Political Science

Sooah Park is a junior in Ezra Stiles College studying Political Science with a Global Health Studies certificate. She is interested in the political climate surrounding reproductive and women’s health policy in the U.S., particularly its interactions with partisanship and healthcare accessibility. She has been involved in YaleBleeds, Community Health Educators, and Yale Students for Reproductive Rights to advocate for expansive and inclusive reproductive health policy.

Taran is a third-year Ph.D. student in the Department of Political Science and a 2023-2024 RITM graduate fellow. Their research examines how federalism shapes American social movements, especially in local politics and the carceral state. As a policy fellow, they will study public attitudes towards, and movement discourses around, the expansion of surveillance technologies and local-federal data-sharing in law enforcement. They graduated from Penn State with degrees in sociology, philosophy, mathematics, and political science in 2023.

Dara Z. Strolovitch is a professor of women’s gender, and sexuality studies; American studies, and political science at Yale, where her research and teaching focus on political representation, social movements, and the intersecting politics of race, class, gender, and sexuality. She received her B.A. in political Sscience from Vassar College and her Ph.D. in political Sscience from Yale. She taught previously at the University of Minnesota and at Princeton University.

Milan Svolik is Elizabeth S. & A. Varick Stout Professor of Political Science at Yale University. His research and teaching focus on comparative politics, political economy, and formal political theory.

He has authored and co-authored articles on the politics of authoritarian regimes and democratization in leading political science journals, including the American Political Science Review, the American Journal of Political Science, and the Journal of Politics.