Past Lansing B. Lee, Jr./Bankard Seminar in Global Politics
Past Series
2024-2025

(When) Can Politicians Influence Citizens’ Uptake of Government Welfare Programs? Evidence from a Field Experiment in North India
Associate Professor, Georgia Tech

epartment Chair and Professor of Political Science, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
Department Chair and Professor of Political Science, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
Crosby Professor of the Human Environment and Professor of Politics, International Studies Area, Yale University

Variation in Wartime Sexual Violence: What We Know, What We Don’t Know
Crosby Professor of the Human Environment and Professor of Politics, International Studies Area, Yale University

Contingency Access: The Overlooked Pillar of Military Cooperation
Assistant Professor, The George Washington University
Contingency Access: The Overlooked Pillar of Military Cooperation
Assistant Professor, The George Washington University

Risk Attitudes and Political Participation Under Autocracy
Assistant Professor, Cornell University
Risk Attitudes and Political Participation Under Autocracy
Assistant Professor, Cornell University
Two to Tango, More to Mosh: Interstate Entangling Relations and Intrastate Conflict Management
Professor, Duke University

Two to Tango, More to Mosh: Interstate Entangling Relations and Intrastate Conflict Management
Professor, Duke University

Power Shifts, Multiple Audiences, and Cheap Talk Reassurance
Senior Lecturer, Australian National University
2021-2022
2020-2021

Elite Kinship Networks and State-Building Preferences in Imperial China
Associate Professor, Harvard University

Is 'Direct Democracy' Good for Democracy?
Tiffany and Margaret Blake Distinguished Service Professor, University of Chicago

Public Opinion Towards Military Alliances
Post-doctoral Research Associate, University of Virginia

The New International Politics of Climate Change
Professor, University of California San Diego

Educating the Newcomer: Leadership Turnovers and the Targeting of Militarized Challenges
Ph.D. Candidate, University of Virginia

Return: Race, Democracy, and the Boundaries of Belonging in North America
Associate Professor, McGill University

The Assurance Dilemma in Coercive International Politics
Assistant Professor, Brown University

Upending Impunity: Explaining Post-Tenure Presidential Prosecutions in Latin America
Professor, University of Rochester

Campaigning for Protectionism: Determinants of Anti-Trade Advertising in Elections
University of Virginia

When do Partisans Cross the Party Line?
Assistant Professor, the London School of Economics and Political Science

Military Service and Elite Decision-Making: Self-Selection, Socialization, and the Vietnam Draft Lottery
Associate Professor, Colgate University

Micro-Foundations of the Vanguard: The Origins of Rebel Groups for National Liberation
Assistant Professor, American University
2018-2019
Testing Legislator Responsiveness to Citizens and Firms in Single-Party Regimes: A Field Experiment in the Vietnamese National Assembly
Professor, Duke University
Smoke and Mirrors: Did China's Environmental Crackdowns Lead to Persistent Changes in Polluting Firm Behavior?
Assistant Professor of Global Economics and Management, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Information Saturation and Electoral Accountability: Experimental Evidence from Facebook in Mexico
Assistant Professor, Columbia University
The Illogic of Nuclear Superiority: A Review Essay
Department of Political Science, Stanford University
Dirty Politics: Electoral Pollution Cycles in Mexico
Assistant Professor of Environmental Politics, University of Virginia
Why are there so Few Basin-wide Treaties?
Professor of Environmental Economics and Policy, University of California Riverside
Secessionist Conflict and Polarization: Evidence from Catalonia
Associate Professor, Georgetown University
The Changing Face of Nuclear Proliferation
Assistant Professor, College of William and Mary
Tying the Big Man's Hands: From Personalized Rule to Institutionalized Regimes
University of Virginia
Repression in the China Field
Assistant Professor of Politics and International Affairs, Princeton University
How International Post-Conflict Reforms Improve Public Opinion of State Bureaucracies: Experimental Evidence with the Liberian National Police
Assistant Professor, Cornell University
Patronage by Credit: International Sources of Patronage Politics
Assistant Professor, College of William & Mary
2023-2024

Aronson Associate Professor of International Studies and Political Science, Johns Hopkins University
2022-2023

The BRICS Acronym as a Heuristic Device in Sovereign Bond Markets
Graduate Student, University of Virginia

Misperceiving Nationalism: Beliefs About Others’ Beliefs and Group Conformism in Foreign Polic
Professor, University of Pennsylvania

Political Repression and Party Institutionalization
Graduate Student, University of Virginia

The Political Price of Authoritarian Control: Evidence from Francoist Land Settlements in Spain
Professor, University of Chicago