Faculty Coordinators
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.
Christopher Hare, Department of Political Science (Personal Website)
Christopher Hare is an Assistant Professor of Political Science at the University of California, Davis. His research agenda encompasses ideology and voting behavior in the mass public, campaign strategy, politics and religion, and political polarization. Methodologically, he is interested in measurement theory and ideal point estimation, Bayesian methods, and applying machine learning to model political behavior.
Staff
Bekah Wilson, Orange Cluster Administrative Specialist and Event Coordinator
ocevents@ucdavis.edu
Graduate Student Assistant
Jonathan Colner, Ph.D. Candidate, Department of Political Science (Personal Website)
Jonathan Colner is a PhD candidate in Political Science at the University of California, Davis. His research focuses on developing new tools for measuring ideological structure at the municipal level as well as analyzing the effects of electoral institutions such as Ranked Choice Voting on representation and candidate entry.
jpcolner@ucdavis.edu
Past 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.
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.