People
Director
Paasha Mahdavi
Paasha Mahdavi is Director of the EGAPE Lab, Associate Professor of Political Science, Vice Chair of the Political Science Department, affiliated faculty at the Bren School of Environmental Science & Management, and co-founding member of The 2035 Initiative at UCSB.
Students
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Jenna Cameron
Jenna Cameron is a first-year political science major at UCLA interested in the intersection between environmental politics and social justice.
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Zhai Gen Tan
Zhai Gen Tan is a Ph.D. student in political science researching climate politics and policy in the Global South.
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Denis Lomov
Denis Lomov is a political science PhD student working on corporate climate policy.
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Saber Khani
Saber Khani is a Ph.D. student at Boston University, writing a dissertation on unarmed protests in oil-producing countries.
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Hunter Smith
Hunter Smith is a PhD student in political science interested in carbon pricing, international environmental governance, natural climate solutions implementation, and causal inference methods.
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Mohammed Sulaimani
Mohammed Sulaimani is a Ph.D. candidate at the University of Pittsburgh, writing a dissertation on the international politics of national oil companies.
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Noosha Uddin
Noosha Uddin is a political science Ph.D student focusing on citizenship, labor migration, and energy transition in the Middle East and North Africa.
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Corah Walker
Corah Walker is a Political Science PhD student working on access to drinking water/water infrastructures, parties and elections, climate change adaptation and mitigation, and spatial data and causal inference methods.
Lab Alumni
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Gabriela Alberola
Gaby completed her Ph.D. in 2024 with a dissertation on climate adaptation. She is currently a post-doc at the University of Amsterdam.
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Sonya Akhgar
Sonya is a doctoral student at UCSB pursuing research in international relations.
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Ellen Burrell
Ellen Burrell did her undergraduate studies at UCSB, working on Environmental Politics and Data Science and Statistics.
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Ariana Salas Castillo
Ariana completed her Ph.D. in 2024 with a dissertation on urban sustainability and the politics of public bus transportation. She is currently a post-doc at Columbia University.
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Jeff Feng
Jeff completed their Ph.D. in political science with an emphasis in feminist studies at UCSB in 2022. They are currently a Postdoctoral Scholar at Northwestern University.
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Khobaib Ossailan
Khobaib completed his Ph.D. in 2022 with a dissertation on subsidy reform in the Middle East and North Africa. He is currently an Assistant Professor at King AbdulAziz University.
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Faiz Siddiqi
Faiz is currently an undergraduate student at University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign.
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Annjulie Vester
Annjulie is a doctoral student at UCSB pursuing research in international relations.
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Navid Yousefian
Navid completed his Ph.D. in political science at UCSB in 2021 and is currently teaching social inequalities and decolonial sociology at the University of Cambridge.