Principal Investigators

  • Nyron N. Crawford

    Nyron N. Crawford is Assistant Professor of Political Science at Temple University. Professor Crawford was previously a lecturer and visiting scholar at the Princeton School of Public and International Affairs (SPIA).

    His research, teaching, and practice engages psychological science to explore law and policy, especially as they relate to politics and racialized public problems. His writing has been published in the Journal of Urban Affairs, Perspectives on Politics, Urban Affairs Review, Public Integrity, Politico Magazine and The Washington Post.

    Professor Crawford received his doctorate (and M.A.) in Political Science from The Ohio State University and has a B.A. in the same discipline from Howard University. He is also an alumnus of the Faculty Leaders Program (FLP) in Policy Research and Analysis at Pardee RAND Graduate School and the Leaders in Equitable Evaluation and Diversity (LEEAD) program with the Annie E. Casey Foundation. In addition, he has certificates in survey research, social enterprise development, and non-profit management and leadership. Prior to joining Temple, he was a pre-doctoral fellow at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT).

  • Alexandra Guisinger

    Alexandra Guisinger is Associate Professor of Political Science at Temple University. Prior to starting at Temple, Dr. Guisinger was an Assistant Professor of Political Science at the University of Notre Dame. She received her PhD in Political Science from Yale University in 2005.

    Dr. Guisinger’s research concerns how states, international markets, and domestic actors communicate with each other. One strand focuses on how governments can most credibly signal intentions to other governments and to markets. A second strand focuses on public opinion toward government policies. Her work utilizes formal and informal models based on assumptions of rational decision making and strategic interactions and covers a diverse set of topics, including conflict escalation, financial crises, exchange rate regimes, trade policy, and capital regulations.

  • Katja Kleinberg

    Katja Kleinberg is Associate Professor of Political Science at Binghamton University, SUNY. Her research investigates the domestic causes and consequences of foreign economic policy. Dr. Kleinberg’s main interests concern how economic interests, political knowledge, and group identity shape attitudes toward international trade, foreign investment, and economic statecraft. Her work has been published in International Organization, International Studies Quarterly, the Journal of Conflict Resolution, Foreign Policy Analysis, and elsewhere.

    Dr. Kleinberg received her PhD in Political Science from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 2008. She has been a faculty member at Binghamton University since 2009, where she teaches courses on international political economy, commerce and armed conflict, and the politics of economic crisis.