Danny Choi

Danny Choi is an incoming Assistant Professor of Political Science at Brown University. His research focuses on two broad themes: political parties and identity politics. His first book project (with Mathias Poertner and Nicholas Sambanis), Native Bias: Overcoming Discrimination Against Immigrants, examines the extent to which common norms, identities, and ideas can reduce prejudice and discrimination against immigrants and ultimately facilitate their inclusion in democratic societies. This book is forthcoming at Princeton University Press in the Princeton Studies in Political Behavior series. His second book project, Severed Connections: Intraparty Politics and Representation in Africa, investigates how political parties and the nature of candidate selection institutions influence the relationship between elected representatives and their constituents in new democracies. This project won APSA’s Juan Linz Prize for Best Dissertation in the Comparative Study of Democracy in 2020. Danny's work on these two themes has been published or is forthcoming in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, American Political Science Review, American Journal of Political Science, Journal of Politics, and Political Analysis, among others. Before joining Brown, Danny was an assistant professor of political science at the University of Pittsburgh, and a pre/postdoctoral fellow at the University of Pennsylvania's Identity and Conflict Lab.

Gemma Dipoppa

Gemma Dipoppa is an incoming Assistant Professor in Political Science at Brown University. She is currently a Post-Doctoral Fellow at Stanford University and has received her Ph.D. from University of Pennsylvania. Her research examines current threats to the legitimacy of the state. In her dissertation and book project, she studies how criminal organizations are expanding to the richest countries in the world and the consequences of this infiltration on politics. Strong states also face important challenges in the management of immigration. Dipoppa's research asks what causes clashes between natives and migrants and how these fractures can be healed, and integration policies be promoted without backlash. Her work has appeared in journals such as Comparative Political Studies and the Journal of Public Economics.