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Graduate Research Assistants

IPR graduate research assistants (RAs) work with a faculty advisors on research projects that align with their interests, who are listed along with  students' research interests, contact information, and links to additional biographical details.

2024–25 Graduate Research Assistants
Graduate Research Assistant Research Areas

 UBEYDULLAH ADEMI

Ubeydullah Ademi
Political Science

  • Representation in non-democratic regimes
  • Armed groups
  • Computational social science

 Michael Armah

Michael Armah 
Statistics

  • Social statistics
  • Meta analysis

Therese Bonomo
Tessa Bonomo
Economics

  • Public economics
  • Labor economics
  • Economics of social safety net and anti-poverty policy

MICHELLE BUENO VÁSQUEZ
Michelle Bueno Vásquez
Political Science

  • Political psychology
  • Political behavior of Afro-Caribbean and Afro-Latino communities and diasporas in the United States and Latin America

elif buyukakbas
Elif Buyukakbas
Sociology

  • Migration, mobilities, and inequality
  • Transnationalism and remittances
  • Gender arrangements and family

jonthan-doriscar
Jonathan Doriscar
Psychology

brandon-dull
Brandon Dull
Psychology

matt-forte
Matthew Forte
Statistics

Jack Garigliano
Jack Garigliano
Political Science

  • Political economy
  • Political parties
  • Labor
sosthene-guei
Sosthène Guei
Human Development
and Social Policy

 Lyric Hathaway
Lyric Hathaway
Sociology

  • Migration and Globalization
  • Social Stratification
  • The American South

gracie-hayes
Gracie Hayes
Statistics

  • Causal inference
  • Meta analysis
  • Survey sampling

Arne Holverscheid
Arne Holverscheid
Political Science and Statistics

  • Political behavior and psychology
  • Corruption and money in politics
  • Elections
  • Political methodology

julia-honoroff
Julia Honoroff
Human Development
and Social Policy

 Vishal Jain
Vishal Jain
Human Development and Social Policy

keegan-krause
Keegan Krause
Anthropology

  • Adolescent mental health
  • Belonging and im/migration policy
  • Stress, immunology, and cardiovascular disease risk

rebecca-lawrence
Rebecca Lawrence
Human Development
and Social Policy

  • Higher education policy 
  • Identity development and intersectionality
  • Social transitions

seung-hyeong-lee
Seung Hyeong  Lee
Economics

  • Labor economics
  • Public economics
  • Finance

Courtney Meiling Jones
Courtney Meiling Jones
Psychology 

  • Racial identity development in multiracial youth and adults
  • The salience of sociopolitical moments in identity meaning-making
  • Qualitative methods and analysis

 Quincy Lherisson
Quincy Lherisson

Social Psychology

Jennifer Lin
Jennifer Lin
Political Science

  • Affective polarization
  • Civil-military relations
  • Political geography
  • Public opinion

Phoebe Lin
Phoebe Lin
Human Development and Social Policy

  • Social inequality
  • Migration
  • Knowledge production

evie-lopoo
Evie Lopoo
Sociology

  • Incarceration, probation, and parole
  • Military welfare state
  • Crime and violence prevention

 Claire Mackevicius
Claire Mackevicius
Human Development
and Social Policy

  • School funding
  • Private involvement in the provision
    of social programs

  Giacomo Marcolin
Giacomo Marcolin
Economics

 Matias Martinez
Matias Martinez
Human Development
and Social Policy

  • School policy evaluation
  • School bullying
  • Mental health

eden-melles
Eden Melles
Political Science

  • African diaspora and immigration 
  • Political organizing and behavior
  • Race, ethnicity, and identity 

monique-newton
Monique Newton
Political Science

 Zina Noel
Zina Noel
Human Development and Social Policy

  • International early childhood policy
  • Early childhood development 
  • Civil society development 

Erin Ochoa
Erin M. Ochoa
Sociology

  • Gun violence and community interventions
  • Network, spatial, and computational methods

 Aven Peter
Aven Peters
Sociology

  Caroline Pippert
Caroline Pippert
Political Science

  • Political efficacy
  • Representation
  • Political participation and turnout

Radhika Ramakrishnan
Radhika Ramakrishnan
Economics

  • Health economics
  • Industrial organization
  • Labor economics

kaelin-rapport
Kaelin Rapport
Anthropology

Myera Rashid
Myera Rashid
Economics

 myera-rashid
Caroline Roddey
Human Development and Social Policy

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Kristofer (Kris) Rosentel
Sociology

Tim Ruel
Tim Ruel
Statistics

  • Likelihood-based statistical methods
  • Markov-chain Monte Carlo applications

 Molly Schiffer
Molly Schiffer
Political Science

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Kayla Schroeder
Statistics

  • Machine learning
  • Causal inference

Michelle Shames
Michelle Shames
Sociology

  • Policing
  • Prisons
  • Criminal legal policy reform

 David Silverman
David Silverman
Social Psychology

 Trevor Spelman
Trevor Spelman
Management and Organizations



elena-stella
Elena Stella
Managerial Economics and Strategy

Daihe Sui
Daihe Sui
Statistics

 
  • Meta-analysis

Rose Werth
Rose Werth
Sociology

  • Urban and community sociology
  • Networks and community-based organizations
  • Criminal justice and violence prevention

amanda-joy-wright
Amanda-Joy Wright
Psychology

Beiming Yang
Beiming Yang
Human Development
and Social Policy

  • Adolescent development
  • Parenting
  • Cultural differences

Karin Yndestad
Karin Yndestad
Sociology

  • Higher education policy
  • Organizations and morality
  • Qualitative methods