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Current PhD Students

We are proud of our graduate students at Stony Brook. For a list of students on the job market, please check our Hire a Stony Brook PhD page.

    Harry Applestein

    Harry Applestein

    Harry's research focuses on the personality traits of legislators and how voters perceive and incorporate these traits into their political behavior.

    harry.applestein@stonybrook.edu

     

    William Brown

    William Brown

    William's research interests fall under political psychology and behavior.

    william.tw.brown@stonybrook.edu

     

    Claire Christensen

    Claire Christensen

    Claire's research interests fall mostly within American politics including electoral politics, partisan polarization, policy outcomes. In particular she focuses on understanding the effects of extremism and conspiratorial politics.

    claire.christensen@stonybrook.edu

     

    Justin Dollman

    Justin Dollman

    Justin's researching state-level immigration policy, the urban-rural ideological divide across countries, and political metacognition.

    justin.dollman@stonybrook.edu

     

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    Ago Echeverri

    Ago Echeverri

    Ago's research interests fall under political psychology. He's interested in social identity theory and immigration studies.

    santiago.echeverri@stonybrook.edu

     

    Romeo Gray

    Romeo Gray

    Romeo's interests include the psychology of intergroup relations and the influence of elites on public opinion, and he is currently investigating the role that political threats play in the degradation of support for political norms and institutions.

    romeo.gray@stonybrook.edu

     

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    Diego Hernandez

    Diego Hernandez

    Diego’s research interests fall within political psychology. He is particularly interested in the political behaviors of groups, support for right-wing populism globally, and applying political psychological perspectives to the study of conspiratorial belief.

    diego.hernandez@stonybrook.edu

     

    Miguel Higuera

    Miguel Higuera

    Miguel's research interests fall under political psychology. 

    miguel.higuera@stonybrook.edu

     

    Nicole Huffman

    Nicole Huffman

    Nicole's research interests are in group identities, representation, legislative behavior, and media. Their work focuses on how race and gender impact legislative behavior and communication as well as citizen's reception of that behavior and rhetoric.

    nicole.huffman@stonybrook.edu

     

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    Srivardhan Jangili

    Srivardhan Jangili

    Srivardhan's research interests include political psychology and political communication. In particular, he is interested in how people process political information and how people respond to politics online.

    srivardhan.jangili@stonybrook.edu

     

    Shawn Kim

    Shawn Kim

    Shawn's research intrests include political behavior, race, ethnicity and politics and partisanship in American politics. His current research is focused on how pan-ethnic cohesion and political preferences among Asian Americans are shaped given heterogeneity among diverse subgroups.

    suhwan.kim.1@stonybrook.edu

     

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    Kira Kiritchenko

    Kira Kiritchenko

    Kira's research interests fall under political psychology.

    kira.kiritchenko@stonybrook.edu

     

    Olga Khvostunova

    Olga Khvostunova

    Olga's research interests are broadly in the fields of political psychology, comparative politics, and political communication.

    olga.khvostunova@stonybrook.edu

     

    Jacob Martin

    Jacob Martin

    Jacob's research interests include political behavior and political psychology in the United States, focusing on political identities and political communication.

    Jacob.Allen.Martin@stonybrook.edu

     

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    Maggie Martin (McDonnell)

    Maggie Martin (McDonnell)

    Maggie studies political psychology and political behavior, with a focus on gender identity. Research interests include evaluating measures of gender identity in political science and the role that gender has on partisan preferences.

    maggie.mcdonnell@stonybrook.edu

     

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    Josh McDonnell

    Josh McDonnell

    Josh's research interests include social media use and its effect on offline political action, particularly political violence. Specifically, he focuses on how group dynamics and responses to online rhetoric influence mobilization.

    james.mcdonnell@stonybrook.edu

     

    Tom McDonough

    Tom McDonough

    Tom's research interests fall under political economy. 

    thomas.mcdonough@stonybrook.edu

     

    Veronica Oelerich

    Veronica Oelerich

    Veronica's research interests broadly fall under political psychology, behavioral political economy, and American politics, with particular interest in collective action.

    veronica.oelerich@stonybrook.edu

     

    Adam Panish

    Adam Panish

    Adam's research focuses on how individual differences in emotion and cognition influence public opinion. His dissertation explores how dispositional anxiety shapes attitudes toward social welfare policy and redistribution.

    adam.panish@stonybrook.edu

     

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    Morgan Pettit

    Morgan Pettit

    Morgan's research interests fall primarily within the fields of Political Psychology and American Politics. Specifically, her interests are centered on issues of ideology, democratic institutions, and authoritarianism.

    morgan.pettit@stonybrook.edu

     

    Ben Rudolph

    Ben Rudolph

    Ben is interested in studying how people develop conviction in their political beliefs and attitudes. To explore this question, his research examines social influence, moral psychology, and political ideology, among other topics

    benjamin.rudolph@stonybrook.edu

     

    David Schloesser

    David Schloesser

    David Schloesser's research interests are in American Politics and Political Psychology. He is especially interested in rural politics and how rural Americans formulate their political positions.

    david.schloesser@stonybrook.edu

     

    Vitória Sgorlon

    Vitória Sgorlon

    Vitória's research interests include political psychology, race, ethnicity and politics, partisanship, and public opinion. She focuses on Latino Politics, both in the United States and in Latin America.

    vitoria.sgorlonoliveira@stonybrook.edu

     

    Ignacio Urbina

    Ignacio Urbina

    Ignacio's research interests are in comparative political behavior, behavioral political economy, and methods. He focuses on the politics of AI, exploring citizens' attitudes about AI and the impact of human-computer interactions on cooperation and political beliefs. He also studies democratic attitudes in Latin America and the effects of state violence on politics.

    ignacio.urbina@stonybrook.edu

     

    Asha Venugopalan

    Asha Venugopalan

    Asha’s research interests include the political psychology of intergroup relations, survey methodology and political behaviour. Her current research explores the intersection of partisan and gender identities and stereotypes in evaluating candidates for federal elections.

    asha.venugopalan@stonybrook.edu

     

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    Abigail Woodfield

    Abigail Woodfield

    Abby's research interests relate to the intersection of democracy and identity in a comparative context. Using political psychology methods, she is focused on answering questions about rhetoric, separatist conflict, electoral institutions, and party sorting.

    abigail.woodfield@stonybrook.edu

     

    Seden Yilmazturk

    Seden Yilmazturk

    Seden's  research interests fall under political psychology and american politics.

    seden_yilmazturk@stonybrook.edu