I study government security responses to violence and insurgency in Sub-Saharan Africa. My research focuses on how states maintain security by exploring government action towards political violence, conflict, terrorism, and insurgency in this region.

José-Antonio Espín-Sánchez is an Economic Historian with a strong background in economic theory and industrial organization. His thesis was centered on traditional irrigation communities in Murcia, Spain. Some of the towns in the region used auctions to allocate water from the river while most others allocated the water through fixed quotas. He recovered auction data and estimated water demand, to assess the efficiency of each system. He also works on diverse areas such as auction theory, mechanism design and political economy.

Researcher in political philosophy, with a main interest policies surrounding genetics, human rights, equality and rule of law.

I am a PhD student in Government at Harvard University. I research at the intersection of migration and the domestic politics of foreign policy. Specifically, I study the relationship between the policy preferences of diaspora communities and the foreign policy decisions of their home countries, with respect to ethnic lobbying, nationalist protests, and diplomatic signaling. I have secondary interests in the role of race in international relations and the role of emotions in politics. I am an alumna of the University of California, Berkeley, where I studied towards a BA in History. From 2017 - 2019, I was a Clarendon Scholar at the University of Oxford and graduated with an MPhil in International Relations. Prior to starting my PhD at Harvard, I worked at United Nations Global Pulse in New York and as a research assistant for Dr. David Malone, Under-Secretary-General of the United Nations, at All Souls College, Oxford.