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.

