viktoria.wulffandersen@duke.edu
Class of 2025
Major in Political Science; Minor in Sociology; Certificate in Philosophy, Politics, and Economics
Hailing from Danbury, Connecticut, I'm a Political Science student and an active member of the Duke community. Last year, I served as the treasurer of the Duke International Relations Association, the Associate Vice President for Equity and Outreach of the Duke Student Government, the communications chair for Phi Alpha Delta, a cohort executive officer for the Penny Pilgram George Women's Leadership Initiative, the opinion editor of the Chronicle, and the co-president of the Duke Justice Project. Outside of my extracurriculars, I've worked intensively with Durham's re-entry and justice reform community, and I've interned at Goldman Sachs. In the future, I hope to work as an attorney and continue my fight for criminal justice reform.
Favorite Class: My favorite class at Duke was POLSCI 517S: Democratic Institutions, taught by Professor Herbert Kitschelt. The course gave me the opportunity to learn about the emergence, organization, and consequences of formal and informal institutions. It invigorated my curiosity in investigating how different political science paradigms explain institutional variance, and the engaging discussions and course material led to my choice of pursuing a thesis in the concentration of political institutions.