PhD Placements
The graduates listed on these pages have moved on from Northwestern University to positions in academia, nonprofit and government service, politics, law, business, and more. The filterable and searchable below shows the current positions of PhDs from 2000-2024. To learn more about each graduate, click the arrow on the left-hand side of each row to expand details. You can use filters to search students by the first letter of their Last Name or by PhD Subfield. The search box will filter graduates by any text contained in their profile, so you could use the search field to search for individual students by name (e.g. "Lockwood" returns "Lockwood, Erin"), search by research interests keywords (e.g. "Security", "Elections", "Law", etc), by dissertation committee members, and more.
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| Professional Website | Academia.edu Biography: Dr Ackerman is Assistant Professor in Politics and International Relations and has been at NU London since 2019. He is a specialist in modern and contemporary political theory. Dr Ackerman received his PhD in Political Science from Northwestern University and also holds an MA in International Relations from the University of Chicago and a BA in Art History from Williams College. Dr Ackerman’s main research project at present involves an effort in re-historicising Hannah Arendt’s political thought – reading it back into the German and German-Jewish intellectual and political contexts out of which it emerged in order to generate new critical understandings of the arguments advanced throughout Arendt’s writings and their implications for contemporary political theory. Subfield(s): Political Theory; Modern Political Thought, Imperialism, Colonialism and the Modern State, International Relations, Theory and Practice Dissertation: The Politics of Political Theology: Rosenzweig, Schmitt, Arendt (ProQuest) Committee: Honig, Bonnie H (Chair); Crepon, Marc D L (Ecole Normale Superieure); Dietz, Mary G.; Fenves, Peter D. (German) Current: Assistant Professor, New College of the Humanities, Politics & International Relations Placement: Fellow, University of London, Birkbeck, School of Law's Centre for Research in Political Theology | 2013 | New College of the Humanities Assistant Professor in Politics and International Relations | Political Theory | A | |
| LinkedIn Biography: CEO of ALBERRO & ASOCIADOS and a consejera independiente at Banco Santander, she is a specialist in financial inclusion, the implementation of financial instruments for social development such as social impact contracts and in evaluation. From 2011 to 2023 she was a Socio at Henderson & Alberro, and from 2016 to 2022 she was co directora at LiD Laboratorio de Financiamiento y Pago por Resultados. She has been a professor-researcher at El Colegio de México (2007-2011), as well as a professor at the Ibero-American University, Northwestern University, and visiting professor at the Department of Political Science at the University of Minnesota. Additionally, she's held various positions in the Federal Public Administration, particularly in the Ministry of Finance and the Ministry of Agriculture. Subfield(s): Comparative Politics; elections, socioeconomic profile of voters, public opinion and public administration. Dissertation: Do the poor go to the voting booths? A reevaluation of the socioeconomic model of turnout in established and emerging democracies (ProQuest) Committee: Gibson, Edward L (Chair); Wallerstein, Michael J; McCann, Jay; Page, Benjamin I Current: CEO, ALBERRO & ASOCIADOS Placement: Profesora investigadora, Colegio de Mexico, Centro de Estudios Internacionales | 2007 | ALBERRO & ACOCIADOS CEO | Comparative Politics | A | |
| Institutional Website | Professional Website | Twitter: @isalacuerva | Google Scholar | LinkedIn Biography: Dr. Isabella Alcañiz is Professor of the Department of Government and Politics and Associate Dean of Graduate Education of the College of Behavioral and Social Sciences, University of Maryland (UMD). Professor Alcañiz studies the politics of climate change, social inequality, disaster policy, and gender with a focus on Latin America and Latinx residents of the United States. Her research has been published in PS: Political Science & Politics, Environmental Politics, Global Environmental Politics, Journal of Cleaner Production, Water Policy, Environmental Science & Policy, World Politics, and the Latin American Research Review. Her books, The Distributive Politics of Environmental Protection in Latin America and the Caribbean (2022) and the Environmental and Nuclear Networks in the Global South: How Skills Shape International Cooperation (2016), were published by Cambridge University Press. She serves on the Editorial Advisory Board of Environmental Politics and Global Environmental Politics. She received a PhD from the Department of Political Science at Northwestern University and a Licenciatura in International Relations from the Universidad de Belgrano (Argentina). Subfield(s): Comparative Politics; International Law & relations; Environmental Politics, Latin American Politics Dissertation: Ideas, epistemic communities and regional integration: Splitting the atom in Argentina and Brazil (ProQuest) Committee: Loriaux, Michael M (Chair); Gibson, Edward L; Abbott, Kenneth W Current: Associate Professor, University of Maryland, Department of Government and Politics Placement: Assistant Professor, University of Houston, Political Science and Africana Studies | 2004 | University of Maryland Professor | Comparative Politics | A | |
| Institutional Website | Professional Website | Twitter: @safaasaeedi | LinkedIn | Google Scholar Biography: Safa Al-Saeedi is an Assistant Professor of Political Science at Marist College. Recently, Al-Saeedi was a Postdoctoral Associate at the Department of Political Science at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Previously, Al-Saeedi was a Predoctoral Research Fellow at the Middle East Initiative Program at the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, Harvard Kennedy School. Al-Saeedi received a Ph.D. in political science from Northwestern University in September 2022. Al-Saeedi is also a Fellow at the Association for Analytic Learning about Islam and Muslim Societies (AALIMS) and a Board Member of the American Institute for Yemeni Studies. My research interests include political communication, research methodology, Middle East politics, religion and law, economic development, and automated text analysis and machine learning. My work has been supported by the National Science Foundation, the American Political Science Association, the Institute for Humane Studies, the Kellogg School of Management, and the Northwestern Graduate School, among others. Subfield(s): Political Communication; Research Methods; Middle East politics Dissertation: The Quest for Influence: Media Changes and Reform Politics in Saudi Arabia (ProQuest) Committee: Pearlman, Wendy (Chair); Mahoney, James; Bouchat, Sirus; Riedl, Rachel (Cornell University); Kuran, Timur (Duke University) Current: Assistant Professor of Political Science, Marist College Placement: Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) | 2022 | Marist College Assistant Professor of Political Science | Comparative Politics | A | |
| Institutional Website | Twitter: @scott_althaus | LinkedIn | Google Scholar Biography: Professor Althaus joined the University of Illinois faculty in 1996 with a joint appointment in the departments of Political Science and Communication. He is currently the Merriam Professor of Political Science, Professor of Communication, and Director of the Cline Center for Advanced Social Research at the University of Illinois. He is also a faculty affiliate of the School of Information Sciences, the National Center for Supercomputer Applications, the Center for Social and Behavioral Science, and the Illinois Informatics Institute. Professor Althaus serves on the editorial boards of Critical Review, Human Communication Research, Journal of Communication, Political Communication, and Public Opinion Quarterly. His research has appeared in the American Political Science Review, the American Journal of Political Science, Communication Research, Journalism and Mass Communication Quarterly, Journal of Broadcasting & Electronic Media, Journal of Conflict Resolution, Journal of Politics, Public Opinion Quarterly, and Political Communication. His book on the political uses of opinion surveys in democratic societies, Collective Preferences in Democratic Politics: Opinion Surveys and the Will of the People (Cambridge University Press, 2003), was awarded a 2004 Goldsmith Book Prize by the Joan Shorenstein Center on the Press, Politics and Public Policy at Harvard University, and a 2004 David Easton Book Prize by the Foundations of Political Theory section of the American Political Science Association. Subfield(s): American Politics, Methods; Communication and the arts; Social sciences; public opinion Dissertation: Who speaks for the people? Political knowledge, representation, and the use of opinion surveys in democratic politics (ProQuest) Committee: Page, Benjamin I. (Chair); Herbst, Susan; Mansbridge, Jane J. Current: Merriam Professor of Political Science, Professor of Communication, and Director of the Cline Center for Advanced Social Research, University of Illinois Placement: Assistant Professor, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Department of Communication and Department of Political Science, | 1996 | University of Illinois Merriam Professor of Political Science, Professor of Communication, and Director | American Politics | A | |
| Professional Website | LinkedIn | Google Scholar Biography: Karen Andes is a broadly trained social scientist with three decades of experience in public health research, training and practice. She has worked extensively on adolescent sexual and reproductive health, positive youth development, health disparities in African-American and Latinx communities, and the social determinants of health. She has worked on public health research and service projects in Paraguay since 2005. As a qualitative methodologist, she has provided qualitative analysis expertise for teams working on a variety of issues, including pediatric oncology, emergency preparedness, COVID vaccine hesitancy, HIV/AIDS, and menstrual hygiene management, among others. She is a certified trainer for MAXQDA qualitative data analysis software and is the author of a three-course specialization on qualitative research methods for public health on the Coursera platform. Dissertation: Fertility and farming: A comparative political economy of childbearing in two agricultural communities in the Tunisian interior (ProQuest) Committee: Abu-Lughod, Ibrahim (Chair); Bledsoe, Caroline (Anthropology); Munro, William; Ragin, Charles Current: Director of School of Public Health, Associate Professor of Behavioral and Social Sciences, Brown University Placement: Mellon Post-doctoral Fellow, Indiana University Bloomington, Anthropological Demography | 1994 | Brown University Associate Professor; Director of School of Public Health | Comparative Politics | A | |
| Personal Website Biography: Crina Archer takes on political theory, radical democracy, American politics, and gender studies to study the concepts that shape our sense of community, our worldviews, and our individual practices. Subfield(s): Political Theory; NaN Dissertation: Time For Democracy: Continuity and Rupture in the Political Thought of Kant, Tocqueville, and Arendt (Ebscohost) Committee: Zerilli, Linda (Chair); Dietz, Mary Golden; Farr, James Fulton Current: Visiting Faculty , Bennington College Placement: Research Fellow, DePaul University, Institute for Professional and Business Ethics | 2013 | Bennington College Visiting Faculty | Political Theory | A | |
| Professional Website | Personal Website | Twitter: @arslanalp_mert | Academia.edu | LinkedIn Biography: Dr. Mert Arslanalp is Assistant Professor of Political Science at Bogazici University. Before joining Bogazici, he received his PhD in Political Science from Northwestern University and worked as a Visiting Professor at Ozyegin University. His research interests include comparative urban politics, contentious and legal politics, and democratization with a regional focus on Latin America and the Middle East. Mert has conducted research on the politics of urban citizenship in Turkey, Argentina, and Mexico. He has published in South European Society and Politics, Comparative Sociology, and POMEPS Studies. Subfield(s): Comparative Politics; Contentious Politics and Law, Urban Politics, Democratization and Citizenship, Institutions and Exceptions, Turkish Politics, Latin American Politics Dissertation: Claiming Rights, Negotiating Exceptions: Politics of Urban Citizenship in Istanbul and Buenos Aires (ProQuest) Committee: Gibson, Edward L (Chair); Fischer, Brodwyn; Mahoney, James L; Pearlman, Wendy Current: Assistant Professor, Bogazici University, Political Science & International Relations Placement: Visiting Professor, Ozyegin University, Social Sciences | 2015 | Bogazici University Assistant Professor | Comparative Politics | A | |
| Institutional Website | Professional Website | LinkedIn Biography: Rhiannon Auriemma is a Lecturer of Political Science at DePaul University and the University of Chicago, specializing in Feminist Theory, Queer Theory, Critical Race Theory, Critical Theory, and Contemporary Political Theory. Auriemma's research focuses on feminist theory, politics, and intersectionality. Her dissertation project, “(Being a) Feminist (is a) Struggle”, explores debates about the meaning of intersectionality within feminist movements such as SlutWalk NYC, The Women’s March, and #MeToo. Auriemma theorizes how these movements deploy the concept of intersectionality and demand particular political sensibilities of participating feminist activists. Subfield(s): Feminist Theory, Queer Theory, Critical Race Theory, Critical Theory, and Contemporary Political Theory Dissertation: (Being a) Feminist (is a) Struggle: Intersectional Feminist Politics in the Era of The Women's March Committee: Dietz, Mary (Chair); Alvin B. Tillery, Jr.; Nash, Jennifer (Duke University) Current: Lecturer, DePaul University Placement: Lecturer, DePaul University | 2022 | DePaul University; University of Chicago Lecturer | Political Theory | A | |
| Professional Website Biography: Ramla Bandele is a writer of plays and short stories. She is Associate Professor Emeritus of Political Science and Africana Studies at Indiana University Purdue University and a long-time supporter and member of Kheprw Institute. Her works include plays: Facing the Rising Sun, Summer Storm, Fan Me Lord and Venom. She is also the author of Black Star: African American Activism and International Political Economy Subfield(s): American Politics; Black Politics, African Diaspora, Arts and Politics, Representation Dissertation: Diaspora movements in the international political economy: African-Americans and the Black Star Line (ProQuest) Committee: Page, Benjamin I (Chair); Hanchard, Michael G; Woo-Cumings, Meredith Current: Associate Professor Emeritus, Indiana University–Purdue University Indianapolis, Political Science and Africana Studies; Author and Playwright Placement: Research Fellow, University of Rochester, Frederick Douglass Institute for African and African-American Studies | 2002 | Indiana University–Purdue University Indianapolis Associate Professor Emeritus | International Relations, American Politics | B | |
| Institutional Website | Professional Website | LinkedIn | Google Scholar Biography: Dr. Jason Barabas [pronounced Bear-AH-bas] is the Director of the Rockefeller Center for Public Policy and the Social Sciences at Dartmouth College and a Professor in the Government Department. At Dartmouth, Barabas teaches and conducts research on American politics in the areas of political knowledge, deliberation, public policy, and democratic performance. His findings have been published in peer-reviewed academic journals including the American Political Science Review, the American Journal of Political Science, and the Journal of Politics. Barabas earned his Ph.D. in Political Science from Northwestern University and his undergraduate degree in Government from Dartmouth College. After graduating from college, Barabas was appointed as an economic policy advisor for the Governor of Illinois, which fostered an appreciation for retail politics as well as pragmatic solutions to policy problems. In the years since, he has held postdoctoral fellowships at Harvard and Princeton as well as academic faculty positions in New York, Florida, and Illinois. When he is not teaching or writing, Barabas enjoys a variety of outdoor and cultural activities throughout New Hampshire and beyond. Subfield(s): American Politics; American Politics, Methodology, Public Policy, Health Policy Dissertation: Americans discuss Social Security: How deliberation affects public opinion (ProQuest) Committee: Page, Benjamin I (Chair); Chong, Dennis; Cook, Fay Lomax Current: Professor, Dartmouth College, Department of Government; Director, Rockefeller Center for Public Policy and the Social Sciences Placement: Postdoctoral Fellowship, Princeton University, Woodrow Wilson School of Public Affairs | 2000 | Dartmouth College Professor | American Politics | B | |
| Institutional Website | Twitter: @ScottWBarclay2 | LinkedIn | Google Scholar Biography: Scott Barclay is the Director of the School of Social and Behavioral Sciences in the New College of Interdisciplinary Arts and Sciences. He received his PhD in Political Science from Northwestern University and his BA from the University of Queensland in Australia. He recently served as a Program Director in the Social Behavioral and Economic Sciences Directorate at the National Science Foundation. He has held positions at Drexel University, UCLA, University at Albany, University of Washington, and UC Santa Cruz. His ongoing research project explores the interplay of political, demographic, and social movement factors that influence the deployment of law. His research have been published in Law & Society Review, Law & Social Inquiry, Political Research Quarterly, Perspectives on Politics, and Law and Policy. His research findings have been directly referenced in the New York Times, Washington Post, and Los Angeles Times. Subfields: American Politics, Law and Society, Public Policy, Social Movements, policy effects, sea ice loss, arctic governance Dissertation: An appealing act (ProQuest) Committee: Goldman, Jerry (Chair); Casper, Jay Current: School Director, Professor, School of Social and Behavioral Sciences, Arizona State University | 1993 | Arizona State University School of Social and Behavioral Sciences, Director and Professor | American Politics | B | |
| Institutional Website | Twitter: @MirunaBarnoschi | LinkedIn Biography: Before joining Tulane as a Visiting Assistant Professor in Political Science, Dr. Miruna Barnoschi was a Fellow in International Security at Institut Barcelona d'Estudis Internacionals (IBEI). She finished her PhD in Political Science at Northwestern University where her primary field was international relations with a research focus in international and national security. She also finished an ad hoc MS in Statistics at Northwestern. An interdisciplinary and multidisciplinary scholar, she holds a MA in Philosophy from the University of Virginia and received a BA in International Relations and a BA in Classics and Philosophy from the University of Southern California. After reaching PhD candidacy, she taught national security and international relations courses at Northwestern and DePaul University. Beyond academia, she has experience as an Intelligence Analyst in the private security sector. Subfield(s): International relations; Peace studies; Armed conflict; Cold War; Interventions; Security; United Nations Security Council Dissertation: The UNeffect: Security Council Interventions in Cold War Armed Conflicts Committee: Seawright, Jason W. (Chair); Nelson, Stephen C.; James, Patrick (University of Southern California) Current: Visiting Assistant Professor, Department of Political Science, Tulane University Placement: Fellow in International Security, Institut Barcelona d’Estudis Internacionals (IBEI) | 2023 | Tulane University Visiting Assistant Professor in Political Science | Political Theory, International Relations | B | |
| Institutional Website | Professional Website | Twitter: @RodrigoBarrene4 | Academia.edu | LinkedIn Biography: Rodrigo Barrenechea is an Assistant Professor of Political Science at the Universidad Católica del Uruguay. He holds a Ph.D. in Political Science from Northwestern University and a BA in Sociology from the Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú. In the 2019-2020 academic year, he was a Post-Doctoral Fellow in the Weatherhead Center Research Cluster on Challenges to Democracy, at Harvard University, and in 2022/23 Santo Domingo Visiting Scholar at the David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies, also at Harvard University. His research focuses on populism, political parties, and political representation in Latin America. His work on comparative historical analysis, process tracing, and concept formation has been published in the Oxford Handbook of Historical Institutionalism, Sociological Methods & Research, British Journal of Sociology, and Quality & Quantity International Journal of Methodology. Subfield(s): Comparative Politics, Methods; populism, political parties, and political representation in Latin America Dissertation: Populist Coalitions in Latin America: Polarization, Organization and Identity (ProQuest) Committee: Mahoney, James L (Chair); Gibson, Edward L (Co-Chair); Seawright, Jason W; Levitsky, Steven (Harvard) Current: Assistant Professor, Universidad Católica del Uruguay, Department of Social and Political Sciences Placement: Post-Doctoral Fellow, Harvard University, Weatherhead Center for International Affairs | 2019 | Universidad Catolica del Uruguay Assistant Professor | Comparative Politics | B | |
| Professional Website Biography: Birol Başkan received his PhD in political science from Northwestern University in 2006 and taught at Georgetown University's School of Foreign Service in Qatar from 2010-2018, Qatar University from 2007-2010, and the State University of New York-Fredonia in 2006-2007. His research looks at the roles religion and religious actors play in creating, maintaining, undermining, and destroying political order in the Middle East and in the international politics of the Persian/Arabian Gulf and Turkish foreign policy. Baskan is the author of Turkey and Qatar in the Tangled Geopolitics of the Middle East (Palgrave, 2016) and From Religious Empires to Secular States (Routledge, 2014), and co-editor of State-Society Relations in the Arab Gulf States (Gerlach, 2014). Subfield(s): Comparative Politics; Contemporary religious movements and ideologies, state-religion relations in Turkey and the broader Middle East, state-building in Turkey and the Gulf, international politics of the Gulf, Turkish foreign policy Dissertation: Religious institutions and state building: Incorporation vs. exclusion? (ProQuest) Committee: Reno, William S (Chair); Gibson, Edward L; Deruluguian, Georgi (Sociology) Current: Non-resident Scholar, Middle East institute Placement: Assistant Professor, State University of New York-Fredonia, Department of Political Science | 2006 | Middle East Institute Non-resident Scholar | Comparative Politics | B | |
| Insitutional Website | Professional Website | Twitter: @robin_bayes | LinkedIn Biography: Dr. Bayes's research and teaching interests center on the political behavior and political psychology of everyday Americans, and particularly, how they process scientific information in order to form opinions about science-related policy issues. Her scholarly work has been published in a number of academic journals, including Political Psychology, Environmental Communication, Thinking & Reasoning, The ANNALS of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, and Current Opinion in Behavioral Sciences. She is affiliated with the Catalysts for Sustainability program at Rowan and is also a research consultant for The Climate Advocacy Lab. She received her Ph.D. in Political Science from Northwestern University. Subfield(s): American Politics; Experimental Methods; Science communication, climate change communication, public opinion, political communication, political psychology Dissertation: The Role of Moral Conviction in Shaping Public Science Attitudes (ProQuest) Committee: Druckman, James N. (Chair); McGrath, Mary C.; Nisbet, Erik (Communications) Current: Assistant Professor of Sustainability, Department of Political Science & Economics, Rowan University Placement: Assistant Professor of Sustainability, Department of Political Science & Economics, Rowan University | 2023 | Rowan University Assistant Professor of Sustainability | American Politics | B | |
| Professional Website | LinkedIn | Google Scholar Biography: Daniel Bergan specializes in public opinion and experimental work on advocacy campaigns. He uses field experimental designs to test the impact of citizen contacts to policymakers on public policy. In recent work, he has also explored the sources of partisan polarization in public opinion. His academic publications have appeared in the Journal of Politics, Public Opinion Quarterly, the Journal of Communication, and other journals. Subfield(s): American Politics; Pubic Opinion, experimental politics, advocacy campaigns. citizen contact with policy makers, partisan polarization Dissertation: Party campaign finance and electoral competition (ProQuest) Committee: Chong, Dennis (Chair); Herron, Michael C.; Austen-Smith, Michael D. Current: Associate Professor, Michigan State University, Department of Communication and James Madison College Placement: Postdoctoral Fellow, Yale University, Institution for Social and Political Studies | 2005 | Michigan State University Associate Professor; Director of Master's Studies | American Politics | B | |
| Professional Website | Personal Website | Academia.edu | LinkedIn Biography: Abdeta’s professional experience begins with his employment at Ethiopia’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs in 1992. This experience included serving as desk officer for Somalia and Ethiopia’s neighboring states, as Political officer at the Ethiopian Embassy in Djibouti, as Head of the Ethiopian Trade office in Hargeisa (April 2002-June 2006), Chief of the Cabinet at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (July 2006-August2008), Ethiopia’s Special Envoy to Somalia (August 2008-March 2009), and Head of the Conflict Early Warning and Response Unit (April 2009-November 2010), and Director General for African Affairs until 2012. He also served as Chief of Staff of the IGAD-led Mediation Team to resolve the crisis in the Republic of South Sudan and briefly for the Joint Monitoring and Evaluation Commission to oversee the implementation of the Agreement to Resolve the Conflict in South Sudan. He is currently the Executive Director of the Centre for Dialogue, Research and Cooperation and holds a PhD from Northwestern University. Subfield(s): International Relations; Ethiopian Democracy & Development Dissertation: Sovereignty Preservation Attenuating it Elsewhere: The Political and Security Dimensions of Buffer Zones (Ebscohost) Committee: Reno, William S (Chair); Caverley, Jonathan D; Henke, Marina Elisabeth Philippina Current: Executive Director, Centre for Dialogue, Research and Cooperation Placement: Chief of the Cabinet, Ethiopia’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs | 2017 | Center for Dialogue, Research, and Cooperation Executive Director | International Relations | B | |
| Subfield(s): American Politics; Public Policy; Welfare programs; Drug Treatment Dissertation: The Teen Challenge Drug Treatment Program in Comparative Perspective (ProQuest) Committee: Friesema, H. Paul (Chair); Skogan, Wesley; Ragin, Charles; Jacob, Herbert Current: Tutor, Classical Conversations Placement: German Teacher, North Fayette High School, West Union IA | 1999 | Classical Conversations Tutor | American Politics | B | |
| Professional Website | Twitter: @BlancFlorent | Academia.edu | LinkedIn Biography: Florent Blanc, PhD, is in charge of training in negotiation within the IRENÉ team at ESSEC Business School. A doctor in political science and international relations, a graduate of Northwestern University in Chicago and of SciencesPo Paris, Florent Blanc is the author of a thesis on American public security policies in the field of the fight against the terrorist threat. He has taught and conducted several study seminars on security and anti-terrorism issues as well as on issues of social progress and immigration law reforms for Northwestern University. From his American experience, he retains a particular taste for active pedagogy based on the interaction of the knowledge of each participant. Eclectic, he chose to join, at the end of his double doctorate, a French NGO specialized in the settlement of conflicts within which, for several years, he directed programs in West Africa. In Mali and Senegal, he has designed methods for analyzing sources of conflict and systems for preventing armed conflict and social tensions in conjunction with local and national authorities, but also UNESCO. Subfield(s): International Relations; international mediation, security, Mali, counterterrorist policies and military ethics; ACLU; Dissent; Guantanamo; Lawyers; Librarians; Security; September 11, 2001; Social movement; State of exception; Terrorism; United States Dissertation: Dissent after September 11 mobilization of librarians, ACLU, cities and lawyers (ProQuest) Committee: Bigo, Didier (Chair); Loriaux, Michael M (Co-Chair)Balzacq, Thierry; Chebel d'Appolonia, Arianne; Hurd, Ian; Margulies, Joseph Current: Directeur,Programme Negociateurs d'Europe, Professeur affilié, ESSEC Business School, IRENE Placement: Project Manager, Ecole de la paix Grenoble | 2010 | École Supérieure des Sciences Economiques et Commerciales (ESSEC), Business School Directeur, Programme Negociateurs d'Europe | International Relations | B | |
| LinkedIn Subfield(s): Comparative Politics; Elites; France; Germany; Liberalization Dissertation: Power of position: French and German elites in the liberalization process (ProQuest) Committee: Loriaux, Michael M. (Chair); Swenson, Peter A.; Thelen, Kathleen A. Current: Founder and Director, Bloom Language Services, LLC Placement: Principal, Bloom Consulting GmbH | 2002 | Bloom Language Services, LLC Founder and Director | Comparative Politics | B | |
| Institutional Website | Academia.edu | LinkedIn Biography: Marco Bocchese has been an Assistant Professor of International Relations at Webster Vienna Private University since August 2021. Prior to joining Webster, he worked as a visiting assistant professor of political science at the University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC), where he taught several undergraduate courses in international relations and international law. Marco Bocchese received his doctorate, M.A., and LL.M. from Northwestern University, and a J.D. from the University of Verona. His research on state relations with international criminal tribunals has been published or is forthcoming in the Michigan State International Law Review, the NYU Journal of International Law and Politics, the Washington International Law Journal, the International Journal of Human Rights, the International Criminal Law Review, the Georgetown Journal of International Affairs, the Journal of Conflict and Security Law, and Global Governance. Subfield(s): International Relations; International Politics Dissertation: Justice Cooperatives: Explaining State Attitudes toward the ICC (ProQuest) Committee: Reno, William S (Chair); Arjona, Ana Maria; Riedl, Rachel Beatty Current: Assistant Professor, Webster Vienna Private University, Political Science Placement: Adjunct Professor, University of Illinois at Chicago, Political Science | 2018 | Webster Vienna Private University Assistant Professor | International Relations | B | |
| Professional Website | Personal Website | Google Scholar | LinkedIn Biography: Toby Bolsen is the Zoukis Professor of Politics & Justice in the Department of Political Science at Georgia State University. His research focuses on political and science communication, public opinion, political behavior, experimental methods, and U.S. energy and climate policy. Professor Bolsen received the Outstanding Faculty Achievement Award from Georgia State University in 2015 for excellence in scholarship, instruction, and service. In 2017, Bolsen was selected as a Kavli Fellow and attended the Kavli Frontiers of Science Symposium in Ambon, Indonesia, sponsored by USAID and the U.S. National Academy of Sciences. Bolsen is the author of over 30 scholarly articles and book chapters. He has published research in numerous high-impact journals such as the American Journal of Political Science, Political Behavior, Public Opinion Quarterly, PS: Political Science and Politics, Journal of Communication, Political Communication, Climatic Change, Science Communication, Energy Policy, Environmental Communication, and a number of other outlets. He has received several Best Paper Awards for published work presented at academic conferences. Bolsen is a Faculty Affiliate at the Urban Studies Institute in the Andrew Young School of Public Policy at Georgia State University. He received his Ph.D. in Political Science from Northwestern University in 2010. Subfield(s): American Politics; Political behavior, public opinion, political communication, experimental methods, U.S. energy policy and climate change Dissertation: Private behaviors for the public good: Citizens' actions and U.S. energy conservation (ProQuest) Committee: Druckman, James N (Chair); Chong, Dennis; Cook, Fay Lomax Current: Zoukis Professor of Politics & Justice, Georgia State University, Department of Political Science Placement: Assistant Professor, Georgia State University, Department of Political Science | 2010 | Georgia State University Zoukis Professor of Politics & Justice | American Politics | B | |
| Institutional Website | Professional Website | Twitter: @Mari_BorgesMS Biography: Dr. Mariana Borges is a Lecturer in Politics at the Department of Politics and International Relations at the University of Southampton. She researches political behavior, political parties, representation, and misinformation with a regional focus on Brazil. Mariana’s main research is her book project, “The Power of Culture: Political Behavior, Clientelism, and Programmatic Politics.” Based on her long-term ethnographic research among low-income voters in rural Brazil, the book introduces a new way to understand culture and its role in shaping the political behavior of voters, candidates, and political parties. Mariana also has two other research agendas extending her research on culture’s role in shaping political behavior. The first one seeks to reveal how voters’ taken-for-granted ideas about politics and how political candidates should look may hinder the representation of candidates from marginalized groups. Finally, more recently, Mariana also started a new research project about the role of culture in the spread of misinformation. Based on the comparison of the trajectory and the determinants of two health-related misinformation stories during the COVID-19 pandemic in Brazil, Mariana examines how local beliefs are also crucial to understanding why some fake news becomes widespread and others don’t. Subfield(s): Comparative Politics; political behavior, political communication, political campaigns, political parties in developing democracies, elections, qualitative methods, ethnography Dissertation: The Politics of Strength: Elections, Clientelism, and Programmatic Politics in the Backlands of Brazil (ProQuest) Committee: Mahoney, James L. (Chair); Gibson, Edward L.; Pearlman, Wendy R. Current: Lecturer in Politics, University of Southampton Placement: Postdoctoral Prize Research Fellow, University of Oxford, Nuffield College, Department of Politics and International Relations | 2019 | University of Southampton Lecturer in Politics | Comparative Politics | B | |
| Professional Website | Google Scholar | Twitter: @VTPoliticsProf | LinkedIn Biography: Before starting doctoral studies, I was a staff director in the California State Senate working with communities affected by HIV/AIDS, one of a handful of out LGBT staffers in the state capitol at the time. This experience inspired my research on politics between global and local, including activism on race, gender, and sexuality, questions of marginalization and citizenship, and processes of community building and participation. I look at these in terms of economic change, in responses to the HIV/AIDS pandemic, in the new politics of food, and in local and transnational organizing against a wave of what I call “state homophobia.” My research and teaching also focus on economic justice, democratic practice, and state violence and human rights – by exploring the ethical in the political. While I pay attention to the key concepts and theories in comparative politics, I ask students and colleagues to think about the moral framework that informs politics and the ethical consequences of choices made within such frameworks. Subfield(s): Comparative Politics; Social Movements, Moral and Ethical Political Philosophy, Human Rights, economic justice, democratic practice, and state violence and human rights, activism on race, gender, and sexuality, questions of marginalization and citizenship, and processes of community building and participation Dissertation: Blood ties: Identity, citizenship, and the politics of AIDS in France and the United States (ProQuest) Committee: Loriaux, Michael M (Chair); Honig, Bonnie H; Page, Benjamin I Current: Professor, Saint Michael's College, Department of Political Science Placement: Visiting Research Scholar, University of Notre Dame, Department of Anthropology | 2005 | Saint Michael's College Professor | Comparative Politics | B | |
| Institutional Website | LinkedIn Biography: Dr. Malia Bowers is a Professional Lecturer who teaches courses in Public Law and American Politics. She completed her MSc in Gender and Sexuality Studies at the London School of Economics and her PhD in Political Science at Northwestern University. Her research interests sit at the intersection of law and policy, social movements, and gender and sexuality, and she teaches classes on Constitutional law, sexuality and law, rights-based social movements, American politics, and comparative politics. Being in a classroom with curious and engaged students, analyzing complicated problems and debating potential solutions, is her very favorite place to be. She loves the material she gets to teach, particularly for how relevant it is to our everyday lives. Everyone is impacted daily by the political and legal structures that govern this country, and her courses aim to emphasize both “what must be done” as well as what students can do as individuals. Subfield(s): Political Theory; Feminist theory; Contemporary political theory; Postcolonial theory; Critical theory Dissertation: The Spaces Between: Rethinking Success and Failure in Contemporary Feminist Politics (ProQuest) Committee: Dietz, Mary G. (Chair); Nash, Jennifer (Duke University); Farr, James F. Current: Professional Lecturer, DePaul University, Department of Political Science Placement: Lecturer, DePaul University | 2022 | DePaul University Professional Lecturer | Political Theory | B | |
| Professional Website | Personal Website | Twitter: @InkwellRetreats | Academia.edu | LinkedIn Biography: Michelle Boyd is a scholar, writer, and audio producer who makes text and audio pieces about race, class, immigration, and cities. She is the author of the ethnography Jim Crow Nostalgia: Reconstructing Race in Bronzeville (2008), winner of the 2009 American Political Science Association's Race & Ethnicity Section Best Book Award. Her scholarship has also appeared in Urban Affairs Review, City & Society, and Journal of Urban Affairs and has received Best Paper awards from the Urban Affairs Association and the National Conference of Black Political Scientists. Michelle’s audio and multimedia work have appeared at the Sullivan Galleries at Chicago's School of the Art Institute, on WAMC's The 51%, in Lux/Lumina, and several community organizations in Portland, OR. She is a member of Groundswell, a network of artists and activists using narrative to support movement building and social change. Her most recent Groundswell project, “Como un mapa en mi piel,” is a 6-minute audio collage produced in collaboration with the Amamantar y Migrar Oral History Project. Subfield(s): American Politics; race, class, immigration, and cities, ethnography; Urban Renewal; Interest Groups; Ethnic Identity; Claims Making; Social Constructionism; Leadership; Black Americans; Chicago, Illinois Dissertation: Reconstructing Bronzeville: Identity and the Construction of Racial Group Interests (ProQuest) Committee: Reed Jr, Adolph (Chair); Herbst, Susan; Binford, Henry (History); Patillo, Mary (Sociology) Current: Founder and Writing Coach, Inkwell Academic Writing Retreats Placement: Faculty Fellow, University of Illinois at Chicago, Institute for the Humanities | 2001 | Inkwell Academic Writing Retreats Founder and Writing Coach | American Politics | B | |
| Insitutional Website | Professional Website | Twitter: @CritAntiquities | LinkedIn Biography: Tristan Bradshaw is a political theorist and classicist with a particular focus on Aristotle and his receptions in contemporary critical theories, especially Marx and post-Marxism. After three years at the University of Sydney as lecturer in political theory and then postdoctoral research fellow in the Department of Classics and Ancient History, Bradshaw joined the School of Liberal Arts at the University of Wollongong as Lecturer in 2022. Bradshaw received a PhD in political science from Northwestern University in 2021, where Bradshaw was an Andrew W. Mellon doctoral fellow. Bradshaw also co-directs, with Dr Ben Brown (University of Sydney), the Critical Antiquities Network (CAN) and its monthly online forum, the Critical Antiquities Workshop. Subfield(s): Ancient Greek Political Thought and Practice Aristotle Classical Greek Literature, especially Tragedy History of Modern Political Thought Contemporary Democratic Theory Critical Theory Dissertation: The Use of Humans: Aristotle, Marx, and the Specters of Indeterminate Utility (Proquest) Committee: Lars Tønder (Chair); Sara Monoson, Richard Kraut (Philosophy), Samuel Weber (German), Miguel Vatter (Flinders University) Current: Lecturer, University of Wollongong, School of Liberal Arts Placement: Lecturer, University of Wollongong, School of Liberal Arts | 2021 | University of Wollongong, School of Liberal Arts Lecturer | Political Theory | B | |
| Professional Website | Personal Website | Twitter: @brooksiecntfail | Academia.edu | LinkedIn Biography: Marissa Brookes is Associate Professor of Political Science at the University of California, Riverside. She earned her PhD in political science from Northwestern University in 2013. Her research focuses on international political economy, labor movements, transnational activism, and the politics of work and employment. Her publications appear in Comparative Political Studies, Development and Change, the Labor Studies Journal, the Global Labour Journal, and PS: Political Science and Politics, among others. Her book, The New Politics of Transnational Labor: Why Some Alliances Succeed (2019, Cornell University Press), analyzes the causes of success and failure in transnational labor campaigns. Dr. Brookes’ research has been funded by the US Fulbright Program, the Hellman Fellows Fund, the German Research Foundation, the Dispute Resolution Research Center at the Kellogg School of Management, and the UCLA Institute for Research on Labor and Employment. She is also Principle Investigator on the Transnational Labor Alliances Database Project, which documents over 100 transnational labor campaigns from the late 1990s to the present. Subfield(s): Comparative Politics; International Politics; Globalization; Institutions; Labor transnationalism; Power; Unions Dissertation: Transnational Labor Alliances: Why Some Succeed (ProQuest) Committee: Thelen, Kathy A (Chair); Mahoney, James L; Page, Benjamin I Current: Associate Professor, University of California, Riverside, Political Science, Faculty Affiliate: Labor Studies Program Placement: Instructor, Northwestern University School of Continuing Studies, Political Science | 2013 | University of California, Riverside Associate Professor | Comparative Politics | B | |
| Biography: I was born in Thibodaux, LA, a town about 50-miles southeast of New Orleans, running right along Bayou Lafourche. My family moved to Seattle when I was nine. Aunts, uncles, cousins, as well as my dad and godmother reside in Thibodaux and although I love Seattle, I admit flying into New Orleans and driving back to Thibodaux a couple of times each year feels like coming home. In the yoga world, I have over two decades of experience. With two rounds of 200-hour teacher training programs under my belt, completed in 1999 and 2011, I am able to infuse my classes with a wealth of intuitive knowledge about the body and its relationship with poses. When not in the yoga studio, I am an attorney at a large downtown Seattle firm. I earned my J.D. from Seattle University, after receiving a Ph.D. from Northwestern University. As an undergrad, I attended the University of Washington. Subfield(s): International Relations; Latin American Politics; International relations; Business to business commerce; Business costs Dissertation: Developing international competitiveness: Multinational corporate subsidiaries in Brazil (ProQuest) Committee: Gibson, Edward (Chair); Woo-Cummings, Meredith; Hanchard, Michael | 1998 | Attorney | Comparative Politics, International Relations | B | |
| Institutional Website | LinkedIn Biography: Julia Brown attained her Ph.D. in Political Science from Northwestern University, Evanston, at the end of 2021. Brown's research focuses on John Locke’s theological and tolerationist writings, particularly those of his later years. While at Northwestern, in addition to researching and writing my dissertation, Brown designed and taught classes, ran weekly workshops, and co-organised a graduate student conference. Before coming to Stanford, Brown taught as part of the University of Chicago's Social Sciences Core program, specifically, the Classics of Social and Political Thought sequence. Subfield(s): Political Theory; Locke, John; Religious toleration; Scripture Dissertation: At Liberty to Obey: Sincerity and the Scriptural Politics of John Locke (Proquest) Committee: Farr, James F. (Chair); Dietz, Mary G.; Shakman Hurd, Elizabeth Current: Harper-Schmidt Fellow and Collegiate Assistant Professor, University of Chicago, Social Sciences Collegiate Division Placement: Lecturer, Stanford University | 2021 | University of Chicago Harper-Schmidt Fellow and Collegiate Assistant Professor | Political Theory | B | |
| Professional Website | Twitter: @OwenR_Brown | LinkedIn Biography: Owen Brown is Visiting Assistant Professor of Global Politics in the Department of Politics at Scripps College. My work is located at the intersection of international relations and political theory, and focuses on the interconnections between race, colonialism, and international politics. Brown's research focuses on the politics of (international) ordering and examines the ways in which orders are constituted and contested across a range of contexts. Both Brown's research and teaching are motivated by the importance of approaching the social and political world from a perspective of critical reflexivity in order to better understand the structures and practices that shape and limit political thought and action, and our place in relation to them. Subfield(s): International Relations; Political Theory; race and colonialism in international relations and political theory, international order, IR theory, international thought, critical theory, post- and decolonial political thought, Black political thought, German colonialism, the politics of memory, migration, aesthetics and politics, and interpretive methods Dissertation: Ordering Through Race/Racialising Through Order: Race and the Production of International Order (ProQuest) Committee: Shakman Hurd, Elizabeth (Chair); Hurd, Ian; Hesse, Barnor (African American Studies); Medina, José (Philosophy) Current: Visiting Assistant Professor of Global Politics, Scripps College Placement: Visiting Assistant Professor of Global Politics, Scripps College | 2023 | Scripps College Visiting Assistant Professor of Global Politics | International Relations, Political Theory | B | |
| Professional Website | Personal Website | Twitter: @JavierBurdman | Academia.edu Biography: Javier Burdman is a Research Fellow in the School for Interdisciplinary Social Studies at the National University of San Martin in Argentina. Subfield(s): Political Theory; Contemporary political theory, especially Arendt, Lyotard, and Derrida, Kant's moral and political philosophy, Theories of political action and judgment, Knowledge and politics. Dissertation: Politics after Totalitarianism: Rethinking Evil, Action, and Judgment in Kant, Arendt, and Lyotard (ProQuest) Committee: Dietz, Mary Golden (Chair); Fenves, Peter D. (Comparative Literary Studies); Menke, Christoph (Department of German) Current: Research Fellow (Tenured), National University of San Martin Placement: Postdoctoral Fellowship, Goethe-Uiversität Frankfurt | 2018 | National University of San Martin Research Fellow (Tenured) | Political Theory | B | |
| LinkedIn Biography: Teacher and scholar of political science with particular expertise on the Middle East, international relations, energy, and democracy. An experienced teacher, researcher, and administrator with a newly published book on the Arab Spring, excellent teaching and communication skills, and comfort with many types of administrative and planning work. Considering a move from academia to the policy world. Subfield(s): Comparative Politics; Comparative Politics, Middle East Politics Dissertation: One Hand: Military Structure and Middle East Revolts (Ebscohost) Committee: Reno, William S (Chair); Pearlman, Wendy R; Riedl, Rachel Beatty Current: Visiting Assistant Professor, College of William and Mary, Political Science Placement: Lecturer, Northwestern University in Qatar, Political Science | 2013 | College of William and Mary Visiting Assistant Professor | Comparative Politics | B | |
| Institutional Website | Professional Website | Twitter: @EthanBusby | LinkedIn Biography: Ethan Busby is an Assistant Professor of Political Science at Brigham Young University, specializing in political psychology, extremism, public opinion, racial and ethnic politics, and quantitative methods. Busby studies extremism in democracies. More specifically, Busby's work explores what extremism is, who people blame for extremism, and what encourages and discourages extremism. Across this work, Busby considers extremism in the public and at the elite level. Busby examines both a general approach to extremism and several specific kinds – including racial extremism, partisan extremism, and populism. Busby's research on extremism relies on various methods, using lab experiments, quasi-experiments, survey experiments, text-as-data, surveys, artificial intelligence, and big data from Google and Twitter. Subfield(s): American Politics; political psychology, extremism, public opinion, racial and ethnic politics, and quantitative methods Dissertation: It's All about Who You Meet: The Political Consequences of Intergroup Experiences with Strangers (ProQuest) Committee: Druckman, James N (Chair); Merseth Cook, Julianne Lee; Rogers, Reuel R Current: Assistant Professor, Brigham Young University, Department of Political Science Placement: Assistant Professor, Clemson University | 2018 | Brigham Young University Assistant Professor | American Politics | B | |
| Professional Website Biography: Helen Callaghan, previously at the European University Institute (EUI) in Florence, is a professor in the Department of Political Science at the Johannes Gutenberg University, Mainz. Callaghan's research is in the area of comparative political economy. She particularly interested in the tension between politics and markets and by how this battle plays out in the European political arena. At the moment, Callaghan focuses on the politics of corporate governance. She obtained her Ph.D. in Political Science and MA in Mathematical Methods from Northwestern University, and a BA in Philosophy, Politics and Economics from the University of Oxford. From 2008-2017, she was a Senior Research Fellow at the Max Planck Institute for the Study of Societies in Cologne (Germany), having previously held a post-doctoral Max Weber Fellowship at the European University Institute, and a pre-doctoral Chateaubriand Fellowship at École Normale Superiéure in Paris. Subfield(s): Comparative Politics; economic policy developments in Germany, Britain, and France within the context of European integration, corporate governance, economic nationalism, Brexit, business-government relations, wage bargaining systems, and the Eurozone Crisis Dissertation: European integration and the clash of capitalisms: British, French and German disagreement over corporate governance, 1970–2003 (ProQuest) Committee: Thelen, Kathy A (Chair); Gourevitch, Peter; Alter-Hanson, Karen Current: Professor of Political Economy, Johannes Gutenberg-University, Mainz Placement: Post-doctoral Fellow, European University Institute, Italy | 2006 | Johannes Gutenberg-University, Mainz Professor of Political Economy | Comparative Politics | C | |
| Professional Website | Personal Website | Twitter: @ecalvo67 | Google Scholar | LinkedIn Biography: Dr. Ernesto Calvo is the Director of the Interdisciplinary Lab for Computational Social Science (iLCSS) and Professor of Government and Politics at the University of Maryland. His research centers on the study of comparative political institutions, social media, political representation, and social networks. His work lies at the intersection of big data, survey experiments, and institutions. He is the author of a number of books on comparative institutions and social media, including Non-Policy Politics: Rich Voters, Poor Voters, and the Diversification of Electoral Strategies (Cambridge University Press 2019) with María Victoria Murillo; Legislator Success in Fragmented Congresses in Argentina (Cambridge University Press 2014); and Fake News, Burbujas, Trolls y Otros Encantos: Cómo funcionan (para bien y para mal) las redes sociales (Siglo XXI Editores 2020) with Natalia Aruguete. Professor Calvo has authored over 70 publications in the United States, Latin America and the Caribbean, and Europe. His research has been recognized by the American Political Science Association with the Lawrence Longley Award, the Luebbert Best Article Award, and the Michael Wallerstein Award. Subfield(s): Comparative Politics; comparative political institutions, political representation, and social networks Dissertation: Disconcerted industrialists: The politics of trade reform in Latin America (ProQuest) Committee: Gibson, Edward L. (Chair) Current: Professor, University of Maryland College Park, Government and Politics Placement: Instructor, University of Illinois at Chicago, Political Science | 2001 | University of Maryland College Park Professor | Comparative Politics | C | |
| Professional Website | LinkedIn Biography: Originally from the UK, I completed my first degree in Philosophy at the University of Sydney in 2008 and worked for a small refugee advocacy organisation in Australia. In 2010 I moved to the US, where I earned an MA and PhD in Political Science from Northwestern University. I taught at several American universities and a prison, and published my first book, before returning to the UK in 2021. Subfield(s): Political Theory Dissertation: Sheldon Wolin and Democracy: Seeing through Loss (ProQuest) Committee: Dietz, Mary Golden (Chair); Farr, James Fulton; Shulman, George (New York University); Tronto, Joan (University of Minnesota) Current: Teacher in Politics, London Academy of Excellence Tottenham Placement: Visiting Assistant Professor, Beloit College, Political Science | 2018 | London Academy of Excellence Tottenham Teacher in Politics | Political Theory | C | |
| Subfield(s): American Politics; Law and Politics; Citizenry; Decision-making; Information; Judicial policy-making; United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit Dissertation: Information mobilization: The citizenry's contribution to policy making by the United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit (ProQuest) Committee: Jacob, Herbert (Chair); Casper, Jonathan D.; Goldman, Jerry; Skogan, Wesley G. Current: Executive Director, Chicago Police Board Placement: Adjunct Professor, Loyola University, Chicago Political Science | 2000 | Chicago Police Board Executive Director | American Politics | C | |
| Professional Website | LinkedIn Biography: Teri L. Caraway is Associate Professor of Political Science at the University of Minnesota. Caraway is the author of Assembling Women: The Feminization of Global Manufacturing (2007) and co-editor of Working through the Past: Labor and Authoritarian Legacies in Comparative Perspective (2015). Her research focuses on comparative labor politics, comparative and international political economy, and the Indonesian labor movement. Subfield(s): Comparative Politics; comparative political economy of labor, transnational labor issues, Southeast Asian politics, gender and comparative politics Dissertation: Engendering industrialization: The feminization of factory work in Indonesia (ProQuest) Committee: Winters, Jeffrey A. (Chair); Gibson, Edward L.; Thelen, Kathleen A. Current: Professor (Assistant, Associate, and Full), University of Minnesota, Political Science Placement: Fulbright Senior Scholar Award, Fulbright | 2002 | University of Minnesota Professor | Comparative Politics | C | |
| Biography: Virginia Carlson, Principal Researcher for Data Integration, has more than 25 years of experience in data development, acquisition, and analysis. She has used these skills to deliver technical assistance for community organizations and for researching urban practices. She has worked as Research Director at World Business Chicago, the Chicago Urban League, the Brookings Institution, and as president of the Metro Chicago Information Center. She is a Board member of the Association of Public Data Users and on the editorial board of Economic Development Quarterly. She has a Ph.D. in Political Science from Northwestern University and a Master’s in Urban Planning from the University of Illinois-Chicago. Subfield(s): American Politics; urban politics; Illinois; women workers; data literacy, data and methods, statistics, economic development, urban development Dissertation: Labor and Firm Location: A Case Study of the Chicago Suburbs (ProQuest) Committee: Skogan, Wesley G. (Chair) Current: Data Strategist, Urban Rubrics; Adjunct Associate Professor, University of Wisconsin Milwaukee, School of Continuing Education Placement: Assistant Professor, University of Wisconsin Milwaukee | 1995 | Urban Rubrics Data Strategist | American Politics | C | |
| Institutional Website | Professional Website | Academia.edu Biography: Gent Carrabregu holds a PhD in Political Science from Northwestern University (Evanston, IL, USA). His research interests are in the fields of contemporary political theory, history of political thought, political and moral philosophy, and international relations. His PhD thesis is a political-theoretic study of Kant’s late treatise The Conflict of the Faculties and its effective history in the ethical-political thought of G.W.F. Hegel, Hannah Arendt, and Jürgen Habermas. His research articles and other writings have appeared in international journals such as History of European Ideas, Constellations, Political Theory, Contemporary Political Theory, and Theory & Event. After finishing his PhD, Dr. Carrabregu was a Postdoctoral Fellow and Research Scientist at Duke University, where he conducted research in political theory and taught courses on American Political Thought and Frankfurt School Critical Theory. Subfield(s): Political Theory; history of political thought, moral and political philosophy, contemporary democratic theory Dissertation: Kant's Libertarianism and Its Aftermath: Rereading The Conflict of the Faculties, Rethinking Hegel, Arendt, and Habermas (Ebscohost) Committee: Farr, James F. (Chair); Alznauer, Mark V.; Dietz, Mary G. Current: Lecturer, RIT Kosovo (A.U.K) Placement: Visiting Lecturer, American University in Bulgaria, Political Science | 2018 | RIT Kosovo (A.U.K) Lecturer | Political Theory | C | |
| Institutional Website | Professional Website | Twitter: @rossecarroll | Academia.edu | LinkedIn Biography: My early education was in my native Ireland. I completed a BA in politics and philosophy at University College Dublin before leaving for England to complete a Msc in International Relations at the London School of Economics. Following a brief period working in Brussels I travelled to the United States on a Fulbright scholarship and received a doctorate in political science from Northwestern University in 2013 for a dissertation on the politics of enthusiasm in Shaftesbury, Hume, and Burke. From 2009 to 2012 I served as Assistant Editor of Political Theory: an International Journal of Political Philosophy. Before arriving at Exeter in the autumn of 2015 I spent two years as Visiting Assistant Professor of Government at the College of William and Mary in Virginia. My teaching and research are primarily in the history of early modern political thought with a particular focus on the writings of Mary Wollstonecraft, Edmund Burke, David Hume, the Third Earl of Shaftesbury, and Alexis de Tocqueville. Thematically my work mainly deals with issues surrounding the passions, ridicule, fanaticism, religious toleration, and censorship. My first book Uncivil Mirth: Ridicule in Enlightenment Britain was published by Princeton University Press in 2021. Subfield(s): Political Theory; history of early modern political thought with a particular focus on the writings of Mary Wollstonecraft, Edmund Burke, David Hume, the Third Earl of Shaftesbury, and Alexis de Tocqueville, passions, ridicule, fanaticism, religious toleration, and censorship Dissertation: The Politics of Enthusiasm in Shaftesbury, Hume, and Burke (ProQuest) Committee: Dietz, Mary Golden (Chair); Farr, James; Monoson, S. Sara Current: Senior Lecturer, The University of Exeter, Politics Placement: Visiting Assistant Professor, The College of William & Mary, Government | 2013 | Dublin College London Assistant Professor (Above the Bar) | Political Theory | C | |
| Institutional Website | Personal Website | Twitter: @IsaCastilloCar | LinkedIn Biography: Isabel Alejandra Castillo Carniglia is an Assistant Professor at the Facultad de Gobierno, Universidad de Chile and an adjunct researcher at the Center for Social Conflict and Cohesion Studies (COES). Castillo holds a Ph.D. in Political Science from Northwestern University and B.A.s in History and Political Science from Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile. Castillo's dissertation on women’s suffrage won the best dissertation award from APSA’s Women, Gender, and Politics Section. Castillo also part of Red de Politólogas. Castillo's research interests include democratization, gender, and religion and politics, with a focus on historical and contemporary Latin America. Subfield(s): Comparative Politics; democratization, gender, and religion and politics, with a focus on historical and contemporary Latin America Dissertation: Explaining Female Suffrage Reform in Latin America: Motivation Alignment, Cleavages, and Timing of Reform (ProQuest) Committee: Mahoney, James L (Chair); Riedl, Rachel B.; Orloff, Ann Shola Current: Assistant Professor at the Facultad de Gobierno, Universidad de Chilep; adjunct researcher at the Center for Social Conflict and Cohesion Studies (COES) Placement: Postdoctoral Fellow, Universidad Adolfo Ibáñez, Center for the Study of Political History, | 2019 | Universidad de Chile Assistant Professor | Comparative Politics | C | |
| Institutional Website | Professional Website | Twitter: @ArturoChangQ | LinkedIn | Google Scholar Biography: Arturo Chang is an Assistant Professor of Political Theory specializing in Comparative Political Theory, Post-colonial Thought, and Decolonial Politics. His research interests are primarily in the study of Indigenous and Black social movements, revolutionary change, popular politics, and the history of political thought in Latin America. His current project, entitled “Imagining America: International Commiseration and National Revolution in the Modern Post-colony” analyzes the influence of hemispheric discourse in the development of anti-colonial insurgency movements in Mexico, Colombia, Peru, and the United States during the Age of Revolutions. His research has appeared in the International Journal of Political Economy, Foreign Policy, and the Washington Post. Previously, Arturo was a Gaius Charles Bolin Fellow in the Department of Political Science at Williams College. Subfield(s): Political Theory; Comparative Political Theory, Post-colonial Thought, and Decolonial Politics; Revolution and Social Movements, the History of Political Thought Dissertation: Imagining America: International Commiseration and National Revolution in the Modern Post-Colony Committee: Farr, James (Chair); Dietz, Mary G.; El Amine, Loubna; Ramirez, Paul (History) Current: Assistant Professor of Political Theory, University of Toronto, Mississauga Placement: Assistant Professor of Political Theory, University of Toronto, Mississauga | 2022 | University of Toronto, Mississauga Assistant Professor of Political Theory | Political Theory | C | |
| Biography: Dr. Hyono Choi is a senior research fellow in the Institute of Korean Political Studies, Seoul National University. She received her PhD from Northwestern University in 2013. Her research interests are political behavior, public opinion, political parties and elections in American politics and Korean politics. Her recent publication is “Perceptions of Issue Ownership and Party Choice: A Case of the Korean Legislative Election, 2016” (Korean Journal of Legislative Studies, 2018). Subfield(s): American Politics; Political behavior; Political environments; Voting Dissertation: How Voters Form Issue Attitudes: The Relationship between Political Environments, Issue Attitudes, and Political Behavior (ProQuest) Committee: Rogers, Reuel R. (Chair); Druckman, James N.; Janda, Kenneth Current: Senior Research Fellow, Institute of Korean Political Studies, Seoul National University Placement: Research Fellow, Institute of Korean Political Studies, Seoul National University | 2013 | Seoul National University Senior Research Fellow, Institute of Korean Political Studies | American Politics | C | |
| Biography: Daniel Chomsky teaches political science at the University of Texas Rio Grande Valley. His work focuses on mass media decision-making, political power, and public policy. His research has been published in Media, Culture & Society, Political Communication, Critical Studies in Media Communication, Law & Society Review, and other journals. Subfields: American Politics; International Relations; Mass media; American history; Journalism; Mass communications; Political Economy; Politics of Inequality & the Welfare State; Public Policy; Economic Policy Dissertation: Constructing the Cold War: "The New York Times" and the Truman Doctrine (ProQuest) Committee: Page, Benjamin I (Chair); Cumings, Bruce (History); Woo-Cummings, Meredith Current: Associate Professor, University of Texas, Rio Grande Valley, Political Science Placement: Lecturer, Temple University, Political Science | 1999 | University of Texas, Rio Grande Valley Associate Professor | American Politics, International Relations | C | |
| LinkedIn Biography: Provide authoritative, nonpartisan research and analysis to Members of Congress, committees, and congressional staff. Write reports and confidential memoranda. Present in-person briefings and seminars on policy issues. Subfield(s): American Politics; Budget; Budget process; Congress; Party politics Dissertation: Guarding the Treasury: Party Politics and the Congressional Budgetary Process (ProQuest) Committee: Page, Benjamin I. (Chair); Harbridge-Yong, Laurel; Skogan, Wesley G. Current: Analyst, Congressional Research Service, Government Organization & Management Placement: Adjunct, University of Illinois at Chicago, Political Science | 2011 | Congressional Research Service Analyst | American Politics | C | |
| Biography: Chaesung Chun is a Professor at the Department of Political Science and International Relations at Seoul National University. He is currently the Chair of the Advisory Committee to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, a member of the Advisory Committee of the Ministry of Defense, ROK Army, and Navy. He is a chair of the National Security Center, the East Asia Institute. He was the President of the Korean Association of International Studies, and a visiting professor at Keio University in Tokyo from 2017-2018, and 2010-2011. He was a Director of the Center for International Studies at Seoul National University and a Vice President of the Institute of Peace and Unification Studies, Seoul National University. He received his BA and MA degree from the Seoul National University and Ph.D degree from Northwestern University in the field of International Relations Theory. Major books include Sovereignty and International Relations: Northeast Asian International Relations Theory: Politics among Incomplete Sovereign States (2020), Sovereignty and International Relations: Modern Sovereign States System and the Evolution of the Empire (2019), Is Politics Moral: Reinhold Niebuhr’s Transcendental Realism (2012), East Asian International Relations (2011). Subfield(s): International Relations; Dissertation: Classical realists as skeptics: E. H. Carr, Hans Morgenthau, and Reinhold Niebuhr (ProQuest) Committee: Loriaux, Michael M (Chair); Lynch, Cecelia; Cumings, Bruce Current: Chair of the National Security Research Center / Professor at the Department of Political Science and International Relations, Seoul National University | 1997 | Seoul National University Professor | International Relations, Political Theory | C | |
| Professional Website | Google Scholar Biography: Erin Aeran Chung is the Charles D. Miller Professor of East Asian Politics and Director of Undergraduate Studies in the Department of Political Science at Johns Hopkins University. She previously served as the director of the East Asian Studies Program and a founding co-director of the Racism, Immigration, and Citizenship (RIC) Program. Professor Chung specializes in East Asian political economy, comparative citizenship and migration politics, civil society, and comparative racial politics. She is the author of Immigration and Citizenship in Japan (Cambridge, 2010, 2014; Japanese translation, Akashi Shoten, 2012) and Immigrant Incorporation in East Asian Democracies (Cambridge, 2020), which received the 2021 ASA Asia and Asian America Section Transnational Asia Book Award, Honorable Mention for the 2021 APSA Migration & Citizenship Section Book Award, and the 2021 Research Excellence Award from the Korea Ministry of Education and the National Research Foundation of Korea. She was awarded a five-year grant (2018-2022) from the Academy of Korean Studies (AKS) to support the completion of her third book project on Citizenship, Social Capital, and Racial Politics in the Korean Diaspora. Professor Chung is currently serving as co-president of the APSA Migration and Citizenship Section (2021-2023), co-editor of the Politics and Society of East Asia Elements series at Cambridge University Press, and co-P.I. for the “Critical Responses to Anti-Asian Violence (CRAAV) Initiative: Building Anti-Racist Solidarities” at Hopkins. She has been a Mansfield Foundation U.S.-Japan Network for the Future Program Scholar, an SSRC Abe Fellow at the University of Tokyo and Korea University, an advanced research fellow at Harvard University's Weatherhead Center for International Affairs Program on U.S.-Japan Relations, and a Japan Foundation fellow at Saitama University. At Hopkins, Professor Chung teaches undergraduate courses on Japanese, Korean, East Asian, and Asian American politics and graduate courses on civil society, citizenship and immigration politics, the political economy of development, democratization, and comparative racial politics. Subfield(s): Comparative Politics, Political Economy; East Asian political economy, international migration, civil society, and comparative racial politics, Japan; Citizenship; Identity; Japan; Korean; Nationality Dissertation: Guarding the Treasury: Party Politics and the Congressional Budgetary Process (ProQuest) Committee: Hanchard, Michael G (Chair); Honig, Bonnie H; Swenson, Peter A Current: Charles D. Miller Professor of East Asian Politics, John Hopkins University, Political Science, East Asian Politics Placement: Charles D. Miller Assistant Professor of East Asian Politics, John Hopkins University, Political Science | 2003 | John Hopkins University Charles D. Miller Professor of East Asian Politics; Director of Undergraduate Studies | Comparative Politics | C | |
| LinkedIn Biography: NaN Subfield(s): Political Theory Dissertation: Exercising citizenship: Korean identity and the politics of nationality in Japan (Ebscohost) Committee: Stevens, Jacqueline (Chair); Koppelman, Andrew M M; Rogers, Reuel R Current: Independent researcher, self-employed Placement: Staff Attorney, Community Activism Law Alliance | 2017 | Self-Employed Independent Researcher | Political Theory | C | |
| Professional Website | Twitter: @drvino | LinkedIn Biography: I talk, teach and write about wine. I'm the author of two books about wine, Wine Politics: How Governments, Environmentalists, Mobsters, and Critics Influence the Wines We Drink (University of California Press) and A Year of Wine: Perfect Pairings, Great Buys, and What to Sip with Each Season (Simon & Schuster). I teach popular wine classes at NYU and lead talks and tastings for corporations and private individuals. I have published the leading wine blog, DrVino.com, since the paleolithic era of blogging, starting in 2002. Some of my stories that have had the most impact include pursuing ethics in wine writing and the carbon footprint of wine. Subfield(s): International Relations; Wine Politics Dissertation: Deportation Law and Political Theory (Ebscohost) Committee: Gibson, Edward L (Chair) Current: Author and Wine Educator, Dr. Vino; Lecturer, New York University Placement: Lecturer, University of Chicago | 2003 | Dr. Vino / New York University Author and Wine Educator / Lecturer | International Relations | C | |
| Professional Website | LinkedIn Biography: For more than a decade, I have taught Chicago politics, the presidency, parties and elections, the U.S. Congress and campaign finance at DePaul University. At DePaul I have also worked to introduce students to local elected officials and to set students up with opportunities for political internships throughout the city and state. I have worked on a couple of different campaigns at varying levels of Illinois politics, the names of which I will not disclose in an attempt to conceal my biases. At Lake Forest College I will also be offering a course on research methods. Subfield(s): American Politics; Parties and elections, Public opinion, Presidency Dissertation: The Politics of Quality: Institutions and Market Stratification in the Wine Sector (ProQuest) Committee: Page, Benjamin I. (Chair); Burch, Traci R.; Druckman, James N. Current: Assistant Professor, Lake Forest College, Politics Placement: Professor, DePaul College of Liberal Arts and Social Sciences, School for New Learning | 2012 | Lake Forest College Assistant Professor | American Politics | C | |
| Institutional Website | Academia.edu Biography: I study the history of Ancient Greek and Roman ethical and political philosophy. My recent work has focused on questions of rule and judgement in Aristotle. Specifically, I am interested in the place of ruling in Aristotle’s account of learning and human well-being, and how the development of political expertise informs his view of judgement. I also maintain interests in contemporary ethical and political philosophy, including questions of democracy and egalitarianism. Prior to joining the faculty, I was Lecturer in Political Theory and Wicklander Research Fellow at DePaul University. I am also a member of The London Centre for Ancient Philosophy (L-CAP). Subfield(s): Political Theory; Political Philosophy, Greek and Roman Political Thought, Democratic Theory, Egalitarianism, History of Political Thought, Theories of Well-Being Dissertation: Aristotle on Political Activity (Ebscohost) Committee: Kraut, Richard H. (Chair); Monoson-Berns, S. Sara (Co-Chair); Dietz, Mary G.; Wynne, John P.F. Current: Departmental Lecturer in Political Theory, Oxford University, Oriel College Placement: Visiting Assistant Professor, DePaul University, Political Science | 2018 | Oxford University, Oriel College Departmental Lecturer in Political Theory | Political Theory | C | |
| Institutional Website | Professional Website | Twitter: @policentrica | Google Scholar Biography: Jennifer Cyr is Associate Professor in the Department of Political Science and International Studies and Director of the Master's and PhD in Political Science. She holds a Ph.D. and an M.A. in Political Science from Northwestern University and an M.A. in Latin American and Caribbean Studies from Florida International University, USA. Cyr's research agenda focuses on political representation, stability and institutional change, and democratization in Latin America. In turn, Cyr writes about qualitative and mixed methods, particularly regarding the use of focus groups in the Social Sciences. Cyr has written two books: The Fates of Political Parties: Institutional Crisis, Continuity, and Change in Latin America (2017, Cambridge University Press), and Focus Groups for the Social Science Researcher (2019, Cambridge University Press). Cyr has also published articles in various journals in the United States, Europe, and Latin America, including Comparative Political Studies, Comparative Politics, Studies in Comparative International Development, Sociological Methods and Research, Journal of Political Science, Quality & Quantity, and the International Social Sciences Journal. Subfield(s): Comparative Politics; Comparative Politics, representation, democratization, and institutional stability and change in Latin America; Bolivia; Democracy; Party-system collapse; Peru; Political parties; Venezuela Dissertation: From Collapse to Comeback? The Fates of Political Parties in Latin America (ProQuest) Committee: Gibson, Edward L. (Chair); Mahoney, James L.; Seawright, Jason N. Current: Associate Professor, Universidad Torcuato di Tella, Departamento de Ciencia Política y Estudios Internacionales / Department of Political Science and International Studies Placement: Assistant Professor, University of Arizona, School of Government and Public Policy and Center for Latin American Studies | 2012 | Universidad Torcuato di Tella Associate Professor | Comparative Politics | C | |
| Institutional Website | Professional Website | Twitter: @asdurso | Google Scholar | LinkedIn Biography: Dr. Amanda Sahar d’Urso is an assistant professor of government at Georgetown University and a Provost’s Distinguished Faculty Fellow of 2023. Her research details how Middle Easterners and North Africans (MENA) have been racialized throughout the 20th and 21st centuries, despite being legally classified as ‘White’. Her work has been published in the Journal of Race and Ethnic Politics, as well as on The Monkey Cage. Her dissertation research is supported by the APSA Doctoral Dissertation Research Improvement Grant and the Rapoport Family Foundation Doctoral Dissertation Grant. Her paper, A Boundary of White Inclusion, has won the Midwest Political Science Association’s Lucius Barker Award for best paper in race and ethnic politics for 2022. Subfield(s): American Politics, Experimental Methods, Methods; Race and Ethnic politics; Mixed-Methods Dissertation: In the Shadow of Whiteness: Middle Eastern and North African Identity in the United States Committee: Druckman, James N. (chair); Seawright, Jason; Tillery, Alvin B., Jr. (Proquest) Current: Assist Professor of Government, Georgetown University Placement: Guarini Dean’s Postdoctoral Fellow in the Politics of Race and Ethnicity, Dartmouth College | 2022 | Georgetown University Assistant Professor of Government | American Politics | d | |
| Professional Website | Google Scholar Biography: Erin Kimball Damman is a Clinical Associate Professor for the International Studies Program. Her interests include Africa, security and development, international military assistance and peacekeeping, and qualitative and mixed-method research design. Subfield(s): International Relations; International Politics, Comparative Politics, African Security, Peacekeeping, Qualitative Research Methods Dissertation: Peacekeeping For Approval: The Rise of African-Led Interventions (ProQuest) Committee: Reno, William S (Chair); Alter, Karen J.; Goertz, Gary (University of Notre Dame); Spruyt, Hendrik Current: Clinical Associate Professor, University of Idaho, International Studies Program Placement: Adjunct Professor, Washington State University | 2012 | University of Idaho Clinical Associate Professor | International Relations | D | |
| Biography: Andrew Day is an American political theorist currently living in Prague. Day's research explores the interface of religion and politics in the early modern period. Day attained his Ph.D. in Political Science at Northwestern University. Day is an instructor in the humanities at Northwestern University and an instructor of modern political philosophy for Loyola University, Chicago. Day's dissertation shows that in light of his own theory of obligation as obedience to the laws, Thomas Hobbes was liberated by the regicide of 1649 to undermine religious authorities that in his earlier writings he had been duty-bound to defend. I have published chapter one as an article in The Historical Journal, entitled “Hobbes’s Changing Ecclesiology.” The subsequent chapters further elaborate the political theoretical implications of my argument for thinking about liberty and authority. Subfield(s): International Relations, Political Theory Religion and Politics; Early Modern Political Thought; Hermeneutics; and Thomas Hobbes Dissertation: Hobbes Unbound (Proquest) Committee: Farr, James Fulton (Chair); Dietz, Mary G.; El Amine, Loubna Current: Foreign Policy Researcher, The Nonzero Foundation Placement: Instructor, Chicago Field Studies Program, Northwestern University | 2021 | The Nonzero Foundation Foreign Policy Researcher | Political Theory, International Relations | D | |
| Professional Website | Personal Website | Google Scholar | LinkedIn Biography: Christopher Day joined the Department of Political Science at College of Charleston in August 2012. His teaching and research interests are in comparative politics, with a particular emphasis on issues of peace and security in Africa. A former disaster relief worker with Médécins Sans Frontières, he is also interested in humanitarian affairs. He offers courses on the Politics of Africa, the Model African Union, Global Political Thought, and World Politics. Day earned his Ph.D. in Political Science from Northwestern University in June 2012. He also holds an M.A. from the Johns Hopkins School for Advanced International Studies (SAIS). Day earned a B.A. in Political Science and a B.S. in Anthropology from the College of Charleston. He has published articles in Comparative Politics, Civil Wars, the Journal of Modern African Studies, and has written opinion pieces for Al-Jazeera, The Daily Beast, and the Post & Courier. He is also the author of The Fates of African Rebels: Victory, Defeat, and the Politics of Civil War (Lynne Rienner, 2019) Subfield(s): Comparative Politics; Comparative Politics, African politics, political violence, civil wars, humanitarian affairs Dissertation: Fates of Rebels: The Politics of Insurgency Survival and Demise (ProQuest) Committee: Reno, William S (Chair); Mahoney, James L; Spruyt, Hendrik Current: Associate Professor, College of Charleston, Political Science Placement: Assistant Professor, College of Charleston, Political Science | 2012 | College of Charleston Associate Professor | Comparative Politics | D | |
| Professional Website | Personal Website Biography: Caroline L. Silva is a Lecturer in the discipline of Human Rights at the Institute for the Study of Human Rights and the Department of Political Science, Columbia University. She holds a Ph.D. Degree in Political Science from Northwestern University and a Ph.D. Degree in Law from the University of Copenhagen, iCourts . Caroline completed a postdoctoral fellowship at the Lichtenberg-Kolleg - The Göttingen Institute for Advanced Study (Georg-August-Universität). She also holds an LL.M from the Kings College University of London and an LL.B from Pontifícia Universidade Católica de São Paulo (Brazil). She is a lawyer registered at the Bar Association in São Paulo, Brazil. At Columbia University, Caroline teaches a newly designed course named “Courts as Gatekeepers: The Two-Level Politics of Human Rights.” In this course, she shares different disciplinary views on how domestic and international courts relate, either facilitating or jeopardizing the implementation of human rights law and policies. Caroline is generally interested in Institutions, Human Rights, and Social Justice from the perspectives of International Law & International Relations, Sociology, and related disciplines. She is currently working on her book project entitled “Gatekeepers of the Realm: The Relationship between Domestic Judges & the Inter-American Court of Human Rights.”
Subfield(s): International Relations; human rights, judicial institutions Dissertation: Fates of Rebels: The Politics of Insurgency Survival and Demise (ProQuest) Committee: Hurd, Ian F (Chair); Dothan, Shai (Copenhagen); Reno, William S Current: Lecturer, Columbia University Institute for the Study of Human Rights Placement: Postdoctoral fellow, Lichtenberg-Kolleg (Georg-August-Universität) | 2019 | Columbia University Institute for the Study of Human Rights Lecturer | International Relations | D | |
| Professional Website | Personal Website | LinkedIn Biography: Laura De Olden is the Director of Princeton’s Junior Summer Institute (JSI), and the Associate Director for Graduate Student Life and Diversity Initiatives at the Princeton School of Public and International Affairs. Her strong commitment to advancing diversity and equity goals has marked her career in higher education. Laura takes great pride in helping students from diverse backgrounds to thrive academically and maximize their potential. As a first-generation college student, a Latina, a working mother and an immigrant, Laura has a deep appreciation for the value of diversity, equity and inclusion and can easily relate to students’ strong desire to contribute to something bigger than themselves, to their community and to the public good. Subfield(s): International Relations; Social sciences; Belief systems; Foreign policy; Foreign policy attitudes; Mexico; Public opinion; U.s.-Mexican relations Dissertation: Purposive Belief Systems in U.S.-Mexican Relations A Mexican Test of Page and Bouton's Theory of Purposive Belief Systems Committee: Page, Benjamin I (Chair); Galvin, Daniel J; Seawright, Jason W Current: Associate Director of Graduate Student Life and Diversity Initiatives, Princeton University, Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, Junior Summer Institute Placement: Post-Doctoral Fellow, Princeton University, Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs | 2013 | Princeton University Lecturer in International & Public Affairs; Director PPIA Junior Summer Institute | International Relations, American Politics | D | |
| Personal Website | Twitter: @therealnatedial | LinkedIn Biography: From Richmond, VA, Dr. Nathan Dial is an Active-Duty Major in the US Air Force. Nathan earned a Bachelor of Science in Economics with a minor in Spanish from the US Air Force Academy in 2010. Over his 12-year Air Force career, Nathan has deployed to Bagram Air Base, Afghanistan, and Ali Al-Salem Air Base, Kuwait, piloting the EC-130H with the 55th Electronic Combat Group (Tucson, AZ). Currently, Nathan serves at Offutt, AFB (Omaha, NE) as an RC-135 Pilot with the 55th Operations Group. Additionally, in 2012, Nathan attained a Master's in Public Policy from the Harvard Kennedy School, where he focused on Political and Economic Development. In 2021, Nathan received his Ph.D. in Political Science from Northwestern University, concentrating on comparative politics and minoring in qualitative and quantitative methods. His dissertation developed a theory on why the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) pursues out-of-area activities in the 21st Century. In his spare time, Nathan enjoys playing golf and pick-up basketball, riding his Peloton, reading biographies, producing sports analytic articles, and playing the piano. Teams, where the collective is greater than the sum of its parts, have inspired Nathan's studies and assignments in the military. The idea of creating groups that elevate their members led him to study economics, public policy, NATO, and sports analytics. Nathan plans to contribute to the Aspen Strategy Group community through his experiences and learn how the various parts of the United States' security apparatus can positively impact its foreign policy and global standing. Subfield(s): International Relations; Methods; Comparative Politics NATO in the 21st Century; Sports Analytics Dissertation: How NATO Decides: A Theory for How NATO Takes Collective Action in the 21st Century (Proquest) Committee: Reno, William (Chair); Henke, Marina; Spruyt, Hendrik Current: Active-Duty Major, RC-135 and EC-130H Pilot, United States Air Force Placement: Active-Duty Major, RC-135 and EC-130H Pilot, United States Air Force | 2021 | United States Air Force Assistant Director of Operations; Active-Duty Major, RC-135 and EC-130H Pilot | International Relations | D | |
| Institutional Website | Professional Website Biography: Sean Diament’s research and teaching interests broadly encompass the politics of poverty, political inequality (including class, race, gender, migration, and spatiotemporality), power and conflict, American political development (ideas and institutions), the U.S. Congress, representation, policymaking and public policy (primarily social welfare and health), political geography, social epidemiology, multi-method research, and political science epistemological construction and pedagogy. His dissertation and first book project entitled “Dividing the Poor” explores how poor people were virtually represented by largely non-poor lawmakers during the pathbreaking New Deal period in Congressional history. Subfield(s): American Politics, political inequality (including class, race, gender, and migration), American political development, Congress, representation, policymaking, political geography, multi-method research, and political science epistemological construction and pedagogy Dissertation: Dividing the Poor: Elite Representation and Preferential Group Construction in the Policymaking Process, 1933-1946 (Proquest) Committee: Galvin, Daniel J. (Chair); Chen, Anthony S.; Rogers, Reuel R.; Thurston, Chloe N. Current: Visiting Assistant Professor, Ponoma College Placement: Visiting Assistant Professor, Swarthmore College | 2022 | Pomona College Visiting Assistant Professor | American Politics | D | |
| Institutional Website | Professional Website | Twitter: @hdijma | LinkedIn | Google Scholar Biography: Horia Dijmarescu is a VTeaching Assistant Professor & Advisor at the University of Pittsburgh's Department of Political Science and Global Studies Center. Dijmarescu researches how people invoke rules to justify or contest actions. His work examines wartime use of incendiary munitions, the legitimation of human rights violations through emergency powers, and the normalization of animus against sexual and gender identity minorities. In each of these areas, Dijmarescu traces how invoked rules constitute resources through which the meanings of rules are produced and negotiated. Dijmarescu earned a Ph.D. in Political Science at Northwestern University and a M.A. in International Peace and Conflict Resolution at American University in Washington, D.C. Subfield(s): International Relations; Political Theory; Global Rules and Norms, Transnational Political Discourse, Politics of Identity Mass Atrocity, Crimes and Human Rights, Invisible Power, Intervention, Philosophy of Science, Anti-Racist Pedagogy Dissertation: Prometheus’s Blind Spot: Invoking Rules and Political Histories of Fire (Proquest) Committee: Hurd, Ian F. (Chair); Spruyt, Hendrik; Jackson, Patrick Thaddeus (American University) Current: Visiting Lecturer, University of Pittsburgh Placement: Visiting Lecturer, University of Pittsburgh | 2020 | University of Pittsburgh Teaching Assistant Professor & Advisor | Political Theory, International Relations | D | |
| Professional Website | Personal Website | Twitter: @jdillonsavage | Google Scholar | LinkedIn Biography: I am an Assistant Professor in Global Politics in the Department of Political Science at Trinity College Dublin. My primary areas of research are in international relations and comparative politics, particularly international relations theory and international security. My work has been published or is forthcoming in the European Journal of International Relations and the Journal of Conflict Resolution. Subfield(s): International Relations; Democratization, States and Militaries Dissertation: Patrons, Proxies, and International Relations: Political Survival and the Surrender of Sovereignty (ProQuest) Committee: Spruyt, Hendrik (Chair); Caverley, Jonathan D.; Deruluguian, Georgi (Sociology); Mahoney, James Current: Ussher Assistant Professor, Trinity College Dublin, Political Science Placement: Post-doctoral fellowship, Columbia University, Harriman Institute | 2012 | Trinity College Dublin Ussher Assistant Professor | International Relations, Comparative Politics | D | |
| Institutional Website | Professional Website | LinkedIn | Google Scholar Biography: Christopher Dinkel is an Assistant Professor of Legal Studies in the Department of Management at Spears School of Business, Oklahoma State University. Dinkel's work has appeared in the Cornell Law Review and International Affairs. Drawing upon his interdisciplinary background, Dinkel conducts empirical research at the intersection of law and politics. His dissertation focuses on why countries strengthen their trade secret rights. Subfield(s): International Relations; Comparative Politics; Methods; law and politics Dissertation: The Law and Politics of Trade Secrecy (Proquest) Committee: Nelson, Stephen C (Chair); Alter, Karen J. (Co-Chair); Nzelibe, Jide Okechuku (Northwestern Law); Dreyfuss, Rochelle (New York University) Current: Assistant Professor of Legal Studies, Oklahoma State University, Spears School of Business Placement: Assistant Professor of Legal Studies, Oklahoma State University, Spears School of Business | 2022 | Oklahoma State University, Spears School of Business Assistant Professor of Legal Studies | International Relations | D | |
| Professional Website | Personal Website | Academia.edu | LinkedIn Biography: Nick (he/him) joined Wheaton College in 2015, after completing doctoral work at Northwestern University. His research is diverse in scope, but is guided by an overarching interest in the political consequences of the social sciences as an intellectual and professional practice. Nick has published on topics including the politics of popular culture, the history or the social sciences, democratic theory, feminist pedagogy, and the development of Critical Theory in the American academy in outlets such as Contemporary Political Theory, Polity, Constellations, New Political Science, and The History of the Human Sciences. Nick is passionate teacher, and has developed courses at Wheaton that span the fields of international relations, political theory, and women’s and gender studies. In each of his classes, Nick seeks to trace the origins of our political present in order to encourage his students to think deeply about who we are, how we got here, and where we can go – both as individuals and as members of larger political communities. Subfield(s): Political Theory; contemporary political theory; democratic theory; Feminist political thought; feminist and critical pedagogy; Politics of popular culture; Foucaultian genealogy; Deweyan pragmatism; History and philosophy of American political science Dissertation: "The Sights That Hold the Crowd": Political Science and the Politics of Popular Culture (ProQuest) Committee: Farr, James Fulton (Chair); Dietz, Mary Golden; Koopman, Colin (Oregon) Current: Professor of the Practice of Political Science and Women's and Gender Studies, Wheaton College (Massachusetts) Placement: Visiting Assistant Professor, Wheaton College (Massachusetts), Department of Political Science and Women and Gender Studies | 2015 | Wheaton College (Massachusetts) Professor of the Practice of Political Science and Women's and Gender Studies | Political Theory | D | |
| Institutional Website | LinkedIn Biography: Elise Dufief is a research fellow in the Sustainable Development Governance Programme. She works on various development-related topics such as the governance of sustainable development, the implementation of sustainable development goals, as well as financing for development issues with a focus on the role of development banks. Elise holds a PhD in political science with a focus on contemporary Africa from the EHESS and Northwestern University. Her work focused on the relations between Ethiopia and international donors such as the EU in the context of governance activities and election monitoring. Before joining IDDRI, Elise worked at the French Ministry for Europe and Foreign Affairs on EU development policy (in the context of the negotiations of the EU development work for 2021-2027 and the post-Cotonou agreement) as well as in Mali on governance issues. Previously, she was also the Research and Monitoring Manager on aid transparency programmes in a London-based NGO. Subfield(s): International Relations, Comparative Politics; African politics and economic development (focus on the Sahel, the Horn of Africa and West Africa), Development Assistance Sustainable growth Sustainable development International cooperation European Union Development economy Democracy Sub-Saharan Africa Electoral sociology Project evaluation Ethiopia Mali Open data Transparency Dissertation: The Politics of Election Monitoring: The Case of Ethiopia and the EU (ProQuest) Committee: Reno, William S. (Chair); Ficquet, Eloi (École des hautes études en sciences sociales); Hurd, Ian F.; Quantin, Patrick (Fondation nationale des sciences politiques); Riedl, Rachel B. Current: Research Fellow, Financing Sustainable Development, IDDRI Placement: Project Officer, Transparency International | 2014 | IDDRI Research Fellow, Financing Sustainable Development | Comparative Politics, International Relations | D | |
| Professional Website | Google Scholar | Twitter: @gusduncan Biography: Gustavo R. Duncan Cruz is Professor in the School of Finance, Economics, and Government at Universidad EAFIT (Medellin). Previously, Duncan was an Assistant Professor at the University of Los Andes (Universidad de Los Andes) (Bogota) and Visiting Professor at EAFIT University. He has been a columnist with El País, a newspaper based in Cali, Colombia. Duncan has acted as a consultant in a large number of projects for various bodies and institutions. Among his most notable assignments are: Consultant for the Human Development Report for Bogota, the Families in Action presidential program in Colombia, and the National Department of Planning. He has also been a researcher with the Security and Democracy Foundation. Duncan is a PhD candidate at Northwestern University in Illinois, United States. He holds a M.Sc. in Global Security from Cranfield University (United Kingdom, 2002-2003), a master’s in Industrial Engineering from the University of Los Andes (1999), an undergraduate degree in Literature from the University of Los Andes (1997), and he did undergraduate studies in Engineering. Subfield(s): Comparative Politics; Mafias, construction of the State, organized crime. Dissertation: Drug Trafficking as Politics: Oligopolies of Coercion in Mexico and Colombia (ProQuest) Committee: Gibson, Edward L. (Chair); Reno, William S. K.; Winters, Jeffrey A. Current: Professor, Universidad EAFIT, Government and Political Sciences Placement: Assistant Professor, University of the Andes | 2015 | Universidad EAFIT Professor | Comparative Politics | D | |
| Professional Website | Twitter: @whattheephraim Biography: Laura Ephraim teaches political science at Williams College. In Who Speaks for Nature?, Ephraim reveals the roots of scientific authority in what she calls "world-building politics": the collection of practices through which scientists and citizens collaborate with and struggle against each other to engage natural things and events and to construct a shared yet heterogeneous world. Through innovative readings of some of the most important thinkers of science and politics of the near and distant past, including René Descartes, Thomas Hobbes, Giambattista Vico, and Hannah Arendt, Ephraim argues that the natural sciences are political because they are crucial sites in which the worldly relationships that bind together the human and nonhuman are inherited, augmented, and reconstructed. Subfield(s): Political Theory Dissertation: Recovering the common root of science and politics: Reading Descartes and Hobbes with Vico (ProQuest) Committee: Zerilli, Linda (Chair); Farr, James Fulton; Honig, Bonnie H Current: Professor, Williams College, Political Science Placement: Assistant Professor, Williams College, Political Science | 2010 | Williams College Professor | Political Theory | E | |
| LinkedIn | Twitter: @boje_1984 | Google Scholar Biography: Muhammad Fajar (Ph.D.) is a research fellow at the Institute for Advanced Research (IFAR), the Atma Jaya Catholic University of Indonesia. Fajar's primary interests mainly rest on Indonesian politics, particularly the politics of healthcare and Indonesian subnational politics. Subfield(s): Comparative Politics: Indonesia; Regime transition; Social movements; Student movements Dissertation: The Path to Preemption: The Politics of Indonesian Student Movements During the Regime Transition (1998-99) (Proquest) Committee: Winters, Jeffrey A. (Chair); Pearlman, Wendy R.; Hurst, William J. Current: Research Fellow, Institute for Advanced Research (IFAR), the Atma Jaya Catholic University of Indonesia. Placement: Equality Development and Globalization Studies (EDGS) Visiting Fellow, Buffett Institute for Global Affairs, Northwestern University | 2020 | Institute for Advanced Research (IFAR), the Atma Jaya Catholic University of Indonesia. Research Fellow | Comparative Politics | F | |
| Professional Website | Personal Website | Twitter: @tuliafa | Google Scholar Biography: Tulia Falleti (Ph.D. Political Science, Northwestern University, 2003; B.A. Sociology, University of Buenos Aires, Argentina, 1994) is the Class of 1965 Endowed Term Professor of Political Science, Director of the Latin American and Latinx Studies Program, and Senior Fellow of the Leonard Davis Institute for Health Economics at the University of Pennsylvania. Falleti is the author of Decentralization and Subnational Politics in Latin America (Cambridge University Press, 2010), which earned the Donna Lee Van Cott Award to the best book on political institutions by the Latin American Studies Association; and, with Santiago Cunial, of Participation in Social Policy (Elements in the Politics of Development, Cambridge University Press, 2018). She is co-editor, with Orfeo Fioretos and Adam Sheingate, of The Oxford Handbook of Historical Institutionalism (Oxford University Press, 2016), and with Emilio Parrado of Latin America Since the Left Turn (University of Pennsylvania, 2018), among other co-edited volumes. Her articles on decentralization, federalism, authoritarianism, participation, and qualitative methods have appeared in edited volumes and journals such as the American Political Science Review, Comparative Political Studies, Publius, Qualitative Sociology, Studies in Comparative International Development, and World Politics among others. As Principal Investigator of an interdisciplinary team, Falleti has been awarded a Just Futures $5 million grant from The Mellon Foundation. Collaborating with partners throughout the Americas, the Penn team is researching “Dispossessions in the Americas: The Extraction of Bodies, Land, and Cultural Heritage from La Conquista to the Present.” Among other objectives, Falleti is researching the articulation of indigenous peoples’ demands regarding territorial claims, rights to prior consultation, living well, and plurinationality; and collaborating with two non-governmental health organizations to assess the effectiveness of mobile health care for indigenous women and children in remote rural areas. As of May 2022, Falleti is serving as Tri-Chair of the Penn Faculty Senate. Subfield(s): Comparative Politics; Comparative Politics, Latin American Politics, Democratization, Federalism and Decentralization, Community participation, qualitative research methods, Historical institutionalism Dissertation: Governing governors: Coalitions and sequences of decentralization in Argentina, Colombia, and Mexico (ProQuest) Committee: Gibson, Edward L. (Chair); Schneider, Ben Ross; Thelen, Kathleen A. Current: Class of 1965 Endowed Term Professor of Political Science, University of Pennsylvania, Ronald O. Perelman Center for Political Science and Economics; Director of the Center for Latin American and Latinx Studies; Senior Fellow of the Leonard Davis Institute of Health Economics Placement: Postdoctoral Fellowship, University of Notre Dame, Helen Kellogg Institute for International Studies | 2003 | University of Pennsylvania Class of 1965 Endowed Term Professor of Political Science | Comparative Politics | F | |
| Institutional Website | Professional Website | Twitter: @FergusonLucien | LinkedIn Biography: Lucien Ferguson attained a joint J.D.-Ph.D. degree in Political Science at Northwestern University. Ferguson is a 2023-25 Drinan Scholars Visiting Assistant Professor at Boston College School of Law. Ferguson's research and teaching fall at the intersection of political theory, law, and American politics. Drawing on political theory, American politics, and law, my work brings together African American political thought, jurisprudence, legal and intellectual history, and political economy to explore the development of civil rights in relation to capitalism, racial slavery, colonization and empire, and, especially, caste, in the Atlantic world since the eighteenth century. The unifying aim of this research is to diagnose sources of racial and intersectional injustice—both past and present—and to provide theoretical frameworks for realizing a more just society today. Subfield(s): Political Theory; American Politics; Law and Politics; American political thought, jurisprudence, legal and intellectual history, and political economy Dissertation: The Spirit of Caste: Recasting the History of Civil Rights Committee: Dietz, Mary G. (Chair); Delaney, Erin F. (Law); Gowder, Paul A (Law); Tillery, Alvin Bernard, Jr. Current: Drinan Scholars Visiting Assistant Professor, Boston College, School of Law Placement: Drinan Scholars Visiting Assistant Professor, Boston College, School of Law | 2024 | Boston College, School of Law Drinan Scholars Visiting Assistant Professor | American Politics, Political Theory | F | |
| Professional Website | Personal Website | Twitter: @diegofinchel | LinkedIn | Google Scholar Biography: Diego Finchelstein has a BA in Economics (Magna Cum Laude) and a BA in Sociology (Magna Cum Laude) from the University of Buenos Aires and a Ph.D. in Political Science (Northwestern University). He has taught undergraduate and postgraduate courses at prestigious universities in the country and abroad (including Torcuato Di Tella University, Pontificia Georgetown University-UNSAM, University of Buenos Aires, Javeriana University of Colombia, and Northwestern University-Business Institutions Program). Currently, he teaches undergraduate and postgraduate courses in the areas of strategy and international business at the Business School of the University of San Andrés (Argentina) and is a researcher at CONICET (Argentina). His areas of interest and research are linked to the internationalization of Latin American companies, corporate governance, strategy of large economic groups in Argentina and regulation of public services. Results of these investigations have been presented at numerous conferences in Argentina, Chile, Colombia, Peru, Brazil, Canada, and the United States. He has also published in Argentine and foreign magazines (including Journal of World Business, Economic Development, Economic Reality, Apuntes Magazine, and Dissent). He has also developed research and consultancy work for the IDB and the Argentine government's Secretary of Energy. Subfield(s): Comparative Politics; internationalization of Latin American companies, corporate governance, strategy of large economic groups in Argentina and regulation of public services Dissertation: Governing governors: Coalitions and sequences of decentralization in Argentina, Colombia, and Mexico (ProQuest) Committee: Schneider, Ben Ross (Chair); Mahoney, James L; Perkins, Susan (Management & Organizations) Current: Assistant Professor, Universidad de San Andrés, School of Business Administration Placement: Assistant Professor, Universidad de San Andrés , School of Business Administration | 2010 | Universidad de San Andrés Assistant Professor | Comparative Politics | F | |
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Biography: D.J. Flynn is Assistant Professor of Political Science in the IE School of Politics, Economics & Global Affairs at IE University. He is also affiliated with IE’s Center for the Governance of Change. Before coming to IE, Flynn was a Postdoctoral Fellow with the Program in Quantitative Social Science at Dartmouth College and received his PhD in political science from Northwestern University. His research focuses on misinformation, public opinion, and survey and experimental methodology. Most of his ongoing research uses survey and field experiments to study how misinformation distorts public opinion and undermines public health. Professor Flynn teaches courses on public opinion, political communication, and quantitative methods. He is also the director of capstone research projects for IE’s Master’s degrees in International Development (MID) and International Relations (MIR). Subfield(s): American Politics; Public opinion, quantitative methods Dissertation: Misinformation Effects in Public Opinion and Representation (ProQuest) Committee: Druckman, James N (Chair); Diermeier, Daniel; Page, Benjamin I Current: Assistant Professor, IE University, Madrid Placement: Postdoctoral Fellow, Dartmouth College, Program in Quantitative Social Science | 2016 | IE University Assistant Professor | American Politics | F | |
| Institutional Website | Professional Website | Twitter: @seejenspeak | LinkedIn | Google Scholar Biography: Professor Forestal’s research and teaching interests are in the area of political theory. Her research focuses on questions of social media platform design and governance, digital culture, and democratic theory. She has published a book, Designing for Democracy: How to Build Community in Digital Environments (Oxford, 2022), on the role of design in building more democratic social media platforms, and her work has appeared in outlets like the American Political Science Review, Journal of Politics, Hypatia, and The Washington Post. Subfield(s): Political Theory; social media platform design and governance, digital culture, and democratic theory; Communication and the arts; Applied sciences; American culture; Architecture; Arendt, Hannah; Dewey, John Dissertation: Bringing the Site Back In: Social Media and the Politics of Space (ProQuest) Committee: Farr, James Fulton (Chair); Dietz, Mary Golden; Page, Benjamin I Current: Helen Houlahan Rigali Assistant Professor, Loyola University Chicago, Political Science, Theory Placement: Assistant Professor, Stockton University, Political Science | 2015 | Loyola University Chicago Helen Houlahan Rigali Assistant Professor | Political Theory | F | |
| Institutional Website | Professional Website | Twitter: @josh_free | Google Scholar Biography: Joshua Freedman is an assistant professor of politics at Oberlin College, where he teaches courses on global politics, international law, international security, and the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. He also teaches an advanced seminar on genocide and international criminal law.vFreedman’s research interests center around the politics of recognition, identity, and status in international conflict and diplomacy. Freedman’s book project, The Recognition Dilemma in World Politics, explores the agency that so often lurks behind these struggles, motivating the question of why recognition, and its perceived absence, is so often made to matter. Substantively, his research draws on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, the Armenian-Turkish genocide dispute, Brexit, and China’s rise. Subfield(s): International Relations; global politics, international law, international security, and the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, politics of recognition, identity, and status in international conflict and diplomacy Dissertation: Bringing the Site Back In: Social Media and the Politics of Space (Ebscohost) Committee: Hurd, Ian F (Chair); Alter-Hanson, Karen; Hurd, Elizabeth S Current: Assistant Professor, Oberlin College, Politics Placement: Visiting Assistant Professor, Oberlin College, Politics | 2019 | Oberlin College Assistant Professor | International Relations | F | |
| Professional Website | Personal Website | Twitter: @valeriefreeland | Academia.edu | LinkedIn Biography: Valerie Freeland is a Policy Analyst with the Government of Manitoba. Previously, Freeland was a researcher, professor, and tutor with Athabasca University's Department of Political Science. In 2020-21, Freeland was a Visiting Assistant Professor in the University of British Columbia - Okanagan's Department of Philosophy, Politics and Economics. Freeland has taught and researched at Simon Fraser University (Vancouver, BC), Loyola University (Chicago, IL), and Wheaton College (Wheaton, IL). Subfield(s): International Relations, Comparative Politics; Domestic policies; International norms; self-defeating behavior; autonomy; international attention; patronage; norms Dissertation: Unconventional Power: Less Powerful States' Strategic Use of International Norms (ProQuest) Committee: Reno, William S (Chair); Hurd, Ian F; Mahoney, James L Current: Policy Analyst, Government of Manitoba Placement: Adjunct Professor, Wheaton College | 2015 | Government of Manitoba Policy Analyst | International Relations | F | |
| Institutional Website | Google Scholar | LinkedIn Biography: Carlos Freytes is Director Area de Recursos Naturales at Fundación para el Desarrollo Argentino (Fundar). He attained a Ph.D. Political Science from Northwestern University and Master in Political Science and Sociology from FLACSO-Buenos Aires. His area of specialization is comparative political economy, federalism, the economic determinants of electoral behavior, and the methodology of social research. His work focuses on the distributional conflicts around the regulation of extractive activities and export agriculture, and on the intersection between electoral politics and the politics of interest representation. In his doctoral thesis, he studied how federalism affects the political representation of the agro-export sector in Argentina and Brazil. This work was funded by the Roberta Buffett Center for International and Comparative Studies at Northwestern University, the Social Science Research Council and the MinCyT-Capes exchange program of the governments of Argentina and Brazil. He has been a visiting graduate professor at the Catholic University of Córdoba, the University of Bologna-Buenos Aires Headquarters and is currently a professor of Latin American Politics at the Institute of the Foreign Service of the Nation (ISEN). He is a regular adjunct professor at Torcuato Di Tella University and an adjunct professor at Hurlingham National University. Subfield(s): Comparative Politics; Public policy; Latin American studies; Agricultural policy; Argentina; Brazil; Legislative politics; Soy production; Taxation Dissertation: The Cerrado Is Not the Pampas: Explaining Tax and Regulatory Policies on Agricultural Exports in Argentina and Brazil (2003-2013) (ProQuest) Committee: Schneider, Ben Ross (Chair); Gibson, Edward L. (Co-Chair); Mahoney, James L.; Prasad, Monica Current: Director, Area de Recursos Naturales, Fundación para el Desarrollo Argentino (Fundar) Placement: Professor, Universidad Torcuato di Tella, Buenos Aires, Departamento de Ciencia Política y Relaciones Internacionales. | 2015 | Fundación para el Desarrollo Argentino (Fundar) Director, Area de Recursos Naturales | Comparative Politics | F | |
| Institutional Website | Professional Website | Twitter: @daragaines_ | LinkedIn Biography: Dr. Dara Gaines is a problem solver who wields the double-edged skills of analytic rigor and community integration with a genuine appreciation for connection. She grew up down a red dirt road, dreaming of making a difference. Today, she’s the first to tell you that she’s as comfortable behind a podium as she is at a rodeo or a trail ride! Dara’s rural upbringing and extensive academic training give her unique insights that boost her ability to connect with people from various social and cultural backgrounds. Her life has twisted, turned, and bent around itself since she left that dirt road. Dara graduated from the University of Arkansas in 2017 with a combined B.A. in Political Science and African & African American Studies. From there, she was accepted into Northwestern University’s Political Science Graduate program where she earned both a Master’s (‘19) and a Ph.D. (‘23). While enrolled in college, Dara studied the origins and underpinnings of the significant disconnect between communities and the policymakers who serve them, always wondering, “if people don’t vote, who holds government officials accountable?”. Her research explores how rural African Americans experience political incorporation in the South and asks how access to economic, social, and political capital shapes their political perceptions. She leverages her years in the academy and political field experience in her many roles including research manager, mobilization strategist, and business owner. A detail-oriented investigator, she excels at translating policy and empirics for general and specified audiences. She's most interested in engaging, educating, and empowering voters through innovative integrated methods. Dara's system works because she doesn't assume what people care about. Instead, she prioritizes listening, providing context, and empowering people where they are. This method builds stronger connections and makes lasting changes in perceptions of politics and personal power. Subfield(s): Political science; African American studies; Blacks; Engagement; Mobilization; Politics; Rural; Voters Dissertation: Dirt Road Democracy: How Political Context Shapes Rural Black Mobilization (ProQuest) Committee: Rogers, Reuel R. (Chair); Tillery, Alvin B. (Co-Chair); Thurston, Chloe N.; Bonilla, Tabitha; Franklin, Sekou (Middle Tennessee State University) Current: Founder & CEO, D. Gaines Consulting, LLC Placement: Founder & CEO, D. Gaines Consulting, LLC | 2023 | D. Gaines Consulting, LLC Founder & CEO | American Politics | G | |
| Institutional Website | Professional Website | Twitter: @LauraGarciaMo | Google Scholar Biography: Laura Garcia-Montoya is an Assistant Professor at the Munk School of Global Affairs & Public Policy. Prior to joining the Munk School, she was an Assistant Professor of Political Science at the Universidad del Rosario (Bogotá, Colombia). She was a Visiting Fellow at the Kellogg Institute for International Affairs at the University of Notre Dame and a Postdoctoral Researcher in The Mamdouha S. Bobst Center for Peace and Justice and the Politics Department at Princeton University. She received her Ph.D. from the Department of Political Science at Northwestern University, where she also completed an M.S. in Statistics. She has also completed M.A. and B.A. degrees in Economics from the University of Los Andes in Colombia. Dr. Montoya-Garcia’s research interests are in comparative politics and research methodologies. She investigates the political economy of inequality and development in Latin America and its relationship with violence. Her interests in research methods are in the study of causal inference and measurement frameworks. Her work has been published or is forthcoming in the American Political Science Review and Sociological Methods and Research. Currently, she is writing a book entitled, Trapped by Inequality: The Politics of Redistribution in Latin America, in which she identifies the causes of economic inequality traps -— i.e., high and persistent levels of economic inequality — in the region and explains why and how some countries manage to escape such traps and embark on paths of diminishing inequality. Subfield(s): Comparative Politics, Methods; the political economy of inequality and development in Latin America and its relationship with violence Dissertation: The Cerrado Is Not the Pampas: Explaining Tax and Regulatory Policies on Agricultural Exports in Argentina and Brazil (2003-2013) (ProQuest) Committee: Mahoney, James L (Chair); Arjona, Ana Maria; Seawright, Jason W. Current: Assistant Professor, the Munk School of Global Affairs & Public Policy, University of Toronto Placement: Postdoctoral Research Associate, Princeton University, Mamdouha S. Bobst Center for Peace and Justice and the Department of Politics | 2020 | University of Toronto, Munk School Assistant Professor of Global Affairs and Public Policy | Comparative Politics | G | |
| Subfield(s): Comparative Politics; Agenda setting; Foreign aid; Germany; Social movement Dissertation: Swaying the powerful: Social movement agenda-setting at the federal and state levels in Germany (ProQuest) Committee: Janda, Kenneth (Chair) Current: Part-Time Faculty, Parkland College, Political Science | 1999 | Parkland College Part-Time Faculty | Comparative Politics | G | |
| Professional Website | Academia.edu | LinkedIn Biography: As a consultant Dr. Sylvia Gaylord provides first-class qualitative and quantitative research for government agencies and private organizations seeking to better understand policy outcomes, market conditions, and political and regulatory contexts. Sylvia has Ph.D. in Political Science from Northwestern University and a B.A.-M.A. in International Relations from Johns Hopkins University. For eight years she was a faculty member at the Colorado School of Mines in Golden, CO where she taught Government & Politics, Latin American Development, and Quantitative Methods for the Social Sciences. Prior to her career in academia, Sylvia worked in the energy field pursuing power development projects in Latin America. Her experience in the energy sector includes market research and project due diligence, expertise in regulatory and investment regimes, government and utility relations, and relations with local project teams. Subfield(s): Comparative Politics; Research; data analysis; impact assessment; public policy; regulation; energy policy; Latin America Dissertation: The devil is in the details: Delegation and the content of legislation in Brazil (ProQuest) Committee: Schneider, Ben Ross (Chair); Gibson, Edward L; Sean Gailmard Current: Consultant, Codex Consulting LLC Placement: Assistant Professor, Colorado School of Mines, Division of Liberal Arts and International Studies | 2006 | Codex Consulting LLC Consultant | Comparative Politics | G | |
| Professional Website | Personal Website | Twitter: @mneesha_gellman | Google Scholar | LinkedIn Biography: Mneesha Gellman is Associate Professor of Political Science in the Institute for Liberal Arts and Interdisciplinary Studies, at Emerson College, Boston, USA. Gellman's research interests include comparative democratization, cultural resilience, memory and violence politics, and education policy in the Global South and the United States. Gellman's second monograph, Indigenous Language Politics in the Schoolroom: Cultural Survival in Mexico and the United States, looks at how heritage language learning operates in high schools as a tool for young people to resist culturecide—the intentional killing of culture. She uses collaborative methodology to work with Indigenous community stakeholders in far Northern California and southern Mexico to document, via interviews, focus groups, surveys, and observations, the impact of culturally conscious curricula in formal education. Gellman's first monograph, Democratization and Memories of Violence: Ethnic Minority Social Movements in Mexico, Turkey, and El Salvador (Routledge 2017) examines how some communities use memories of violence in mobilizations for cultural rights, particularly the right to mother tongue or heritage tongue education. Gellman is also the founder and Director of the Emerson Prison Initiative (EPI), which makes college available to incarcerated students at Massachusetts Correctional Institution (MCI) at Concord, a men's medium security prison. Gellman works with the Massachusetts Department of Correction, Emerson College, and other partners to bring an Emerson College Bachelor of Arts in Media, Literature, and Culture to incarcerated students. She is the editor of Education Behind the Wall: Why and How We Teach in Prison (Brandeis University Press 2022) and co-editor of Unlocking Potential: Education in Prison Around the World (Brandeis University Press 2024, forthcoming). Subfield(s): Comparative Politics; Democratization; El salvador; Memory; Mexico; Mobilization; Turkey Dissertation: Claiming Culture: Ethnic Minority Rights Mobilizations in Mexico, Turkey, and El Salvador (ProQuest) Committee: Gibson, Edward L. (Chair); Mahoney, James L.; Reno, William S. Current: Associate Professor, Emerson College, Political Science Placement: Visiting Lecturer, University of Sierra Leone, Fourah Bay College | 2013 | Emerson College Associate Professor and Director, Emerson Prison Initiative | Comparative Politics | G | |
| Institutional Website | Twitter: @gemrecek | Academia.edu Biography: Salih Emre Gercek joined the University of Connecticut in Fall 2020 after completing his Ph.D. at Northwestern University. His research and teaching interests are in the history of political thought and democratic theory, with a particular attention to themes of equality, participation, and political economy. His other line of research engages with efforts to rethink democracy and collectivity in continental political thought. His work has appeared in European Journal of Political Theory and The Review of Politics. He is currently working on a book project that explores how the modern idea of democracy emerged and evolved in nineteenth-century European thought against the background of the “social question” – i.e. the debates over the problems of social disintegration, poverty, and class conflict. More specifically, through an investigation of the thought of Alexis de Tocqueville, John Stuart Mill, Louis Blanc, and Jeanne Deroin this project recovers how democratic egalitarianism and participation were seen as ways of repairing social bonds, improving the conditions of the working classes, and promoting the common good. Subfield(s): Political Theory; the history of political thought and democratic theory, equality, participation, and political economy. Dissertation: Claiming Culture: Ethnic Minority Rights Mobilizations in Mexico, Turkey, and El Salvador (ProQuest) Committee: Dietz, Mary Golden (Chair); Farr, James Fulton; Lafont, Cristina; Spruyt, Hendrik Current: Assistant Professor, University of Connecticut, Department of Political Science Placement: Visiting Assistant Professor, University of Connecticut, Department of Political Science | 2020 | University of Connecticut Assistant Professor | Political Theory | G | |
| Institutional Website | Professional Website | LinkedIn | Academia.edu Biography: Gina Giliberti is the Director of Speaker Events at World Affairs Council of Philadelphia, the region’s largest and oldest international affairs nonprofit with a combined 130 years of expertise in connecting Philadelphia to the world. Giliberti's dissertation examines the politics of religious emotion in the context of British colonial governance in India, contemporary global de-radicalization initiatives, and international and comparative law. My research involves US, European, Middle East, and South Asian regions. Giliberti's research agenda is shaped by two goals: first, to examine how shifting conceptualizations of religious emotion and affect inform religious freedom and blasphemy legislation; and, the dilemmas faced by subjects and communities situated at the margins of these definitions in their pursuit of legal protection and political recognition. Subfield(s): International Relations, Political Theory; Affect; Emotion; Human rights; International law; Religion Dissertation: Religious Passions in International Politics (Proquest) Committee: Shakman Hurd, Elizabeth (Chair); Dietz, Mary G.; Ingram, Brannon (Religious Studies) Current: Director of Speaker Events, World Affairs Council of Philadelphia Placement: Director of Speaker Events, World Affairs Council of Philadelphia | 2022 | World Affairs Council of Philadelphia Director of Speaker Events | International Relations, Political Theory | G | |
| Professional Website | Personal Website | Twitter: @Mauro_Gilli | Google Scholar | LinkedIn Biography: Mauro Gilli is a Senior Researcher in Military Technology and International Security at the Center for Security Studies of ETH-Zurich (Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Zurich) where he does research on military technology, operations and strategy; weapons acquisition and defense policy; weapons development and industrial espionage; innovation, creativity and organizational culture; as well as technological change and technology strategy. Gilli has a B.A. in Political Science from the University of Turin (summa cum laude), an M.A. in International Relations and International Economics from Johns Hopkins University's Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS), and a Ph.D. in Political Science from Northwestern University. In 2015-2016, Gilli was a Post-Doctoral Fellow at the John Sloan Dickey Center for International Understanding of Dartmouth College. Subfield(s): International Relations; American power; Arm races; Balance of power; Diffusion; Military technology; Unipolarity Dissertation: The Struggle For Military-Technological Superiority Complexity, Systems Integration and the Industrial Challenges of Imitation (ProQuest) Committee: Sartori, Anne Elizabeth (Chair); Caverley, Jonathan D. (US Naval War College); Nelson, Stephen C; Spruyt, Hendrik Current: Senior Researcher, ETH Zurich, Center for Security Studies, Military Technology and International Security Placement: Post-Doctoral Fellow, Dartmouth College, Dickey Center | 2015 | ETH Zurich Senior Researcher | International Relations | G | |
| Biography: Doug Gills, 69, associate professor emeritus of urban planning and policy, died March 31 in Goldsboro, North Carolina. Gills joined the UIC faculty in 1994 as assistant professor of urban planning and policy and was promoted to associate professor in 2002. He retired in 2012. During his career, he taught a variety of courses, including professional planning practice; cultural heritage tourism; race and class issues in planning; history and theory in planning; community development; and urban space, place and institutions. He also teamed with colleagues and others to co-teach courses covering topics involving Chicago, politics, race, planning and social movements. Subfield(s): American Politics; Black politics; urban politics; Minority & ethnic groups; Professional Planning Practice, Cultural Heritage Tourism, Race and Class Issues in Planning, History and Theory in Planning, Community Development, and Urban Space, Place and Institutions Dissertation: Theory and Action in Studies of Urban Black Political Movements: Dynamics of Race, Nationality, and Class in the Case of the Task Force for Black Political Empowerment, 1982-1983 (vol 1 & 2) (ProQuest) Committee: Friesema, H. Paul (Chair); Abu-Lughod, Ibrahim; Bailey, Ronald William; Payne, Charles M. (Sociology) Current: Associate Professor Emeritus, University of Illinois at Chicago, Department of Urban Planning and Policy Placement: Assistant Professor, University of Illinois at Chicago, Department of Urban Planning and Policy | 1994 | University of Illinois at Chicago Associate Professor Emeritus | American Politics | G | |
| Professional Website | Personal Website | Twitter: @rkgwork | LinkedIn Biography: Rebecca Kolins Givan is an associate professor of Labor Studies and Employment Relations in the School of Management and Labor Relations at Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey. She has published widely on employment relations in health care, comparative welfare states and labor studies in journals such as Social Forces, ILR Review, and British Journal of Industrial Relations. Her recent book The Challenge to Change: Reforming Health Care on the Front Line in the United States and the United Kingdom was published in 2016 by Cornell University Press. Subfield(s): American Politics; employment relations in health care, comparative welfare states and labor studies Dissertation: Hard labor: Employees and healthcare reform in the United Kingdom, 1997–2004 (Ebscohost) Committee: Loriaux, Michael M (Chair); Hanchard, Michael G; Thelen, Kathy A; Jenkins, Jeffery Current: Associate Professor, Rutgers University, Department of Labor Studies and Employment Relations Placement: Researcher, London School of Economics and Political Science, Centre for Economic Performance | 2004 | Rutgers University Associate Professor | American Politics, Comparative Politics | G | |
| Professional Website | Personal Website | Twitter: @JF_Godbout Biography: Jean-François Godbout is a full professor in the department of political science at the Université de Montréal and director of the microprogram in big data analysis in the humanities and social sciences at the Faculty of Arts and Sciences. His research focuses on the different applications of machine learning and artificial intelligence in political science. His publications include the book Lost on Division: Party Unity in the Canadian Parliament and several other articles on parliamentarism and political parties. Subfield(s): American Politics; Comparative Politics, Elections, Parliaments, Europe, United States; Comparative government; artificial intelligence; Parliamentarism; Political Parties; Elections; Quebec politics, Canadian politics; American politics Dissertation: Congress, representation, and participation: The influence of voter turnout on legislative behavior in the House of Representatives (ProQuest) Committee: Chong, Dennis (Chair); Canes-Wrone, Brandice; Diermeier, Daniel A.; Jenkins, Jeffery A. Current: Full Professor, Université de Montréal, Department of Political Science Placement: Research Fellow, Duke University, Political Institutions and Public Choice Program | 2007 | Université de Montréal Professor | American Politics, Comparative Politics | G | |
| Insitutitional Website | Google Schloar | Twitter: @pgoff1 Biography: Patricia Goff is a Professor of Political Science at Wilfrid Laurier University. Goff received a PhD in Political Science from Northwestern University in 1999. Goff also holds a Diplôme d’études approfondies in Comparative Politics from the University of Paris, and a Master of Arts degree in French Literature from McMaster University. Prior to joining Laurier, Goff taught in the Political Science Department at the University of Utah (2000-2003). Goff has held visiting positions at School of International Relations at the University of Southern California and at the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies in Geneva. Goff is interested in international political economy, international relations theory, and international organizations. Within international political economy, Goff focuses on the politics of trade. Conceptually, I research the intersection of cultural claims with the economic mandates of governments and international organizations. How does the World Trade Organization accommodate concerns about culture industries? How do concerns about gender or the environment find expression in trade agreements? How do international organizations whose mandates overlap interact with each other? Related to this larger research program, I have an interest in cultural diplomacy. Subfield(s): International Relations; international political economy, international relations theory, and international organizations; the politics of trade Dissertation: Invisible Borders: Economic Liberalization and National Identity (Proquest) Committee: Loriaux, Michael (Chair); Cumings, Bruce; Schwoch, Jim Current: Professor of Political Science at Wilfrid Laurier University Placement: Visiting Assistant Professor, DePaul University | 1998 | Wilfrid Laurier University Professor of Political Science | International Relations | G | |
| Institutional Website | Professional Website Biography: Jael Goldsmith Weil is a researcher at the Center for the Study of Regional Development and Public Policy (CEDER) at the University of Los Lagos, lead researcher for the FONDECYT N 3140116 project. PhD in Political Science from Northwestern University, has published articles in the Bulletin of Latin American Research (BLAR) and Historia Magazine and is currently dedicated to researching the interaction between food regimes and public policies. Subfield(s): Comparative Politics; comparative politics, welfare regimes, public policies, food policies, comparative-historical analysis, and research methods Dissertation: Striving for Services: Citizen-State Relations in Chile's Changing Economic, Political and Welfare Regimes, 1954-2010 (ProQuest) Committee: Mahoney, James L (Chair); Gibson, Edward L.; Roberts, Andrew L. Current: Associate Professor, Universidad de Los Lagos, Center for the Study of Regional Development and Public Policy (CEDER) Placement: Post-Doctoral Researcher, Fondo Nacional de Desarrollo Cientifico y Tecnologico, CISPO | 2013 | Universidad de Los Lagos Associate Professor | Comparative Politics | G | |
| Biography: Miklos Gosztonyi has a doctorate in political science. He specializes in East Africa. His main areas of research include peace processes, post-conflict reconstruction and humanitarian aid. He has worked for Norwegian Refugee Council and The Carter Center in Sudan and South Sudan. Miklos Gosztonyi is currently in charge of methodological monitoring of distance students at IRIS. Subfield(s): International Relations; African Studies; Military studies; Historicity; Institutional layering; Organizational structure; Post-Conflict; South Sudan; Statebuilding; Sudan People’s Liberation Movement/Army Dissertation: Post-Conflict Statebuilding in South Sudan (2005-2013) Institutional Layering, SPLM/A Organizational Structure, and the Historicity of the South Sudanese State (ProQuest) Committee: Reno, William S (Chair); Riedl, Rachel B.; Roberts, Andrew L. Current: Distance Learning Manager, Institut de Relations Internationales et Strategiques (IRIS) Placement: Conflict Analyst, South Sudan, Norwegian Refugee Council | 2016 | Institut de Relations Internationales et Strategiques (IRIS) Distance Learning Manager | Comparative Politics, International Relations | G | |
| Professional Website | Personal Website | Twitter: @scottlgreer | Google Scholar | LinkedIn Biography: Scott L. Greer, Ph.D, a political scientist, is Professor of Health Management and Policy, Global Public Health, and Political Science (by courtesy) at the University of Michigan and is also Senior Expert Advisor on Health Governance for the European Observatory on Health Systems and Policies. He researches the politics of health policies, with a special focus on the politics and policies of the European Union the politics of public health, and the impact of federalism on health care. Before coming to Michigan, he taught at University College London. He has published over a hundred book chapters and articles in journals including the Lancet, British Medical Journal, Milbank Quarterly, American Journal of Public Health, Social Science and Medicine, Journal of European Public Policy, Journal of European Social Policy, and Journal of Health Politics, Policy and Law. Subfield(s): Comparative Politics; Development of European Union health policy and multi-level health policymaking in the UK; health politics in Britain, Spain, and Canada; comparative politics of Spain, France, Germany and the United Kingdom Dissertation: Self-government: The politics of regional autonomy in Scotland and Catalonia (ProQuest) Committee: Thelen, Kathy A (Chair) Current: Professor, University of Michigan, Health Management and Policy Professor, Global Public Health Professor (by courtesy), Political Science Placement: Lecturer, University College London, School of Public Policy and the Constitution Unit | 2003 | University of Michigan Professor | Comparative Politics | G | |
| Professional Website | Twitter: @SamGubitz | LinkedIn Biography: Samuel 'S.R.' Gubitz is an Upper School History Teacher at Kent Denver School. Gubitz received his PhD in Political Science at Northwestern University. Gubitz's fields of study are American politics and political communication. While I am no longer primarily a researcher, my research to date and forthcoming centers media effects, political incivility, and Black politics. More generally, Gubitz's research focuses on the ways in which ordinary Americans are affected by the media they consume, and how social norms within different groups interact with political outcomes. But, nowadays, his focus is primarily on teaching. Subfield(s): American Politics; Media effects, Political incivility, Political communication Dissertation: Political Incivility Is a Feature, Not a Bug: Why Mediated Incivility Is Not Bad for Democracy (Ebscohost) Committee: Druckman, James N (Chair); McGrath, Mary C.; Rogers, Reuel R Current: History Teacher, Kent Denver School, Upper School Placement: History Teacher, Kent Denver School, Upper School | 2021 | Kent Denver School History Teacher | American Politics | G | |
| Personal Website | Academia.edu | LinkedIn Biography: Dr. Arda Güçler obtained his B.A. in Political Science from Bates College and completed his Ph.D. degree in the Department of Political Science at Northwestern University in 2015. He then joined the Department of Government at Uppsala University in Sweden as a postdoctoral fellow. He remained in this position until he started his assistant professorship at the Department of International Relations at Özyeğin University in 2017. He is currently adjunct social research and public policy professor in the Division of Social Science at New York University Abu Dhabi (NYUAD). He is also one of the founding faculty of Northwestern University’s online Global Health Master’s program. His research interests are at the intersection of the history of political thought, politics of representation, contemporary democratic theory, and nationalism. He is currently working on a project that interprets the concept of orientalism from a novel angle by visiting politics in three different contexts (i.e., Iran, Egypt, and Turkey). He has published articles in leading journals such as Philosophy & Social Criticism and Nations and Nationalism. He is also the author of numerous book chapters, including his chapters in the United Nation’s Encyclopedia of the UN Sustainable Development Goals. Subfield(s): Political Theory; Politics of Representation, Democratic Theory, Continental Philosophy; Political Representation; Orientalism; Nationalism Dissertation: Untimely Representation: Deliberation, Urgency, and Democratic Theory Committee: Toender, Lars (Chair); Honig, Bonnie H; Stevens, Jacqueline Current: Adjunct Professor of Social Research and Public Policy, New York University Abu Dhabi Placement: Instructor, Northwestern University, Center for Global Health | 2015 | New York University Abu Dhabi Adjunct Professor of Social Research and Public Policy | Political Theory | G | |
| Personal Website | Twitter: @guerzovich | Academia.edu | LinkedIn Biography: Florencia Guerzovich is an independent consultant and has worked for The World Bank, Open Society Foundations, Ford Foundation, among other organizations. She has been innovating, connecting, researching, and problem solving for big, complex governance problems since 2000, when she joined the Department of Transparency Policies of the Argentinean Anti-corruption Office. Florencia also served the Transparency and Accountability Initiative's Program Officer, Impact and Learning. Florencia earned her PhD in political science from Northwestern University. Florencia also has a Master’s degree in International Relations from FLACSO/Argentina and a Bachelor’s of Arts in International Studies from Universidad Torcuato di Tella in Argentina. Subfield(s): International Relations; International Law; Accountability; Anticorruption; Argentina; Conflicts of interests in government; Control of corruption and good governance; Council of Europe; Czech Republic; Democracy - Argentina; European Union; Institutional development - Czech Republic; International institutions and law - European Union; Organization of American States; Transnational politics; World Bank Dissertation: Untimely Representation: Deliberation, Urgency, and Democratic Theory (ProQuest) Committee: Alter, Karen J. (Chair); Gibson, Edward L.; Mahoney, James L. Current: Senior Consultant, Open Government Partnership Placement: Program Officer, Impact and Learning, Transparency and Accountability Initiative | 2010 | Transparency and Accountability Initiative Program Officer, Impact and Learning | International Relations | G | |
| Professional Website | LinkedIn | Twitter: @ZapOverwhelm | Academia.edu Biography: Dr. Lisa Hale is the founder and lead coach, facilitator and lead consultant at Focused Leadership Consulting. She is passionate about helping visionary people bring about their dreams. Specializing in building leadership capacity, Dr. Hale is a sought after trusted advisor and coach for senior leaders, successful entrepreneurs, and leadership teams. For more than two decades, her focus has been to help leaders re-write the operating system that underpins the most ineffective aspects of their leadership presence and culture to a new, more effective operating system. The results are clarity, alignment and tremendous innovation and focus that show up daily in the results they and their teams achieve. Subfield(s): Comparative Politics; Capitalist transition; Government; Labor movements; Opposition; Poland; Privatization; Socioeconomic policy; Solidarity; Union; Political Economy, International Relations, Government, Communism and Eastern Europe; Nonproliferation Dissertation: Poland's Right Turn: Solidarity as Opposition, Government and Union in the Capitalist Transition Committee: Thelen, Kathleen A.; Swenson, Peter A.; Munro, William; Ost, David (Hobart and William Smith Colleges); Bunce, Valerie; Comisso, Ellen (UC San Diego) Current: President, Focused Leadership Consulting, LLC Placement: Technical Staff Member, Los Alamos National Laboratory | 1999 | Focused Leadership Consulting, LLC President | Comparative Politics | H | |
| Institutional Website | Professional Website | Twitter: @sidrahamidi | Academia.edu Biography: Sidra Hamidi’s research and teaching interests are in international law, global governance, and nuclear politics. She was previously a Stanton Nuclear Security Postdoctoral Fellow at the Center for International Security and Cooperation at Stanford University and previously taught at Eckerd College and Stetson University in Florida. Her book, After Fission: Recognition and Contestation in the Atomic Age, is forthcoming with Cambridge University Press and explores the politics of recognition in the nuclear programs of Israel, India, and Iran. Her classes focus on key ethical, legal, and governance challenges in world politics and analyze enduring questions—What are the origins of the modern international system? Why do states go to war? Does international law constrain state behavior? —among many others. Her courses also explore specific themes such as the interactions between technological change and political institutions with a specific focus on the physical, political, and normative changes brought on by the introduction of nuclear technology. Her pedagogy is focused on teaching students how to think, not what to think. Subfield(s): International Relations; Nuclear Diplomacy, U.S.-Iran Relations, International Security, International Laws Dissertation: The Politics of Nuclearity: Identity Relations in the Global Nuclear Regime (ProQuest) Committee: Hurd, Ian F. (Chair); Ganguly, Sumit (Indiana University); Mahoney, James L.; Page, Benjamin I. Current: Assistant Professor, Trinity College, Department of Political Science Placement: Postdoctoral Fellow, Stanford University, Center for International Security and Cooperation (CISAC) | 2018 | Trinity College Assistant Professor | International Relations | H | |
| Institutional Website | LinkedIn Biography: Fredrick C. Harris is the Class of 1933 Professor of Political Science and former Dean of Faculty in the Social Sciences. He also serves as Director of the Center on African American Politics and Society. Professor Harris’s research interests are primarily in American politics with a focus on race and politics, political participation, social movements, religion and politics, political development, and African-American politics. His publications include Something Within: Religion in African American Political Activism, which was awarded the V.O. Key Book Award by the Southern Political Science Association, the Best Book Award by the Society for the Scientific Study of Religion, and the Best Book Award by the National Conference of Black Political Scientists. Professor Harris's most recent books are The Price of the Ticket: Barack Obama and the Rise and Decline of Black Politics (Oxford University Press, 2012), and, with Robert Lieberman, Beyond Discrimination: Racial Inequality in a Post-Racist Era (Russell Sage Foundation Press, 2013). The Price of the Ticket received the Hurston/Wright Legacy Award for Non-Fiction. His current research explores the history of Black Public Intellectuals and will be published by Oxford University Press under the title Critical Thinkers: A History of the Public Ideas of Black Intellectuals and Activists. Professor Harris is co-editor with Cathy Cohen of the Oxford University Press book series "Transgressing Boundaries: Studies in Black Politics and Black Communities." Subfield(s): American Politics, race and politics, political participation, social movements, religion and politics, political development, and African-American politics Dissertation: Something within: Religion in African American politics (ProQuest) Committee: Mansbridge, Jane J. (Chair); Morris, Aldon (Sociology); Skogan, Wesley; Page, Benjamin I. Current: Dean of Social Science, the Class of 1933 Professor of Political Science, Director of the Center on African American Politics and Society, Columbia University Placement: Assistant Professor, University of Rochester, Department of Political Science | 1994 | Columbia University Dean of Social Science and the Class of 1933 Professor of Political Science | American Politics | H | |
| Institutional Website | Professional Website | Twitter: @brfharrison | LinkedIn Biography: Brian Harrison (PhD Northwestern University) is a political scientist specializing in American politics and public opinion. Brian is currently a lecturer at the University of Minnesota and has served on the faculty at Northwestern University, as a visiting fellow at Yale University, an affiliated scholar at New York University, and a visiting assistant professor at Wesleyan University. Before beginning his academic career, Brian was a White House appointee for the Department of Homeland Security. His research and teaching interests are in American politics, political communication and political behavior, public opinion and attitude change, and LGBT rights. Harrison’s first book, Listen, We Need to Talk: How to Change Attitudes about LGBT Rights, was published by Oxford University Press in 2017 (with co-author Melissa Michelson). It addresses the intersections of sexuality and race, religion, and partisan identities to explain how individual-level identity affects support for LGBT rights. Subfield(s): American Politics; the impact of communication and identity on public opinion, political and social behavior Dissertation: Red Brain, Blue Brain: How Elite Polarization, Partisan Reasoning, and Information Choice Impact Presidential Communication (ProQuest) Committee: Druckman, James N. (Chair); Galvin, Daniel J.; Harbridge-Yong, Laurel; Page, Benjamin I. Current: Lecturer (Adjunct), Humphrey School of Public Affairs, University of Minnesota Placement: Visiting Assistant Professor, Wesleyan University, Government Organization & Management | 2013 | University of Minnesota Lecturer (Adjunct) | American Politics | H | |
| Institutional Website | LinkedIn Biography: Timothy P. Harrison, Ph.D. is the Principal Deputy Director of the Office of Infectious Disease and HIV/AIDS Policy (OIDP), U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS). Tim has provided dedicated leadership during his 19 years of federal service—all of it in OIDP (formerly the Office of HIV/AIDS and Infectious Disease Policy (OHAIDP) and the Office of HIV/AIDS Policy (OHAP)). Dr. Harrison previously served as the Deputy Director for Strategic Initiatives, a Senior Policy Advisor, and an HIV Team Lead in OIDP. In these roles, Tim provided steadfast leadership and support on a range of programs, policies, and activities in response to the U.S. domestic syndemic of HIV, viral hepatitis, and sexually transmitted infections, including the Ending the HIV Epidemic in the U.S. initiative. He has spent a career forging and maintaining critical relationships with staff from dozens of federal agencies and offices inside and outside of HHS, as well as in the public sector. For more than 20 years, Dr. Harrison has worked to advance the concerns of equity in the social safety net and public health spaces. Prior to joining HHS, he worked as a policy analyst in the areas of low-income housing, welfare, and workforce development. Tim was also previously a Visiting Fellow at the University of Rochester’s Government Department and Frederick Douglass Institute and an Adjunct Professor of Government at Georgetown University. He holds an M.A. and a Ph.D. in Political Science from Northwestern University and a B.A. in Political Science from Swarthmore College. Subfield(s): American Politics; Welfare Politics; American history; Social Welfare Dissertation: From gateway to ghetto: The social and political development of public housing policy, 1935-1965 (Proquest) Committee: Binford, Henry (Chair); Friesema, Paul; Skogan, Wesley Current: Principal Deputy Director, the Office of Infectious Disease and HIV/AIDS Policy (OIDP), U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Placement: Adjunct Professor of Government at Georgetown University | 1998 | the Office of Infectious Disease and HIV/AIDS Policy (OIDP), U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Principal Deputy Director | American Politics | H | |
| LinkedIn Subfield(s): Comparative Politics; Latin American studies; Civil-military relations; Democratization; Transitions Dissertation: Marginalization, Accommodation, and Abridgment: New Patterns of Civil-Military Relations in the Southern Cone and Brazil (ProQuest) Committee: Gibson, Edward L. (Chair); Mahoney, James L.; Reno, William S. Current: Academic Advisor, Doctoral Specialist, Walden University Placement: Instructor, St. Louis Park Public Schools | 2014 | Walden University Academic Advisor, Doctoral Specialist | Comparative Politics | H | |
| Professional Website | LinkedIn Biography: Professor Hendrickson is a political scientist who specializes in United States economic relations with West African countries. Her interests include US foreign policy, and international political economy. She is the director of the International Studies program at CSI. Subfield(s): International Relations; United States economic relations with West African countries, US foreign policy, and international political economy; Africa; Hegemony; Investment promotion; Private investment; Sub-Saharan Africa Dissertation: Promoting investment in Africa: Historical transition in the politics of United States hegemony (ProQuest) Committee: Reno, William S (Chair); Loriaux, Michael M.; Deruluguian, Georgi (Sociology) Current: Associate Professor, College of Staten Island, City University of New York, Political Science Placement: Assistant Professor, College of Staten Island, City University of New York, Political Science | 2006 | College of Staten Island, City University of New York Associate Professor | International Relations | H | |
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Subfield(s): American Politics; Chicago; City Council; Illinois; Policymaking; Politics; Public opinion Dissertation: Public Opinion and Policymaking in the Chicago City Council (ProQuest) Committee: Page, Benjamin I (Chair); Rogers, Reuel R (Co-Chair); Galvin, Daniel J; Skogan, Wesley G Current: Quality Research Specialist, Virginia Department of Behavioral Health and Developmental Services Placement: Post-Doctoral Research Associate, Northwestern University, Institute for Policy Research | 2013 | Virginia Department of Behavioral Health and Developmental Services Quality Research Specialist | American Politics | H | |
| Biography: Olivier Henripin (2022 - ) completed his BCL/JD at McGill University's Faculty of Law, where he served as group assistant for Professor Poirier's 2022-2023 Constitutional Law course. Before studying law, Olivier was an assistant professor of political science and holder of the Helen H. Rigali Chair at Loyola University Chicago, where he taught international relations and specialized in international security and Chinese foreign policy. He was previously a postdoctoral fellow at the Elliott School of International Affairs at George Washington University in Washington, D.C., and a visiting scholar at National Chengchi University in Taiwan. He holds a PhD in political science from Northwestern University. In 2024, Olivier will clerk at the Quebec Court of Appeal. Subfield(s): International Relations; Bargaining; China; Indivisibility; Militarized conflict; Nationalism; Territorial disputes Dissertation: Intractable Territorial Conflicts and the Strategic Social Construction of Indivisible National Homelands (ProQuest) Committee: Sartori, Anne Elizabeth (Chair); Caverley, Jonathan D; Shih, Victor C; Spruyt, Hendrik Current: Research Assistant, Peter MacKell Chair in Federalism, Faculty of Law, McGill University Placement: Pre-Doctoral Fellow, George Washington University, Institute for Security and Conflict Studies | 2014 | McGill University Research Assistant, Peter MacKell Chair in Federalism, Faculty of Law | International Relations | H | |
| Institutional Website | LinkedIn Biography: Nick Hockens concentrates his practice on the representation of developers, institutions and non-profit organizations before the New York City Planning Commission, Board of Standards and Appeals, and Landmarks Preservation Commission. He represents clients in a variety of New York land use and zoning matters, including re-zonings, special permits, variances, designations and alterations of landmarked buildings, and air rights transactions. Prior to joining Greenberg Traurig, Nick was an associate at Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison, LLP and represented developers, investors, landlords, tenants and other parties in a wide variety of commercial real estate transactions, including sales and acquisitions, developments, financings and leasings of office, luxury residential, retail and mixed-use properties. Nick has worked in Seattle as an urban planner for the Federal Transit Administration (1996-1999) and the Puget Sound Regional Council of Governments (1994-1996). Dissertation: On the Importance of Privacy for the Public Sphere: The Politics and Metaphor of Self-Authorship (ProQuest) Committee: Mansbridge, Jane J. (Chair); Johnson, James; Strickland, Donald A. Current: Shareholder; Land Use & Real Estate Attorney, Greenberg Traurig, LLP Placement: Urban Planner, the Puget Sound Regional Council of Governments | 1994 | Greenberg Traurig, LLP Shareholder; Land Use & Real Estate Attorney | Political Theory | H | |
| Professional Website | LinkedIn Subfield(s): International Relations; Comparative Politics; Corruption; International judicial assistance; Judicial politics; Transnational networks Dissertation: Judges Without Borders? Transnational Networks of Anti-Corruption Prosecuting Judges in Europe (Ebscohost) Committee: Loriaux, Michael M (Chair); Alter, Karen J.; Reno, William S. Current: University Director, Global Education and Initiatives, Office of Academic Affairs, The City University of New York (CUNY), Global Education and Initiative Placement: Director of Liaison Office New York, UAS7 | 2011 | The City University of New York (CUNY) University Director, Global Education and Initiatives | International Relations, Comparative Politics | H | |
| Subfields: Comparative Politics, Information Technology and Politics, Political Economy, Industrial Policy, Information Society Policies, E‐Government Dissertation: The politics of industrial leapfrogging: The semiconductor industry in Taiwan and South Korea Committee: Stephens, John D.; Loriaux, Michael; Woo-Cumings, Meredith Current: Professor of Public Administration, Department of Public Administration and Public Policy, Kookmin University | 1992 | Kookmin University Professor of Public Administration | Comparative Politics | H | |
| Subfield(s): Latin American history; International relations; financial crises Dissertation: Explaining regime responses to international financial crises in Latin America: An analysis of austerity policies in Argentina, Chile, and Peru, 1968-1986 Committee: Herring, Ronald J. Current: Director, Harris County Department of Education Placement: Assistant Professor, Bates College | 1990 | Harris County Department of Education Director | Comparative Politics | H | |
| Professional Website | Personal Website Biography: Adam Howat is a visiting assistant professor of politics and postdoctoral fellow. His research focuses on the politics of identity and polarization. He is particularly interested in the ways in which people’s perceptions of groups’ characteristics and values impact intergroup political conflict and coalition building. Subfield(s): American Politics; public opinion, political psychology, ideology, and the politics of identit Dissertation: Intractable Territorial Conflicts and the Strategic Social Construction of Indivisible National Homelands (Ebscohost) Committee: Druckman, James N (Chair); Bodenhausen, Galen V.; Merseth Cook, Julianne Lee Current: Visiting Assistant Professo, Oberlin College, Politics Placement: Visiting Assistant Professo, Oberlin College, Politics | 2019 | Oberlin College Visiting Assistant Professor | American Politics | H | |
| Institutional Website | LinkedIn | Mathematica Publications Biography: Sarah Hughes has extensive experience as an international project director and survey expert. She is a leader in research and questionnaire design, managing large-scale surveys using computer-assisted personal interviewing and collecting and analyzing qualitative data in international, particularly developing-country, settings. Her expertise spans high-quality and cost-effective data collection using innovative, cutting-edge approaches in developing countries, business development, and direction of large, complex projects. Hughes joined Mathematica in 2015 from NORC at the University of Chicago, where she directed surveys and evaluations in Africa, Latin America, and the United States for more than a decade. As senior survey director of international projects, she directed international evaluations, conducted data collection and analysis, and designed and managed public policy research projects and surveys for international agencies and governments, foundations, academic organizations, and U.S. entities. Hughes is a member of the American Evaluation Association and the European Survey Research Association and is the author of many professional papers. She holds a Ph.D. in political science from Northwestern University. Subfield(s): International law; International relations; Euro-Mediterranean Partnership; European Union; French; Globalization; Migration; Politics; Trade; International Research; Food and Agriculture; Energy Dissertation: Migration, Trade, and 'Globalization': French Politics and the Euro-Mediterranean Partnership (ProQuest) Committee: Loriaux, Michael M (Chair) Current: Senior Fellow, International Research, Mathematica Policy Research Placement: Visiting Assistant Professor, University of Illinois at Chicago, Political Science | 1999 | Mathematica Policy Research Senior Fellow, International Research | International Relations | H | |
| Twitter: @jessehumpal Biography: Major Jesse R. Humpal Ph.D. is an Active-Duty Air Force officer assigned to Joint Special Operations Command in their Center for Counterterrorism Studies. Major Humpal earned his Ph.D. from Northwestern University in 2021 where he focused on Meta-Rationality, International Security, and Global Norms. Jesse’s research focuses on issues related to contemporary modes of warfare, such as the tactical and operational implications of fighting in urban environments. Is the urban environment simply an extension of a conventional battlespace into a new built environment, or do armed groups integrate urban environments into new ways of fighting? His research provides insights into how new organizational features of armed groups affect how they integrate urban battles into their tactical and ultimately into their strategic repertoires. Subfield(s): International Relations; Comparative Politics; Insurgents, Terrorism, Failed States, Conflict; Africa; Middle East Dissertation: Global Insurgents and the Winning Paradox (Proquest) Committee: Reno, William S (Chair); Spruyt, Hendrik; Blair, David (Georgetown) Current: Active-Duty Major, Joint Special Operations Command, United States Air Force Placement: Assistant Professor of Political Science, United States Air Force Academy | 2021 | United States Air Force Active-Duty Major, Joint Special Operations Command | International Relations, Comparative Politics | H | |
| Professional Website | Twitter: @IbataArens | LinkedIn | Google Scholar Biography: Kathryn Ibata-Arens is Vincent de Paul Professor, DePaul University. Her scholarly work focuses on innovation and entrepreneurship in Asia, science and technology policy, women’s economic empowerment, and inclusive innovation. Ibata-Arens’ recent research explores technology leadership, innovation and entrepreneurial ecosystem development in biomedical industries in Asia. Her book, Beyond Technonationalism: Biomedical Innovation and Entrepreneurship in Asia (Stanford University Press 2019) analyzes national policy and firm level strategy in China, India, Japan, and Singapore. From 2012 to 2013 she served on the METI-State Department Japan-US Innovation and Entrepreneurship Council, and serves on the Board of Directors of the Japan-America Society of Chicago, and as a member of the U.S.-Japan Council. Previous policy analysis, utilizing social network analysis and GIS methodologies, examines emerging life science (biotechnology and medical devices) regions in Japan and the United States. In 2012, Ibata-Arens was a visiting researcher at the Research Center for Economy, Trade and Industry (RIETI, Tokyo), Ritsumeikan University Research Center for Innovation Management (Kyoto) (2011-2012), and as a Fulbright Fellow at Kyoto University (2010). In 2008, Ibata-Arens was a Japan Policy Fellow at the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) in Washington, DC and received a Sloan Foundation Industry Studies Grant for her work on national entrepreneurship and innovation policy. Her dissertation research was conducted at the Research Center for Advanced Science and Technology (RCAST) at the University of Tokyo as a Fulbright Doctoral Fellow. Ibata-Arens’ previous book, Innovation and Entrepreneurship in Japan: Politics, Organizations and High Technology Firms (Cambridge University Press, 2005) analyzes leading high technology firms and regional economies in Kyoto, Osaka and Tokyo. She received a BA in international relations from Loyola University Chicago and a PhD in political economy from Northwestern University. Subfield(s): Comparative Politics; innovation and entrepreneurship in Asia, science and technology policy, women’s economic empowerment, and inclusive innovation in access and benefit sharing of plant genomic resources for medicinals Dissertation: The politics of innovation: High-technology small and medium-sized enterprises in Japan (ProQuest) Committee: Schneider, Ben Ross (Chair); Loriaux, Michael M.; Silberman, Bernard (University of Chicago); Ziemke, Jen Current: Vincent de Paul Professor, DePaul College of Liberal Arts and Social Sciences, Political Science Placement: Postdoctoral Research Fellowship, University of Tokyo, Japan, Research Center for Advanced Science and Technology | 2001 | DePaul College of Liberal Arts and Social Sciences Vincent de Paul Professor | Comparative Politics | I | |
| Institutional Website | Professional Website | Twitter: @naponjatu | LinkedIn | Academia.edu Biography: Napon Jatusripitak is a Visiting Fellow with Thailand Studies Programme at ISEAS - Yusof Ishak Institute. Jatusripitak reads, writes and talks about topics in social science and Southeast Asian politics, using both qualitative and quantitative research methods to produce knowledge and insights about the world, his research is situated at the intersection of democratization, elite politics, patronage and clientelism. More specifically, Jatusripitak is interested in how and why politicians compete for power electorally by delivering money, favors and privileged access to government resources, what gives rise to variation in such practices over time, and with what implications for democracy. Focusing on the case of Thailand, I explore these questions in my dissertation entitled “The Politics of Giving: Patterns and Evolution of Patronage and Electoral Networks in Thailand.” Subfield(s): Comparative Politics; Democratization, elite politics, patronage politics, political clientelism, machine learning, text-as-data. Dissertation: The Politics of Giving: Patterns and Evolution of Patronage and Electoral Networks in Thailand Committee: Winters, Jeffrey (Chair); Mahoney, James; Gans-Morse, Jordan; Hicken, Allen (University of Michigan) Current: Assistant Professor of Political Theory, University of Toronto, Mississauga Placement: Assistant Professor of Political Theory, University of Toronto, Mississauga | 2022 | ISEAS - Yusof Ishak Institute Visiting Fellow, Thailand Studies Programme | Comparative Politics | J | |
| Biography: Currently a faculty member at the United States Air Force Academy in Colorado Springs, Jay brings his political science and security studies background to the study of human and food system security. At the Jahn Research Group, he looks at how internal conflict dynamics in countries with weak institutions influence the food system and shape multi-state food crisis. He also brings his experience and interests in the use of Geo-Spatial data in complex humanitarian emergencies from International Crisis Mappers. Jay holds a Ph.D. in political science from Northwestern University where he did research on how combatant-state relations shape wartime authority structures with case studies in Iraq, Iraqi-Kurdistan, Turkey, and Nepal. Prior to Northwestern, Jay served in the US Army as an Airborne Infantryman in the 82nd Airborne Division during the Iraq War and the Global War on Terrorism. Subfield(s): International Relations; NaN Dissertation: The Politics of Innovation: High -technology small and medium -sized enterprises in Japan (Ebscohost) Committee: Reno, William S (Chair); Reno, William S; Roberts, Andrew L; Ziemke, Jen Current: Assistant Professor, United States Air Force Academy, Department of Military Strategic Studies Placement: Associate Research Scientist (Post-Doc), University of Wisconsin-Madison, Jahn Research Group | 2018 | United States Air Force Academy Assistant Professor | International Relations | J | |
| Institutional Website | Professional Website Biography: Robert comes to TMP from serving as Head Learner at Monte del Sol Charter School for seven years, following five years of teaching Spanish, French, and US Government at Monte. Before Monte, Robert was Chair of Liberal Arts and Interdisciplinary Studies at the College of Santa Fe. Robert earned his Ph.D. at Northwestern University, studying land issues among the Tarahumara Indians and Mestizos of the Copper Canyon. He has also taught at Gould Academy in Bethel, Maine, after receiving his BA from Dartmouth College. If you have time, Robert can get carried away talking about the ecology, international development, student engagement, tennis and guitars. Robert grew up in Napa, California, with a Spanish mother and a dad from Tulsa. Robert lives with his wife from Mexico, and a son who has just graduated from Colorado College. Subfield(s): Comparative Politics; Latin American Politics; Dissertation: Conflict and Cooperation in the Sierra: Differential Responses to Neo-Liberal Policy by Raramuri Indians and Mestizos in Chihuahua, Mexico (ProQuest) Committee: Friesema, H. Paul (Chair); Safford, Frank (History); Barton, Josef (History); Schneider, Benjamin Current: Head of School, The Master's Program (Santa Fe) | 1996 | The Master's Program (Santa Fe) Head of School | Comparative Politics | ||
| Professional Website | Personal Website | Elsevier Biography: Whasun Jho is a full-time member of the policy department of the Korea Academy of Science and Technology and a Professor of Political Science and Diplomacy at Yonsei University. Subfield(s): Comparative Politics; Political Economy of Information and Communication Technology, Politics of Information Society/e-Government, Governance in the Information Age Dissertation: Building telecom markets: Evolution of governance in the Korean mobile telecommunication market (ProQuest) Committee: Woo-Cumings, Meredith (Chair); Loriaux, Michael M.; Winters, Jeffrey A. Current: Professor, Yonsei University, International Relations/Political Economy/IT Politics Placement: Assistant Professor, Graduate School of Public Policy and Information Technology, Seoul National University of Technology | 2003 | Yonsei University Professor | Comparative Politics | J | |
| Professional Website | Personal Website | LinkedIn Biography: Krista Johnson is an associate professor and director of graduate studies at the Center for African Studies in the College of Arts and Sciences, Howard University. Subfield(s): Comparative Politics; African Diaspora Dissertation: From consensual decision-making to conventional politics: Popular participation in contemporary South Africa (ProQuest) Committee: Reno, William S (Chair); Jane Guyer ; Hanchard, Michael G Current: Associate Professor, Howard University, African Studies; Director, Center for African Studies Placement: Assistant Professor, DePaul University, International Studies | 2002 | Howard University Associate Professor; Director, Center for African Studies | Comparative Politics | J | |
| Personal Website | Twitter: @J0HNST0N | LinkedIn | Google Scholar Biography: I am a Senior Political Scientist at the RAND Corporation. Prior to RAND, I was a fellow at the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs at Harvard University's Kennedy School of Government and the Center for International Security and Cooperation at Stanford University. My research interests include insurgency, terrorism, intelligence, threat finance, and development. My research and commentary have been published or are forthcoming in the American Economic Review, American Economic Review: Papers & Proceedings, Civil Wars, Foreign Affairs, Foreign Policy, International Security, International Studies Quarterly, Journal of Development Economics, The New York Times, Security Studies, Studies in Conflict & Terrorism, and other outlets. The content on this site does not represent the views of the RAND Corporation or any other organization. Subfield(s): International Relations; Insurgency and counterinsurgency, terrorism and counterterrorism, threat finance, intelligence, development, program evaluation Dissertation: The treatment of civilians in effective counterinsurgency operations (ProQuest) Committee: Reno, William S (Chair); Mahoney, James L; Spruyt, Hendrik Current: Senior Political Scientist, RAND Corporation Placement: Peace Scholar Dissertation Fellow, United States Institute of Peace | 2009 | RAND Corporation Senior Political Scientist | International Relations | J | |
| Institutional Website | Professional Website | Twitter: @justonathalia | LinkedIn Biography: Nathalia Justo is a Visiting Instructor in Government in the Department of Government and Legal Studies at Bowdoin College. Justo is a teacher-scholar with expertise in ethics, international law, migration and citizenship, history and international organizations, and international political economy. With her current interdisciplinary research project, Justo wants to contribute to ongoing debates on the shortcomings of current legal categories of protection for non-citizens by exploring to which extent they owe their potentialities and limits to notions of deservingness that sideline broader articulations of political responsibility. Justo takes an ethnographic approach to the processes of construction of the categories of the stateless, refugee, and temporary protected status (TPS) through UN archival work and fieldwork with communities of rights claimants. Subfield(s): International Relations; Global politics of citizenship; international law and migration; critical approaches to international relations theory; interpretive methodologies in political science Dissertation: The Global Politics of Citizenship: Producing and Protecting the “Deserving” Subject (ProQuest) Committee: Shakman Hurd, Elizabeth (Chair); Hurd, Ian; Dietz, Mary G.; Inayatullah, Naeem (Ithaca College) Current: Visiting Instructor in Government, Bowdoin College Placement: Visiting Instructor in Government, Bowdoin College | 2023 | Bowdoin College Visiting Instructor | International Relations, Political Theory | J | |
| Biography: Dr. KANG Hayun is a research fellow of the Center for ICT Trade and Inter-Korean Cooperation Research at the Korea Information Society Development Institute (KISDI). KISDI is a government-affiliated policy research institute, in Korea, focusing on socio-economic aspects of broadcasting as well as telecommunications, and international cooperation. Dr. KANG Hayun's main research interests are in trade rules of the digital economy, inter-Korean cooperation in ICT matters, ICT policy development of developing countries. Dr. KANG Hayun served as expert adviser and negotiator for the Korean government for various international trade agreements such as the Korea-US FTA, Korea-China FTA as well as participated in WTO trade in services negotiations. Dr. KANG Hayun has shared Korea's experience in trade liberalization and economic growth with developing countries at international events hosted by UNCTAD, APEC-TEL and other international bodies. Currently Dr. KANG Hayun is engaged in research on inter-Korean co-operation in the area of 4th Industrial Revolution. Dr. KANG Hayun is a graduate of the University of British Columbia, Canada, and completed Ph.D. in international relations at Northwestern University, USA. Dr. KANG Hayun has ministerial citations from the Ministry of Information and Communications, Ministry of Finance and Economy and from the Korea Communications Commission, Republic of Korea Subfield(s): Comparative Politics; Bureaucracy; Collaboration; Collusion; Conflict; Governance; Korean; Political economy; State-business relations Economic policy, capitalism, neoliberal, state power, Korea Dissertation: Governance and state-business relations: Collaboration, collusion and conflict in the Korean political economy (ProQuest) Committee: Winters, Jeffrey A. (Chair) Current: Executive Director, Korea Information Society Development Institute, Department of Multilateral Cooperation Research Placement: Member of Korean Government WTO Trade Negotiation Delegation | 2004 | Korea Information Society Development Institute Executive Director | Comparative Politics | K | |
| Institutional Website | LinkedIn Biography: Hye Yun Kang is Assistant Professor in Conflict Analysis and Resolution. She received her Ph.D. in Political Science from Northwestern University and in Philosophy from the École Normale Supérieure (ENS), Paris in 2019. Before joining George Mason Korea, Dr. Kang held a Post-Doctoral Fellow position in the Mershon Center for International Security Studies at the Ohio State University. In 2018-2019, she was a Pre-Doctoral Fellow at the American Bar Foundation. Her research and teaching interests include political violence, human insecurity, and security and law with a focus on critical theory. Currently, Dr. Kang is working on her book project, tentatively titled, “Suicidal Security: Security Performance and Political Violence. Subfield(s): International Relations; Political Violence, Human Insecurity, and Security and Law Dissertation: Unintended Intentions: Security Script and Performative Enactment (Ebscohost) Committee: Loriaux, Michael M (Chair); Crepon, Marc D L (Co-Chair); Reno, William S; Hurd, Ian F Current: Assistant Professor in Conflict Analysis and Resolution, George Mason University in Korea Placement: Postdoctoral Fellow, The Ohio State University, Mershon Center for International Security Studies | 2019 | George Mason University in Korea Assistant Professor | International Relations | K | |
| Institutional Website | Professional Website | Twitter: suji_kang_ Biography: Suji Kang will work on the Borders and Boundaries Project at Perry World House. She researches political psychology, political behavior, misinformation, experimental methods, and causal inference, also examining how trusted sources influence people’s political perceptions and behaviors. Her work is forthcoming in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Science. She received the Rapoport Family Foundation Doctoral Dissertation Research Grant. Kang completed her PhD in political science at Northwestern University. Subfield(s): American Politics; Political Psychology, Political Behavior, Causal Inference, and Text Analysis Dissertation: Essays on the Causes and Consequences of Political Misperceptions (ProQuest) Committee: Druckman, James N. (Chair); Bullock, John; McGrath, Mary Current: Perry World House Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Pennsylvania Placement: Perry World House Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Pennsylvania | 2023 | University of Pennsylvania Perry World House Postdoctoral Fellow | American Politics | K | |
| Professional Website | Twitter: @alisakaplan3 | LinkedIn Biography: Alisa joined Reform for Illinois in 2018, drawn to the organization’s long history of fighting for campaign finance reform and against systemic corruption. As Executive Director, she leads RFI’s policy development, advocacy, and educational initiatives and oversees operations. A Yale graduate with a J.D. and Ph.D. in Political Science from Northwestern University, Alisa brings expertise in law and the political process and a background in community organizing, grassroots activism, and nonprofit administration. Subfield(s): International Relations; Civil liberties; Comparative constitutional law; Counterterrorism; Human rights; International norms; Terrorism Dissertation: Governance and state-business relations: Collaboration, collusion and conflict in the Korean political economy (Ebscohost) Committee: Alter-Hanson, Karen (Chair); Nzelibe, Jide Okechuku (Law); Page, Benjamin I Current: Executive Director, Reform for Illinois Placement: Northwestern University, School of Continuing Studies | 2013 | Reform for Illinois Executive Director | International Relations | K | |
| Institutional Website | Professional Website | Twitter: @adam42smith Biography: I am the Director of the Qualitative Data Repository at Syracuse University. I work on all aspects of the repository, but am particularly interested in qualitative data management and the development of scholarly workflows. I hold a PhD in political science from Northwestern, where my substantive interests center around the political economy of business/labor relations in the Industrialized world as well as issues of conceptualization and measurement in political economy. As time permits, I am an active contributor to several scholarly open source software projects, including in particular Zotero, where I help oversee the site translators, and the Citation Style Language, where I am on the board and co-maintain the style repository. Subfield(s): Comparative Politics; Latin American Politics; Argentina; Business; Germany; Labor markets; Political economy; United States Dissertation: Liberalization, Segmentation, Informalization: Business and the Political Economy of Changing Labor Markets (ProQuest) Committee: Mahoney, James L (Chair); Thelen, Kathy A (Co-Chair); Gibson, Edward L; Schneider, Ben Ross Current: Director, Qualitative Data Repository; Research Assistant Professor, Political Science Department, Syracuse University Placement: Associate Director, Syracuse University, Qualitative Data Repository | 2014 | Syracuse University Research Assistant Professor, Political Science; Director, Center for Qualitative and Multi-Method Inquiry | Comparative Politics | K | |
| Institutional Website | Twitter: @demetra_kasimis | Google Scholar Biography: I am a political theorist working across ancient Greek political thought, contemporary (critical) democratic theory, and feminist theory. Born and raised in New York City, I received my B.A. from Columbia College, Columbia University, where I studied philosophy and Hellenic Studies and edited The Columbia Daily Spectator. After graduation, I moved to Athens as a Fulbright scholar, where I studied Albanian immigration to Greece. I returned to New York to do my M.A. in philosophy at Columbia, but my interest in reading texts in their political contexts led me to political theory. I completed my Ph.D. in Northwestern University’s political science department in 2010 and since then have been a postdoctoral fellow at Yale University (2010-2012); assistant professor of political science at California State University, Long Beach (2012-2015); assistant professor at the University of Chicago (2015-2021) and, most recently, associate professor at the University of Chicago (2022-2024). My research has been awarded fellowships from the American Council for Learned Societies (ACLS), the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, NJ; the Mellon Foundation, the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH), and the Onassis Foundation. I am an editor of the journal Contemporary Political Theory and was formerly associate editor of the journal Polis. Subfield(s): Political Theory; democratic theory and the history of political thought especially in classical Athens; membership politics and migration; post-war continental political theory; and feminist theory Dissertation: Drawing the boundaries of democracy: Immigrants and citizens in ancient Greek political thought (ProQuest) Committee: Monoson, S. Sara (Chair); Dietz, Mary G.; Honig, Bonnie H. Current: Assistant Professor in Political Theory, University of Cambridge, Department of Politics and International Studies Placement: Mellon Postdoctoral Associate, Yale University, Whitney Humanities Center | 2010 | University of Chicago Associate Professor; Director of Undergraduate Studies | Political Theory | K | |
| Institutional Website | Professional Website | Google Scholar Biography: Dr. Katrin Fraser Katz is a Scholar-in-Residence in the Master of Arts in International Administration (MAIA) program at the University of Miami. She is also an Adjunct Fellow (Non-resident) in the Office of the Korea Chair at the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) in Washington, DC and the Van Fleet Nonresident Senior Fellow at The Korea Society in New York. Previously, Dr. Katz served as director for Japan, Korea, and oceanic affairs on the staff of the National Security Council from 2007 to 2008. She was also a special assistant to the assistant secretary for international organization affairs at the U.S. Department of State and an analyst at the Central Intelligence Agency. Dr. Katz’s research, which has been supported by grants from the Korea Foundation and the Horowitz Foundation for Social Policy, explores the interplay of cooperation and conflict in East Asia’s political, economic, and security dynamics. She has taught courses at Columbia University and Georgetown University and holds a Ph.D. in political science from Northwestern University; a master’s degree in East Asian and international security studies from the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, where she was awarded the John C. Perry Scholarship for East Asian Studies; and a bachelor’s degree, magna cum laude, in international relations and Japanese from the University of Pennsylvania. Subfield(s): International Relations; interplay of cooperation and conflict in East Asia’s political, economic, and security dynamics Dissertation: Domestic Interest Configuration and Island Disputes: Cyclical Surges of Nationalist and Internationalist Influence in Northeast Asia (ProQuest) Committee: Spruyt, Hendrik (Chair); Caverley, Jonathan D; Cha, Victor D.; Spruyt, Hendrik Current: Non-resident Fellow, Office of the Korea Chair, Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS); Scholar-in-Residence, Master of Arts in International Administration (MAIA), University of Miami Placement: Visiting Lecturer (Adjunct Assistant), Georgetown University, Asia Studies Program | 2017 | Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) Non-resident Fellow, Office of the Korea Chair | International Relations | K | |
| Institutional Website | Professional Website | LinkedIn Biography: Lamin Keita is a postdoctoral research associate at the Keough School's Kellogg Institute for International Studies. His doctoral research examines community violence and democratization in West Africa, investigating why some communities and states use violence while others in similar conditions adopt nonviolent resistance. Based on his regional specialization in Africa and beyond, Keita’s dissertation develops both empirical and theoretical frameworks for analyzing relationships between state and societal actors in identifying and sharing information for counterinsurgency. His findings also provide insights for policymakers supporting indigenous approaches to managing conflict. Keita is the first doctoral student in Northwestern’s Department of Political Science to receive both the Fulbright-Hays Doctoral Dissertation Research Abroad Fellowship, funded by the U.S. Department of Education, and the Social Science Research Council’s International Dissertation Research Fellowship (SSRC-IDRF). Before beginning his academic career, Keita worked as a journalist in The Gambia with BBC relay radio, Citizen FM, and the New Citizen newspaper. During President Yahya Jammeh’s regime, he was forced to seek political asylum in the United States. Subfield(s): Comparative Politics; community violence and democratization in West Africa Dissertation: The Politics of Community Resilience to Armed Jihadism in West Africa Committee: Reno, William S. K. (Chair); Tillery, Alvin B., Jr.; Thurston, Alexander (Cincinnati); Bleck, Jaimie (Notre Dame) Current: Postdoctoral Research Associate, University of Notre Dame, Kellogg Institute for International Studies Placement: Postdoctoral Research Associate, University of Notre Dame, Kellogg Institute for International Studies | 2024 | University of Notre Dame, Kellogg Institute for International Studies Postdoctoral Research Associate | Comparative Politics | K | |
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Subfield(s): Political Theory Dissertation: Domestic Interest Configuration and Island Disputes: Cyclical Surges of Nationalist and Internationalist Influence in Northeast Asia (Ebscohost) Committee: Farr, James Fulton (Chair); Alznauer, Mark Vinzenz; Dietz, Mary Golden Current: Instructor, Northwestern University, Center for Field Studies Placement: Instructor, Northwestern University, Center for Field Studies | 2019 | Northwestern University Instructor | Political Theory | K | |
| Institutional Website | Professional Website | Twitter: @askellyphd | LinkedIn Biography: Andrew S. Kelly is an associate professor in the Department of Health Sciences at California State University, East Bay. Kelly's research investigates the politics of public policy and institutional change, with a particular focus on three critical areas of American public policy: health care, scientific research, and public health. The ultimate goal of Kelly's research agenda is to understand how institutional structures and existing policy systems affect the state’s ability to design, enact, and secure public policies that serve the general interest and improve governance. Kelly received his PhD in Political Science from Northwestern University in 2012. Prior to joining CSUEB, Kelly held post-doctoral fellowships from Johns Hopkins University and the University of California, San Francisco, as well as a two-year position as a Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Health Policy Research Scholar at the University of California, Berkeley. Subfield(s): Comparative Politics, American Politics; American political development,US public policy, health and science policy; America; Britain; Policymaking; Science; Scientists; United States Dissertation: Entering the New Frontier: The Origins and Development of Scientific Capacity in the United States and Great Britain (ProQuest) Committee: Mahoney, James L. (Chair); Galvin, Daniel J.; Prasad, Monica Current: Associate Professor, California State University, East Bay, Department of Nursing and Health Sciences Placement: Post-Doctoral Fellow, UC Berkeley/UCSF, Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Scholars in Health Policy Research | 2012 | California State University, East Bay Associate Professor | Comparative Politics, American Politics | K | |
| Institutional Website | Professional Website | Twitter: @yoeskenawas | Google Scholar | LinkedIn Biography: Yoes C. Kenawas is a political scientist with 15 years of experience working on democracy, political parties, subnational politics, and international relations in Southeast Asia. His dissertation research is on the subnational variation of dynastic politics in Indonesia. He combines quantitative and qualitative data collection and analysis methods in his research. His research on dynastic politics has been featured in national and international media, including The Economist, Reuters, Al-Jazeera, South China Morning Post, Kompas, and Tempo. He is interested in two other issues that seem worlds apart: the use of blockchain technology to improve the quality of democracy and how mystical beliefs influence politicians’ behavior. He believes in the power of comedy to build a mature democracy. He is actively involved in various forums on democracy, both in Indonesia and the Asia-Pacific. Subfield(s): Comparative Politics; International Relations; Asian Politics; Democratization; Dynastic politics; Oligarchy; Political dynasty; Subnational politics Dissertation: Dynasty Inc.: The Emergence and Endurance of Political Dynasties in Indonesia (ProQuest) Committee: Winters, Jeffrey A. (Chair); Gibson, Edward L.; Riedl, Rachel B. (Cornell) Current: Research Fellow, Institute for Advanced Research (IFAR), Universitas Katolik Atma Jaya Placement: Research Fellow, Institute for Advanced Research (IFAR), Universitas Katolik Atma Jaya | 2024 | Universitas Katolik Atma Jaya Research Fellow, Institute for Advanced Research (IFAR) | International Relations, Comparative Politics | K | |
| Institutional Website | Professional Website | Twitter: @moseskhisa | LinkedIn Biography: I’m currently Associate Professor of Political Science and African Studies at North Carolina State University, Raleigh NC-USA. I’m a student of politics, not a politician! So, I’ve little interest, if any, in active politics. However, since I was a little boy in secondary school, I’ve always had a keen interest in global current affairs and local sociopolitical developments. Thus, since April 2013, I’ve been writing a weekly current affairs column, first for The Observer (2013-2019) and currently for Daily Monitor (2018-todate), both based in Kampala, Uganda. I also co-founded a political think-tank, Society for Justice and National Unity (SoJNU), with senior colleagues at Makerere University, Kampala, which seeks to provide intellectual input to Ugandan politics. In addition to my limited political activism, I also have been actively involved in community engagement as Vice President (2016-2018) and later Interim President (2018-2019) for the North America Masaba Cultural Association and board member of a university/tertiary education scholarship non-profit organization, CROSO. Subfield(s): Comparative Politics; Comparative Politics and International Political Economy with a focus on Africa. Dissertation: The Institutional Transformation of Africa's Personalist Regimes: A Comparative Analysis of Ethiopia, Ghana, Rwanda, and Uganda (ProQuest) Committee: Reno, William S. (Chair); Mahoney, James L. (Co-Chair); Otoma, Ato Kwamena (CODESRIA); Riedl, Rachel B. Current: Associate Professor, North Carolina State University, Political Science; Inter-disciplinary studies (African Studies) Placement: Assistant Professor, North Carolina State University, Political Science; Inter-disciplinary studies (African Studies) | 2016 | North Carolina State University Associate Professor | Comparative Politics | K | |
| Institutional Website | Professional Website | Twitter: @rbkhoury | Google Scholar Biography: Rana (renə) Khoury is an assistant professor of political science at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Previously, she was a postdoctoral fellow at the Niehaus Center for Globalization and Governance at Princeton University. Khoury studies comparative and international politics, with a focus on contention, displacement, and humanitarianism in the Middle East. Her book project explains the relationship between international aid and civilian activism in the Syrian war. Her multi-method research employs data from field-based immersion and interviews, and original survey and social media data. Subfield(s): Comparative Politics, Methods; Middle East, displacement; humanitarianism; contentious politics; methods; Middle East politics; American politics Dissertation: Aid, Activism, and the Syrian War Committee: Pearlman, Wendy (Chair); Reno, William (Co-chair), Seawright, Jason; Arjona, Ana Current: Assistant Professor of Political Science, the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Placement: Postdoctoral Research Associate Princeton University, Niehaus Center for Globalization & Governance, Program in Regional Political Economy | 2021 | University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Assistant Professor | Comparative Politics | K | |
| Institutional Website | Professional Website | BlueSky: @bowonkim | LinkedIn Biography: Bo Won Kim is an Assistant Professor at the University of Texas at Arlington, Department of Political Science. Kim researches the design of international institutions, international law, transnational organized crime, and illicit economies. Kim received her PhD from Northwestern University, Department of Political Science in 2024 and has a Master of Legal Studies degree from the University of Chicago Law School. Kim's book manuscript, The Paradox of Amity: Divergent Paths to Regulating Illicit Economies, is currently in progress explores why international agreements aimed at combating transnational organized crime sometimes omit essential enforcement or monitoring mechanisms, and why other agreements exhibit significant variation in the design of these mechanisms. Subfield(s): International Relations; International Law, International Institutions and Design, Transnational Organized Crime; International Relations, International Organizations, International Law, Qualitative Methods, Politics of Transnational Organized Crime Dissertation: The Paradox of Amity: Divergent Paths to Regulating Illicit Economies (ProQuest) Committee: Alter, Karen J. (Chair); Nelson, Stephen C.; Koremenos, Barbara (University of Michigan); Current: Assistant Professor of Political Science, The University of Texas at Arlington Placement: Assistant Professor of Political Science, The University of Texas at Arlington | 2024 | The University of Texas at Arlington Assistant Professor of Political Science | International Relations | K | |
| Institutional Website | Professional Website | LinkedIn | Google Scholar Biography: Professor Kim received doctoral degree from Northwestern University. His main research and teaching areas include political behavior, public opinion, minority politics, the presidency, political psychology, and methods. He coauthored and published an article in the American Political Science Review. Subfield(s): American Politics, Minority Politics, Political Behavior and Public Opinion; the presidency, political psychology, and methods Dissertation: Core values and public opinion on foreign policy (ProQuest) Committee: Chong, Dennis (Chair); Cook, Fay Lomax; Druckman, James N. Current: Associate Professor, Florida Atlantic University, Department of Political Science Placement: Visiting Assistant Professor, University of Illinois at Chicago, Department of Political Science | 2007 | Florida Atlantic University Associate Professor | American Politics | K | |
| Biography: Hyok Kim is Professor of Public Administration at the University of Seoul. Before joining UOS in 2003, Professor Kim served as Associate professor at Hankyong National University. He received an B.A. in Political Science & Diplomacy from Yosei University and his M.A. and Ph.D. in Political Science from the Graduate School, Northwestern University. Professor Kim’s current research interests focus on public policy, with a particular emphasis on the effect of political structure on public policy formulation. He has published on several topics including : citizen-centered e-Governance, presidential leadership and policy agenda setting, representative bureaucracy and Governance institutionalization. Subfields: American Politics; Urban Politics; Public Administration; citizen-centered e-Governance, presidential leadership and policy agenda setting, representative bureaucracy and Governance institutionalization. Dissertation: Violence, social structure, and municipal policy response (ProQuest) Committee: Skogan, Wesley G. (Chair); Friesema, H.; Reed, Adolph L., Jr Current: Professor, the University of Seoul, Department of Public Administration Placement: Instructor, School of Social Science Korean Military Academy | 1993 | University of Seoul Professor; Director | Comparative Politics, American Politics | K | |
| Dissertation: Class politics resurgent: Class-based voting, turnout, and party identification (ProQuest) Committee: Manza, Jeffrey L. (Chair) Current: Professor, Keimyung University, Department of International Relations | 2003 | Keimyung University Professor | American Politics | K | |
| Professional Website | Personal Website | Google Scholar Biography: Prof. So Young Kim is the Director of the Korea Policy Center for the Fourth Industrial Revolution and the former Head of the Graduate School of Science and Technology Policy at KAIST, South Korea. She earned her Ph.D. and M.S. from Northwestern University with Fulbright Scholarship specializing in international political economy and mathematical methods in social sciences. Prof. Kim worked as a data archivist for the Social Science Computing Center at the University of Chicago and taught as an assistant professor at Florida Atlantic University before joining KAIST. Her research deals with high-stake issues at the interface of S&T and public policy such as government R&D funding and evaluation, basic science policy, science advising, science & engineering workforce, science-based ODA, and global governance of emerging technologies. Her scholarly work includes publications in International Organization, Journal of Asian Survey, Science and Public Policy, and STI Policy Review as well as the edited volume of Science and Technology Policy: Theories and Issues. Prof. Kim conducted large-scale science policy projects including the Identification of Strategic Research Areas in Basic Research (funded by the National Research Foundation), Measuring Social Impacts of the Public R&D Programs (funded by the Korea Institute of S&T Evaluation and Planning), and Kenya KAIST Feasibility Study (funded by Korea Eximbank). As a public intellectual, Prof. Kim has served several governmental committees including the National Science & Technology Vision Committee, National R&D Evaluation Review Committee, Advisory Committee for the Science & Engineering Workforce Five-Year Plan (all for the Ministry of Science and ICT), Spent Fuel Policy (Ministry of Trade, Industry and Energy), and University Gender Equality Committee (Ministry of Gender and Family). She is also active in various public organizations, serving as chair for the Long-term Policy Planning Committee of the Korea Federation of Women’s S&T Associations (KOFWST), and the Fourth Industrial Revolution Network of the Korea Federation of S&T Associations (KOFST). She was recently elected to be a co-representative of the Coalition for Citizen Science and Society, South Korea's largest nonprofit organization for public engagement in science. Prof. Kim is also leading the Establishment of Kenya KAIST Project conducted through the intergovernmental loan as a project coordinator. Subfield(s): International Political Economy, Science, Technology and Public Policy, Quantitative Methodology Dissertation: A mistaken link, divergent paths: Globalization, economic insecurity and social spending (1950–1999) (ProQuest) Committee: Wallerstein, Michael J (Chair) Current: Professor, Korea Advanced Institute of Science & Technology (KAIST), Graduate School of Science & Technology Policy; Director, Korea Policy Center for the Fourth Industrial Revolution (KPC4IR) Placement: Assistant Professor, Florida Atlantic University | 2004 | Korea Advanced Institute of Science & Technology (KAIST) Professor | International Relations | K | |
| Professional Website | Personal Website | Twitter: @SamaraKlar | Academia.edu | LinkedIn Biography: Samara Klar is a Professor of Political Science at the University of Arizona School of Government and Public Policy, a Melody S. Robidoux Foundation Fund Professor, and a co-Coordinator of the Arizona Policy Lab. an Associate Professor at the University of Arizona School of Government and Public Policy. She studies how individuals’ personal identities and social surroundings influence their political attitudes and behavior. Most often, she uses experimental methods (in and outside the lab), surveys, and other statistical tools. Dr. Klar received her PhD in Political Science from Northwestern University and also hold degrees in political science from Columbia University and McGill University. Her award-winning book, Independent Politics, (co-authored with Yanna Krupnikov) was published by Cambridge University Press in 2016 and her research appears in top journals including Science, Nature Human Behaviour, American Political Science Review, American Journal of Political Science, Journal of Politics, and many others. This work has received multiple national awards from the American Political Science Association, the Midwest Political Science Association, and the American Association for Public Opinion Research. Subfield(s): Political Theory; Methods; Experimental methods; Identities; Partisanship; Political behavior; Political psychology; Survey analyses Dissertation: The Influence of Identities on Political Preferences (ProQuest) Committee: Druckman, James N (Chair); Miller, Peter (Communications); Page, Benjamin I Current: Professor of Political Science; Melody S. Robidoux Foundation Fund Professor, University of Arizona, School of Government and Public Policy Placement: Assistant Professor, University of Arizona, School of Government and Public Policy | 2013 | University of Arizona Melody S. Robidoux Foundation Fund Professor | Political Theory | K | |
| Personal Website | Twitter: @Klyachki | Academia.edu | LinkedIn Biography: As a multimethod researcher and educator with experience designing and executing multi-year community-based projects, I am passionate about using qualitative and quantitative data to drive evidence-based decision-making and strategy. My experience is focused on designing and conducting research through interviews, focus groups, and original survey data collection, with a priority on elevating and amplifying the voices and experiences of those impacted by research. Additionally, I have 7 years of high school and university teaching experience, as well as a background in designing and collaboratively facilitating teaching-related professional development, workshops, and speaker series. Subfield(s): Comparative Politics, Methods; armed conflict and politics, microfoundations of order, institutional change, state-building, North Caucasus, mixed methods Dissertation: Reconfiguration of Sub-national Governance: Responses to Violence and State Collapse in the North Caucasus (ProQuest) Committee: Reno, William S (Chair); Arjona, Ana Maria; Riedl, Rachel B. Current: Manager, Curriculum Equity Initiative (Skyline) Assessments, Chicago Public Schools Placement: Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Center for Russia, East Europe, and Central Asia (CREECA) | 2019 | Chicago Public Schools Manager, Curriculum Equity Initiative (Skyline) Assessments | Comparative Politics | K | |
| Subfields: International Relations Dissertation: Power, resources, and consequences of power relations upon foreign policy behavior (ProQuest) Committee: Park, Tong Whan (Chair); Janda, Kenneth; Anderson, Lee F. Current: Associate Professor, Yonsei University | 1993 | Yonsei University Associate Professor | International Relations | K | |
| Twitter: @kendra_koivu | In Memoriam Biography: I am an assistant professor of political science at the University of New Mexico. I received my doctorate from Northwestern University where I studied comparative politics, qualitative methods, and international relations. My substantive research interests include organized crime, narcotics trafficking, early twentieth century Eurasian politics, statebuilding, and political economy, I also write about methodology, and my interests there include set theory, fs/QCA, counterfactual analysis, case selection procedures, and mixed methods research. I am currently working on a book manuscript titled Consorting with Criminals: Smuggling and Statebuilding in the Interwar Period. Kendra L. Koivu began her career in the UNM Political Science Department in the Fall of 2012 after completing her Ph.D. at Northwestern University. In 2013, just after the birth of her second child, Professor Koivu was diagnosed with metastatic breast cancer. Since then, and in spite of her prognosis, she wrote a book, published several scholarly articles, became an important voice in the methodology of Political Science, mentored many students, and was granted tenure and promotion at UNM in the Spring of 2019. Professor Koivu made a home in Albuquerque with her husband, Tony Aronica. This fall, she was able to see her daughter off to Grinnell College and her son into Kindergarten. Her body finally succumbed to the cancer she endured for five years on the night of September 27, 2019 at the age of 40. She will be dearly missed by her friends, colleagues and students at UNM and she will be remembered for her striking wit, tenacity, and extremely gifted academic mind. Subfield(s): Comparative Politics; Organized crime; State building Dissertation: Organized Crime and the State: State Building, Illicit Markets, and Governance Structures (ProQuest) Committee: Reno, William S (Chair); Mahoney, James L; Thelen, Kathy A Current: Assistant Professor, University of New Mexico Albuquerque Placement: Adjunct Professor, Stuart School of Business at Illinois Institute of Technology | 2012 | University of New Mexico Albuquerque Assistant Professor | Comparative Politics | K | |
| Institutional Website | Professional Website Biography: Ken Kollman is the Frederick G. L. Huetwell Professor and Professor of Political Science at the University of Michigan. He is also Research Professor at the Center for Political Studies (Institute for Social Research) at the university. His recent book, coauthored with John Jackson, Dynamic Partisanship: How and Why Voter Loyalties Change, published by University of Chicago Press, includes detailed analysis of data from the United States, Australia, Canada, and the U.K. His previous book, Perils of Centralization, published by Cambridge University Press, includes research on the European Union, the Roman Catholic Church, General Motors Corporation, and the United States government. Throughout his career he has contributed in diverse fields: computational social science, comparative and American politics, European Union studies, comparative federalism, and comparative political parties and elections. His popular American government textbook with W.W. Norton is now in its third edition. The New York Times and Washington Post have published his essays. He created and administered a new minor and major in international studies at the University of Michigan. The major has grown into one of the largest at the university. He co-founded and is co-principal investigator of the Constituency-Level Election Archive (CLEA), which is the world’s largest repository of elections results data. Subfields: American Politics, political parties and organizations, elections, lobbying, federal systems, formal modeling, complexity theory, methods, and comparative politics. Dissertation: Outside lobbying: Public appeals by interest groups (ProQuest) Committee: Page, Benjamin I (Chair); Mansbridge, Jane; Chong, Dennis Current: Frederick G. L. Huetwell Professor, University of Michigan, Department of Political Science Placement: Assistant Professor, The University of Michigan, Department of Political Science | 1993 | University of Michigan Frederick G. L. Huetwell Professor | American Politics | K | |
| Institutional Website | Professional Website | Twitter: @M_J_Lacombe | LinkedIn | Google Scholar Biography: Matthew Lacombe is the Alexander P. Lamis Associate Professor in U.S. Politics in the Department of Political Science at Case Western Reserve University. His research and teaching interests are in American politics and engage with a range of topics, including interest groups and parties; gun politics; political identity, ideology, and behavior; inequality and representation; and American political development. Matt is the author of Firepower: How the NRA Turned Gun Owners into a Political Force, which uses the case of the National Rifle Association to identify and explain how interest groups can shape their members’ behavior in ways that help them advance their policy agendas and gain influence within political parties. Along with Benjamin Page and Jason Seawright, he is a co-author of Billionaires and Stealth Politics, a book that details the political preferences and behavior of U.S. billionaires. His research has appeared (or will appear) in the American Political Science Review, Journal of Politics, Perspectives on Politics, Policy Studies Journal, PS: Political Science and Politics, Social Science Quarterly, and the Journal of Political Science Education. It has also been discussed in a wide range of media outlets, including the New York Times, New Yorker, NBC News, NPR, Guardian, Washington Post, Vox, FiveThirtyEight, and Time. It was also featured in The Price of Freedom, a documentary that premiered at the Tribeca Film Festival. Before joining CWRU, Matt was an Assistant Professor at Barnard College, Columbia University from (2019 to 2022) and a National Fellow at the University of Virginia’s Jefferson Scholars Foundation (2018-2019). He received his PhD from Northwestern University and BA from Allegheny College. Subfield(s): American Politics; political power in the United States, interest groups and political parties, social identity and political ideology, inequality and representation, and American political development Dissertation: Gunning for the Masses: How the NRA Has Shaped Its Supporters’ Behavior, Advanced Its Political Agenda, and Thwarted the Will of the Majority (ProQuest) Committee: Galvin, Daniel J (Chair); Chen, Anthony S; Page, Benjamin I Current: Assistant Professor , Columbia University, Barnard College, Department of Political Science Placement: National Fellow (Doctoral), University of Virginia, Jefferson Scholars Foundation | 2019 | Case Western Reserve University Alexander P. Lamis Associate Professor in American Politics | American Politics | L | |
| Professional Website | LinkedIn Biography: Atsi Sheth is Managing Director and Head of Moody’s Credit Strategy and Research group, which provides forecasts, analysis and house views on risk across countries, sectors and asset classes. She also heads Moody’s Global Emerging Markets Initiative, which generates insights on the macro-economic, political, environmental, social and governance (ESG) risks facing emerging markets. In her capacity leading these teams, Atsi also serves as a spokesperson on Moody’s analytic views, engaging with investors, the media and a wide range of public and private sector stakeholders. Atsi is a long-time champion of Moody’s Diversity, Equity & Inclusion (DE&I) and Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) initiatives. She serves as co-chair of the CSR Thought Leadership & Solutions working group, the Senior Advisor to Moody’s Asian Leadership Initiative and as a DE&I Ambassador. Prior to her current role, Atsi was Managing Director in Moody’s Sovereign Risk Group. She has also served as Chief Economist at Reliance Capital and taught courses on International Political Economy and Emerging Markets at Columbia University and Northwestern University. Atsi has a PhD from Northwestern University and a B.A. from Bombay University. Subfield(s): Comparative Politics; International Political Economy and Emerging Markets Dissertation: Emerging market, emerging contradictions: The politics of economic liberalization in India (Proquest) Committee: Woo-Cumings, Meredith (Chair) Current: Managing Director; Head of Moody’s Credit Strategy, Moody's Investors Service Placement: Credit Policy/Sovereign Risk Moody's Investors Service | 1997 | Moody's Investors Service Managing Director; Head of Moody’s Credit Strategy | Comparative Politics | L | |
| Institutional Website | LinkedIn Biography: Dr. Lavelle’s research explores global governance. She recently completed a book that traces the history of multilateralism–or the coordination of relations among three or more states according to certain principles—from the nineteenth century to the present. It pays particular attention to the relationship between domestic and international politics that have helped and hindered the process over time. Her new project similarly integrates a variety of economic, security, and environmental issues that have come together as the US engages the Arctic region in the twenty-first century. Dr. Lavelle’s book, The Challenges of Multilateralism, was released in March 2020 by Yale University Press. Two recent articles look at Arctic policy, available here and here. Her other book on American governing institutions that formulate financial policy titled Money and Banks in the American Political System, was released by Cambridge University Press in 2013. She derived the analytical framework for this and her book on Congress and the IMF and World Bank from her experience working as a Congressional fellow on the staff of the House Committee on Financial Services for Chairman Barney Frank. Since that time, she has used extensive archival evidence and interviews to provide additional evidence for the policy process in the domestic and international arenas. Subfield(s): International Relations: US Foreign Policy; International Organizations; United Nations; U.S. Congress and International Organizations; Interdisciplinary Arctic issues. International Political Economy: Politics of International Finance; International Monetary Fund; World Bank; Politics of stock markets; Congress and banking policy. Dissertation: Invisible hand, invisible continent: Liberalization and African states in the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (1964-1995) (ProQuest) Current: Ellen and Dixon Long Professor in World Affairs, Ellen and Dixon Long Professor in World Affairs, Department of Political Science Placement: Visiting Assistant Professor, Cleveland State University, Department of Political Science | 1996 | Case Western Reserve University Ellen and Dixon Long Professor in World Affairs | International Relations | L | |
| Dissertation: Politics of industrialization: The textile industry in South Korea and the Philippines Committee: Stephens, Evelyn H. (chair); Stephens, John; Park, Tong-whan; Woo-Cumings, Meredith
| 1992 | BusinessOn Communication Co Ltd Co-CEO | Comparative Politics | L | |
| Institutional Website | Research Profile Biography: Heajeong Lee is a professor of political science and international relations at Chung-Ang University in Seoul, Korea. His research interests include American foreign policy, international relations theory, and East Asian security. He received his B.A. and M.A. in International Relations from Seoul National University and his Ph.D. in Political Science from Northwestern University. He has been a guest fellow at the Norwegian Nobel Institute and the Mansfield Center of the University of Montana. He is the author of The Making of American Hegemony from the Great Depression to the Korean War (2000) and, most recently “Restraint vs. Hegemony: Understanding Post-Cold War American Grand Strategy” (2015, in Korean). Subfields: International Relations; American history; Great Depression; Hegemony; Korean War; Historical Sociology of the International; Ethics of Violence in International Relations; Global Governance and American Hegemony; The Political Economy of the American State; Korean-American Diplomatic Relations Dissertation: The making of American hegemony from the Great Depression to the Korean War (ProQuest) Dissertation Committee: Page, Benjamin I. Current: Professor of Political Science and International Relations, Chung-Ang University Placement: Visiting Fellow, Institute for Far Eastern Studies, Kyungnam University | 1998 | Chung-Ang University Professor of Political Science and International Relations | International Relations | L | |
| Institutional Website | LinkedIn Subfields: American Politics; local government; urban governance Dissertation: Parties, governing regimes, and local policymaking (ProQuest) Dissertation Committee: Skogan, Wesley (Chair); Friesema, H. Paul; Lomax Cook, Fay Current: Professor, The Catholic University of Korea, Department of Public Administration Placement: Research Fellow, Seoul Development Institute, Dept. of Urban Management | 1997 | Catholic University of Korea Professor | American Politics | L | |
| Professional Website | Personal Website | Twitter: @sean_c_lee | Academia.edu | LinkedIn Biography: Sean Lee is an assistant professor of Political Science at AUC. He received his PhD from the Department of Political Science at Northwestern University. Previously, he was a Doctoral Fellow at the Orient-Institut Beirut and a research affiliate with the Center for Arab and Middle Eastern Studies at the American University of Beirut. His work focuses on minority communities during times of conflict, in particular in Lebanon and Syria. He has conducted fieldwork in Lebanon, Turkey, Tunisia, Germany, and the Democratic Republic of Congo. Subfield(s): Comparative Politics; comparative politics, research methods, ethnic politics conflict, Middle East Dissertation: Minority Communities in Times of Conflict: Civil War in Lebanon and Syria (Ebscohost) Committee: Reno, William S (Chair); Pearlman, Wendy R; Spruyt, Hendrik Current: Assistant Professor, American University in Cairo, Department of Political Science Placement: Assistant Professor, American University in Cairo, Department of Political Science | 2019 | American University in Cairo Assistant Professor | Comparative Politics | L | |
| Professional Website | Personal Website | Twitter: @thosjleeper | LinkedIn Biography: I am a behavioral scientist and R hacker working on experimental, survey, and computational approaches for understanding social and political phenomena. My research has focused on comparative public opinion, the political psychology of information seeking and attitude change, survey-experimental methodology, and applications of the R statistical programming language. I am currently a Research Scientist with Core Data Science at Facebook, based in London, and a Senior Visiting Fellow in Methodology at the London School of Economics and Political Science. From 2015 to September 2018, I was Assistant Professor then then Associate Professor in Political Behaviour (with tenure) in the Department of Government at LSE. At LSE, I led undergraduate teaching and delivered courses on research design, the use of experimental methods in politics, and public opinion and political psychology. I coordinated the interdisciplinary Political Behaviour Seminar series and served on the school’s Research Ethics Committee. Subfield(s): American Politics; Experimentation, causal inference, computational social science and politics Dissertation: Essays on Political Information and the Dynamics of Public Opinion (ProQuest) Committee: Druckman, James N (Chair); Chong, Dennis; Cook, Fay Lomax; Page, Benjamin I. Current: Research Scientist, Facebook, Core Data Science Placement: Post-Doctoral Fellow, Aarhus University, Political Science and Government | 2012 | Facebook Research Scientist | American Politics | L | |
| Professional Website Biography: Natacha Lemasle is a Senior Social Development Specialist at the Work Bank, working primarily in fragile and post-conflict countries in Africa, and managing projects supporting demobilization and reintegration of former combatants, support to local integration of forcibly displaced populations, and on prevention and mitigation of sexual and gender-based violence. Natacha Lemasle is also the coordinator of the World Bank Global Platform on Addressing Sexual and Gender-Based Violence. Subfield(s): International Relations; International Law; Armed groups; Combatants; Demobilization; Disarmament; Liberia; Patronage; Reintegration; Sierra Leone Dissertation: Combatants' Disarmament: Do Command and Control Matter? A Comparison of Sierra Leone and Liberia (Ebscohost) Committee: Reno, William S (Chair); Bigo, Didier; Bourmaud, Daniel; Loriaux, Michael; Murphy, William Current: Senior Social Development Specialist, World Bank, Fragile States and Social Development Unit Placement: World Bank, Fragile States and Social Development Unit | 2010 | The World Bank Senior Social Development Specialist. Fragile States and Social Development Unit | International Relations | L | |
| Professional Website | LinkedIn Biography: Kevin Levay is NCTR’s Associate Director of Research and Data. Kevin joined NCTR in 2020. In this role, he supports NCTR and partner programs in collecting, analyzing, and reporting data to demonstrate and enhance the effectiveness of teacher residencies. Prior to joining NCTR, Kevin worked as a researcher at the FrameWorks Institute, where he developed communications strategies to support the non-profit sector in building public understanding of social and scientific issues, including informal STEM learning, early math learning, and academic motivation. As a political scientist, he has conducted research on the effects of race, class, and gender on public opinion toward the use of punishment in the U.S. criminal justice and education systems, and has assisted with teaching undergraduate courses on U.S. politics and research methodology at Northwestern University. Kevin received his bachelor’s degree in political science from Temple University and his Ph.D. in political science from Northwestern University. Subfield(s): American Politics; Intersectionality; Mass incarceration; Political communication; Political inequality; Political representation; Public opinion Dissertation: Race, Class, and Gender in the Politics of Incarceration in the United States (ProQuest) Committee: Druckman, James N (Chair); Burch, Traci R; McCall, Leslie J. (Sociology); Rogers, Reuel R. Current: Associate Director of Research and Data, National Center For Teacher Residencies Placement: Researcher, FrameWorks Institute | 2016 | National Center For Teacher Residencies Associate Director of Research and Data | American Politics | L | |
| Insitutional Website | Professional Website | BlueSky: @levy2levy | LinkedIn Biography: Jeremy Levy is a Postdoctoral Scholar at the Berkeley Center for American Democracy (University of California, Berkeley), studying political behavior and political psychology. In his research, Levy investigates ways to create greater understanding between liberal Democrats and conservative Republicans in the United States. Beyond establishing a vague tolerance, like agreeing to disagree, are there ways to push individuals toward a fuller understanding in which they see legitimate rationales for the other side’s beliefs? Levy received my PhD in Political Science from Northwestern University. Levy's work is supported by the Rapoport Family Foundation, and has been published in Political Psychology and the Economics of Education Review. Subfield(s): American Politics; Experimental Methods; Affective polarization; Democratic backsliding; Ideology; Polarization; Political behavior; Political psychology Dissertation: "How Could Anyone Believe That?": Interacting With Unfamiliar Beliefs Across the U.S. Political Divide (ProQuest) Committee: McGrath, Mary C.; Bullock, John G.; Molden, Daniel (Psychology) Current: Postdoctoral Scholar, Center for American Democracy, University of California, Berkeley Placement: Postdoctoral Scholar, Center for American Democracy, University of California, Berkeley | 2024 | University of California, Berkeley Postdoctoral Scholar, Center for American Democracy | American Politics | L | |
| Professional Website | SSRN Biography: Professor Li joined UCI Law in July 2019 as the John S. and Marilyn Long Professor of U.S.-China Business and Law. Prior to the appointment, he was Professor of Law and Zhuang Zhou scholar at Rutgers University and a member of the Associate Faculty of the Division of Global Affairs. Professor Li’s teaching and scholarship explores a broad range of topics including Chinese law and politics, international business transactions, contracts, comparative law, and empirical legal studies. His first book, The Clash of Capitalisms? Chinese Companies in the United States (Cambridge University Press, 2018), explores the adaptation of Chinese companies, including state-owned Chinese companies, to general US institutions and their compliance (or lack of compliance) with US laws governing tax, employment equality, and national security review of foreign investments. Subfield(s): Comparative Politics; Chinese Law and Politics, International Business Transactions, Comparative Law, Contracts, Empirical Legal Studies Dissertation: Suing the State: A Study of Administrative Litigation at the Provincial Level in China (ProQuest) Committee: Alter, Karen J. (Chair); Rose-Ackerman, Susan (Yale University); Shih, Victor C. Current: John & Marilyn Long Professor of US-China Business and Law, University of California, Irvine, School of Law Placement: Lawyer, Sullivan & Cromwell LLP | 2012 | University of California, Irvine John & Marilyn Long Professor of US-China Business and Law | Comparative Politics | L | |
| Institutional Website | LinkedIn | Research Gate Biography: Steve Light is Professor of Political Science & Public Administration at the University of North Dakota, where he teaches American government, executive leadership strategy, public human resource management, American Indian politics & public affairs, and the senior capstone. Steve’s extensive higher-education leadership portfolio includes serving as interim Dean of Business & Public Administration (2017-18) and Nursing & Professional Disciplines (2013-14), Associate Vice President for Academic Affairs (2011-17), and Associate Provost for Undergraduate Education (2010-11). In these varied roles, Steve led, oversaw, or coordinated myriad strategic initiatives to advance UND’s educational, research, and outreach mission, including institutional strategic planning and reaccreditation; curriculum development and academic program review; faculty promotion, tenure, and evaluation; faculty appointments and personnel management; strategic enrollment management and retention; leadership development; budget implementation; institutional advancement and capital project design; and creating a diverse, welcoming, and inclusive university community. Steve co-directs the Institute for the Study of Tribal Gaming Law & Policy, and is widely regarded as a leading expert on tribal gaming enterprises and economic development. Steve's roughly 60 publications include three books with Kathryn Rand (Professor and former Dean, UND School of Law), including Indian Gaming and Tribal Sovereignty, featured on C-SPAN's Book TV, and a solo book on voting rights. Subfield(s): American Politics; American government, executive leadership strategy, public human resource management, American Indian politics & public affairs Dissertation: There's more than meets the eye: Southern cities and minority political empowerment following the 1965 Voting Rights Act Committee: Reed, Adolph, Jr. (Chair); Conley, Patricia; Goldman, Jerry; Binford, Henry (History) Current: Professor of Political Science & Public Administration, University of North Dakota Placement: Assistant Professor of Political Science & Public Administration, University of North Dakota | 1999 | University of North Dakota Professor of Political Science & Public Administration | American Politics | L | |
| Institutional Website | Academia.edu | Twitter: @borisiswatching Biography: Boris Litvin received a PhD in Political Science from Northwestern University in 2019. His research extends across modern political thought, focusing especially on the relationship between rhetoric and democratic theory. Specifically, Boris's work investigates how modern political thinkers thematize spectators and spectatorship in their conceptions of "the people," in turn connecting these discussions to authors' efforts to engage their own audiences in new ways. Boris's book manuscript, You the People: Political Theory and the Construction of Popular Audiences, locates these engagements in the theoretic and literary works of Niccolo' Machiavelli, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, and Hannah Arendt. Boris's scholarly publications have appeared in the European Journal of Political Theory and the Review of Politics, and his commentary connecting political theory to contemporary political events has appeared in the New Statesman. Boris mainly teaches courses in political theory and political philosophy. Subfield(s): Political Theory; Arendt, Hannah; Democratic theory; History of political thought; Machiavelli, Niccolò; Rousseau, Jean-Jacques Dissertation: Spectators, Crowds, Citizens, Men in General, and You, Madame: Political Theory and the Politics of Audience (ProQuest) Committee: Dietz, Mary G. (Chair); Farr, James; Gaonkar, Dilip (Rhetoric and Public Culture); Williams, David Lay (DePaul) Current: Reitemeyer Visiting Assistant Professor, Trinity College, Department of Political Science Placement: Visiting Assistant Professor, Stetson University, Department of Political Science | 2019 | Trinity College Reitemeyer Visiting Assistant Professor | Political Theory | L | |
| Institutional Website | Professional Website | LinkedIn Subfield(s): International Relations; Global Governance, Regional Studies, Strategic and Security Studies, Interpretation and Translation; China; Democratization; Mass media; Taiwan Dissertation: Mass media and Taiwan's democratization (ProQuest) Committee: Page, Benjamin I. (Chair) Current: Associate Professor, Ming Chuan University, International Affairs; Executive Director, International Education & Exchange Division Placement: Director, Office of Research and Publishing Office, National Defense University | 1999 | Ming Chuan University Associate Professor and Executive Director | International Relations | L | |
| Institutional Website | Twitter: @LiuSota
Subfield(s): Comparative Politics; Policing, National Security, Digital Governance, China Studies Dissertation: The Politics of Policing in China: How Frontline Police Shape Order and Security (ProQuest) Committee: Hurst, William James (Chair); Winters, Jeffrey A; Pearlman, Wendy R Current: Assistant Professor, Peking University, Department of Political Science Placement: Postdoctoral Researcher, Freie Universität Berlin, Institut für Chinastudien | 2020 | Peking University Assistant Professor | Comparative Politics | L | |
| Professional Website | Twitter: @erinkaylockwood | Google Scholar Biography: I am an assistant professor in the Department of Political Science at the University of California, Irvine. I received my Ph.D. in Political Science from Northwestern University in 2017 and both a B.A. in International Studies and a B.S. in Economics from American University in 2011. My current book project examines the financial market practices through which both the market for over-the-counter derivatives and the authority of private financial actors were constructed. Through an interpretive analysis of regulatory documents, I find that practices like risk modelling, standardized contracts, and collateralization reassured public regulators of the market’s ability to govern itself even as these practices were inadequate and in some cases destabilizing during the 2008 financial crisis. Nonetheless, because these practices were constitutive of the market, and because private market actors were closely involved in the post-crisis regulatory effort, these were the practices public regulators reached for in the aftermath of the crisis, reinscribing private financial authority and the crisis-prone nature of the OTC derivatives market. Subfield(s): International Relations; International political economy; global financial politics; financial derivatives; regulation; risk and uncertainty; power, authority, and legitimacy in international politics; global inequality Dissertation: The Construction of Financial Authority (Ebscohost) Committee: Hurd, Ian F (Chair); Nelson, Stephen C (Co-Chair); Carruthers, Bruce Greenhow; Current: Assistant Professor, University of California, Irvine, Political Science Placement: Assistant Professor, University of California, Irvine, Political Science | 2017 | University of California, Irvine Assistant Professor | International Relations | L | |
| Professional Website | Twitter: @claudialopez Biography: Claudia López is the elected Mayor of Bogotá with more than 1,108,000 votes thus achieving the largest vote in the history of the city, for the coalition made up of the Alianza Verde, Polo Democrático and the Activist movement parties. She studied Government and Finance, Public Administration and Political Science at the Externado de Colombia University. In addition, she has a Master's degree in Public Administration and Urban Policy from Columbia University and a PhD in Political Science from Northwestern University in the United States. Subfield(s): Comparative Politics; Democratization; Regime building; State building; Subnational Politics Dissertation: Contemporary Statebuilding Through Democratization Processes: A Comparative, Subnational Perspective (Ebscohost) Committee: Mahoney, James L (Chair); Gibson, Edward L; Reno, William S Current: Mayor, City of Bogota, Colombia Placement: City of Bogota, Colombia | 2019 | City of Bogota, Colombia Mayor | Comparative Politics | L | |
| Professional Website | Personal Website | LinkedIn Biography: Christina previously worked at Northwestern University, conducting doctoral research in political theory and gender studies as well as teaching and advising undergraduate students. She earned her doctorate in political science in September 2019. As a political theorist, she believes that accessible higher education can help us to build a more equitable and community-centered world, and is passionately committed to that goal. Christina is also a yoga teacher, and in her spare time enjoys cooking, hiking, and spending time with her husband and cat. Subfield(s): Political Theory; Capitalism; Culture; Feminist; Oppression Dissertation: Arendt, Adorno, and Angela Davis: A Critique of Capitalist Culture (ProQuest) Committee: Dietz, Mary Golden (Chair); Farr, James Fulton; El-Amine, Loubna Current: Assistant Director of Customer Support, Mentor Collective Placement: Student Success Manager, Mentor Collective | 2019 | Mentor Collective Assistant Director of Customer Support | Political Theory | L | |
| LinkedIn | Professional Website Biography: Greetings from Colorado, where I am a professional marketer by day and an aspiring wine writer by night. My love of wine took off when I was a student living in France beaucoup de years ago. Now that I’m older and finally realize what I want to do with my life, I know that my destiny lies in writing about wine – from the soil that influences the flavor profile, to the vineyard manager who uses various techniques to produce the highest-quality fruit, to the winemaker who coaxes the grapes into something magical. Subfields: International Relations; Africa; Foreign policy; Franc Zone; France; Hegemony; Monetary policy; North-South relations Committee: Loriaux, Michael (Chair) Dissertation: The collapse of the Franc Zone: Redefining North-South relations after hegemony (1945-1994) (ProQuest) Current: Digital Copywriter, Jackson Family Wines | 1998 | Jackson Family Wines Digital Copywriter | International Relations | M | |
| Institutional Website | LinkedIn Subfield(s): Comparative Politics, Political Economy, Elections and Political Parties, Methodology for Social and Political Research Dissertation: Capitalist development and democratization in South Korea: A study on the socioeconomic structure and political processes. (Volumes I and II) Current: Professor Emeritus, Department of Political Science, Sungkyunkwan University | 1990 | Sungkyunkwan University Professor Emeritus, Department of Political Science | Comparative Politics | M | |
| Institutional Website | Academia.edu | LinkedIn Biography: Angela Maione is an Assistant Professor of Politial Theory at California State University, Long Beach. Formerly, Maione was a Lecturer at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst and at Harvard University. Her work is broadly interdisciplinary and draws on resources in the history of political thought for contemporary debate in radical democratic and feminist theory. She was previously a post-doctoral fellow at the Hannah Arendt Center. She is currently completing a book manuscript titled Revolutionary Rhetoric: Wollstonecraft's Transformative Enactment. Subfield(s): Political Theory; democratic practice and political institutions in transnational perspective, eighteenth and nineteenth centuries Dissertation: Revolutionary Rhetoric: The Political Thought of Mary Wollstonecraft (ProQuest) Committee: Zerilli, Linda (Chair); Dietz, Mary G.; Orloff, Ann Shola Current: Assistant Professor, California State University, Long Beach, Department of Political Science & Women and Gender Studies Placement: Post-Doctoral Fellow, Bard College, Hannah Arendt Center | 2012 | California State University, Long Beach Assistant Professor | Political Theory | M | |
| Professional Website | Personal Website | Twitter: @afghanopoly | Academia.edu | LinkedIn Biography: I am an Associate Professor at Radboud University’s Department of Political Science and Centre for International Conflict Analysis and Management (CICAM), in Nijmegen (Netherlands). I hold a PhD in political science from Northwestern University (United States) and Sciences Po Paris (France). My first book, Warlord Survival: The Delusion of State Building in Afghanistan, came out with Cornell University Press in December 2019. My new research project looks at rebel-to-state transition in Afghanistan and beyond and was recently awarded a VIDI grant from the Dutch Research Council (NWO)’. My work has been published in journals such as Security Studies, Perspectives on Politics, Civil Wars, Small Wars & Insurgencies, the Canadian Journal of Political Science, and Etudes Internationales, and featured on blogs and mainstreamed media such as Political Violence at a Glance, The Conversation, Foreign Policy, and The Washington Post‘s Monkey Cage. I also regularly engage with policy-makers and frequently appear in the media (e.g. Al Jazeera, NPR, France 24, France Info, France Culture). Subfield(s): International Relations; Afghanistan, Somalia, Statebuilding and state making processes, Violence, armed conflicts and armed groups, Failed states, warlordism, and militias, External interventions Dissertation: Neo-Chiefs in the International State System Power Strategies and Authority in Afghanistan (1992 to the Present) (ProQuest) Committee: Reno, William S (Chair); Caverley, Jonathan D; Qader, Nasrin (French and Italian); Ramel, Frederic (Sciences Po) Current: Assistant Professor, Radboud University Nijmegen, International Conflict Analysis and Management (CICAM) Placement: Visiting Scholar, Columbia University, Harriman Institute | 2013 | Radboud University Nijmegen Universitair hoofddocent (Associate Professor) | International Relations | M | |
| Institutional Website | Professional Website | Twitter: @aditimalik_ | Google Scholar Biography: I am an Associate Professor of Political Science at the College of the Holy Cross. During the 2024-2025 academic year, I am a Visiting Scholar at the Women’s Studies Research Center at Brandeis University. I study Comparative Politics with regional specializations in Africa and South Asia. My substantive interests include the study of political violence, gender-based violence, and social movements and contentious politics. I earned my PhD in Political Science from Northwestern University and my MPhil in International Relations from the University of Cambridge, where I studied as a Gates Cambridge Scholar. My first book, Playing with Fire: Parties and Political Violence in Kenya and India (Cambridge University Press 2024), develops a theoretical and empirical account of the relationship between elites, political parties, and party-based violence. This research is based on a cross-regional comparison of Kenya and India with subnational comparisons in the two countries. The book relies on a host of qualitative and quantitative data to account for the conditions under which political parties can become instruments for conflict. A second long-term project seeks to explain why some incidents of sexual violence result in mass protests while others do not. I am especially interested in understanding how the efforts of feminist activists and media reporters inform ordinary citizens' willingness to take to the streets. I have completed initial fieldwork for this project in India and South Africa, where I am studying variations in public responses to a number of lethal rapes. I am conducting further fieldwork in both countries in 2024. To date, my research has taken me to Kenya, Rwanda, South Africa, Cambodia, India, and Nepal where I have studied various facets of conflict and conflict resolution. My academic work has appeared in venues such as Human Rights Review; Human Rights Quarterly; African Conflict & Peacebuilding Review; Commonwealth & Comparative Politics; Politics, Groups, and Identities; African Studies Review; India Review; and Zed Books, among others. In addition, I have conducted policy analysis for the World Bank and the United Nations, and my writing and analyses have also appeared in public-facing outlets such as The Monkey Cage blog at The Washington Post; The Conversation (Africa); and Deutsche Welle. Subfield(s): Comparative Politics, African Politics, South Asian Politics, political violence Dissertation: Playing the Communal Card: Elites, Parties, and Inter-Ethnic Electoral Violence in Kenya and India (ProQuest) Committee: Reno, William (Chair); Arjona, Ana; Riedl, Rachel B.; Srinivasan, Sharath (King's College London) Current: Associate Professor of Political Science, College of the Holy Cross Placement: Postdoctoral Fellow at the Africana Research Center at Penn State University | 2015 | College of the Holy Cross Associate Professor of Political Science | Comparative Politics | M | |
| Insitutional Website | Professional Website | Twitter: @pilar_manz | Google Scholar | LinkedIn Biography: Pilar Manzi is a Harper-Schmidt Fellow and Collegiate Assistant Professor at the University of Chicago. Manzi's research focuses broadly on the politics of income inequality, on economic elites, and on social policy. Manzi's work on this topic has been published in the Journal of Politics in Latin America, Social Policy and Administration, and forthcoming in Oxford Open Economics. Manzi has also worked on projects regarding multidimensional child poverty, social expenditure, gender inequality in the labor market, and care policies. This research has been published in Latin American Research Review and International Security Review, as well as in multiple policy papers. Subfield(s): Comparative Politics; Economic elites; Economic inequality; Latin America; Political economy; Political inequality; Redistribution Dissertation: Poverty, Inequality, and Policy Preferences: Economic Elite Attitudes in Latin America (ProQuest) Committee: Seawright, Jason W.; Mahoney, James L.; Roberts, Andrew L. Current: Harper-Schmidt Fellow and Collegiate Assistant Professor, The University of Chicago Placement: Harper-Schmidt Fellow and Collegiate Assistant Professor, The University of Chicago | 2024 | The University of Chicago Harper-Schmidt Fellow and Collegiate Assistant Professor | Comparative Politics | M | |
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Subfield(s): American Politics; Business influence; Business interests; Political science; Representation Dissertation: Exploring Business Influence: When Does it Matter? (ProQuest) Committee: Druckman, James N (Chair); Chen, Anthony S; Krupnikov, Yanna Current: Product and Technical Marketing Operations Manager, Duo Security Placement: Market Research Analyst, Direct Opinions | 2016 | Duo Security Product and Technical Marketing Operations Manager | American Politics | M | |
| Institutional Website | Twitter: @drcharlen | LinkedIn | Researchgate | ORCID Biography: I have a BA in History and an MA and PhD in Political Science from Northwestern University in the United States. I have been a visiting researcher at the Institute for European Studies at Cornell University. My main interests are international political economy and comparative political economy. I conduct research on how U.S. political thought, particularly its nationalist and populist strands, affects U.S. relations with the outside world. I have written on how the United States' sense of having an exceptional mission has shaped U.S. attitudes towards Americans abroad and am now working on publications examining the politics surrounding the U.S. government’s attempts to promote technological competitiveness since the 1970s. Subfield(s): International Relations; American Politics; international political economy and comparative political economy Dissertation: The Politics of Industrial Policy: the Development of U.S. and German Policies Towards the Semiconductor Industry (vol. 1 & 2) (ProQuest) Committee: Woo-Cummings, Meredith (Chair); Thelen, Kathleen; Page, Benjamin I.; Loriaux, Michael Current: Lecturer, University of Leeds, Politics and International Studies | 1995 | University of Leeds Lecturer | American Politics, International Relations | M | |
| Institutional Website | Professional Website | LinkedIn | Google Scholar Biography: Anna-Maria Marshall, associate professor of sociology and law, joined the faculty of the Department of Sociology in 1999, earning campus-wide recognition for teaching every year. She currently teaches courses in criminology, the criminal justice system, and Law and Society. A litigator from 1985-90 in the areas of employment and labor law, Professor Marshall published the book, Confronting Sexual Harassment: The Law and Politics of Everyday Life (Dartmouth Ashgate Publishing, 2005) and is a co-editor, with Scott Barclay and Mary Bernstein, of the book Queer Mobilizations: LGBT Activists Confront the Law (New York University Press, 2009). More recently, she is working on a research project about how law and policy shape farmers’ decisions about whether to adopt conservation practices. She received her J.D. from the University of Virginia School of Law and her Ph.D in Political Science from Northwestern University. Her work has appeared in Law and Society Review, Law and Social Inquiry, Studies in Law, Politics, and Society, and several edited volumes. She is a co-PI in several NSF-funded projects supporting transdisciplinary research and education, including the INFEWS-ER (Innovations at the Nexus of Food-Energy-Water Systems – Educational Resources), EngageINFEWS (Research Coordination Network on Stakeholder Engagement in FEWS), and STEPS (Science and Technologies for Phosphorus Sustainability). Subfield(s): American Politics; Law; Sexual harassment; Social change Dissertation: Mobilizing the Law for Social Change: The Case of Sexual Harassment (ProQuest) Committee: Casper, Jonathan D. (Chair); Mansbridge, Jane J.; Jacob, Herbert; Page, Benjamin I.; Chong, Dennis Current: Associate Professor of Sociology and Law, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Placement: Assistant Professor of Sociology and Law, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign | 1999 | University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Associate Professor of Sociology and Law | American Politics | M | |
| Professional Website | Twitter: @jmatatyaou | LinkedIn Biography: Jake Matatyaou is a designer, writer, and educator. Matatyaou is a founding partner of JuneJuly, a design consultancy based in Los Angeles, CA, and Seattle, WA. Established by Matatyaou and Kyle Hovenkotter in 2014, JuneJuly is committed to expanding architecture to more than the design of buildings. Using architecture as a visceral mode of communication, JuneJuly explores the impact of globalization and networked technology on the spaces, places, and people of contemporary cities. Matatyaou’s work draws from interaction design, experience design, film, and music, to offer a renewed interest in the human body and its situation in the world. Before joining UCLA, Matatyaou was the Liberal Arts Coordinator and Design Studio Faculty at SCI-Arc. Subfield(s): Political Theory; Philosophy, religion and theology; Communication and the arts; Social sciences; Arendt, Hannah; Benjamin, Walter; Judgment; Memorial; Memory; Space Dissertation: Memory – space – politics: Public memorial and the problem of political judgment (Ebscohost) Committee: Zerilli, Linda (Chair); Honig, Bonnie H; Jarzombek, Mark; Current: Research Analyst, The Consilience Project Placement: Liberal Arts Coordinator, Southern California Institute of Architecture, Design | 2008 | The Consilience Project Research Analyst | Political Theory | M | |
| Institutional Website | Professional Website | Twitter: @JaharaMatisek | LinkedIn | Academia.edu Biography: Lieutenant Colonel Jahara ‘FRANKY’ Matisek, PhD, is an active duty US Air Force Senior Pilot serving as an Associate Professor in the Department of Military and Strategic Studies and as the Research Director for the Strategy and Warfare Center at the US Air Force Academy. He has over 3,600 hours of flight time (with more than 1,300 combat hours), having served as an Instructor Pilot in the C-17, E-11, T-53, and T-6 at the prestigious Euro-NATO Joint Jet Pilot Training (ENJJPT) program. FRANKY has published over 60 articles in peer-reviewed journals and policy relevant outlets on the topic of modern warfare, strategy, and security force assistance. Most recently he was awarded the Bronze Star Medal for his 2020 deployment to Kandahar Airfield, Afghanistan, serving as the Director of Operations and Commander of the 451st Expeditionary Operations Support Squadron. Finally, FRANKY earned his PhD in Political Science at Northwestern University and his forthcoming book, Old and New Battlespaces, describes how sociopolitical-information warfare is leading to the weaponization of everything in society, as every citizen becomes a combatant. Subfield(s): impact of technology on future warfare, security force assistance, hybrid warfare, and the way weak states create effective militaries Dissertation: Pathways to Military Effectiveness: Armies and Contemporary African States Committee: Reno, William S.K. (Chair); Henke, Marina E.; Staniland, Paul (UChicago) Current: Military Professor, U.S. Naval War College, Military & Strategic Studies Department Placement: Assistant Professor, US Air Force Academy, Military & Strategic Studies Department | 2018 | U.S. Naval War College Military Professor | Comparative Politics | M | |
| Professional Website | Twitter: @MargittaMatzke | ResearchGate Biography: Margitta Mätzke completed her PhD in Political Science at Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois, USA, and received her post-doctoral degree in Political Science from the University of Göttingen, Germany. She is currently Professor of Politics and Social Policy at the Johannes Kepler University Linz, Austria. Subfield(s): Comparative Politics; Comparative political science, focus on welfare state research, Social-political institutions and social political decision-making in comparison Dissertation: Man-Made Distinctions in the Welfare State: Political Decisions about Inequality in Major German Social Policy Reforms Vol. I & II (ProQuest) Committee: Thelen, Kathleen A. (Chair); Stinchcombe, Arthur (Sociology); Swenson, Peter A.; Wallerstein, Michael J. Current: Professor, Johannes Kepler University Linz, Institute for social and social policy, Department of Politics and Social Policy Placement: Post-doctoral Fellow, University of Michigan, School of Public Health | 2005 | Johannes Kepler University Linz Professor | Comparative Politics | M | |
| Professional Website | Twitter: @LidaMaxwell | Academia.edu | LinkedIn Biography: Professor Maxwell is Professor of Political Science and Women’s, Gender, & Sexuality Studies. She is the author of Insurgent Truth: Chelsea Manning and the Politics of Outsider Truth-Telling (Oxford UP, 2019), Public Trials: Burke, Zola, Arendt, and the Politics of Lost Causes (Oxford UP, 2015), the co-editor of Second Nature: Rethinking Nature Through Politics (Fordham UP, 2014), and the co-author of The Right to Have Rights (Verso, 2018). Her articles have appeared in Political Theory, Contemporary Political Theory, and Theory and Event. Subfield(s): Political Theory; Political Theory; Feminist Theory; Queer Theory; Contemporary Democratic Theory; Environmental Political Theory; Law and Politics Dissertation: Between law and lawlessness: Democratizing law in Montesquieu, Burke, and Arendt (ProQuest) Committee: Honig, Bonnie H (Chair); Zerilli, Linda; Monoson, S. Sara Current: Professor, Boston University, Department of Political Science & Women and Gender Studies Placement: Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow, Cornell University, Department of Government | 2006 | Boston University Professor of Political Science and Women's, Gender, & Sexuality Studies | Political Theory | M | |
| Professional Website | Twitter: @j_r_mcallister | Academia.edu Biography: Jacqueline R. McAllister joined Kenyon's faculty in 2014. McAllister’s scholarship is aimed at understanding whether, how and when international justice efforts impact ongoing conflicts. Her research has taken her all over the world, from the Balkans to Nigeria. McAllister’s work has appeared in leading scholarly journals and foreign policy magazines, as well as received support from the Fulbright U.S. Scholar Program, the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, National Science Foundation, the American Association of University Women and the American Council of Learned Societies. McAllister has also served as an expert panelist at a U.N.-sponsored conference on the legacy of the Yugoslav Tribunal. Subfield(s): Comparative Politics; international relations, transitional justice, human rights, war crimes tribunals, international organizations, civil wars and U.S. foreign policy Dissertation: On Knife's Edge: The International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia's Impact on Violence Against Civilians (ProQuest) Committee: Alter-Hanson, Karen (Chair); Hagan, John (Sociology); Reno, William; Spruyt, Hendrik Current: Associate Professor, Kenyon College, Department of Political Science, International Studies Placement: Visiting Lecturer, Wellesley College, Political Science | 2014 | Kenyon College Associate Professor | International Relations, Comparative Politics | M | |
| Twitter: @RahulMediratta | LinkedIn Biography: As a Change Management Leader, I help clients achieve their business goals by designing and implementing strategies that enable user adoption of organization-wide change including: Cloud systems, Operating Model change, High-Performing Culture and M&A. I have five years of experience in this field, working with Fortune 500 financial institutions and professional services organizations across North America. I am a Salesforce Certified Associate. I am passionate about applying social science insights and methods to solve complex organizational challenges and enhance performance. I have received multiple awards and grants for my research and practice, including the Deloitte Gold Award, EY Ovation Award and the Kellogg School of Management Dispute Resolution Research Grant. Subfield(s): International Relations; Foreign policy; Illegal markets; India; International political economy; Pakistan; Trade Dissertation: Globalization in the Shadows: Smuggling and the Foreign Policy Calculus of Enduring Interstate Rivalry (ProQuest) Committee: Mahoney, James L (Chair); Nelson, Stephen C (Co-Chair); Ganguly, Sumit (Indiana University, Bloomington); Spruyt, Hendrik Current: Change Management Lead, Morgan Stanley Placement: Consultant, Indian Council for Research on International Economic Relations, Multi-Level Dialogue for Trade Normalization between India and Pakistan | 2016 | Morgan Stanley Change Management Lead | International Relations | M | |
| Professional Website | Academia.edu | LinkedIn Biography: Dr. Metelits joined Marine Corps University in 2018. Prior to that she taught in the School of International Service at American University and Davidson College. She also worked as an advisor to US Army TRADOC and US Africa Command from 2009-2013. Dr. Metelits has conducted research on insurgent groups in Western Sahara, Afghanistan, Iraq, South Sudan, Uganda, Angola, Turkey, and Colombia and has interviewed members of the Taliban, the Kurdish Workers’ Party (PKK), the Sudan People’s Liberation Army (SPLA), and the Polisario Front. She is the author of Inside Insurgency (2010), Security in Africa (2016), and co-editor of Democratic Contestation on the Margins: Regimes in Small African Countries (2015). She has published both scholarly and non-scholarly works. She received her Doctorate in Political Science from Northwestern University. Her research focuses on Africa, non-state armed actors, non-state governance, and gender and conflict. Subfield(s): International Relations; Non-state armed groups, Non-state Governance, Africa, Critical security studies, Gender Peace and security Dissertation: Coercion and collusion: Change in rebel group treatment of civilians (ProQuest) Committee: Reno, William S (Chair); Spruyt, Hendrik; Earle, Timothy (Anthropology) Current: Associate Professor, Marine Corp University, Strategic Studies Placement: Assistant Professor, Washington State University, Department of Political Science | 2007 | Marine Corp University Associate Professor | International Relations, Comparative Politics | M | |
| Google Scholar Biography: I am an affiliated researcher at the Equality, Development, and Globalization Studies (EDGS), The Buffett Institute, Northwestern University. I am also currently a guest lecturer at the American Studies program, Faculty of Letters, Universitas Gadjah Mada (UGM), Indonesia. My research investigates the logic underpinning government policies on religious issues and its consequences on secularism, democracy and religious liberty. Regionally, I specialize in the study of Indonesian politics. Subfield(s): Comparative Politics, Political Theory; political economy of secularization in postcolonial Muslim countries utilizing comparative-historical and ethnographic methods with a specific focus on Southeast Asia Dissertation: Coercion in Search of Legitimacy: The Secular State, Religious Politics, and Religious Coercion in Indonesia Under the New Order, 1967–1998 (Proquest) Committee: Winters, Jeffrey A (Chair); Hurst, William James; Cherry, Haydon (NU History) Current: Visiting Lecturer, Universitas Gadjah Mada (UGM), the Center for the Study of Asia and the Pacific (PSAP) Placement: Postdoctoral Fellow, Universitas Gadjah Mada (UGM), the Center for the Study of Asia and the Pacific (PSAP) | 2021 | Universitas Gadjah Mada (UGM) Visiting Lecturer | Comparative Politics, Political Theory | M | |
| Professional Website | Personal Website | Twitter: @swingstateprof | Academia.edu | LinkedIn Biography: Dr. Melissa Miller is an expert on American politics with a specific focus on elections and voting behavior, women in American politics, public opinion, and the media. She teaches courses in American Government, Political Parties, Voter Behavior, Women in American Politics, and Research Methods. In 2016 Dr. Miller was named Master Teacher -- the highest teaching award on campus. Dr. Miller is frequently interviewed by local, regional, national, and international media. She has appeared in/on CNN, ABC News, Fox News, Al Jazeera, The New York Times, The Guardian, and The New York Review of Books, among others. In recognition of her extensive commitment to public engagement, Dr. Miller was awarded the 2018 Community Engagement Award by BGSU’s Faculty Senate. Subfield(s): American Politics; elections and voting behavior, women in American politics, public opinion, and the media Dissertation: The joiners: Voluntary organizations and political participation in the United States (ProQuest) Committee: Chong, Dennis (Chair); Conley, Patricia D; Page, Benjamin I Current: Professor, Bowling Green State University, Political Science Placement: Research Assistant, Council on Competitiveness | 2003 | Bowling Green State University Professor | American Politics | M | |
| Professional Website | Academia.edu | LinkedIn Biography: Khairunnisa has over ten years’ experience in organisational culture, innovation and human-centred design. A social scientist by training, she uses methodological rigour and a holistic systems approach to lead the design and delivery of experiences that have impact, embed learning, and change behaviours. After getting her PhD, Khairunnisa worked in innovation, using ethnographic research, deep behavioural insights, and cutting-edge theories to design products, services and experiences for customers and employees, across industries. Curious by nature, collaborative at heart, and interdisciplinary by training, she is a published methodologist, selected as a Woman of the Future, and regularly presents sessions on issues relating to early careers at international conferences of industry experts, most recently at the adidas United HR Global Summit in Germany. Khairunnisa is also a fluent French speaker! When not immersed in the intricacies and paradoxes of human behaviour, Khairunnisa is busy experimenting with making ice cream flavours in her kitchen. Subfield(s): Comparative Politics; Formal institutions; Informal institutions; Kenya; Political economy; State-building; Uganda Dissertation: Negotiating the State: The Development of Informal and Formal State Institutions in Contemporary Uganda and Kenya (ProQuest) Committee: Reno, William S (Chair); Mahoney, James L; Spruyt, Hendrik Current: Director & Chief Innovation Officer, The Smarty Train Placement: Resident Ethnographer, Idea Couture Inc. | 2014 | The Smarty Train Director & Chief Innovation Officer | Comparative Politics | M | |
| Institutional Website | LinkedIn Biography: Ivonne Montes Diaz is a Senior Research Specialist at the Center of Research and Data Analysis at the National League of Cities. Subfield(s): Political Media, Political Campaigns, Elections, Economics, Poverty, Race, Inequality, Labor Market, Education, Climate Change. Dissertation: Essays on the Effects of Gender, Race, and Socioeconomic Factors on Immigration Policy and Public Opinion (ProQuest) Committee: Druckman, James N. (Chair); Rogers, Reuel R. (Co-chair); McGrath, Mary Current: Program Manager, National League of Cities Placement: Senior Research Specialist, National League of Cities | 2023 | National League of Cities Program Manager | American Politics | M | |
| Professional Website | LinkedIn Biography: Dr. Moore serves as the Director of Political Outreach for the Tom McCall Center for Civic Engagement. He teaches a variety of international classes at Pacific. His introductory class to international relations, the U.S. in World Affairs, studies Thucydides' 2,400-year-old History of the Peloponnesian War, as well as the daily New York Times. Other classes look at the Middle East, international political economy, and U.S. foreign policy and conflict. Professor Moore's other teaching areas include state and local politics and political parties. He has helped place interns with political campaigns, government officials, and businesses all over the Pacific Northwest. Dr. Moore is writing a biography of Vic Atiyeh, Oregon's governor from 1979-1987. Atiyeh was the country's first Arab-American governor, he laid the ground for Oregon's high tech industry, and he was the last Republican to hold the gubernatorial office. Dr. Moore regularly gives talks on topics ranging from Oregon's tax structure and gubernatorial politics to international economics and the Middle East. You can catch him analyzing the political world on KOPB (91.5 FM) and KXL radio (101.1 FM), all in Portland. He also reads and speaks several languages from around the Mediterranean. Jim Moore incorporates civic engagement into his teaching, into his roles connecting students with the larger community, and into his political analysis. His biennial classes—timed to general elections—require students to work with campaigns. Moore’s students in these classes have been a part of west coast politics since 1992. His role at the McCall Center for Civic Engagement is to bring decision makers and students together, usually with events on Pacific’s campuses. And in his role as a political analyst, Moore’s teaching stretches far and wide across the Pacific Northwest and often to national and international venues. He has been interviewed for media stories over 6500 times since 1991. Moore grew up in southern Oregon and northern California, and he has degrees from Stanford University, the Monterey (now Middlebury) Institute of International Studies, and his doctorate from Northwestern University. Subfields: International Relations; American politics; Oregon and Pacific Northwest, political parties, US Congress, elections, polling. International politics; Middle East, US foreign policy, international economics, Europe Dissertation: Collective Security in the Post-Cold War World (ProQuest) Committee: Loriaux, Michael M (Chair); Page, Benjamin I.; Lynch, Cecilia Current: Associate Professor Pacific University Oregon, Director of Political Outreach - Tom McCall Center for Civic Engagement. Placement: Assistant Professor, University of Portland | 1995 | Pacific University Associate Professor; Director of Political Outreach | American Politics, International Relations | M | |
| Institutional Website | Twitter: @moskowi1 | LinkedIn Biography: Rachel Moskowitz is an Assistant Professor in the Public Policy & Law Program. Her research lies at the intersection of public policy, political behavior and public opinion, race politics, and urban politics. In her current projects, she uses survey, experimental, and qualitative methods to study educational issues and political decisions in a variety of local political contexts. Professor Moskowitz pays particular attention to the role of equality, race, and community in the formation of attitudes and vote choices on education policies. Subfield(s): American politics; public policy, political behavior and public opinion, race politics, and urban politics, survey, experimental, and qualitative methods Dissertation: Race, Equality, and Community in Local Education: How Complex Beliefs and Values Shape Educational Attitudes, Votes, and School Policy (ProQuest) Committee: Druckman, James N. (Chair); Cook, Fay L.; Page, Benjamin I.; Rogers, Reuel R. Current: Assistant Professor, Trinity College, Public Policy and Law Placement: Assistant Professor, Trinity College, Public Policy and Law | 2015 | Trinity College Assistant Professor | American Politics | M | |
| Professional Website | Google Scholar Biography: Kevin Mullinix is an Associate Professor in the Department of Political Science. His research concentrates on political communication, public opinion, and public policy. Professor Mullinix examines the extent to which political parties and elected officials shape the public’s attitudes toward various policies. More recently, his research has focused on the effects of wrongful convictions for attitudes toward the criminal justice policies and the effects of racial disparities in the justice system for trust in police. He has a related research agenda on the generalizability of experiments in the social sciences. Subfield(s): American Politics; political communication, public opinion, and public policy, American Politics, Political Communication, Public Policy, Public Opinion, Political Behavior, Research Methods, Surveys & Experiments, Criminal Justice Dissertation: The Scope of the 'Perceptual Screen': Partisanship and Preference Formation (ProQuest) Committee: Druckman, James N (Chair); Kernell, Georgia C.; Krupnikov, Yanna Current: Associate Professor, University of Kansas, Department of Political Science Placement: Assistant Professor, Appalachian State University, Department of Government and Justice Studies | 2015 | University of Kansas Associate Professor | American Politics | M | |
| Twitter: @andremunro | LinkedIn Biography: Leading the data and monetization strategy of the advertising branch of CBC/Radio-Canada, Media Solutions, Andre Munro's current focus is on enhancing our first party data, improving our market alignment, and leading the adoption of cookieless solutions such as data clean rooms. Subfields: Political Theory; Philosophy, religion and theology; Social sciences; France; People; Political philosophy; Political theory; Republicanism; Sovereignty Dissertation: Democratic Excess and Popular Sovereignty (ProQuest) Committee: Dietz, Mary G. (Chair); Farr, James F.; Maza, Sarah (History) Current: Director, Radio-Canada, Tech/Data Strategy and Monetization Placement: Content Manager, PressReader | 2015 | Radio-Canada Director, Data Strategy and Monetization | Political Theory | M | |
| Professional Website | LinkedIn Biography: Passionate about education, Barbara holds a PhD from Northwestern University and a Montessori certificate from CGMS. She is also a recipient of the AMS 2021 Montessori Innovator Award. As the mother of two while living in Milan, Italy, she fell in love with Montessori pedagogy. After moving to Miami, Florida, Barbara founded Montessori Gym, now Montessori Wellness, with the vision of supporting well-being in Montessori. Barbara has presented on movement and other wellness topics at several international, national and state-wide Montessori conferences, including AMS The Montessori Event, AMI-USA Montessori Experience, as well as events hosted by Montessori Foundation/IMC, Michigan Montessori Society, Florida Montessori Coalition, Virginia Montessori Association, Montessori Association of North Carolina, Wisconsin Montessori Association, University of Wisconsin La Crosse, Montessori Schools of Massachusetts, Association of Illinois Montessori Schools, Utah Montessori Council, New York State Montessori Association, Montessori Alliance of Tennessee, Southeast Montessori Collective and Childhood Potential. Subfield(s): International Relations; International organizations; Interorganizational relations; United Nations; World Bank; World Food Programme; UNICEF; UNESCO Dissertation: Tell me thy company: Inter-organizational relations in the United Nations system (ProQuest) Committee: Spruyt, Hendrik (Chair); Alter, Karen J.; Hurd, Ian F. Current: Founder, Montessori Gym Placement: Founder, Montessori Gym | 2008 | Montessori Gym Founder | International Relations | M | |
| Biography: Musifiky Mwanasali holds a Ph.D. in Political Science from Northwestern University. His experience spans over three decades in academic teaching and research in African and the United States, and in the political world working for the Organization of African Unity, the African Union and the United Nations. He has published extensively on issues ranging from political economy to human right and peace and security. Dr. Musifiky Mwanasali is the former Political and Diplomatic Adviser to the Chairperson of the AU Commission, former Senior Political Affairs Officer, United Nations Office in Mali (UNOM) and AU-UN Mission in Darfur (UNAMID) Dissertation: Accumulation, Regulation and Development: The Grass-Roots Economy in the Upper Saire Region (1975-1992) (ProQuest) Committee: Abu-Lughod, Ibrahim; Hansen, Karen Tranberg (Anthropology); Munro, William A. | 1994 | United Nations Office in Mali (UNOM) former Senior Political Affairs Officer | Comparative Politics | M | |
| Professional Website | Personal Website | Google Scholar Biography: Ella Myers is Professor in the Division of Gender Studies and the Department of Political Science. She is also Chair of the Division of Gender Studies and previously served for five years as the Director of Undergraduate Studies for Political Science. She is an award-winning teacher of political and feminist theory. Her courses include Intro to Political Theory, Feminist Political Theory, Intro to Feminist Theories, Contemporary Political Theory, Black Political Thought, and Gender, Power & Freedom, among others. Her research focuses on contemporary democratic theory. She is especially interested in the distribution of political power and practices of collective resistance through which ordinary citizens strive to shape the conditions of their lives. Her first major body of research focused on the role played by "ethos" or spirit in encouraging – or discouraging – associative forms of democratic action in the American polity. Her book Worldly Ethics: Democratic Politics and Care for the World (Duke University Press, 2013) engages closely with the writings of Foucault, Levinas, and Arendt to argue against both therapeutic and charitable models of ethics and on behalf of a world-centered ethos, which Myers argues is uniquely suited to the practice of associative democracy. She has also published work on Isaiah Berlin’s pluralism, Jacques Rancière’s account of radical equality, and the workings of neoliberal common sense. Her book The Gratifications of Whiteness: W.E.B. Du Bois and the Enduring Rewards of Antiblackness (Oxford University Press, 2022), examines W.E. B. Du Bois’s account of racialized identity in the U.S. Specifically, Myers argues that Du Bois's middle-period work (1920-1940) offers a complex, pluralistic analysis of the workings of American whiteness. This analysis includes his well-known account of the "public and psychological wage," but as the book shows, Du Bois does not reduce whiteness to any single meaning or function. His writings reveal that whiteness not only delivers meaningful status benefits within the terms of racial capitalism (wage). It is also forged & sustained through sadistic investments in Black pain (pleaure) and by way of a lived faith animated by the conviction that “whiteness is ownership of the earth, forever and ever, Amen!” (dominion). The book creatively extends Du Bois's polyvalent theory of whiteness into the present and explores how these entrenched patterns of gratification might be undone. Subfield(s): Political Theory; Democratic Theory, Critical Race Theory, Feminist Theory, Collective Action and Social Movements, Ethics, Political Institutions, Economic Inequality; Arendt, Hannah; Berlin, Isaiah; Democracy; Ethics; Foucault, Michel; Hannah Arendt; Isaiah Berlin; Michel Foucault Dissertation: The turn to ethics and its democratic costs (Ebscohost) Committee: Zerilli, Linda (Chair); Honig, Bonnie H. Current: Professor, University of Utah, Political Science Department; Gender Studies Program Placement: Instructor, Northwestern University, Political Science & Gender Studies Program | 2006 | University of Utah Professor | Political Theory | M | |
| Professional Website | Twitter: @GNavaCampos | LinkedIn Biography: Dr. Nava-Campos is a Deputy Director of Knowledge Management and leads SCG’s assessment, design, monitoring, evaluation, and learning (ADMEL) for a global portfolio of projects. Dr. Nava-Campos joined SCG in 2020 as a Senior Program Officer before her promotion to Deputy Director. She developed a comprehensive MEL framework for the International Police Peacekeeping Operations Support (IPPOS) Program and integrated components of that framework into the Department of State Bureau of International Narcotics and Law Enforcement Affairs’ DevResults platform. Dr. Nava-Campos has designed and conducted assessments on Senegal and Ghana’s capacity to train and deploy peacekeepers using instruments and methodologies later employed in Cameroon, Jordan, Rwanda, and Togo. She also developed a gender mainstreaming measuring instrument used to assess Jordan’s efforts to increase the participation of women in peacekeeping. Dr. Nava-Campos’ ADMEL experience spans more than 20 years of work with government agencies, private sector companies, and NGOs on a wide range of projects financed by organizations such as USAID, Inter-American Development Bank (IADB), Open Government Partnership (OGP), Global Development Network (GDN), and World Wildlife Fund (WWF). Her international experience as an evaluator and instructor also includes Colombia, Mexico, Brazil, Argentina, Ecuador, and El Salvador. Dr. Nava-Campos has a Ph.D. in Political Science from Northwestern University, a Master in Public Policy Degree from Harvard University Kennedy School, and a B.A. in International Relations from El Colegio de Mexico. She is fluent in Spanish, Portuguese, and French. Subfield(s): Comparative Politics; human services, conservation, discrimination and violence, social impact assessments, violence prevention, energy distribution, public policy Dissertation: Political institutions, power distribution and the resolution of financial crises (ProQuest) Committee: Schneider, Ben Ross (Chair); Gibson, Edward L.; Seawright, Jason N. Current: Deputy Director of Knowledge Management, Strategic Capacity Group Placement: Instructor, Northwestern University, Department of Political Science | 2008 | Strategic Capacity Group Deputy Director of Knowledge Management | Comparative Politics | N | |
| Institutional Website | Professional Website | Twitter: @paralogik Biography: I am a Visiting Assistant Professor of Political Science at Reed College, before which I was a Postdoctoral Fellow and Lecturer at Stanford University. My research and teaching interests are in the history of political thought, contemporary democratic and feminist theory, and the politics of science, technology and the environment (particularly statistics and statecraft, climate science, and contemporary data politics). I am the founder and Project Director of Arendt on Earth: From the Archimedean Point to the Anthropocene, an interdisciplinary, cross-institutional symposium series funded by Humanities Without Walls and the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. I hold a PhD in Political Science and a Graduate Certificate in Science in Human Culture from Northwestern University. I was a Dissertation Fellow at the University of California, Santa Barbara, where I designed workshops on democracy and sincerity online—one on trolling, another on public shaming. Subfield(s): Political Theory; History of political thought and contemporary democratic theory, with a focus on the politics of science, technology and the environment Dissertation: Truth in the Milieu of Politics: Knowledge, Authority, and Democratic Freedom (Ebscohost) Committee: Dietz, Mary Golden (Chair); Alder, Ken; Farr, James Fulton Current: Visiting Assistant Professor, Department of Political Science, Reed College Placement: Postdoctoral Fellow and Lecturer, Stanford University, Thinking Matters | 2018 | Reed College Visiting Assistant Professor of Political Science | Political Theory | N | |
| Institutional Website | Professional Website | Twitter: @nelsen_matt | LinkedIn | Google Scholar Biography: I am a Postdoctoral Scholar affiliated with the Department of Political Science and the GenForward Survey at the University of Chicago. I received my Ph.D. in political science from Northwestern University in June of 2020. My work is featured in Perspectives on Politics, Political Behavior, the Journal of Race, Ethnicity, and Politics, the Washington Post, and GenForward’s Race and Place: Young Adults and the Future of Chicago. I study how local-level institutions, especially schools and neighborhoods, act as microcosms of democracy. I find that these institutions can simultaneously serve as sites that exacerbate existing racial inequalities while also holding the potential to foster agency and equal political voice. I investigate these roles and their effects on political participation by leveraging multiple methodological approaches, including experiments, survey data, in-depth interviews, focus groups, and archival research. Subfield(s): American Politics; civic education, political behavior, race and ethnicity, critical pedagogy, local knowledge, grassroots political action of marginalized groups Dissertation: Educating for Empowerment: Race, Socialization, and Reimagining Civic Education (Proquest) Committee: Druckman, James N (Chair); Burch, Traci R; Cohen, Cathy J. (University of Chicago) Current: Assistant Professor, Department of Political Science, University of Miami Placement: Postdoctoral Scholar, University of Chicago, Department of Political Science and GenForward | 2020 | University of Miami Assistant Professor | American Politics | N | |
| Professional Website | Personal Website | Twitter: @cgnguyen_online | LinkedIn Biography: I am a lecturer at the Chair of German Politics at the Freie Universität Berlin and the co-PI of the BUA project Social Cohesion in Times of Crisis: Anti-Asian Racism and the Covid-19 Pandemic In my work, I investigate how experiences of insecurity and disadvantage shape political attitudes and behaviors such as political efficacy, trust, and responsibility attributions. More fundamentally, I am interested in the role that emotions, such as anger and anxiety, play in translating general grievances into specific political attitudes. In this, my work seeks to explore prejudice and the rise of populism, as well as the construction of new political identities. I am also interested in research methods and research design. In my work I use experimental methods, large-N observational data, but also mixed-method and qualitative research designs. Subfield(s): Comparative Politics; Economic Insecurity and Political Attitudes, Affect and Emotion, Populism and Responsibility Attribution, Social Policy, Experimental and Mixed Methods Dissertation: Feeling Vulnerable? Affect, Appraisal, and Trust in Times of Economic Insecurity (ProQuest) Committee: Seawright, Jason W (Chair); Behrens, Martin; Mahoney, James L Current: Lecturer at the Chair of German Politics, Freie Universitat Berlin, Otto Suhr Institute of Political Science, German Politics Placement: Wirtschafts und Sozialwissenschaftliches Institut | 2014 | Freie Universitat Berlin Lecturer at the Chair of German Politics | Comparative Politics | N | |
| Institutional Website | Professional Website | Twitter: @salih_noor2020 | Google Scholar Subfield(s): Comparative democratization; colonialism and development; post-liberation politics and society; comparative-historical analysis, qualitative and small-N methods, historical experiments. Dissertation: The Legacies of Liberation: Revolution, Liberal Reformism, and Political Development in Southern Africa (ProQuest) Committee: Mahoney, James L. (Chair); Reno, William S. (Co-Chair); Arjona, Ana M. Current: Collegiate Assistant Professor & Harper-Schmidt Fellow, University of Chicago Placement: Collegiate Assistant Professor & Harper-Schmidt Fellow, University of Chicago | 2023 | University of Chicago Collegiate Assistant Professor & Harper-Schmidt Fellow | Comparative Politics | N | |
| LinkedIn Biography: Social entrepreneur Dr. Maavi Norman, the founder of IRIS International Consulting, bridges the gap by encouraging foreign investment in Africa, while supporting “deep local impact.” Through his affiliation as a mentor with the White House Young African Leaders Initiative, Norman has helped guide a cohort of like-minded entrepreneurs in Africa. For him, it all comes down to this: “Stay laser-focused on solutions but evaluate a myriad of ideas for achieving them. Be open to readjusting, recalibrating and re-launching.” Subfield(s): Comparative Politics, International Relations; NaN Dissertation: The Leadership Factor and the Quest to Reform the African State (Ebscohost) Committee: Reno, William S (Chair); Riedl, Rachel Beatty; Roberts, Andrew L Current: Founder, Iris International Placement: Research Coordinator, University of Gothenburg, Varieties of Democracy (V-Dem) | 2015 | Iris International Founder | International Relations, Comparative Politics | N | |
| Twitter: @shaulnotkin | LinkedIn | Academia.edu Subfield(s): Political Theory, International Relations, and International Political Economy Dissertation: Political Theory for the Age of Social Movement (Proquest) Committee: Mary Dietz (Chair); James Farr; Shmuel Nili Current: Lecturer, Northwestern University Placement: Lecturer, Northwestern University | 2022 | Northwestern University Lecturer | Political Theory | N | |
| Professional Website | Personal Website | Twitter: @sally_nuamah | LinkedIn Biography: I am an associate professor (w/tenure) at Northwestern University. Previously, I held appointments at Duke University, the University of Pennsylvania, Harvard University and Princeton University. My research sits at the intersections of race, gender, education, and political behavior. My latest book, Closed for Democracy, is on how public-school closings undermine the citizenship of Black Americans (Cambridge University Press 22/23). It is the recipient of three 2023 American Political Science Association (APSA) Best Book awards. In March 2024, the book was selected for the W.E.B Dubois Distinguished book award from the National Conference of Black Political Scientists (NCOBPS), and named a finalist for the PROSE award in politics. Research from this book has been published in the American Political Science Review and Perspectives on Politics. My newest research is culminating in a third book tentatively titled, “Mules: The Punishment and Political Labor of Black Women.” An article based on this work was named the “Best Paper on Intersectionality” from the American Political Science Association (APSA) and awarded the Rodney Higgins “Best Faculty Paper” from the National Conference of Black Political Scientists (NCOBPS). My first book, How Girls Achieve (2019) highlights how the biased educational experiences of Black girls in the U.S. and Africa limit their ability to achieve democratic equity. It received the 2020 Prose Award in Education Practice and Social Science by the American Publishers Association: the 2020 Critics’ Choice Book Awardfrom the American Educational Studies Association, and the 2021 Jackie Kirk Outstanding Book Awardfrom the Comparative International Education Society. In addition to research, I advocate for Black girls. I am the founder of Herstory: the TWII Foundation Girls Scholarship. I have an award-winning film titled, HerStory, based on this work. I am the recipient of over thirty awards including ForbesMagazine “30 Under 30” in education, the Andrew Carnegie Fellowship, aka “the Brainy Award,” and the Marilyn Gittell Award for Scholarship and Activism. Subfield(s): American Politics; race, gender, education policy, and political behavior Dissertation: The Political Consequences of Education Reform: How School Closures Shape Citizens (Ebscohost) Committee: Rogers, Reuel R. (Chair); Burch, Traci R.; Tillery, Alvin B., Jr. Current: Associate Professor, Human Development and Social Policy, Northwestern University, School of Education and Social Policy Placement: Program Fellow, Women and Public Policy, Harvard University, Harvard Kennedy School of Government | 2016 | Northwestern University Associate Professor, Human Development and Social Policy | American Politics | N | |
| Professional Website | LinkedIn | Twitter: @christinanystrm Biography: Experienced leader and manager with a demonstrated history of working in the secondary education industry as well as at the University level. Strong education professional skilled in Leadership, Coaching, Political Science, African Studies, Comparative Politics, and Field Research. Worked at operational and strategic level. Subfield(s): Comparative Politics; Liberation; Namibian; Path dependency; South West African Peoples' Organization Dissertation: The patrimonial straitjacket: A study of Namibian liberation and path dependency (ProQuest) Committee: Reno, William S. (Chair); Derluguian, Georgii (Sociology); Shih, Victor C. Current: Manager for Digital Learning and Support, Stockholm School of Economics Executive Education Placement: Vice Principal, Stiftelsen Viktor Rydbergs Skolor | 2004 | Stockholm School of Economics Executive Education Chief Learning Officer; Manager for Digital Learning and Support | Comparative Politics | N | |
| Professional Website | Twitter: @RebeccaJOliver7 | Google Scholar | LinkedIn Subfield(s): Comparative Politics; politics of inequality, labor unions, Europe Dissertation: Negotiating differences: Developments in wage inequality in Italy, Sweden and across advanced industrial democracies (ProQuest) Committee: Thelen, Kathy A (Chair); Wallerstein, Michael (Co-chair); Swenson, Peter A; McCall, Leslie (Sociology) Current: Assistant Professor, Allegheny College, Department of Political Science Placement: Assistant Professor, Miami University, Department of Political Science | 2006 | Allegheny College Assistant Professor | Comparative Politics | O | |
| Professional Website | Twitter: @juancolmeda | Academia.edu Subfield(s): Comparative Politics; State governments, Comparative Government, Politics and government, Latin America, Public Administration, Comparative Federalism, Public Administration, Subnational Policy, Policy in Latin America, Analysis of good practices in social protection policies for women against COVID-19 in Mexico, Opportunities, needs of young women and education Dissertation: (Dis)united They Stand? The Politics of Governors' Coalition Building in Argentina, Brazil and Mexico (Ebscohost) Committee: Gibson, Edward L (Chair); Calvo, Ernesto (University of Maryland); Roberts, Andrew L Current: Profesor Investigador (Research Professor), El Colegio de México, A.C., Centro de Estudios Internacionales Placement: Profesor de Asignatura, ITAM, Departamento de Ciencia Política | 2013 | El Colegio de México, A.C. Profesor Investigador (Research Professor) | Comparative Politics | O | |
| Institutional Website | Twitter: @OnomaAto | LinkedIn | Google Scholar Biography: Ato Kwamena Onoma is an Professor at the University of Toronto, St. George. Ato Kwamena Onoma is the author of The Politics of Property Rights Institutions in Africa (2009) and Anti-Refugee Violence and African Politics (2013). His current work examines mobility, belonging, identity and inter-communal relations through the prisms of infrastructure development, epidemics and phobia, and the faith-based segregation of interment spaces. Subfield(s): Comparative Politics; property rights, identity politics, human rights, forced migration, institutional reform and political economic reform in Africa Dissertation: Securing property rights: Politics on the land frontier in postcolonial Africa (ProQuest) Committee: Reno, William S. K. (Chair); Gibson, Edward L.; Thelen, Kathleen A.; Diagne, Souleymane Current: Professor, University of Toronto, St. George, Department of Political Science Placement: Post-doctoral Fellow, Princeton University, Niehaus Center for Globalization and Governance | 2006 | University of Toronto, St. George Professor | Comparative Politics | O | |
| Institutional Website | Professional Website | Twitter: @MonaOrabee Biography: Mona Oraby (Ph.D., Northwestern University) is assistant professor of political science at Howard University and editor of The Immanent Frame (TIF), a digital publication of the Social Science Research Council that advances scholarly debate on secularism, religion, and the public sphere. She is the author of Devotion to the Administrative State: Religion and Social Order in Egypt (Princeton University Press, forthcoming March 2024) and coauthor of A Universe of Terms: Religion in Visual Metaphor (Indiana University Press, 2022). Oraby has been a fellow or visiting scholar at the American Bar Foundation (Chicago), the Institute for Critical Social Inquiry at the New School (New York), the Max Planck Institute for the Study of Religious and Ethnic Diversity (Göttingen), and the Käte Hamburger Center for Advanced Study (Bonn). Subfield(s): International Relations; Political Theory; law, religion, and politics with a focus on the legal regulation of religious difference Dissertation: The Difference That Affiliation Makes: Religious Conversion, Minorities, and the Rule of Law (ProQuest) Committee: Shakman Hurd, Elizabeth (Chair); Agrama, Hussein (University of Chicago); Dietz, Mary G.; Winegar, Jessica (Religious Studies) Current: Assistant Professor, Howard University, Political Science Placement: Jerome Hall Postdoctoral Fellow, Indiana University Maurer School of Law, Center for Law, Society, and Culture | 2017 | Howard University Assistant Professor | Political Theory, International Relations | O | |
| Institutional Website | Professional Website | Twitter: @silvia_otero85 | Google Scholar Biography: Silvia Otero-Bahamon is an Associate Professor in the School of International, Political, and Urban Studies at Universidad del Rosario, Bogota, Colombia. Otero-Bahamon earned her Ph.D and M.A in political science from Northwestern University, and my Bz.A from Universidad de los Andes in Colombia. Otero-Bahamon's research interests include social policy, the political economy of inequality, the politics of infrastructure, and state formation. My work has been published in World Development, Latin American Politics and Society, Studies in Comparative International Development, Geoforum, Health Affairs, Revista de Ciencia Política, among other outlets. Subfield(s): Comparative Politics; governance, clientelism, politics of transport infrastructure and sexual violence in wartime Dissertation: When the State Minds the Gap The Politics of Subnational Inequality in Latin America (ProQuest) Committee: Mahoney, James L. (Chair); Arjona, Ana Maria; Gibson, Edward L Current: Associate Professor, Universidad de Rosario, Political Science, Government and International Relations Placement: Assistant Professor, Universidad de Rosario, Political Science, Government and International Relations | 2016 | Universidad de Rosario Associate Professor | Comparative Politics | O | |
| Professional Website | LinkedIn Biography: Dr. Paden is a seasoned leader in academic administration with more than 15 years of experience. Currently, she is the Deputy Provost at Simmons University in Boston, Mass. At Simmons, she led the implementation of the general education curriculum, the Simmons PLAN, which transformed the student experience. Dr. Paden revamped and redesigned Simmons’s undergraduate advising model and process, and she oversaw the creation and launch of the Center for Student Success -- a $3 million investment that has greatly improved undergraduate and graduate student access to academic services, including the Center for Global Engagement, Accessibility Services, Undergraduate Advising, Career Education, and the Writing and Tutoring Centers. Dr. Paden, a tenured faculty member at Simmons, earned her doctoral degree in political science from Northwestern University and received her bachelor’s from Vassar College. Her interests focus on American politics and how underrepresented groups gain political representation. Her recent research includes, work to examine the impact of local civil rights efforts and economic justice on national public policy. Subfield(s): American politics; how underrepresented groups gain political representation; Advocacy; Civil rights organizations; Organizational decision-making; Poor Dissertation: National advocacy on behalf of the poor: An analysis of organizational decision-making (ProQuest) Committee: Chong, Dennis (Chair); Rogers, Reuel R.; Page, Benjamin I. Current: Provost and Vice President of Academic Affairs, Franklin Pierce University Placement: Assistant Professor, Simmons College, Political Science & International Relations | 2006 | Franklin Pierce University Provost and Vice President of Academic Affairs | American Politics | P | |
| Institutional Website | Professional Website Biography: Ihn-hwi Park is a Professor in the Division of International Studies at Ewha Womans University. Prof. Park’s area of expertise lies in international security, U.S. foreign policy and Northeast Asian regionalism. He was a Research Professor of Asiatic Research Center at Korea University (2001-02), and has been a Non-resident Research Fellow for Korea-US Exchange Council (2001-04). He has also being served as a member of the Internal Performance Evaluation Committee of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade since 2006 and a member of the Advisory Committee of Ministry of Unification since 2009. Dr. Park has written articles on international relations and East Asia in journals including Korea Journal of Defense Analysis, Korea Political Science Review, the Korean Journal of International Relations, National Strategy, Strategic Studies, Korea and World Politics, and etc. Prof. Park receives his Ph. D. from Northwestern University in 1999. Subfield(s): International law; International relations; Mass media; Journalism; International Security, Korea-US Relations, East Asian International Relations, Inter-Korean Relations, U.S. foreign policy, Northeast Asian regionalism Dissertation: Security Discourse and the End of the Cold War: The New York Times Coverage on US National Security Committee: Page, Benjamin I. (Chair) Current: Associate Professor, Vice President, Division of International Studies, EWHA Women's University Placement: Research Professor, Korea University, Asiatic Research Center | 1999 | EWHA Women's University Professor, Vice President | International Relations | P | |
| Institutional Website | LinkedIn Subfields: Comparative Politics, Political Economy, Canada; Czech Republic; Labor market; Regulation; Taylorist production; United States; Federalism and Intergovernmental Relations; Comparative Democratization Dissertation: The development of alternatives to Taylorist production: The impact of labour market regulation (ProQuest) Dissertation Committee: Thelen, Kathleen (Chair) Current: Faculty Lecturer, York University, Glendon College; Associate Professor. American University of Iraq | 1998 | York University, Glendon College; American University of Iraq Faculty Lecturer; Associate Professor | Comparative Politics | P | |
| Institutional Website | LinkedIn Biography: Dr. Ayodeji Perrin researches and teaches about international law, comparative constitutional law, human rights, and social movement legal mobilization. He holds a law degree from the University of Pennsylvania, and he holds B.A. and M.A. degrees in political science from Tufts University and Columbia University, respectively. He recently completed his Ph.D. in political science at Northwestern University. His dissertation examined the factors that led gay and lesbian activists in the United States, Northern Ireland, Ireland, Tasmania, and South Africa to use domestic and international courts to overturn criminal prohibitions on adult consensual same-sex sexual conduct between the 1970s and the 1990s. His ongoing research in this area focuses on the role of transnational advocacy networks, transnational judicial dialogue, and comparative constitutional law in decriminalization of homosexual sex in Africa and the English-speaking Caribbean. Dr. Perrin was previously a judicial law clerk in the Philadelphia Court of Common Pleas, a staff attorney with the City of Philadelphia Board of Ethics, and a postdoctoral fellow and adjunct faculty member at Temple University in the Department of Political Science. At Temple, Dr. Perrin taught courses on indigenous, African, Latin American, and Asian resistance to European and American enslavement, colonization, and racial and national-origin discrimination; on corporate social responsibility and corporate accountability litigation; and on international human rights treaty law and accountability mechanisms, including international courts and UN Treaty Bodies. He has presented his research at the annual meetings for the Law and Society Association, the American Society for International Law, the International Studies Association, and the American Political Science Association, among others. Subfield(s): International Relations; Human Rights, International Law, International Courts, Legal Mobilization, Social Movements, Pan Africanism, Black Internationalism Committee: Alter, Karen J. (Chair); Koppelman, Andrew (Law School); Pearlman, Wendy Current: George M. Sharswood Fellow, University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School Placement: Diversity Postdoctoral Fellow in Political Science, Temple University | 2022 | University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School George M. Sharswood Fellow | International Relations | P | |
| Personal Website | Twitter: @DavidPeytonJr | LinkedIn Biography: David Peyton is a Donald R. Beall Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of Defense Analysis at the Naval Postgraduate School. He will begin work in the Office of Foreign Assets Control at the U.S. Treasury Department in the fall of 2021. Subfield(s): Comparative Politics, International Relations; Africa Dissertation: Property Security in the Midst of Insecurity: Wealth Defense, Violence, and Institutional Stasis in the Democratic Republic of Congo (Ebscohost) Committee: Reno, William S (Chair); Gans-Morse, Jordan Luc; Riedl, Rachel Beatty; Toender, Lars (Copenhagen) Current: Civil Servant, U.S. Treasury Department, Office of Foreign Assets Control Placement: Donald R. Beall Postdoctoral Fellow, Naval Postgraduate School, Department of Defense Analysis | 2021 | U.S. Treasury Department Civil Servant | Comparative Politics, International Relations | P | |
| Professional Website | Personal Website Biography: Menaka Philips is an Assistant Professor of Political Science at the University of Toronto Mississauga (UTM). Philips is a political theorist who works on a range of issues in historical and contemporary political thought. She is especially interested in the politics of interpretation; her book, The Liberalism Trap (forthcoming, Oxford University Press), examines how attention to liberalism shapes interpretive practices in political theory. Her work has been published in outlets like the European Journal of Political Theory, Signs: Journal for Women in Culture and Society, the American Political Science Review, and the Washington Post. Subfield(s): Political Theory; Democratic theory, feminist and postcolonial studies, and American political thought Dissertation: Contesting the Liberal Paradigm: The Case of John Stuart Mill (ProQuest) Committee: Dietz, Mary G. (Chair); Beaumont, Elizabeth (UCSC); Farr, James F.; Houdart, Sophie (National Center for Scientific Research, France) Current: Assistant Professor, University of Toronto Mississauga (UTM), Department of Political Science Placement: Professor of Practice, Tulane University, Department of Political Science and Gender and Sexuality Studies Program | 2013 | University of Toronto Mississauga (UTM) Assistant Professor | Political Theory | P | |
| LinkedIn Biography: Tri-lingual (English, Russian, French) professional with long experience working with the Finance and Culture sectors and with International Organizations. Focused on sustainable development in the digital age. Tatiana Poddubnykh attained a Ph.D. in Political Science from Northwestern University and a Ph.D. in Sociology from École des hautes études en sciences sociales (EHESS). Subfield(s): International Relations; International Relations, International Organizations; Sociology; Capital exchange; Cultural capital; Heritage list; UNESCO; World heritage Dissertation: Building the World Heritage List at UNESCO: A Socio-political Approach to International Relations within a World Organization (ProQuest) Committee: Loriaux, Michael M (Chair); Rosental, Claude (Co-Chair; Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique); Chiapello, Eve (École des hautes études en sciences sociales); Griswold, Wendy (Sociology) ; Houdart, Sophie (Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique); Hurd, Ian Current: Wealth Management, BNP Paribas Placement: Wealth Management, BNP Paribas | 2017 | BNP Paribas Wealth Management | International Relations | P | |
| LinkedIn Biography: Lieutenant Colonel Michael Povilus is the Commander, Air Force Reserve Officer Training Corps, Detachment 195, Chair of the Department of Aerospace Studies, and Professor of Aerospace Studies at Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago IL. He is responsible for recruiting, training, and commissioning all AFROTC cadets at IIT and cadets from over 10 other "cross-town" universities in the greater Chicago area. Subfield(s): International Relations Dissertation: Russian Grand Strategy: Cultivating National Will and Military Modernization (ProQuest) Committee: Reno, William S (Chair); Henke, Marina E.; Gans-Morse, Jordan Luc Current: Professor, Strategy & Security Studies, Studies School of Advanced Air and Space Studies (SAASS) Placement: Professor of Aerospace Studies, AF ROTC Chicagoland, Illinois Institute of Technology | 2020 | School of Advanced Air and Space Studies (SAASS) Professor, Strategy & Security Studies | International Relations | P | |
| Institutional Website | LinkedIn Biography: Richard J. Powell is Professor of Political Science and Founding Director of the William S. Cohen Institute for Leadership & Public Service. In 2020, he was named the Distinguished Maine Professor, UMaine’s most prestigious faculty award. His research and teaching interests include the U.S. Presidency, Congress, Leadership, Elections, and American Political Thought. He also oversees the UMaine Congressional Internship Program, the Kenneth Palmer Maine State Legislative Internship Program, and UMaine’s interdisciplinary minor in Leadership Studies. Professor Powell is the author of numerous books, journal articles, and book chapters on presidential-congressional relations, presidential communications, presidential and congressional elections, and state politics. He co-authored The 2016 Presidential Election: The Causes and Consequences of a Political Earthquake (Lexington Books, 2017), The 2012 Presidential Election: Forecasts, Outcomes, and Consequences (Rowman & Littlefield, 2013), Legislating Without Experience: Case Studies in State Legislative Term Limits (Lexington Books, 2007), and Changing Members: The Maine Legislature in the Era of Term Limits (Lexington Books, 2004). His current research utilizes advanced computer algorithms to create realistic, simulated congressional districts as a way to study the spatial and demographic aspects of partisan gerrymandering. Subfield(s): American Politics; U.S. Presidency, Congress, Leadership, Elections, and American Political Thought Dissertation: On the road again: Explaining presidential speech-making and travel, 1961-1994 (Proquest) Committee: Page, Benjamin I. (Chair); Crotty, William; Conley, Patricia Current: Professor & Director of the Cohen Institute for Leadership & Public Service Placement: Assistant Professor, Florida Atlantic University, Department of Political Science | 1997 | University of Maine Professor & Director of the Cohen Institute for Leadership & Public Service | American Politics | P | |
| Professional Website | LinkedIn Biography: Lance Pressl, Ph.D., has extensive experience in the public, private, and not-for-profit sectors. He currently serves as Non-Resident Senior Policy Fellow at the Institute for Work and the Economy. He most recently was Managing Director at the Ed Kaplan Family Institute for Innovation and Tech Entrepreneurship at Illinois Institute of Technology. Previously, Pressl served as President of the Chicagoland Chamber of Commerce Foundation where he developed and implemented programs and events promoting long-term economic growth through innovation-based economic development. Highlights of his tenure as Foundation President include Founding and leading “The Territorial Review of the Chicagoland Tri-State Metropolitan Area”, the first of its kind study in the United States conducted by the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD); creating the InnovateNow! Initiative and producing annual Innovation Summits; founding the Illinois Innovation Index; leading the effort to establish the Illinois Innovation Council and re-establishing The Illinois Science Technology Coalition. Subfield(s): American Politics; State Legislative Policy; Interest Groups Dissertation: State Ethics Reform: Implications for Legislative Behavior and Policy Outcome (ProQuest) Committee: Friesema, H. Paul (Chair); Sidlow, Edward; Masotti, Louis; O'Connor, Philip; Anderson, Lee F. Current: Senior Policy Fellow (Non-Resident), Institute for Work and the Economy Placement: President, The Civic Federation | 1995 | Institute for Work and the Economy Senior Policy Fellow (Non-Resident) | American Politics | P | |
| Institutional Website | Twitter: SatriyaniPit | LinkedIn Biography: Sabina Satriyani Puspita is Deputy Director for the Monash Herb Feith Indonesian Engagement Centre and Assistant Professor for the Monash Indonesia Institute for Advanced Research (MI IFAR). Her research interests include topics about democratization, political institutions, social movements, and gender. While she studies these topics extensively on any regions with her through a historical comparative approach, Sabina’s research focuses primarily on the Southeast and Northeast Asian regions. Sabina is completing her doctoral training in comparative politics and international relations at the Department of Political Science in Northwestern University, Illinois, U.S.A. Sabina had just defended her dissertation entitled “The Butterfly Effect: Stealth Politics by the Reformist Women’s Movement in Indonesia in the Struggle for Gender Equality, 1945-Present.” Subfield(s): Comparative Politics; Gender studies; Southeast Asian studies; Law; Butterfly effect; Gender equality; Indonesia; Sexual violence law; Social movements; Stealth politics Dissertation: The Butterfly Effect: Stealth Politics by the Reformist Women’s Movement in Indonesia in the Struggle for Gender Equality (1945-Present) (ProQuest) Committee: Winters, Jeffrey A. (Chair); Pearlman, Wendy; Roberts, Andrew Current: Associate Director for the Monash Herb Feith Indonesian Engagement Centre; Research Fellow for the Monash Indonesia Institute for Advanced Research (MI IFAR), Monash University Placement: Associate Director for the Monash Herb Feith Indonesian Engagement Centre; Research Fellow for the Monash Indonesia Institute for Advanced Research (MI IFAR), Monash University | 2023 | Monash University Deputy Director and Assistant Professor | Comparative Politics | P | |
| LinkedIn Biography: Policy researcher with 10 years of experience in evidence-based policy analysis and program development. Lead quantitative and qualitative research projects, program evaluations and policy proposals to support decision-making in public sector, focusing on higher education, and equity and diversity research. Subfield(s): American Politics; Administrative agencies; Equal Employment Opportunity Commission; Federal Communications Commission; International Trade Commission; Public opinion Dissertation: Administrative responsiveness to public opinion (ProQuest) Committee: Page, Benjamin I (Chair) Current: Senior Projects Officer, University of Toronto, Office of the Vice-Provost, Faculty and Academic Life Placement: Post-doctoral Fellow , University of Toronto, Canada | 2008 | University of Toronto Senior Projects Officer | American Politics | R | |
| Professional Website | Personal Website | Twitter: @fragazzi | Google Scholar | LinkedIn Biography: Francesco Ragazzi is Associate Professor in International Relations. He obtained his PhD in political science from Sciences Po (Paris) and Northwestern University (Chicago). Prior to his appointment at Leiden University, he was a Research Fellow at the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS) in London (2008-2009). His research interests include critical approaches to diaspora politics, migration, citizenship, and security in International Relations. He serves on the editorial board of the journal Cultures & Conflits and is a founding member of the c.a.s.e. collective. His current research project—‘Security and the Politics of Belonging: Homegrown terrorism, counter-radicalization and the “end” of multiculturalism?’—explores the effects of security practices on contemporary meanings of community. Subfield(s): International Relations; International Law; Citizenship; Counterterrorism, Critical Theory, Diaspora Studies, Ethnic and Racial Diversity, Global Security, Radicalisation, Terrorism Dissertation: When governments say Diaspora: Transnational practices of citizenship, nationalism and sovereignty in Croatia and former Yugoslavia (ProQuest) Committee: Loriaux, Michael M (Chair); Bigo, Didier (Co-Chair); Hanchard, Michael G; Huysmans, Jozef P.A.; Kastoryano, Riva; Reno, William S.K. Current: Associate Professor, Leiden University, Institute of Political Science, Institute of Political Science Placement: Assistant Professor, Leiden University, Institute of Political Science | 2010 | Leiden University Associate Professor | International Relations | R | |
| Institutional Website | Professional Website | BlueSky: @kumar.fyi | LinkedIn | Google Scholar Biography: Kumar Ramanathan is a political scientist and a Bridge-to-Faculty Postdoctoral Research Associate at the University of Illinois Chicago. Ramanathan's research explores how the politics of law and public policy shape inequalities in the United States. This includes projects on civil rights and social welfare policies, urban politics, immigrant politics, and democratic accountability. He has published articles in Urban Affairs Review, Studies in American Political Development, Journal of Race, Ethnicity, and Politics, and Political Research Quarterly. His book project, “Building a Civil Rights Agenda: The Democratic Party and the Origins of Racial Liberalism,” investigates the construction of the civil rights legislative agenda during the realignment of U.S. political parties on racial issues (1933-68). His other research includes work on the changing dynamics of local politics in Chicago, the development of social welfare policy, the role of party politics in conflict during the Civil War era, and the effects of immigration policy on immigrant political participation. He was previously a Doctoral Fellow at the American Bar Foundation and received his B.A. in political science and philosophy from Tufts University. Subfield(s): American Politics; Race and Ethnic Politics, Gender and Politics, Law and Public Policy, American Political Development, Comparative Historical Analysis, Asian American politics. Dissertation: Building a Civil Rights Agenda: The Democratic Party and the Origins of Racial Liberalism (ProQuest) Committee: Rogers, Reuel R. (Chair); Thurston, Chloe N.; Chen, Anthony S. Current: Bridge to Faculty Scholar, Department of Political Science, University of Illinois Chicago Placement: GenForward Postdoctoral Scholar, the University of Chicago | 2023 | University of Illinois Chicago Bridge to Faculty Scholar in Political Science | American Politics | R | |
| Subfield(s): Political Theory; International Relations; history and theory; political theories and philosophy; Philosophy, religion and theology; Social sciences; Hobbes, Thomas; Leviathan; Mimesis; Natural law; Natural right; Poetics; Theater Dissertation: Mimesis in Thomas Hobbes's “Leviathan” (1651): The theater of the modern commonwealth (ProQuest) Committee: Monoson, S. Sara (Chair); Fenves, Peter D.; Toender, Lars Current: Partner, Redstone Connected; Realtor, A La Carte Real Estate Placement: Asistente Ejecutiva de Eventos, Gecamin | 2010 | Redstone Connected Partner | Political Theory, International Relations | R | |
| Professional Website | LinkedIn Biography: dr Richardt studied administrative science at the University of Konstanz and received his doctorate in political economy from Northwestern University in the USA. She was a professor of comparative politics at the University of Utah and worked on numerous supervisory boards, executive boards and committees. In Germany, she worked on the “Integrated Economy” project of the Hessian Ministry of Economic Affairs. As a mediator, she supports clients in difficult life situations such as divorce, company transfers, structuring of their estate in order to find sustainable solutions. Subfield(s): Comparative Politics; European Union; Gender; Gender equality laws; Germany; Modes of governance; Policy innovation; United Kingdom; Welfare regimes; Welfare state Dissertation: Transforming Europe's welfare regimes: Policy innovation through European gender equality laws in the United Kingdom and Germany (ProQuest) Committee: Thelen, Kathleen A. (Chair); Alter, Karen J.; Orloff, Ann Shola Current: Koordinatorin, Bildungswerk der Hessischen Wirtschaft e.V. Placement: Assistant Professor, University of Utah | 2007 | Bildungswerk der Hessischen Wirtschaft e.V. Koordinatorin | Comparative Politics | R | |
| Professional Website | Personal Website | Twitter: @JRob617 Biography: Josh Robison is assistant professor at the Institute of Political Science. His research uses both experimental and survey methods to investigate the role of group identities (e.g. partisanship, social class) and political communications from political parties in affecting the public’s political attitudes and behaviour. Before joining the Institute of Political Science at Leiden, he was a postdoctoral researcher at Aarhus University for four years. He received his Ph.D. from Northwestern University in 2014. His work has been published in The Journal of Politics, British Journal of Political Science, Political Behavior, Political Psychology, Political Communication, and the British Journal of Sociology. Subfield(s): American Politics, Methods; elite communications, party elites, public opinion formation, elite accountability, and citizen competence Dissertation: Why Politics? Understanding the Motives Behind Political Interest (ProQuest) Committee: Druckman, James N (Chair); Burch, Traci R.; Page, Benjamin I. Current: Assistant Professor, Universiteit Leiden, Institute of Political Science Placement: Post-Doctoral Researcher, Aarhus University, Department of Political Science and Government | 2014 | Universiteit Leiden Assistant Professor | American Politics | R | |
| Institutional Website | Twitter: @hrossello | Google Scholar Biography: Diego H. Rossello recently completed his PhD in political science at Northwestern University, where he honed his skills as a researcher of public opinion and political behavior. His methodological toolkit includes survey design, experimental techniques, and the analysis of textual data. Jake has published research on voting, partisanship, and the social dimensions of political attitudes. This work has appeared in academic journals such as Political Behavior and Politics, Groups, and Identities and has been featured in outlets like the LSE Blog on United States Politics and Policy. While at Northwestern, Jake served as the Director of Academic Support Services, and later the Interim Director of Operations for the Northwestern Prison Education Program. Subfield(s): Political Theory: Philosophy, religion and theology; Social sciences; Language, literature and linguistics; Animality; Humanism; Lycanthropy; Melancholy; Sovereingty Dissertation: The Melancholic Sovereign: The Politics of Human-Animal (In)distinction in Modern Sovereignty (ProQuest) Committee: Honig, Bonnie (Chair); Farr, James; Toender, Lars; Weber, Samuel (German) Current: Associate Professor, Universidad Adolfo Ibáñez, Department of Philosophy Placement: Assistant Professor, Pontifical Catholic University of Chile, Facultad de Historia, Geografía y Ciencia Política | 2011 | Universidad Adolfo Ibáñez Associate Professor of Philosophy | Political Theory | R | |
| Professional Website | Twitter: @jake_rothschild | Academia.edu Biography: Jake completed his Ph.D. in political science at Northwestern University, where he honed his skills as a researcher of public opinion and political behavior. His methodological toolkit includes survey design, experimental techniques, and the analysis of textual data. Jake has published research on voting, partisanship, and the social dimensions of political attitudes. This work has appeared in academic journals such as Political Behavior and Politics, Groups, and Identities and has been featured in outlets like the LSE Blog on United States Politics and Policy. While at Northwestern, Jake served as the Director of Academic Support Services, and later the Interim Director of Operations for the Northwestern Prison Education Program. Subfield(s): American Politics Dissertation: Elites and Identities: The Interactive Effects of Top-Down Cues and Group Memberships on Political Attitudes (ProQuest) Committee: Druckman, James N (Chair); Rogers, Reuel R; Merseth Cook, Julianne Lee Current: Senior Data Scientist, Reality Check Insights Placement: Senior Data Scientist, Reality Check Insights | 2020 | Verasight Senior Data Scientist | American Politics | R | |
| Professional Website | Personal Website | Twitter: @bjrottinghaus | Google Scholar Biography: Brandon Rottinghaus, a native of Dallas, Texas, holds a Ph.D. in political science from Northwestern University. His teaching and research interests center on Texas politics, public opinion, and executive and legislative relations. He is the author of several books, dozens of academic journals, and editor and contributor to multiple edited volumes. Most recently he the is author of the book Inside Texas Politics and Inside American Government (both Oxford University Press). He has provided commentary on national and Texas politics in hundreds of media outlets. He is the co-host of Party Politics, a podcast and show on PBS/TV8 on Houston Public Media. He has provided commentary on national (New York Times, Washington Post, Politico) and Texas politics (Houston Chronicle, Dallas Morning News, Texas Tribune, Tyler Morning Telegraph, El Paso Times, San Antonio News Express, Lubbock Avalanche Journal) in hundreds of media outlets and is the co-host of Political Perspectives, a digital series on Houston Public Media and Monday Morning Politics on Houston’s Fox 26. Subfield(s): American Politics; Presidency (leadership, nominations) Texas politics Public opinion Political communication Executive-legislative relations Political scandal Dissertation: Measure of the Mind of the Public: Patterns of Presidential Rhetoric and Public Opinion from Dwight D. Eisenhower to Bill Clinton (Ebscohost) Committee: Page, Benjamin I (Chair); Chong, Dennis; Canes-Wrone, Brandice Current: Professor, University of Houston, Political Science Placement: Assistant Professor, University of Idaho | 2005 | University of Houston Professor | American Politics | R | |
| Institutional Website | Professional Website | Twitter: @ZhihangR | LinkedIn | Google Scholar Biography: Zhihang Ruan is an Assistant Professor of Political Science at Hunter College, City University of New York. Ruan received a Ph.D. in political science from Northwestern University in the summer of 2023. Ruan's research interests are comparative political economy, international development, labor politics, and land institutions. Ruan's regional foci are China and Vietnam, where Ruan conducted more than 18 months of fieldwork before and during the COVID-19 pandemic. Ruan's work is forthcoming in The China Quarterly. Subfield(s): Comparative Politics; comparative political economy, international development, labor politics, and land institutions; China and Vietnam Dissertation: Land Regimes and the Welfare of Migrant Workers: A Comparison of China and Vietnam (ProQuest) Committee: Hurst, William J. (Chair); Winters, Jeffrey A .; Prasad, Monica (Sociology); Bouchat, Sirus Current: Assistant Professor of Political Science, Hunter College, City University of New York Placement: Assistant Professor of Political Science, Hunter College, City University of New York | 2023 | Hunter College, City University of New York Assistant Professor of Political Science | Comparative Politics | R | |
| Biography: Nayef H. Samhat, the 11th president of Wofford College, is a native of Detroit, Michigan. He holds a B.A. in international affairs from The George Washington University's School of International and Public Affairs, a master's degree in international affairs from Columbia University and a Ph.D. in political science from Northwestern University. Samhat came to Wofford in July 2013 after serving as provost and professor of political science and international studies at Kenyon College in Gambier, Ohio. Prior to his time at Kenyon, he was the Frank B. and Virginia B. Hower Associate Professor of Government and International Studies and an associate dean at Centre College in Danville, Kentucky. Subfield(s): Environmental science; International relations Dissertation: Knowledge and discourse: The issue construction of climatic change in international politics (ProQuest) Committee: Loriaux, Michael (Chair); Friesema, Paul; Lynch, Cecelia Current: President at Wofford College | 1995 | Wofford College President | International Relations | S | |
| Institutional Website | Professional Website | Twitter: @mcsardo | Academia.edu Biography: Michael Christopher Sardo is a political theorist with research and teaching interests in the history of political thought, contemporary democratic theory, and environmental political theory. Dr. Sardo believes that studying history is valuable not only because it helps us understand where we’ve come from, but also because it requires that we see the world from perspectives beyond our own. Dr. Sardo completed a B.A. in government and philosophy from The College of William and Mary in Virginia, before earning a M.A. and Ph.D. in political science at Northwestern University, where he wrote a dissertation on political responsibility in the history of political thought. He previously taught at Occidental College, UC Irvine, and Northwestern’s Center for Talent Development, and has published scholarly articles and book chapters on the history of political philosophy, responsibility, and global justice. Outside of the classroom, Dr. Sardo spends his time reading, hiking and visiting the beach with his wife and daughter, playing tabletop miniatures games, and cheering for the Buffalo Sabres. Subfield(s): Political Theory; Ethics; Climate Change; Moral responsibility; Nietzsche, Friedrich; Political responsibility Dissertation: From Personal to Political Responsibility: Friedrich Nietzsche and the Politics of Anticipatory Responsibility (ProQuest) Committee: Tønder, Lars (Chair); Alznauer, Mark; Loriaux, Michael; Stevens, Jacqueline Current: History Teacher, TVT Community Day Upper School Placement: Lecturer, University of California, Irvine | 2017 | TVT Community Day Upper School History Teacher | Political Theory | S | |
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Subfield(s): American Politics, Public Opinion and Political Communication, Legislative Process, American Presidency, Campaigns and Elections, Parties and Interest Groups, African Politics, War and Terrorism Dissertation: The State of the Union and the State of the President: Elite, Media, and Mass Responses to the President's Annual Message, 1953-1992 (ProQuest) Committee: Page, Benjamin I. (Chair); Janda, Kenneth; Entman, Robert (Medill); Herbst, Susan Current: Professor, Central Washington University, Department of Political Science Placement: Visiting Professor Juniata College | 1994 | Central Washington University Professor | American Politics | S | |
| Professional Website | Twitter: @JSSchul | Google Scholar | LinkedIn Biography: Jonathan Schulman is a Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Pennsylvania’s Institute for the Study of Citizens and Politics as a Postdoctoral Fellow. Schulman received his PhD from Northwestern University in 2024. Schulman's research interests include American foreign policy, public opinion, status threat, trust, and quantitative and qualitative methodology. Subfield(s): International Relations; International Security; U.S. Foreign Policy; Conflict; Quantitative Methodology; Political Psychology; Public Opinion Dissertation: Falling Behind: How Americans’ Anxiety Over Decline Affects U.S. Foreign Policy (ProQuest) Committee: Nelson, Stephen C. (Chair); Krcmaric, Daniel J.; Druckman, James N.; Wohlforth, William (Dartmouth) Current: Postdoctoral Fellow, Institute for the Study of Citizens and Politics, University of Pennsylvania Placement: Postdoctoral Fellow, Institute for the Study of Citizens and Politics, University of Pennsylvania
| 2024 | University of Pennsylvania Postdoctoral Fellow, Institute for the Study of Citizens and Politics | International Relations | S | |
| Professional Website | LinkedIn | Google Scholar Biography: Lee Seymour is an associate professor at the Université de Montréal and member of the CÉRIUM — Centre d’études et de recherches internationales and of the CEPSI — Centre d’études sur la paix et la sécurité internationale. His research interests include civil wars, international security and violence in politics. He has published in several academic journals, including the Journal of Peace Research, International Security, European Journal of International Relations, Journal of Conflict Resolution, Critical African Studies, Perspectives on Politics and International Peacekeeping. He is currently leading a research project on the politics of foreign military training in fragile states, funded by the Social Science and Humanities Research Council and the Department of National Defence. Subfield(s): International Relations; Political violence Civil wars Security, international Independence, self-determination, Armed Conflicts, Ethnic conflict, Somalia, South Sudan Dissertation: Pathways to secession: The institutional effects of separatist violence (Ebscohost) Committee: Reno, William S (Chair); Hurd, Ian F; Spruyt, Hendrik Current: Associate Professor, Université de Montréal, Département de science politique Placement: Doctoral Research and Chateaubriand Fellow, Sciences Po Paris | 2008 | Université de Montréal Associate Professor | International Relations | S | |
| Personal Website | Twitter: @RShafranek | LinkedIn Biography: Richard Shafranek earned his PhD from the Department of Political Science at Northwestern University, specializing in American politics and quantitative methods. Shafranek applies theories of social psychology to understand American political attitudes and behavior. Shafranek draws on survey and laboratory experiments, field experiments, and large-n data obtained from online sources to advance my research agenda. As HIT’s data scientist, Richard oversees the data pipeline for quantitative research projects: he develops compelling data visualizations and interactive dashboards, automates data processing procedures to allow survey research projects to be executed at speed and scale, conducts rigorous statistical analyses, and brings to bear innovative research methods to access and understand the hardest-to-react voters. Subfield(s): American Politics, Methods; American political behavior and quantitative research methodology, applied theories of social psychology and drew on surveys, field experiments, and large-n digital trace data to advance our understanding of partisanship and polarization in American politics Dissertation: Spillover: Partisan Conflict in Nonpolitical Settings (ProQuest) Committee: Druckman, James N (Chair); Bullock, John; Harbridge-Yong, Laurel Current: Senior Data Scientist, Dynata Placement: Data Scientist, HIT Strategies | 2020 | Dynata Senior Data Scientist | American Politics | S | |
| Institutional Website | Twitter: @circa1831 | LinkedIn Biography: Sandy Shan has been organizing grassroots movements in the pan-asian diaspora since 2019. Her work is centered around relationship building, healing, and politicization for BIPOCs and immigrant communities that sets the stage for building and exercising power in public space. Previously, she conducted research into the roots of inequality in the political process. Subfield(s): American Politics; Public policy; Public administration; Economic theory; Economics Dissertation: An Economic Interest Theory of Congressional Budget Process Reform (ProQuest) Committee: Page, Benjamin I (Chair); Galvin, Daniel J; Yong, Laurel Harbridge Current: Co-Director, Justice is Global Placement: Consultant, Oxfam America | 2019 | Justice is Global Co-Director | American Politics | S | |
| Professional Website | Twitter: @ShanksTorrey Biography: Torrey Shanks is Associate Professor of Political Science specializing in political theory. She is broadly interested in the history of political thought, feminist theory, and language and politics, with particular expertise in early modern political thought and rhetoric. Her current research project, entitled “Improperty,” investigates invocations of property in political action and theory, supported by a Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada Insight grant (2019-2022). She is the author of Authority Figures: Rhetoric and Experience in John Locke’s Political Thought (2014), peer-reviewed journal articles in Political Theory (2011, 2015, 2019) and Theory & Event (2015), in addition to book reviews and essays in edited volumes on consent, feminist writers, equality, materialism, Montaigne, and Wittgenstein. She holds a PhD in Political Science from Northwestern University and a Bachelor’s in Political Science and Women’s Studies from the University of California, Berkeley. She has previously taught at the State University of New York, Albany and the University of British Columbia. Subfield(s): Political Theory; history of political thought, feminist theory, and language and politics, with particular expertise in early modern political thought and rhetoric Dissertation: Political imagination in the thought of John Locke (ProQuest) Committee: Zerilli, Linda (Chair) Current: Associate Professor, University of Toronto, Scarborough, Political Science Placement: Assistant Professor, State University of New York, Albany Political Science | 2006 | University of Toronto, Scarborough Associate Professor | Political Theory | S | |
| LinkedIn Biography: A social science scholar & mgmt. consultant with excellent data analytical skills, passionated about the technology, media, and telecom (TMT) sector Subfield(s): Comparative Politics; Political Economy Dissertation: Government, Capital, and Labor: The Political Economy of e-Commerce Development in China (ProQuest) Committee: Hurst, William James (Chair); Mahoney, James L; Winters, Jeffrey A Current: Senior Pricing Analyst, Affirm Placement: Associate Consultant (PhD Analyst), L.E.K. Consulting | 2020 | Affirm Pricing Analytics Lead | Comparative Politics | S | |
| Professional Website | Twitter: @arimshaw | LinkedIn Biography: Ari Shaw, Ph.D., is a Senior Fellow and the Director of International Programs at the Williams Institute, specializing in international human rights, LGBTI politics, and U.S. foreign policy. He was previously on the senior staff at Columbia World Projects and has worked on human rights, global governance, and LGBTI issues for the Open Society Foundations, the Gill Foundation, the Council on Foreign Relations, and the United Nations Association of the USA, among others. Shaw was a visiting researcher at the Center for Human Rights and Global Justice at the Universidad de los Andes in Bogotá, Colombia, where he was a Fulbright Scholar. He was also a Multirights Fellow at the Norwegian Centre on Human Rights in Oslo. Shaw holds a Ph.D. in political science from Northwestern University, an M.Sc. in international relations from the London School of Economics and Political Science, and a B.A. in government from Harvard College. Subfield(s): International Relations; international human rights, LGBTI politics, and U.S. foreign policy Dissertation: Claiming international rights: Tactical forms of human rights mobilization in Colombia and Kenya (ProQuest) Committee: Alter, Karen J. (Chair); Riedl, Rachel B.; Winters, Jeffrey A. Current: Senior Fellow & Director of International Programs, University of California, Los Angeles, Williams Institute, School of Law Placement: Research Consultant, Academie Diplomatique Internationale | 2015 | Williams Institute, School of Law, University of California, Los Angeles Senior Fellow & Director of International Programs | International Relations | S | |
| Biography: Dr. Emile C. J. Sheng is the President of LDC Group, a franchise including five brands covering twenty hotels and several restaurants in Taiwan, China, and Italy. Over the years, Dr. Sheng’s career path has taken several unexpected turns, having experiences ranging from business, politics, media, as well as academia. He was Taiwan’s Culture Minister prior to the current job, and also served as Taipei City Government’s Commissioner for the “Research, Development and Evaluation Commission.” He also was CEO of the “Organizing Committee for the 2009 Deaflympics” and “Foundation for the Republic of China Centennial Celebration, ” in charge of two major events in recent years. Dissertation: Information processing and the evaluation of presidential candidates: Issues, candidates, and partisanship (proquest) Dissertation Committee: Page, Benjamin I. (chair); Chong, Dennis; Conley, Patricia; Fedderson, Timothy Current: President, L'Hotel de Chine Group Placement: Assistant Professor, Soochow University | 1998 | L'Hotel de Chine Group President | Comparative Politics | S | |
| Biography: I am a Zambian with a BA from the University of Zambia, MA from York University, Canada, and Ph.D. from Northwestern University, USA. My degrees are in political science, specializing in political philosophy. However, several years ago I decided to branch out into ancient history, focusing on historical linguistics. Subfield(s): Political Theory; Africans; Anglo-American; Equality; Freedom; Liberal; Writers; political philosophy, african politcs, historical linguistics, race Dissertation: Keywords: Meanings of freedom and equality among Africans and writers in the Anglo-American liberal tradition (ProQuest) Committee: Monoson, S. Sara (Chair); Alter, Karen J.; Reno, William S. Current: Independent Researcher
| 2004 | Independent Researcher Independent Researcher | International Relations, Political Theory | S | |
| Institutional Website | Google Scholar Biography: Dr. Subir Sinha studied History at the University of Delhi (BA) and Political Science at Northwestern University (MS, PhD), and has taught at Northwestern University and the University of Vermont. His research interests are institutional change, sustainable development, social movements, state-society relations in development, and South Asian politics, with a current focus on decentralised development in India, early postcolonial planning, and on the global fishworkers' movement. Subfield(s): Comparative Politics; Development Studies, Society and Environment, Sustainable Rural Development, Politics and International Relations, Discourse, Social Movementsm Postcolonial Theory, Political Economics; Institutions; international institutions; social movements; sustainable development; NGOs; South Asian Politics; development interventions. Dissertation: Common Property, Community and Collective Action: Social Movements and Sustainable Development in India (vol. 1 & 2) (ProQuest) Committee: Friesema, H. Paul (Chair); Chong, Dennis; Munro, William A. Current: Reader in the Theory and Politics of Development, SOAS University of London, Department of Development Studies; Member, SOAS Food Studies Centre Placement: Assistant Professor, University of Vermont, Environmental Studies | 1996 | SOAS University of London Reader in the Theory and Politics of Development | Comparative Politics, Political Theory | S | |
| Professional Website | Personal Website | Twitter: @skeafftheory Biography: Christopher Skeaff (PhD, LCSW) is a psychotherapist in private practice. He earned a doctorate in political theory from Northwestern University and has held research and teaching posts in the University of Michigan's Society of Fellows and Department of Political Science. Skeaff trained in clinical social work at Loyola University Chicago and is a graduate of the Chicago Psychoanalytic Institute's "Fundamentals of Psychoanalytic Thought" program. As a psychotheraphist, Chris aims to provide a therapeutic setting where clients feel safe, supported, and invited to explore what matters most to them. His areas of specialization include anxiety, depression, relationship difficulties, and life transitions, with a particular expertise in academic-related challenges. Subfield(s): Political Theory; Philosophy, religion and theology; Social sciences; Affect; Democracy; Freedom of expression; Power; Public reason; Spinoza, Benedictus de Dissertation: The politics of expression in Spinoza (ProQuest) Committee: Monoson, S. Sara (Chair); Honig, Bonnie H; Toender, Lars Current: Psychotherapist, LSW, Ambre Associates Placement: Graduate Student, Chicago Psychoanalytic Institute, Fundamentals of Psychoanalytic Thought | 2009 | Ambre Associates Psychotherapist, LSW | Political Theory | S | |
| Biography: Jinney S. Smith, Ph.D., passed away at the age of 49 on March 24, 2021, after suffering a sudden cardiac arrest. She was born in Seoul on May 3, 1971, and grew up on or near U.S. Army bases in South Korea, West Germany, and the Midwestern United States. She and her husband were high-school sweethearts and debate partners in Libertyville, Illinois. She graduated from the University of Michigan-Ann Arbor (B.A.), Northeastern University (M.A.), and Northwestern University (Ph.D. in political science). Subfield(s): American Politics; Law and Politics; Anticipatory compliance; Constitutional law; Judicial review; Policymaking; State legislatures; Supreme Court Dissertation: The Supreme Court and national policy-making: Influence through anticipatory compliance by state legislatures (ProQuest) Committee: Chong, Dennis (Chair); Austen-Smith, Michael D.; Page, Benjamin I Current: fmr. Deputy Director for Statistical Operations, U.S. Department of Justice, Bureau of Justice Statistics Placement: Visiting Assistant Professor, Lycoming College, Political Science and Criminal Justice | 2006 | U.S. Department of Justice fmr. Deputy Director for Statistical Operations | American Politics | S | |
| Professional Website | Personal Website | LinkedIn Subfield(s): International Relations; Transnational Relations, International Civil Societies and NGOs, Policy Making in the EU, Political Violence, Economic Statecraft and International Relations, Eurasian Integration: New Silk Road, Transnational Governance Dissertation: Consciousness or co-optation: Ethnic political power and movement outcomes in Ecuador and Australia (ProQuest) Committee: Swenson, Peter A (Chair); Chong, Dennis; Morris, Aldon D. Current: Professor, Jacobs University, Bremem International Graduate School of Social Science Placement: Lecturer, University of Heidelberg, Institute for Political Science | 2008 | Jacobs University Professor | International Relations | S | |
| Institutional Website | Professional Website | LinkedIn Biography: Warren Snead is an Assistant Professor of Political Science at Swarthmore College. He is broadly interested in American politics but his expertise lies in the fields of public law, public policy, and American political development. Warren's book project examines how the Supreme Court affects the development of public policy through statutory interpretation and wrestles with the normative implications of the Court's policymaking role. Currently, he is also working on projects analyzing the Supreme Court and the Voting Rights Act and how interest groups affect party unity in Congress. His writing has been published in the American Political Science Review and the Chicago Tribune. Warren received a Ph.D. and MA from Northwestern University and a BA from Sewanee University. Subfield(s): American Politics; Methodology; Supreme Court, Congress, Public Law Dissertation: Independent of Heaven Itself: The Supreme Court and Public Policy (ProQuest) Committee: Galvin, Daniel J. (Chair); Thurston, Chloe N.; Zackin, Emily (Johns Hopkins); Harbridge-Yong, Laurel; Page, Benjamin I. Current: Assistant Professor of Political Science, Swarthmore College Placement: Assistant Professor of Political Science, Swarthmore College | 2023 | Swarthmore College Assistant Professor of Political Science | American Politics | S | |
| Personal Website | Twitter: @sniderjh | LinkedIn Biography: Snider has been a fellow at Harvard University’s Edmond J. Safra Center for Ethics (2011-13) and the Harvard Kennedy School of Government’s Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics and Public Policy (2008). He came to Washington, DC as an American Political Science Association Congressional Fellow in Communications & Public Policy (1999-2000). He then served as a fellow and research director at New America (2001-2007). From 1994-1999 he served as a teaching assistant and fellow in Northwestern University’s Department of Political Science. He has a Ph.D. in American Government from Northwestern University, an M.B.A. from the Harvard Business School (with a focus on non-profit management), and an undergraduate degree in Social Studies from Harvard College. Subfield(s): American Politics; political communications, non-profit management; Broadcasters; Low-visibility politics; Media bias; Political power; Television Dissertation: Low -visibility politics: How local TV broadcasters exercise political power (Ebscohost) Committee: Page, Benjamin I (Chair) Current: President, iSolon.org Placement: Fellow and Research Director, New America Foundation | 2004 | iSolon.org President | American Politics | S | |
| Institutional Website | Professional Website | Twitter: @swatisrivast | LinkedIn | Google Scholar Biography: Swati Srivastava’s research focuses on International Relations, especially private actors in global governance. She has three ongoing interests. One examines how sovereign power is exercised through nonstate actors such as charter companies, security contractors, business associations, and NGOs. The resulting book, "Hybrid Sovereignty in World Politics," is under contract with Cambridge University Press. A second project explores the global politics of Big Tech and the related challenges of algorithmic governance. For this work, Professor Srivastava founded and directs an undergraduate research lab on Big Tech and Political Responsibility. Finally, she also theorizes relational approaches like constructivism and new kinds of responsibility. Professor Srivastava's research has been funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities, Andrew Mellon Foundation, the American Council of Learned Societies, and the Buffett Institute for Global Studies. Subfield(s): International Relations; hybrid public and private relations produce power in global politics Dissertation: Hybrid Sovereignty in World Politics (ProQuest) Committee: Hurd, Ian F (Chair); Carruthers, Bruce G.; Dietz, Mary G.; Mahoney, James Current: Associate Professor, Purdue University, Political Science Placement: Assistant Professor, Humbolt University, Global Politics | 2017 | Purdue University Associate Professor | International Relations | S | |
| Biography: Kenneth Stehlik-Barry, PhD, joined SPSS as Manager of Training in 1980 after using SPSS for his own research for several years. Working with others at SPSS, including Anthony Babinec, he developed a series of courses related to the use of SPSS and taught these courses to numerous SPSS users. He also managed the technical support and statistics groups at SPSS. Along with Norman Nie, the founder of SPSS and Jane Junn, a political scientist, he co-authored Education and Democratic Citizenship. Dr. Stehlik-Barry has used SPSS extensively to analyze data from SPSS and IBM customers to discover valuable patterns that can be used to address pertinent business issues. He received his PhD in Political Science from Northwestern University and currently teaches in the Masters of Science in Predictive Analytics program there. Subfield(s): American Politics; Political Behavior Dissertation: The growth of political tolerance, 1976-1994 (ProQuest) Committee: Page, Benjamin I. (Chair) Current: Managing Consultant, IBM Placement: Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) | 1997 | IBM Managing Consultant | American Politics | S | |
| Biography: In her role as Academic Vice President & Provost for Northwood University, Kristin Stehouwer is responsible for student success, strategy development and deployment, and the university’s quality systems and analytics. She joined Northwood University in 2009 from Macomb Community College where she served concurrently as Executive Director of Research and Planning and Vice Provost for Arts and Sciences. Prior to joining Macomb Community College, she served as Director of the Michigan Manufacturing Technology Center and Special Advisor to the President at Northwestern Michigan College. She also worked on special assignment to the U.S. Department of Commerce at the National Institute of Standards and Technology and worked in the area of global manufacturing competitiveness, which included a national speaking tour. Stehouwer earned her doctorate from Northwestern University in Political Science and International Relations. Her graduate studies include International Law at the University of Strasbourg as a Rotary Foundation Ambassadorial Scholar. Her scholarly work has focused on political and economic cooperation. She also earned her bachelor and master’s degrees from Northwestern University. Stehouwer completed postgraduate work at Harvard University’s Institute for Educational Management. Stehouwer has extensive experience in facilitating and deploying strategy in many types of organizations, including in the financial services, manufacturing, healthcare, education and service sectors. She has entrepreneurial experience and business management experience with large and small organizations, including family businesses. Having worked with organizations in the United States, Europe, Asia and Africa, Stehouwer speaks six languages. She has specialized in the areas of strategic management, performance excellence, process improvement and organization/leadership development. Subfield(s): International Relations; International Law Dissertation: France and German unification: The transition to a new Europe (ProQuest) Committee: Loriaux, Michael M. (Chair); Lynch, Cecelia; Cumings, Bruce Current: Academic Vice President & Provost, Northwood University | 1997 | Northwood University Academic Vice President & Provost | International Relations | S | |
| Professional Website | Google Scholar Biography: David A. Steinberg is an associate professor of international political economy. His research focuses on the politics of international money and finance. His book, Demanding Devaluation: Exchange Rate Politics in the Developing World (Cornell University Press, 2015), was awarded the Peter Katzenstein Book Prize and received an Honorable Mention for the American Political Science Association’s William H. Riker Book Award. He is the author of articles in Comparative Politics, Comparative Political Studies, International Studies Quarterly, Journal of Politics, World Politics, among other outlets. His research has been supported by a Johns Hopkins Catalyst Award, and by fellowships from the University of Pennsylvania’s Browne Center for International Politics and the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada. In 2017, he was awarded the Max M. Fisher Prize for Teaching Excellence. Subfield(s): International Relations; Comparative Politics; International Political Economy; Globalization; Emerging Markets; International Finance; Political Economy & Development Dissertation: The politics of exchange rate valuation in developing countries (ProQuest) Committee: Spruyt, Hendrik (Chair); Sartori, Anne Elizabeth; Schneider, Ben Ross Current: Associate Professor, Johns Hopkins University, School of Advanced International Studies, International Political Economy Placement: Post-Doctoral Fellow, University of Pennsylvania, Browne Center for International Politics | 2010 | Johns Hopkins University Associate Professor | International Relations | S | |
| Insitutional Website | Professional Website | Curriculum Vitae Biography: Niklaus Steiner is a native of Thun, Switzerland, who moved to Chapel Hill with his family when his father became a professor at Carolina. He earned a bachelor’s degree with highest honors in international studies at UNC and a Ph.D. in political science at Northwestern University. He has had the good fortune of moving between cultures his whole life and because of this experience, his teaching and research interests are around immigration, refugees, nationalism, citizenship, comparative politics and international relations. His textbook, International Migration and Citizenship Today (Routledge, 2009), seeks to facilitate classroom discussions on admission and membership in liberal democracies, and he is looking into writing a 2nd edition. Before joining the political science department in 2020, he enjoyed 22 deeply gratifying years working at UNC’s Center for Global Initiatives, the last 15 as the director. He is especially proud of the work he and many colleagues from across campus did to bring diversity, equity and inclusion into global education at Carolina. When not at work, Niklaus is often cutting or replanting flowers in the garden, walking in the woods with his family or making something up in the kitchen. Subfields: International Relations; humanitarianism and refugee; Europe Dissertation: Arguing about asylum: Interests, humanitarianism and refugee debates in Switzerland, Germany and Britain, 1970s-1990s (proquest) Dissertation Committee: Loriaux, Michael (Chair); Lynch, Cecelia; Barton, Josef (History) Current: Professor of the Practice, Department of Political Science, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill Placement: Research Associate, University Center for International Studies, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill | 1998 | University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill Professor of the Practice | International Relations | S | |
| Professional Website | Linkedin Biography: I am a popular lecturer in American Politics. My diverse course and lecture offerings include Money in Our Political System, Presidential Misconduct, Presidential and Mid-Term Elections, Recent Supreme Court Decisions, The Media in Politics, and Women in Politics. I have lectured in a variety of settings, including Oakton Community College, various Jewish Community Centers, North Shore Senior Center, retirement facilities, community groups and at several Road Scholar seminars at the Perlstein resort in Wisconsin. I bring both academic expertise and real world experience into my lectures. I received my Ph.D. in American Politics from Northwestern University. My dissertation examined the unique role women members of Congress have had on public policy. Prior to entering graduate school, I spent two years on Capitol Hill working for elected officials. I received my undergraduate degree in social science from Wesleyan University. I currently live in a suburb of Chicago with my family. Dissertation: Women in Congress: The Difference They Make (ProQuest) Dissertation Committee: Page, Benjamin I. (chair); Chong, Dennis; Conley, Patricia; Fedderson, Timothy Current: Speaker on U.S. Politics Placement: Project Coordinator, Center for Research on Women and Gender | 1998 | Speaker on U.S. Politics | American Politics | S | |
| Institutional Website | Professional Website | Twitter: @jujuchi | Google Scholar Biography: Julieta Suárez-Cao is an Associate Professor at the Institute of Political Science of the Pontifical Catholic University of Chile. She holds a Ph.D. in Political Science from Northwestern University. Her areas of expertise are Latin American politics, subnational politics, intergovernmental relations, political parties, and women’s representation. She has published in the Journal of Comparative Politics, Bulletin of Latin American Research, Regional & Federal Studies, The Hague Journal on the Rule of Law, among other journals. She has co-edited a book on Latin American subnational party systems, and another book on gender and politics in Latin America. She drafted the electoral system that established gender parity for Chile’ Constitutional Convention. She is the coordinator of Red de Politólogas #NoSinMujeres, a project that seeks to promote, make visible, and enhance the work of women dedicated to Latin American political science. Subfield(s): Comparative Politics; political and government institutions, federalism and subnational politics, political parties, women's representation and electoral systems Dissertation: Parties and Party Systems across Territory: Stability and Change in Federalized Party Systems (ProQuest) Committee: Gibson, Edward L. (Chair); Roberts, Andrew L.; Seawright, Jason N. Current: Associate Professor, Pontifica Universidad Catolica de Chile, Political Science Institute, Department of Political Science Placement: Assistant Professor, Pontifica Universidad Catolica de Chile, Political Science Institute | 2012 | Pontifica Universidad Catolica de Chile Associate Professor | Comparative Politics | S | |
| Institutional Website | LinkedIn | Google Scholar Biography: Paul E. Sum received his PhD in Political Science from Northwestern University in 1996. He came to the University of North Dakota in fall 2000. He teaches courses in Comparative Politics, Democratization, Global Perspectives, Human Rights, and Political Behavior. Sum’s research agenda explores various aspects of political behavior, including cooperation, civil society, inequalities, and democratic citizenship. Here is an example of Sum's recent scholarship which looks at the impact of inequality on collaborative problem-solving skills among youths: https://authors.elsevier.com/a/1hMr72dqBJnKbc Sum also is an accomplished international evaluator and consultant. He has worked with the U.S. Agency for International Development, World Bank, Council of Europe, OSCE, National Democratic Institute, International Research & Exchanges Board, and the American Council for Learned Societies. Sum maintains a special relationship with Romania. He held the position of Lecturer and Fellow at the Faculty of Political Science and Public Administration at Babes-Bolyai University in Cluj-Napoca, Romania (1996-1998) under a program funded by the U.S. Department of State, Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs. Since 2007, he has held an academic appointment at the same faculty for the Masters in Research Design and Data Analysis Program. In 2009-2010, Sum was the recipient of a Fulbright Scholar Award to Romania where he lectured and conducted research. Subfield(s): Comparative Politics; Political behavior and attitudes; Democratization & retreats from democracy; Post-communist politics / Romanian politics; Nonprofits in the policy-making process; Social enterprises & the "fourth sector" Dissertation: The Origins of Nationalism: An Inquiry into the Determinants of Nationalism in Tudor England (ProQuest) Committee: Stephens, John (Chair); Abu-Lughod, Ibrahim; Ragin, Charles; Lynch, Cecelia Current: Head of School, The Master's Program (Santa Fe) | 1996 | University of North Dakota Professor | Comparative Politics | S | |
| Professional Website | Personal Website | Twitter: @sunx32 | LinkedIn Biography: Xin Sun is Senior Lecturer in Chinese and East Asian Business. He received his PhD in political science from Northwestern University in 2014. Prior to joining King’s, he held academic positions at the University of Oxford and Trinity College Dublin. He obtained a BA in Chemistry and Economics at Peking University and MA in Economics at Chinese Academy of Sciences. Xin’s research interests include political economy and government-business relations in China, as well as research methodology. He is particularly interested in the interplay between formal and informal institutions in authoritarian regimes and how the two types of institutions jointly shape economic and policy outcomes as well as business behaviours. Subfield(s): Comparative Politics; Economics Politics; International development Dissertation: Essays on Informal Institutions and Land Politics in Contemporary China (ProQuest) Committee: Shih, Victor C (Chair); Hurst, William J.; Kernell, Georgia C.; Reno, William S. Current: Senior Lecturer, King's College London, Chinese Business Placement: Assistant Professor, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland | 2014 | King's College London Senior Lecturer in Chinese and East Asian Business | Comparative Politics | S | |
| Institutional Website | Professional Website | Twitter: @Mara_Suttmann | LinkedIn | Google Scholar Biography: Mara Suttmann-Lea hails from the Midwest, growing up in Leland, Michigan, and earning her undergraduate and graduate degrees in Chicago, Illinois. She studies American politics, and is primarily interested in the relationship between election laws, political parties and campaigns, and political participation. Her research aims to develop concrete ways to improve the electoral process and increase access to participation in politics, particularly for vulnerable populations. Her current research has two tracks. One is a book manuscript that examines how campaigns and party organizations have adapted to expansive voting reforms like early voting and same-day voter registration. She argues that we cannot fully comprehend the consequences of expansive voting reforms for citizen participation without examining how they shape (and are shaped by) political actors – campaigns, party organizations, elected officials, and election administrators–who have a vested interest in the voter behavior that altered by these reforms. By examining this relationship, she looks to establish the role that these political actors play in enhancing or diminishing the effects of reforms meant to improve political participation. The other track evaluates poll workers in the United States. These street level bureaucrats serve as a primary point of contact between citizens and voter laws governing voter eligibility, and are a central part of the democratic process. There are multiple questions this track of research addresses. One, she wants to know what motivates poll workers to serve in the first place. Two, she seeks to establish the extent to which poll workers are descriptively representative of the populations they serve. Three, she considers whether descriptive representation is necessary for substantive representation at the street level of election administration, that is, whether poll workers equally assess voter eligibility of individuals who do and don’t look like them. Finally, she evaluates how the race of voters combined with state-level voter identification laws shape poll workers’ evaluation of voter eligibility. Subfield(s): American Politics; election laws and administration, political parties and campaigns, and political engagement Dissertation: Convenience at a Cost: The Unintended Consequences of Early Voting (ProQuest) Committee: Galvin, Daniel J. (Chair); Burch, Traci R.; Druckman, James N.; Mahoney, James L. Current: Associate Professor, Connecticut College, Government Placement: Visiting Assistant Professor, Skidmore College, Political Science Department (American Politics) | 2017 | Connecticut College Associate Professor | American Politics | S | |
| Professional Website | LinkedIn Biography: Christopher M. Swarat is the Dean of the College of Professional & Continuing Education (CPaCE) at the California State University, Long Beach. Previously, at Cal State Fullerton he served as associate vice president of Extension and International Programs, director of the B.A. in international business program, and director of global outreach focused on developing globally. aware business leaders. Subfield(s): International Relations; Political Theory; Philosophy, religion and theology; Social sciences; China; Confucianism; Political discourse Dissertation: In Other Words: A Critique of Modernism in International Relations Discourse from the Perspective of Confucian Tradition (ProQuest) Committee: Spruyt, Hendrik (Chair); Loriaux, Michael M (Co-Chair); Hurd, Ian F; Shih, Victor C Current: Dean, College of Professional and Continuing Education, California State University, Long Beach Placement: Director, California State University-Fullerton, Center for International Business | 2011 | California State University, Long Beach Dean, College of Professional and Continuing Education | Political Theory, International Relations | S | |
| Professional Website | Personal Website | LinkedIn Biography: Rachel Sweet is assistant professor of politics and global affairs at the Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies, part of the Keough School of Global Affairs at the University of Notre Dame. Sweet is a concurrent faculty member in Notre Dame’s Department of Political Science. Sweet’s research focuses on armed conflict, governance and state capacity in fragile environments, and the methodology and data of studying civil wars and armed violence. Drawing on four years of research in East and Central Africa, she uses armed groups’ original financial and administrative records and in-depth interviews to generate new understandings of the logic of rebel control and state survival amidst insecurity. Her book manuscript, “Violent Institutions: Rebellion, Bureaucracy, and State Capture in the Congo,” examines the varied relationships that form between armed groups and low-level state administrators during war. It probes how rebels’ use of pre-existing bureaucratic offices for taxation and surveillance reshape state institutions, embed violence networks within the state, and provide rebels legitimation to international audiences. Subfield(s): International Relations; Armed conflict; Governance and state capacity in fragile environments; Methodology and data of studying civil wars and armed violence Dissertation: State-Rebel Relations During Civil War: Institutional Change Behind Frontlines (ProQuest) Committee: Reno, William S (Chair); Mahoney, James L.; Riedl, Rachel B.; Spruyt, Hendrik Current: Assistant Professor, University of Notre Dame, Politics and Global Affairs Placement: Academy Scholar (Post-Doc), Harvard University, Weatherhead Center for International Affairs | 2017 | University of Notre Dame Assistant Professor | International Relations | S | |
| Professional Website | LinkedIn Biography: Dr. Daniel E. Szarke is a former Air Force officer with a military career in positions spanning strategic airlift, strategic planning, international and regional affairs, operations, training, and higher education. His assignments included postings in Europe, multiple deployments in the Middle East, and extensive worldwide travel. He completed his Ph.D. in Political Science with an emphasis in Comparative Politics at Northwestern University, Evanston, IL in 2015. A fluent French speaker, his field research focused on strategic and security relationships between elites in the capital and populations at more remote reaches of the state in Mali and Niger. He received a Master's in International Relations from St. Mary's University in San Antonio, and a MAster in the History of International Relations from the University Robert Schuman in Strasbourg, France, with a particular focus on NATO-Russia relations. His research interests include conflict and security, neo-patrimonial relationships, decentralization, and center-periphery relations in weak and failed states. Subfield(s): Comparative Politics; African Security, Neopartrimonialism, Decentralization, and Weak and Failing States Dissertation: Political Reform and Challenges to Order in Weak States: Center-Periphery Relations in the Sahel (ProQuest) Committee: Reno, William S (Chair); Arjona, Ana Maria; Caverley, Jonathan D Current: Adjunct Instructor, University of Texas at El Paso (UTEP), Intelligence and National Security Studies Placement: Assistant Professor, US Air Force Academy, International Programs | 2015 | University of Texas at El Paso (UTEP) Adjunct Instructor | Comparative Politics | S | |
| Professional Website | LinkedIn Biography: Self-motivated research analyst with advanced research, writing, and analytical skills developed through Ph.D. training in the social sciences. Master's degree in applied statistics and proficient with a variety of statistical software packages, including R, SAS, and SPSS. Subfield(s): Comparative Politics; Chile; Costa rica; Latin America; Liberal democracy; Nineteenth century; State building; Uruguay Dissertation: State Building and Political Regimes: The Nineteenth-Century Origins of Liberal Democracy in Latin America (ProQuest) Committee: Mahoney, James L (Chair); Gibson, Edward L; Schneider, Ben Ross Current: Statistician, Bureau of Economic Analysis, U.S. Department of Commerce, Bowling Green, Ohio Placement: Graduate Student, MS Applied Statistics, Bowling Green State University, Applied Statistics | 2014 | U.S. Department of Commerce Statistician, Bureau of Economic Analysis | Comparative Politics | T | |
| Professional Website | LinkedIn | Google Scholar Biography: Anna Terwiel is Assistant Professor in the Department of Political Science. Her research lies at the intersection of political theory, feminist theory, critical carceral studies, and medical humanities. In her book project, The Challenge of Prison Abolition, Professor Terwiel examines the resurgence of abolitionist projects in the contemporary United States. In a political moment of rising authoritarianism and democratic impasse, she argues that prison abolition offers a powerful commitment to radical change and democratic freedom that deserves our close attention. Her book aims to clarify abolitionism’s goals and strengthen its outcomes by carefully engaging with its internal tensions and debates. Subfield(s): Political Theory; Biopolitics, Feminist political theory, Gender, race, and medicine Dissertation: Foucault and the Lateral Body Politics of Prison Hunger Strikes (ProQuest) Committee: Honig, Bonnie H (Chair); Deutscher, Penelope (Philosophy); Toender, Lars Current: Assistant Professor, Trinity College-Hartford, Department of Political Science Placement: Instructor, Prison and Neighborhood Arts Project | 2015 | Trinity College-Hartford Assistant Professor | Political Theory | T | |
| Institutional Website | Professional Website | Twitter: @aifethompson | LinkedIn Biography: Dr. Thompson’s research examines how threat and anxiety shift attitudes about American democracy. Specifically, he explores how racial demographic changes motivate stronger support for anti-democratic practices among the American public. He shows that partisan considerations are central to understanding how Americans process information about the changing U.S. demographic landscape, and how supportive they are of anti-democratic policies. Ultimately, Dr. Thompson shows that as the country diversifies, democratic considerations and overall support for American democracy are bound to shift dramatically among the mass public. Subfield(s): American politics, political psychology, public opinion, race and politics, experimental methods Dissertation: Fear and Loathing in White America: The Effects of Group Threat on Political Attitudes and Perceptions (Proquest) Committee: Druckman, James N (Chair); Bullock, John George; Rogers, Reuel R; Spruyt, Hendrik Current: Assistant Professor George Washington University, Department of Political Science Placement: Postdoctoral fellow, University of Notre Dame, Political Science Department | 2021 | George Washington University Assistant Professor | American Politics | T | |
| Professional Website | Personal Website | Twitter: @dougthomps | Google Scholar Biography: Doug Thompson is Associate Professor of Political Science at the University of South Carolina. His research and teaching interests include contemporary democratic theory; theory and practice of political representation; history of ancient, Renaissance, and modern political thought; history of American political thought; politics of race; and metro and urban politics. His first book, Montaigne and the Tolerance of Politics, was published by Oxford University Press in 2018. The book situates Montaigne’s Essais within the historical context of the French Wars of Religion to recover a forgotten conception of tolerance as an active capacity and practice of political negotiation with adversaries. Thompson’s other research on Montaigne (and Herman Melville) has appeared in History of Political Thought and Montaigne Studies. Thompson’s current research is centered on two projects. The first consists of a series of articles that investigate new possibilities of democracy in an urbanizing world. The first of these, “An Ill-Fitting Coat: Reforming U.S. Political Boundaries for a Metropolitan Age,” was published in The Journal of Politics in 2019. It argues that current American municipal and state boundaries actively harm democratic legitimacy and ought to be rescaled to represent the interests of an almost-entirely metropolitanized twenty-first century population. Subfield(s): Political Theory; Montaigne, Michel de; Negotiation; Realism; Skepticism; Toleration; Contemporary democratic theory; Theory and practice of political representation; History of ancient, Renaissance, and modern political thought; History of American political thought; politics of race; and metro and urban politics Dissertation: Beyond the Inner Citadel: Skepticism, Realism, and Toleration in Montaigne's “Essais” (ProQuest) Committee: Honig, Bonnie H (Chair); Dietz, Mary G.; Farr, James F. Current: Associate Professor and Director of Undergraduate Studies, University of South Carolina, Political Science Placement: Assistant Editor, Political Theory: An International Journal of Political Philosophy | 2012 | University of South Carolina Associate Professor and Director of Undergraduate Studies | Political Theory | T | |
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Biography: M. Lena Trabucco is a Visiting Researcher at the U.S. Naval War College. Trabucco holds a dual PhD degree in political science and law from Northwestern University and the University of Copenhagen respectively. Lena’s current research includes the legal and political operability of multilateral military interventions, foreign policy, military technology, developments in artificial intelligence, international law, and laws of armed conflict. Subfield(s): International Relations, Methods; international law and international security, laws of war in international politics Dissertation: Judges on the Battlefield? Judicial Observer Effects in US and UK National Security Policies (ProQuest) Committee: Alter-Hanson, Karen (Chair); Madsen, Mikael Rask (Copenhagen); Hurd, Ian F Current: Visiting Researcher, U.S. Naval War College Placement: Postdoctoral Researcher, University of Copenhagen, Centre for Military Studies | 2020 | U.S. Naval War College Visiting Researcher | International Relations | T | |
| Institutional Website | Professional Website | Twitter: @ailitripp | LinkedIn | Google Scholar Biography: Aili Mari Tripp is Vilas Research Professor of Political Science at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Tripp’s research has focused on gender/women and politics, women’s movements in Africa, transnational feminism, African politics (with particular reference to Uganda and Tanzania), autocracies in Africa, and on the informal economy in Africa. She is presently working on a project on women’s political leadership in African autocracies and on a second project on women’s political citizenship and conflict globally. The latter is funded by the National Science Foundation. She is author of Seeking Legitimacy: Why Arab Autocracies Adopt Women’s Rights (New York and Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2019), which won the 2021 L. Carl Brown Book Prize of the American Institute for Maghrib Studies. Other award-winning books by the author include Women and Power in Postconflict Africa (2015), Museveni’s Uganda: Paradoxes of Power in a Hybrid Regime (2010), African Women’s Movements: Transforming Political Landscapes (2009) with Isabel Casimiro, Joy Kwesiga, and Alice Mungwa, and Women and Politics in Uganda (2000). Her first book was Changing the Rules: The Politics of Liberalization and the Urban Informal Economy in Tanzania (1997), which was recently reissued. She has edited Sub-Saharan Africa: The Greenwood Encyclopedia of Women’s Issues Worldwide (2003), and co-edited (with Ladan Affi and Liv Tønnessen) Women and Peacebuilding in Africa (2021), (with Balghis Badri) Women’s Activism in Africa (2017), (with Myra Marx Ferree and Christina Ewig) Gender, Violence, and Human Security: Critical Feminist Perspectives (2013), (with Myra Marx Ferree) Global Feminism: Transnational Women’s Activism, Organizing, and Human Rights, (with Joy Kwesiga) The Women’s Movement in Uganda: History, Challenges and Prospects (2002) as well as (with Marja-Liisa Swantz) What Went Right in Tanzania? People’s Responses to Directed Development (1996). Subfield(s): Comparative Politics, Africa, North Africa, Civil Society, Gender and Politics, Women’s Movements, Global Feminism, Conflict Resolution, Democratization Dissertation: The urban informal economy and the state in Tanzania Committee: Ronald Herring, Evelyne Stephens, and Karen Hansen Current: Vilas Research Professor of Political Science, University of Wisconsin-Madison Placement: Assistant Professor of Political Science and Women's Studies, University of Wisconsin-Madison | 1990 | University of Wisconsin-Madison Vilas Research Professor of Political Science | Comparative Politics | T | |
| Personal Website | Twitter: @poliscipunk | Academia.edu | LinkedIn Biography: Pollster covering public opinion, social movements and elections across Asia. Punk Rocker, Kpopper, Scrambler Rambler, Knowledge Dropper, Coffee Monster Subfield(s): International Relations; Korea; Nationalism; Public opinion; South Korea Dissertation: Not Just Nationalism: Values and Goals in South Korean Public Opinion (ProQuest) Committee: Page, Benjamin I. (Chair); Druckman, James N.; Winters, Jeffrey A. Current: Acting Asia Division Chief, Office of Opinion Research, U.S. Department of State Placement: Professional Lecturer, George Washington University, Educational Leadership | 2012 | U.S. Department of State Senior Analyst, Office of Opinion Research | International Relations | T | |
| Professional Website | Institutional Website | LinkedIn Biography: Valdes’ research focuses on a phenomenon called private politics, or the targeting of private corporations to accomplish political goals. She broadly studies the interaction between government and private companies, as well as how individual actors can influence the political decisions of both entities. One of her recent projects includes an article forthcoming at the Quarterly Journal of Political Science. In this article, she used a survey experiment with a large sample of state legislators to explore how they react when a constituent threatens to boycott businesses. Her results suggest that private politics can actually undermine representation, as legislators become less likely to take policy action if they believe policy is being made in the marketplace. In her current position as a postdoctoral fellow, Valdes plans to extend her work to explore the impact of regulatory threat on a firm’s policies, examining firm’s reactions to changes to in the minimum wage law. Specifically, she looks at states where at minimum wage laws either passed or at least came up for a vote, and compare that timing to press releases announcing wage hikes. Altogether, my research aims to show how studying public policy requires an understanding of both the public and the private domains. Subfield(s): American Politics; Civic skills; Political participation Dissertation: Private Targets, Public Outcomes: An Examination of Individual-Level Participation in Private Politics and Its Interaction with Public Politics (ProQuest) Committee: Druckman, James N. (Chair); Harbridge-Yong, Laurel; Page, Benjamin I. Current: Assistant Professor, Indiana State University Placement: Visiting Assistant Professor, Lake Forest College, Politics | 2017 | Indiana State University Assistant Professor | American Politics | V | |
| Biography: Walt Vanderbush teaches classes in Latin American and Latino studies on the topics of US-Latin American relations, Latinos in the United States, and Latin American politics. Walt writes in the areas of US-Latin American relations and Latin American political economy. His current research is on the Caribbean with a focus on regional resistance to external pressures. Walt's original research was on Mexican political economy, including articles on Mexican labor unions and other popular organizing. He moved next to a focus on US-Latin American Relations, particularly US-Cuba policy. With co-author Pat Haney, he published several articles and book chapters on Cuba policy, as well as the 2005 book, The Cuban Embargo: Domestic Politics of American Foreign Policy. Since then, Walt's work has been on US-Latin American Relations more generally with articles in journals such as New Political Science, Foreign Policy Analysis, and New Politics. He has also contributed chapters to the book, Diaspora Lobbies and the US Government: Convergence and Divergence in Making Foreign Policy (2014); and The Ecopolitics of Consumption: The Food Trade (2017, co-authored with Melanie Ziegler). Subfields: Comparative Politics; US-Latin American relations, Latinos in the United States, and Latin American politics, economy, and society Dissertation: Independent organizing in Puebla, Mexico, 1961-1992: Social movements, the struggle for autonomy, and democratization (ProQuest) Current: Associate Professor and Chair, Miami University (Ohio), Political Science; Global and Intercultural Studies; Latin American and Caribbean Studies | 1993 | Miami University (Ohio) Associate Professor and Chair | Comparative Politics | V | |
| Professional Website | Elsevier | LinkedIn Biography: Dr. Christa van Wijnbergen studied Public Administration as an undergraduate at Leiden University but moved abroad to pursue graduate studies. She did a Master's at the College of Europe (Bruges, Belgium) and obtained a doctorate in Political Science at Northwestern University (Evanston, USA). She then taught at Ohio State University and the University of Chicago's Graduate School of Business and spent a year as a postdoc at Harvard's Center for European Studies before returning to Europe to become a research fellow at the European Institute at the London School of Economics. Christa finally made it back to the Netherlands a few years ago, first settling as an independent policy researcher before returning to academia. She sought out the liberal arts and science programmes being pioneered at University Colleges in the Netherlands for their promise of being able to teach courses beyond disciplinary boundaries to an eclectic and motivated student body. As a relatively young and growing programme, Erasmus University College offered the opportunity to think deeply about and contribute to curriculum development, together with a wonderfully diverse and dedicated group of colleagues. Dr van Wijnbergen's teaching and research interests are in the fields of Comparative & International Political Economy and European Union Politics, and include topics such as Varieties of Capitalism, Comparative Welfare States and Educational Reforms. Subfield(s): Comparative Politics; Comparative & International Political Economy and European Union Politics, and include topics such as Varieties of Capitalism, Comparative Welfare States and Educational Reforms Dissertation: Imposing consensus: State steering of welfare and labor market reforms in continental Europe (Ebscohost) Committee: Thelen, Kathleen A. (Chair); Wallerstein, Michael J; Swenson, Peter A. Current: Senior Lecturer, Erasmus University College, Economics and Business, Netherlands Placement: Assistant Professor, Ohio State University | 2002 | Erasmus University College Senior Lecturer | Comparative Politics | v | |
| Twitter: @salvador_vma | Academia.edu | LinkedIn Biography: Salvador's research and professional experience are focused on the study of public opinion and the political behavior of Mexicans. He is a doctor and teacher in political science, and a teacher in mathematics applied to the social sciences, from Northwestern University. He has conducted research on the patterns of accusations of electoral fraud in Mexico and its effect on public opinion and on the culture and political behavior of Mexicans. In addition, he worked as a researcher for fees at the UNAM Institute of Legal Research, where he collaborated in social surveys such as the first National Discrimination Survey. He has given classes on public opinion and political psychology, on quantitative methodology and on United States politics at UNAM, at the Universidad Iberoamericana and at Northwestern. Before joining the LNPP, he worked designing and analyzing surveys at the Office of the President of the Republic, in Buendía & Laredo, and as an independent consultant. Subfield(s): Comparative Politics; Content analysis; Elections; Electoral fraud; Mexico; Political comunication; Survey experiment Dissertation: Elections as Issues: Patterns and Incentives of Accusations of Fraud in Mexico (Ebscohost) Committee: Gibson, Edward L (Chair); Druckman, James N (Co-Chair).; Seawright, Jason N. Current: Senior Consultant, EXL Placement: Lecturer, Universidad Iberoamericana | 2013 | EXL Senior Consultant | Comparative Politics | V | |
| Biography: Akbar Virmani ’80 MA, ’96 PhD, Glenview, Ill., Dec. 1, 2020, at age 64. Virmani was born in Uganda to parents of Indian descent. The family settled in the United States in 1973 after South Asians were forcibly displaced from Uganda. Virmani came to Northwestern for graduate study in political science. As assistant and associate director of Northwestern’s Program of African Studies from 1986 to 2003, Virmani administered research programs and maintained PAS’s alumni and international ties. He also taught and mentored graduate and undergraduate students. Dissertation: The resettlement of Ugandan refugees in southern Sudan, 1979-1986: The dynamics of exodus, asylum, and forced repatriation (ProQuest) Committee: Munro, William A. (Committee); Rowe, John (History); Abu-Lughod, Ibrahim | 1996 | Northwestern University Senior Scholar-at-Large | International Relations | V | |
| Professional Website | LinkedIn Biography: Martin is a specialist in natural resource development and member of the Special Group on Mining, Geothermal Energy and Hydrocarbons of the Infrastructure and Energy Department at the IDB. He is currently based in Santiago, Chile, and is responsible for coordinating and supervising projects in Argentina, Bolivia, Chile and Peru. Since joining the Bank in 2013, he supports countries in strengthening the quality of governance in the mining and energy sector and optimizing benefits and mitigating risks and negative impacts associated with the extractive industries. Prior to joining the IDB, he worked as a researcher at the United Nations Environment Programme (UNDP) and as a consultant on risk and industrial safety issues. He has published extensively on the governance of the extractive sector and natural resources in Latin America and the Caribbean. He holds a PhD in Political Science from the Institut d´Etudes Politiques de Paris (IEP-Sciences Po) and Northwestern University with a specialization in international environmental policies and water management; a Masters in Comparative Politics, specializing in Latin America (IEP-Sciences Po); and a BA in Political Science from the University of San Andres (Argentina). Subfield(s): International Relations; Comparative Environmental Politics; Health and environmental sciences; Earth sciences; Conflict; Cooperation; Environmental policy; France; Genevois Aquifer; Groundwater; Hueco Aquifer; Mesilla Bolson Aquifer; Mexico; Switzerland; Transboundary waters; United States; Water management Dissertation: Explaining the Emergence of Transboundary Groundwater Management: The Cases of Guaraní Aquifer System, the Hueco and Mesilla Bolsón Aquifers, and the Génévois Aquifer (ProQuest) Committee: Spruyt, Hendrik (Chair); Dabene, Olivier (Co-Chair, Sciences Po); Balme, Richard (Sciences Po); Loriaux, Michael M; Massardier, Gilles (Sciences Po); Sindico, Francesco (University of Strathclyde); Stephan, Raya Current: Sector Specialist, Extraction, Inter-American Development Bank, Infrastructure and Energy Placement: Inter-American Development Bank, Strengthening Governance in the Extractive Sector | 2013 | Inter-American Development Bank Sector Specialist, Extraction | International Relations, Comparative Politics | W | |
| Professional Website | Personal Website | Twitter: @desireejweber | Academia.edu Biography: Dr. Weber’s expertise includes modern and contemporary political theory, with a particular focus on language, discourse and argumentation in political thinking. Her area of specialization is the influence of Ludwig Wittgenstein and other language philosophers on political understanding and judgment. She teaches a variety of political theory courses. She is currently working on a monograph about the role of teaching and learning in Wittgenstein’s biography and later work – and the implications for understanding our capacity to make meaning as well as judgments about meaning. In collaboration with renowned contemporary artist Paul Chan, she has contributed a critical introduction to a new edition of Wittgenstein’s Wörterbuch für Volksschulen [Dictionary for Elementary Schools] which will appear in November 2020. Subfield(s): Political Theory; Political Pedagogy, Language & Politics, Critical Theory, Philosophy of Social Inquiry, History of Political Thought, Contemporary Democratic Theory, Philosophy of Language Dissertation: Reading Wittgenstein in Politics: Normativity, Judgment, and Political Pedagogy (ProQuest) Committee: Farr, James F. (Chair); Dietz, Mary G.; Gunnell, John G. (SUNY Albany) Current: Associate Professor and Department Chair of Political Science; Pre-Law Program, College of Wooster Placement: Assistant Professor, College of Wooster, Political Science | 2016 | College of Wooster Associate Professor and Department Chair | Political Theory | W | |
| Institutional Website | Professional Website | Twitter: @_thaWRIGHTway | LinkedIn Biography: Andrene Wright-Johnson is social scientist interested in Black political behavior and urban politics at the intersection of race, gender, and class. She currently serves as an Anna Julia Cooper Fellow at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and will begin her appointment as an Assistant Professor in the department of African American Studies in Fall of 2024. She is also a faculty affiliate in the Political Science department, a faculty affiliate at the University of Wisconsin Election Research Center, and a Senior Research specialist at the Institute for Research on Race and Public Policy at the University of Illinois at Chicago. Wright’s work seeks to advance our understanding of identity politics, explore the internal dynamics of Black politics more precisely, and situate a Black feminist consciousness in political decision-making. She continues to champion techniques that best account for intra-group differences within marginalized communities and is working on a book project that’s committed to the workings of Black racial groups within an urban context. Her work has been supported by the American Political Science Association, the Center for American Women and Politics, the Association for the Study of Black Women and Politics and the Center for the Study of Diversity and Democracy. Subfield(s): American Politics; urban politics and political behavior at the intersection of race, gender, and class Dissertation: When They Enter: Black Women's Politics in U.S Urban Centers (ProQuest) Committee: Tillery, Alvin Bernard, Jr.; Rogers, Reuel R.; Nash, Jennifer C. (Duke University); Bonilla, Tabitha (Education and Social Policy) Current: Anna Julia Cooper Fellow, University of Wisconsin-Madison Placement: Presidential Postdoctoral Fellow, the Pennsylvania State University | 2023 | University of Wisconsin-Madison Assistant Professor of African American Politics | American Politics | W | |
| Professional Website | Academia.edu | LinkedIn Biography: Xie Tao is professor and dean of the School of International Relations and Diplomacy at Beijing Foreign Studies University. His research interests include Congress, public opinion, and China-U.S. relations. He has published extensively in both Chinese and English. He holds a PhD in political science from Northwestern University (2007). He is the author of U.S.-China Relations: China Policy on Capitol Hill (Routledge 2009) and Living with the Dragon: How the American Public Views the Rise of China (with Benjamin I. Page, Columbia University Press, 2010). He has also published several articles in the Journal of Contemporary China, including “What Affects China’s National Image? A Cross-national Study of Public Opinion” (September 2013). He is a frequent guest at CCTV News, BBC, CNN, Al Jazeera, and China Radio International. Subfield(s): International Relations; American politics, China-U.S. relations, and Chinese foreign policy; Capitol Hill; China; Human rights; Taiwan; Trade Dissertation: China Policy on Capitol Hill: An Analysis of Trade, Taiwan, and Human Rights (ProQuest) Committee: Page, Benjamin I (Chair) Current: Professor/ Associate Dean at the School of English and International Studies, Beijing Foreign Studies University, School of International Relations and Diplomacy, School of English and International Studies Placement: Assistant Professor, Beijing Foreign Studies University, School of International Relations and Diplomacy | 2007 | Beijing Foreign Studies University Professor; Associate Dean at the School of English and International Studies | American Politics, International Relations | X | |
| Institutional Website | Elsevier Fingerprint Subfield(s): International politics, international organizations, international institutions, regional cooperation, trade and political economy, global governance, multilateral security Dissertation: Capitalism, the new world economy and labor relations: Korean labor politics in comparative perspective (ProQuest) Committee: Woo-Cummings, Meredith Chair); Loriaux,Michael M.; Swenson, Peter A. Current: Professor, Kyung Hee University, Department of Political Science and Diplomacy, College of Political Science and Economics Placement: Assistant Professor, Chung-Ang University, Department of Political Science and Diplomacy, College of Political Science and Economics | 1995 | Kyung Hee University Professor of Political Science & International Relations | International Relations | Y | |
| Professional Website | Personal Website | Twitter: @ArielZellman | Google Scholar Biography: Ariel Zellman (Ph.D.) is a lecturer (assistant professor) in the Department of Political Studies at Bar Ilan University. After completing his Ph.D. in political science at Northwestern University (2012), he received a post-doctoral fellowship at New York University's Taub Center for Israeli Studies in 2012-13. From 2013-2015, he was a post-doctoral fellow at both the Harry S. Truman Research Institute for the Advancement of Peace and the Leonard Davis Institute for International Relations at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. He joined the Political Studies Department at Bar Ilan in 2015. His research focuses on linkages between narratives of national identity and international territorial conflict protraction in the Middle East and former Yugoslavia with a methodological focus on comparative historical analysis and survey experimentation. Subfield(s): International Relations; Comparative Politics; NaN Dissertation: Security or Identity? Narratives of State and Nation in International Territorial Conflict Protraction (ProQuest) Committee: Reno, William S (Chair); Seawright, Jason N.; Spruyt, Hendrik Current: Assistant Professor (Lecturer), Bar Ilan University, Political Science Placement: Post-Doctoral Fellow, New York University, Taub Center for Israel Studies | 2012 | Bar Ilan University Assistant Professor (Lecturer) | Comparative Politics, International Relations | Z | |
| LinkedIn Biography: A director-level quant trader that specializes in equities, after a seven-year stint at Citi, Kai Zeng started with UBS in 2018. As vice president at Citi, Zeng helped manage systematic trading and equity derivatives analytics, according to LinkedIn. Now he’s an equity quant trader that works within UBS’s central risk book – a key role for large banks that are trying to manage extreme market volatility. Subfield(s): International Relations; Econometrics, Macroeconomics, Political Economics, Game Theory and Emerging Markets Dissertation: Foreign Direct Investment Liberalization and the Political Economy of Authoritarianism (Ebscohost) Committee: Austen-Smith, Michael D (Chair); Sartori, Anne Elizabeth; Shih, Victor C Current: Director, Equity Quant Trader, UBS Placement: Citi, Open Market Making & Systematic Trading | 2010 | UBS Director, Equity Quant Trader | International Relations | Z | |
| Institutional Website | Professional Website | LinkedIn Biography: Dong Zhang is an Assistant Professor in the Division of Social Science. He received his doctorate in political science from Northwestern University. He was a Shorenstein Postdoctoral Fellow in contemporary Asia at Stanford University. He holds bachelor's degrees in public policy and economics, and a master's degree in public policy from Peking University, Beijing. His research interests include comparative political economy, international political economy, and authoritarian politics. His work has appeared in Comparative Political Studies, Journal of Politics, Public Administration Review, Review of International Political Economy, among others. Subfield(s): Comparative Politics; Comparative Political Economy, Development Economy, Chinese Politics & Economy Dissertation: State capitalism and the logic of political survival (ProQuest) Committee: Shih, Victor C (Chair); Black, Bernard (Law); Gans-Morse, Jordan L.; Hurst, William; Winters, Jeffrey Current: Assistant Professor, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Political Science Placement: Assistant Professor, Lingnan University, Hong Kong, Political Science | 2016 | Hong Kong University of Science and Technology Assistant Professor | Comparative Politics | Z | |
| Professional Website | LinkedIn | ResearchGate Biography: Qi Zhang is associate professor at the China Center for Economic Studies under the School of Economics at Fudan University. He specializes in the political economy of authoritarianism generally and how elite politics affects policymaking and economic outcomes in China specifically. He attained a Doctor of Economics from China Center for Economic Research, Peking University, and a Doctor of Political Science from Northwestern University. He has published dozens of articles in Chinese and foreign academic journals such as Business and Politics, China Economic Review, Urban Studies, Economic Research, World Economy, and Economics (Quarterly). Subfield(s): Comparative Politics; political economy of development, authoritarian politics, corruption and governance Dissertation: The Communist Revolution and the Political Origin of the Private Economy in China: Evidence from Zhejiang Province (ProQuest) Committee: Shih, Victor C. (Chair); Mahoney, James L.; Reno, William S. Current: Associate Professor, Fudan University, School of Economics, China Center for Economic Studies Placement: Shorenstein Postdoctoral Fellow, Stanford University, FSI Institute for International Studies | 2010 | Fudan University Associate Professor | Comparative Politics | Z | |
| Professional Website | Personal Website | Google Scholar Biography: Jiangnan Zhu is an Associate Professor in the Department of Politics and Public Administration. She attained a bachelor's degree in International Relations and Economics from Peking University, M.S. in Mathematical Models of Social Sciences, and a Ph. D in Political Science from Northwestern University. Before joining the University of Hong Kong, she was an Assistant Professor at the University of Nevada, Reno. Dr. Zhu’s research interests include comparative political economy in developing and transitional countries, especially Chinese politics, corruption and anticorruption in China, political trust, and media in China. Subfield(s): Comparative Politics; comparative political economy in developing and transitional countries, especially Chinese politics, corruption and anticorruption in China, political trust, and media in China Dissertation: Officials' Promotion Likelihood and Regional Variation of Corruption in China (ProQuest) Committee: Shih, Victor C. (Chair); Austen-Smith, Michael D.; Reno, William S. Current: Associate Professor, University of Hong Kong, Department of Politics and Public Administration Placement: Assistant Professor, University of Nevada, Reno, Department of Political Science | 2008 | University of Hong Kong Associate Professor | Comparative Politics | Z | |
| Biography: I provide a variety of consulting services to nonprofits, banks, foundations, and public entities involved in poverty alleviation and community economic development. My work focuses especially on issues of strategic planning, program and product development, market analyses, and impact definition, measurement, and evaluation. I have been actively involved in various aspects of the federal New Markets Tax Credit program. I am also involved in broader studies and analyses of mixed-income housing, small business development and finance, and community/neighborhood change. Subfields: American Politics; Urban planning; Area planning & development; Welfare Dissertation: The art of revitalization: Improving conditions in distressed inner-city neighborhoods (ProQuest) Committee: Skogan, Wesley G. Placement: Financial and Program Analyst, Community Development Financial Institutions Fund (CDFI Fund) | 1998 | SZ Consulting, LLC President | American Politics | Z | |
| Institutional Website | Twitter: @JZPhilosophy | LinkedIn Biography: Justin Zimmerman is an Assistant Professor of American Politics at UAlbany. His area of concentration is Black Politics and Urban Politics. His research aims to understand how Black Chicagoans work with institutions and neighbors they distrust to pursue common policy goals – in this case, to remedy state and community violence. Justin received his Ph.D. from Northwestern University in 2023. He also is a proud alum of the University of Alabama where he received a Bachelor of Arts in political science and philosophy in 2009 and a Master of Public Administration with a concentration in organizational management in 2011. Prior to pursuing a career in academia, Justin resided in Washington, D.C., where he supported the Department of Treasury as an acquisitions consultant with Octo Consulting Group and served in multiple roles with the Department of State. Subfield(s): American Politics; Black Politics and Urban Politics Dissertation: Distrustful Cooperation: A Study of Black Chicagoans Combatting State and Community Violence (ProQuest) Committee: Burch, Traci R.; Rogers, Reuel R.; Tillery, Alvin Bernard, Jr.; Nuamah, Sally A. (Education and Social Policy) Current: Assistant Professor of Political Science, Rockefeller College of Public Affairs and Policy, The University at Albany, State University of New York Placement: Assistant Professor of Political Science, Rockefeller College of Public Affairs and Policy, The University at Albany, State University of New York | 2023 | The University at Albany, State University of New York Assistant Professor of Political Science | American Politics | Z |