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IQMR 2022 – Research Design Discussion Group Schedule 

 

TUESDAY 6/14 

1.1 CARTER 

1.1.1  Yue Lin, Why Foreign Investment Fuels Social Conflicts in Africa?, florenceyuelin@berkeley.edu, UC Berkeley 

1.1.2  Matthew Koo, Foreign interference in societies, matthew.koo@yale.edu, Yale University 

 

1.2 RIZZO 

1.2.1  Yujin Julia Jung, Populist Attitude and Populist Rhetoric, yujinjuliajung@gmail.com; yjung@mail.missouri.edu, University of Missouri 

1.2.2  Jonatan Lemus Avila, Defeating populists in power: a theory of opposition's electoral success against populist incumbents, jonatanlemus@utexas.edu, University of Texas at Austin 

 

1.3 BENNETT 

1.3.1  Jonathan McPhilamy, Unpacking the Black Box: Explaining Variation in Civilian Control of the United States Military, JMCPHIL2@ND.EDU, The University of Notre Dame 

1.3.2  Prajakta Gupte, Privatizing Military Businesses: The Origins of Military's Economic Exit and Persistence Under Democracy, prajakta.gupte@ufl.edu, University of Florida 

 

1.4 WEDEEN 

1.4.1  Ilyssa Yahmi, Economic Actors and Transformative Conflict Dynamics: the Effects of Smuggling on Violence and Groups' Line of Conduct in the Sahel Region, ilyssa.yahmi@temple.edu, Temple University 

1.4.2  Sam Biasi, Insurgent Culture: Organizational Culture and the Strategies of Insurgency, biasis@bc.edu, Boston College 

 

1.5 MAZZARELLA 

1.5.1  Sinduja Raja, Creating alternate worlds through social movements, sinduja.raja@du.edu, University of Denver 

1.5.2  Camila Paez, When Women Say "No More": Contentious Politics and Gender Policies, cpaez1@asu.edu, Arizona State University 

 

WEDNESDAY 6/15 

 

2.1 CARTER 

2.1.1  Matt Brooke, Why broadcast anchors parties: Investigating the origins of conservative broadcasting's power within the Republican Party, mbrooke@g.harvard.edu, Harvard University  

2.1.2  Robert Oldham, Events, Crises, and Congressional Action, roldham@princeton.edu, Princeton University 

 

2.2 RIZZO 

2.2.1  Samantha Cooney, The Spectrum of Challenge: State Repression and Protest Issue, SamanthaRoseCo@unm.edu, University of New Mexico 

2.2.2  Khasan Redjaboev, How Forced Labor Shaped States and Societies, redjaboev@wisc.edu, University of Wisconsin-Madison 

 

2.3 BENNETT 

2.3.1  John Helferich, When The Myth Justifies the Means: European Defence Cooperation in the Age of Global Power Transitions, john.helferich@sant.ox.ac.uk, University of Oxford 

2.3.2  Yuji Maeda, The Index of Power: War, Prestige, and Alliances, ym7xm@virginia.edu, University of Virginia 

 

2.4 MAZZARELLA 

2.4.1  Sophia Birchinger, Local perceptions of coercion in AU peacebuilding, birchinger@HSFK.de, Peace Research Institute Frankfurt. 

2.4.2  Gaea Morales, Agents of Mass Construction: Cities as Missing Link in Global-Urban Governance, gaeapatr@usc.edu, University of Southern California 

 

2.5 MAJUMDAR 

2.5.1  Kate Bellchambers, Discourses of development in Indigenous Ranger Programs: an analysis of Government policy and Indigenous practice in the Gulf Country, Queensland, kate.bellchambers@anu.edu.au, Australian National University 

2.5.2  Emily Russell, Semi-Sovereignty in Indigenous India, eruss@stanford.edu, Stanford University 

 

THURSDAY 6/16 

 

3.1 SEAWRIGHT 

3.1.1  Chengyu Fu, Corruption and Tax Evasion: A Survey Experimental Design, cfu@g.harvard.edu, Harvard University 

3.1.2  Yamile Guibert, The Politics of Accountability: Party Strength, Patronage, and the State in Latin America, ysg5@cornell.edu, Cornell University 

 

3.2 MAHONEY 

3.2.1  Amara Galileo, Democratic Dividends in Africa: Evidence from Nigeria, South Africa, and Ghana, amara@udel.edu, University of Delaware 

3.2.2  Fatih Cetin, Racial Enfranchisement As A Distinct Act of Democratization: Comparative Historical Analysis of the United States, Germany, and Austria, fcetin@umass.edu, University of Massachusetts Amherst 

 

3.3 GOERTZ 

3.3.1  Jonathan Shine, Educating American Generals: Does Professional Military Education Improve Battlefield Performance?, JAS684@pitt.edu, University of Pittsburgh 

3.3.2  Benjamin Harris, The Times Are Changing: Novel Technology and the Likelihood of War, harrisb@mit.edu, MIT 

 

3.4 GRANT 

3.4.1  Lucia Vitale, The Borders of Global Health Citizenship, lvitale@ucsc.edu, University of California, Santa Cruz 

3.4.2  Nathanial Walker, Legalizing Sovereignty at its Furthest Extents: Explaining Governance in the Global Commons, nathanialwalker@brandeis.edu, Brandeis University 

 

3.5 JOHNSON 

3.5.1  Siddhartha Baral, Democracy, Disease, and LGBT+ Civil Society in the Global South, sbaral@ucsd.edu, UC San Diego 

3.5.2  Audrey Elliott, Transgender Immigration Detention, audrey.elliott@du.edu, University of Denver 

 

MONDAY 6/20 

 

4.1 JACOBS 

4.1.1  Tyler Parker, Why Do Smaller Partners Decide to Support Larger Partners' Foreign Policy Plans?, parkerty@bc.edu, Boston College 

4.1.2  Shannon Hartmann, Local Triggers of Terrorism: Understanding Terrorism Through Spatiotemporal Cluster Analysis, shanhart@nevada.unr.edu, University of Nevada, Reno 

 

4.2 KAPISZEWSKI 

4.2.1  Vanessa Navarro Rodriguez, Fragmented Indigenous Struggle: Contentious Politics and the Mapuche in Chile, vanessa_nr@berkeley.edu, UC Berkeley 

4.2.2  Lourdes Aguas, The institutionalization of norms: Interpreting, adapting, and implementing the Rights of Nature and the Right to Prior Consultation in Ecuador., laguas@albany.edu, SUNY Albany 

 

4.3 MACLEAN 

4.3.1  Lauren Baker, The Politics of Garbage at Sites of Global Environmental Governance, LMarieBaker@u.northwestern.edu, Northwestern University 

4.3.2  Kaleigh Karageorge, What Effect Does the Degree of Alignment Between Environmental Groups' Goals and Tactics Have on Partnership Outcomes? A Survey Experiment, kkarageo@purdue.edu, Purdue University 

 

4.4 CYR 

4.4.1  Aurora Sun (Ling), Authoritarian Soft Power, asling@princeton.edu, Princeton University 

4.4.2  Wenyan Deng, Drivers of Authoritarian Trade Liberalization, wdeng1@mit.edu, Massachusetts Institute of Technology 

 

4.5 PACHIRAT 

4.5.1  Iona Summerson, Relationships with geological nature on terrestrial and extraterrestrial mining peripheries, 666824@soas.ac.uk, SOAS University of London 

4.5.2  Iver Johnson, Flexible Borders and Hierarchies of Being: Biopolitical Animality in Global Politics, johni685@newschool.edu, New School for Social Research 

 

4.6 ELMAN 

4.6.1  Gabriella Gricius, Is the Arctic Heating Up? Complicating the Picture of Arctic Securitization, ggricius@colostate.edu, Colorado State University 

4.6.2  András Bartok, Setting Suns: A comparative study of the social and political securitization of demographic ageing in Japan and Hungary, Bartok.Andras@uni-nke.hu, University of Public Service (Hungary) 

 

TUESDAY 6/21 

 

5.1 JACOBS 

5.1.1  Anum Syed, Identities, Borders, and Immigrant Collective Action: The Legal Mobilization of Dalit Rights in the United Kingdom and United States, anumsyed@gwu.edu, George Washington University 

5.1.2  Laura Lopez Perez, The legacies of collective action: mobilization of victims of violence in the criminal wars in Mexico, llopez7@nd.edu, University of Notre Dame 

 

5.2 KAPISZEWSKI 

5.2.1  Katharin Tai, Judgmental Paper Tigers: How states use stigma and technology to compensate for weak institutions, k_tai@mit.edu, MIT 

5.2.2  Ashley Khor, Big Data and Artificial Intelligence for the Public Sector, ashley.khor@pitt.edu, University of Pittsburgh 

 

5.3 MACLEAN 

5.3.1  Badr Karkbi, Political Science in North Africa: Teaching, challenges and perspectives, badrkarkbi@hotmail.fr, Mundiapolis University 

5.3.2  Audrey Kalindi, Community experience and perceptions of maternal health services across the continuum of care in Zambia.,,  

5.3.3, Amina Karoui, Democratic Moments in Media and Journalistic Rhetoric: A Case Study of Tunisia's Political and Media Sceneries, mina26k@gmail.com, Faculty of Arts, Letters and Humanities of Manouba, Tunis 

 

5.4 CYR 

5.4.1  Mariah Thornton, Authoritarian interference and democratic deterrence: How Taiwan’s countermeasures against China’s interference are consolidating its democracy, M.Thornton1@lse.ac.uk, London School of Economics  

5.4.2  Felipe Ribeiro, Controlling crime: Infrastructure and organized crime decision-making, felipe.ribeiro@temple.edu, Temple University 

 

5.5 SCHAFFER 

5.5.1  Bethany Tietjen, Mobility in a Changing Climate: An Analysis of U.S. Policy and Discourse on Climate-Related Migration, bethany.tietjen@tufts.edu, Tufts 

5.5.2  Isabella Bellezza-Smull, Border Control Beyond Borders: Networked Professionals & the Governance of International Flows, isabella_bellezza-smull@brown.edu, Brown University 

 

WEDNESDAY 6/22 

 

6.1 JACOBS 

6.1.1  Makena Micheni, Imagined Ties that Bind: Exploring the role of ethnicity in non-ethnic armed groups in sub-Saharan Africa, m.micheni@lse.ac.uk, London School of Economics  

6.1.2  Shivaji Mukherjee, Hindu Nationalism and vigilante violence against Ethnic Minorities in India, shivaji.mukherjee@utoronto.ca, University of Toronto 

 

6.2 KAPISZEWSKI 

6.2.1  Neslihan McCorkel, Job Search Methods: Do They Have a Significant Impact on Refugees' Wages?, nkaptano@gmu.edu, George Mason University 

6.2.2  Keely Eshenbaugh, Remain or Leave: A Mixed Methods Case Study of Labor Union's and Business' Trade Preferences during Brexit, keshenbaugh@unr.edu, University of Nevada, Reno 

 

6.3 MACLEAN 

6.3.1  Hailey Heinz, Who Are Child Care Subsidies For? Effects of Program Governance on Eligibility Policy in Two American States, hailey57@unm.edu, University of New Mexico 

6.3.2  Deviana Dewi, From Thought to Action: How Nutrition Became a Policy Priority in Indonesia, deviana.dewi@jhu.edu, SAIS Johns Hopkins University  

 

6.4 CYR 

6.4.1  Suzanne Freeman, The Spy and the (Autocratic) State: Theory and Politics of Civil-Intelligence Relations, sbfree@mit.edu, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) 

6.4.2  Haley Allen, Staffing the Secret Police: Security Personnel in Authoritarian Argentina, haley.allen@yale.edu, Yale University  

 

6.5 PACHIRAT 

6.5.1  Sara Ravnkilde Nielsen, How can leaders build strong social relationships within organizations? An integrative conceptual framework of relations-oriented leadership, sran@sam.sdu.dk, University of Southern Denmark 

6.5.2  Elin Berlin, Honor Based Violence Policies in Sweden, eberlin@umd.edu, University of Maryland 

 

THURSDAY 6/23 

 

7.1 OANA 

7.1.1  Jennie Barker, Standing up for Democracy? Democracy Promotion under Emerging Multipolarity, jlbarker@berkeley.edu, University of California-Berkeley 

7.1.2  Lukasz Niparko, Civil Society response to the erosion of Democracy in Poland: A Mixed Methods Study, lniparko2@huskers.unl.edu, University of Nebraska-Lincoln 

 

7.2 KREUZER 

7.2.1  Firat Kimya, Party Institutionalization and Democratic Consolidation, ffk3yu@virginia.edu, University of Virginia 

7.2.2  Anqi Yang, Bourgeoisie and the State: Coalition and Regime Outcome, anqiyang@ufl.edu, University of Florida 

 

7.3 WILSON 

7.3.1  Diana Park, Nonviolent Civil Resistance in Authoritarian Cyberspace Environments, dayea.park@tufts.edu, The Fletcher School 

7.3.2  Fahmida Zaman, Understanding Political Control of the Internet in Non-Democracies: A Mixed-method Approach, fzaman@udel.edu, University of Delaware 

 

7.4 WALDNER 

7.4.1  Wenxin Li, Japan's diplomatic capacity to shape the regional order of Indo-Pacific, wenxinli@udel.edu, University of Delaware 

7.4.2  Shaimaa Magued, Turkey's Shift to Reconciliation with Egypt: The State-Society Relations Approach and Foreign Policy-Making in Authoritarian Regimes, shaimaamagued@yahoo.com, Austrian Institute for International Affairs 

 

7.5 SCHAFFER 

7.5.1  Eun-A Park, Inter-coethnic attitudes and sense of belonging in South Korea, epark125@ucr.edu, University of California, Riverside  

7.5.2  Megan Dias, Cities Creating Citizens? Examining the causes and effects of local efforts to incorporate immigrants in the United States, megan.dias@utexas.edu, University of Texas at Austin 

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