Christopher Carter is a John L. Nau III Assistant Professor of the History and Principles of Democracy in the Politics Department. His primary research agenda examines how indigenous populations mobilize to make demands on the state. In his book project, he investigates the formation of ethnic and class identities in Latin America.
Kirill Zhirkov is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Politics at the University of Virginia. Kirill's methodological research focuses on measurement of politically relevant beliefs and attitudes beyond standard survey self-reports. He uses these methods to address a number of substantive questions in the field of political psychology.
I am a John L. Nau III Assistant Professor of the History and Principles of Democracy in the Department of Politics at the University of Virginia. I study judicial politics in the United States, with particular interests in the lower federal courts and public attitudes toward the judiciary. One ongoing project considers how the U.S. federal court system shapes the decision-making of lower court judges, focusing on how judges on the U.S.
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