Nayantara Ranganatha
I am a second-year MPhil student in Comparative Government and a member of St Anne's College. My research interests include political behaviour, authoritarian politics, legacies of violence, and transitional justice. My dissertation explores the enduring legacies of violent repression under authoritarianism on contemporary political attitudes and draws on both quantitative and qualitative evidence from the Pinochet dictatorship in Chile.
Before Oxford, I graduated with a BSc in Political Science (cum laude) from the University of Amsterdam. I wrote my bachelor's thesis on preferences for 'thin' and 'thick' populism as drivers of vote choice in the Netherlands.
Outside the classroom, I have worked as a research assistant on two projects at the Hot Politics Lab, focused on arts-based interventions for prejudice reduction and affective polarisation.