People
Director
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.