The Niehaus Center for Globalization and Governance (NCGG), directed by Helen V. Milner, is pleased to welcome the 2025-2026 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 2025 through June 2026, 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.
2025-2026 Postdoctoral Fellows
Leopoldo Biffi received his Ph.D. in International Relations/Political Science from the Graduate Institute in Geneva, Switzerland. He was previously a visiting fellow in the Department of Government at Harvard University. Leopoldo's research interests include international institutions, international trade and investment, and the European Union…
Niccolò Bonifai is a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Government at Georgetown University. His research focuses on how globalization reshapes the distribution of power among key actors in domestic politics, namely the state, labor, and capital. His book project examines why many multinational corporations appear silent toward protectionism…
Doeun Kim received her Ph.D. in Political Science and M.S. in Statistics from the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), and her M.A. and B.A. in International Relations from Seoul National University. She studies international political economy and political methodology. Specifically, her research examines how interest groups influence…
Dillon Laaker received his Ph.D. in Political Science from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 2024. He is currently an International Political Economy Fellow at the London School of Economics. Previously, he was a Global Political Economy Project Predoctoral Fellow at the Mortara Center for International Studies at…
Huimin Li is a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Government at the University of Texas at Austin. Her research focuses on international organizations, international political economy, and the politics of emerging technologies. Specifically, her dissertation examines the global diffusion of policies aimed at regulating artificial…
Hannah Loeffler received her Ph.D. at the Technical University of Munich. Her research lies at the intersection of international and comparative political economy, focusing how access to finance shapes politics. She examines how governments and individuals respond to financial pressures—governments by leveraging markets for funding and guiding…
Hongyi She is a Ph.D. candidate in Political Science at the University of Rochester. Her research lies at the intersection of international political economy, comparative political economy, and public opinion. She is an empirical scholar, largely (but not exclusively) focusing on developing innovative experimental designs to target…
As an international relations scholar and computational statistician, Cartland’s current research explores how constraints in the global arms supply influence modern international relations. Her dissertation focused on the political economy of arms manufacturing and its implications for contemporary militarized conflicts. She is concurrently…
2025-2026 Visiting Fellows

Quan Li is Professor of Political Science, a Senior Fellow at the Scowcroft Institute of International Affairs, and Sara H. Lindsey Chair in the George Bush School of Government and Public Service at Texas A&M University. He has published research on a wide range of topics including economic globalization (international trade, foreign…

Erica Owen is an associate professor in the Graduate School of Public and International Affairs at the University of Pittsburgh. Previously, she was an assistant professor at Texas A&M University (2011-2018). She has been a visiting researcher at the University of Zurich and a post-doctoral research fellow at the Niehaus Center for…