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

Alexa Bankert

Major/Minor: Political Psychology/American Politics
Degrees: B.A., Political Science, Free University of Berlin
Research and Teaching Interests: Intergroup Relations, Political Ideology and Critical Theory, Experimental Research Methods

Scott Bokemper

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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
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, Heuristics, Stereotypes/Prejudice  

Justine D'Elia

Major/Minor: American Politics/Political Psychology
Degrees: B.A., Political Science, Ramapo College of New Jersey
Research and Teaching Interests: Congress, Race and Politics

Katie Donovan

Major/Minor: American Politics/Political Psychology
Degrees: B.A. in English, Emory University
M.S. in Criminal Justice,University of Cincinnati
Research and Teaching Interests: Political Behavior, Public Opinion, Political Communication, Campaigns and Elections
Website: https://sites.google.com/site/sbukatiedonovan12/

Taylor Grant

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

Raynee Gutting

Major/Minor: Political Psychology/Political Economy
Degrees: B.A., Psychology, UCLA
Research and Teaching Interests: Intergroup Relations, Behavioral Economics, Quantiative Methods

Matthew Harris

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

April Johnson

Major/Minor: Political Psychology/American Politics
Degrees: B.S. Psychology, University of North Florida
M.S. Experimental Psychology, Georgia Southern University
Research and Teaching Interests: Electoral Behavior, Experimental Research Methods, Parties and Party Systems, Cognition and Information Processing
Website: https://sites.google.com/site/apriljohnsonstonybrook/

Joshua Johnson

Major/Minor: American Politics/Methodology
Degrees: B.A., Political Science, Creighton University 
Research and Teaching Interests: Judicial Politics, American Presidency, Minority Politics, Time Series Methods, Methodology
Website: https://sites.google.com/site/joshuamjohnsonpoliticalscience/

John Kane

Major/Minor: American Politics/Political Psychology
Degrees: B.A., Social Sciences, St. Joseph's College
M.S., Global Affairs, New York University
Research and Teaching Interests: Ideology, Partisanship, Economic Voting

Patrick Lown

Major/Minor: Political Psychology
Degrees: B.S., Psychology, Ohio State University
Research and Teaching Interests: Ideology, Emotions, Empathy, Social welfare politics, Group processes and social movements, Electoral systems

David Martin

Major/Minor: Political Psychology/Political Economy 
Degrees: B.A., College of Letters, Wesleyan University
M.A., Political Science, University of Georgia
Research and Teaching Interests: Public Opinion, Trust in Government, Social Identity, Political Participation, Survey Research Methods
Website: https://sites.google.com/site/davidmartinsbu/

Lilliana Mason

Major/Minor: American Politics/Political Psychology
Degrees: B.A., Political Science, Princeton University
M.A., Political Science, SUNY Stony Brook 
Research and Teaching Interests: Partisanship, Political Identity, Partisan Sorting, Polarization

Ben J. Newman

Major/Minor: Political Psychology/American Politics
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
Research and Teaching Interests: Public Opinion, Intergroup Relations, Political Participation, Citizen Activism, Democratic Theory
Website:http://www.ic.sunysb.edu/Stu/bnewman/index.html

Jeeyoung Park

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

David Perkins

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

Martijn Schoonvelde

Major/Minor: Political Economy/Political Psychology
Degrees: M.Sc, Social Psychology, University of Groningen, M.A., Political Science, University of Amsterdam
Research and Teaching Interests: Comparative Political Behavior, Public Opinion, Research Methods
Website:http://mschoonvelde.tumblr.com 

Nicholas Seltzer

Major/Minor: Political Psychology/Political Economy
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 social complexity, Climate change and political instability, Computational modeling and geographic information systems
Website: www.nicholasseltzer.com

David Stack

Major/Minor: American Politics/Political Economy
Degrees: B.A., Political Science, Boston College 
M.A., Public Policy, Stony Brook University   
Research and Teaching Interests: Elections, Parties and Interest Groups, Bureaucracy 

Yamil Velez

(W. Burghardt Turner Award)
Major/Minor: Political Psychology/American Politics
Degrees: B.A., Political Science and Psychology, Florida State University
Research and Teaching Interests: Public Opinion, Electoral Behavior, Group Processes and Intergroup relations

Ben Woodson

Major/Minor: Political Psychology/American Politics
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
Degrees: A.B., Government & Psychology, Georgetown University
Master's Certificate, Political Psychology, George Washington University
Research and Teaching Interests: Political Cognition, Decision Making, Personality, Attitudes, Leadership Analysis, Psychology of Terrorism
Website: https://sites.google.com/site/juliewronski/

 

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current Graduate Students,

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