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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Norah Alaraifi
Interests: My intended subfields are comparative politics and international relations. Within these areas I am interested in social movements, revolution, civil society, democratic theory, conflict, political Islam, and international human rights and... |
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Martha Balaguera Cuervo
Interests: My major fields are comparative politics and political theory. My interests include: transnational movements, democratic theory, postcolonial theory, feminisms, state failure, the politics of hospitality, race and geography. |
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Katherine Boom
Interests: My primary area of focus is international relations, specifically international institutions, international norms, and concepts of state sovereignty. Currently I am examining legitimacy in international institutions, exploring the ways in which... |
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Claire Brault
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Ivelisse Cuevas-Molina
Interests: My fields are American Politicas and Interdisciplinary Studies. My interests are centered on Political Psychology as a subfiled to study electoral politics, political behavior, electoral decision making, and political attitudes in Latino/Hispanic... |
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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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Amanda Giorgio
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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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Kevin Henderson
Interests: I am interested in contemporary political and social theory. I am especially interested in political theories of belonging and membership and in the theories, practices, and performances of citizenship, patriotism, and nationalism and their... |
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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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Inkyoung Kim
Interests: Her research interests are global and regional environmental governance, regionalism, and politics of East Asia. She is currently writing her ph.D dissertation on regional environmental cooperation titled "“Bad Air, Bad Neighbors? A Study on the... |
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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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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... |
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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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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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Camille 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 nationalism, ethnic and racial... |
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Benjamin Leiter
Interests: My interests are in comparative politics, political theory, Latin American politics, social movements, democratization, state-society relations, inequality, human rights, and participatory politics. |
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Matthew Lepori
Interests: My dissertation is a critical inquiry into the new food politics, including aspects of consumerism and ecology. |
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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 C. MacWilliams
Interests: While a PhD student studying American Politics and Constitutional and Public Law, Matthew is also a full-time communications and strategic political consultant. Matthew was named a "Media Wizard" by Campaigns & Elections Magazine more than two... |
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Alyssa Maraj Grahame
Interests: My subfields are comparative politics and contemporary political theory. My recent projects focus on the ongoing European economic crisis from the perspective of social mobilization. My substantive interests include social movements,... |
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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 L. 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... |
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Harita Patel
Interests: My fields of research are Comparative Politics and Intra/Interdiciplinary approach to critically engage International Relations in the area of development policy. Specifically, I focus on topics related to post-colonial studies, development... |
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Ardeshir Pezeshk
Interests: My primary field of interest is international relations. Specifically, I am interested in international institutions, human security, and the way(s) in which non-state actors potentially curb or limit state behavior. Currently, I am working on a... |
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Tyler Schuenemann
Interests: I focus on contemporary political theory and comparative politics, specifically resistance and social movements in both the U.S. and the Middle East. I am currently looking at the relationship between action, group identity, and... |
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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 affected the concurrent development of parallel... |
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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 located in the fields of American politics and Public Law. I am especially interested in the concept of American exceptionalism and the resulting interplay between law, ideology and national identity, and the influence of... |
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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 fourth year doctoral student (ABD) concentrating on comparative politics and international political economy, trained in both qualitative and quantitative methods. My interests include studies of state, market, and class in the context... |
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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,... |
