Organizers

Graduate student coordinators

Anil Menon. I am a Ph.D. candidate and Gerald R. Ford Fellow in the Department of Political Science at the University of Michigan. I study comparative political behavior, historical political economy, legacies of conflict, and political psychology, with a substantive focus on the political legacy of traumatic experiences. My research utilizes multiple methods including survey experiments, large-N statistical analysis, in-person cognitive interviewing, and natural language processing. I am also a Visiting Research Fellow at The Center for the Resolution of Intractable Conflict at Harris Manchester College, Oxford University. Please visit my website for additional details regarding my research.

Htet Thiha Zaw. I am a Ph.D. Candidate in Political Science at the University of Michigan – Ann Arbor. My research interests lie in historical political economy, education, and formal theory. Substantively, I am interested in understanding human capital investment in non-democratic states during periods of political instability and conflict, and answering related questions in the context of colonial states in Southeast Asia, particularly British Burma. Another line of my research explores topics in international education policy, such as education efficiency and early-childhood education. Please visit my website for additional details regarding my research.

Faculty coordinator

Robert Mickey is Associate Professor in the Department of Political Science at the University of Michigan. He teaches and studies U.S. politics in historical (and occasionally cross-national) perspective. His core research interest is in the contemporary politics of American economic inequality, racial politics, and American political development. He has published a book, Paths Out of Dixie: The Democratization of Authoritarian Enclaves in America’s Deep South, 1944-1972, by Princeton University Press on these topics. His research has also been published in the Journal of Law and Politics and Studies in American Political Development, as well as in several other journals and edited volumes. More information can be found at this website.