Asma Alneel
Asma Alneel 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. Her research interest is Women's Rights and Empowerment in the Middle East.
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 and comparative politics. He is interested in climate change, foreign policy, and political violence. Specifically, understanding the role of climate change, and its effects, in producing conflict and cooperation within and between societies.
Keely Eshenbaugh
Keely Eshenbaugh is a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Political Science at the University of Nevada, Reno. Her concentrations are comparative politics and international relations. Eshenbaugh is interested in narratives of business and labor organizations and if they followed expected patterns of economic utility during the United Kingdom's 2016 Brexit referendum campaign.
Eshenbaugh is pleased to be a candidate on the academic job market beginning Fall 2023. She was selected to be a 2022-2023 Bilinski Fellow, allowing her to focus on conducting interviews in the UK and analyze social media data of labor unions and businesses, and a 2021-2022 Doctoral Research in Innovation, Vision and Excellence (DRIVE) Fellow, providing research and publication mentorship. She has taught courses for the Honors College, the Department of Political Science and the Department of Core Humanities at the University of Nevada, Reno. Eshenbaugh plans on pursuing an academic career and can be reached at keshenbaugh@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.
Jordyn Green
Jordyn Green is a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Political Science at the University of Nevada, Reno. Her concentrations are in public administration and public policy, with a focus on K-12 and higher education. Her research interests include collaborative governance and policy learning during policy implementation as well as community engagement and civic engagement in higher education.
Shannon Hartmann
Shannon Hartmann is a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Political Science at the University of Nevada, Reno. Her concentrations are comparative politics and international relations. Her research interests are terrorism, political violence, counterterrorism, geospatial intelligence applications, and GIS methods. Hartmann’s research is interdisciplinary and focuses on understanding the causes of terrorism using geospatial analysis and qualitative case studies. She is also interested in identifying ways to improve the quality and accuracy of terrorism datasets, and she is working on producing two new terrorism datasets for Northern Ireland and the Philippines that include point-specific georeferencing.
Hartmann was selected as a 2022 - 2023 Bilinski Fellow, which allowed her to conduct archival research to develop her terrorism datasets. In 2021, Hartmann received a Global Studies Graduate Student Research Grant from the Ozmen Institute for Global Studies and served as a Distinguished Teaching Assistant/instructor in Core Humanities for the 2021 - 2022 academic year. Hartmann intends to pursue research opportunities that allow her to work with dataset development or help inform and improve counterterrorism policy and tactics. She can be reached at shanhart@nevada.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.
Horohito Norhatan
Horohito Norhatan is a Ph.D. student in the Department of Political Science at the University of Nevada, Reno. His research interests lie in the areas of collaborative governance, comparative public administration, comparative public policy, community economic development, worker self-management and sustainable development. Norhatan previously had the opportunity to investigate the impact of the cooperative business model on poverty eradication and job creation in the Basque region of Spain.
Some of his previous teaching responsibilities include, Introduction to Comparative Politics (PSC 211) and Contemporary Basque Politics (BASQ 407). He holds a Ph.D. in Basque Studies from the Center for Basque Studies at the University of Nevada, Reno.
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.
Samuel Smith
Samuel Smith is a doctoral candidate at the University of Nevada, Reno. Samuel holds a master's degree from the College of Business and Accounting Information Systems and a bachelor’s degree in Economics. His research focuses on interdisciplinary cybersecurity issues regarding security, government policy, auditing, blockchain and artificial intelligence. He collaborates with researchers as part of the Center for Cybersecurity at the University of Nevada, Reno. He has held positions of director and consultant, serving various entities including Fortune 50 companies, government agencies, public utilities and industries subject to government regulation. His publications include the topics of cybersecurity, data governance, blockchain, financial and IT auditing, sustainable energy and policy in the Journal of Information Systems Audit and Control Association (ISACA) and the LSU Journal of Energy Law and Resources. Among his interests are organizing startup initiatives, educational workshops and workforce development events centered around subjects within emerging technology, policy and inclusive product management.