Our Incoming Graduate Students, 2007

Seth Alexander

B.A. from University of Redlands

Research Interests: Comparative politics, democratization, and enduring authoritarianism.

Email: jsalexan@uci.edu

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Megan Bodane

B.A. from University of Vermont 
M.A. from New School for Social Research

Research Interests: (Ethnic conflict, transitional justice;  post-conflict societies, ethnic mobilization)

Email: mbodane@uci.edu

Megan Bodane

Charlene Engle

B.A. from Tufts University

Research Interests: (International Relations; globalization, economic integration, Northeast Asia)

Email:charlene.engle@gmail.com

 

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Josh Gellers

B.A. from University of Florida
M.A. from Columbia University

Research Interests: International environmental security, namely how climate change and climate variability impact security on the national and international levels

Email: jgellers@uci.edu

Josh Gellars

Amy Grubb

B.A. from Dartmouth College
MPIA from University of California, San Diego

Research Interests: (International Relations, conflict management, institutions, transnational interests; Europe, China, LA)

Email: agrubb@uci.edu

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Leah Hemze

B.A. from University of California, Santa Cruz

Research Interests: The intersection of race and gender with special concern for the roles they have played in social movements in the United States.

Email: lhemze@uci.edu


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Danvy Le

B.A. from California State University, Fresno

Research Interests: US-Japan relationship in the context of shifting status relations;  effect of shifting status relations on nuclear proliferation, especially in E. Asia.

Email: danvyle@gmail.com

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Evan McCulla

B.A. from Earlham College

Research Interests: International Relations;  Chinese foreign policy, particularly security policy and problems of decision-making;  civil-military relations. 

Email: emcculla@uci.edu

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Fatima Rahman

B.A. from University of California, San Diego
M.A. from University of California, Riverside

Research Interests: Democracy in the Islamic world.  The effect of Islamist parties on democratization efforts in Southwest, Southeast Asia. Religion and politics

Email: rahmanf@uci.edu

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Bron Tamulis

B.A. from University of Massachusetts-Amherst

Research Interests: Social movements, citizenship and responsibility, morality and agency, Marxism, democratic theory, political psychology, the State of the World and Everything.

Email: btamulis@uci.edu


Tamulis

Benjamin Thomas

B.A. from University of California, San Diego

Research Interests: The political economy of sub-Saharan African states and environmental politics and policy.

Email: bsthomas@uci.edu)



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Ashley Williams

B.A. from The Elliot School, George Washington University

Research Interests: International Relations Theory, Political Culture, Peace Studies, Chinese Foreign Relations, Ethics and  Morality in International Relations, International Organizations

Email: awill@uci.edu
Ashley Williams

Albert Wolf

B.A. from Ohio State University
M.A. from Ohio State University

Research Interests: IR, security studies;  origins (and absence) of great power wars;  alliance politics, war termination, ethnic conflicts, territorial disputes, IOs and non-proliferation efforts.

Email: awolf@uci.edu

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Daniel Wolf

B.A. from Ohio University
M.S. from Carnegie Mellon University

Research Interests: (ComparativePolitics; Institutionalism;  mathematical and statistical analyses, political stability,)

Email: dwolf@uci.edu

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