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
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
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
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