STUDENT FELLOWS

Daniel Robert Thomas is a Ph.D. student in the Department of Political Science at Columbia University. He specializes in comparative politics, specifically focusing on collective action, leader survival and political repression. In particular, he is interested in how repression shapes citizens’ preferences for regime change and leader-specific punishment. Daniel received a B.A. from the University of Wisconsin, Madison in May 2016. In summer 2017, he was a visiting researcher at the International Center for the Study of Institutions and Development at the Higher School of Economics in Moscow, Russia. At ISEP, Daniel is conducting research on electrification in rural India.