Job Market Candidates
Our current PhD 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 2020-21 placement director, John Bullock.
Job Market Candidates 2020-2021
- Field(s) of Study: Political Theory
- Dissertation Title: (Being a) Feminist (is a) Struggle: Intersectional Feminist Politics in the Era of The Women's March
- Dissertation Committee: Mary Dietz (Chair), Alvin Tillery, Jennifer Nash
- Email: RhiannonAuriemma2019@u.northwestern.edu
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- Field(s) of Study: International Relations, Methods
- Dissertation Title: The UNeffect: A New Analysis of United Nations Security Council Interventions
- Dissertation Committee: Hendrik Spruyt (Co-Chair), Jason Seawright (Co-Chair), Daniel Krcmaric
- Email: MirunaBarnoschi2020@u.northwestern.edu
- Field(s) of Study: Political Theory
- Dissertation Title: The Space Between: Rethinking Paradox in Contemporary Feminism
- Dissertation Committee: Mary Dietz (Chair), Jennifer Nash, James Farr
- Email: MaliaBowers2015@u.northwestern.edu
- Field(s) of Study: Political Theory, International Relations
- Dissertation Title: The Scriptural Politics of John Locke
- Dissertation Committee: James Farr (Chair), Mary Dietz, Elizabeth Shakman Hurd
- Email: juliabrown2013@u.northwestern.edu
- Field(s) of Study: Political Theory, American Politics
- Dissertation Title: Imagining America: International Commiseration and National Revolution in the Modern Post-Colony
- Dissertation Committee: James Farr (Chair), Mary Dietz, Loubna El-Amine, Paul Ramirez
- Email: ArturoChang2021@u.northwestern.edu
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- Field(s) of Study: Political Theory
- Dissertation Title: Herbert Marcuse's Early Critique of Idealism
- Dissertation Committee: James Farr (Chair), Mary Dietz, Loubna El Amine
- Email: TomashDabrowski2019@u.northwestern.edu
- Field(s) of Study: Political Theory
- Dissertation Title: Hobbes Unbound: Liberty, Duty, and Intertextual Change
- Dissertation Commitee: James Farr (Chair), Mary Dietz, Loubna El Amine
- Email: andrewday2019@u.northwestern.edu
- Field(s) of Study: Comparative Politics, International Relations
- Dissertation Title: The Relationship between domestic high courts in Latin America and the Inter-American Court of Human Rights
- Dissertation Committee: Ian Hurd (Chair), William Reno, Shai Dothan
- Email: CarolineDeLimaESilva2017@u.northwestern.edu
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- Field(s) of Study: American Politics
- Dissertation Title: Dividing the Poor: Congressional Representation in the New Deal Policymaking Process
- Daniel J. Galvin (Chair), Chloe N. Thurston, Reuel R. Rogers, and Anthony S. Chen
- Email: sean.m.diament@gmail.com
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- Field(s) of Study: International Relations, Political Theory
- Dissertation Title: Prometheus’ Blind Spot: Invoking Rules and A Political History of Fire
- Dissertation Committee: Ian Hurd (Chair), Hendrik Spruyt, Patrick Thaddeus Jackson
- Email: horiadijmarescu2020@u.northwestern.edu
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- Field(s) of Study: Comparative Politics, Methodology
- Dissertation Title: Trapped by Economic Inequality in Latin America: Colombia and Perú in Comparative Perspective
- Dissertation Committee: James Mahoney (Chair), Ana Arjona, Jason Seawright
- Email: lauragarciam@u.northwestern.edu
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- Field(s) of Study: International Relations, Political Theory
- Dissertation Title: Impassioned Religion in International Politics
- Dissertation Committee: Elizabeth Shakman Hurd (Chair), Mary Dietz, Brannon Ingram
- Email: ginagiliberti2020@u.northwestern.edu
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- Field(s) of Study: American politics, Methods
- Dissertation Title: Political incivility is a feature, not a bug: Why mediated incivility is not bad for democracy
- Dissertation Committee: James Druckman (Chair), Mary McGrath, Reuel Rogers
- Email: SamuelGubitz2021@u.northwestern.edu
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- Field(s) of Study: International Relations
- Dissertation Title: The Global Politics of Citizenship: Producing and Protecting the “Deserving” Subject
- Dissertation Committee: Elizabeth Shakman Hurd (Chair), Mary Dietz, Ian Hurd, Naeem Inayatullah
- Email: NathaliaJusto2015@u.northwestern.edu
- Field(s) of Study: Comparative Politics, Methodology
- Dissertation Title: Aid and Activism across the Syrian Warscape
- Dissertation Committee: Wendy Pearlman (Co-Chair), William Reno (Co-Chair), Jason Seawright, Ana Arjona
- Email: rbkhoury@u.northwestern.edu
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- Field(s) of Study: Comparative politics
- Dissertation Title: Refugees' understanding of rights and governance structures: A study of urban refugees in Uganda
- Dissertation Committee: Wendy Pearlman (Chair), Rachel Beatty Riedl, Galya Ben-Arieh
- Email: ChristaKuntzelman2022@u.northwestern.edu
- Field(s) of Study: International Relations, Political Theory
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- Dissertation Committee: Mary Dietz (Chair)
- Email: ShaulNotkin2018@u.northwestern.edu
- Field(s) of Study: Comparative Politics, International Relations
- Dissertation Title: Property Security in the Midst of Insecurity: Wealth Defense, Violence, and Institutional Stasis in the Democratic Republic of Congo
- Dissertation Committee: William Reno (Chair), Jordan Gans-Morse, Rachel Riedl, Hendrik Spruyt
- Email: davidpeyton@u.northwestern.edu