Assistants
Elaine Enriquez
Elaine Enriquez is a PhD candidate in Sociology at Princeton University. Her work includes research on historical- institutional remnants of empires, international development theory and measurement, informal economic activity and markets, and prisons and punishment. She has published in Theory and Society with Miguel Centeno on the legacies of empire. Her international interests are in informal economic activity, state capacity theory, and institution building. Her domestic interests are in prison society, punishment policy, and economic activity. Her dissertation is a qualitative investigation of economic activity of incarcerated men in a U.S. prison.
Dinsha Mistree
Dinsha Mistree is a PhD candidate in the Department of Politics at Princeton University. He is interested in the variation of the quality of bureaucracies across Indian states. He is also studying the factors behind the fantastic increase in political support for mass education in India. Dinsha co-edited Mapping Sustainability (Springer Press, 2007), contributing a chapter assessing the patterns of international trade using graph theory, along with a chapter on the emergence of electronic governance. Prior to coming to Princeton, Dinsha worked on assessing state stability, in conjunction with the US Department of Defense and DARPA. Dinsha holds an S.B. and an S.B. in Political Science from MIT.