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Melissa Carlson

  Melissa Carlson is in the third year of the Political Science PhD program at U.C. Berkeley focusing on International Relations, Comparative Politics, Methods, and the Middle East. Her research interests include the impact of aid in humanitarian crisis response, migration, irregular conflict, public goods provision, and the relationship between state and non-state actors. Currently, Melissa is conducting research on why states cooperate with violent non-state actors like rebel groups and terrorist organizations and why governments use siege warfare tactics against their civilians in civil war. Melissa is also conducting research in conjunction with the Berkeley law school on circumstances under which vulnerable migrants may forgo applying for asylum and exercising their legal rights. Melissa's masters thesis focused on how different types of humanitarian relief strategies can perversely incentivize governments to eliminate vulnerable populations’ access to critical services, prolonging the negative impacts of humanitarian crises. Previously, Melissa has conducted extensive research on how host government outsourcing of governance/public goods provision of protracted refugee populations
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    • 2016 Fellows >
      • Brian Rinker
      • Carly Barker
      • Claire Boone
      • Lisa DeMaria
      • Jillian Kadota
      • Emily Pearman
      • Samuel Schildhauer
      • Folasade Wilson-Anumudu
      • Shane Fallon
      • Juliana Friend
      • Carolyn Kraus
    • 2017 fellows >
      • Amanda Keller
      • Melissa Carlson
      • Anoop Jain
      • Esther Chung
      • Daniel Patrick Morberg
      • Royce Tsukyama
      • Joanna Vinden
      • Chloe Lessard
      • Lee Lemus
      • Kelly Johnson
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