Department of Political Science
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
Rob Bielby
Major/Minor: Political Psychology /American Politics
Interests: Implicit and Explicit Attitudes, Information Processing,
Candidate Evaluation, Framing and Priming Effects
Degrees: BA Political Science, University of Michigan-Flint; BA
Psychology University of Michigan-Flint
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
Katie Donovan
Major/Minor: Political Psychology/American Politics
Interests: political communication, criminal justice policy
Degrees: B.A. in English, Emory University
M.S. in Criminal Justice, University of Cincinnati
Cengiz Erisen
Major/Minor: Political Psychology / Political Economy
Interests: Political Behavior; Affect; Emotios; Informatio Processing; Campaign Advertising and Media
Degrees: M.A., Stony Brook University, 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
Christopher Johnston
Major/Minor: Political Psychology/American Politics
Interests: Public Opinion; Electoral Behavior Quantitative Methods
Degrees: B.A., Psychology, Wake Forest University
Roland Kappe
Major/Minor: Political Economy/ Political Psychology
Interests: Comparative Political Economy, Institutions, Party
Competition, Formal Theory, Agent-Based Modeling, Methodology
Degrees: M.A. Politics and Management (Diplom
Verwaltungswissenschaft), University of Konstanz
Ellen Key
Major/Minor: American Politics / Political Economy
Interests: Judicial Politics; Campaign Politics; Political Institutions
Degrees: A.B., Government & Women's Studies, Georgetown University
M.A., Political Science, University of Georgia
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/American Politics
Interests: Voter Behavior
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
Ben J. Newman
Major/Minor: Political Psychology / American Politics
Interests: Motivational, Emotional, and Institutional Foundations of Citizen Performance; Public Opinion; Political Protest Behavior; Democratic Theory
Degrees: B.A., Political Science, California State University at Sonoma
M.A., Political Psychology, California State University at Sonoma
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
Martijn Schoonvelde
Major/Minor: Political Psychology / Political Economy
Interests: Decision Making; Mass Media; Dutch Politics
Degrees: M.Sc., Social Psychology, University of Groningen
M.Sc., Political Science, University of Amsterdam
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
Shannon Stagman
Major/Minor: Political Psychology/American Politics
Interests:Attitudinal Ambivalence; Electoral Behavior; Religion and Politics
Degrees: B.A., Psychology and Political Science, University of Michigan-Dearborn
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)
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
Everett Young
Major/Minor: Political Psychology / Political Economy
Interests: Ideology
