Graduate Students and TAs

We are proud of our graduate students at Stony Brook. For a list of students on the job market, please check Hire a Stony Brook PhD.

Karyn Amira

Major/Minor: Political Psychology / American Politics
Interests:Political Psychology, Media, Political Behavior
Degrees: B.A., Political Science, Union College
Research and Teaching Interests: Political Persuasion, Political Communication, Media, American Political Ideology

Autumn Bynum

Major/Minor: Political Psychology /Political Economy
Degrees: B.S., Business and Economics, Japanese, Asian Studies, University of Arkansas
Research and Teaching Interests: Political Cognition and Emotion, Judgment and Decision Making, Religion and Politics

Richard Cho

Major/Minor: Political Psychology / American Politics
Interests: Heuristics and Stereotypes/Prejudice / Public Opinion
Degrees: B.A., Political Science, Stony Brook University
M.A., Political Science, Columbia University
Research and Teaching Interests: Experimental/Quantitative Methods, Political Behavior, Media Effects, Public Opinion 

Katie Donovan

Major/Minor: American Politics/Political Psychology
Interests: political behavior, public opinion, political
communication, campaigns and elections
Degrees: B.A. in English, Emory University; M.S. in Criminal Justice,
University of Cincinnati

Taylor Grant

Major/Minor: American Politics/Political Economy
Interests: Environmental Politics/Judicial Politics/Political Institutions
Degrees: B.A., Political Science, University of Washington J.D., Seattle University School of Law

Raynee Gutting

Major/Minor: Political Psychology
Interests:
Degrees: B.A., Psychology, UCLA
Research and Teaching Interests:

Matthew Harris

(Graduate Council Fellowship Award)
Major/Minor: American Politics
Interests:
Degrees: B.A., Political Science and TV/Radio/Films, Syracuse University
Research and Teaching Interests:

Joshua Johnson

Major/Minor: American Politics 
Interests: Judicial Politics; Interest Groups; Political Institutions; Quantitative Methods and Game Theory
Degrees: B.A., Political Science, Creighton University 
Research and Teaching Interests:

Roland Kappe

Major/Minor: Political Economy/ Political Psychology
Interests: Comparative Political Economy, Institutions, Party
Competition, Formal Theory, Agent-Based Modeling, Methodology
Degrees: M.A. Politics and Management (Diplom
Verwaltungswissenschaft), University of Konstanz

Ellen Key

Major/Minor: American Politics / Political Economy
Interests: Political Behavior and Institutions; Research Methodology
Degrees: A.B., Government & Women's Studies, Georgetown University
M.A., Political Science, University of Georgia

Website: http://mysbfiles.stonybrook.edu/~ekey/

Patrick Lown

Major/Minor: Political Psychology
Interests:
Degrees: B.S., Psychology, Ohio State University
Research and Teaching Interests:

David Martin

Major/Minor: Political Psychology/American Politics 
Interests: Political Ideology, Intergroup Relations
Degrees: B.A., College of Letters, Wesleyan University
M.A., Political Science, University of Georgia
Research and Teaching Interests:

Lilliana Mason

Major/Minor: American Politics / Political Psychology
Interests: Polarization, Political Parties, Political Emotions, Religion and Politics
Degrees: B.A., Political Science, Princeton University
M.A., Political Science, SUNY Stony Brook 
Research and Teaching Interests: Political Parties, Electoral Politics, Political Behavior, Political Psychology, Religion and Politics

Ben J. Newman

Major/Minor: American Politics /: Political Psychology /
Interests: Public Opinion & Intergroup Relations, Political Participation & Citizen Activism, Democratic Theory
Degrees: B.A., Political Science, California State University at Sonoma
M.A., Political Psychology, California State University at Sonoma

M.A., Political Science, Stony Brook University

Website:http://www.ic.sunysb.edu/Stu/bnewman/index.html

Jeeyoung Park

Major/Minor: Political Economy
Interests: Political Economy/American Politics
Degrees: B.A., Political Science, Chung-Ang University
M.A., International Relations, Seoul National University
M.A., Environmental Economy, Duke University

David Perkins

Major/Minor: Political Psychology / American Politics
Interests: Ideology, Personality, Media & Evolutionary Psychology
Degrees: B.A., Psychology, Bellarmine University
Research and Teaching Interests: Political Psychology, Statistics

Martijn Schoonvelde

Major / Minor: Political Economy / Political Psychology
Interests: Comparative Political Behavior, Public Opinion, Research Methods
Degrees: M.Sc, Social Psychology, University of Groningen, M.A., Political Science, University of Amsterdam

Website:mschoonvelde.tumblr.com

Nicholas Seltzer

Major/Minor: Political Psychology/Political Economy
Interests: Evolutionary psychology, human behavior ecology, computational modeling.
Degrees: B.A., Philosophy and Political Science, University of California, Davis 
M.A., Security Policy Studies, George Washington University   
Research and Teaching Interests: Evolution of cooperation and conflict, status and social complexity, research methods and statistics 

April Strickland

Major/Minor: Political Psychology/American Politics
Interests: Electoral behavior, Experimental research methods, Parties and party systems, Cognition and information processing
Degrees: B.S. Psychology, University of North Florida
M.S. Experimental Psychology, Georgia Southern University

Yamil Velez

(W. Burghardt Turner Award)
Major/Minor: Political Psychology / American Politics
Interests:
Degrees: B.A., Political Science and Psychology, Florida State University
Research and Teaching Interests:

Ben Woodson

Major/Minor: Political Psychology/American Politics 
Interests: Judicial Politics; Cognition; Emotion
Degrees: B.A., Political Science and Journalism; Indiana University 
Research and Teaching Interests: Political Psychology and Behavior, Judicial Politics, Political Cognition and Emotion; American Government

Julie Wronski

Major/Minor: Political Psychology / Political Economy
Interests: Political Cognition, Decision Making, Personality, Attitudes, Leadership Analysis, Psychology of Terrorism
Degrees: A.B., Government & Psychology, Georgetown University
Master's Certificate, Political Psychology, George Washington University

For More Information on our

current Graduate Students,

Contact Carri Horner

at

631-632-7667.