Biography

Joan is a Ph.D. student specializing in Models and Methods and Political Economy. Their broad research interests include the comparative study of political institutions, institutional change, and the political economy of development. Methodologically, they are interested in creating measurement models of institutional change, including Bayesian change point models to model the endogenous structural breaks in data about political institutions.

They are the recipient of both a National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship and an American Political Science Association Minority Fellowship.

Biography

Joan is a Ph.D. student specializing in Models and Methods and Political Economy. Their broad research interests include the comparative study of political institutions, institutional change, and the political economy of development. Methodologically, they are interested in creating measurement models of institutional change, including Bayesian change point models to model the endogenous structural breaks in data about political institutions.

They are the recipient of both a National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship and an American Political Science Association Minority Fellowship.