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Alice Cho Timken

I am a PhD candidate at the Maxwell School at Syracuse University, studying comparative politics and law and courts. I am interested in high courts, judicial independence, and judicial behavior. I focus mostly on Europe and the US.

I grew up in Albany, California. Before graduate school, I worked for an INGO in refugee rights and in marketing and e-commerce for consumer brands in New York City. I received my master's degree in political science from New York University and bachelor's degree in politics from Pomona College in Claremont, California.

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Education
PhD Political Science (Expected)
Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY
2021-2026, ABD as of March 2024
MA Political Science
New York University, New York, NY
2019-2021

Thesis: “Networks, access and competition: immigrant social capital and US refugee integration”; a large-N analysis of co-national social capital and refugee integration across US states.
BA Politics
Pomona College, Claremont, CA
2012-2016

  • Distinction in the Senior Exercise.
  • International Study: Yonsei University, Seoul, South Korea, Summer 2013; College Year in Athens, Athens, Greece, Fall 2014.
  • NCAA DIII Basketball and Track and Field.
Research Experience
Research Assistant to Dr. Thomas M. Keck
Global Free Speech Repository (NSF Award 1535250), Syracuse, NY
2022-Present
Research Associate to Dr. Elizabeth F. Cohen
Campbell Public Affairs Institute, Syracuse, NY
2022-Present
Research Associate
Moynihan Institute, Center for European Studies, Syracuse, NY
2023-Present
Advocacy and Communications Associate
Asylum Access, Oakland, CA
2018-2021
Research and Writing Assistant
Center on International Cooperation (NYU), New York, NY
2020
Teaching
Law and Society; Instructor of Record (Syrcause), 2025
Contemporary Political Philosophy; Prof. Elizabeth F. Cohen (Syrcause), 2022
Introduction to American Politics; Prof. Mark Brockway (Syrcause), 2022
Constitutional Law I; Prof. Thomas M. Keck (Syrcause), 2021
Contemporary African Politics; Prof. Gwyneth McClendon (NYU), 2020
US Foreign Policy; Prof. Jeffrey Togman (NYU), 2019-2020

Invited Talks

  • "Anti-system Parties and Judicial Independence" at Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY, 2024
  • "Judicial Decision-making" at Bryn Mawr College, Bryn Mawr, PA, 2023
Grants and Awards

  • Meiklejohn Award for work committed to open and just public life, 2023 ($3250)
  • Kissel Award for research and teaching on civil liberties, 2023 ($1500)
  • Maxwell Political Science Department Travel Grant, 2021-23 ($1400)
  • Northeastern Political Science Assoc. Travel Grant, 2022 ($150)
  • Point Foundation Semi-finalist, 2022
  • American Political Science Assoc. Travel Grant, 2021 ($300)
  • American Political Science Assoc. LGBT Travel Grant, 2021 ($300)
Conferences

  • Northeastern Political Science Association, 2022, 2023, 2024
  • American Political Science Association, 2021, 2024
  • Empirical Implications of Theoretical Models (Emory University), 2024
  • UT-Austin Graduate Student Conference in Public Law, 2022
  • Rutgers Summer Institute in Computational Social Science, 2022
  • New York State Political Science Association, 2020-2022
  • CIPSS/CEPSI-CIPS Global Governance at McGill University, 2021
  • Refugee and Migration Studies at York University, 2021
Datasets

Skills
R, LATEX, STATA, APIs, Webscraping, Website Content Management (CMS), French (beginner) and Korean (beginner).



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