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.

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 Students

  • Jenna Cameron

    Jenna Cameron is a first-year political science major at UCLA interested in the intersection between environmental politics and social justice.

  • Zhai Gen Tan

    Zhai Gen Tan is a Ph.D. student in political science researching climate politics and policy in the Global South.

  • Denis Lomov

    Denis Lomov is a political science PhD student working on corporate climate policy.

  • Saber Khani

    Saber Khani is a Ph.D. student at Boston University, writing a dissertation on unarmed protests in oil-producing countries.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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

  • 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.

  • Sonya Akhgar

    Sonya is a doctoral student at UCSB pursuing research in international relations.

  • Ellen Burrell

    Ellen Burrell did her undergraduate studies at UCSB, working on Environmental Politics and Data Science and Statistics.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • Faiz Siddiqi

    Faiz is currently an undergraduate student at University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign.

  • Annjulie Vester

    Annjulie is a doctoral student at UCSB pursuing research in international relations.

  • 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.