Shana Scogin

Biography

Shana Scogin is a Ph.D. Candidate in Political Science. Her research areas are comparative politics, methodology, and theory, with a particular focus in South Asia. She is involved in projects on the environment and democracy, disasters following natural events, community mobilization, governance, public goods, and democratic citizenship. Her dissertation focuses on the urban politics of post-disaster reconstruction through a subnational design in the Kathmandu Valley, Nepal. She employs both quantitative and qualitative methods and values interdisciplinary approaches to investigate these questions.