Teaching

Courses

• Comparative Politics in Developing Nations (PS 241)

  • Fall 2017

• Politics in International Development (PS 340)

  • Spring 2018

• Government and Politics of Southeast Asia (PS 345)

  • Fall 2022

• Senior Honors Seminar (PS 495)

  • Fall 2022

• Research Design and Analysis in Quantitative Research (PS 522 - Graduate Seminar - co-taught with Prof. Jim Kuklinski)

  • Spring 2019

• Proseminar in Comparative Politics II: Comparative Politics of Developing Countries (PS 541 - Graduate Seminar)

  • Spring 2012

• Topics in Comparative Politics: Comparative Political Economy (PS 549 - Graduate Seminar)

  • Fall 2018

• Topics in Comparative Politics: Corruption (PS 549 - Graduate Seminar) 

  • Fall 2017

• Topics in Comparative Politics: Governance and Accountability (PS 549 - Graduate Seminar)

  • Spring 2022

• Topics in International Relations: Foreign Aid (PS 589 - Graduate Seminar)

  • Fall 2014

• iTV / Poli Sci U Course on Survey Experiments (PS590 - Online, Eight-Week Graduate Seminar)

  • Spring 2023

• Dissertation Design (PS 598)

  • Spring 2023

• Short Course on Survey Experiments in Political Science (Universidade de Sao Paulo)

  • August 2013

• Introduction to International Relations (Columbia University) 

  • Summer 2007

Completed Dissertation Committees

• Shuyuan Shen -- Whataboutism with Foreign Affairs: How Chinese Media Leverage Foreign News for Distraction and Legitimation -- 2025

• Moonyoung Kim -- Green for Gold: How Firms Gain a Competitive Edge through International Environmental Treaties -- 2025

• Isaiah Raynal -- People are More Than Their Politics: Expanding Our Sense of Self as a Way to Alleviate Affective Polarization -- 2024

• Jair Moreira (Post-Doctoral Fellow in Philosophy, Politics, and Economics, University of Pennsylvania) -- Does the Caged Bird Sing? Outgroup Empathy and the Politics of Cooperation -- 2024

• Lucie Lu (Post-Doctoral Research Fellow, Center on Contemporary China, Princeton University) -- Revising Perceptions: China's Quests for Support from Domestic Social Media, the U.N. Human Rights Regime, and Overseas Publics -- 2023

• Hyo-Won Shin (Assistant Professor, University of Central Arkansas) -- The Impact of Outgroup Trust on Voting Behavior in Ethnically Salient Contexts -- 2023 -- Co-Chair

• Sarah Leffingwell (Booze Allen Hamilton) -- New Democracies and Multilateral Agreements: Exploring the Effects of Regime Legitimacy on International Behavior -- 2023

• Miles Williams (Visiting Assistant Professor, Denison University) -- International Aid and Strategic Interdependence: How Common and Conflicting Foreign Policy Goals Shape the Supply of Foreign Aid -- 2022 -- Chair -- Winner William Bernhard Award and Kathleen Burkholder Prize

• Yuan-Ning Chu (Apple) -- Socialization and National Identity in East Asia -- 2022

• Luzmarina Garcia (Assistant Professor, Florida Atlantic University) -- How Women Rule: Judicial Empathy and Administrative Court Rulings -- 2022

• Sanghoon Kim-Leffingwell (Assistant Professor, University of North Texas) -- Voting for Nostalgia?: Authoritarian Nostalgia, Social Identity, and Political Behavior in Post-Authoritarian Democracies -- 2022 -- Chair  -- Winner Kathleen Burkholder Prize

• Gustavo Diaz (Assistant Professor of Instruction, Northwestern University) -- Revealed Corruption and Electoral Accountability in Brazil: How Politicians Anticipate Voting Behavior -- 2021

• Wei Zhong (Post-Doctoral Fellow, Center for Social Media and Politics, New York University) -- Candidates, the Economy and Voting Behavior -- 2020 

• Alice Iannantuoni (Postdoctoral Researcher, Department of Political Science and International Relations, University of Geneva) -- Essays on Foreign Aid Volatility -- 2020 -- Chair

• Luke Plutowski (Senior Statistician, Latin American Public Opinion Project, Vanderbilt University) -- Quid-Pro-Quo or No? Targeted Electoral Distribution in Brazil -- 2020 -- Chair -- Winner Kathleen Burkholder Prize

• Peter J. Chereson -- The Revolution Will be Made Public: The Effects of International Actors on Protest Movements in Hybrid and Authoritarian Regimes Today -- 2019

• Kyle W. Estes (Assistant Professor, Bradley University) --  Post-Soviet Ethnic Politics and Public Goods Provision -- 2019

• Amanda Burke (Connections for the Homeless) -- Thinking Outside the Box: Extra-Parliamentary Strategies and Their Effects on the Development of Good Governance in New Democracies -- 2019

• Amanda Cronkhite (Assistant Professor, U.S. Army School of Advanced Military Studies) -- The Medium Matters: Political Communication and Behavior in Latin America -- 2018

• Kelly Senters Piazza (Associate Professor, U.S. Air Force Academy) -- Is Smaller Better? An Assessment of the Causes and Consequences of Subnational Fragmentation in Brazil -- 2017 -- Co-Chair -- Winner William Bernhard Award

• Wenshuo Zhang (Data Scientist, Apple) -- The Political Implications of Bilingual Cognition -- 2017

• Ashlea Rundlett (Assistant Professor, Department of Political Science, University of Rhode Island) -- The Effects of Revealed Corruption on Voter Attitudes and Participation: Evidence from Brazil -- 2017 -- Chair

• Matthew Cawvey (Associate Professor, Erskine College) -- Personality and the Political System: An Exploration of the Psychological Roots of Political Support -- 2017

• Blair Niece (Assistant Dean, U.S. Military Academy) -- Partial Diffusion and Backsliding in International Relations -- 2017

• Evangeline Mae Reynolds (Assistant Professor, U.S. Military Academy) -- Supranational Law and Compliance -- 2016  -- Winner Kathleen Burkholder Prize

• Gina M. Martinez (Program Associate, Resource Development Associates) -- Unraveling Red Tape: Foreign Aid Allocation and the Domestic Bureaucracy -- 2015

• Cristina ­Alvarez Mingote (Associate Director for Research, Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign) -- International Migration, Electoral Strategies and Home Country Elections -- 2014

• Andrea (Andi) Kent (Associate Professor, Department of Social Science and Public Administration, West Virginia University Institute of Technology) -- Putting the Winner-Loser Effect in Context: Presidentialism & Democracy in the Americas -- 2013

• Diego Correa (Assistant Professor, Universidade Federal do ABC, Brazil) -- The Effects of Conditional Cash Transfer Programs on Latin American Presidential Elections -- 2012  -- Winner Kathleen Burkholder Prize

• Carie Steele (Associate Professor, Department of Politics and International Affairs, Northern Arizona University) -- Disease Control and Donor Priorities: The Political Economy of Development Aid for Health -- 2011  -- Winner Kathleen Burkholder Prize

• Jennifer Romine -- International Linkages and Multilateral Lending in the Post-Communist Region -- 2011