Jasmine is a Postdoctoral Fellow at Stanford’s Center on Democracy, Development and the Rule of Law (2024-25) and will be an Assistant Professor of Political Science at Reed College (2025).

Her research focuses on political behavior, interracial solidarity, and the carceral state in American politics. Ongoing projects include “Dilemmas of Accommodation,” which explores the barriers to deliberation and political action in racially diverse churches, and a series of projects on “carceral political discussion.” Across her research, Jasmine uses ethnographic methods, in-depth interviews, original surveys, and experiments. Her work has been published in the American Political Science Review and Politics, Groups, and Identities.

Jasmine received her PhD in Political Science from MIT in 2024 and graduated with degrees in Political Science and Economics from UCLA in 2018. She is originally from Belfast, Northern Ireland.

Ivetta Sergeeva specializes in comparative social science, focusing on political behavior, civil society, citizenship and migration. In her research, she employs a mixed-methods approach, emphasizing surveys, statistical modeling, experiments, and interviews. Apart from her research skills, she has eight years of experience supervising projects in civil society and human rights organizations within the challenging context of contemporary Russia.

In collaboration with Emil Kamalov, she co-founded and co-leads two research projects:

1. OutRush: A panel survey of Russian emigrants, initiated as both a personal and professional response to the 2022 invasion of Ukraine. Since March 2022, more than 10,000 Russian emigrants, now located in more than a hundred countries, have participated in the survey. The project has garnered substantial international media coverage and has drawn the attention of policymakers and experts. 
2. Violence Monitor: A national survey on intimate partner violence in Russia that integrates UN methodology with experimental techniques.
    

She is expected to receive her PhD in Political and Social Sciences from the European University Institute in October 2024. She holds an MA in Sociology from the European University in Saint Petersburg.

Marisa Kellam researches the quality of democracy with a focus on Latin America and a growing interest in East Asia. Her research links institutional analysis to various governance outcomes in democracies along three lines of inquiry: political parties and coalitional politics; mass electoral behavior and party system change; and democratic accountability and media freedom. She has published her research in various peer-reviewed journals, including The British Journal of Political Science, Comparative Political Studies, Party Politics, Electoral Studies, and Political Communication. Originally from Santa Rosa, California, Marisa Kellam earned her Ph.D. in political science from UCLA and spent several years as an assistant professor at Texas A&M University. Since 2013, she has been Associate Professor at Waseda University in Tokyo, Japan, where she also served as Director of the English-based degree programs for the School of Political Science & Economics. Currently she is a steering committee member for the V-Dem Regional Center for East Asia.