STUDENT FELLOWS

Rick McAlexander is a PhD Candidate in Political Science at Columbia University, specializing in International Relations and Quantitive Methods. He is interested in applying modern machine learning techniques to current and historical political problems. His dissertation examines the strategies of violent and nonviolent resistance used by anticolonial movements in the immediate postwar era.

Rick earned a Bachelor of Science in Economics from Drexel University and a Master of Arts in History from Temple University. As an ISEP student fellow, Rick is currently working on examining the use of fairness claims in international environmental negotiations.