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The Political Economy Forum fellows are professors and graduate students from the University of Washington, data scientists working in the private sector, and former participants in the Friday Seminars. They post blog entries and working papers, participate in the Friday Seminars, and also contribute to podcasts and other media.
Caitlin Ainsley (Ph.D., Emory University, 2016) is an assistant professor of Political Science at UW and faculty affiliate with the Center for Statistics and the Social Sciences (CSSS).
Kenya Amano is a PhD student in the Department of Political Science at the University of Washington, studying comparative political economy.
Leigh Anderson’s current research focuses on rural poverty and agriculture, and market and policy institutions.
Kevin Aslett is a Postdoctoral Associate at the Center of Social Media and Politics (CSMaP) at New York University (NYU).
Bree Bang-Jensen is a PhD candidate in the Department of Political Science at the University of Washington.
Asli Cansunar (Ph.D., Duke University, 2018) is an incoming assistant professor of Political Science at UW.
Ryan is a PhD student in the Department of Economics at the University of Washington.
Sara Curran researches demographic dynamics in relation to gender, migration, climate change, and development.
Megan is a PhD student in the Department of Political Science at UW.
Professor Erlich is an assistant professor in the Department of Political Science at McGill University (Montreal, Canada), where he is currently affiliated with the Centre of Study of Democratic Citizenship and the Centre on Population Dynamics.
Calvin Garner is a PhD Candidate in Political Science at the University of Washington.
Anthony Gill (Ph.D. UCLA 1994) is professor of political science at the University of Washington and an adjunct professor of sociology at the UW.
Benjamin Glasner is a 5th year PhD candidate in the Evans School of Public Policy and Governance at the University of Washington.
Will Gochberg is a postdoctoral research associate in the Political Science Department at Washington University in St. Louis.
Jacob M. Grumbach is an Assistant Professor of Political Science at the University of Washington.
Mary Kay Gugerty is the Nancy Bell Evans Professor of Nonprofit Management and the Faculty Director of the Nancy Bell Evans Center on Nonprofits & Philanthropy at the Evans School of Public Policy & Governance, University of Washington.
Zhaowen Guo is a PhD student in the Department of Political Science at the University of Washington.
Rachel Heath is an Associate Professor of Economics at the University of Washington in Seattle.
Oliver Lang is a graduate student in the department of political science at the University of Wisconsin – Madison.
Brian Leung is a PhD student in the Department of Political Science at the University of Washington.
James D. Long is an Associate Professor of Political Science at the University of Washington and an Academy Scholar at the Harvard Academy for International and Area Studies.
David Lopez is a Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of Politics at New York University.
Josh is an Assistant Professor at the KDI School of Public Policy and Management in Sejong, South Korea.
Nela is a doctoral student in the Department of Political Science.
Beatrice Magistro is a PhD candidate in Political Science at the University of Washington.
Victor Menaldo (Ph.D., Stanford University, 2009) is a Professor of Political Science at UW and is affiliated with the Center for Statistics and the Social Sciences (CSSS), Near and Middle Eastern Studies, and the Center for Environmental Politics.
Kris is an interdisciplinary PhD student who is fascinated by the mechanics of complex social systems.
Lucas Owen is a PhD student in the Department of Political Science at the University of Washington.
Aseem Prakash studies environmental policy, climate governance, NGOs and nonprofits, and voluntary/private regulation.
Taylor D.H. Rockhill (MA, MPA University of Washington 2016, 2019) is a PhD Student in Development Economics at SOAS, University of London.
Jorge Rojas-Vallejos (Ph.D. in Economics, University of Washington, 2015) is an assistant professor at the Universidad Andrés Bello (UNAB) in Santiago, Chile and previously held a Research Fellow position at the Pontificia Universidad Católica de Valparaíso (PUCV), Chile.
Noga Rotem is an Assistant Professor of Political Science at the University of Washington.
Yu Sasaki is an Assistant Professor in the Faculty of Law and the School of International Studies at Kanazawa University, Japan, and a Research Associate in the Institute of Economic Research at Hitotsubashi University.
Samuel Seljan is a Senior Director of Data Science at Xandr, the advertising technology division of WarnerMedia (which owns CNN, Turner, Warner Bros, and HBO).
Renic is a first-year law student at the University of Chicago.
Before joining the faculty at the University of Washington in 1997, Mark Alan Smith completed his undergraduate degree in economics at M.I.T. and earned his PhD in political science at the University of Minnesota.
Morgan is a doctoral student in the Department of Political Science.
Rebecca Walcott is a PhD student at the Evans School of Public Policy and Governance at UW.
Nora Webb Williams is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Political Science at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign.
Susan Whiting (Ph.D., Michigan; B.A., Yale) is Associate Professor of Political Science at the University of Washington in Seattle, where she also holds adjunct appointments in the Jackson School of International Studies and the School of Law.
Stephen Winkler is a Social Development Specialist at the World Bank.
Nicolas Wittstock is a graduate student in the political science department at the University of Washington.
Clair Yang is an Assistant Professor at the Jackson School of International Studies at UW.
Daniel currently works as a survey scientist and researcher at Airbnb.
