Rachel Owens

Rachel Owens

Rachel Owens

  • CDDRL Honors Student, 2025-26
  • Research Assistant, Fisher Family Summer Fellows Program, Summer 2024
  • CDDRL Undergraduate Communications Assistant, 2023-24

Biography

Rachel Owens is currently majoring in Data Science and Social Systems, with a focus on Democracy and Governance. She is interested in how we as people choose to set up our societies and governance systems, and how — for the social problems that inevitably arise — the utilization of an interdisciplinary approach can more effectively solve these issues. Outside of academics, rock climbing, mountaineering, and photographic endeavors consume much of her time. 

In The News

CDDRL Fisher Family Honors Class of 2026
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Introducing Our 2025-26 CDDRL Honors Students

We are thrilled to welcome twelve outstanding students, who together represent fourteen different majors and minors and hail from seven different states and four countries, to our Fisher Family Honors Program in Democracy, Development and the Rule of Law.
Introducing Our 2025-26 CDDRL Honors Students
Michael C. Kimmage discussed his recent book, "Collisions," at a CDDRL research seminar on June 6, 2024.
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The War in Ukraine: Origins and Implications

Michael C. Kimmage discussed his recently published book, "Collisions: The War in Ukraine and the Origins of the New Global Instability" (Oxford University Press, 2024), which argues that the war in Ukraine is not a singular conflict; it has three separate axes, making it a series of collisions.
The War in Ukraine: Origins and Implications
Bruce Cain presented his research during a CDDRL seminar on May 30, 2024.
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The Challenge of Climate Change in the American West

Bruce Cain argues that the federalist nature of the U.S., along with regional history and idiosyncratic human behavior, have made resolving collective action problems uniquely difficult.
The Challenge of Climate Change in the American West