Former Staff

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

James Melton

Former Senior Lecturer, University College London

Most recently served as Senior Lecturer in Comparative Politics in the Department of Political Science at University College London from 2012-2015. Before joining 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.

Senior Staff

  • Manuel Balan
  • Abby Blass
  • Justin Blount
  • Svitlana Chernykh
  • Angelica Ghindar
  • Alexander Hudson
  • Abby Klionsky
  • 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
  • Joao Carlos Areosa
  • Drew Bazil
  • Kirstie Brenson
  • Ariana Brodsky
  • Sonja Bunijevac
  • 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
  • Filippo Maria Lancieri
  • Adi Leibovitch
  • Roberto Lupini Pinzani
  • 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
  • Somnath Bhattacharyya
  • Paloma Loudermilk Bhatia
  • 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
  • Annabelle Huet
  • Caroline Hunt
  • 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
  • Hannah Maidman
  • Jamie Mahowald
  • 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