Ben Bricio
Major: Philosophy
Hometown: Cary, NC
Class Year: 2022
Project Focus: Corruption in the Mexican Bureaucracy
Carter Cook
Major: Political Science
Hometown: Jacksonville, FL
Class Year: 2020
Project Focus: Gender & Corruption in the Brazilian bureaucracy
Tommy Cromie
Major: Political Science
Hometown: Morristown, NJ
Class: 2022
Project Focus: Campaign Finance Reform in the US
Nathan Jordan
Major: Political Science
Hometown: Earlysville, VA
Class year: 2022
Project Focus: Cross-national and sector-level analysis of bureaucratic capacity and autonomy through use of survey data in the United States and Brazil
Kaizad Irani
Major: Political Science & Economics
Hometown: Lexington, VA
Class: 2022
Project Focus: Corruption Within the UN Security Council
Sarah L’Hommedieu
Major: Political Science
Hometown: Hudson, OH
Class Year: 2020
Project Focus: Corruption in the NCAA
Eliza Patterson
Major: Political Science & Hispanic Studies
Hometown: Los Altos, CA
Class: 2022
Project Focus: Gender & Corruption in the Brazilian bureaucracy
Linda Wu
Major: Political Science and German Studies double major
Hometown: Ningbo, China
Class year: 2020
Project Focus: The relationship between war and state’s quality of bureaucracy
My research and teaching interests are in comparative politics and public policy, with an emphasis on governance reform and state capacity in Latin America. Prior to joining the faculty at Davidson, I held postdoctoral positions at Stanford University’s Center on Democracy, Development, and Rule of Law, and most recently, at McGill University’s Institute for the Study of International Development.
