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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

  • Yeilim Cheong

    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

  • Micah Farver

    Micah Farver

    American Politics; Environmental Policy; Interest Groups

    Dissertation Title: Interest Group Political Spending and State Environmental Policy

    Email: mfarver@ucsd.edu

  • Jennifer Gaudette

    Jennifer Gaudette

    American Politics; Local Politics; Interest Groups; Polarization

    Dissertation Title: Polarization in Police Union Politics

    Email: jgaudett@ucsd.edu

  • Malika Talgatova

    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

  • Wendy Wagner

    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

  • Samuel Williams

    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

  • 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

  • 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