CP Workshop welcomes Lauren Young

Thu, March 30, 2023 10:00 AM at S. Kedzie Room 104

The Comparative Politics Workshop is pleased to welcome Lauren Young, Assistant Professor of Political Science at University of California-Davis. Dr. Young will host an graduate seminar on how to fund field work for graduate students in Political Science.

Dr. Young is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Political Science at UC Davis. She received her Ph.D. in political science with distinction from Columbia University and was a postdoctoral scholar at the Center for Democracy, Development and the Rule of Law (CDDRL) at Stanford and the Center for Global Development (CGD) (non-resident). Professor Young is a member of the Evidence in Governance and Politics (EGAP) and Center for Effective Global Action (CEGA) networks and a co-organizer of the California Workshop on Empirical Political Science.  Her research aims to understand how individuals make decisions when faced with the threat of violence. In addition to her research on Zimbabwe, Professor Young has ongoing or completed research projects in Eastern Europe, Haiti, and Mexico that explore how violence and other forms of coercion affect political behavior.