In 2016 Dr. Miller was named Master Teacher -- the highest teaching award on campus. My work has been published or is forthcoming in the European Journal of International Relations and the Journal of Conflict Resolution. Naval War College, Military & Strategic Studies Department, Placement:Assistant Professor, US Air Force Academy, Military & Strategic Studies Department, Subfield(s):Comparative Politics; Comparative political science, focus on welfare state research, Social-political institutions and social political decision-making in comparison, Dissertation:Man-Made Distinctions in the Welfare State: Political Decisions about Inequality in Major German Social Policy Reforms Vol. She is the director of the International Studies program at CSI. Currently, Professor Barabas teaches and conducts research on public policy and opinion preferences, often with an emphasis on empirical methodology and research design. Biography:Florent BLANC, Ph.D., is a training officer at the Institute for Research and Education on Negotiation (ESSEC IRENE Paris, Singapore, Brussels). Subfield(s):Comparative Politics; elections, socioeconomic profile of voters, public opinion and public administration. Her articles on decentralization, federalism, authoritarianism, participation, and qualitative methods have appeared in edited volumes and journals such as the American Political Science Review, Comparative Political Studies, Publius, Qualitative Sociology, Studies in Comparative International Development, and World Politics among others. From 2011 to 2016, as an international mediation project leader, he conducted various programs in West Africa alongside local and national authorities, especially in Mali. I teach popular wine classes at NYU and lead talks and tastings for corporations and private individuals. Committee: Mahoney, James L (Chair); Gibson, Edward L; Pearlman, Wendy R; Current:Postdoctoral Prize Research Fellow , University of Oxford, Nuffield College, Department of Politics and International Relations, Placement:Postdoctoral Prize Research Fellow , University of Oxford, Nuffield College, Department of Politics and International Relations. Prior to the appointment, he was Professor of Law and Zhuang Zhou scholar at Rutgers University and a member of the Associate Faculty of the Division of Global Affairs. Prof. Kim worked as a data archivist for the Social Science Computing Center at the University of Chicago and taught as an assistant professor at Florida Atlantic University before joining KAIST. I work on all aspects of the repository but am particularly interested in qualitative data management and the development of scholarly workflows. One is how sovereign power is expressed through nonstate actors such as security contractors, business associations, and NGOs. Subfield(s):American Politics;the impact of communication and identity on public opinion, political and social behavior, Dissertation:The Politics of Nuclearity: Identity Relations in the Global Nuclear Regime(Ebscohost), Committee: Druckman, James N (Chair); Galvin, Daniel J; Yong, Laurel Harbridge, Current:Visiting Assistant Professor, Carleton College, Placement:Visiting Assistant Professor, Wesleyan University, Government Organization & Management, Dissertation:Red Brain, Blue Brain: How Elite Polarization, Partisan Reasoning, and Information Choice Impact Presidential Communication(Ebscohost), Current:Academic Advisor, Walden University, Placement:Instructor, St. Louis Park Public Schools. I study comparative and international politics, with a focus on contention, displacement, and humanitarianism in the Middle East. In her book project, Beyond the Prison: The Politics of Abolition, Professor Terwiel examines the resurgence of abolitionist projects in the contemporary United States. Since then, and in spite of her prognosis, she wrote a book, published several scholarly articles, became an important voice in the methodology of Political Science, mentored many students, and was granted tenure and promotion at UNM in the Spring of 2019. Professor Mullinix examines the extent to which political parties and elected officials shape the publics attitudes toward various policies. Biography:Mona Orabys research sits at the intersection of administrative law, religion, and politics, and focuses on group formation, membership, and belonging. Biography:Jiangnan Zhu is an Associate Professor of Department of Politics and Public Administration. Dissertation:Patrons, Proxies, and International Relations: Political Survival and the Surrender of Sovereignty(Ebscohost), Committee: Farr, James Fulton (Chair); Dietz, Mary Golden; Koopman, Colin, Current:Visiting Assistant Professor, Wheaton College (Massachusetts), Department of Political Science and Women and Gender Studies, Placement:Visiting Assistant Professor, Wheaton College (Massachusetts), Department of Political Science and Women and Gender Studies, Subfield(s):International Relations, Comparative Politics; African politics and economic development (focus on the Sahel, the Horn of Africa and West Africa), Development Assistance Sustainable growth Sustainable development International cooperation European Union Development economy Democracy Sub-Saharan Africa Electoral sociology Project evaluation Ethiopia Mali Open data Transparency, Dissertation:"The Sights That Hold the Crowd": Political Science and the Politics of Popular Culture(Ebscohost), Committee: Reno, William S (Chair); Ficquet, Eloi; Hurd, Ian F, Current:Policy Analyst, Ministre des Affaires trangres franais, Placement:Project Officer, Transparency International. Subfield(s):International Relations; human rights, judicial institutions, Dissertation:Fates of Rebels: The Politics of Insurgency Survival and Demise(Ebscohost), Committee: Hurd, Ian F (Chair); Dothan, Shai; Reno, William S, Current:Postdoctoral fellow, Lichtenberg-Kolleg (Georg-August-Universitt), Placement:Postdoctoral fellow, Lichtenberg-Kolleg (Georg-August-Universitt). In this role, he supports NCTR and partner programs in collecting, analyzing, and reporting data to demonstrate and enhance the effectiveness of teacher residencies. She is also the founder and Director of the Emerson Prison Initiative, which brings a BA pathway to incarcerated students in Massachusetts. Professor Bolsen received the Outstanding Faculty Achievement Award from Georgia State University in 2015 for excellence in scholarship, instruction, and service to the university. He is also the director of capstone research projects for IEs Masters degrees in International Development (MID) and International Relations (MIR). As Executive Director, she leads RFIs policy development, advocacy, and educational initiatives and oversees operations. His research and teaching interests are in the history of political thought and democratic theory, with a particular attention to themes of equality, participation, and political economy. I also have an interest in data science and machine learning. Biography:Rebecca Kolins Givan is an associate professor of Labor Studies and Employment Relations inthe School of Management and Labor Relations at Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey. More specifically, my work explores what extremism is, who people blame for extremism, and what encourages and discourages extremism. Subfield(s):American politics; public policy, political behavior and public opinion, race politics, and urban politics, survey, experimental, and qualitative methods, Dissertation:Race, Equality, and Community in Local Education: How Complex Beliefs and Values Shape Educational Attitudes, Votes, and School Policy(Ebscohost). I am also the host of the podcast What Voting Means to Me, and an avid distance runner. She also is a concurrent faculty member in the Department of Political Science. Previous policy analysis, utilizing social network analysis and GIS methodologies, examines emerging life science (biotechnology and medical devices) regions in Japan and the United States. I apply theories of social psychology to understand American political attitudes and behavior. He has also been a researcher with the Security and Democracy Foundation. Subfield(s):American Politics; public opinion, political psychology, ideology, and the politics of identit, Dissertation:Intractable Territorial Conflicts and the Strategic Social Construction of Indivisible National Homelands(Ebscohost), Committee: Druckman, James N (Chair); Bodenhausen, Galen V.; Merseth Cook, Julianne Lee, Current:Visiting Assistant Professo, Oberlin College, Politics, Placement:Visiting Assistant Professo, Oberlin College, Politics. Biography:Abdetas professional experience begins with his employment at Ethiopias Ministry of Foreign Affairs in 1992. My fields of study are American politics and research methods. After completing his Ph.D. in political science at Northwestern University (2012), he received a post-doctoral fellowship at New York University's Taub Center for Israeli Studies in 2012-13. Falleti is the author of Decentralization and Subnational Politics in Latin America (Cambridge University Press, 2010), which earned the Donna Lee Van Cott Award to the best book on political institutions by the Latin American Studies Association; and, with Santiago Cunial, of Participation in Social Policy (Elements in the Politics of Development, Cambridge University Press, 2018). Subfield(s): International Relations; Methods; Comparative Politics NATO in the 21st Century; Sports Analytics, Dissertation: How NATO Decides: A Theory for How NATO Takes Collective Action in the 21st Century(Ebscohost), Committee: Reno, William (Chair); Henke, Marina; Spruyt, Hendrik, Current: Active-Duty Major, RC-135 and EC-130H Pilot,United States Air Force, Placement: Active-Duty Major, RC-135 and EC-130H Pilot,United States Air Force, Institutional Website |Professional Website |Twitter:@ArturoChangQ|LinkedIn |Academia.edu. Her research interests include comparative democratization, cultural resilience, memory politics, and social movements in the Global South and the United States. I received my PhD in Political Science in 2013 from Northwestern University in Chicago, IL, and have an MA in Political Science from the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, Canada. Her research and teaching include democratic theory and the history of political thought especially in classical Athens; membership politics and migration; post-war continental political theory; and feminist theory. Her current research project, entitled Improperty, investigates invocations of property in political action and theory, supported by a Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada Insight grant (2019-2022). She is also the author of Black Star: African American Activism and International Political Economy, Subfield(s):American Politics; Black Politics, African Diaspora, Arts and Politics, Representation, Dissertation:Diaspora movements in the international political economy: African-Americans and the Black Star Line(Ebscohost), Committee: Page, Benjamin I (Chair); Hanchard, Michael G; Woo-Cumings, Meredith, Current:Author and Playwright, Independent / Self-Employed, Political Science, Placement:Research Fellow, University of Rochester, Frederick Douglass Institute for African and African-American Studies. Biography:As a multimethod researcher and educator with experience designing and executing multi-year community-based projects, I am passionate about using qualitative and quantitative data to drive evidence-based decision making and strategy. Subfield(s):International Relations; International political economy; global financial politics; financial derivatives; regulation; risk and uncertainty; power, authority, and legitimacy in international politics; global inequality, Dissertation:The Construction of Financial Authority(Ebscohost). Subfield(s):American Politics; race, gender, education policy, and political behavior, Dissertation:The Political Consequences of Education Reform: How School Closures Shape Citizens(Ebscohost), Committee: Rogers, Reuel R (Chair); Burch, Traci R; Tillery, Alvin Bernard, Current:Assistant Professor, Human Development and Social Policy, Northwestern University, School of Education and Social Policy, Placement:Program Fellow, Women and Public Policy, Harvard University, Harvard Kennedy School of Government, Dissertation:Negotiating differences: Developments in wage inequality in Italy, Sweden and across advanced industrial democracies(Ebscohost), Committee: Thelen, Kathy A (Chair); Swenson, Peter A; Leslie McCall, Current:Assistant Professor, Allegheny College, Department of Political Science, Placement:Post-Doctoral Fellow, Max Planck Institute for the Study of Societies (MPIfG), Subfield(s):Comparative Politics; State governments, Comparative government, Politics and government, Latin America, Public administration, Comparative Federalism, Public Administration, Subnational Policy, Policy in Latin America, Analysis of good practices in social protection policies for women against COVID-19 in Mexico, Opportunities, needs of young women and education, Dissertation:(Dis)united They Stand? Biography:In her current role, Gabriela supports Strategic Capacity Group's institutional learning from its portfolio of logistics, training, and mentoring programs aimed at enhancing the capacity of law enforcement institutions in Africa, South East Asia, Latin America, and the Caribbean. Subfield(s):Comparative Politics, Methods, Dissertation:The Cerrado Is Not the Pampas: Explaining Tax and Regulatory Policies on Agricultural Exports in Argentina and Brazil (2003-2013)(Ebscohost), Committee: Mahoney, James L (Chair); Arjona, Ana Maria; Seawright, Jason W, Current: Assistant Professor of Political Science at the Universidad del Rosario (Bogot, Colombia), Placement:Postdoctoral Research Associate, Princeton University, Mamdouha S. Bobst Center for Peace and Justice and the Department of Politics. She is currently working on a monograph about the role of teaching and learning in Wittgensteins biography and later work and the implications for understanding our capacity to make meaning as well as judgments about meaning. Biography: David Peyton is a Donald R. Beall Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of Defense Analysis at the Naval Postgraduate School. Subfield(s):American Politics; elections and voting behavior, women in American politics, public opinion, and the media, Dissertation:The joiners: Voluntary organizations and political participation in the United States(Ebscohost), Committee: Chong, Dennis (Chair); Conley, Patricia D; Page, Benjamin I, Current:Associate Professor, Bowling Green State University, Political Science, Placement:Research Assistant, Council on Competitiveness. From 2009 to 2012 I served as Assistant Editor of Political Theory: an International Journal of Political Philosophy. From July 2022 through July 2024, Ayodeji will be serving as a George M. Sharswood Fellow at the University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School. Ato Kwamena Onoma's research focuses on mobility, identity, belonging and inter communal relations in Africa. I serve on the Advisory Board of OpenMind, a non-profit based in New York City that equips people with the mindset and skillset to communicate constructively across differences using e-learning anchored in behavioral science. Biography:I am a Political Science PhD Candidate at Northwestern University. His research focuses on the politics of identity and polarization. Her body finally succumbed to the cancer she endured for five years on the night of September 27, 2019 at the age of 40. Her research has taken her all over the world, from the Balkans to Nigeria. His work focuses on minority communities during times of conflict, in particular in Lebanon and Syria. Professor Lis teaching and scholarship explores a broad range of topics including Chinese law and politics, international business transactions, contracts, comparative law, and empirical legal studies. Subfield(s):Comparative Politics; International Law & relations; Environmental Politics, Latin American Politics, Dissertation:Ideas, epistemic communities and regional integration: Splitting the atom in Argentina and Brazil(Ebscohost), Committee: Loriaux, Michael M (Chair); Gibson, Edward L; Abbott, Kenneth W, Current:Associate Professor, University of Maryland, Department of Government and Politics, Placement:Assistant Professor, University of Houston, Political Science and Africana Studies. Committee: Druckman, James N (Chair); Burch, Traci R; Cathy J. Cohen; Current:Assistant Professor, Department of Political Science, University of Miami, Placement:Postdoctoral Scholar, University of Chicago, Department of Political Science and GenForward, Subfield(s):Comparative Politics; Economic Insecurity and Political Attitudes, Affect and Emotion, Populism and Responsibility Attribution, Social Policy, Experimental and Mixed Methods, Dissertation:Feeling Vulnerable? Biography:Kathryn Ibata-Arens is Vincent de Paul Professor, DePaul University. Biography:Ari Shaw, Ph.D. is a researcher-practitioner with fifteen years of experience in policy, nonprofit, and philanthropy sectors focused on human rights, international law, and LGBTQ politics. Sociology, University of Buenos Aires, Argentina, 1994) is the Class of 1965 Endowed Term Professor of Political Science, Director of the Latin American and Latinx Studies Program, and Senior Fellow of the Leonard Davis Institute for Health Economics at the University of Pennsylvania. Committee: Kraut, Richard H (Chair); Monoson-Berns, Susan Sara (Co-Chair); Dietz, Mary Golden; Wynne, John P.F. Biography:Dr. Metelits joined Marine Corps University in 2018. I received my PhD in Political Science from Northwestern University in June 2015. Her research focuses on Africa, non-state armed actors, non-state governance, and gender and conflict.