Politics

In many newly emerging democracies, incumbent leaders use their control over election administration to gain unfair advantages at the ballot box.

As part of the field research for my master's thesis in Comparative Politics, I will be traveling to Israel this summer with a fellowship from Hebrew University.

This project will create an interdisciplinary and international research-education working group constituted by educators from universities, industry and NGO in US and China, to develop a multi-sited study that address the tangled geopolitics of innovation, sustainability and standardization of smart cities in the US-China context.

The series provides a venue for faculty and students to interact and discuss cutting-edge empirical work in global development.

This project analyzes how the European Union and its twenty-eight member states financed and budgeted for the expenses associated with the migration and refugee crises.

The Diplomatic Academy of Vietnam, the research and training arm of Vietnam's Ministry of Foreign Affairs, has proposed translating Brantly Womack's book, Asymmetry and International Relationships into Vietnamese.

At a time when big data and sophisticated statistical models of causal inference dominate the social sciences, this project draws on the theories of Lloyd and Susanne Rudolph to explore the contributions and limits of "situated knowledge" in political analysis.

Housing is a central economic ($33 trillion in US housing wealth) and social (how do I make my mortgage?) issue, yet the politics of housing are understudied.

This two-day conference brings together established and emerging scholars of colonialism, settler-colonialism, and race for a discussion of law, violence, borders, war, property, sovereignty, the global, and the humanities in different contexts around the globe.

Examining this critical point in the development of French domestic politics and the European Union.