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 2021-22 placement director, Karen Alter.
Job Market Candidates 2021-2022
- 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: International Relations, Political Theory
- Dissertation Title: Ordering Through Race/Racialising Through Order: Race and the Production of International Order
- Dissertation Committee: Elizabeth Shakman Hurd (Chair), Ian Hurd, Barnor Hesse (African American Studies), José Medina (Philosophy)
- Email: owenbrown2021@u.northwestern.edu
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- Field(s) of Study: American Politics, Experimental Methods, Methods
- Dissertation Title: In the Shadow of Whiteness: Middle Eastern and North African Identity in the United States
- Dissertation Committee: James Druckman (chair), Jason Seawright, Alvin Tillery
- Email: amandadurso2021@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, Jordan Gans-Morse, Shmuel Nili
- 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: International Relations, Comparative Politics, Methods
- Dissertation Committee: Stephen C. Nelson (Chair), Karen Alter, Jide Okechuku Nzelibe (Northwestern Law), Rochelle Dreyfuss (NYU Law)
- Email: christopher.dinkel@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: 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
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- Field(s) of Study: Comparative Politics, International Relations
- Dissertation Title: Dynasty Inc.: The Emergence and Endurance of Political Dynasties in Indonesia
- Dissertation Committee: Jeffrey A. Winters (Chair), Edward L. Gibson, Rachel B. Riedl (Cornell)
- Email: yoes.kenawas@northwestern.edu
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- 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
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- Field(s) of Study: Political Theory
- Dissertation Committee: Jacqueline Stevens (Chair)
- Email: evgeniiamikriukova2020@u.northwestern.edu
- Field(s) of Study: International Relations, Political Theory
- Dissertation Committee: Mary Dietz (Chair)
- Email: ShaulNotkin2018@u.northwestern.edu
- Field(s) of Study: Law and Politics, American Politics, Methods
- Dissertation Title: Building a Civil Rights Agenda: The Democratic Party and the Origins of Racial Liberalism
- Dissertation Committee: Reuel Rogers (chair), Chloe Thurston, Anthony S. Chen
- Email: kumar.ramanathan@u.northwestern.edu
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- Field(s) of Study: Methods, American Politics
- Dissertation Committee: Reuel Rogers (chair)
- Email: BriannaWhite2020@u.northwestern.edu