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  • Austin Beacham

    Austin Beacham

    International relations; environmental politics; geospatial methods

    Dissertation Title: Domestic Distribution and International Influence: The International Political Economy of Protected Areas and Biodiversity

    Email: abeacham@ucsd.edu

  • Micah Farver

    Micah Farver

    American Politics; Environmental Policy; Interest Groups

    Dissertation Title: Interest Group Political Spending and State Environmental Policy

    Email: mfarver@ucsd.edu

  • Adam Fefer

    Adam Fefer

    Democratization and autocratization; power-sharing and federalism; ethnic and national conflict

    Dissertation Title:  Autocratic Ethnofederalism and Regime Change

    Email: afefer@ucsd.edu

  • Bianca Freeman

    Bianca Freeman

     International Relations; International Law; Race and Ethnic Politics

    Dissertation Title:  Under Color of International Law: Race and the Global Legal Order

    Email: breeman@ucsd.edu

  • Jennifer Gaudette

    Jennifer Gaudette

    American Politics; interest groups; local/urban politics

    Dissertation Title: Ideological Polarization in Police Union Politics

    Email: jgaudette@ucsd.edu

  • Patrick Hulme

    Patrick Hulme

    International Security; American Foreign Policy; Congressional-Executive Relations

    Dissertation Title: In the Shadow of Congress: the Legislature’s Influence over Use of Military Force Decisions and International Bargaining

    Email: mhulme@ucsd.edu

  • D.G. (Daegyeong) Kim

    D.G. (Daegyeong) Kim

    International relations, race and ethnic politics, East Asia

    Dissertation Title: Anti-Asian Racism and the Racial Politics of US-China Great Power Rivalry

    Email: dak110@ucsd.edu

  • Sichen Li

    Sichen Li

    Trade and Investment Policies; International Security; Network Analysis

    Dissertation Title: The Political Economy of Trade and Investment Restrictions in High-Tech Sectors

    Email: sili@ucsd.edu

  • Mackenzie Lockhart

    Mackenzie Lockhart

    American politics; Voting and Elections; Methodology

    Dissertation Title: Do You Know My Name? How local elites influence primary election outcomes

    Email: mwlockha@ucsd.edu

  • Leo Y. Yang

    Leo Y. Yang

    Computational Social Science, Comparative Politics, Text as Data

    Dissertation Title: Sowing Division: The Unintended Consequences of Geographic Tagging on Social Media

    Email: leoyang@ucsd.edu