Sawyer Rogers

MPP, Hertie School of Governance (Berlin, Germany)

MPA, Syracuse University

BA in Political Science & BA in History, University of New Hampshire

AA in Liberal Arts, Southern New Hampshire University

Sawyer is a PhD student in the Political Science Department at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. His research utilizes mixed methods and focuses on comparing participatory deliberative governance structures. He specifically compares town meetings across New England to understand how different combinations of participation and deliberation within institutions impact policy outcomes. Rogers works to produce knowledge that will inform communities about the participation, representation, special interest, and budgetary impacts of retaining or modifying their forms of governance. He also works on understanding how federal, state, and local governments and elected officials interact and legislative decision-making.

Sawyer teaches leadership as a faculty member at Phillips Exeter Academy in the summers, is knowledgeable about disability policy and statistics from his work at the University of New Hampshire Institute on Disability, and is familiar with various qualitative data and methods from his work at the Qualitative Data Repository.