Political Institutions and State Violence Social Science Experts in Institutions and Policies: Political Institutions and State Violence Heading link Copy link Dr. John Monaghan | Anthropology Dr. Seung Whan Choi | Political Science civil-military dynamics, democracy, and international conflict Dr. Stephen Engelmann | Political Science history of social science; biopolitics Dr. EJ Fagan | Political Science political parties, Congress, think tanks, agenda setting, lobbying, and economic policy Dr. Andreas Feldman | Political Science human rights, population uprooting, political violence and terrorism, and international cooperation and development Dr. Petia Kostadinova | Political Science comparative politics, European Union, East Europe methods: archival work and content analysis of original documents, multivariate regression analysis, and elite surveys Dr. Christopher Mooney | Political Science U.S. state politics and policy, with special focus on legislative decisionmaking, morality policy, and legislative term limits Dr. Sultan Tepe | Political Science intersection of religion, politics, and authoritarianism and their impact on marginalized and under-researched groups Dr. Yue Zhang | Political Science intersection of comparative and urban politics, with a focus on political economy of development, urbanization in the Global South, metropolitan and urban governance Dr. Rebecca Littman | Psychology psychology of conflict and reconciliation, primarily in the United States and sub-Saharan Africa Dr. Andy Clarno | Sociology racism, capitalism, colonialism, policing, comparative racial formation, political sociology Dr. Pamela Popielarz | Sociology organizations and social networks methods: historical data and qualitative methods