Will Freeman

Ph.D. candidate, Princeton University

Will Freeman is a Ph.D. candidate in Politics at Princeton University and a 2022 Fulbright-Hays grantee to Colombia, Guatemala, and Peru. His research focuses on understanding how developing democracies strengthen the rule of law and fight corruption. In his dissertation, he uses quantitative data and fieldwork to study the development of anti-corruption efforts in South and Central America. He has also worked as a member of the Western Hemisphere Affairs team of the Biden-Harris 2020 campaign and an intern for the Senate Committee on Foreign Relations. Prior to Princeton, he was a Fulbright grantee (2016-17) in Hungary at Central European University, where he studied judicial capture in post-communist East Central Europe. He graduated from Tufts University in 2016 with a B.A. in Political Science