Economics

Daniel Clark is a microeconomic theorist studying topics in game theory and mechanism design and has publications in journals such as the American Economic Review and the Review of Economic Studies.

History

Stella Ghervas’s research interests are in intellectual and international history of modern Europe, with special reference to the history of peace and peace-making, and in Russia’s intellectual and maritime history.

Economics

Joao Guerreiro is a macroeconomist studying topics in business cycles, fiscal policy, inequality, and imperfect expectations. He also works on understanding the consequences of demographic and technological changes for inequality and the optimal response of public policy.

Geography

Kaily Heitz is a Black Geographer. Her research bridges Black feminist interventions and insights into the lived experience of Blackness, Urban, and Geographic research on the relationship between race, political-economic structures of inequality, and spatial justice. 

Political Science

Jonathan Homola research deals with questions of representation and electoral preferences. More specifically, his work mostly falls into two main fields of interest: i) xenophobia and (support for right-wing) extremism, and ii) gender and politics. Jonathan’s regional areas of expertise are Western democracies and Eastern Europe.

Asian American Studies

Nour Joudah’s research interests are settler colonialism, indigenous studies, decolonization, comparative and relational analysis, indigenous geographies, countermapping, digital archives, global politics of sport (soccer/football), identity and sport.

Communication

Elisa Kreiss’ work combines tools from natural language processing, psycholinguistics, and human-computer interaction to advance our understanding of how communicative context shapes language use.

Geography

Yue Li research interests are in the fields of Tropical terrestrial ecosystem, ecohydrology, wildfires, climate extremes, Earth system models, natural climate solutions, and land use.

History

Jared McBride is a historian who examines Russia, Ukraine, and Eastern Europe in the 20th century with a focus on nationalist movements, mass violence, interethnic conflict, and war crimes prosecution, related to both the Second World War and Cold War periods.

Political Science

Salma Mousa research interest is on migration, conflict, and intergroup contact in the Middle East and beyond. She partners with local governments and NGOs in the Middle East (and beyond) to answer questions such as “What does social cohesion look like, and how can it be built — especially after violent conflict?”.

History

Elizabeth O’Brien’s research interests is in the History of Medicine and Latin America.

History

Julia Payson studies representation, political institutions, and public policy in state and local governments in the U.S.

Political Science

Natasha Piano specializes in democratic theory and the history of political thought, focusing on the realist and empirical traditions in political science and Italian political philosophy.

Political Science

Michelle Torres research interests are in the fields of political methodology and political behavior. Her research agenda focuses on the ways in which we can make statistical and computer science methods accessible to political science.