People

Director

 

Paasha Mahdavi

Paasha Mahdavi is Director of the EGAPE Lab, Associate Professor of Political Science, affiliated faculty at the Bren School of Environmental Science & Management, and co-founding member of The 2035 Initiative at UCSB.

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 Students

  • Gabriela Alberola

    Gabriela Alberola is a Ph.D. student at Bren researching environmental violence and the political economy of climate adaptation.

  • Jenna Cameron

    Jenna Cameron is a first-year political science major at UCLA interested in the intersection between environmental politics and social justice.

  • Denis Lomov

    Denis Lomov is a political science PhD student working on corporate climate policy.

  • Ariana Salas-Castillo

    Ariana Salas-Castillo is a PhD student in Political Science at UCSB, focusing on comparative environmental politics and the link between climate policies and legal institutions in Latin America.

  • Hunter Smith

    Hunter Smith is a PhD student in political science interested in carbon pricing, international environmental governance, natural climate solutions implementation, and causal inference methods.

  • Noosha Uddin

    Noosha Uddin is a political science Ph.D student focusing on citizenship, labor migration, and energy transition in the Middle East and North Africa.

  • Annjulie Vester

    Annjulie Vester is a PhD student in Political Science working on topics of civil war and rebel governance.

  • Corah Walker

    Corah Walker is a Political Science PhD student working on access to drinking water/water infrastructures, parties and elections, climate change adaptation and mitigation, and spatial data and causal inference methods.

Lab Alumni

  • Sonya Akhgar

    Sonya is a doctoral student at UCSB pursuing research in international relations.

  • Ellen Burrell

    Ellen Burrell did her undergraduate studies at UCSB, working on Environmental Politics and Data Science and Statistics.

  • Jeff Feng

    Jeff completed their Ph.D. in political science with an emphasis in feminist studies at UCSB in 2022. They are currently a Postdoctoral Scholar at Northwestern University.

  • Khobaib Ossailan

    Khobaib completed his Ph.D. in 2022 with a dissertation on subsidy reform in the Middle East and North Africa. He is currently an Assistant Professor at King AbdulAziz University.

  • Faiz Siddiqi

    Faiz is currently an undergraduate student at University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign.

  • Navid Yousefian

    Navid completed his Ph.D. in political science at UCSB in 2021 and is currently a Postdoctoral Scholar at Cambridge University.