Our Team
Monika Nalepa, Director
Ipek Cinar, Program Manager
Steven Boyd, Assistant Program Manager
Moksha Sharma, Assistant Program Manager
Jacob Delgado, Research Assistant
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Monika Nalepa (PhD, Columbia University) is a professor of political science at the University of Chicago. With a focus on post-communist Europe, her research interests include transitional justice, parties and legislatures, and game-theoretic approaches to comparative politics. Her first book, Skeletons in the Closet: Transitional Justice in Post-Communist Europe was published in the Cambridge Studies in Comparative Politics Series and received the Best Book award from the Comparative Democratization section of the APSA and the Leon Epstein Outstanding Book Award from the Political Organizations and Parties section of the APSA. She has published her research in Perspectives on Politics, the Journal of Comparative Politics, World Politics, Journal of Conflict Resolution, Journal of Theoretical Politics, Studies in Logic and Rhetoric, and Decyzje. Read more about Monika here. Check out her Google Scholar page here. You can contact Professor Nalepa at [email protected].
Ipek Cinar (PhD, UChicago) studies comparative politics with a focus on comparative democratization, quantitative & computational methods, and their applications to political science research. She received a BA in economics and business from Koc University, Turkey (2016) and an MA in social sciences from the University of Chicago (2018). She joined the lab in January 2017 and has been contributing to the coding as well as collection of transitional justice events for the Global Transitional Justice Dataset. She has also been extensively involved in the creation of the web interface for the purpose of making a user friendly geo-coded mapping of the projects. She has published in Perspectives on Politics and Presidential Studies Quarterly. Read more about Ipek here. Check out her Google Scholar page here. You can contact Ipek at [email protected].
Steven Boyd is a fifth-year PhD student in the University of Chicago Political Science Department who joined the Transitional Justice and Democratic Stability Lab in August 2021. He is an international relations scholar who is also trained as a formal theorist. His research interests include formal models of international politics, constructivist IR theory, and international organizations. When he’s not teaching or researching, you can probably find him on his bike somewhere in the trails of San Diego.
Moksha Sharma is a second-year PhD student in political science and has been with the lab since 2019. She graduated from the University of Chicago in 2021. She is interested in research methodology and formal theory. Her substantive interests lie in the legacies of British colonialism. You can contact moksha at [email protected].
Jacob Delgado is a fourth student in the college studying Political Science and Latin American and Caribbean studies. His substantive work includes reporting on Mexican political affairs and publishing articles about new issues in international trade. Jacob joined the Transitional Justice and Democratic Stability Lab in August 2021. You can reach Jacob at c[email protected].
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