Rachel Fisher is pursuing her PhD in Political Science at the University of California, Berkeley. Her research focuses on comparative politics and political behavior, including candidate ambition and recruitment, international development, and policy evaluation. She employs experimental methods to study gender differences in political participation.
Across the globe, conservative and religious extremism is on the rise. From far-right and white supremacist paramilitaries to Islamist and Salafi-jihadist organizations, these fringe groups are increasingly influencing...
Blaze Joel is a Ph.D. student in the History Department at the University of California Berkeley. His research focuses on nationalism, memory, violence, and national identity in twentieth-century Europe. He studies these issues in the successor states of the former Yugoslavia, Northern Ireland, and the Basque Country, as well as in an international, trans-European framework. He also studies the Cold War in a global perspective.
My dissertation explores the persistence of exclusivist ethno-national conceptions of identity in four ethnically-mixed societies in twentieth-...
