Javiera Barandiarán, Global Studies
Javiera Barandiarán received her Ph.D. in 2013 from the University of California, Berkeley in Environmental Science, Policy and Management. She holds a Masters in Public Policy also from Berkeley and received her B.A. in politics from the University of Edinburgh, Scotland. Her research has been awarded support from the National Science Foundation, the Andrew Mellon Foundation, and the Social Science Research Council.
Barandiarán works on environmental politics, experts and the state in Latin America, to understand how states come to know about the environment in order to regulate it. Her teaching interests include development and environment, democratic institutions and states in transition, the politics of knowledge production and science, and innovation and environmental policies. Prior to her Ph.D., Barandiarán conducted surveys on attitudes towards science, technology and the environment in European countries. She has also worked in or conducted research on questions of rural development in Hawai’i, Mexico and California.
Co-PI Mellon Sawyer Seminar on "Energy Justice in Global Perspective”: http://www.global.ucsb.edu/energyjustice/
Neil Narang, Political Science
Neil Narang received his Ph.D. in Political Science from the University of California, San Diego in 2012, and received a BA in Molecular Cell Biology and Political Science from the University of California, Berkeley. In 2015-2016, he served as a Senior Advisor in the Office of the Secretary of Defense for Policy on a Council on Foreign Relations International Affairs Fellow. His research primarily focuses on international security, conflict management and peacebuilding, and the relationship between international institutions and conflict. He is the editor of the book Nuclear Posture and Nonproliferation Policy: Causes and Consequences for the Spread of Nuclear Weapons, and his articles have appeared in the Journal of Politics, International Studies Quarterly, Journal of Conflict Resolution among others.
He has been a fellow at the University of Pennsylvania’s Browne Center for International Politics, a nonproliferation policy fellow at the Los Alamos National Laboratory, and a junior faculty fellow at Stanford University’s Center for International Security and Cooperation.
At UCSB, Neil teaches courses on National Security, International Relations Theory Seminar, and War, Diplomacy, and International Security.
