Bio

Calla Hummel is a PhD student in the Department of Government at the University of Texas at Austin. She studies when and why informal workers organize to lobby the state. More generally, she investigates the conditions under which marginalized people form politically powerful interest groups.  . Calla uses statistical, ethnographic, survey, computational, and formal methods and works with […]

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Education University of Texas at Austin PhD in Political Science (expected May 2017) MA in Political Science (May 2014) Subfields: Comparative Politics, International Relations, Methods Research Interests: informal markets, collective action, repression, Brazil, Bolivia Adviser: Dr. Raul Madrid University of Washington B.A., International Studies (August 2009) College Honors, cum laude Academic Publications and Presentations “Vendedores […]

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