The Niehaus Center for Globalization and Governance (NCGG), directed by Helen V. Milner, is pleased to welcome the 2024-2025 fellows for the Center’s fellowship programs.
The new cohort of NCGG fellows chosen from a large pool of applicants from all over the globe will be in residence in July 2024 through June 2025, pursuing their own research projects and contributing to the intellectual life of the Niehaus Center for Globalization and Governance and the School of Public and International Affairs.
2024-2025 Postdoctoral Fellows
Jiseon Chang is a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Government at the University of Texas at Austin, focusing on international relations and methods. She completed two degrees from Yonsei University (Seoul, South Korea): a B.A. in economics and international studies at Underwood International College and a master…
Samuel Houskeeper is a Ph.D. candidate in Columbia University’s Political Science Department. His work focuses on international political economy, particularly international environmental politics. His dissertation focuses on climate change as an international cooperation and bargaining problem. He is a methodological…
Sichen Li is a sixth-year Ph.D. candidate in Political Science at the University of California, San Diego. Her scholarly interests are centered on the politics of trade and cross-border investment, with a particular focus on how great power competition shapes governments’ role in trade and investment policymaking. Li’s dissertation…
Claas Mertens received his Ph.D. in International Relations from the University of Oxford. Before joining the Niehaus Center, he was a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at Oxford’s Blavatnik School of Government. His research focuses on international economic conflicts, such as economic sanctions and weaponized interdependencies, and the…
Maria Nagawa is a joint Ph.D. candidate in Public Policy and Political Science at Duke University specializing in the political economy of development. She studies the dynamics of governance and development including the role of bureaucrats, international actors, and traditional institutions. The main strand of her research explores the…
Zarlasht M. Razeq received her Ph.D. in Political Science (IR) from McGill University in the Fall of 2023. Her research interests are in the IPE of trade, GVCs, and FDI. Her dissertation examined the effect of trade institutions (deep PTAs) on global value chains (GVCs) at the country and firm levels. Her current projects expand on her…
Theo Serlin is a Ph.D. candidate in Political Science at Stanford University, studying international and comparative political economy. His research integrates economic geography into political economy models of policy preferences and electoral politics. Accounting for variation in the efficiency of government…
Hao Zhang is a Ph.D. candidate in Political Science at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. His research interests include international political economy, Chinese politics, and political methodology. His book project examines how the rise of global production networks reshape trade coalitions within and across national borders,…
2024-2025 Visiting Fellows
Sarah Brooks is a Professor of Political Science at Ohio State University (Ph.D., Duke University) in the Department of Political Science. In the field of international political economy, her research examines the political economy of sovereign risk and global capital flows, most recently focusing on the interaction between investor…
Dennis Quinn is the Powers Professor of International Business, at McDonough School of Business, and a Professor in the Department of Government at Georgetown University. He is also a Senior Associate Dean at McDonough. His research specialties include international political economy, international business, and international economics. Recent…