Our staff and contractors are at the heart of the Comparative Constitutions Project. At any given time, we have roughly 10-15 people who translate, code, and reconcile constitutional events. Below we acknowledge all of our past research assistants and other contributors, dating back to 2005. If you worked for the CCP and don’t see your name below, please contact us.
Co-Founder & Former Co-Director
James Melton most recently served as Senior Lecturer in Comparative Politics in the Department of Political Science at University College London from 2012-2015. Before joinging UCL, he was an Assistant Professor at the IMT Institute for Advanced Studies in Lucca, Italy. He holds a B.A. degree from Illinois Wesleyan University, and M.A. and Ph.D. degrees from the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. His research focuses on how the design of formal institutions contributes to economic, political, and social development. He recently published an edited volume that analyzes the historic and contemporary influence of Magna Carta entitled Magna Carta and Its Modern Legacy. Learn more.
Senior Staff
Manuel Balan
Abby Blass
Justin Blount
Svitlana Chernykh
Angelica Ghindar
Alexander Hudson
Abby Klionsky
Matthew Martin
Brian Pondenis
Ithamar Ritz
Robert Shaffer
Constitute Contributors
Giorleny Altamirano
Connor Ewing
Sharon Gorenstein
John Marsh
Matt Rhodes-Purdy
Natalia Sandoval Rojas
Juan Sequeda
Jose David Sierra Castillo
Christine Stuart
Translators
Adam Aquino
Drew Bazil
Kirstie Brenson
Ariana Brodsky
Sonja Bunijevac
Joao Carlos Areosa
Chinwe Chukwuogo
Felipe Costa Neves
Amanda El-Khoury
Thomas Elliott
Cristian Eyzaguirre
Leah Fiddler
Anna Fruhstorfer
Adriana Garcia
Zsuzsanna Gedeon
Hannah Gelbort
M. Fernanda Gomez Aban
Janice Han
Marina Khmelnitskaya
David Kosar
Adi Leibovitch
Roberto Lupini Pinzani
Filippo Maria Lancieri
Lindy Melman
Simen Nord
Tommaso Pavone
Chad Riding
Angelique Salib
Agustin Sanz
Elena Tchougounova-Paulson
Gunnar Tomasson
Lyubomir Uzunov
Anna Vladimirova-Kryukova
Coders, Interns, and Research Assistants
Nathan Abell
Marta Acosta
Dawood Ahmed
Omair Akhtar
Fred de Albuquerue
Melanie Allen
Kamel Aranki
Vickie Argueta
Lucas Barr
Soibhan Beaver
Thomas Bell
Chris Bello
Paloma Loudermilk Bhatia
Somnath Bhattacharyya
Emily Bieniek
Leila Blatt
Meghan Bogaerts
Josh Bolian
Chauncey Bratt
Kristen Buetow
Luis Camacho
Isabel Cardona
Vanessa Casado Perez
Eunice Chang
Michelle Chen
Daniel Cohart
Ryan Copeland
Joey Cozza
Brooke Davies
Georgia Degboe
Elizabeth Dennhardt
Mark Doerr
Steve Donohue
Christopher Dressel
Lucas Dulitzky
Grant Durow
Emily Eckert
Lucas Elkins
Katie Evans
Florin Fesnic
Sion Firew
Amber Freyermuth
Andrew Friedman
Jeff Funston
Marc Fuster
Adriana Garcia
Jeffrey Gaster
Brian George
Kayla Ginsburg
Natalia Ginsburg
Zoe Ginsburg
Rebecca Grayzel-Ward
Maya Guerra
Pierre Guigue
Aya Hamza
Gregory Hart
Zahed Haseeb
Alejandro Herrera
Suzanne Hillal
William Hoffman
Caroline Hoskins
Lauren Howard
Lincoln Howard
Richard Hsiao
Bella (Xinyi) Huang
Brett Hudspeth
Caroline Hunt
Annabelle Huet
Aleschia Hyde
Maya Ibars
Charles Ingrassia
Christina Innocenzi
Young-A Jo
Valerie Johnston
Darcy Jones
Stephen Joyce
Yoo Jin Jung
Pietro Juvara
Aya Kachi
Joy Kadowaki
Anna Kaluzny
Andrew Kenny
Nujaimah Kholwadia
Angela Kim
Erin Kim
Mike Kim
David King
Kevin King
Bethany Kirkenir
Jeremy Klein
DD Klionsky
Riitta-Ilona Koivumaeki
Brianna Lawrence
Angela Lee
Diana F. Lee
Yang-Tsun Lee
Jonatan Lemus
Megan Lewis
Melina Llodra
Kendall Lowe
Emily Lu
Zachary Lynn
Ellen Lyoo
Matthew Mackey
Maya Mackey
Jamie Mahowald
Hannah Maidman
Meredith Mann
Paul Martineck
Tanya Martinez
Mark Mazzone
Will McKelvain
Trygve Meade
Karina Melnik
Linh Melton
Brian Merrell
Livia Miller
Billy Joe Mills
Ahmed Minhaj
Sarah Moauro
Ben Mooneyham
Catalina Mulhollan
Joshua Nichols
Andrada Nicolae
Dave Nordsieck
Andrew Oppenheimer
Ethan Ostrow
Robert Owoo
Juan Padron
Joseph Parish
Ari Parker
Kimball Parker
Malavika Parthasara
Tommaso Pavone
Kathryn Peters
Patcharin Pisut
Jazmin Portis
Antonio Porto
Charles Prochaska
Miriam Puttick
Rebecca Rabin
Monica Racia
Stephanie Radliff
Bhavana Resmi
Matt Rhodes-Purdy
Stella Rim
Gustavo Rivera Loret det Mola
Alejandro Roemer
Elias Roldan
Max Rowe
Gabriele Ruberto
Milagros Ruete
Daniel Ryan
Lara Sachdeva
Maury Saiger
Derek Samz
Alice Scheffey
Ryan Schermerhorn
Michael Schwartz
Kat Sears
Annvi Shah
Sofia Sianis
Mariyam Siddique
Grayon William Sotir
Aline Sredni
Ilana Stone
Susanna Stone
Zachary Stone
Yaser Tahboub
Cindy Tan
Helen Taura
Jenna Thiergart
Adrian Tristán
Kristen Trum
Whitney Trumble
Amy Unander
Jessica Valez
Samuel Vandegrift
Cody Vaughn
Christopher Waage
Sergio Wals
Christopher Waple
Daniella Wenger
Morgan White-Smith
Chloe Williams
Emily Williams
Michael Williamson
Daniel Wisniewski
Hayat Yasin
Saeho Yi
Ellen Yoo
Shuyan Zhou
William Ziegelbauer
Atticus Zumbro