Students

Cihan Duran

PhD in Political Science and Social Data Analytics

https://kadircihanduran.github.io/

Social movements, social media, competitive authoritarian regimes, network analysis, graph neural networks

YiMin Huang

PhD in Political Science and Social Data Analytics

https://yiminh.github.io/

Authoritarian politics, democratic backsliding, and legislative behavior

Yasin Shafi

PhD in Political Science and Social Data Analytics

https://yasinshafi.com/

Dictatorships, opposition politics, political parties, social movements, comparative political economy

Viktar Siamionau

PhD in Political Science

https://polisci.la.psu.edu/people/viktar-siamionau/

Democratic backsliding, authoritarian resurgence, political behavior, anti-immigrant attitudes

Mete Ulutas

PhD in History

https://history.la.psu.edu/directory/mete-ulutas/

Political incarceration, carceral spaces, Turkey, historical ethnography

Lesley Zhang

PhD in Political Science and Social Data Analytics

https://lesleyzhanggg.github.io/

Repression, social movements, authoritarian politics, political communication

Gary Fong

PhD in Political Science and Social Data Analytics

https://sap98fcs.github.io/

Authoritarian politics, political communication, contentious politics

Muhammad Kara

PhD in Higher Education

https://hope.temple.edu/directory/muhammad-kara-phd

Higher education policy, education and law, race and ethnicity, religion, belonging

Younes Karimi

PhD in Informatics

https://github.com/younes-karimi

Machine learning, natural language processing and audio processing models, authoritarian propaganda

Lindsay Snyder

PhD in Political Science and Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies

https://saralindsay.org/

Gender and politics, political ambition, sex/gender quotas, electoral systems, representation