Leadership

Yotam Shmargad

nriddel — Tue, 02 Apr 2019 17:17:26 +0000

Yotam Shmargad nriddel Tue, 04/02/2019 - 10:17

Social Sciences 314B

Yotam Shmargad is a computational social scientist whose research focuses on understanding how digital platforms shape social and political life in the United States. He uses a mix of statistical and computational techniques, including social network analysis, online data collection, virtual experimentation, machine learning, and econometric methods. His research speaks to questions about how social media dampen certain disparities while magnifying others, and how social media can both fuel political polarization and incivility as well as extinguish their flames. Shmargad’s work has appeared in the Journal of Politics, Political Communication, the Journal of Information Policy, the Journal of Political Marketing, the Journal of Interactive Marketing, PLOS One, Social Science Computer Review, and the Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology, among other venues. Before joining the University of Arizona, Shmargad received his PhD in Marketing from Northwestern University’s Kellogg School of Management.

Associate Professor

Director of Undergraduate Studies

yotam@arizona.edu

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Online behavior

Political communication

Social networks

Yotam Shmargad

Paul Schuler

nriddel — Tue, 02 Apr 2019 17:15:48 +0000

Paul Schuler nriddel Tue, 04/02/2019 - 10:15

Social Sciences 318

I study authoritarian regimes and political institutions with a particular focus on East and Southeast Asia. My current book project addresses the historical evolution of authoritarian political institutions and their impact on contemporary politics. Additionally, I am also an expert on contemporary Vietnamese politics.

Associate Professor

Associate Director (Research & Impact)

pschuler@arizona.edu

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Political institutions

Authoritarian regimes

Southeast Asia

Paul Schuler

Alex Braithwaite

nriddel — Mon, 01 Apr 2019 21:12:40 +0000

Alex Braithwaite nriddel Mon, 04/01/2019 - 14:12

Social Sciences 314C

My research addresses a series of related topics in the broad areas of international relations and conflict processes. This includes (1) the causes and contagion of violent and nonviolent conflict, including terrorism, protests, riots, civil war, and international wars; (2) patterns of forced migration; and (3) the use of systems of concentration camps as a form of repression. Each of these themes is investigated in a series of externally-funded grant projects completed or ongoing:

"Enhancing the Evidence for Humanitarian Action (EEHA) in the Face of Climate Change." (Collaborative research with Zack Guido, Corrie Hannah, Timothy Finan, Beth Tellman, Anna Josephson, & Jeff Michler; Funded by USAID's BHA, 2023-2024, $997,977).
"Concentration Camp Systems: Data Collection and Dissemination." (Collaborative research with Rachel Van Nostrand & Daniel Solomon; Funded by the National Science Foundation, 2022-2024, $362,328).
"Analyzing Migration Patterns from Central America Using Natural Language and Machine Learning." (Collaborative research with Javier Osorio [PI]; Funded by the US Dept. of Defense/Army Research Office, 2020-2023, $660,000).
"Refugee Flows and Instability." (Collaborative research with Faten Ghosn, Shane Johnson, Toby Davies, Michael Frith, Miranda Simon, & Tiffany Chu; Funded by the US Dept. of Defense/Army Research Office, 2017-2021, $1,391,214).
"ENFOLDing - Explaining, Modeling, and Forecasting Global Dynamics." (Collaborative research with Alan Wilson [PI], Michael Batty, Stephen Bishop, Sean Hanna, Shane Johnson, Pablo Mateos, Francesca Medda, Frank Smith, & Alasdair Turner; Funded by the UK Engineering & Physical Sciences Research Council, 2010-2015, £2,510,409.
"Shades of Grey: Toward a Science of Intervention for Eliciting and Detecting Notable Behaviours." (Collaborative research with Matt Jones [PI], Ben Dalton, Dawn Eubanks, Lara Frumkin, Peter Fussey, David Howard, Marialena Nikolopodou, Alex Stedmon, Jack Tchang, & Aldert Vrij; Funded by the UK Engineering & Physical Sciences Research Council, 2010-2013, £1,050,296).
"Mapping the Structure of International Inequalities and the Poverty-Conflict Nexus." (Collaborative research with David Hudson & Niheer Dasandi; Funded by the UK Economic & Social Research Council, 2010-2012, £87,025).
"Territorial Motivations of Terrorist Organisations." (Research fellowship funded by The Airey Neave Trust, 2010-2012, £40,747).
"Escaping the Territorial Trap: Mapping, Modeling, and Simulating Conflict Processes." (Apple Inc. Research & Technology Support (ARTS) Laureate, 2009, $30,000).

Professor & Director of SGPP

Melody S. Robidoux Fund Leadership Chair

abraith@arizona.edu

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International relations

Refugees and forced migration

Violent and nonviolent conflict

Alex Braithwaite

Jessica Maves Braithwaite

nriddel — Mon, 01 Apr 2019 21:10:28 +0000

Jessica Maves Braithwaite nriddel Mon, 04/01/2019 - 14:10

Social Sciences 343

Jessica Braithwaite's research addresses how repressive activities and institutional characteristics of governments influence (and are influenced by) violent and nonviolent strategies of domestic opposition groups. She also examines the origins of rebellion as a co-creator of the Foundations of Rebel Group Emergence (FORGE) dataset. Her work has been published or is forthcoming at Journal of Politics, International Studies Quarterly, Journal of Peace Research, Research and Politics, and Conflict Management and Peace Science.

Associate Professor

Director of PhD Program

jbraith@arizona.edu

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International relations

Violent and nonviolent conflict

Human rights and repression

Jessica Maves Braithwaite

Elizabeth Baldwin

nriddel — Mon, 01 Apr 2019 17:35:06 +0000

Elizabeth Baldwin nriddel Mon, 04/01/2019 - 10:35

Social Sciences 318A

Elizabeth Baldwin researches environmental, energy and water policy in the U.S. and internationally. She is broadly interested the role that non-state actors play in implementing natural resource policies, the way that laws and legal rules structure stakeholder involvement, and the degree to which such stakeholder involvement affects policy outcomes. One of her current research projects examines ways that private sector and non-profit organizations affect U.S. state energy efficiency and renewable energy policies. She also has an ongoing research project evaluating the use and governance of off-grid and decentralized energy systems in sub-Saharan African countries.

Baldwin’s work has been published in Governance, Policy Studies Journal, Journal of Comparative Policy Analysis, Environment and Resource Economics, Annual Review of Environment and Resources, and Natural Resources Journal.

Baldwin earned her Ph.D. in 2015 from the School of Public and Environmental Affairs at Indiana University-Bloomington, where she was a research assistant at the Ostrom Workshop on Political Theory and Policy Analysis. She also holds a J.D. from the Indiana University Maurer School of Law and a B.S. in Environmental Policy from Unity College.

Associate Professor

Director of MPA & MPP Programs

elizabethb@arizona.edu

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Environmental policy

Energy policy

Institutional analysis