Teaching
Courses
Comparative Politics in Developing Nations (PS 241)
Politics in International Development (PS 340)
Government and Politics of Southeast Asia (PS 345)
Senior Honors Seminar (PS 495)
Research Design and Analysis in Quantitative Research (PS 522 - Graduate Seminar - co-taught with Prof. Jim Kuklinski)
Proseminar in Comparative Politics II: Comparative Politics of Developing Countries (PS 541 - Graduate Seminar)
Topics in Comparative Politics: Comparative Political Economy (PS 549 - Graduate Seminar)
Topics in Comparative Politics: Corruption (PS 549 - Graduate Seminar)
Topics in Comparative Politics: Governance and Accountability (PS 549 - Graduate Seminar)
Topics in International Relations: Foreign Aid (PS 589 - Graduate Seminar)
iTV / Poli Sci U Course on Survey Experiments (PS590 - Online, Eight-Week Graduate Seminar)
Dissertation Design (PS 598)
Short Course on Survey Experiments in Political Science (Universidade de Sao Paulo)
Introduction to International Relations (Columbia University)
Completed Dissertation Committees
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
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 (Lecturer, Data Analytics and Policy Program, Johns Hopkins University) -- Voting for Nostalgia?: Authoritarian Nostalgia, Social Identity, and Political Behavior in Post-Authoritarian Democracies -- 2022 -- Chair
Gustavo Diaz (Postdoctoral Fellow, Center for Inter-American Policy and Research, Tulane University) -- Revealed Corruption and Electoral Accountability in Brazil: How Politicians Anticipate Voting Behavior -- 2021
Wei Zhong (Post-Doctoral Research Scientist, Institute for Data, Democracy & Politics, George Washington 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 (Statistician, Latin American Public Opinion Project, Vanderbilt University) -- Quid-Pro-Quo or No? Targeted Electoral Distribution in Brazil -- 2020 -- Chair
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 (Visiting Assistant Professor, Occidental College) -- Post-Soviet Ethnic Politics and Public Goods Provision -- 2019
Amanda Burke (California Department of Justice) -- 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 (Assistant Professor, U.S. Air Force Academy) -- Is Smaller Better? An Assessment of the Causes and Consequences of Subnational Fragmentation in Brazil -- 2017 -- Co-Chair
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 (Assistant 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
Gina M. Martinez (Program Associate, Resource Development Associates) -- Unraveling Red Tape: Foreign Aid Allocation and the Domestic Bureaucracy -- 2015
Cristina Alvarez Mingote (Associate Director, Center for Social and Behavioral Science, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign) -- International Migration, Electoral Strategies and Home Country Elections -- 2014
Andrea Kent (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 (Visiting Professor, Universidade Federal do ABC, Brazil) -- The Effects of Conditional Cash Transfer Programs on Latin American Presidential Elections -- 2012
Carie Steele (Department of Politics and International Affairs, Northern Arizona University) -- Disease Control and Donor Priorities: The Political Economy of Development Aid for Health -- 2011
Jennifer Romine -- International Linkages and Multilateral Lending in the Post-Communist Region -- 2011
Completed Undergraduate Theses
Thomas Bishop (Student, Loyola University Chicago School of Law) -- The Effect of Party Turnover on Government Corruption -- 2017-18
Naveed Cheraghchi (J.D., Boston College Law School) -- The Effects of Political Strategy on the United States' Aid Allocation -- 2015-16
Ricardo Alvarez -- Does Anti-Corruption Foreign Aid Reduce Corruption? -- 2014-15
Michael Bertucci (J.D., Chicago-Kent College of Law) -- Country Specificity and Aid Effectiveness: Designing Better Technical Assistance Aid -- 2013-14
Megan Anderson -- Getting More Ideas on the Table: Looking at How Gender Equality Affects a State’s Level of Innovation -- 2012-13
Valerie Ferrin -- Member State Compliance in the European Union: The EU ‘Blue Card’ Directive: Going Beyond Aid -- 2012-13
Lara Sanoica -- Copper and the Role of Extractive Industry Ownership for Economic Growth -- 2012-13
Philip Santoso (Ph.D., Rice University; Assistant Professor, Duke Kunshan University) -- Decentralization and Satisfaction with Democracy -- 2011-12
Nicholas Esterman (J.D., John Marshall Law School) -- Making Hard Decisions: Changes in U.S. Aid Allocation During Economic Downturns -- 2009-10
Dotan Haim (Ph.D., University of California at San Diego; Assistant Professor, Florida State University) -- Economic Globalization's Effect on Peoples' Values and Attitudes: A Marxist Perspective -- 2009-10