Faculty Coordinators

Rachel Bernhard, Department of Political Science (Personal Website)
Rachel Bernhard is an Assistant Professor of Political Science at the University of California, Davis. Her academic work sits at the intersection of several different subfields: gender and intersectional identity in politics (with a focus on American elections), political psychology and behavior (with a focus on voter information-gathering and decision-making), and survey and experimental design.

Ryan Hübert, Department of Political Science (Personal Website)
Ryan Hübert is an Assistant Professor of Political Science at the University of California, Davis. His research uses game theory and quantitative methods to study political institutions and the behavior of government officials. His substantive interests include American courts and policing, identity and discrimination, and corruption and special interest influence on politics.

​Lauren Young, Department of Political Science (Personal Website)​
Lauren Young is an Assistant Professor of Political Science at the University of California, Davis. Her research aims to understand how individuals make decisions when faced with the threat of violence. She has ongoing or completed research projects in Zimbabwe, Eastern Europe, Haiti, and Mexico using a mix of field experiments, lab-in-the-field experiments, quantitative analysis of historical trends, and in-depth qualitative interviews.

Staff

Kendra Morley, Orange Cluster Administrative Specialist and Event Coordinator
kmmorley@ucdavis.edu

Graduate Student Assistant

Jonathan Colner, Ph.D. Student, Department of Political Science 
jpcolner@ucdavis.edu

​Past Graduate Student Assistants 

• Gento Kato (2019–2020)
  Gento Kato's research focuses on the role of information and identity in forming political decisions and attitudes, and the application of machine learning and content analysis to quantify political texts. He is also interested in the formal models of political behavior. In the current project, he explores economic explanation to the behavior of uninformed individuals under the democratic setting.