Meet Our Team

Core Members

Amy Liu

Co-Director

Eric McDaniel

Co-Director

Roberto Carlos

Faculty Fellow

Sergio Garcia-Rios

Faculty Fellow

Angela Gutierrez

Faculty Fellow

Angela Ocampo

Faculty Fellow

Michael Shepherd

Faculty Fellow

Dr. Hannah Walker
Hannah Walker

Faculty Fellow

Dr. Jangai Jap
Jangai Jap

Post-Doctoral Fellow

Keith Chew

Lab Manager

Affiliated Fellows

Zsombor Csata
Zsombor Csata

Research Fellow
Babeș-Bolyai University (Romania)
Center for Social Sciences (Hungary)

Mike Medeiros
Mike Medeiros

Research Fellow Emeritus
University of Texas at Austin

Andrej Findor
Andrej Findor

Research Fellow
Comenius University (Slovakia)

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Roman Hlatky

Lab Manager Emeritus
University of North Texas

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Marcel Roman

Research Fellow Emeritus
Harvard University

Graduate Students

Chew, Keith Padraic

Interest: Intersectionality, legislatures, institutions.

Compton, Betty

Interest: Language politics, the former Soviet Union, media.

Dunphy, Peter

Interest: Democratic institutions, federalism, political development, American South.

Garza, Stephanie

Interest: Political behavior, polarization, elections, Congress, political communication.

Gomez, Vianney

Interest: Latinx politics, gender politics, criminal justice.

Hatch-Rivera, Elyse

Interest: Carceral state, Latinx politics, immigration, border policy, national security.

Hsu, Victor

Interest: Judicial politics in advanced democracies

Kim, Eric

Interest: Public opinion, political behavior, American politics.

Martin, Matt

Interest: Immigration politics, Latin American politics, public participation in constitutional design.

Oh, Jongwon

Interest: Public opinion, policy attitude, media.

Osa, God’swill

Interest: Polarization, persuasion, political behavior, political psychology, race.

Power, Eoin

Interest: Institutions, ethnic politics, Eastern Europe (the Balkans).

Salzman, Jenna

Interest: Voting, public opinion, rural politics, state legislatures, agenda setting.

Sanchez, Linette

Interest: Latine politics, immigration, voting and elections.

Selsky, Sam

Interest: Middle East politics, forced migration, religion and politics.

Sullivan, Miranda

Interest: Religion and politics, urban politics, immigration.

Verrilli, Allison

Interest: Behavior, policing, gentrification.

Ward, Daisy

Interest: Bureaucracy, historical political economy, indigenous politics, Latin America.

Xu, Meiying

Interest: Language politics, public opinion, Chinese diaspora.

Yew, Joel

Interest: Ethnic politics, party politics, authoritarian institutions, sub-national politics, Southeast Asia.

Yoo, Ethan

Interest: Political psychology, group identity politics, experimental method.

Undergraduate Fellows

Findley, Andrea

Major: Economics, Government, and Psychology