Mazie Bernard
2025 - 2026 cohort
Mazie is a PhD Candidate in Political Science at Purdue University. She studies international political economy and global economic governance.
Her primary research examines the practices of experts and staff across international organizations. In her dissertation project, Mazie adopts a relational approach to explain how economic ideas are promoted and transformed by staff within international institutions across the fields of development financing, artificial intelligence (AI), and public health. She also conducts research on the role of bureaucratic representation in rights mainstreaming within international organizations and on the use of AI by international experts, including AI's implementation at the United Nations and in foreign assistance decision-making.
In a second line of work, Mazie investigates the shifting politics of global trade and economic cooperation. She examines how uncertainty and morality are communicated by trade representatives at the World Trade Organization and how domestic leader approval is shaped by both foreign leader reputations and economic constraints in trade renegotiations.
