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Julian Michel (UCLA PhD 2024) received multiple research awards in 2024. His dissertation work on “The Subnational Roots of Democratic Stability” was recognized with the American Political Science Association’s Deil S. Wright Award for the best paper on Federalism and Intergovernmental Relations. Additionally, the Midwest Political Science Association recognized it with the Kellogg/ Notre Dame […]
How can societies effectively reduce crime without exacerbating adversarial relationships between the police and citizens? In recent decades, perhaps the most celebrated innovation in police reform has been the introduction of community policing, where citizens are involved in building channels of dialogue and improving police-citizen collaboration. Despite the widespread adoption of community policing in the […]
The Department of Political Science is thrilled to announce that seven of our outstanding honors students have been awarded research support through two prestigious undergraduate research programs. Julianne Lempert, Urania (Jiayin) Li, Ellen Ohler, Jessica Persano, and Emily Rusting have been selected as 2024-2025 recipients of the UCLA/Keck Humanistic Inquiry Award. This fellowship provides each […]
Connor Huff is an Assistant Professor of Political Science at the University of California, Los Angeles. His research focuses on how individual experiences shape conflict participation, battlefield dynamics, and conflict outcomes. He received his PhD in Government from Harvard University in 2019. From 2024 to 2025, he was a Council on Foreign Relations International Affairs […]
Pieces of the Craft 2024-2025 Schedule September: Applying for Grants and Fellowships October: Preparing for the Job Talk November: How to Submit Your Work to a Journal for the First Time December: Managing Multi-Site Research Projects January: Early Stage Job Market Panel February: Conducting International Field Work March: Writing The Dissertation April: Networking at Conferences […]
My research interests broadly entail political communication, political psychology, political behavior, public opinion, social movements, and contentious politics. More specifically, I am interested in using experiments and computational machine learning methods to study how different forms of media influence opinion formation and prejudice reduction.
Emily Woo is a Ph.D. student in Political Science at UCLA specializing in voting, elections, and the political behavior of minoritized populations. Her work addresses the gap between foundational studies of American political behavior and the underrepresentation of non-white communities within them, with recent projects on racialized political alienation, color-blind beliefs and Asian American vote […]
