Lauren is Assistant Professor of Political Science at the University of California, San Diego in the School of Global Policy and Strategy (formerly IR/PS) and a Research Affiliate at the Policy Design and Evaluation Lab. She received her Ph.D. in Political Science from Stanford University in 2015. She conducts research in the fields of international relations and comparative politics.
Her work focuses on political behavior in international relations, democracy promotion and democratization, Middle East politics, and experimental methods. Her book project examines foreign electoral interventions and their effects on local trust in elections. Her research is supported by the National Science Foundation, the UCSD Hellman Fellowship, the MIT Election Lab, and the Princeton University Center for Human Values.
Her work has or will appear in the American Political Science Review, Comparative Political Studies, Election Law Journal, International Organization, International Studies Quarterly, Journal of Experimental Political Science, Political Science Research & Methods, Research & Politics, and The Journal of Politics. She has also written in The Monkey Cage and The Political Economist.
Lauren is Assistant Professor of Political Science at the University of California, San Diego in the School of Global Policy and Strategy (formerly IR/PS) and a Research Affiliate at the Policy Design and Evaluation Lab. She received her Ph.D. in Political Science from Stanford University in 2015. She conducts research in the fields of international relations and comparative politics. Her work focuses on political behavior in international relations, democracy promotion and democratization, Middle East politics, and experimental methods. Her book project examines foreign electoral interventions and their effects on local trust in elections. Her research is supported by the National Science Foundation, the UCSD Hellman Fellowship, the MIT Election…