Graduate Fellows
Matteo Bertoli
Matteo Bertoli is a PhD candidate in Political Science at the University of Rochester. He studies comparative politics, political methodology, and formal theory. His research focuses on political polarization and extremism, using text analysis and causal inference. As part of his fellowship, he examines how political extremism and populism become self-reinforcing.
Alice Brocheux
Alice Brocheux is a PhD student in Political Science at the University of Rochester. She studies comparative politics, with a focus on trust in institutions and collective memory. She is also interested in the role of elite actors in enabling or preventing democratic backsliding. Her methodological focus is on survey experiments.
Alexsandra Cavalcanti
Josiah Rath
Adam Roberts
Bahar Zafer
Xingyu Zhou
Alessio Albarello
Oliver Sun
Oliver Sun is a former Democracy Center Graduate Fellow. He studies political socialization, political psychology, and public opinion in China. He is currently an Assistant Instructional Professor at the University of Chicago.