Dr. Bracic joined the department in 2014. Her research is predominantly in the field of comparative politics and focuses on questions of human rights, discrimination, the persistence of social exclusion, and ground-level effectiveness of human rights institutions, such as NGOs. Most of her research relies on lab-in-field and survey experiments. In order to gather data from severely underrepresented populations, such as the Roma in central Europe, she uses innovative approaches to measurement, like video games. Dr. Bracic is a co-founder of the Community Engagement + Experiments Lab and serves on its faculty advisory board.