Current Graduate Students

We are proud of our graduate students at Stony Brook. For a list of students on the job market, please check Hire a Stony Brook PhD.

Gizem Arikan

Major/Minor: Political Economy / American Politics
Interests: Political Culture; Values; Electoral Behavior; Comparative Political Institutions
Degrees: BA, Political Science and International Relations, Bogazici University
MA, Political Science and International Relations, Bogazici University

Pazit Ben-Nun-Bloom

Major/Minor: Political Psychology / Political Economy
Interests: Moral Judgment; Terrorism and Counter-terrorism; Mass Media; Auditing Democracies; Methodology
Degrees: B.A., Psychology, Political Science, Tel Aviv University
M.A., Political Science, Tel Aviv University

Elif Calki Erisen

Major/Minor: Political Economy / Political Psychology
Interests: Education Policy; Comparative Perspectives on Education Policy; Public Policy; Decision Making
Degrees: B.A., Political Science, International Relations, Bogazici University, Istanbul
MSc. Politics of the World Economy, London School of Economics and Political Science

Tony E. Carey, Jr.

Major/Minor: Political Psychology / American Politics
Interests: Racial Politics; Political Behavior; Political Identity
Degrees: B.A., Vanderbilt University

Marie Courtemanche

Major/Minor: Political Psychology / American Politics
Interests: Attitudes; Beliefs; Values
Degrees: B.A., Political Science & Economics, University of New Hampshire

Cengiz Erisen

Major/Minor: Political Psychology / Political Economy
Interests: Decision Making; Political Psychology; Public Policy; Political Economy
Degrees: B.A., Marmara University

Todd Hartman

Major/Minor: Political Psychology / American Politics
Interests: Political Behavior; Attitude Change; Information Processing
Degrees: B.A., International Relations, University of California at Davis
M.A., International Relations, San Francisco State University

Lindsay Hughes

Major/Minor: American Politics
Interests: Congressional & Judicial Politics
Degrees: B.A., Political Science, University of Massachusetts-Dartmouth

Naser Javaid

Major/Minor: American Politics / Political Economy
Interests: Judicial, Congress, and Institutions
Degrees: B.A., Political Science, Carleton College

Magen Knuth

Major/Minor: Political Psychology / American Politics
Interests: Political Culture; Values; Emotions; Methodology
Degrees: B.A., Global Politics, Marquette University
M.A., International Affairs, Marquette University

Victor Lange

Major/Minor: Political Psychology
Interests: Voter Behavior, Voter Expectations
Degrees: B.S., Psychology; B.A., History; Indiana University

Mary-Kate Lizotte

Major/Minor: Political Psychology / American Politics
Interests: Affect; Ideology; Gender
Degrees: B.A., Providence College

Maxwell Mak

Major/Minor: American Politics
Interests: Judicial and Congressional Politics
Degrees: B.A., Political Science, University of California at Davis

Lilliana Mason

Major/Minor: Political Psychology / American Politics
Interests: American Politics; Partisanship; Polarization; Religion and Politics; Politics and the Internet
Degrees: B.A., Politics, Princeton University

Andrew O'Geen

Major/Minor: American Politics / Political Economy
Interests: Judicial Politics; Political Institutions
Degrees: B.A., Political Science, University of Kentucky
M.A., Political Science, Georgia State University

Christopher Parker

Major/Minor: American Politics / Political Economy
Interests: Congressional Politics; Political Institutions; Public Policy
Degrees: B.A. Political Science, Colgate University

Angel Saavedra Cisneros

Major/Minor: Political Psychology / Political Economy
Interests: International Politics; Political Communication; Affect
Degrees: B.S., Psychology, Brigham Young University (University Honors)
Graduate Certificate, TESOL, Brigham Young University

M. Eser Sekercioglu

Major/Minor: Political Economy / American Politics
Interests: Quantitative Research Methods; Parties and Electoral Systems
Degrees: B.A., Bogazici University, Istanbul

Jacob Sohlberg

Major/Minor: American Politics / Political Psychology
Interests: Public Opinion; Mass Media; Affect
Degrees: B.A., American Studies & Peace and Conflict Studies, Uppsala University

Brad Verhulst

Major/Minor: Political Psychology / American Politics
Interests: Political Cognition; Affect; Electoral Behavior; International Relations; American Politics; Attitude Change
Degrees: B.A., Political Science (Honors with Distinction); Psychology (with Distinction)

Chris Weber

Major/Minor: Political Psychology / American Politics
Interests: Intergroup Conflict; Implicit Attitudes
Degrees: B.A., Psychology, University of Minnesota-Twin Cities

Elyce Winters

Major/Minor: Political Economy / American Politics
Interests: Public Policy; Class; Congressional Politics; Decision Making
Degrees: B.A., Journalism & Anthropology, Fordham University
M.A., Public Policy, Stony Brook University

Sanser Yener

Major/Minor: Political Psychology / American Politics
Interests: Quantitative Research Methods; Formal Models; Political Attitudes; Political Identity
Degrees: B.A., Bogazici University, Istanbul

Sung Jin Yoo

Major/Minor: Political Psychology / American Politics
Interests: Political Participation; Racial Politics; Political Attitudes
Degrees: B.A., Political Science, Seoul National University, Korea
M.A., Political Science, Seoul National University, Korea

Everett Young

Major/Minor: Political Psychology / Political Economy
Interests: Ideology

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