Daniel C. Miller
Principle Investigator
Daniel C. Miller is Associate Professor of Environmental Policy at the University of Notre Dame Keough School of Global Affairs. Dr. Miller’s research and teaching focus on international environmental politics and policy. He is especially interested in understanding the socio-economic and ecological impacts of conservation funding in developing countries over the long-term and the political factors that shape those impacts.
PhD student
(Wageningen University; co-advised)
FLARE Associate Program Director
FLARE Program Manager
Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Pulte Institute for Global Development
MGA student
(Research Assistant)
PhD student
(Research Assistant)
MGA student
(Research Assistant)
Former Graduate Students and Postdocs
- Aemro Ayalew, MGA, Research Assistant
- Beverly Ndifoin, MGA, Research Assistant
- Roberta Afonso, Ph.D. (Central Bank of Brazil)
- Festus Amadu, Ph.D. & Postdoc (Assistant Professor, Florida Gulf Coast University)
- Khadijat Atere, MGA, Research Assistant
- Sarah (Brown) Castle, MS & Ph.D. Student (Postdoc, Yale University)
- Dikshya Devkota, MS (Global Environment Facility)
- Mohammed Farrae, MGA, Research Assistant
- Valena McEwen, MGA, Research and Teaching Assistant
- Katia Nakamura, MS, Ph.D. & Postdoc (FLARE Network, University of Notre Dame)
- Hira Noor, MGA, Research Assistant
- Sonia Padonou, MS (Champaign Public Schools)
- Francis Paulino, MS (Catholic Relief Services)
- Pushpendra Rana, Postdoc (Conservation International)
- Jennifer Zavaleta Cheek, Postdoc (Assistant Professor, South Dakota State University)
Undergraduate Students
At University of Notre Dame
- Erica Dowd, Kellogg International Scholar’s research
- Evie Garces-Foley, Kellogg International Scholar’s research
- Mathilda Noone, Undergraduate honor’s research
- Anna Rutherford, Undergraduate capstone research (MS, Statistics, University of
Washington, Seattle) - Elizabeth Stifel, Kellogg Developing Researchers Program & Undergraduate honor’s
research (Princeton in Asia)
At University of Illinois
- Anneli Cers, Ignite undergraduate research program honor’s research, (Lewis & Clark
Law School) - Shiyuan Dong, Undergraduate research (MEM, Duke University)
- Carly Hopkins, Undergraduate honor’s research (JD/MEM, Pace/Yale University)
- Dana Johnson, Undergraduate honor’s research (Master’s in NRES, University of
Illinois) - Rebecca Laurent, Undergraduate honor’s research, Ph.D., University of Wisconsin)
- Nikolas Merten, Undergraduate honor’s research MPP, Ohio State University)
- Will Smithson, Undergraduate honor’s research, (MA, Maxwell School, Syracuse
University) - Krti Tallam, Undergraduate research (Fulbright, India and University of Oxford Ph.D.
student) - Kealie Vogel, ACES undergraduate research program & honor’s research (Master’s in
NRES, University of Illinois) - Jordan Williams, Undergraduate honor’s research (Environmental Leadership
Program) - Yuezhou Yang (Ph.D., London School of Economics and Political Science)
- Adam Yusen, Undergraduate research (UCLA Law School)
- Ziwei Zhang, ACES undergraduate research program & honor’s research, (Master’s in International Affairs, Columbia University)