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.

Which are the political reasons behind the migration movements involving the Global South at the beginning of the 20th Century?

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.

My work approaches Tibetan migration to India in the second half of the twentieth century through the longer history of lay and monastic movement in the region to ask new questions of nationalism and bureaucratic regimes of citizenship in South Asia.

This one-day symposium brings together UVA faculty, outside scholars of French politics from the US and France, a journalist, and a current French political advisor, to examine the significance of the French elections through the lens of Europe today.

The MESALC Spring Symposium Envisioning 21st Century Middle Eastern and South Asian Studies( April 6 & 7, 2018) looks to define the contours of possibility for revitalized Middle Eastern and South Asian Studies.