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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
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Yeilim Cheong
Comparative Politics; Opposition Politics; Consequences of Authoritarian Rule; Korea; Asia-Pacific
Dissertation Title: Beyond the Struggle for Democratic Transition: The Rise and Fall of Opposition Successor Parties
Email: yecheong@ucsd.edu
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Micah Farver
American Politics; Environmental Policy; Interest Groups
Dissertation Title: Interest Group Political Spending and State Environmental Policy
Email: mfarver@ucsd.edu
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Jennifer Gaudette
American Politics; Local Politics; Interest Groups; Polarization
Dissertation Title: Polarization in Police Union Politics
Email: jgaudett@ucsd.edu
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Malika Talgatova
Authoritarian Regimes; Media Control; Machine Learning; Natural Language Processing
Dissertation Title: Media Control in Non-Democracies: Causes, Strategies, and Consequences
Email: mtalgato@ucsd.edu
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Wendy Wagner
International Security; Intrastate Conflict; Armed Nonstate Actors; Middle East
Dissertation Title: Coexisting with Threats: Informal Governance Arrangements in the Face of Subversion
Email: wwagner@ucsd.edu
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Samuel Williams
American Politics; Education Politics and Policy
Dissertation Title: Polarizing Pedagogy: Motivated Evaluations of Partisan Issue Frames in Social Studies Curriculum
Email: sdwillia@ucsd.edu
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Adam Fefer
Democratization and autocratization; power-sharing and federalism; ethnic and national conflict
Dissertation Title: Autocratic Ethnofederalism and Regime Change
Email: afefer@ucsd.edu
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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
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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
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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
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Sichen Li
Trade and Investment Policies; International Security; Network AnalysisDissertation Title: The Political Economy of Trade and Investment Restrictions in High-Tech Sectors
Email: sili@ucsd.edu
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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
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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