Pamphilis, Niccole
Niccole's interests focus on comparative politics and research methodology. She is particularly interested in the impact of political and electoral institutions on governmental decision-making. Niccole is currently in the fifth year of her doctoral program, and she is working towards the completion of her dissertation. Niccole's dissertation examines the role of political and electoral institutions on government spending patterns in democratic nations. Her dissertation committee is comprised of Saundra K. Schneider (chair), William G. Jacoby, and Ani Sarkissian. For the past four years, Niccole has spent her summers taking courses; such as Maximum Likelihood Estimation, Regression III, and Introduction to Applied Bayesian Modeling for the Social Sciences, and serving as a teaching assistant for Regression Analysis I at the Interuniversity Consortium for Political and Social Research (ICPSR) Summer Program in Quantitative Methods of Social Research. Her experiences at ICPSR have broadened her methodological training, enhanced her ability to teach quantitative courses, and made her more aware of wide array of analytical techniques. Niccole has taught independent sections of three upper-level writings courses at Michigan State University, including an undergraduate course on Regimes and Transition and an undergraduate/graduate course on Disasters and Consequences. She has presented her research at the 2010 and 2011 annual meetings of the Midwest Political Science Association.
