{"id":3,"date":"2025-08-19T15:35:15","date_gmt":"2025-08-19T19:35:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/cfd\/?page_id=3"},"modified":"2026-09-29T12:48:07","modified_gmt":"2026-09-29T16:48:07","slug":"team","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/cfd\/team\/","title":{"rendered":"Team"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns are-vertically-aligned-top is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-8f761849 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-vertically-aligned-top is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\">\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-medium\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"600\" height=\"600\" src=\"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/cfd\/files\/2026\/09\/jacob.jpg\" alt=\"Marc S. Jacob\" class=\"wp-image-47\" style=\"width:200px;height:200px;object-fit:cover\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/cfd\/files\/2026\/09\/jacob.jpg 600w, https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/cfd\/files\/2026\/09\/jacob-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/cfd\/files\/2026\/09\/jacob-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Marc S. Jacob<\/h2>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Assistant Professor of Democracy and Global Affairs, Keough School of Global Affairs, with a concurrent appointment in the Department of Political Science and core affiliate faculty at the Kellogg Institute.<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Jacob studies political behavior, public opinion and institutional change, and how citizens respond to democratization and democratic backsliding. He holds a PhD from ETH Zurich and was a postdoctoral scholar with the Polarization Research Lab at Stanford University.<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/keough.nd.edu\/about\/faculty-staff-directory\/marc-s-jacob\/\">Faculty page<\/a> &middot; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.marc-s-jacob.com\/\">Personal website<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Selected work related to this project<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n\n<li>Citizens as a democratic safeguard? The sequence of sanctioning elite attacks on democracy. <em>American Journal of Political Science<\/em>.<\/li>\n\n\n<li>The demand side of democratic backsliding: how divergent understandings of democracy shape political choice. <em>British Journal of Political Science<\/em>.<\/li>\n\n\n<li>Citizen support for democracy, anti-pluralist parties in power and democratic backsliding. <em>European Journal of Political Research<\/em>.<\/li>\n\n<\/ul>\n\n<\/div>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-vertically-aligned-top is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\">\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-medium\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"600\" height=\"600\" src=\"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/cfd\/files\/2026\/09\/tang.png\" alt=\"Tiffany M. Tang\" class=\"wp-image-49\" style=\"width:200px;height:200px;object-fit:cover\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/cfd\/files\/2026\/09\/tang.png 600w, https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/cfd\/files\/2026\/09\/tang-300x300.png 300w, https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/cfd\/files\/2026\/09\/tang-150x150.png 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Tiffany M. Tang<\/h2>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Clare Boothe Luce Assistant Professor, Department of Applied and Computational Mathematics and Statistics.<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Tang develops interpretable statistical machine learning methods for extracting reliable insights from real-world data, and builds open-source tools that make those methods usable in practice. In this project she leads the estimation of treatment effect heterogeneity. She holds a PhD in statistics from UC Berkeley and a BA and BS from Rice University.<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/acms.nd.edu\/people\/tiffany-tang\/\">Faculty page<\/a> &middot; <a href=\"https:\/\/tiffanymtang.github.io\/\">Personal website<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Selected work related to this project<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n\n<li>Huang, M., Tang, T. M. and Kenney, A. M. Distilling heterogeneous treatment effects: stable subgroup estimation in causal inference. The method used for the exploratory heterogeneity analysis in this project.<\/li>\n\n\n<li>Work in the <em>Annals of Applied Statistics<\/em>, the <em>Journal of Machine Learning Research<\/em> and the <em>Journal of Open Source Software<\/em>.<\/li>\n\n<\/ul>\n\n<\/div>\n\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity is-style-wide\" \/>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns are-vertically-aligned-top is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-8f761849 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-vertically-aligned-top is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\">\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-medium\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"600\" height=\"600\" src=\"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/cfd\/files\/2026\/09\/mustillo_sq.jpg\" alt=\"Thomas Mustillo\" class=\"wp-image-68\" style=\"width:200px;height:200px;object-fit:cover\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/cfd\/files\/2026\/09\/mustillo_sq.jpg 600w, https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/cfd\/files\/2026\/09\/mustillo_sq-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/cfd\/files\/2026\/09\/mustillo_sq-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Thomas Mustillo<\/h2>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Associate Professor of Global Affairs, Keough School of Global Affairs, Director of the Governance and Policy major, and a Kellogg Institute faculty fellow since 2018.<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Mustillo works on democratic representation, party politics, governance and quantitative methods, with a focus on Latin America and on highly unstable electoral contexts. His current work examines forms of volatility and spatial variation in support for political parties. He co-edits the <em>Political Data Yearbook<\/em> of the European Journal of Political Research.<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/keough.nd.edu\/about\/faculty-staff-directory\/thomas-mustillo\/\">Faculty page<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Selected work related to this project<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n\n<li>Floating voters and the rise of new left parties: electoral volatility during party system transformation. <em>Latin American Politics and Society<\/em>.<\/li>\n\n\n<li>Measures and votes: party performance under free list proportional representation, with evidence from Ecuador, with John Polga-Hecimovich.<\/li>\n\n\n<li>The logic of ambitious legislators in fluid party systems. <em>Legislative Studies Quarterly<\/em>, 2025.<\/li>\n\n<\/ul>\n\n<\/div>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-vertically-aligned-top is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\">\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-medium\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"600\" height=\"600\" src=\"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/cfd\/files\/2026\/09\/albanus.jpg\" alt=\"Adriana Pilar Ferreira Albanus\" class=\"wp-image-125\" style=\"width:200px;height:200px;object-fit:cover\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/cfd\/files\/2026\/09\/albanus.jpg 600w, https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/cfd\/files\/2026\/09\/albanus-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/cfd\/files\/2026\/09\/albanus-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Adriana Pilar Ferreira Albanus<\/h2>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">PhD student in political science at the University of Notre Dame, specializing in comparative politics and methods, and a PhD student in political science at the Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul in Brazil, specializing in political culture.<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Her dissertation at UFRGS examines the relationship between presidential rhetoric and public opinion in Brazil and the United States. She has been a research assistant at World Values Survey Brazil since 2016 and was a research visitor at the Kellogg Institute in 2020 and 2021.<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kellogg.nd.edu\/adriana-pilar-ferreira-albanus\">Profile<\/a><\/p>\n\n<\/div>\n\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity is-style-wide\" \/>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns are-vertically-aligned-top is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-8f761849 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-vertically-aligned-top is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\">\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-medium\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"600\" height=\"600\" src=\"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/cfd\/files\/2026\/09\/farr.jpg\" alt=\"Katy Farr\" class=\"wp-image-137\" style=\"width:200px;height:200px;object-fit:cover\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/cfd\/files\/2026\/09\/farr.jpg 600w, https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/cfd\/files\/2026\/09\/farr-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/cfd\/files\/2026\/09\/farr-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Katy Farr<\/h2>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">PhD student in political science at the University of Notre Dame, studying American politics and political theory.<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Her research interests are fascism, authoritarianism, gender and democracy. She holds a BA in political science and history from Guilford College.<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/politicalscience.nd.edu\/people\/graduate-students\/katy-farr\/\">Profile<\/a><\/p>\n\n<\/div>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-vertically-aligned-top is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\">\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-medium\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"600\" height=\"600\" src=\"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/cfd\/files\/2026\/09\/sandstrom.jpg\" alt=\"Carly Sandstrom\" class=\"wp-image-138\" style=\"width:200px;height:200px;object-fit:cover\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/cfd\/files\/2026\/09\/sandstrom.jpg 600w, https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/cfd\/files\/2026\/09\/sandstrom-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/cfd\/files\/2026\/09\/sandstrom-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Carly Sandstrom<\/h2>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">PhD student in political science at the University of Notre Dame and a Kellogg Institute PhD Fellow.<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Her research interests include conflict and political violence, gender-based violence, children\u2019s rights, human rights and democracy. She holds a BA from Michigan State University and an MA in human rights studies from Columbia University.<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/politicalscience.nd.edu\/people\/graduate-students\/carly-sandstrom\/\">Profile<\/a><\/p>\n\n<\/div>\n\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity is-style-wide\" \/>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Undergraduate Research Assistants<\/h2>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Leila Cury, Ralph Gonzalez, Allison Pess&ocirc;a and Samuel Robinson.<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Marc S. 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