2024-2025 Student Research Team
Tejas Balaji
Research Supervisor
Tejas Balaji joined CPOST as a Research Assistant in the fall of 2022 and currently serves as a Research Supervisor for the American Political Violence (APV) team. He is a BA/MA candidate for the University of Chicago's Committee on International Relations (CIR) program. Outside of CPOST, Tejas teaches English and enjoys learning languages. He intends to graduate in the spring of 2025.
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Nava Crispe
Research Supervisor
Nava Crispe is a fourth-year undergraduate at the University of Chicago studying Political Science. She joined CPOST in Summer 2023 and currently serves as a Student Research Supervisor for the Database on Suicide Attacks (DSAT). She speaks both English and Hebrew, and will be graduating in 2025.
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Will Fitz
Research Team Lead
Will Fitz joined CPOST as a Research Assistant in Summer 2023. He now serves as the Team Lead of CPOST's coordinated research efforts with the Combating Terrorism Center at West Point. Will graduated from the University of Vermont in 2018 with a BA in European Studies and will begin the University of Chicago's Master's of Arts Program in the Social Sciences in 2024. He recently lived in former East Germany for three years to research far right extremism and had a unique opportunity to study the use of US-Confederate symbolism among the German far right.
Zachary Leffel
Research Supervisor
Zachary Leffel is a graduate student at the University of Chicago pursing an MA with the Committee on International Relations with a focus on institutional diplomacy. He joined CPOST as a Research Assistant in the summer of 2023 and currently serves as a Student Research Supervisor for the American Political Violence project. Zachary also participates in athletics as a varsity cross country runner at the college.
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Kieran Dias-Lalcaca
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