Current PhD Students
William Brown
Will's research interests fall under political psychology and American politics. He is especially interested in political norms, persuasion, opinion change, and anti-democratic attitudes and behavior.
Claire Christensen
Claire's research interests fall mostly within American politics including electoral politics, partisan polarization, policy outcomes. In particular she focuses on understanding the effects of extremism and conspiratorial politics.
Ingram Dressler
Ingram's research interests include political psychology and American politics. He is especially interested in how gender identity influences political attitudes and online media preferences.
Ago Echeverri
Ago’s research interests are in political psychology, race and ethnicity and social identity, with a focus on nationalism, polarization, discrimination, and minority coalitions.
Diego Hernandez
Diego studies how refusal of party politics translates into political behavior. He brings the methods of political psychology to understand a group that most accounts of partisanship ignore: the American independent.
Srivardhan Jangili
Sri's work asks how capable citizens are meeting the demands of a healthy democracy. He is interested in how they respond to changes in political context and engage with politics.
Olivia Grace Jessee
Olivia’s research interests are in Political Psychology & American Politics. She’s especially drawn to rural politics.
Olga Khvostunova
Olga's research interests are broadly in the fields of political psychology, comparative politics, and political communication.
Josh McDonnell
Josh's research focuses on the formation and measurement of political beliefs. Specifically, he is interested in how social media serves as both a heuristic for public opinion and a space for the development of social norms.
Tom McDonough
Tom's research focuses on the intersection of behavioral economics and political psychology, combining theory and methods from both subfields to explore the relationship between political preferences, social norms, psychological dispositions, and economic preferences.
Morgan Pettit
Morgan's research interests fall primarily within the fields of Political Psychology and American Politics. Specifically, her interests are centered on issues of ideology, democratic institutions, and authoritarianism.
Ben Rudolph
Ben is interested in studying how people develop conviction in their political beliefs and attitudes. To explore this question, his research examines social influence, moral psychology, and political ideology, among other topics.
Anakiz Elif Senturk
Elif’s research interests lie in political psychology, focusing on intergroup dynamics, nationalism, authoritarianism, and anti-democratic attitudes, and how moral and psychological processes shape perceptions of justice and authority across American and comparative contexts.
Vitória Sgorlon
Vitória studies political psychology, focusing on group identity, public opinion, and (un)democratic attitudes. Her dissertation examines left-right ideology as a social identity in Latin America. Other research interests include the populist far-right in the Americas, (mis)perceptions, corruption and accountability, and religion and politics.
Xiaomeng Song
Xiaomeng’s research interests lie in climate change, environmental economics, and environmental policy analysis. Her primary methodological approach is quantitative analysis, with a particular emphasis on causal inference.
Ignacio Urbina
Ignacio's research is in political behavior, political economy, and quantitative methods. He primarily focuses on how citizens form attitudes about AI and its consequences for political behavior and policy. His work spans the US, Europe, and Latin America.
Abigail Woodfield
Abby's research interests relate to the intersection of democracy and identity in a comparative context. Using political psychology methods, she is focused on answering questions about rhetoric, separatist conflict, electoral institutions, and party sorting.
Seden Yilmazturk
Seden's research interests fall under American Politics/Political Psychology.
Miguel Higuera
Miguel’s research falls under the fields of Political Psychology and American Politics. Specifically, he is interested in the motivations for political participation, apathy, and conflict, as well as the influence of online interactions on political behavior and psychology.
Nick Allen
Nick's research interests fall under political psychology. He is particularly interested in nationalism, populism, immigration, and far-right political parties.
Aaron Goldman
Aaron's research interests fall broadly under Political Psychology and American Politics. He is particularly interested in the formation of partisan identity and the strategic behavior of political elites.
Kendall Rogers
Kendall's research interests are in political attachments, partisanship, and nationalism. She is particularly interested in how political identities form, become politically salient, and shape political behavior.
Christopher Morale
Chris's research interests fall within political psychology and public opinion. He is particularly interested in persuasion and the public opinion dynamics of newly salient issues in American politics.
Tamara Knyazeva
Tamara's research interests fall under political psychology and political communication.