Fellowship Programme
Our Fellowship programme is designed for academics and practitioners at all stages of their career to engage in electoral integrity research, with the support of the EIP, other fellows, and members of our Advisory Board. Junior Fellows are academics at the level of Master’s or PhD Student. Fellows are academic at the level of postdoctoral fellow, Assistant Professor, Lecturer, or the equivalent. Senior Fellows are academics at the level of Associate or Full Professor, Senior or Principal Lecturer, Reader, or the equivalent. Practitioner Fellows are practitioners in a field related to electoral integrity at any stage of their career. This may include fellows from government, non-governmental, civil society, or industry
2022 Fellows
Kiran Arabaghatta Basavaraj, Junior Fellow
Kiran is a doctoral candidate in Advanced Quantitative Methods at the University of Exeter, UK. His PhD research is funded by the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) via the South West Doctoral Training Partnership (SWDTP).
Nazar Boyko, Junior Fellow
Nazar is a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Political Science at West Virginia University. In his doctoral dissertation, he develops the theory of election administration in autocracies. As an EIP Fellow, Nazar will study the designs of street-level EMBs in Lithuania, Poland, Russia, and Ukraine.
Arya Budi, Junior Fellow
Arya is a junior lecturer at the Department of Politics and Government, Universitas Gadjah Mada, Indonesia. Currently, he is a doctoral student at the Department of Political Science, the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, United States.
Pavel Cabacenco, Practitioner Fellow
Pavel serves as the International Foundation for Electoral Systems’ (IFES) election management program advisor in Malawi. He is an electoral specialist with over 12 years of experience in election administration, technical assistance to election management bodies and international election observation.
Clément Desrumaux, Senior Fellow
Clément is a political scientist, Researcher at the Triangle Research Unit and Senior Lecturer in the Department of Anthropology, Sociology and Political Science, at the University of Lyon II, France. His research focuses on electoral campaigns and electioneering, political behaviour, the administration of elections, British and French politics.
Daniela Donno, Senior Fellow
Daniela is an Associate Professor in Political Science at the University of Cyprus. Her research focuses on international influences on electoral conduct, including elections in authoritarian regimes. Her fellowship project will explore the consequences of competing verdicts among different election monitoring groups.
Joanna Everitt, Senior Fellow
Joanna is a Professor of Political Science at the University of New Brunswick in Saint John and the Past President of the Canadian Political Science Association. She specializes in Canadian politics, identity politics, political communications, leadership stereotypes and evaluations, and voting behaviour in Canadian Elections.
Andrew Hawkey, Practitioner Fellow
Tasmanian Electoral Commissioner Andrew Hawkey completed a Bachelor of Science (Hons) in Mathematics and Political Science in 1993, which included a thesis on Hare-Clark and its effects on minor parties. Andrew’s 23 years in electoral administration include a significant role in numerous Parliamentary and local government elections.
Victor Hernandez-Huerta, fellow
Victor is an Assistant Professor in the Political Studies Division at Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas (CIDE), Mexico City. He received his Ph.D. in political science from the University of Notre Dame. His research focuses on comparative political institutions, elections and democracy, with a regional specialization in Latin America.
Iuliia Krivonosova, Junior Fellow
Iuliia is pursuing a PhD on New Voting Technologies in Elections and working at the research centers in two countries: at Ragnar Nurkse Department of Innovation and Governance, Tallinn University of Technology, Estonia, and at the Kompetenzzentrum für Public Management, University of Bern, Switzerland.
John Maphephe, Practitioner Fellow
John recently joined UNDP The Gambia as Chief Technical Advisor. He has worked in the ICT sector for more than two decades, specializing in use of ICT to secure safeguarding of democratic elections. He received a PhD in Management Sciences: Public Administration from Durban University of Technology (DUT).
Marcella Morris, Junior Fellow
Marcella is a Ph.D. Candidate at Emory University. She studies conflict and post-conflict institution-building with a particular focus on how transitions are provided for in peace agreements. Currently she is a Graduate Assistant for The Carter Center’s Democracy Program.
Lauren Prather, Senior Fellow
Lauren Prather is an Associate Professor of Political Science at the University of California, San Diego in the School of Global Policy and Strategy (formerly IR/PS), a Research Affiliate at the Policy Design and Evaluation Lab, and a member of Evidence in Governance and Politics (EGAP). Her work focuses on political behavior in international relations, democracy promotion and democratization, Middle East politics, and experimental methods.
Rekai Rusinga, Practitioner Fellow
Rekai Rusinga is a Programmes Officer with the Zimbabwe Election Support Network. His work has involved election observation; training of observers; supervision in long and short term observation projects; civic and voter education message development; and writing election updates, reports, and research papers.
Morgan Wack, Junior Fellow
Morgan is a doctoral student at the University of Washington. His work is focused on examining the proliferation of new technologies, violence, and misinformation in developing countries. Currently, his research is focused on discerning how ICTs affect political behavior in sub-Saharan Africa.