Advising

Current and Former Students

Students I have advised or co-advised in Political Science at UC Berkeley.

Recent graduates

• Kamya Yadav

  Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Center for the Advanced Study of India, University of Pennsylvania. PhD, UC Berkeley. Studies how quotas and party organizations shape women’s political ambition and representation, with a focus on India. Book project: The Political Glass Wall: How Women’s Wings Prevent Women’s Political Advancement. On the job market.

• Johanna Reyes Ortega

  Postdoctoral Associate, Identity and Conflict Lab, Yale University. PhD, UC Berkeley. Studies how conflict and social mobilization reshape citizenship and rights in the Global South, with a focus on Latin America. Book project: Women After Revolution. On the job market.

• Alyssa R. Heinze

  Postdoctoral Fellow, King Center on Global Development, Stanford University. PhD, UC Berkeley. Studies the political economy of development, gender and politics, and environmental and climate politics, with a focus on India. Book project: Agriculture and Patriarchy: Growing and Severing the Roots of Male Dominance. Joining UC Davis as Assistant Professor of Political Science in Fall 2027.

Current PhD candidates

• Ari Benkler

  JD-PhD candidate, UC Berkeley and Yale Law School. Studies how law and politics set the pace of decarbonization, and what that pace means for economic inequality and democratic stability.

• Sara Jozer

  Studies gender bias in American politics and the contextual factors that shape it, including patriarchal gender norms. Her dissertation examines women’s candidate emergence and success using large-scale experimental and survey data.

• Chloe Prendergast

  Studies the politics of identity and spatial segregation, with a focus on Northern Ireland.