Kristen Allen
Kristen Allen is a current PhD student in Public Policy and Administration at American University. Her research interests include accountability in higher education, student outcomes in the labor mark…
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Michele Aquino
Michele is a PhD candidate in the Department of Public Administration & Policy. He focuses on policy analysis, especially related to the natural environment and climate-related issues. His research cu…
Chris Campbell
Chris Campbell is a PhD candidate in the Department of Public Administration and Policy and a Research Assistant at the Metropolitan Policy Center. He specializes in state and local housing policy and…
Georgina Cisneros
Georgina is a current PhD student in Public Policy and Administration at American University. Her research interests include poverty, childhood wellbeing, and the evaluation of social programs for low…
Kathryn Grossman Adjunct Professorial Lecturer SPA | Public Administration
Kathryn is a doctoral candidate in the Department of Public Administration and Policy. Her research interests include public and nonprofit management and education policy. She is a qualitative researc…
Jaleesa Hall Adjunct Instructor SPA | Public Administration
Jaleesa Hall is a current PhD student in Public Policy and Administration at American University. Her research interests include nonprofit emergence and evolution, organizational governance, and entre…
Christopher Johnston
Chris is a PhD student in the Department of Public Administration and Policy. His research focus is on the interface between education policy and labor economics. Before starting his PhD, he worked in…
Sangwon Ju
Sangwon Ju is a PhD student in the Department of Public Administration and Policy at American University. His research interests include public management, organizational theory and behavior, behavior…
Madeleine Maylath
Madeleine is a doctoral student in the Department of Public Administration and Policy. Her research focuses on the social safety net in the United States.
Grant Mobley
Grant Mobley (he/him) is a PhD candidate in the Department of Public Administration and Policy at American University. His research interests include public management, behavioral public administratio…
Tingli Qu Adjunct Instructor SPA | Public Administration
Tingli Qu is a current PhD student in the Department of Public Administration and Policy at American University. Her research interests include public finance, fiscal performance, fiscal transparency …
Jesus Sanchez
Jesus Sanchez is a PhD student in the Department of Public Administration and Policy. He is interested in education policy, with a focus on higher education finance and affordability. He has previousl…
Ashley Scott
Ashley Scott (she/her) is a PhD candidate in the Department of Public Administration and Policy at American University. Her research focuses on urban economics, with particular focus on how education …
Ankita Singh
Ankita is a current PhD student in Public Policy and Administration at American University. Her research interests include environmental and social sustainability in the supply chains. She previously …
Corbin Walls
Corbin is a public management scholar who is passionate about the effectiveness and accountability of the public services delivered by nonprofit organizations. His work explores the complex dynamics b…
Political Science PhD Students
Ali Amini
Ali Amini is a Ph.D. candidate in Political Science at the School of Public Affairs, American University. His research focuses on political psychology and political methodology. He develops and applie…
Evyn Anderson
Evyn is a PhD student at American University with a concentration in American Politics. She is interested in gender equity and specifically how gender equity at home impacts parity in larger social, …
Abdullah Atalan
Abdullah is a post-doctoral fellow at the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) and a faculty fellow in the Center for Data Science at American University. He completed his PhD in Poli…
Bryan Bayne
Bryan is a PhD student specializing in comparative politics and political methodology. His research interests lie in climate and environmental politics.
Mehmet Yasin Bozkus
Yasin is a Ph.D. student in the Department of Government, specializing in comparative politics and political methodology. His research focuses on the politics of nationalism and ethnicity, ethnic conf…
Ehsan Habibpour Moghaddam
Ehsan is a PhD student specializing in comparative politics and political methodology. He is a Graduate Fellow at the Center for Data Science in the School of Public Affairs. His research interests sp…
Rafsanul Hoque
Rafsanul Hoque is a PhD candidate at American University. His academic interest is in comparative politics, with a focus on public opinion, citizens’ political attitudes and behavior, political commun…
Ellen Kamalyan
Ellen Kamalyan is a Ph.D. Candidate at American University. Her studies are at the intersection of Comparative and American Politics, with a mixed-methods approach that includes original survey experi…
Gabriel Kelly
Gabriel C. Kelly is a Political Science PhD student, majoring in Comparative Politics, whose research focuses on preference falsification and civil society in post-communist Europe and Eurasia. He has…
Aditya Kumar
Aditya is a Doctoral student at the Department of Government and specializes in Comparative Politics and Political Methodology. His primary research interests involve the examining the impact of welfa…
Megan Kurten Adjunct Instructor SPA | Government
Megan Kurten is an Adjunct Professor in the Department of Government and a Ph.D. candidate in Comparative Politics. Her research domain is political violence, particularly the relationships and intera…
Jennifer Lopez
Jennifer is a PhD candidate at American University. She studies American politics with a concentration in racial and ethnic politics, specifically the political behavior of Latinos in the United State…
Kristen Munnelly
Kristen is a fourth year doctoral student in the political science program. She is interested in how philanthropy affects policy in the United States and beyond, as well as media coverage of this and …
Lilyana Pan
Lilyana is a Ph.D student at American University. Her research focuses on American politics, LGBTQ+ politics and public opinion, prejudice reduction, attitude change, and political psychology.
Cindy Ragab Adjunct Instructor SPA | Finance & Personnel Administration
Cindy Ragab is a PhD candidate at American University. She studies comparative politics with a focus on the nexus of governance, the political economy of development, climate and conflict resolution. …
Wali Reheman Adjunct Instructor SPA | Finance & Personnel Administration
Wali Reheman is a PhD Candidate in the Department of Government at American University. He studies comparative politics and political methodology with a concentration on ethnic and religious identity …
Riley Van Steenburg
Riley Van Steenburg is a Ph.D. student with a focus on Political Methodologies and American Politics. Her research interests include LGBTQ+ politics and policy.
Qingya Xu
Rita Qingya Xu is Ph.D. student at American University. She studies Comparative Politics and American Politics with focuses on political communication and public opinions, particularly on social media…
Xinyuan Yang
Xinyuan is a PhD student in Political Science. She studies political methodology and comparative politics. Her research interests include using Bayesian method to study public opinion and political be…
Justice, Law & Criminology PhD Students
Hassana Arbubakrr
Hassana Arbubakrr is a 1st Year PhD student in Justice, Law and Criminology. Her research interests consist of aspects of the criminal legal system and black neurodivergence.
William Arnold Adjunct Instructor SPA | Justice, Law & Criminology
William Arnold is a PhD student in the department of Justice, Law and Criminology at American University. He is interested in questions concerning the formation, interpersonal dynamics, and linguistic…
Elizabeth Carlisle
Elizabeth C. Carlisle is a doctoral student in the Department of Justice, Law & Criminology in the School of Public Affairs. In 2020, she received three Bachelor of Arts degrees in Criminology, Law & …
Kaitlyn Davisio
Kaitlyn DaVisio is a doctoral student in the Department of Justice, Law, and Criminology in the School of Public Affairs. She is also a Research Associate with the Polarization and Extremism Research …
Gabriela Gómez Mantilla
Gabriela is a doctoral student in the Department of Justice, Law, and Criminology at the School of Public Affairs. Her research focuses on military approaches to counterterrorism, legal discourses, th…
Eliza Jackson
Eliza Lee "Ellee" Jackson is a PhD student in the department of Justice, Law, and Criminology. Her research interests include corrections, translational criminology, and public perceptions of punishme…
Kevin Lopez
Kevin P. Lopez is a doctoral student in the department of Justice, Law, and Criminology in the School of Public Affair. His research interests include the intersection of online behaviors and offline …
Ashley Schroeder
Ashley Schroeder is a PhD student in the Department of Justice, Law, and Criminology in the School of Public Affairs.Her research interests include women in policing, police culture, alternative respo…
Moriah Sharpe
Moriah Sharpe is a doctoral student in Justice, Law, and Criminology. She is a native of Charlotte, North Carolina, and holds a Bachelor of Arts in psychology from the University of North Carolina and…
Joseph Stabile
Joseph Stabile is a doctoral student in the Department of Justice, Law & Criminology at American University's School of Public Affairs.His research interests include the organizational dynamics of whi…
Jennifer West Senior Researcher SPA | PERIL Institute
JJ West (she/her) is a doctoral student at American University in the Department of Justice, Law & Criminology. Her research interests include incels, right-wing extremism, male supremacy, and support…
Rachel Williams
Rachel A. Williams is a doctoral student in the Department of Justice, Law & Criminology at the School of Public Affairs. Her research interests focus on the study of religious extremism. In 2018, she…