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
William Brown
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.
Justin Dollman
Justin's researching state-level immigration policy, the urban-rural ideological divide across countries, and political metacognition.
Ago Echeverri
Ago's research interests fall under political psychology. He's interested in social identity theory and immigration studies.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Kira Kiritchenko
Kira's research interests fall under political psychology.
Olga Khvostunova
Olga's research interests are broadly in the fields of political psychology, comparative politics, and political communication.
Jacob Martin
Jacob's research interests include political behavior and political psychology in the United States, focusing on political identities and political communication.
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.
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.
Tom McDonough
Tom's research interests fall under political economy.
Veronica Oelerich
Veronica's research interests broadly fall under political psychology, behavioral political economy, and American politics, with particular interest in collective action.
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.
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.
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
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Seden Yilmazturk
Seden's research interests fall under political psychology and american politics.