PhD Student Profiles
Political Science
Samantha Byrnes
Research Interests:
- Public Law
- Law and Society
- Social Movements
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Shrijna Dixon
Research Interests:
- Party political ideologies and their implications in domestic and international politics
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Ashari Cahyo Edi
Research Interests:
- Policy process politics
- NGO advocacy
- Indonesia studies
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Samuel Eisenkraft
Research Interests:
- Religion
- Insurgency
- Democratization
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Amalini Fernando
Research Interests:
- Digital privacy policy
- Information policy
- Privacy on the Internet
- Cybersecurity
- Emerging digital technologies
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Wilson Han
Research Interests:
- China's foreign direction investment (FDI)
- Loan and other spending activities
- China-US relationships
- Great power politics
- Chinese domestic politics
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M. Monica Parada Hernández
Research Interests:
- Agrarian Justice
- Rural Development
- Justice Institutions
- Women and Gender
- Democracy
- Transitional Justice
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Karina P Indrasari
Research Interests:
- Terrorism
- Radicalization
- Social Movements
- Migrant Workers
- Southeast Asia
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Poyung Lin
Research Interests:
- Alliance politics
- International security
- East Asian security
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Connor Moran
Research Interests:
- Political Discourse
- Democratic Theory
- Agonistic Pluralism
- Deliberative Democracy
- Jürgen Habermas
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Kaubin Neupane
Research Interests:
- Climate Change and Migration
- Research Methodology
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Johann Poehlmann
Research Interests:
- Political Economy
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Farzin Shargh
Research Interests:
- Middle East Politics
- Human Rights
- Women’s Rights and Women’s Movements
- Politics of the LGBT+
- Identity Politics
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Charmaine N. Willis
Research Interests:
- East/Southeast Asia
- US base politics
- International security
- Contentious politics
- Civil society
- Political violence
- Pedagogy
- Qualitative methods
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Oğulcan Yıldırım
Research Interests:
- Foreign Policy Decision Making
- Energy Security (Nuclear Energy)
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Public Administration and Policy
Tzuhao Chen
Research Interests:
- Government IT innovation
- Artificial intelligence
- Cross-boundary information sharing
- Sustainable Smart Cities
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Dina Maloney DeCarlo
Research Interests:
- Public policy
- Policy analysis
- Health policy
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Zong-Xian Huang
Research Interests:
- Public Management
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Moontae Hwang
Research Interests:
- School District and Local Government Financial Autonomy
- State Aid
- Property Tax
- Quantitative Methodology
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Miyeun Jung
Research Interests:
- Social policy
- Policy evaluation
- Child and Family policy
- Family demography
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Soyun Jeong
Research Interests:
- Social policy
- Health policy
- Social safety nets
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Heeun Kim
Research Interests:
- Health Equity
- Policy Analysis
- Policy Implementation
- Causal Methods
- Mixed-Method
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Jisang Kim
Research Interests:
- Accountability
- Performance Management
- Organizational Behavior
- Gender and Diversity
- Policing
- Quantitative Methods
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Patrick Schumacher
Research Interests:
- Medicaid program
- Long-term care and aging
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Ju-Ying Yang
Research Interests:
- Energy Policy
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Criminal Justice
Linda Balcarová
Research Interests:
- Biometrics
- Criminological theory
- Immigration and international crime
- Law Enforcement Policing
- Survey research methods
- Quantitative methods
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Li-Chen Chu
Research Interests:
- Deterrence and Criminal Policy
- Offender Decision Making
- Violence and Suicide
- Comparative Criminology
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Justin Clayton
Research Interests:
- Abolition
- Inequality
- Mixed Methods
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Guillermo J. Escaño
Research Interests:
- Crime and Violence in Latin America
- Organized Criminal Groups
- Effects of Social Structural Factors on Homicide
- Urban Criminology/ Sociology
- Drug Policy
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Yichao Gao
Research Interests:
- Spatial Analysis of Crime and Criminal Behavior
- Investigative Psychology
- Prison Environment and Prisoner Reentry
- Understanding Crime and Criminal Behavior from Biological and Psychological Perspectives
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Shaina Herman
Research Interests:
- Crime decision-making
- Morality and criminal choice
- Context and criminal choice
- Criminological theory
- Survey research methods
- Novel methodologies for testing criminological theory
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Beau Holladay
Research Interests:
- Police officer decision making
- Police legitimacy
- Criminal justice policy
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James Hubbell
Research Interests:
- Decision-Making
- Violence Prevention
- Homicide/Parricide
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Stefan Ivanov
Research Interests:
- Mass Incarceration
- Punishment & Inequality
- Criminal Justice Policy
- Public Opinion
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Hilary Jackl
Research Interests:
- Reentry
- Housing Insecurity
- Higher Education in Prison
- Ethnography & Qualitative Methods
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Byunggu Kang
Research Interests:
- Criminology
- Demography
- Public Health
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Matthew Kijowski
Research Interests:
- Offender decision-making
- Criminological theory
- Quantitative methods
- Research design
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Benjamin Kuettel
Research Interests:
- Drug Policy
- Substance Use Disorder
- Life-course Perspective
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Stefana E. LoTempio
Research Interests:
- Mass Shootings
- School Shootings
- Mass Killings
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Colleen D. Mair
Research Interests:
- Policy impact analysis
- Female incarceration
- Interrupted time series
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Jacob Montgomery
Research Interests:
- Offender Decision Making
- Peer Interaction
- Public Opinion
- Restorative Justice
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Oona Newman
Research Interests:
- Juvenile Delinquency
- Juvenile Recidivism
- Adverse Childhood Experiences
- Violent Crime
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Rachel Novick
Research Interests:
- Race and crime
- Desistance
- Criminal justice reform
- Mixed methods
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Baruch Rainey
Research Interests:
- Identity and Inequality
- Antisemitism
- Youth Justice
- Queer Criminology
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JeeWon Ryu
Research Interests:
- Juvenile Justice
- Juvenile Justice Policy
- Juvenile Delinquency
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Nathaniel Schutten
Research Interests:
- Gun ownership, gun control, and gun attitudes
- Public opinion about criminal justice policy and correctional reform
- Survey Methodology and Experimental Design
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Caitlin Udas
Research Interests:
- Victimology
- Crime in Media
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Megan Mae Willows
Research Interests:
- Gender & Violence
- Feminist Criminology
- Survivorship
- Comparative Criminology
- Gender & Migration
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Sishi Wu
Research Interests:
- Death penalty
- Wrongful conviction
- Law
- Policy
Contact: [email protected] CV Personal Website