Ahmed Alotaibi
Ahmed Alotaibi is a Ph.D. student in the Department of Political Science at the University of Nevada, Reno. His fields of concentration are comparative politics and international relations. His research interests are rentier states, Arabian Gulf politics and nationalism. Additionally, Ahmed has a teaching career in political science as a lecturer at a Saudi university, where he taught several courses, such as Introduction to Political Science, International Relations and Comparative Foreign Policy Analysis.
Lauro Borges
Lauro Borges is a Ph.D. student in the Department of Political Science at the University of Nevada, Reno. His concentrations are international relations and comparative politics. Lauro's research interests are international security, U.S.-China great-power rivalry, offense-defense theory and airpower. He has published in International Politics as well as in the Central European Journal of International and Security Studies. He can be reached at laraujo@unr.edu.
Caleb Cage
Caleb Cage is a Ph.D. student in the Department of Political Science at the University of Nevada, Reno. His fields of concentration are public administration and public policy. Cage is interested in studying how the concept of crisis resilience can be used as a lens for rethinking aspects of public administration. He is particularly interested in learning about the importance of leadership applications of crisis resilience in public administration and policy.
Thomas Campbell
Thomas Campbell is a Ph.D. student in the Department of Political Science at the University of Nevada, Reno. His concentrations are in international relations, comparative politics and mixed methodology. His research focuses on how the positioning and structure of organizations/institutions, natural hazards and political-economic factors influence state, human and climate security outcomes. His primary methods of focus are Frequentist and Bayesian statistics, Natural/Quasi-Experiments, Agent-Based Modeling, Document Analysis and Archival Research and Process Tracing. His work has been published in Foreign Policy Analysis and The Journal of Contingencies and Crisis Management. He can be contacted at tcampbell2@unr.edu.
Melanie Flores
Melanie Flores is a Ph.D. student in the Department of Political Science at the University of Nevada, Reno. Her concentrations are public policy and public administration. Flores’ research interests are health policy and the decisions, plans and actions that are undertaken to achieve specific health care goals within a society. She currently teaches AIDS: Psychosocial and Healthcare Concerns and Field Studies in Public Health. She currently works as a student services coordinator for the School of Public Health.
A. Cagri Gokcek
A. Cagri Gokcek is a Ph.D. student in the Department of Political Science at the University of Nevada, Reno. His concentrations are comparative politics and international relations. He is interested in social movements and contentious politics, with a special focus on politics of labor. Additionally, he works on the accessibility of statistics and statistical software for the blind. He can be reached at agokcek@unr.edu.
Miskat Jahan
Miskat Jahan is a Ph.D. student in the Department of Political Science at the University of Nevada, Reno. Her concentrations are International Relations and Comparative Politics. Miskat is interested in migration, refugee crises, human rights, governance, and international politics. To date, she has authored multiple articles and book chapters on democracy, development, and public administration. She is the recipient of numerous awards, including the University's Graduate Dean’s Fellowship, Outstanding International Graduate Student Scholarship, and Graduate Dean’s Fellowship. Miskat holds an MA in Political Science from Central European University and a BA and MA from the University of Dhaka in Public Administration.
Mariia Makarenko
Mariia Makarenko is a Ph.D. student in the Department of Political Science at the University of Nevada, Reno. Her concentrations are international relations and comparative politics and her research interests include foreign policy, migration and voting behavior. Mariia is avidly interested in how differing political regimes affect migrants’ perception of home politics and how this alters their voting patterns.
Mariia is a recipient of the University of Nevada, Reno Graduate Dean’s Fellowship. To date, she has held internships in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine and Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine (Parliament of Ukraine). Holding MA of International Relations from Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv and MA of International Relations from Tallinn University, she has authored and coauthored multiple articles published in international journals including current work being evaluated in peer review for International Migration Journal. Mariia has presented her research twice a year on foreign policy since 2020 at Szkoła Otwartego Umysłu, a conference for open discourse and debate with regard to active research endeavors. She employs qualitative and quantitative methodologies in her research. She can be reached at mmakarenko@unr.edu.
Sanjeevan Pradhan
Sanjeevan Pradhan is a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Political Science at the University of Nevada, Reno. He specializes in international relations and comparative politics. Pradhan's research focuses on the strategies that states employ to legitimize costly international initiatives to their domestic audiences. He is conducting case studies on India and China to analyze this process. Additionally, he has a keen interest in exploring relations between great powers and rising powers, the concepts of status and recognition in international relations, the interplay between domestic politics and foreign policy, as well as conducting comparative studies between India and China.
Evan Pritsos
Evan Pritsos is a Ph.D. student focusing on American Politics. A native of Nevada, his research interest is electoral politics, particularly electoral reform and alternate voting systems. After graduation, he hopes to focus on teaching.
Richard Ramm
Richard Ramm is a Ph.D. candidate in Political Science, with concentrations in International Relations and Public Policy. Leveraging an extensive background in local government, his research seeks to understand the institutional aspects of government anti-human trafficking efforts. He employs both quantitative and qualitative empirical research methodologies.
Amber Reid
Amber Reid is currently a Ph.D. student in the Department of Political Science at the University of Nevada, Reno. Her major is public policy and her minor is public administration. She is interested in studying the interconnection of policy and the implementation of mental and behavioral health programming in an educational setting. A key focus of her research is the use of data to evaluate the effectiveness of program implementation on student and school/district level outcomes, especially in regard to academic achievement, with an emphasis on prevention and early intervention through cost-benefit analyses.
Reid has a bachelor’s degree in secondary math and science and a master’s in social work. Currently she works for the Nevada Department of Education.