Dane Burgos Dane Burgos is a Ph.D. student in Political Science at the University of Colorado Boulder. His primary concentration is American Politics. His research interests include political psychology, public opinion, and issue framing. He has recently become interested in studying police practices and other aspects of law enforcement as they interact with the political landscape. Dane graduated with Bachelor's degrees in Psychology and Philosophy from the University of Alabama before earning a Master's degree in Sociology from the University of Houston-Clear Lake.
Katie Glenn

Katie Glenn is a Ph.D. student in Political Science at the University of Colorado Boulder with concentrations in American Politics and Research Methodology. Katie’s research focuses on the influence of key actors (political, religious, and the media) on American public opinion and behavior. Her work has been published in the academic outlet New Trends in Qualitative Research. Katie graduated with her B.S. in Political Science in 2019 and her M.A. in Social Justice and Human Rights from Arizona State University in 2022.

 
Alexander Jensen Alexander Jensen is a Ph.D. Candidate in Political Science at the University of Colorado with concentrations in American politics and political methodology. His research focuses on political behavior, public opinion, political psychology, social context, and experimental methods. Alex received his B.A. in Political Science from Gustavus Adolphus College in 2018, and his M.A. in Political Science from CU in 2020.
Madeline Mader

Madeline Mader is a Ph.D. Candidate at the University of Colorado Boulder. Madeline's research focuses on judicial politics, Supreme Court institutional legitimacy, and judicial opinion writing. Her dissertation examines the role that methods of Constitutional interpretation play in garnering legitimacy for the Supreme Court. Madeline's work has been published in the Journal of Historical Political Economy. She is the Graduate Program Research Specialist for the Department of Political Science and a former Center for Teaching and Learning Fellow. Madeline has been the instructor of record for PSCI 3011: The American Presidency and Executive Branch, PSCI 3301: Gender, Sexuality, and U.S. Law, and PSCI 4221: Political Psychology. Madeline earned a B.A. in English and Pre-Law in 2018 and an M.A. in Political Science in 2021.

Dissertation: “Constitutional Dogma: Mythologizing Methods of Constitutional Interpretation”
Grayson Moore Grayson Moore is a Ph.D. student in Political Science at the University of Colorado Boulder with concentrations in American Politics and Public Policy. Grayson’s research focuses on Congressional reform, Congressional voter behavior, and political polarization. Grayson holds a B.A. from James Madison University and an M.A. from George Mason University, both in Communications/Public Relations.
Stone Neilon Stone Neilon is a Ph.D. Student in Political Science at the University of Colorado Boulder with concentrations in American Politics and Methodology. Stone is primarily interested in the relationship between the built environment and political behavior/ideology formation. His other interests include deliberative democracy, polarization, American suburbs, urban planning, and radicalization. He graduated from the University of California, Los Angeles in December 2020 with a B.A. in Political Science.
Case Osborn

Case Osborn is a Ph.D. Student in Political Science at the University of Colorado, Boulder with concentrations in American Politics and Methodology. His research interests span a wide breadth of topics within the subfields of political psychology and behavior, including affective polarization, personality, moral psychology, emotions, and attitude formation. Case earned a B.A. in Political Science from Colorado College in 2021.
Samantha Register Samantha Register is a Ph.D. student in the Department of Political Science with concentrations in American politics and political methodology. She studies American political behavior, focusing on social media, voting, and spatial polarization. She graduated from the University of Colorado - Denver in December 2019 with an MA in Political Science.
Damon C. Roberts

Damon Roberts is a Ph.D. Candidate in the Department of Political Science at the University of Colorado Boulder. He is a computational social scientist broadly tackling questions of how “politics affects the brain.” Specifically, he takes an interdisciplinary approach to examining the role that social groups play in shaping political attitude expression and behavior. Developing new and using existing statistical tools, his research considers the cognitive processes explaining how political rhetoric and visual displays can be used as a source of subtle information conveying group distinctions and what the implications of that information are for our political attitude expression and behavior. Specifically, he examines how we come to form attitudes based on racial and ethnic, gender, age, and partisan social groups through the rhetorical and visual choices made by political elites. He also has work that discusses the best practices researchers can take when managing and pre-processing their data. His academic work is featured in Political Behavior, Political Research Quarterly, Social Science Quarterly, and American Politics Research. His public-facing scholarship is featured in The Washington Post’s Monkey Cage Blog.

Dissertation: The Shape and Color of Politics: How Citizens Process Political Information and Its Consequences.

Committee: Anand E. Sokhey, Jennifer Fitzgerald, Alexandra Siegel, Amanda Friesen, Efrén O. Pérez

Former Lab Fellows

 

Courtney Nava completed her Ph.D. at the University of Colorado Boulder and is an Assistant Professor of Political Science at the State University of New York at Plattsburgh.

Ian Shapiro completed his PhD at the University of Colorado Boulder and is a Post-Doctoral Civic Engagement Fellow at The Brennan Center for Justice at New York University School of Law.

Carey Stapleton completed his PhD at the University of Colorado Boulder and is a Post Doctoral Fellow at the University of Notre Dame.

Josalyn Williams completed her PhD at the University of Colorado Boulder and is a Policy Research Associate with the Center for Legislative Strengthening at the National Conference of State Legislatures in Denver.

Christina Ladam completed her PhD at the University of Colorado Boulder and is now an Assistant Professor at the University of Nevada Reno.

Joe Zamadics completed his PhD at the University of Colorado Boulder and is now a Data Scientist at PSB.

Stefani Langehennig completed her PhD at the University of Colorado Boulder and is now an Assistant Professor at the University of Denver.

Ryan Bell completed his undergraduate degree at the University of Colorado Boulder and is a PhD student in the Department of Politics at Princeton University. His main research interests are political behavior and methodology.