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Past Fellows

Anindita Adhikari
CED Postdoctoral Fellow, 2023-25

Research Project: "Shikayat to Jawabdehi: Redeeming Rights and Democratizing the Local State in India"

Research Interests: Political sociology, sociology of law, development, democracy, citizenship, social accountability, bureaucracy, politics of welfare, South Asia, India

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Katlyn Carter
WCED Postdoctoral Fellow, 2017-19

Research Project: “Houses of Glass: Secrecy, Transparency, and the Birth of Representative Democracy”

Fields of Interest: Political history, political culture, public sphere, media history

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Adam E. Casey
WCED Postdoctoral Fellow, 2021-23

Research Project: “Foreign Support and Authoritarian Rule”

Research Interests: Durability of authoritarian regimes, civil-military relations, military coups, comparative democratization

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Matthew Cebul
WCED Postdoctoral Fellow, 2019-21

Research Project: “Repression and Rebellion in the Shadow of Foreign Intervention”

Research Interests: Comparative politics (democratization, nonviolent protest); international relations (coercion, signals of assurance); Middle Eastern politics

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Luciana Chamorro Elizondo
WCED Postdoctoral Fellow, 2021-23

Research Project: “Afterlives of Revolution: authoritarian populism and political passions in post-revolutionary Nicaragua”

Research Interests: Political anthropology, Central America, populist politics, political theology, debt, inheritance and generational difference, political violence, feminist and queer imaginaries of the future

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Marília Corrêa
WCED Postdoctoral Fellow, 2019-21

Research Project: “Military Outcasts: Expelled Servicemen, Dictatorship, Gender, and Trauma in Brazil”

Research Interests: Latin American history, global history, Latin American dictatorships, Cold War, social history, military history, gender history

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Natalia Forrat
WCED Postdoctoral Fellow, 2018-20

Research Project: “Cooperate or Resist? State-Society Relations and Authoritarianism in Russia and Beyond”

Fields of Interest: State-society relationships, state capacity, political regimes

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Basak Gemici
CED Postdoctoral Fellow, 2022-24

Research Project: "Authoritarian Populism and Everyday Life in Turkey"

Research Interests: Political Sociology, cultural sociology, ethnicity, race, gender, conflict in everyday life, populism, authoritarianism, social change, ethnography, Turkey, Middle East

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Ricarda Hammer
WCED Postdoctoral Fellow, 2021-23

Research Project: "Citizenship and Colonial Difference: The Racial Politics of Rights and Rule across the Black Atlantic"

Research Interests: Anticolonial politics, colonialism, race, modern rights & citizenship, global sociology, historical sociology, postcolonial sociology, social theory, Caribbean

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Margaret Hanson
Weiser Emerging Democracies Postdoctoral Fellow, 2017-18

Research Project: “Legalized Rent-Seeking: How Dictators Use Formal Institutions to Manage Corruption”

Fields of Interest: Authoritarian stability, political institutions, judicial politics

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Elizabeth Kaknes
Weiser Emerging Democracies Postdoctoral Fellow, 2016-17

Research Project: “Politics, Poverty, and Policy in Brazil”

Fields of Interest: Comparative politics, development, Latin American politics, democratic consolidation, public opinion, political behavior

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Pellumb Kelmendi
Weiser Emerging Democracies Postdoctoral Fellow, 2016-17

Research Project: “When Rebels become Politicians: The Transformation of Rebel Organizations into Political Parties and their Performance in Post-conflict Elections”

Fields of Interest: Comparative politics, party politics, ethnic conflict, civil war, democratization

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Jean Lachapelle
WCED Postdoctoral Fellow, 2017-19

Research Project: “Coercive Orders in the Middle East and North Africa”

Fields of Interest: Authoritarianism, state violence, Egypt, Middle East and North Africa

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Jundai Liu
WCED Postdoctoral Fellow, 2019-21

Research Project: “Claiming Legitimacy and Building Solidarity: Chinese Veterans’ Political Participation under Regime Control”

Research Interests: Political participation, civic solidarity, communal organization, authoritarian resilience

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Brendan McElroy
WCED Postdoctoral Fellow, 2020-22

Research Project: “Representative Traditions and the Resilience of Democracy in Central and Eastern Europe”

Research Interests: State formation, political economy of development, genesis of representative institutions, Central and Eastern Europe

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Jennifer Schaefer
Weiser Emerging Democracies Postdoctoral Fellow, 2016-17

Research Project: “Critical Commemorations: Memorializing Rebels, Martyrs, and Heroes in Argentina, 1966-1983”

Fields of Interest: History, Latin American studies, memory studies

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Fiona Shen-Bayh
WCED Postdoctoral Fellow, 2018-20

Research Project: “Strategies of Repression: Judicial and Extrajudicial Methods of Autocratic Survival”

Fields of Interest: Post-authoritarian rule of law, judicial and extrajudicial repression strategies, weaponized courts

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