Welcome to DPERL!
The Dionne Publicly Engaged Research Lab (DPERL) is a political science research laboratory at the University of California Riverside.
Under Professor Kim Yi Dionne's mentorship, both graduate and undergraduate students have engaged in research studying questions about democracy, development, and health, with a focus on African politics. For example, recent projects examined: COVID-19 vaccine hesitancy in Malawi, disaster politics in southern Africa, and judicial independence in Africa.
The Team
Our current team is composed of 9 undergraduate students (Allison Wang, Chukwufunanya Ikechukwu, Debhani Rosas, Harry Stoltz, Hayley Brown, Idalee Michel, Jasmine Esmail, Naia Pizarro, and Sashi Juarez-Galindo), and 8 graduate students (Eun-A Park, Devyn Escalanti, Fulya Felicity Turkmen, John Burnett, Minhye Joo, Owura Kuffuor, Satoru Hiramatsu, and Takondwa Priscilla).
Our Publications
We are excited to announce that our article, "Undergraduates and Political Science Research: Insights from Research Assistants in an MSI Lab" has been accepted by the PS: Political Science & Politics journal and was published on 29 March 2023. (Link here)