Membership

SUPERVISING PROFESSOR

Professor Daniel Maliniak received his BA from William & Mary in Government (with highest honors) and Economics, and his Ph.D. in Political Science at the University of California, San Diego. He teaches courses in international relations, focusing on international political economy and the environment. His dissertation focused on the importance of electoral geography across many areas of political economy, with a focus on trade, foreign aid, and the environment. Specifically, he focuses on how the spatial dispersion of interests help or harm an interest group's ability to promote their ideal policy. He also has a number of projects which look at public perceptions of the use of force with respect to legitimacy and attribution of blame, as well as work that focuses on the Republic of Georgia.

MEET THE TEAM

15 William & Mary undergraduate students

Abby Stern

Abby '24 is studying government and leads the lab as the manager. Abby traveled to Tbilisi, Georgia as a GRI Summer Fellow in Summer 2022.

Ian Matthews

Ian Matthews is in the Class of 2025, majoring in International Relations and minoring in Data Science. This past summer Ian traveled to Georgia for the Democracy in Motion project.

Lumin Edmonds

Lumin is an International Relations and Environment & Sustainability Policy major graduating in Spring 2024. She has been involved in research with IPAC since June 2022 and travelled to Georgia in the summer of 2023 to work with the Caucasus Environmental NGO Network.

Hannah Ray

Hannah Ray ’25 is majoring in Government and Russian and Post-Soviet Studies. She speaks Russian and is helping to translate oral history interviews conducted in Georgia for the "Democracy in Motion" project.

Josh Murray

Joshua Murray (‘24) studies Government and Environmental Science. He’s interested in Georgian history and is currently working on the Environmental Aid project with his friends Lydia and Lumin.

Julia Norsworthy-Edghill

Julia Norsworthy-Edghill '25 is a double History and Russian & Post-Soviet Studies major at W&M. She joined the lab in the Fall of 2022 and went to Tbilisi, Georgia, in the summer of 2023.

Katie Cist

My name is Katie Cist, class of ‘25. I joined the lab fall of 2023, and am interested in public opinion data and institutional stability.

Pierre Noah

Pierre Noah ‘25 is an International Relations major in the Joint Degree Programme. He joined the lab in the Fall of 2022.

He has contributed to the Timeline Project, and is a longtime researcher for the Veterans Project.

His research interests include the Black Sea basin, international security, and diplomacy.

Aidan McCullough

Aidan McCullough is class of '25, and I joined the lab in April of 2023. He is a double major in Global studies (European studies concentration) and French and Francophone studies and an advanced speaker of Russian.

Evelyn Waddick

Jason Du

Jed Burke

Jed Burke, ‘25, is double majoring in International Relations and Russian & Post Soviet studies at William & Mary. He is currently working on the translation of Russian oral interviews conducted in Georgia for the Democracy in Motion project.

Katherine Hughes

Katherine is a student in the Class of 2024 studying international relations in the William and Mary/University of St Andrews Joint Degree Programme. She speaks Russian and is working on the Georgian Veterans project.

Lydia Poulos

Lydia Poulos is an International Relations major in the Class of ‘26. She joined IPAC in the Fall of 2023. She is currently involved in the Environmental Aid Project, which combines her love of the environment and IR.

Sean Gillen

Sean Gillen is a member of the Class of 2026 who joined the lab in the Fall of 2022. He is a Government major also working to obtain a Minor in Data Science.