Melani Cammett (2nd year)
Assistant Professor, Department of Political Science, Brown University
Ph.D., Department of Political Science, University of California at Berkeley
Social welfare; politics in divided societies; Middle East and North Africa.
Jessica Greenberg (1st year)
Ph.D., Department of Anthropology, University of Chicago
Anthropology of democracy; political practice in post-socialist Serbia; student movements in the Balkans.
Saumitra Jha (2nd year)
Ph.D., Department of Economics, Stanford University
Historical institutions that encourage cooperation between social or ethnic groups and their lessons for contemporary policy.
Genevieve Lakier (2nd year)
Ph.D. candidate, Department of Anthropology, University of Chicago
Popular protest and labor struggles in Nepal; law enforcement during the Maoist insurgency.
Edmund Malesky (2nd year)
Assistant Professor, Graduate School of International Relations and Pacific Studies, University of California at San Diego
Ph.D., Department of Political Science, Duke University
Political economy of transition; local-central relations in Vietnam; private sector development.
Sebastián Mazzuca (1st year)
Ph.D., Department of Political Science, University of California at Berkeley
State-formation, with a special focus on nineteenth-century Latin America; political economy of growth.
Quinn Mecham (2nd year)
Assistant Professor, Department of Political Science, Middlebury College
Ph.D., Department of Political Science, Stanford University
Religious mobilization in the Muslim world; strategic evolution of Muslim political parties.
Elizabeth Levy Paluck (1st year)
Ph.D., Department of Social Psychology, Yale University
Effects of media on peace building in Rwanda; psychologically informed development and post-conflict initiatives.
Nancy Qian (1st year)
Assistant Professor of Development Economics, Department of Economics, Brown University
Ph.D., Department of Economics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Development economics; political economy; labor economics; gender issues.
Lily Tsai (2nd year)
Assistant Professor, Department of Political Science, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Ph.D., Department of Government, Harvard University
State-society relations and Chinese politics; taxation, representation, and state capacity in contemporary rural China.