Alumni

Megan
Turnbull

Megan Turnbull is Visiting Assistant Professor in the Department of Political Science at Skidmore College. She studies political order, violence, and democratization with an empirical focus in Sub-Saharan Africa. Her book project examines the relationship between... Read more

Sveta
Milusheva

Sveta Milusheva is an Economist with the Development Impact Evaluation (DIME) unit of the Development Economics Research Group at the World Bank where she helps to coordinate impact evaluations focused on transportation investments.... Read more

Derek
Sheridan

Derek Sheridan is a lecturer in anthropology at Brandeis University. His research addresses transnationalism and migration, ethics, semiotics, political and economic anthropology, and South-South relations, particularly between (global) China and East Africa. In his ... Read more

Paula
Dias

Paula Dias is an International Development Qualitative Researcher at American Institutes for Research. Paula received her PhD from Brown University in 2017. She holds a MA in Anthropology from Brown University and a BA in Anthropology and French Literature from Indiana... Read more

Heitor
Pellegrina

Heitor Pellegrina is Assistant Professor of Economics at New York University Abu Dhabi. His research interests are in trade and development with a focus on agricultural trade, food security, and economic geography.... Read more

Colin
Johnson

Colin is an Assistant Professor of Political Science at Idaho State University. His research is at the intersection of international migration and development, incorporating human security, political demography, and ethnic conflict. Though he is interested in the aforementioned issues in hybrid regimes worldwide, his geographic specialization is post-communist Eurasia, including... Read more

Eduardo Moncada

Eduardo Moncada is Assistant Professor in the Department of Political Science at Barnard College at Columbia University. In addition to his current book project on how relations between city governments and business interests shape policy responses to urban violence and citizen security, Eduardo’s areas of interest include the political economy of... Read more

Gayatri
Singh

Gayatri Singh is a Consultant with the East Asia and Pacific Infrastructure Unit (EASIN) and the Development Economics Prospects Group’s (DECPG) Migration and Remittances Unit at the World Bank.    ... Read more

Tatiana Andia Ray

Tatiana Andia Ray is Assistant Professor in the Department of Social Sciences at the University of Los Andes.    ... Read more

Marcelo
Bohrt

Marcelo Bohrt is Assistant Professor of Race and Global Studies at the School of International Service at American University. The School of ... Read more

Pellumb Kelmendi

Pellumb Kelmendi is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Political Science at Auburn University. His research focuses on civil wars, international peacekeeping, and post-conflict institution building. His current teaching assignments include courses on Global Politics and International Security. Prior to... Read more

Diana
Graizbord

Diana Graizbord is an Assistant Professor of Sociology and Latin American and Caribbean Studies at University of Georgia, and holds a joint appointment with the Latin American and Caribbean Studies Institute. Diana received her PhD in Sociology from Brown University where she was a NSF-IGERT fellow in Development and Inequality in... Read more

Carla
Alberti

Carla is Assistant Professor in the Department of Political Science at the Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, in the area of comparative politics. ... Read more

Morgan
Hardy

Morgan Hardy is Assistant Professor of Economics in the Social Science Department at New York University Abu Dhabi. NYUAD is a new and highly selective liberal arts college within the NYU system. It has small class sizes, with the teaching load and resources of a top research university. The school... Read more

Bhawani
Buswala

Bhawani is at Yale University as a Post-doctoral Associate and Lecturer in South Asian Studies at South Asian Studies Council at the Whitney and Betty MacMillan Center for International and Area Studies. This position is for the 2016-17 academic year.... Read more

Alex
Eble

Alex Eble is Assistant Professor of Economics and Education at Teachers College, Columbia University, and an affiliate of Columbia's Center for Development Economics and Policy.... Read more

Rebecca
Peters

Rebecca Peters completed her PhD in anthropology at Brown in 2011. She is currently an Assistant Professor of Public Administration and International Affairs at the Maxwell School of Syracuse University. Her areas of interest are Angola, Lusophone Africa, international development, ... Read more

David
Ciplet

David Ciplet is Assistant Professor of Environmental Studies at the University of Colorado at Boulder. At a PhD Candidate in Sociology at Brown, he was co-leader of the Brown University Climate and Development Lab. From the negotiating halls of the United Nations to community center meeting rooms, his research used... Read more

Angelica Duran Martinez

Angelica Duran-Martinez is Assistant Professor of Political Science at the University of Massachusetts-Lowell. She obtained a PhD in political science at Brown University, a BA in political science from Universidad Nacional de Colombia and completed an MA in Latin American and Caribbean Studies at New York University thanks to a... Read more

Johnnie
Lotesta

Johnnie is a Democracy Postdoctoral Fellow at the Ash Center for Democratic Governance and Innovation at the Harvard Kennedy School. She received her Ph.D. in Sociology from Brown University in 2019. Johnnie is broadly interested in American political development, particularly political parties, policy change and divergence, postwar conservatism, labor and... Read more

Peter
Klein

Peter Klein is Assistant Professor of Sociology and Environmental and Urban Studies at Bard College. His broad interests are in environmental sociology, international development, and political sociology. His dissertation research focused on state-society relations, social mobilization, and the contested notions of development that emerge ... Read more

Myung Ji
Yang

Myungji Yang is an assistant professor of political science at the University of Hawai‘i, Mānoa. She earned her PhD in Sociology in 2012 and spent a year as a postdoctoral fellow at the Korean Studies Institute, University of Southern California in 2015-16. Her broad research interests include the political economy... Read more

Kelly
Bay-Meyer

Kelly Bay-Meyer serves as Operations Director at Degrees of Change, a national non-profit organization whose mission is to prepare diverse, homegrown leaders to succeed in college and use their degrees to build more vibrant and equitable communities. She earned her PhD in political science from Brown in 2011. Her dissertation... Read more

Jazmin
Sierra

Jazmin Sierra is Assistant Professor in the Department of Political Science at the University of Notre Dame. She studies international and comparative political economy with a regional focus in Latin America. My research interests include development finance, global production and innovation, state-business relations, and energy politics. http://brown.academia.edu/JSierra https://jazminsierra.wordpress.com/... Read more

Elizabeth
Bennett

Elizabeth Bennett is Assistant Professor of International Affairs at Lewis and Clark College. Her areas of specialization are International Political Economy, Private Authority in the Global Economy, Global Social Movements, and Fair Trade. ... Read more

Susan
Ellison

Susan Helen Ellison is a sociocultural anthropologist whose current research centers on the politics of foreign aid, democracy promotion, judicial reform, and conflict in Latin America. She is Assistant Professor of Anthropology at Wellesley College. Ellison’s ethnographic research has... Read more

Mujun
Zhou

Mujun Zhou is Research Fellow on Civil Society and Philanthropy at Sun Yat-sen University in Guangzhou, China. She was previously a postdoctoral fellow (2015-16) at the Center for Chinese Studies, University of California, Berkeley.  ... Read more

Dikshya
Thapa

Dikshya Thapa completed her PhD in sociology at Brown in September 2012. She is currently with the World Bank's Social Development Unit where her work focuses on discrimination and exclusion among minorities in Eastern Europe. Her areas of research have been... Read more

Shruti
Majumdar

Shruti Majumdar is employed by the World Bank's Demand for Good Governance team in the Social Development anchor, where her work focuses on social accountability, community-driven development and context-driven policy interventions. She received her PhD from the Department of... Read more

Erin
Beck

Erin Beck is an assistant professor at the University of Oregon, teaching Latin American Politics and Gender and Development. She received her PhD from the Department of Political Science in May 2012. Her work focuses on the causes and effects of women’s varying forms and levels of participation in microcredit... Read more

Leo
Feler

Leo Feler is an assistant professor in international economics at the School of Advanced International Studies at Johns Hopkins University. He started in the Graduate Program in Development during his second year of the PhD at Brown. The GPD provided him with a summer research grant so that he could... Read more

Cecilia
Perla

Cecilia Perla works as a Copper Mines Analyst with Wood Mackenzie in London, UK. She finished her PhD in political science in 2012. Previously, she earned an MA in economics at the Institute of Social Studies in The Hague, and a BA in economics at Universidad Católica del Perú.... Read more