Political Science Graduate Students
Rosie Nguyen
Doctoral Student
Graduate Employee
Political Science
Email: nhungn@uoregon.edu
Office: 833 PLC, 1284 University of Oregon, Eugene OR 97403-1284
Office Hours: Spring 2024: Wednesday 3:00-4:00
Research Interests: Vietnamese Politics, Republic of Vietnam (1954-1975), Authoritarianism, Democratization, Sino-Vietnamese Relations
Thanh Nguyen
Doctoral Student
Political Science
Email: fnguyen@uoregon.edu
Office: 810 PLC, 1284 University of Oregon, Eugene OR 97403-1284
Kiel Pechko
Doctoral Student
Political Science
Email: kpechko@uoregon.edu
Office: 810 PLC, 1284 University of Oregon, Eugene OR 97403
Bogdan Petric
Doctoral Student
Political Science
Email: bogdanp@uoregon.edu
Office Hours: Spring 2026: Friday 2-3
Kait Pinkerton
Doctoral Student
Political Science
Email: kaitpink@uoregon.edu
Office: 810 PLC, 1284 University of Oregon, Eugene OR 97403
Helena Raia Bottura
Doctoral Student
Political Science
Email: bottura@uoregon.edu
Office: 810 PLC, 1284 University of Oregon, Eugene OR 97403
Office Hours: Spring 2026: Thursday 10-11
Arkadzi Rakach
Doctoral Student
Political Science
Email: arakach@uoregon.edu
Office: 810 PLC, 1284 University of Oregon, Eugene OR 97403
Office Hours: Spring 2026: Wednesday 11:30am-12:30pm
Mohammed Shakibnia
Doctoral Student
Political Science
Email: shakibni@uoregon.edu
Office: 810 PLC, 1284 University of Oregon, Eugene OR 97403-1284
Office Hours: Winter 2025: Thursday 1:30-2:30pm
Munkyoung Shin
Doctoral Student
Political Science
Email: mshin@uoregon.edu
Office: 810 PLC, 1284 University of Oregon, Eugene OR 97403-1284
Office Hours: Spring 2026: Monday 12:00pm-2:00pm
Diana Smith
Doctoral Student
Political Science
Email: dianasmi@uoregon.edu
Office: 810 PLC, 1284 University of Oregon, Eugene OR 97403
Maria Smolyar
Doctoral Student
Political Science
Email: msmolyar@uoregon.edu
Office: 810 PLC, 1284 University of Oregon, Eugene OR 97403
Haifa Souilmi
Doctoral Student
Graduate Employee
Political Science
Email: hsouilmi@uoregon.edu
Office: 833 PLC, 1284 University of Oregon, Eugene OR 97403-1284
Research Interests: Comparative Politics, International Relations, US Foreign Policy, Middle East and North Africa, Peacebuilding and Conflict Transformation, Religion , Race and Politics, Interfaith Dialogue
Nick Squires
PhD Candidate
Graduate Employee
Political Science
Email: nsquires@uoregon.edu
Office: 815 PLC, 1284 University of Oregon, Eugene OR 97403-1284
Office Hours: Spring 2026: Monday and Wednesday 11:45-1:45
Research Interests: International Relations, US Foreign Policy, National Security, Climate Change, Securitization of Migration
Peter Suechting
Doctoral Student
Environmental Studies, Political Science
Email: psuechti@uoregon.edu
Research Interests: Climate Change, International/Comparative Political Economy, Comparative Politics/Comparative Environmental Politics, Energy Policy, Industrial Policy