Job Market Candidates
Our current Ph.D. candidates and recent graduates span the major fields of study in political science. We have a strong record of job placement in academic, public service, and business settings. The directory below lists current and former students seeking employment this academic year. If you have questions please contact the individual candidate or the 2024-25 placement director, Andrew Roberts (email).
Job Market Candidates 2024-2025
Nicolette Alayón
- Field(s) of Study: American Politics
- Research Interests: Political behavior and motivation, parasocial interaction, opinion leadership.
- Dissertation Title: Celebrity and Influencer Power in American Politics: Parasocial Relationships, Digital Media, and Public Trust
- Dissertation Committee: Alvin B. Tillery, Jr. (Chair), Tabitha Bonilla, Sirus Bouchat
- Email: nicolettealayon2023@u.northwestern.edu
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Lauren M. Baker
- Field(s) of Study: Comparative Politics, International Relations
- Research Interests: Environmental politics, discard studies, authoritarian regimes, infrastructure, qualitative methods, interpretive methods, ethnography, discourse analysis
- Dissertation Title: Trash Talk: Sanitizing the politics of garbage at sites of global environmental governance in the MENA
- Dissertation Committee: Wendy Pearlman (Co-Chair), Kimberly Marion Suiseeya (co-chair), Elizabeth Shakman Hurd, Kate O'Neill (UC Berkeley)
- Email: LMarieBaker@u.northwestern.edu
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Tim Charlebois
- Field(s) of Study: Political Theory
- Research Interests: Contemporary political theory; ethics of care; epistemic injustice; critical phenomenology; democratic theory; feminist theory; disability studies; trauma studies; politics & literature; interpretation of texts
- Dissertation Title: Attention Between Ethics and Politics: Weil, Arendt, Tronto
- Dissertation Committee: Mary G. Dietz (Chair), Alvin B. Tillery, Jr., Loubna El Amine
- Email: charlebois@northwestern.edu
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Shah Zeb Chaudhary
- Field(s) of Study: International Relations, Political Theory
- Research Interest: Critical Theory, Religion, Law, Culture.
- Dissertation Title: Melodramatic Nations and Serious States: Political Affect in Pakistan-U.S. Relations
- Dissertation Committee: Ian Hurd (Chair), Elizabeth Shakman Hurd, Loubna El Amine, Robert Hariman (Communication Studies), Elisabeth Anker (George Washington University)
- Email: shahchaudhary@u.northwestern.edu
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Diana K. Elhard
- Field(s) of Study: International Relations
- Research Interests: International relations, global environmental governance, international climate finance, environmental policy
- Dissertation Committee: Ian Hurd (Chair); Stephen Nelson; Kimberly Marion Suiseeya
- Email: delhard@u.northwestern.edu
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Elizabeth Good
- Field(s) of Study: Comparative Politics, International Relations
- Research Interests: Conflict; Gender and Politics; Multi-Method Research; Negotiation; Post-Conflict Development; Representation; Women, Peace and Security
- Dissertation Title: Willing and Able: Power Dynamics and Women’s Representation in Peace Processes
- Dissertation Committee: J. Seawright (Chair), James Mahoney (Co-chair), Daniel Krcmaric, Hannah Riley Bowles (Harvard)
- Email: elizabethgood2024@u.northwestern.edu
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Shai Karp
- Field(s) of Study: American Politics, Political Theory
- Research Interests: race-class inequality; housing; American political institutions; American political development; law & policy; urban studies; settler-colonial studies; contemporary political theory; qualitative methods
- Dissertation Title: American Tenancy: Three Essays on the Law and Politics of Rental Housing in the United States
- Dissertation Committee: Chloe N. Thurston (Chair), Daniel J. Galvin, Ann S. Orloff (Sociology), Reuel Rogers
- Email: shaikarp@u.northwestern.edu
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Jennifer Lin
- Field(s) of Study: American Politics, Methodology
- Research Interests: Political Behavior, Public Opinion, Social Networks, Political Geography, Civil-Military Relations
- Dissertation Title: Commissioning After College
- Dissertation Committee: James N. Druckman, Mary McGrath, Will Reno, Peter Feaver (Duke)
- Email: Jennifer.lin@northwestern.edu
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Sam McChesney
- Field(s) of Study: Political Theory
- Research Interests: Courage, ancient Greek political thought, textual hermeneutics, critical theory, critical antiquities, Hannah Arendt
- Dissertation Title: Political courage
- Dissertation Committee: Mary G. Dietz (chair), S. Sara Monoson, Loubna El Amine, Ryan K. Balot (University of Toronto)
- Email: samuelmcchesney2023@u.northwestern.edu
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Maya Novak-Herzog
- Field(s) of Study: American Politics
- Research Interests: Gender and sexuality, political behavior, consent.
- Dissertation Title: Axes of Consent: Public Perception in the Legacy of Title IX
- Dissertation Committee: Jamie Druckman (Chair), Daniel J. Galvin, Kimberly Yuracko (Northwestern Law)
- Email: mayanovak-herzog2024@u.northwestern.edu
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Ely Orrego Torres
- Field(s) of Study: International Relations, Political Theory
- Research Interests: Global religion and politics, transnational religious movements, religious freedom and secularism, political theologies, critical theories, post- and decolonial thought, international human rights, Latin American thought, international organizations, international relations theory, ethnographic and interpretive methods.
- Dissertation Title: Freeing Religion: Deconstructing and Decolonizing Religious Freedom and Secularism in the Americas
- Dissertation Committee: Elizabeth Shakman Hurd (chair), Ian Hurd, Kim Marion Suiseeya, Michelle Molina (Religious Studies), Carlos Manrique (University of Los Andes, Colombia)
- Email: shaikarp@u.northwestern.edu
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Dinara Urazova
- Field(s) of Study: Comparative Politics, International Relations
- Research Interests: Domestic and International politics, new forms of power, communication technologies, post-Soviet affairs, Russia, intellectual history, qualitative research methods, and historical sociology.
- Dissertation Title: Power and Spectacle in Post-Soviet Russia
- Dissertation Committee: William Reno (Chair), Ian Hurd, Michael Loriaux
- Email: dinaraurazova2024@u.northwestern.edu
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