Anand Sokhey is a Ph.D. candidate in American politics.
He received his B.A. from Denison University in Granville, OH, and his M.A. in political science from Ohio State.
Anand’s research interests include voting behavior, public opinion, elite behavior, religion and politics, and
methodology; he is particularly interested in multi-level models, survival models, and survey research.
His dissertation focuses on the role of interpersonal discussion networks and organizational involvements
(and the interface between the two) in voting behavior
Quintin Beazer (Junior PRISM Fellow, AY 2006-2007)
(beazer.1@osu.edu)
Quintin H. Beazer is a Ph.D. student in Comparative Politics and Political Economy at
Ohio State University. Substantively, his areas of focus involve economic and institutional reform in Russia and other
postcommunist countries. Current projects in this area include dissertation work on the political impediments to
improved property rights in the region, a coauthored paper on the interactive effect of budgetary shifts and regime
type on government spending, and an investigation into the sources of lobbying power in transition economies. After
serving as PRISM Junior Fellow, Quintin has continued to explore further his methodological interests in event
history in a coauthored project applying conditional frailty models to a long-standing debate in the literature on
international conflict. To complement his experience in statistical methods, Quintin has been busy in both the
Political Science and Economics departments improving his game theory and formal modeling skills.
Roman Ivanchenko (Senior PRISM Fellow, AY 2005-2006)
(ivanchenko.1@osu.edu)
Roman Ivanchenko is an Analyst with the Joint Warfare Analysis Center in Dahlgren, VA.
He received his Ph.D. from the Ohio State University in June, 2007. His dissertation focused on the interactions
between the United States Supreme Court and Congress. His academic interests include mathematical modeling of
judicial and legislative interactions, statistical analyses of survival, time-series, and multilevel data, and
statistical computing.
Lyndsey Young - (Junior PRISM Fellow, AY 2005-2006)(stanfill.5@osu.edu)
Lyndsey Young is a Ph.D. student in the Department of Political Science
at the Ohio State University. She received both her B.A. and M.A. from the University of Louisville. As a third year student of American Politics, she possesses specialized research and teaching interests in four subfields: (1) legislative organization and behavior, (2) political parties and interest groups, (3) state politics, and (4) gender and identity politics. Lyndsey’s current research projects examine the impact of elite behavior on institutional design, the effect of gender on party campaign finance, and the consequences of party decentralization on electoral outcomes. Lyndsey also has a methods interest in areas such as duration models, spatial models, multilevel models, and survey research design, and she hopes to further her methodological interests as the departments PRISM junior fellow.
Sean Williams (Senior PRISM Fellow, Au 2005)
Sean Williams is currently an Analyst at Social Science Automation, Inc.
His research interests focus on institutions and formal theory, with a particular emphasis on
EITM (Empirical Implications of Theoretical Models). His projects include a formal analysis
of how the US Senate’s rules slow down a president’s confirmations, and another formal model of
signaling behavior between actors in a judicial hierarchy.
David Darmofal (Senior PRISM Fellow, AY 2004-2005) (darmofal@gwm.sc.edu)
David
Darmofal was the Senior PRISM Fellow during the 2004-2005 academic year. He received his Ph.D. in Political Science
from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and is now an Assistant Professor in the Department of Political
Science at the University of South Carolina. He has research interests in political behavior, American political
development, and political methodology. His substantive research focuses on elite-mass interactions and how these
interactions shape opinion formation, political participation, and citizen competence. Much of this research employs
an historical lens, including a research project on voter participation in the United States since the 1820s. His
methodological research interests include spatial analysis, survival analysis, and time series analysis. His research
has been published in Political Geography, Political Research Quarterly, and The Political Methodologist. His current
methods research includes a book project, Spatial Analysis for the Social Sciences (under contract at Cambridge
University Press).
Corwin D. Smidt is a doctoral student in the political science department at Ohio
State. Corwin grew up in Grand Rapids, Michigan where he also went to Calvin College to earn his B.A. in political
science. He is now in his third year of graduate school studying American politics. Interested in the political
science applications of dynamic, discrete choice, and hierarchical models, Corwin was able to develop further methods interests as the department’s PRISM junior fellow. His general interests include mass opinion and electoral dynamics and their relationship to elite behavior.
Corwin’s current research work includes investigations into the role of procedures in institutional evaluations, the underlying mechanisms of religion’s influence on voting, and the impact of issue opinions on campaign dynamics.
Kevin Sweeney - (Senior PRISM Fellow, AY 2003-2004) (ksweeney@jwac.mil)
Kevin Sweeney is the Global Assessment Mission Area Lead at the Joint
Warfare Analysis Center in Dahlgren, Virginia. In this position he manages several projects, over
60 employees, and nearly $3 million in Research and Development. Prior to taking this position in
May 2007 Kevin founded, grew, and lead an analytical team directly supporting the Multi-National
Corps Iraq (MNC-I) Commanding General and his staff with cutting edge economic, statistical,
geo-spatial, and other quantitative analysis. On two separate trips to Iraq (July to September
2006 and November to December 2006) Kevin liaised with Corps Staff to gather requirements and
guidance for the team. Over this time period, and under his guidance, the team grew from 3 to
25 analysts and produced over 100 analytically derived products, some of which were briefed at the
highest levels of the Department of Defense and United States Government.
Kevin is the author of 10 academic papers on international conflict and cooperation and political
methodology, and his work has appeared in the Journal of Conflict Resolution, the Journal of
Politics, World Politics, International Interactions, and Conflict Management and Peace Science.
Kevin is married to the former Ms. Kelly Byrnes and they have two sons, Ryan Patrick
(born 17 July 2005) and Timothy Sean (born 2 January 2007).
Brandon Bartels is an Assistant Professor of Political Science at Stony Brook University.
He received his Ph.D. from Ohio State in June 2006. His research and teaching interests center on American politics, judicial politics,
and political methodology. The subjects of Brandon's research include: (1) judicial decision making, the Supreme Court, inter-branch
interactions, the development of legal doctrine; (2) public opinion, political psychology, institutional evaluation; and (3) legislative
politics, congressional organization and behavior. In political methodology, he is particularly interested in multilevel (hierarchical)
modeling, event history (duration) modeling, models for panel and time-series cross-sectional data, Bayesian data analysis, structural
equation modeling, and experimental methodology. Brandon teaches undergraduate courses in judicial politics, constitutional law, and methods,
and graduate courses in judicial politics and political methodology. For more information, visit Brandon's
website at: http://ms.cc.sunysb.edu/~bbartels.
