Students
Current PhD 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

Gary Fong
PhD in Political Science and Social Data Analytics
Authoritarian politics, political communication, contentious politics

YiMin Huang
PhD in Political Science and Social Data Analytics
Authoritarian politics, democratic backsliding, and legislative behavior

Viktar Siamionau
PhD in Political Science
https://polisci.la.psu.edu/people/viktar-siamionau/
Democratic backsliding, authoritarian resurgence, political behavior, anti-immigrant attitudes
Former PhD Students

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 Walsh
PhD in Political Science and Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies
Gender and politics, political ambition, sex/gender quotas, electoral systems, representation