritarian politics with a special focus on democratization, social movements and popular resistance. In particular, her current projects investigate (1) the multi-... |
