Graduate Students
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Jim Aaron
Interests: Examining the strategies and tactics of attorneys retained to manage responses to political crises (election contests, scandals, criminal matters, and the like). |
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Martha Balaguera Cuervo
Interests: My major fields are comparative politics and political theory. My interests include: democratic theory, postcolonial theory, gender and feminisms, state failure, social movements, trends of securitization, the politics of hospitality, race and... |
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Guliz Dinc Belcher
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Katherine Boom
Interests: I am a first year student in the Ph.D. program. My primary area of interest is international relations, specifically international institutions (e.g. how they are formed, what factors cause states to join and/or comply, and the extent to which... |
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Claire Brault
Interests: I am from Brittany, and did most of my schooling in France. After receiving a Bachelor's degree in Law and Political Science and an MA in Political Studies from the university of Rennes, I entered the PhD program to study Political Theory. My... |
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Deniz Cakir
Interests: I am particularly interested in comparative political theory, democratic theory, post-structuralist theories of ideology and discourse, theories of the public sphere, Muslim political thought, the democratization apparatus and Islamism in the... |
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Anna Curtis
Interests: Anna Curtis is a Teaching Assistant in Legal Studies at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst. |
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Hrvoje Cvijanovic
Interests: My field of specialization is political theory - from ancient philosophy, the social contract, liberalism/pluralism, to political mythology, and the state in general. Primarily, I am interested in Hobbes and the problem of political stability.... |
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Robert Darrow
Interests: My research focuses on energy and environmental politics, with the goal of understanding contemporary conflicts and finding practical solutions that promote social justice and human freedom. I also have wide-ranging interests in the history of... |
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Samantha Davis
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Tim Delaune
Interests: My interests span the fields of international relations, law, and political theory, and his dissertation research examines jury nullification through the political theory of Carl Schmitt. I regularly teach constitutional law, international law,... |
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Sirin Duygulu
Interests: My research interest is in the area of human security. Especially, how securitization of the issues at the agenda setting stage affects policy outcomes. |
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Mohammed Elghoul
Interests: I am a doctoral student concentrating in comparative politics, with specific interests in the Middle East, religious movements, state development and education/ education reform. I have a M.A. from Columbia University in Middle East... |
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Edward Erikson
Interests: My interests include historical and contemporary political philosophy. My work revolves around questions of citizenship, democracy, and a critique contemporary American social policy. |
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Sam Fayyaz
Interests: I am a doctoral student with a concentration on contemporary political theory and comparative politics. I am most interested in questions regarding the political effects of language, cultures of neoliberalism, everyday forms of resistance, and... |
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Lauren Handley
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James Heilman
Interests: I am interested in political theory, specifically contemporary political theory, theories of power and political freedoms, as well as in the field of international relations and specifically in environmental politics. |
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Andres F Henao Castro
Interests: My current research interests include a reinterpretation of Sophocles’ tragedy, Antigone, which I read as representative of the contemporary counter-politics inaugurated by undocumented immigrants; a re-reading of Marcel Proust’s and... |
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Samantha Hill
Interests: My research interests include historical and contemporary political theory, critical theory, Hannah Arendt, Walter Benjamin, and the politics of crisis and emergency. I am also interested in the intersections between politics and film. My... |
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Francesca M. Jenkins
Interests: My field of interest is international relations, focusing on European affairs, particularly the state-building and integreation of the Balkan region into the EU's expansoin efforts. I also examine the overall impact of the European Union's... |
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Inkyoung Kim
Interests: My interests are international relations and comparative politics. My main research interests are global environmental governance and regional environmental cooperation, with strength in East Asia. |
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Zachary Kimes
Interests: My interests include Marxism, the history of philosophy, the dialectical legacy, revolutionary organization, and the politics of resistance. |
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Osman Sabri Kiratli
Interests: My research areas include constructivism and post-modern IR theories, European Union, Turkey-EU relations and international political economy. Currently I am working on my dissertation project where I try to expose the dynamics of supranational... |
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Daniel T. Kirsch
Interests: American national government and public law. Currently writing a dissertation on the use of implicitly racial campaign messages in the 1990s. |
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Meelis Kitsing
Interests: Meelis Kitsing is a PhD Candidate (ABD) and a Doctoral Fellow at the National Center for Digital Government. His primary research interests are in the fields of comparative and international political economy. His dissertation explores political... |
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Michael S Kowal
Interests: My research interests include legislative institutions, with a focus on Congress and state legislatures, public opinion, elections, public law and public policy formation. After receiving a BA from the Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts in... |
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Nathaniel B. Kraft
Interests: American Government, specifically campaigns and elections, institutions, and public law. Currently writing dissertation on the effects of additional information provided on a ballot in low information races. |
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Mark Lakin
Interests: My interests are in the subfields of American Politics and Public Law. |
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Nicklaus Laverty
Interests: My fields are comparative politics and historical theory. Past research interests included the contemporary Russian party system, and collective action in former Soviet republics (primarily Georgia and Ukraine). My current research... |
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Camile LeBlanc
Interests: My main area of study is comparative politics, with American politics as a second subfield. I am mostly focusing on the study of religion and politics in a comparative framework. I also have a keen interest in ethnic and racial politics, and the... |
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Matthew Lepori
Interests: My dissertation is a critical inquiry into the new food politics, including aspects of consumerism and ecology. I examine the organic and locavore movements for prejudices based on privileged notions of health and beauty. Why are these... |
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Allen Linken
Interests: My primary interest is in the intersection of Judicial Behavior, Courts, and Policy Making. I am looking at high-court justices and performing regression analyses on their opinions to allow legislatures to better create and draft sustainable... |
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Rebecca Lisi
Interests: I am a doctoral student concentrating within the fields of American Politics and Urban Studies. More specifically, I am interested in issues of urban ethnic politics, minority representation and participation, identity politics, and social... |
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Daniel MacDonald
Interests: I'm an economic historian who uses interdisciplinary approaches from law and sociology to answer labor-related research questions. |
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Matthew MacWilliams
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Sarah Maddox
Interests: My main research interests include state development, nationalism, and international relations. I'm particularly interested in how the influx of technology over the last decade has affected political participation, change and dissent. |
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Alyssa Maraj Grahame
Interests: My subfield is comparative politics, and my research interests lie in the intersection between gender, citizenship, democratization, and economic development, particularly within Latin America. I am also interested in... |
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Kristen McHenry
Interests: feminism, women's activism, health politics, environment, politics of breast cancer. |
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Micah S. Mintz
Interests: As a student of American politics, my primary research interest is political parties. I am particularly interested in how the president relates to the party organization, and the effects of the culture wars on party coalitions. |
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Tyler Navoichick
Interests: I am interested in political theory/philosophy. Some authors I attempt to engage with are: Deleuze, (and) Guattari, Marx, Foucault, Whitehead, Rancière and Nietzsche. |
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Alix Olson
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Elva Orozco-Mendoza
Interests: I am a doctoral student currently concentrating in political theory. I did my undergrad studies at the University of Guanajuato and a MA in political science at Virginia Tech. My major interests are feminism, critical theory, immigration and... |
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Ana Maria Ospina Pedraza
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Kevin Pallister
Interests: My subfield concentrations are comparative politics and international relations. Using a variety of methodologies, although drawing most heavily on qualitative and comparative historical approaches, my research addresses issues of democratization,... |
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Harita Patel
Interests: My field of interest is comparative politics. Specifically I am interested in social and political development, federalism, democratization, post-colonial nationalism, non-secessionst regionalism, social movements, ethnic conflict, and identity... |
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Ardeshir Pezeshk
Interests: My research interests lie at the cross section of comparative politics and international relations. I am primarily interested in the broad topic of identity politics. More specifically, I am interested in the study and evolution of nationalism;... |
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Eloi Saint Bris
Interests: Eloi is interested in a philosophy of politics that looks at the relations between the personal and the political experience. He is currently trying to map out the different pronouns at play in the political—what it means to say 'I', to... |
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Tyler Schuenemann
Interests: My research interests focus on how democratic states seek to legitimize their own violence and coercion by appealing to liberal ideals of equality and freedom. For this reason I enjoy studying the history of anarchist thought which... |
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Ayse E. Sengueler
Interests: My primary research interests are in international relations and comparative politics. I am particularly interested in state legitimacy, language in politics and the transformation of state-society relations in the international environment. |
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Michael Stein
Interests: My areas of interest include contemporary political theory, post - "isms," critical theory, and semiotics. I am currently researching the role of signs in contemporary consumption and politics. |
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Casey Stevens
Interests: I study the processes of governance and their interaction with complex environmental problems: most notably biodiversity. My dissertation is titled "Resilient Environmental Governance: Protecting Changing Ecosystems Through Multilevel... |
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Samuel Stoddard
Interests: I am a doctoral student studying American Politics. My research interests include campaigns and elections, voting behavior and political parties. |
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Christopher Sweetapple
Interests: I'm a PhD Candidate in the Anthropology Department. I am being trained in cultural and linguistic anthropology. My geographic specialization is Europe, especially urban Germany. My current work is in Berlin, Germany, where I'm investigating... |
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Sarah Tanzi
Interests: My research and teaching interests include modern and contemporary political theory, public law, and political economy; with specific focus on the works of Hobbes, Locke, Nietzsche, Marx, and Foucault. |
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Melinda R. Tarsi
Interests: My dissertation project - which draws on both archival data and quantitative analysis - focuses on how the development of veterans' benefits (through efforts of political coalition actors) has stunted the concurrent development of parallel... |
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Brian Tucker
Interests: My interests include Marxism, post-structuralism, political geography, and the politics of subculture(s). I received a BA and MA in political science from Ohio University, my master's thesis, "Punk and the Political: The Role of Practices in... |
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Candan Turkkan
Interests: I was born in Istanbul, Turkey. I have recently completed my ethnographic fieldwork in the Permanent Mission of Turkey to the United Nations on state and bureaucracy. I hope to get my second MA from The New School for Social Research... |
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Bade Uysaler
Interests: My research interests include rural development, healthcare policy, development and post-development theories, human rights/ economic& social rights and comparative politics. I am from Turkey, and have a B.S. from Georgetown University... |
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Wouter van Erve
Interests: My research interests are in the fields of American political development and American political culture in particular, with a secondary focus on political theory. I am especially interested in the concept of American exceptionalism and the... |
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Jeremy Wolf
Interests: My work straddles the sub-fields of American politics and political theory, with a specific focus on organized labor. I also have a substantial side interests in the politics of methodology, American political thought, democratic theory, and... |
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Alper Yagci
Interests: I am a third year doctoral student concentrating on comparative politics and critical international political economy. My interests include studies of state, market, and class in the context of late capitalist development. My research papers... |
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Gizem Zencirci
Interests: Gizem Zencirci specializes in Comparative Politics and Contemporary Political Theory with a special interest in the Middle East Region. Her research interests include nationalism, globalization, gender, cultural politics, identity, civil society,... |
