Department of Political Science
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The Political Science Department at Stony Brook has a long tradition of placing students in positions at the finest research and liberal arts schools in the country. For a list of jobs our former students now hold, go to Job Placements.
This year's candidates are no exception to the legacy of excellence political scientists have come to expect from Stony Brook.
Here are this year's candidates:
Gizem Arikan
Interests: Political Culture; Values; Electoral Behavior; Comparative Political Institutions
Pazit Ben-Nun-Bloom
Major/Minor: Political Psychology / Political Methodology / Political Economy
Interests: Public Opinion; Morality and Values; Terrorism and Political Violence; Democratization; Mass Media; Measurement and Covariance Structure Models; Experimental Methods.
Degrees:
M.A. Political Science, Stony Brook University
M.A. Political Science (Summa Cum Laude), Tel Aviv University
B.A. Psychology and Political Science, Tel Aviv University
Website: http://www.sinc.stonybrook.edu/Stu/pbennun/
Cengiz Erisen
Major/Minor: Political Psychology / Political Economy
Interests: Political Behavior; Affect; Emotions; Information Processing;
Campaign Advertising and Media
Degrees: M.A., Stony Brook University
B.A., Marmara University
Naser Javaid
Fields: American Political Institutions, Interbranch Relationships, Public Law, Research Design and Quantitative Methods
Dissertation description: My dissertation examines the degree to which the foci of future policy processes in Congress change in response to a Supreme Court decision overturning federal policy on constitutional grounds.
Website: http://www.ic.sunysb.edu/Stu/njavaid/
Bradley J. Verhulst
Teaching interests: Political Behavior, American Politics, Statistics, Regression, Probability Theory, Experimental Methods, Research Design, Political Psychology
Research interests: American Politics, Political Behavior, Political psychology, Group Decision-Making, Automatic Judgment, Political Genetics, Implicit Attitudes
One sentence description of dissertation:
In my dissertation I examine the thought processes that lead to accurate decisions or evaluations, or the impact of different ways of thinking about political issues influence the judgments people make.
Website:
http://www.ic.sunysb.edu/Stu/bverhuls/
