Democracy and Governance Studies

Mohammed Al-Adeeb

Interests: Theory, comparative government

Languages: Arabic, Spanish

Mohammed Al-Ghanim

B.A. Political Science and Middle Eastern Studies, Tufts University

Interests: Public sphere transformation, regime change, Islam and politics, the Persian Gulf, democratic culture

Languages: Arabic, Hebrew.

Talal Al-Rashoud

B.A. Political Science and History, University of Wisconsin-Madison

Interests: Middle East, Islamist movements

Languages: Arabic

B.A. Middle East Studies, George Washington University

Interests: Middle East, accountability and alternation of power

Languages: Arabic

B.A., Université Panthéon-Sorbonne

Languages: French

Danielle Bayar

B.A. Political Science, Vassar College

Interests: Democracy and good governance in post-conflict environments, civil society development, combatting corruption, relationships between economic and political development, humanitarian assistance, Russia and Central Asia, Afghanistan

Languages: Russian, French, Dari

Colleen Bickel

B.A. Industrial and Labor Relations, Cornell University

Interests: African Development, Refugee and Humanitarian Emergencies

Maggie Brown

B.A. Politics, The Catholic University of America

Interests: Theory, comparative systems, religion and democracy, government and culture

Languages: French

Marcelo Buitron

B.A. Political Science and Economics, Vassar College

Interests: Transitions from authoritarian rule, political economy, electoral systems and Latin America

Languages: Spanish, Italian

Sehwan Cheong

B.A. Political Science, Economics, and Finance, Hanyang University (Seoul)

Interests: economic and political reforms

Languages: Korean

Denis Cosgrove

M.A. Social Science, University of Chicago
B.A. Politics, Catholic University of America

Interests: Executive power, foundings, Latin America, European Union

Languages: Italian, Spanish

Elizabeth Cutler

B.A. Politics, Occidental College

Interests: Democratic development, campaigns & elections (in developing democracies as well as the U.S.), media and politics (esp. new media), gender and politics, youth political participation and voting

Languages: Spanish

Osama Eisa

B.A. Political Science and History, Rochester Institute of Technology

Interests: Advocacy of a proper Islamic Democracy and understanding where abstract ideas meet practical realities

Languages: Arabic, Japanese

Dylan Diggs

B.A. Political Science, Johns Hopkins University

Interests: Civil society, Middle East, South and East Asia

Languages: Spanish

Melinda Haring

B.A. Political Science, Grove City College

Interests: Democratic durability, Islam and democracy, Russian and post-Soviet politics, religious freedom, corruption, Color Revolutions

Languages: Russian

David Jandura

B.A. Political Science, North Carolina State University

Interests: Africa and the Middle East, traditional and non-traditional forms of media, political economy of emerging markets

Languages: Arabic

Jing Jing

B.A. Political Science, Fudan University

Interests: East Asia, social welfare, human rights, building democracy

Languages: Chinese

Kitty Kaletsky

English Literature, Oxford University

Interests: political journalism and government

Languages: French

Josh Loh

B.A. History, Brown University

J.D. Washington and Lee School of Law

Interests: The role of democracy in counterinsurgency

Languages: Japanese

John Morrill

B.A. History and Political Science, University of California-Irvine

Interests: Economic development, failed states, East Asia

Languages: German, Korean

Danielle Pearl

B.A. International Affairs, University of Georgia

Interests: Media and government, emergence and failure of democratic states, political and economic interactions of democratic states with each other and with non-democratic states

Languages: French

Liza Prendergast

B.A. History, The George Washington University

Interests: Conflict Mitigation/Reconciliation, the Near East and Southeast Europe Regions

Languages: French

Lindsay Robinson

B.A. Political Science and International Studies, Dickinson College

Interests: African democratization

Languages: French, Spanish

   M.Sc., B.Sc. Public Management, Università Commerciale Luigi Bocconi

   Interests: African democratization

   Languages: Italian, French, Spanish

Zvisinei Sandi

Political Philosophy, University of Zimbabwe

Interests: Human rights, international institutions

Languages: Shona

Emily Siedlak

B.A. Diplomacy and Foreign Affairs, Spanish, Miami University (Ohio)

Interests: Roles of international organizations like the EU, UN, OSCE, and OAS in promotion of democracy and good governance, particularly in Latin America and Eastern Europe

Languages: Spanish

Meg Stringer

B.A. Sociology, Hamilton College

Interests: Civil society and poverty reduction

                                            Languages: Japanese, French

Samuel Tadros

Political Science with a concentration on International Relations, The American University in Cairo

Interests: Democratization

Languages: Arabic, German

Guillermo Vallejo

B.A. Political Science, Loyola University Chicago

Interests: Human rights, constitutional frameworks

Languages: Spanish, Italian