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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
