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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.

2022–23 Graduate Research Assistants
Graduate Research Assistant Research Areas

Noor Ali

Noor Ali
Sociology

  • State-building
  • Taxation
  • Social welfare systems

Kevin Barry

Kevin Barry
Sociology

  • Gun violence reduction
  • Network science
  • Big data and technology
  • Inequality

Robin Bayes

Robin Bayes
Political Science

 

  • Science communication
  • Public opinion
  • Political psychology

Therese Bonomo

Tessa Bonomo
Economics

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

Karlia Brown

Karlia Brown
Sociology

  • Intersectionality and black feminist thought
  • Prisoner re-entry and the criminal
    justice system
  • Social inequality and stratification

Marget Butler

Margaret Butler
Anthropology

  • Breastfeeding experiences 
  • Perinatal depression physiology 
  • Inequities in maternal healthcare

 

Qile Chen
Linguistics

  • Bilingual speech perception and production
  • Sociolinguistics and gender bias
  • Computational linguistics and natural language processing

Amanda Cook

Amanda Cook
Human Development
and Social Policy

  • The transition from high school to college
  • Access and success in higher education
  • Higher education policy

Jennifer Cowhy

Jennifer Cowhy
Human Development
and Social Policy

  • Policy implementation in schools
  • Special education

Devis Decet

Devis Decet 
Economics

  • Development economics
  • Economic history
  • Political economics

Fortunate Kelechi Ekwuruke

Fortunate Kelechi Ekwuruke
Human Development
and Social Policy

  • Housing insecurity and homelessness
  • Urban education
  • Nonprofit organizations 

Miri Eliyahu

Miri Eliyahu
Sociology

  • Economic sociology
  • Consumerism and sustainability
  • Food sociology

Sino Esthappan

Sino Esthappan
Sociology

  • Law and Society
  • Legal decision-making
  • Quantification

Bruno Fava

Bruno Fava
Economics

  • Development Economics
  • Econometrics

Sheridan Fuller

Sheridan Fuller
Human Development
and Social Policy

  • Outcomes of children and families' interactions with social safety programs
  • Long-term impacts of public assistance programs 

Jack Garigliano

Jack Garigliano
Political Science

  • Political economy
  • Political parties
  • Labor

Arne Holverscheid

Arne Holverscheid
Political Science and Statistics

  • Political Behavior and Psychology
  • Corruption and Money in Politics
  • Elections
  • Political Methodology

Zhipeng Hou

Zhipeng Hou
Statistics

  • Systematic review
  • Meta-analysis

Thomas Ippolito

Thomas Ippolito
Statistics

  • Financial Statistics
  • Causal Inference for Time Series Analysis
  • Event Study Analysis

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

Suji Kang

Suji Kang
Political Science

  • Political psychology
  • Public opinion
  • Misinformation and source credibility

Sebastian Kiguel

Sebastían Kiguel
Human Development
and Social Policy

  • Non-cognitive measures of school quality
  • School climate
  • Long-term impacts of bullying and
    social exclusion in schools
  • Education policy in Latin America

Phoebe Lam

Phoebe
Hok Yee Lam

Psychology

  • Health disparities
  • Antecedents and consequences
    of resilience
  • Emotion and emotion regulation


Jeremy Levy
Jeremy Levy
Political Science

  • Public opinion
  • Political psychology 
  • Ideology, values, and public discourse  

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

 Claire Mackevicius

Claire Mackevicius
Human Development
and Social Policy

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

 Matias Martinez

Matias Martinez
Human Development
and Social Policy

  • School Policy Evaluation
  • School Bullying
  • Mental Health

 Jack McGovern

Jack McGovern
Political Science

  • American political development
  • Political parties
  • Money in politics

 Zina Noel

Zina Noel
Human Development and Social Policy

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

 Maya Novak-Herzog

Maya Novak-Herzog
Political Science

  • Gender and sexuality
  • Political behavior

Erin Ochoa

Erin M. Ochoa
Sociology

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

 Gershwin Penn

Gershwin Penn
Sociology

  • Educational inequality
  • Education policy and race 
  • Organizational theory

 

 Caroline Pippert

Caroline Pippert
Political Science

  • Political efficacy
  • Representation
  • Political participation and turnout

Radhika Ramakrishnan

Radhika Ramakrishnan
Economics

  • Health economics
  • Industrial organization
  • Labor economics

Wayne Rivera

Wayne Rivera
Sociology

  • Science and technology studies
  • Emotions, trauma, and violence
  • Networks
  • Medical sociology 

Josiah Rosario

Josiah Rosario
Psychology

  • Identity and Intersectionality
  • Educational justice and Critical theory
  • Threatening psychological contexts and developmental outcomes

Tim Ruel

Tim Ruel
Statistics

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

Michelle Shames

Michelle Shames
Sociology

  • Policing
  • Prisons
  • Criminal legal policy reform

 Warren Snead

Warren Snead
Political Science

  • American political development 
  • Public law 
  • Public policy 

Time Viragh

Timea Viragh
Human Development
and Social Policy

  • Early childhood education
  • Family labor supply
  • Family well-being 

Rose Werth

Rose Werth
Sociology

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

Aaron Wolf

Aaron Wolf
Economics

  • Development
  • Industrial Organization
  • Econometrics

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

Jingyang Zhang

Jingyang Zhang
Statistics

  • Meta-analysis
  • Statistical testing
  • Spatial statistics