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 student in the Department of Public Administration & Policy. He focuses on policy analysis, especially related to the natural environment. Primary research interests include the polit…
Christopher Burks Adjunct Instructor SPA | Public Administration
Christopher Tyler Burks (he/him) is a visiting assistant professor of political science at Samford University. At American University Burks is a Charles Levine Doctoral Research Fellow in public admin…
Chris Campbell
Chris Campbell is a PhD student in the Department of Public Administration and Policy and a Research Assistant at the Metropolitan Policy Center. He specializes in urban policy, housing, and community…
Michelle Castleberry
Neko Michelle Castleberry is a doctoral candidate in the Department of Public Administration and Policy at American University. Her research interests include policies regarding sexual and reproductiv…
Tianyu Chen Adjunct Instructor
Tianyu is a PhD candidate in the Department of Public Administration & Policy and a fellow at the Center for Data Science of the School of Public Affairs. His research interests include public and non…
Georgina Cisneros
Georgina is a current PhD student in Public Policy and Administration at American University. Her research interest include poverty, childhood wellbeing and evaluation of social programs in the contex…
Katherine Engel
Katie is a PhD candidate in the Department of Public Administration & Policy. Her research interests include socioeconomic disparities in wellbeing and the role of the social safety net in their reduc…
Victoria Gibney Adjunct Instructor SPA | Public Administration
Victoria Hunter Gibney is a doctoral candidate and adjunct instructor in American University's Department of Public Administration and Policy. Her research interests include material hardship and anti…
Kathryn Grossman Adjunct Instructor
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…
Jessica Horst Adjunct Instructor
Jessica is a PhD student in the Department of Public Administration and Policy. Her research interests include early childhood education (ECE), ECE labor markets, and education policy. Prior to her do…
Kathryn Johnson
Kathryn is a PhD student in the Department of Public Administration and Policy at American University. Her research interests include environmental, health, and technology policy.
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, strategy, organizational theory and 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 student in the Department of Public Administration and Policy at American University. His research interests include public management, bureaucratic discretion, and orga…
Alvaro Munguia
Alvaro Munguia is a doctoral student in the Department of Public Administration and Policy. Alvaro's research interests include immigration policy and education policy. His current research is focused…
William Prince
Will is a doctoral candidate and Charles Levine Doctoral Research Fellow in the Department of Public Administration and Policy. His research interests include public personnel management, citizen-gove…
Tingli Qu
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 …
Alexandra Rakus Adjunct Instructor
Alexandra Rakus is a doctoral student in the Department of Public Administration and Policy with a concentration in public policy. Her research interests are within health policy broadly and include o…
Ashley Scott
Ashley Scott (she/her) is a PhD student in the Department of Public Administration and Policy at American University. Her research interests include political and civic engagement, the role of communi…
Lilli Shaffer Adjunct Instructor
Lilliandra's primary area of study is in nonprofit organizations, specifically foundations. She is also interested in public administration theory and philosophy. Prior to attending American Universit…
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 …
Sarah Solomon
Sarah Solomon (she/her) is a Ph.D. student and Charles Levine Doctoral Research Fellow in the Department of Public Administration and Policy at the American University School of Public Affairs. Her re…
Samantha Strong
Samantha is a doctoral student in the Department of Public Administration and Policy with a concentration in public policy. Her research interests include gender equity, health policy, and the use of …
Corbin Walls
Corbin’s primary research interests are in nonprofit management, broadly defined, and more specifically, in nonprofit finance. He is additionally interested in organizational theory, collaborative gov…
Political Science PhD Students
Ali Amini
Ali is a Ph.D. student concentrating in political methodology and the comparative politics of the Middle East. Methodologically, he is interested in causal inference, political data science, and the e…
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 PhD student at American University. He studies comparative politics, political methodology with concentrations in civil-military relations and regime-types in the Middle East. Abdullah w…
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…
Ellen Kamalyan
Ellen Kamalyan is a 3rd year Ph.D. student at American University. She studies Comparative Politics and American Politics with research focuses on religious and ethnic violence and intergroup contact …
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 student at American University. She studies American politics with a concentration in racial and ethnic politics, specifically the political behavior of Latinos in the United States.…
Kristen Munnelly
Kristen is a third 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 r…
Zhuoye Pan
Pan is a Ph.D student at American University. She studies American Politics, with an emphasis on Prejudice Reduction and Attitude change and LGBTQ+ public opinion.
Cindy Ragab
Cindy Ragab is a PhD student at American University. She studies comparative politics with a focus on the nexus of governance, the political economy of development, climate and conflict resolution. Ci…
Wali Reheman Adjunct Instructor SPA | Finance & Personnel Administration
Wali Reheman is a doctoral student in the Department of Government at American University. He studies comparative politics and political methodology with a concentration on ethnic politics, political …
Dakota Strode Adjunct Instructor SPA | Government
Dakota Strode is a PhD candidate studying Political Science at American University. His research in American politics focuses on LGBTQ politics, political behavior, campaigns and elections, and politi…
Mark Tenenbaum
Mark is a fifth-year PhD student at American University. He is the Managing Editor of Congress and the Presidency, a peer-reviewed academic journal publishing cutting-edge research on the Legislative …
Karl Vonzabern
Karl is a PhD Candidate in Political Science. His research focuses on the intersection of climate change mitigation and the American political economy, particularly how coalition structures within the…
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
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…
Michael Becker
Michael H. Becker is a doctoral student in the Department of Justice, Law, and Criminology in the School of Public Affairs. His research interests include the individual and group correlates of suppor…
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 & …
Natalie Chwalisz Adjunct Instructor
Natalie Chwalisz received her PhD from the School of Public Affairs, in the Justice, Law and Criminology Department. She focuses in on human smuggling, mixed migration and forced displacement.In her …
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 …
Sara Harmouch
Sara Harmouch is a Doctoral Candidate at American University. She is a Lebanese national and defense policy researcher specializing in state and violent non-state actors' behaviors, asymmetric warfare…
Melissa Kilmer
Melissa is a Ph.D. student in American University’s Department of Justice, Law, and Criminology. She received her B.A. in psychology and criminal justice from the University of Delaware in 2022, with …
Bethany Leap
Bethany Leap is a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Justice, Law, and Criminology, focusing on her research interests of radicalization, extremist behavior, and quantitative methodology. Her curren…
Charlotte Lopez-Jauffret Adjunct Instructor
Charlotte Lopez-Jauffret is pursuing a doctoral degree in Justice, Law & Criminology from American University. In 2015, she received her Bachelor of Science in Biology from the University of Colorado …
Marcus McGhee
Mr. McGhee is a Ph.D. student at American University's School of Public Affairs. Professionally, he is a public administrator and Ethics Attorney. His research focuses on qualitative discourse analysi…
Alyssa Purdy Adjunct Professorial Lecturer SPA | Justice, Law & Criminology
Alyssa Purdy is currently pursuing a PhD in Justice, Law & Criminology with a secondary focus in Public Policy. She received her Master of Science degree in Justice, Law & Criminology from American Un…
Ashley Schroeder
Ashley Schroeder is a doctoral student in the Department of Justice, Law, and Criminology in the School of Public Affairs.Her research interests include gender based violence, alternative responses to…
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…
Candace Strickland
Candace M. Strickland is a native of Raleigh, North Carolina. She is a doctoral student in the Department of Justice, Law, and Criminology in the School of Public Affairs.Her research interests includ…
Alex Swanty
Alex Swanty is a doctoral student in the Justice, Law and Criminology program. She has received her B.A. and M.A. in Criminology/Criminal Justice from the University of Northern Colorado. Her research…
Jennifer West
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…