Nathaniel Beck
Research Interests: Political Methodology; Political Economy.
Steven Brams
Research Interests: Game theory; social choice theory; fair division; voting and elections; international politics
Bruce Bueno de Mesquita
Research Interests: International Relations
Amy Catalinac
Research Interests: International relations, comparative politics, Japanese politics, quantitative text analysis.
Kanchan Chandra
Research Interests: Comparative Ethnic Politics, Democratic Theory, Political Parties and Elections, Violence, Comparative Research Methods, Patronage and Clientelism
Chris Dawes
Research Interests: Political behavior with an emphasis on voter turnout; genopolitics; experimental methods
David Denoon
Research Interests: US Foreign Policy, Asian Political Economy
Eric Dickson
Research Interests: Political Methodology; Political Economy
Tiberiu Dragu
Research Interests: Political Economy
Patrick Egan
Research Interests: Political attitudes and behavior regarding partisanship, public policy and identity
John Ferejohn
Research Interests: Positive political theory; legal and political institutions and behavior; courts; philosophy of social science
Michael Gilligan
Research Interests: International intervention in civil conflict, formal models of international cooperation
Sanford Gordon
Research Interests: US political institutions, political economy, private influence in government decision making, bureaucratic and administrative politics.
Catherine Hafer
Research Interests: property rights, conflict, deliberation, lobbying
Christine Harrington
Research Interests: Public Law and Law & Society
Anna Harvey
Research Interests: Criminal Justice, policing, judicial politics, political economy
Stephen Holmes
Research Interests: normative theory
James Hsiung
Research Interests: International law, politics and organizations; Asian Pacific international relations
Amanda Kennard
Research Interests: International Relations, International Political Economy
Dimitri Landa
Research Interests: Deliberation, representation, legal and political institutions
Michael Laver
Research Interests: Analytical, computational and empirical accounts of political competition and decision-making.
Bernard Manin
Research Interests: Democratic and constitional theory; history of political thought; representation and deliberation
Gwyneth McClendon
Research Interests: Comparative political behavior, religious and ethnic politics, political participation with regional foci in Sub-Saharan Africa and the U.S.
Lawrence Mead
Research Interests: American politics and policy making; social policy; implementation; America as a world power
Rebecca Morton
Research Interests: Voting processes; experimental methods
Jonathan Nagler
Research Interests: Methodology; voting behavior; social-media, turnout; Latino voting; the economy and campaigns and elections
Bertell Ollman
Research Interests: Marxism, dialectical method, fascism, history of political thought.
Pasquale Pasquino
Research Interests: Normative political theory; comparative constitutions
Julia Payson
Research Interests: Representation, accountability, and public service provision in state and local governments in the U.S.
Ryan Pevnick
Research Interests: Political theory
Adam Przeworski
Research Interests: political economy, methods of cross-national research, democratic theory.
Pablo Querubin
Research Interests: political economy of development, elites, economic and political institutions
Peter Rosendorff
Research Interests: International Relations, International Political Economy, Formal Methods
Howard Rosenthal
Research Interests:Political economy, American politics, political methodology, comparative politics.
Arturas Rozenas
Research Interests: Comparative Politics, Statistics
Cyrus Samii
Research Interests: Research design; field experiments
Shanker Satyanath
Research Interests: International relations, political economy, comparative politics
Melissa Schwartzberg
Research Interests: Democratic theory, constitutionalism, ancient political institutions and thought, history of political thought
Nicole Simonelli
Research Interests: International relations, international cooperation and organizations
Alastair Smith
Research Interests: International Relations
Arthur Spirling
Research Interests: Political methodology, political development, institutions, text-as-data, data science
David Stasavage
Research Interests: Political economy
Joshua Tucker
Research Interests: Comparative political behavior: elections, voting, partisanship, protest and social media; post-communist politics.
Hye Young You
Research Interests: Political economy, special interests, lobbying and campaign contributions, federalism and local government
Congyi Zhou
Research Interests: Political economy, formal model, comparative politics and public policy
Chris Bowman
Administrative Assistant
Email: chris.bowman@nyu.edu&politics.phd@nyu.edu
Phone: (212) 992-8080
Room: 204
Diana (Sooklall) Budhu
Academic Administrator
Email: diana.budhu@nyu.edu
Phone: (212) 998-8501
Room: 231
Emily Mitchell-Marell
Undergraduate Academic Advisor
Email: emily.mm@nyu.edu & politics.undergrads@nyu.edu
Phone: (212) 992-8694
Room: 232
Stephanie Nica
Administrative Aide,Undergraduate Program
Email: stephanie.nica@nyu.edu & politics.undergrads@nyu.edu
Phone: (212) 998-8517
Room: 211
Carlos Rios
Administrative Aide,Graduate Program
Email: carlos.rios@nyu.edu & politics.masters@nyu.edu
Phone: (212) 998-8530
Room: 202
**Please consult the resources available on the website before contacting the department**
Mariana Teresa Alvarado Chavez, Ph.D. Student
Email: mac1126@nyu.edu
Interests: Comparative politics, Political Economy, Latin American Politics
Education: 2014 ETH Zurich and University of Zurich. MA in Comparative and International Studies; 2009 Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú. MA in Political Science; 2006 Universidad Carlos III de Madrid. BA in Humanities
Year Started: 2015
Nejla Asimovic, Ph.D. Student
Email: na1991@nyu.edu
Interests: Political behavior and intergroup relations, economics of conflict and development, political psychology
Education: B.A. Hamilton College
Year Started: 2017
Carlos Felipe Balcazar, Ph.D. Student
Email: cfb310@nyu.edu
Interests: Political Economy, Development and Political Methodology
Education: B.A. in Economics, Universidad Nacional de Colombia; M.A. in Economics, Universidad de los Andes
Year Started: 2017
Michael Becker, Ph.D. Student
Email: mb4959@nyu.edu
Interests: International relations, political economy, game theory
Education: B.A., Economics, French, Boston College
Year Started: 2016
Matteo Bertoli, Ph.D. Student
Email: mb7582@nyu.edu
Interests: Comparative Politics, Political Economy, Formal Theory
Education: MSc Economic and Social Sciences, Bocconi University; BSc Economy and Social Sciences, Bocconi University
Year Started: 2019
Sam Boren Reast, Ph.D. Student
Email: sbr380@nyu.edu
Interests: Democratic and legal theory; equality and representation; political ethics.
Education: B.S. in Politics, University of Bristol; M.A. in Legal and Political Theory, University College London.
Year Started: 2017
Luca Brugnara, Ph.D. Student
Email: lb3608@nyu.edu
Interests:
Education:
Year Started: 2019
Martin Castillo Quintana, Ph.D. Student
Email: mcq219@nyu.edu
Interests: Political Economy
Education: Mathematical Engineering, MS Applied Economics at the University of Chile
Year Started: 2017
Rafael Ch, Ph.D. Student
Email: rafael.ch@nyu.edu
Interests: Political Economy, Political Methodology, Latin American Politics, Conflict and State Development, Urban Politics
Education: B.A. Economics and B.A. in Political Science, Instituto Tecnologico Autonomo de Mexico (ITAM).
Year Started: 2016
Patrick Chester, Ph.D. Student
Email: pjc468@nyu.edu
Interests: Political Economy, Comparative Politics, Methods
Education:B.A. in Political Science at University of Minnesota: Morris (2010); M.A. in International Politics University of California: San Diego (2014)
Year Started: 2015
Sujeong Choi, Ph.D. Student
Email: sc3842@nyu.edu
Interests: American Politics, Comparative Politics
Education: B.A. Korea University
Year Started: 2012
Arina Cocoru, Ph.D. Student
Email: acc591@nyu.edu
Interests:
Education:
Year Started: 2014
María Ignacia Curiel, Ph.D. Student
Email: mic261@nyu.edu
Interests: Comparative Politics, Political Behavior
Education: B.A. NYU in Political Science and Economics
Year Started: 2017
Anne Degrave, Ph.D. Student
Email: ad3595@nyu.edu
Interests: Political Economy of Development, Comparative Politics
Education: B.S. Economics & statistics, ENSAE ParisTech ; Master in Public affairs, Sciences Po ; M.A. International and Development Economics, Yale
Year Started: 2015
Alexsandr Demin, Ph.D. Student
Email: avd361@nyu.edu
Interests: Historical Persistence, Political Economy, Game Theory, Experiments
Year Started: 2018
Anna Denisenko, Ph.D. Student
Email: ad4205@nyu.edu
Interests: Political Economy, Formal Modeling, Game Theory
Education: B.A. Higher School of Economics
Year Started: 2017
Jiawei Fu, Ph.D. Student
Email: jf3739@nyu.edu
Interests: Methodology, Comparative History, Behavior, Political Economy
Education: LL.B East China University of Political Science and Law; M.A. Duke University
Year Started: 2018
Zoe Xincheng Ge, Ph.D. Student
Email: xg762@nyu.edu
Interests: Comparative Politics
Education: B.S. Zhejiang University; M.Phil. The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
Year Started: 2018
William Godel, Ph.D. Student
Email: wpg205@nyu.edu
Interests: Comparative Politics, Methodology, Formal Theory.
Education: B.A. NYU Philosophy;M.A. Johns Hopkins SAIS International Relations & Economics
Year Started: 2016
Juan Pablo González, Ph.D. Student
Email: jpg512@nyu.edu
Year Started: 2018
Jason Qiang Guo, Ph.D. Student
Email: qg251@nyu.edu
Interests: Political Economy, Long-term Development of Economic and Political Institutions and Quantitative Methodology
Education: B.S. Zhejiang University; M.A. Duke University
Year Started: 2013
Nicholas Haas, Ph.D. Student
Email: nsh276@nyu.edu
Homepage
Interests: Political Economy, Development, Comparative Politics
Education: B.A. University of Michigan
Year Started: 2014
Ning He, Ph.D. Student
Email: ning.he@nyu.edu
Interests: Comparative Politics, Political Economy
Education: B.A. in Publc Administration, Fudan University; M.Phil. in Social Science, Hong Kong University
Year Started: 2019
Byeonggeun "Kun" Heo, Ph.D. Student
Email: bh1875@nyu.edu
Interests: Normative Theory, Formal Theory, Formal Political Representation
Education: BA in Political Science and International Relations in Hanyang University
Year Started: 2019
Shoaib Jillani, Ph.D. Student
Email: sj1189@nyu.edu
Interests: Comparative Politics, Political Economy of Development
Education: Brown University, A.B. in Political Science and Applied Mathematics
Year Started: 2013
Sean Kates, Ph.D. Student
Email: sk5350@nyu.edu
Homepage
Interests:Far Right Parties, European Politics, Political Behavior
Education: B.A. University of Maryland, JD University of Maryland, MPA Harvard Kennedy School
Year Started: 2014
Prabin Khadka, Ph.D. Student
Email: pbk232@nyu.edu
Homepage
Interests: Civil War, International Interventions and Post-Conflict Peace-Building
Education:MA in International Security, SFS Georgetown University; BA/MA in Political Science, Tribhuvan University (Nepal); Graduate, Royal Military Academy Sandhurst (UK).
Year Started: 2014
Tatsuya Koyama, Ph.D. Student
Email: tk2530@nyu.edu
Interests: Conflict, International Relations, Methodology
Education: B.A. University of Tokyo; M.A. University of Toyko
Year Started: 2019
Nick Kugel, Ph.D. Student
Email: nak371@nyu.edu
Interests: American Politics, Immigration Politics, Social Media Analysis
Education: B.A. in Political Science, NYU
Year Started: 2019
Trellace Marie Lawrimore, Ph.D. Student
Email: tml410@nyu.edu
Interests: Historical Political Economy
Education: B.A. Georgetown University
Year Started: 2017
Dongil Lee, Ph.D. Student
Email: dongil.lee@nyu.edu
Homepage
Interests: Political Economy of Development, Comparative Politics (Sub-Saharan Africa)
Education: B.S. Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST), M.A. Seoul National University (Political Science)
Year Started: 2015
Kyuwon Lee, Ph.D. Student
Email: kwl313@nyu.edu
Interests: International Political Economy, Political Methodology
Education: B.A. Seoul National University, M.A. Seoul National University
Year Started: 2017
Reed Zhenhuan Lei , Ph.D. Student
Email: zl1545@nyu.edu
Homepage
Interests: Comparative Politics, Political Economy.
Education: B.A. in English and B.E. of Economics in International Economics and Trade at China Foreign Affairs University ;M.A. in Economics and M.A. in Public Administration, University of Southern California
Year Started: 2016
Giacomo Lemoli , Ph.D. Student
Email: gl1759@nyu.edu
Interests:Political economy of development, Historical political economy, Comparative politics, Methodology
Education: MSc Economic and Social Sciences, Bocconi University; BSc International Economics, Management and Finance, Bocconi University
Year Started: 2018
Athena Yishuang Li, Ph.D. Student
Email: yl4723@nyu.edu
Interests: International Political Economy, Comparative Politics
Education: B.S. The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
Year Started: 2017
Porey Lin, Ph.D. Student
Email: porey.lin@nyu.edu
Interests: American Politics, Gender and Politics, Social Media Analysis
Education: M.Phil Oxford, B.A. UCLA
Year Started: 2017
Desiree Si-En Loke, Ph.D. Student
Email: del375@nyu.edu
Year Started: 2017
Alejandro López Peceño, Ph.D. Student
Email: alp625@nyu.edu
Interests: Political economy, comparative politics, applied methods
Education: B.A. Carlos III University; M.A Juan March Institute
Year Started: 2019
Rajeshwari Majumdar, Ph.D. Student
Email: majumdar@nyu.edu
Interests: Comparative Politics, Political Economy, Methodology
Education: B.A. Political Science and B.A. Economics & Mathematics-Statistics, University of Connecticut
Year Started: 2018
Matt Malis, Ph.D. Student
Homepage
Email: malis@nyu.edu
Interests: International relations, diplomacy, bureaucracy and foreign policy
Education: B.A. Washington University in St. Louis
Year Started: 2017
Taylor Mattia, Ph.D. Student
Email: trm354@nyu.edu
Interests: Armed Conflict, International Intervention, Middle East and North African Politics.
Education: B.A. in Political Science and Middle East and North African Studies at the University of Michigan.
Year Started: 2016
Lucia Motolinia Carballo, Ph.D. Student
Homepage
Email: lucia.motolinia@nyu.edu
Interests: Comparative Politics, Political Economy, Latin American Politics, Quantitative Text Analysis
Education: B.A. Political Science, Instituto Tecnologico Autonomo de Mexico (ITAM), B.A. International Relations, ITAM
Year Started: 2016
Hanna Niczyporuk, Ph.D. Student
Email: hanna.niczyporuk@nyu.edu
Interests: Political Economy, Quantitative Methods
Education:BA University College London (Economics), MSc Barcelona Graduate School of Economics (Economics)
Year Started: 2015
Evgenii Nikitin, Ph.D. Student
Email: en919@nyu.edu
Interests: Political Behavior, Social Media
Education: MSc University of Warwick (UK), B.A. St.Petersburg State University of Economics (Russia)
Year Started: 2016
Alexis Palmer, Ph.D. Student
Email: ap6100@nyu.edu
Year Started: 2019
Tine Paulsen, Ph.D. Student
Email: tine.paulsen@nyu.edu
Interests: European Politics, Historical Political Economy, Methodology.
Education: B.A. in Political Science, New York University Abu Dhabi; MPhil in Politics (European Politics and Society), University of Oxford.
Year Started: 2016
Massimo Pulejo, Ph.D. Student
Email: mp4953@nyu.edu
Interests: Comparative Politics and Political Economy
Education: B.Sc. in Economics, Sapienza University of Rome; M.Sc. in Economic and Social Sciences, Bocconi University
Year Started: 2018
Roxanne Rahnama, Ph.D. Student
Email: rahnama@nyu.edu
Homepage
Interests: Political Economy of Development, Comparative Politics, Political Methodology
Education: BA Economics/BS Environmental Economics & Policy at UC Berkeley; SM Technology and Policy at MIT
Year Started: 2019
Steven Rashin, Ph.D. Student
Email: sr3245@nyu.edu
Homepage
Interests: Comparative Politics, Methodology, Clientelism, Subnational Authoritarianism
Education: B.A. Carleton College, M.A. Columbia University
Year Started: 2013
Franziska Roscher, Ph.D. Student
Email: franziska@nyu.edu
Interests: India, ethnicity and ethnic conflict, human rights, gender equality, media and public opinion.
Education: Bachelor of Science in Economics, University of Cologne; Journalism Degree at Cologne School of Journalism, Cologne; Master of Arts in Politics at Mumbai University, Mumbai.
Year Started: 2016
Chris Schwarz, Ph.D. Student
Email: cschwarz@nyu.edu
Homepage
Interests: Empirical and theoretical modeling, international relations, comparative politics, political economy.
Education: BA in Political Science and Economics, MA in Political Science at University of Wisonsin-Milwaukee.
Year Started: 2016
Joohyun "Jay" Shon, Ph.D. Student
Email: js9634@nyu.edu
Interests: Formal models and political economy
Education: B.A. the University of Chicago
Year Started: 2017
Khawaja Ali Tanveer Ahmed, Ph.D. Student
Email: kta230@nyu.edu
Interests: Political Economy of Development, International Conflict, Africa and the Middle East
Education: MALD, Fletcher School, Tufts University; A.B. Economics, Harvard.
Year Started: 2015
Carolina Torreblanca Becerra Acosta, Ph.D. Student
Email: carolina.torreblanca@nyu.edu
Interests: Political Economy, Comparative Politics, Political Methodology and Violence in Democracies
Education: B.A. Political Science and B.A. International Relations, Instituto Tecnologico Autónomo de Mexico (ITAM)
Year Started: 2019
Francis William Touola Meda, Ph.D. Student
Email: ftm230@nyu.edu
Interests: Political Economy, Conflicts, Elections and Game Theory
Education: M.A African School of Economics (ASE Benin)
Year Started: 2017
Peter Vining, Ph.D. Student
Email: pbv209@nyu.edu
Interests: International relations, civil conflict, terrorism
Education: MA Duke University, BS/BA Pennsylvania State University
Year Started: 2013
Ye Wang, Ph.D. Student
Email: yw1576@nyu.edu
Interests: Methodology and Comparative Politics
Education:2007-2011 School of Mathematical Science, Fudan University, Shanghai (Undergraduate); 2011-2014 China Center of Economic Research, Peking University, Beijing (Graduate, master degree)
Year Started: 2015
Mark Williamson, Ph.D. Student
Email: mark.williamson@nyu.edu
Homepage
Interests: Comparative Politics, Political Violence, Latin America
Education: B.E.S. University of Waterloo; M.A. McGill University
Year Started: 2019
Elisa Wirsching, Ph.D. Student
Email: emw528@nyu.edu
Interests: Comparative Politics, Political Economy, Political Accountability, Bureaucratic politics
Education: BA in Political Science and Economics, University of Mannheim; MSc in Political Science & Political Economy, London School of Economics
Year Started: 2019
Sophie Xiangqian Yi, Ph.D. Student
Email: xy731@nyu.edu
Interests: Comparative Politics of Nondemocracies and New Democracies, Political Methodology
Education: B.A. in economics at Peking University, M.A. in economics at NYU
Year Started: 2017
Mustafa Mikdat Yildirim, Ph.D. Student
Email: mmy267@nyu.edu
Interests: Political Economy, Mass Protests and Democratization, Impact of Economic Policies on the Institutional Features of Democracy
Education: B.A. Bogazici University
Year Started: 2017
Sidak Gebre Yntiso, Ph.D. Student
Email: sgy210@nyu.edu
Interests:Historical political economy (democratization, institutions and inequality), conflict (development, protest) and political methodology
Education: B.A. (Economics) New York University Abu Dhabi
Year Started: 2016
Junlong Aaron Zhou, Ph.D. Student
Email: jlzhou@nyu.edu
Homepage
Interests: Political Economy, Comparative Politics, Development, Political Methodology
Education: B.A. Peking University; M.A. University of Chicago
Year Started: 2017
Jan Zilinsky, Ph.D. Student
Email: jz981@nyu.edu
Homepage
Interests: Political Economy; Inequality; Experimental Methods.
Education: B.A. Harvard University; M.B.A. University of Chicago.
Year Started: 2016
Stephanie Zonszein, Ph.D. Student
Email: sz1610@nyu.edu
Homepage
Interests: Political economy of development, political behavior, political methodology
Education: B.S. Instituto Tecnológico Autónomo de México; M.S. Instituto Tecnológico Autónomo de México
Year Started: 2015
Farhad Kazemi
Research Interests: Comparative Politics of the Middle East
Christopher Mitchell
Research Interests: Latin American politics, United States foreign policy, political aspects of international migration.
Martin Schain
Research Interests:Comparative politics; European politics; center-periphery relations; trade unions and politics; immigration
Affiliated Assistant Professor of Politics; NYU Abu Dhabi
Areas of Research/Interest: Political Methodology; Data Science; US Political Institutions; Voter Behavior
Affiliated Associate Professor of Politics; NYU Abu Dhabi
Areas of Research/Interest: European Union ideology, nationality, and party systems
Affiliated Assistant Professor of Politics; NYU Abu Dhabi
Areas of Research/Interest: institutions and ethnic conflict, terrorism, economic history and growth, Asian politics