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Name Dr. Brandon Zicha
Office Coach House, Room 2.1
email b.c.zicha@luc.leidenuniv.nl
PhONe 070 800 9354
academic exPertise Political Communication, Policy Representation, Political Parties,
Constitutional Design in Advanced Industrial Democracies
cOurses Foundations of Media and Communication Theory • Quantifying Global Challenges:
Human Rights Indicators • Public Policy Analysis: Agenda-Setting •
Decision-Making Processes • Numeracy
BiOgraPhy Brandon Zicha (B.A. Economics, Grinnell College, U.S.A. 2002; M.A., Ph.D
Political Science, Binghamton University, U.S.A. 2010) is Assistant Professor
of Media Politics at LUC. His research and teaching interest focus on how
information is processed by social and political institutions and used to make
collective decisions in modern societies, as well as the careful use and informed
understanding of quantitative scientific methods for understanding social
issues. In addition to contributing to the provision of quantitative methods at
LUC, he teaches courses that focus on theories of media and information, and
how such information is aggregated in the policy-making process.
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Academic Staff - LUC The Hague Research Centre
Name Priya Swamy
Office Manor, Room 2.1
email p.swamy@luc.leidenuniv.nl
PhONe 070 800 9543
POsitiON Research Officer
BiOgraPhy Priya Swamy holds a bachelor’s degree in Religious Studies and Philosophy from
McGill University, Canada, and a Research Master’s degree from Leiden University
in Area Studies. She is currently working on her PhD dissertation that examines
the religious lives of Surinamese Hindus practicing in Amsterdam. As Assistant
Research Officer at LUCTH, she works on developing the academic profile of the
center. In particular, she recruits guest lecturers and co-ordinates academic events
at LUC. By paying close attention to the curriculum being taught in the ‘Global
Challenges’ courses, she is committed to developing a critical and productive space
for scholars and students to discuss and conduct relevant research.
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