Student Research

Since arriving at UCF in 2014 I have been very active in promoting student research. This has taken many forms, including supervising honors and masters theses and doctoral dissertations, helping students navigate the process for applying for various internal or external opportunities, hiring student research assistants, and co-authoring. This page is a modest effort to advertise some of these opportunities.

Political Instability Lab

I am involved in ongoing data collection. This primarily involves improving a dataset on coups d'etat, but includes other potentially important events such as army mutinies and constitutional crises. Though my own research tends to focus on Africa and the Middle East, my data projects explore the world as a whole

Students involved in my research have been included as co-authors on papers published in outlets including African Affairs, Africa Spectrum, African Security, Conflict Management and Peace Science, Democratization, Foreign Policy Analysis, Journal of Global Security Studies, and Studies in Comparative International Development.

Office of Undergraduate Research

UCF's Office of Undergraduate Research (OUR) provides a number of opportunities for students. 
  • Funding for costs associated with presenting research
  • Research Grants for student projects
  • A database describing faculty projects that are recruiting student researchers can be found here.

Academic Advancement Programs

Academic Advancement Programs (AAP) describes a number of opportunities for UCF students.​

Burnett Honors College

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APSA Minority Fellowship

Ralph Bunche Summer Institute

NSF Summer Research Experience