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 2000-2022. 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: John Wolfe Ackerman is a Lecturer in Politics & International Relations at New College of the Humanities. John teaches Political Theory. 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 (Ebscohost) Committee: Honig, Bonnie H (Chair); Crepon, Marc D L; Dietz, Mary Golden; Fenves, Peter Current: Lecturer, 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 Lecturer | Political Theory | A | |
Professional Website | LinkedIn Biography: Partner of Henderson & Alberro, she is a specialist in financial inclusion, the implementation of financial instruments for social development such as social impact contracts and in evaluation. 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 (Ebscohost) Committee: Gibson, Edward L (Chair); Wallerstein, Michael J; McCann, Jay ; Current: Socio, Henderson & Alberro Placement: Profesora investigadora , Colegio de Mexico, Centro de Estudios Internacionales | 2007 | Henderson & Alberro Socio | Comparative Politics | A | |
Professional Website | Personal Website | Twitter: @isalacuerva | Academia.edu | LinkedIn Biography: Dr. Isabella Alcañiz is an Associate Professor of the Department of Government and Politics and Director of the Latin American and Caribbean Studies Center, 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 Global Environmental Politics, Journal of Cleaner Production, Water Policy, Environmental Science & Policy, World Politics, and the Latin American Research Review. Her book, Environmental and Nuclear Networks in the Global South: How Skills Shape International Cooperation, was published by Cambridge University Press. 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 (Ebscohost) 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 Associate Professor | Comparative Politics | A | |
Institutional Website | Professional Website | Twitter: @safaasaeedi | LinkedIn | Google Scholar Biography: Safa Al-Saeedi is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Department of Political Science at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Recently, she was a Predoctoral Research Fellow at the Middle East Initiative Program at the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, Harvard Kennedy School. She is also a Junior Fellow at the Association for Analytic Learning about Islam and Muslim Societies (AALIMS). Her research interests include political communication, research methodology, Middle East politics, religion and law, economic development, and automated text analysis and machine learning. In her dissertation and book project, The Quest for Influence: Media Changes and Reform Politics in Saudi Arabia, Al-Saeedi investigates how media innovations affect politics in autocratic regimes. Subfield(s): Political Communication; Research Methods; Middle East politics Dissertation: The Quest for Influence: Media Changes and Reform Politics in Saudi Arabia Committee: Pearlman, Wendy (Chair); Mahoney, James; Bouchat, Sirus; Riedl, Rachel (Cornell University); Kuran, Timur (Duke University) Current: Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Placement: Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) | 2022 | Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Postdoctoral Research Fellow | 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: NaN 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 (Ebscohost) Committee: Gibson, Edward L (Chair); Fischer, Brodwyn; Mahoney, James L; 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 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 Lecturer | Political Theory | A | |
Professional Website Biography: Ramla Bandele is a writer of plays and short stories. She is 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 (Ebscohost) Committee: Page, Benjamin I (Chair); Hanchard, Michael G; Woo-Cumings, Meredith Current: Author and Playwright, Independent / Self-Employed, Political Science Placement: Research Fellow, University of Rochester, Frederick Douglass Institute for African and African-American Studies | 2002 | Indiana University–Purdue University Indianapolis Associate Professor Emeritus | American Politics | B | |
Professional Website | Personal Website | LinkedIn Biography: Jason Barabas is the Director of the Rockefeller Center for Public Policy and the Social Sciences at Dartmouth College as well as a Professor in the Department of Government. Dr. Barabas earned his Ph.D. in Political Science from Northwestern University and his undergraduate degree in Government from Dartmouth. 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. While at Dartmouth, Barabas played intercollegiate football on three Ivy League championship teams and he worked as an intern in the White House Office of Media Affairs. After graduating from Dartmouth, Jason Barabas was appointed as an economic policy advisor for the Governor of Illinois. Currently, Professor Barabas teaches and conducts research on public policy and opinion preferences, often with an emphasis on empirical methodology and research design. Subfield(s): American Politics; American Politics, Methodology, Public Policy, Health Policy Dissertation: Americans discuss Social Security: How deliberation affects public opinion (Ebscohost) Committee: Page, Benjamin I (Chair); Chong, Dennis; Cook, Fay Lomax Current: Professor, Dartmouth College, Department of Government 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 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 | Personal Website | Twitter: @RodrigoBarrene4 | Academia.edu | LinkedIn Biography: I hold a Ph.D. in Political Science from Northwestern University and a B.A. in Sociology from the Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú. In the 2019-2020 academic year, I was a Post-Doctoral Fellow in the Weatherhead Center Research Cluster on Challenges to Democracy, at Harvard University. My research focuses on populism, political parties, and political representation in Latin America. My book project conceptualizes and explains societal polarization under populist rule in the Andes. My 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 (Ebscohost) Committee: Mahoney, James L (Chair); Gibson, Edward L (Co-Chair); Seawright, Jason W; Levitsky, Steven (Harvard) Current: Assistant Professor, Universidad Católica del Uruguay, 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 Baskan 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? (Ebscohost) Committee: Reno, William S (Chair); Gibson, Edward L; Deruluguian, Georgi 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 | |
Professional Website | LinkedIn 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 (Ebscohost) 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: Yale University, Institution for Social and Political Studies | 2005 | Michigan State University Associate Professor | 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 | |
Professional Website | Personal Website | Twitter: @BlancFlorent | Academia.edu | LinkedIn Biography: Florent BLANC, Ph.D., is a training officer at the Institute for Research and Education on Negotiation (ESSEC IRENE Paris, Singapore, Brussels). He is in charge of delivering training sessions on negotiation and mediation to clients from French and European institutions as well as from the private sector. From 2011 to 2016, as an international mediation project leader, he conducted various programs in West Africa alongside local and national authorities, especially in Mali. He continually lectured in masters program in the field of international relations and security and participated in conferences in France and abroad. Subfield(s): International Relations; international mediation, security, Mali, counterterrorist policies and military ethics Dissertation: Dissent after September 11 mobilization of librarians, ACLU, cities and lawyers (Ebscohost) Committee: NaN (Chair); Loriaux, Michael M (Co-Chair); Balzacq, Thierry; Chebel, Ariane Current: Negotiation training officer, ESSEC Business School, IRENE Placement: Project Manager, Ecole de la paix Grenoble | 2010 | Ecole de la paix Grenoble Project Manager | International Relations | B | |
LinkedIn Biography: NaN Subfield(s): Comparative Politics Dissertation: Power of position: French and German elites in the liberalization process (Ebscohost) Committee: Loriaux, Michael M (Chair); Swenson, Peter A; Thelen, Kathy 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 | |
Professional Website | Academia.edu | LinkedIn Biography: Marco Bocchese completed his PhD at the Department of Political Science at Northwestern University in 2018. He is currently working as a visiting assistant professor at the University of Illinois at Chicago Subfield(s): International Relations; International Politics Dissertation: Justice Cooperatives: Explaining State Attitudes toward the ICC (Ebscohost) Committee: Reno, William S (Chair); Arjona, Ana Maria; Riedl, Rachel Beatty Current: Assisant 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 | Academia.edu | LinkedIn Biography: Toby Bolsen is a Professor 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 to the university. 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. In 2020, Bolsen was the recipient of the Teaching for Social Justice and Democracy Award from the Center for Excellence in Teaching and Instructing at GSU. 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 (Ebscohost) Committee: Druckman, James N (Chair); Chong, Dennis; Cook, Fay Lomax Current: Associate Professor, Georgia State University, Department of Political Science Placement: Assistant Professor, Georgia State University, Department of Political Science | 2010 | Georgia State University Assistant Professor | American Politics | B | |
Professional Website | Personal Website | Twitter: @Mari_BorgesMS Biography: I am a Postdoctoral Prize Research Fellow in Politics at Nuffield College at the University of Oxford. I defended my PhD thesis in Political Science at Northwestern University in June 2019. I have an M.A. in Political Science from the Graduate Research Institute of the State of Rio de Janeiro (IUPERJ) [current IESP/UERJ] and a B.A. in Law from the University of São Paulo (USP). My general fields of study are comparative politics, Latin American politics, and methodology with expertise in qualitative methods. My current research concerns the effects of culture on a diverse set of topics of democratic functioning, especially political behaviour, elections, the representation of marginalized groups, political parties, corruption, and misinformation, with a focus on Brazil. I mainly employ ethnographic and historical methods in my research, and I also combine them with survey experiments. 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 (Ebscohost) Committee: Mahoney, James L (Chair); Gibson, Edward L; Pearlman, Wendy R; Current: Postdoctoral Prize Research Fellow , University of Oxford, Nuffield College, Department of Politics and International Relations Placement: Postdoctoral Prize Research Fellow , University of Oxford, Nuffield College, Department of Politics and International Relations Professional Website | Personal Website | Twitter: @Mari_BorgesMSBiography: I am a Postdoctoral Prize Research Fellow in Politics at Nuffield College at the University of Oxford. I defended my PhD thesis in Political Science at Northwestern University in June 2019. I have an M.A. in Political Science from the Graduate Research Institute of the State of Rio de Janeiro (IUPERJ) [current IESP/UERJ] and a B.A. in Law from the University of São Paulo (USP). My general fields of study are comparative politics, Latin American politics, and methodology with expertise in qualitative methods. My current research concerns the effects of culture on a diverse set of topics of democratic functioning, especially political behaviour, elections, the representation of marginalized groups, political parties, corruption, and misinformation, with a focus on Brazil. I mainly employ ethnographic and historical methods in my research, and I also combine them with survey experiments. 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 (Ebscohost) Committee: Mahoney, James L (Chair); Gibson, Edward L; Pearlman, Wendy R; Current: Postdoctoral Prize Research Fellow , University of Oxford, Nuffield College, Department of Politics and International Relations Placement: Postdoctoral Prize Research Fellow , University of Oxford, Nuffield College, Department of Politics and International Relations | 2019 | University of Oxford Postdoctoral Prize Research Fellow | Comparative Politics | B | |
Professional Website | Personal Website | 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 (Ebscohost) 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 | |
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. Subfield(s): American Politics; race, class, immigration, and cities, ethnography Dissertation: Reconstructing Bronzeville: Identity and the Construction of Racial Group Interests (Ebscohost) Committee: NaN (Chair); Herbst, Susan; Binford, Henry ; 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 | |
Professional Website | Twitter: @CritAntiquities | LinkedIn Biography: I am a classicist and political scientist with a special interest in the ways that ancient worlds implicate contemporary life, especially from the perspective of critical political theory and political economy. I have taught political theory at the University of Sydney since 2018 and joined the Department of Classics and Ancient History as Postdoctoral Research Fellow in 2020. In 2020, I founded the Critical Antiquities Network and the online Critical Antiquities Workshop together with Ben Brown (CAH USyd) to connect international researchers who work between ancient traditions and contemporary critical theories. 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 (Ebscohost) 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 Assistant 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 Dissertation: Transnational Labor Alliances: Why Some Succeed (Ebscohost) 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 | |
Professional Website | Personal Website | Twitter: @JavierBurdman | Academia.edu Biography: Javier Burdman is 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 (Ebscohost) 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 | |
Professional Website | Personal Website | Twitter: @EthanBusby | LinkedIn Biography: I am an Assistant Professor of Political Science at Brigham Young University, specializing in political psychology, extremism, public opinion, racial and ethnic politics, and quantitative methods. I study extremism in democracies. More specifically, my work explores what extremism is, who people blame for extremism, and what encourages and discourages extremism. Across this work, I consider extremism in the public and at the elite level. I examine both a general approach to extremism and several specific kinds – including racial extremism, partisan extremism, and populism. My 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 (Ebscohost) 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 is currently a teaching associate at the School of Transnational Governance of hte European University Institute in Florence. 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. Her research focuses on economic policy developments in Germany, Britain, and France within the context of European integration. Topics include corporate governance, economic nationalism, Brexit, business-government relations, wage bargaining systems, and the Eurozone Crisis. 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 (Ebscohost) Committee: Thelen, Kathy A (Chair); Gourevitch, Peter; Alter-Hanson, Karen Current: Teaching Associate, European University Institute, Robert Schuman Centre, School of Transnational Governance Placement: Post-doctoral Fellow, European University Institute, Italy | 2006 | European University Institute Teaching Associate | Comparative Politics | C | |
Professional Website | Personal Website | Twitter: @ecalvo67 | Academia.edu | LinkedIn Biography: Ernesto Calvo (PhD, Northwestern University 2001) is Professor of Government and Politics (GVPT) and Director of the interdisciplinary Laboratory for Computational Social Science (iLCSS), University of Maryland-College Park. His research on political representation, elections, and Congresses, has received the Lawrence Longley Award, the Leubbert Award, and the Michael Wallerstein award from the Representation Section, the Comparative Politics section, and the Political Economy section of the American Political Science Association. He is the coauthor with Maria Victoria Murillo of "Non-Policy Politics" (Cambridge U.P, 2019), Legislator Success in Fragmented Congresses in Argentina (Cambridge U.P: 2014) and La nueva politica de Partidos (Prometeo: 2005). His work has been published in US, European, and Latin American journals such as the American Journal of Political Science, the Journal of Politics, World Politics, The British Journal of Political Science, Comparative Political Studies, Electoral Studies, Poltica y Gobierno (Mexico), Desarrollo Econmico (Argentina), Opiniao Publica (Brazil), and the Revista de Ciencia Politica (Chile). Subfield(s): Comparative Politics; comparative political institutions, political representation, and social networks Dissertation: Disconcerted industrialists: The politics of trade reform in Latin America (Ebscohost) 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 | |
Institutional Website | 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 (Ebscohost) 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 | |
Professional Website | LinkedIn Biography: NaN 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 (Ebscohost) Committee: Winters, Jeffrey A (Chair); Gibson, Edward L; Thelen, Kathy 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 | |
Professional Website | Personal Website | Academia.edu Biography: I am a Research Scientist in the Department of Political Science at Duke University, where prior to my current appointment I was a Postdoctoral Associate (2018-2020). I did my graduate work at Northwestern University (PhD, 2018) and before that I studied at Bates College, where I received a BA degree in Economics and Political Science (2009). While finishing my dissertation, I held temporary teaching appointments at Lake Forest College and the American University in Bulgaria. Broadly speaking, my research interests lie in the fields of history of political thought, moral and political philosophy, and contemporary democratic theory. Within the first two, I take a particular interest in the social and political thought of Kant and Hegel, as well as the tradition of early modern European political thought (esp. Hobbes, Locke, Hume, and Rousseau). In the third field, I take an interest in the normative democratic theories of Dewey, Rawls, Arendt, and Habermas. Secondary research interests include American political thought, international political theory (esp. contemporary philosophical theories of global justice and human rights), philosophy of social science, and ancient Greek political ethics (Plato and Aristotle). 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 Fulton (Chair); Alznauer, Mark Vinzenz; Dietz, Mary Golden; Current: Senior Research Scientist, Duke University, Political Science Placement: Visiting Lecturer, American University in Bulgaria, Political Science | 2018 | Duke University Senior Research Scientist | Political Theory | C | |
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. 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 (Ebscohost) Committee: Dietz, Mary Golden (Chair); Farr, James; Monoson-Berns, Sara Current: Senior Lecturer, The University of Exeter, Politics Placement: Visiting Assistant Professor, The College of William & Mary, Government | 2013 | The University of Exeter Senior Lecturer | Political Theory | C | |
Institutional Website | Personal Website | Twitter: @IsabelitaCast | LinkedIn Biography: Isabel Alejandra Castillo Carniglia is an Assistant Professor at the Department of Politics and Government, Universidad Alberto Hurtado and an adjunct researcher at the Center for Social Conflict and Cohesion Studies (COES). Her dissertation on women’s suffrage won the best dissertation award from APSA’s Women, Gender, and Politics Section. She is also part of Red de Politólogas. Her research interests include democratization, gender, and religion and politics, with a focus on historical and contemporary Latin America. I am also interested in research methods. 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 (Ebscohost) Committee: Mahoney, James L (Chair); Riedl, Rachel Beatty; Orloff, Ann Shola Current: Postdoctoral Fellow, Universidad Adolfo Ibáñez, Center for the Study of Political History Placement: Postdoctoral Fellow, Universidad Adolfo Ibáñez, Center for the Study of Political History, | 2019 | Universidad Alberto Hurtado Assistant Professor | Comparative Politics | C | |
Institutional Website | Professional Website | Twitter: @ArturoChangQ | LinkedIn | Academia.edu 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 | |
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 Dissertation: How Voters Form Issue Attitudes: The Relationship between Political Environments, Issue Attitudes, and Political Behavior (Ebscohost) Committee: Page, Benjamin I (Chair); Yong, Laurel Harbridge; 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 | |
Professional Website | Personal Website Biography: Erin Aeran Chung is the Charles D. Miller Associate Professor of East Asian Politics in the Department of Political Science at the Johns Hopkins University. She previously served as the director of the East Asian Studies Program and the co-director of the Racism, Immigration, and Citizenship (RIC) Program. 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. She also served on the Executive Committee of the Migration and Citizenship Section of the American Political Science Association and is currently co-editor of the Cambridge University Press Elements Social Science Series on the Politics and Society of East Asia. Subfield(s): Comparative Politics, Political Economy; East Asian political economy, international migration, civil society, and comparative racial politics, Japan Dissertation: Guarding the Treasury: Party Politics and the Congressional Budgetary Process (Ebscohost) Committee: Hanchard, Michael G (Chair); Honig, Bonnie H; Swenson, Peter A Current: Charles D. Miller Associate 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 Associate Professor of East Asian Politics | 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 | Personal Website | LinkedIn Biography: For the past twelve years 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 (Ebscohost) 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 | |
Professional Website | Academia.edu Biography: NaN Subfield(s): Political Theory; Political Philosophy, Greek and Roman Political Thought, Democratic Theory, Egalitarianism, History of Political Thought, Theories of Well-Being Dissertation: The Youth Gap in American Elections: Ideology, Partisanship, and Voting Choice for Three Generations of Under-Thirty Americans (Ebscohost) Committee: Kraut, Richard H (Chair); Monoson-Berns, Susan Sara (Co-Chair); Dietz, Mary Golden; Wynne, John P.F. Current: Professional Lecturer, DePaul University, Political Science Placement: Visiting Assistant Professor, DePaul University, Political Science | 2018 | DePaul University Professional Lecturer | Political Theory | C | |
Personal Website | Twitter: @policentrica Biography: I’m an associate professor of Political Science and Latin American Studies at the Universidad Torcuato di Tella, in Buenos Aires, Argentina. My research interests focus on representation, democratization, and institutional stability and change in Latin America. I also write extensively about qualitative and mixed methods, and especially the use of focus groups in the social sciences. My work is informed a great deal by the time I spend in Latin America and the relationships I have cultivated with friends and colleagues in the region. I have carried out fieldwork, traveled, or lived in Peru, Venezuela, Bolivia, Colombia, Argentina, and several other countries. Subfield(s): Comparative Politics; Comparative Politics, representation, democratization, and institutional stability and change in Latin America Dissertation: Aristotle on Political Activity (Ebscohost) Committee: Gibson, Edward L (Chair); Mahoney, James L; Seawright, Jason W Current: Associate Professor, Universidad Torcuato di Tella, Departamento de Ciencia Política y Estudios Internacionales / Department of Political Science and International Studies Placement: Associate Professor, University of Arizona, School of Government and Publicy Policy and Center for Latin American Studies | 2012 | Universidad Torcuato di Tella Associate Professor | Comparative Politics | C | |
Professional Website | Twitter: @asdurso | Google Scholar Biography: Dr. Amanda Sahar d’Urso is a Guarini Dean’s Postdoctoral Fellow at Dartmouth College in the Department of Government and in the program for Quantitative Social Science. Her research details how Middle Easterners and North Africans (MENA) have been racialized throughout the 20th and 21st century, 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, Jr., Alvin B. Current: Guarini Dean’s Postdoctoral Fellow in the Politics of Race and Ethnicity, Dartmouth College Placement: Guarini Dean’s Postdoctoral Fellow in the Politics of Race and Ethnicity, Dartmouth College | 2022 | Dartmouth College Guarini Dean’s Postdoctoral Fellow in the Politics of Race and Ethnicity | American Politics | D | |
Professional Website | Personal Website | Academia.edu Biography: Erin Kimball Damman, Clinical Assistant 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: From Collapse to Comeback? The Fates of Political Parties in Latin America (Ebscohost) Committee: Reno, William S (Chair); Alter-Hanson, Karen; Goertz, Gary Current: Clinical Assistant Professor , University of Idaho, International Studies Program Placement: Adjunct Professor, Washington State University | 2012 | University of Idaho Clinical Assistant Professor | International Relations | D | |
Professional Website | Personal Website | Academia.edu | LinkedIn Biography: Christopher Day joined the Department of Political Science 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. Subfield(s): Comparative Politics; Comparative Politics, African politics, political violence, civil wars, humanitarian affairs Dissertation: Peacekeeping For Approval: The Rise of African-Led Interventions (Ebscohost) 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: I am an international lawyer and political scientist specialized in human rights and judicial institutions. I am particularly interested in the relationship between domestic and international courts and how domestic judges have agency while deciding to resist or follow international jurisprudence in human rights matters. By resisting or following international jurisprudence, domestic judges become agents of change of domestic and international politics. My work analyses empirically the behavior of domestic judges towards international jurisprudence and international courts, demonstrating that the domestic and international realms are intertwined. Subfield(s): International Relations; human rights, judicial institutions Dissertation: Fates of Rebels: The Politics of Insurgency Survival and Demise (Ebscohost) Committee: Hurd, Ian F (Chair); Dothan, Shai; 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 (Ebscohost) 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 Active-Duty Major, RC-135 and EC-130H Pilot | International Relations | D | |
Institutional Website | Professional Website Biography: Sean Diament and I am a Visiting Assistant Professor in Political Science at Pomona College. Diament was born and raised in Los Angeles and migrated northward to receive my B.A. in Political Science from the University of California, Berkeley. His research and teaching interests broadly encompass the politics of poverty, political inequality (including class, race, gender, and migration), 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. 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 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 Visiting Lecturer at the University of Pittsburgh's Department of Political Science and Global Studies Center. Dijmarescu's research is on the ways people invoke rules to justify or contest actions. His work examines rules related to 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. 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 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 Visiting Lecturer | Political Theory, International Relations | D | |
Professional Website | Personal Website | Twitter: @jdillonsavage | Academia.edu | 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: Prometheus’s Blind Spot: Invoking Rules and Political Histories of Fire (Ebscohost) Committee: Spruyt, Hendrik (Chair); Caverley, Jonathan D; Deruluguian, Georgi; 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 | 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 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: I joined Wheaton College in 2015, after completing my doctoral work at Northwestern University. My 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. I have published on topics including the politics of popular culture, the history or the social sciences, democratic theory, critical 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. I am also passionate about my teaching, and have developed courses at Wheaton that span the fields of international relations, political theory, and women’s and gender studies. In each of my classes, I seek to trace the origins of our political present in order to encourage my 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 Dissertation: Patrons, Proxies, and International Relations: Political Survival and the Surrender of Sovereignty (Ebscohost) Committee: Farr, James Fulton (Chair); Dietz, Mary Golden; Koopman, Colin Current: Visiting Assistant Professor, Wheaton College (Massachusetts), Department of Political Science and Women and Gender Studies Placement: Visiting Assistant Professor, Wheaton College (Massachusetts), Department of Political Science and Women and Gender Studies | 2015 | Wheaton College (Massachusetts) Visiting Assistant Professor | Political Theory | D | |
LinkedIn Biography: NaN 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 Sights That Hold the Crowd": Political Science and the Politics of Popular Culture (Ebscohost) Committee: Reno, William S (Chair); Ficquet, Eloi; Hurd, Ian F Current: Policy Analyst, Ministère des Affaires étrangères français Placement: Project Officer, Transparency International | 2014 | Ministère des Affaires étrangères français Policy Analyst | Comparative Politics, International Relations | D | |
Professional Website | Personal Website Biography: Gustavo Duncan is Assistant Professor in the Department of Political Science at the University of Los Andes (Universidad de Los Andes) (Bogota) and Visiting Professor at EAFIT University (Medellin). 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: The Politics of Election Monitoring: The Case of Ethiopia and the EU (Ebscohost) Committee: Gibson, Edward L (Chair); Reno, William S; Winters, Jeffrey A Current: Assistant Professor, Universidad EAFIT, Government and Political Sciences Placement: Assistant Professor, University of the Andes | 2015 | Universidad EAFIT Assistant Professor | Comparative Politics | D | |
Professional Website Biography: Laura Ephraim teaches political science at Williams College. Subfield(s): Political Theory; Political Theory Dissertation: Drug Trafficking as Politics: Oligopolies of Coercion in Mexico and Colombia (Ebscohost) Committee: Zerilli, Linda (Chair); Farr, James Fulton; Honig, Bonnie H Current: Associate Professor, Williams College, Political Science Placement: Assistant Professor, Williams College, Political Science | 2010 | Williams College Assistant Professor | Political Theory | E | |
Professional Website | Personal Website | Twitter: @tuliafa | Academia.edu 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. Subfield(s): Comparative Politics; Comparative Politics, Latin American Politics, Democratization, Federalism and Decentralization, Community participation, qualitative research methods, Historical institutionalism Dissertation: The Path to Preemption: The Politics of Indonesian Student Movements During the Regime Transition (1998-99) (Ebscohost) Committee: Gibson, Edward L (Chair); NaN; NaN Current: Professor, University of Pennsylvania, Political Science Placement: Postdoctoral Fellowship, University of Notre Dame, Helen Kellogg Institute for International Studies | 2003 | University of Pennsylvania Professor | Comparative Politics | F | |
Professional Website | Personal Website | Twitter: @diegofinchel | LinkedIn 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 teaches undergraduate and postgraduate courses in the areas of strategy and international business within the Business School of the University of San Andrés and is a researcher at the National Council for Scientific and Technical Research (CONICET). 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 (Ebscohost) Committee: Schneider, Ben Ross (Chair); Mahoney, James L; Perkins, Susan 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 School of Global and Public 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:Different states, different internationalizations: An analysis of the process of firms' internationalization in Argentina, Brazil and Chile (Ebscohost) 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 | |
Professional Website | Personal Website | Twitter: @seejenspeak | LinkedIn Biography: I am the Helen Houlahan Rigali Assistant Professor of Political Science at Loyola University Chicago. I previously received my Ph.D in Political Science from Northwestern University and my BA from the Ohio State University, summa cum laude in Political Science and Comparative Cultural Studies, with distinction in Political Science. My research draws from the history of political thought, particularly in the American tradition, to investigate the consequences of digital technologies for democratic practices. Subfield(s): Political Theory Dissertation: Misinformation Effects in Public Opinion and Representation (Ebscohost) 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 | |
Professional Website | Personal Website | Twitter: @josh_free | Academia.edu Biography: Joshua Freedman is a visiting 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. Freedman’s research interests center around the politics of recognition, identity, and status in international conflict and diplomacy. 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: Visiting Assistant Professor, Oberlin College, Politics Placement: Visiting Assistant Professor, Oberlin College, Politics | 2019 | Oberlin College Visiting Assistant Professor | International Relations | F | |
Professional Website | Personal Website | Twitter: @valeriefreeland | Academia.edu | LinkedIn Biography: I am a researcher, professor, and a tutor with Athabasca University's Department of Political Science. Last year I was a Visiting Assistant Professor in the University of British Columbia - Okanagan's Department of Philosophy, Politics and Economics. Previously, I have taught and researched at Simon Fraser University (Vancouver, BC), Loyola University (Chicago, IL), and Wheaton College (Wheaton, IL). My courses have included multiple levels of International Relations, Comparative Politics, African and Canadian Politics, and Political Theory. I received my PhD in Political Science from Northwestern University in June 2015. Subfield(s): International Relations, Comparative Politics Dissertation: The Recognition Dilemma in World Politics (Ebscohost) 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 | Comparative Politics, International Relations | F | |
Professional Website | Personal Website | Academia.edu | LinkedIn Biography: Carlos Freytes is Doctor (Ph.D.) and Master (MA) in 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). Subfield(s): Comparative Politics; Comparative Politics Dissertation: Unconventional Power: Less Powerful States' Strategic Use of International Norms (Ebscohost) Committee: Schneider, Ben Ross (Chair); Gibson, Edward L (Co-Chair); Mahoney, James L; Prasad, Monica Current: Profesor Ordinario Adjunto, Universidad Torcuato di Tella, Buenos Aires, Departamento de Ciencia Política y Relaciones Internacionales. Placement: Professor, Universidad Torcuato di Tella, Buenos Aires, Departamento de Ciencia Política y Relaciones Internacionales. | 2015 | Universidad Torcuato di Tella Profesor Ordinario Adjunto | Comparative Politics | F | |
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. 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. 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) (Ebscohost) 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 | |
Professional Website | Personal 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 The 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: Trapped by Economic Inequality in Latin America: Colombia and Perú in Comparative Perspective (Ebscohost) 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 | Academia.edu | LinkedIn Biography: Mneesha Gellman is Associate Professor of Political Science in the Institute for Liberal Arts and Interdisciplinary Studies, at Emerson College, Boston, USA. Her research interests include comparative democratization, cultural resilience, memory politics, and social movements in the Global South and the United States. She is also the founder and Director of the Emerson Prison Initiative, which brings a BA pathway to incarcerated students in Massachusetts. Subfield(s): Comparative Politics Dissertation: The devil is in the details: Delegation and the content of legislation in Brazil (Ebscohost) 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 | Comparative Politics | G | |
Professional 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 or is forthcoming in European Journal of Political Theory and The Review of Politics. 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 (Ebscohost) Committee: Dietz, Mary Golden (Chair); Farr, James Fulton; Lafont, Cristina; Spruyt, Hendrik Current: Visiting Assistant Professor, University of Connecticut, Department of Political Science Placement: Visiting Assistant Professor, University of Connecticut, Department of Political Science | 2020 | University of Connecticut Visiting Assistant Professor | Political Theory | G | |
Professional Website | Personal Website | Twitter: @Mauro_Gilli | Academia.edu | LinkedIn Biography: Mauro Gilli is a Senior Researcher in Military Technology and International Security. He received his PhD in Political Science from Northwestern University in 2015, with major in International Relations and minor in Methodology. He has an MA from the School of Advanced International Studies, Johns Hopkins University, and a BA from the University of Turin. Before joining CSS, he was a post-doctoral fellow at the Dickey Center, Dartmouth College. Subfield(s): International Relations; American power; Arm races; Balance of power; Diffusion; Military technology; Unipolarity Dissertation: Democratic Responses to the “Social Question” in the Age of Revolution (Ebscohost) Committee: Sartori, Anne Elizabeth (Chair); Caverley, Jonathan D; Nelson, Stephen C; Orloff, Ann Sho 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 | |
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: The Struggle For Military-Technological Superiority Complexity, Systems Integration and the Industrial Challenges of Imitation (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 | G | |
Professional Website | Personal Website | Twitter: @JF_Godbout Biography: I am a professor at the University of Montreal in the Departement of Political Science. My research is primarily focused on legislative institutions and comparative political development. I also have an interest in data science and machine learning. I am currently Director of the Big data analysis undergraduate certificate program at the University of Montreal. Subfield(s): American Politics; Comparative Politics, Elections, Parliaments, Europe, United States Dissertation: Hard labor: Employees and healthcare reform in the United Kingdom, 1997–2004 (Ebscohost) Committee: Chong, Dennis (Chair); Canes-Wrone, Brandice; Diermeier, Daniel 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 | 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 | |
Personal Website | Twitter: @GoldsmithWeil Biography: I have specialized in dietary studies, wellness regimens and research methodologies. I lead a Fondecyt project entitled "The Policy of Food Policies: Legislation Subsidies and Conflicts on Food Environments". I coordinate the "Food Studies Group" (GEPA) which is a permanent monthly seminar where this year we are dedicating ourselves to discussing the effects of the global Covid19 pandemic on environments, chains, practices and food safety. Subfield(s): Comparative Politics; comparative politics, welfare regimes, public policies, food policies, comparative-historical analysis, and research methods Dissertation: Congress, representation, and participation: The influence of voter turnout on legislative behavior in the House of Representatives (Ebscohost) Committee: Mahoney, James L (Chair); Gibson, Edward L; Roberts, Andrew L Current: Assistant Professor , Universidad de Los Lagos Placement: Post-Doctoral Researcher, Fondo Nacional de Desarrollo Cientifico y Tecnologico, CISPO | 2014 | Universidad de Los Lagos Assistant 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: Striving for Services: Citizen-State Relations in Chile's Changing Economic, Political and Welfare Regimes, 1954-2010 (Ebscohost) Committee: Reno, William S (Chair); Riedl, Rachel Beatty; 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 | International Relations | G | |
Professional Website | Personal Website | Twitter: @scottlgreer | Academia.edu | 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: Post-Conflict Statebuilding in South Sudan (2005-2013) Institutional Layering, SPLM/A Organizational Structure, and the Historicity of the South Sudanese State (Ebscohost) Committee: Thelen, Kathy A (Chair); NaN; NaN Current: Professor, University of Michigan, Department of Health Management and Policy Placement: Lecturer, University College London, School of Public Policy and the Constitution Unit | 2003 | University of Michigan Professor | Comparative Politics | G | |
Personal Website | Twitter: @SamGubitz | LinkedIn Biography: I am a Political Science PhD Candidate at Northwestern University. My fields of study are American politics and research methods. I primarily research media effects, political incivility, and political communication. More generally, my 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. 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 Caroline; 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; Political Theory, Politics of Representation, Democratic Theory, Continental Philosophy; Democratic thought; Political Representation; Orientalism; Nationalism Dissertation: Political incivility is a feature, not a bug: Why mediated incivility is not bad for democracy 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. She can be reached at @guerzovich. Subfield(s): International Relations; NaN Dissertation: Untimely Representation: Deliberation, Urgency, and Democratic Theory (Ebscohost) Committee: Alter-Hanson, Karen (Chair); Gibson, Edward L; Mahoney, James L Current: 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 | |
Institutional Website | Professional Website | Twitter: @sidrahamidi | Academia.edu Biography: Sidra Hamidi's research specialties include nuclear politics, nuclear diplomacy, and state identity. She teaches courses in international politics. She earned a PhD in Political Science from Northwestern University and was previously a Stanton Nuclear Security Fellow at Stanford University. Subfield(s): International Relations; Nuclear Diplomacy, U.S.-Iran Relations, International Security, International Laws Dissertation: Building accountability: The politics of anticorruption (Ebscohost) Committee: Hurd, Ian F (Chair); Ganguly, Sumit (Indiana University); Mahoney, James L; Page, Benjamin I Current: Assistant Professor of Political Science, Eckerd College Placement: Postdoctoral Fellow, Stanford University, Center for International Security and Cooperation (CISAC) | 2018 | Eckerd College Assistant Professor | International Relations | H | |
Institutional Website | LinkedIn | Google Scholar 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 Committee: Mansbridge, Jane J. (Chair); Morris, Aldon; 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: Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) | 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: The Politics of Nuclearity: Identity Relations in the Global Nuclear Regime (Ebscohost) Committee: Druckman, James N (Chair); Galvin, Daniel J; Yong, Laurel Harbridge Current: Visiting Assistant Professor, Carleton College Placement: Visiting Assistant Professor, Wesleyan University, Government Organization & Management | 2013 | Carleton College Visiting Assistant Professor | American Politics | H | |
Insitutitional Website | LinkedIn Biography: Timothy P. Harrison, Ph.D. has been named 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; 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 Dissertation: Red Brain, Blue Brain: How Elite Polarization, Partisan Reasoning, and Information Choice Impact Presidential Communication (Ebscohost) Committee: Gibson, Edward L (Chair); Mahoney, James L; Reno, William S Current: Academic Advisor, 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 Dissertation: Marginalization, Accommodation, and Abridgment: New Patterns of Civil-Military Relations in the Southern Cone and Brazil (Ebscohost) Committee: Reno, William S (Chair); NaN; NaN 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 | |
Twitter: @CariHennessy | LinkedIn Biography: NaN Subfield(s): American Politics; NaN Dissertation: Promoting investment in Africa: Historical transition in the politics of United States hegemony (Ebscohost) Committee: Page, Benjamin I (Chair); Rogers, Reuel R (Co-Chair); Galvin, Daniel J; Skogan, Wesley G Current: Statistical Methodologist, , Behavioral Health and Developmental Services Placement: Post-Doctoral Research Associate, Northwestern University, Institute for Policy Research | 2013 | NaN Statistical Methodologist | American Politics | H | |
Biography: NaN Subfield(s): International Relations; NaN Dissertation: Public Opinion and Policymaking in the Chicago City Council (Ebscohost) Committee: Sartori, Anne Elizabeth (Chair); Caverley, Jonathan D; Shih, Victor C; Rogers, Reuel R Current: NaN Placement: Pre-Doctoral Fellow, George Washington University, Institute for Security and Conflict Studies | 2014 | NaN NaN | International Relations | 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 the 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. At Mathematica, Hughes directs impact and program evaluations and provides leadership on survey methodology for projects in developing country contexts. For the Millennium Challenge Corporation (MCC), she leads evaluations of a large electricity generation and distribution project in Benin and an irrigation and land rights project in Senegal. Subfield(s): International law; International relations; Euro-Mediterranean Partnership; European Union; French; Globalization; Migration; Politics; Trade Dissertation: Migration, Trade, and 'Globalization': French Politics and the Euro-Mediterranean Partnership Committee: Loriaux, Michael M (Chair) Current: Senior Fellow, International Research, Mathematica Policy Research Placement: Lecturer, Northwestern University | 1999 | Mathematica Policy Research Senior Fellow, International Research | International Relations | H | |
Twitter: @jessehumpal Biography: Jesse Humpal is a Major in the United States Air Force. He comes to us from Cannon AFB near Clovis, New Mexico. 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 (Ebscohost) Committee: Reno, William S (Chair); Spruyt, Hendrik; Blair, David (Georgetown) Current: Assistant Professor of Political Science (Fall 2022), United States Air Force Academy Placement: Assistant Professor of Political Science (Fall 2022), United States Air Force Academy | 2021 | United States Air Force Academy Assistant Professor of Political Science (Fall 2022) | International Relations, Comparative Politics | H | |
Professional Website | Twitter: @IbataArens | LinkedIn 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. 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: TBA (Ebscohost) Committee: Schneider, Ben Ross (Chair); Loriaux, Michael M; Bernard Silberman; Ziemke, Jen Current: 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 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 | |
Professional Website | Personal Website Biography: NaN Subfield(s): Comparative Politics; Political Economy of Information and Communication Technology, Politics of Information Society/e-Government, Governance in the Information Age Dissertation: Combatants, Inside and Out: Battle-Spaces in 21st Century Civil Wars (Ebscohost) Committee: NaN (Chair); Woo-Cumings, Meredith; Loriaux, Michael M; Current: Professor, Yonsei University, International Relations/Political Economy/IT Polotics Placement: Professor, Yonsei University, International Relations/Political Economy/IT Polotics | 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: Building Telecom Markets: Evolution of Governance in the Korean Mobile Telecommunication Market (vol 1 & 2) (Ebscohost) Committee: Reno, William S (Chair); Jane Guyer ; Hanchard, Michael G Current: Associate Professor, Howard University, African Studies Placement: Assistant Professor, DePaul University, International Studies | 2002 | Howard University Associate Professor | Comparative Politics | J | |
Personal Website | Twitter: @J0HNST0N | LinkedIn Biography: Welcome to my website. 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 has been published or is 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: From consensual decision -making to conventional politics: Popular participation in contemporary South Africa (Ebscohost) 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 | |
#N/A | 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 | |
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): Comparative Politics; NaN Dissertation: Governance and state-business relations: Collaboration, collusion and conflict in the Korean political economy (Ebscohost) Committee: Alter-Hanson, Karen (Chair); Nzelibe, Jide; Page, Benjamin I Current: Executive Director, Reform for Illinois Placement: Northwestern University, School of Continuing Studies | 2013 | Reform for Illinois Executive Director | Comparative Politics | K | |
Professional Website | Personal Website | Twitter: @adam42smith Biography: I am the Associate 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 Dissertation: The Terrorism-Civil Liberties Complex: Persistent Threats, Global Constitutionalism, and the Entrenchment of Human Rights Regimes in Counterterrorism (Ebscohost) Committee: Mahoney, James L (Chair); Thelen, Kathy A (Co-Chair); Gibson, Edward L; Schneider, Ben Ross Current: Associate Director, Syracuse University, Qualitative Data Repository Placement: Associate Director, Syracuse University, Qualitative Data Repository | 2014 | Syracuse University Associate Director | Comparative Politics | K | |
Professional Website | Personal Website | Twitter: @demetra_kasimis | Academia.edu Biography: Demetra Kasimis is an assistant professor in the Department of Political Science at the University of Chicago. Her research and teaching include democratic theory and the history of political thought especially in classical Athens; membership politics and migration; post-war continental political theory; and feminist theory. She is a graduate of Columbia University, where she majored in philosophy and concentrated in Hellenic Studies before receiving her PhD in political science from Northwestern University. At Chicago, she is an associated faculty member of the Department of Classics, a member of the affiliated faculty and board of the Center for the Study of Gender and Sexuality, and a fellow of the Chicago Center for Contemporary Theory (3CT). 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: Liberalization, Segmentation, Informalization: Business and the Political Economy of Changing Labor Markets (Ebscohost) Committee: Monoson-Berns, Susan Sara (Chair); Dietz, Mary Golden; Honig, Bonnie H Current: Assistant Professor, University of Chicago, Political Science Placement: Mellon Postdoctoral Associate, Yale University, Whitney Humanities Center | 2010 | University of Chicago Assistant Professor | Political Theory | K | |
Personal Website Biography: Katrin Fraser Katz is an adjunct Assistant Professor in the Department of Political Science at Columbia University and an Adjunct Fellow (Non-resident) in the Office of the Korea Chair at the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) in Washington, DC. 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 in the Asian Studies Program at Georgetown University and was a 2018-19 US-Korea NextGen Scholar. In 2017, she received the inaugural Sherman Family Korea Emerging Scholar Lecture Series award from the Korea Society. Dr. Katz served as director for Japan, Korea, and oceanic affairs on the staff of the White House 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. She 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: Drawing the boundaries of democracy: Immigrants and citizens in ancient Greek political thought (Ebscohost) Committee: Spruyt, Hendrik (Chair); Caverley, Jonathan D; Cha, Victor D.; Spruyt, Hendrik Current: Adjunct Assistant Professor, Columbia University Placement: Visiting Lecturer (Adjunct Assistant), Georgetown University, Asia Studies Program | 2017 | Columbia University Adjunct Assistant Professor | International Relations | 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 | |
Professional Website | Personal Website | Twitter: @askellyphd | LinkedIn Biography: Andrew S. Kelly is Assistant Professor in the Department of Health Sciences at California State University, East Bay. His research is at the intersection of American political development and US public policy, with a focus on health and science policy. His work has been published in, among other venues, Journal of Health Politics, Policy, and Law, Publius: The Journal of Federalism, The Forum, and Studies in American Political Development. He received his PhD in Political Science from Northwestern University. After completing his PhD, Dr. Kelly was a Robert Wood Johnson Health Policy Research Scholar at the University of California, Berkeley. Dr. Kelly has also held postodoctoral positions at Johns Hopkins University and the University of California, San Francisco. Subfield(s): Comparative Politics, American Politics; American political development,US public policy, health and science policy Dissertation: Nature and Civilization in Immanuel Kant's Global Politics (Ebscohost) Committee: Mahoney, James L (Chair); Galvin, Daniel J; Prasad, Monica Current: Assistant 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 Assistant Professor | Comparative Politics, American Politics | K | |
Professional Website | Personal 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: Entering the New Frontier: The Origins and Development of Scientific Capacity in the United States and Great Britain (Ebscohost) Committee: Reno, William S (Chair); Mahoney, James L (Co-Chair); Otoma, Ato Kwamena; Riedl, Rachel Beatty Current: Assistant 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 | LinkedIn 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 (Proquest) 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 | |
#N/A | 2007 | Florida Atlantic University Associate Professor | American Politics | K | |
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Professional Website | Personal Website Biography: Prof. So Young Kim is the associate professor and the former head of the Graduate School of Science & Technology Policy at KAIST. She graduated from Seoul National University with English Education for the BA and Political Science for the MA. She then 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, Journal of Science & Technology Studies, Asian Journal of Technology Innovation, and STI Policy Review as well as the co-edited volumes of Science and Technology Policy: Theories and Issues, The Spector of the Fourth Industrial Revolution, and A Return of the Future: COVID-19 and the Fourth Industrial Revolution. Subfield(s): NaN; NaN Dissertation: Core values and public opinion on foreign policy (Ebscohost) Committee: Wallerstein, Michael J (Chair); NaN; NaN Current: Associate Professor, Korea Advanced Institute of Science & Technology (KAIST), Graduate School of Science & Technology Policy Placement: Assistant Professor, Florida Atlantic University | 2004 | Korea Advanced Institute of Science & Technology (KAIST) Associate Professor | K | ||
Professional Website | Personal Website | Twitter: @SamaraKlar | Academia.edu | LinkedIn Biography: Samara Klar is 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. Subfield(s): Political Theory; Methods Dissertation: The Influence of Identities on Political Preferences (Ebscohost) Committee: Druckman, James N (Chair); Miller, Peter; Page, Benjamin I Current: Associate 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 Associate 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 (Ebscohost) Committee: Reno, William S (Chair); Arjona, Ana Maria; Riedl, Rachel Beatty 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 | |
Twitter: @kendra_koivu 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; NaN Dissertation: Organized Crime and the State: State Building, Illicit Markets, and Governance Structures (Ebscohost) 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 | |
Professional Website | Personal Website | Twitter: @M_J_Lacombe | LinkedIn Biography: Matt Lacombe joined Barnard's faculty in 2019. He studies American politics, with a broad focus on understanding and explaining political power in the United States. His research and teaching interests engage with interest groups and political parties, social identity and political ideology, 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, Matt is also the co-author of Billionaires and Stealth Politics, a book that details the political preferences and behavior of U.S. billionaires. 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 (Ebscohost) 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 | Columbia University, Barnard College Assistant Professor | American Politics | 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 | |
Biography: Heajeong Lee is 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 Dissertation: The making of American hegemony from the Great Depression to the Korean War (proquest) Dissertation Committee: Page, Benjamin I. Placement: Visiting Fellow, Institute for Far Eastern Studies, Kyungnam University | 1998 | Chung-Ang University Professor of Political Science and International Relations | International Relations | 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 (Ebscohost) Committee: Druckman, James N (Chair); Chong, Dennis; Cook, Fay Lomax; Loriaux, Michael 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; NaN 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; Rogers, Reuel R Current: World Bank, Fragile States and Social Development Unit Placement: World Bank, Fragile States and Social Development Unit | 2010 | Fragile States and Social Development Unit World Bank | 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 (Ebscohost) Committee: Druckman, James N (Chair); Burch, Traci R; McCall, Leslie J; 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 | |
Professional Website 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 (Ebscohost) Committee: Alter-Hanson, Karen (Chair); Rose-Ackerman, Susan; 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. 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) 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 | |
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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 (Ebscohost) 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: Currently based in Chicago, 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 (Ebscohost) Committee: Dietz, Mary Golden (Chair); Farr, James Fulton; El-Amine, Loubna Current: Senior Partner Success Operations Manager, Mentor Collective Placement: Student Success Manager, Mentor Collective | 2019 | Mentor Collective Senior Partner Success Operations Manager | Political Theory | L | |
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Subfield(s): American Politics; Business influence; Business interests; Political science; Representation Dissertation: Exploring Business Influence: When Does it Matter? (Ebscohost) 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 | |
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 Dissertation: The collapse of the Franc Zone: Redefining North-South relations after hegemony (1945-1994) (proquest) | 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 a Lecturer on Social Studies at Harvard University where she teaches in the core course on social theory as well as junior research tutorials on global democratic theory and transnational feminism. 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: Woll-stonecraft'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 (Ebscohost) Committee: Zerilli, Linda (Chair); Dietz, Mary Golden; Orloff, Ann Shola Current: Lecturer, University of Massachusetts Amherst, Honor's College Placement: Post-Doctoral Fellow, Bard College, Hannah Arendt Center | 2012 | University of Massachusetts Amherst Lecturer, Honors College | Political Theory | M | |
Professional Website | Personal Website | Twitter: @afghanopoly | Academia.edu | LinkedIn Biography: I am an Assistant Professor at Radboud University Nijmegen’s Department of Political Science and Centre for International Conflict Analysis and Management (CICAM), in the Netherlands. I hold a PhD in political science from Northwestern University and Sciences Po Paris. My first book, Warlord Survival: The Delusion of State Building in Afghanistan, came out with Cornell University Press in December 2019 and my new research project, “Commander Politics: Cooperation and Competition in Civil War” was recently awarded a VIDI grant as part of the Dutch Research Council (NWO)’s Talent Programme. 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) (Ebscohost) Committee: Reno, William S (Chair); Caverley, Jonathan D; Qader, Nasrin; Ramel, Frederic Current: Assistant Professor, Radboud University Nijmegen, International Conflict Analysis and Management (CICAM) Placement: Visiting Scholar, Columbia University, Harriman Institute | 2013 | Radboud University Nijmegen Assistant Professor | International Relations | M | |
Institutional Website | Professional Website | Twitter: @aditimalik_ | Google Scholar Biography: I am an Assistant Professor in the Department of Political Science at Holy Cross. My research is focused on the study of political and sexual violence, political parties, ethnic politics, and social movements and contentious politics in sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia. I am also interested in the philosophy of the social sciences and in research ethics, particularly in regards to data-collection practices in conflict and post-conflict settings. Methodologically, my work combines quantitative and qualitative data to uncover both broad patterns of violence and trace the causal mechanisms that generate conflict. I am currently completing a book manuscript that 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 sub-national comparisons in the two countries. 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 Committee: Reno, William (Chair); Arjona, Ana; Riedl, Rachel (Cornell University); Srinivasan, Sharath (King's College London) Current: Assistant 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 Assistant Professor of Political Science | Comparative Politics | 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. Subfield(s): American Politics; Law; Sexual harassment; Social change Dissertation: Mobilizing the Law for Social Change: The Case of Sexual Harassment Committee: Casper, Jonathan D. (Chair) 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; NaN Dissertation: Memory – space – politics: Public memorial and the problem of political judgment (Ebscohost) Committee: Zerilli, Linda (Chair); Honig, Bonnie H; Jarzombek, Mark; Current: Lecturer, University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), Design Placement: Liberal Arts Coordinator, Southern California Institute of Architecture, Design | 2008 | University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) Lecturer | 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 | Academia.edu Biography: NaN 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 (Ebscohost) Committee: Thelen, Kathy A (Chair); Stinchcombe, Arthur; Swenson, Peter A; Current: Associate 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 Associate Professor | Comparative Politics | M | |
Professional Website | Twitter: @LidaMaxwell | Academia.edu | LinkedIn Biography: Professor Maxwell is Associate Professor of Political Science and Women’s, Gender, & Sexuality Studies. She is the author of 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 (Ebscohost) Committee: Honig, Bonnie H (Chair); NaN; NaN Current: Associate Professor, Boston University, Department of Political Science & Women and Gender Studies Placement: Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow, Cornell University, Department of Government | 2006 | Boston University Associate Professor | Political Theory | M | |
Professional Website | Personal 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 (Ebscohost) Committee: Alter-Hanson, Karen (Chair); Hagan, John; Reno, William S 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: I am an Award-Winning Change Management Consultant and Social Scientist. For a decade I’ve led Organizational Change and Behaviour Change projects with the Fortune 500 and Governments through: Big 4 Change Management Consulting, Ivy League Research on Psychology and Institutitonal Transformation, Queen's Park Public Sector Transformation. I serve on the Advisory Board of OpenMind, a non-profit based in New York City that equips people with the mindset and skillset to communicate constructively across differences using e-learning anchored in behavioral science. I believe the pursuit of tech should deepen human connection. My POVs and research are published in EY Global, Oxford University Press, Foreign Affairs, Springer Verlag, Toronto Star. I’ve given invited talks at Brown, Columbia, JNU, London School of Economics, NCCU Taipei, Northwestern, NYU, Oxford, Singapore Management University, Waterloo. 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 (Ebscohost) Committee: Mahoney, James L (Chair); Nelson, Stephen C (Co-Chair); Ganguly, Sumit; Spruyt, Hendrik Current: Manager, Transformation & Behaviour Change, Deloitte Placement: Consultant, Indian Council for Research on International Economic Relations, Multi-Level Dialogue for Trade Normalization between India and Pakistan | 2016 | Deloitte Manager, Transformation & Behaviour Change | International Relations | M | |
Professional Website | Twitter: @ClaireMetelits | 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): NaN; 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 (Ebscohost) Committee: Reno, William S (Chair); NaN; NaN Current: Associate Professor, Marine Corp University, Strategic Studies Placement: Assistant Professor, Washington State University, Department of Political Science | 2007 | Marine Corp University Associate Professor | M | ||
Personal Website | Academia.edu | LinkedIn 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 (Ebscohost) 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 (Ebscohost) Committee: Chong, Dennis (Chair); Conley, Patricia D; Page, Benjamin I Current: Associate Professor, Bowling Green State University, Political Science Placement: Research Assistant, Council on Competitiveness | 2003 | Bowling Green State University Associate 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, an award-winning innovator, selected as a Woman of the Future 2018, and most recently lectured at the LSE. Subfield(s): Comparative Politics ; NaN Dissertation: Negotiating the State: The Development of Informal and Formal State Institutions in Contemporary Uganda and Kenya (Ebscohost) 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 | |
Professional Website | Personal 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 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 (Ebscohost) Committee: Druckman, James N (Chair); Cook, Fay Lomax; Page, Benjamin I; 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 Assistant 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 (Ebscohost) Committee: Druckman, James N (Chair); Kernell, Georgia Christine; 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: Gestionnaire et consultant d'expérience, spécialisé en analytique, marketing numérique et stratégie. Dissertation: Democratic Excess and Popular Sovereignty (Ebscohost) Committee: Dietz, Mary Golden (Chair); Farr, James Fulton; Maza, Sarah Current: Director, Radio-Canada, Tech/Data Strategy and Monetization Placement: Content Manager, PressReader | 2015 | Radio-Canada Director, Tech/Data Strategy and Monetization | M | ||
Professional Website | LinkedIn Biography: Passionate about education, Barbara holds a PhD from Northwestern University and a Montessori certificate from CGMS. As the mother of two while living in Italy, she fell in love with the Montessori philosophy. Now the founder of Montessori Gym, Barbara is fulfilling her dream of contributing to children’s wellness and learning experience. Subfield(s): International Relations; NaN Dissertation: Tell me thy company: Inter -organizational relations in the United Nations system (Ebscohost) Committee: Spruyt, Hendrik (Chair); Alter-Hanson, Karen; Hurd, Ian F Current: Founder, Montessori Gym Placement: Founder, Montessori Gym | 2008 | Montessori Gym Founder | International Relations | M | |
Professional Website | Personal Website | Academia.edu Biography: Ella Myers is Associate Professor in the Department of Political Science and the Program in Gender Studies. She is an award-winning teacher of political and feminist theory. Her courses include Intro to Political Theory, Modern Political Theory, Contemporary Political Theory, Economic Inequality & Democracy, Feminist Political Theory, 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. Subfield(s): Political Theory; Democratic Theory, Critical Race Theory, Feminist Theory, Collective Action and Social Movements, Ethics, Political Institutions, Economic Inequality Dissertation: The turn to ethics and its democratic costs (Ebscohost) Committee: Zerilli, Linda (Chair); Honig, Bonnie H; Current: Associate Professor, University of Utah, Political Science Department; Gender Studies Program Placement: Instructor, Northwestern University, Political Science & Gender Studies Program | 2006 | University of Utah Associate Professor | Political Theory | M | |
Professional Website | Twitter: @GNavaCampos | LinkedIn Biography: In her current role, Gabriela supports Strategic Capacity Group's institutional learning from its portfolio of logistics, training, and mentoring programs aimed at enhancing the capacity of law enforcement institutions in Africa, South East Asia, Latin America, and the Caribbean. In this capacity, she designs and oversees the implementation of monitoring and evaluation plans, and coordinates with project managers in a cross-functional fashion to guide program performance and drive results for the client. Gabriela's expertise results from combining a strong analytic background in the social sciences with more than fifteen years of practice designing, executing, and managing monitoring and evaluation projects in areas as varied as human services, environmental resource conservation, discrimination and violence in the workplace, social impact assessments, violence prevention in conflict-ridden areas, and energy distribution services. Prior to joining SCG, Gabriela worked with organizations such as the Open Government Partnership (OGP), Global Development Network (GDN), and USAID to monitor and evaluate policies and programs aimed at increasing transparency, accountability and citizen participation; fight corruption; and promote evidence-based policymaking in the smallest Latin American countries. Subfield(s): NaN; NaN Dissertation: Political institutions, power distribution and the resolution of financial crises (Ebscohost) Committee: Schneider, Ben Ross (Chair); Gibson, Edward L; Seawright, Jason W Current: Senior Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning (MEL) Officer , Strategic Capacity Group Placement: Instructor, Northwestern University, Department of Political Science | 2008 | Strategic Capacity Group Senior Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning (MEL) Officer | 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 (Ebscohost) 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: NaN 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 (Ebscohost) Committee: Seawright, Jason W (Chair); Behrens, Martin; Mahoney, James L Current: Assistant Professor, Freie Universitat Berlin, Otto Suhr Institute of Political Science, German Politics Placement: Wirtschafts und Sozialwissenschaftliches Institut | 2014 | Freie Universitat Berlin Assistant Professor | 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: Sally A. Nuamah is an assistant professor of Urban Politics in Human Development, Social Policy and Political Science (by courtesy) at Northwestern University. She completed her Ph.D. in political science at Northwestern University, where she was a National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellow. While at Northwestern, she became the first Excellence Through Diversity Predoctoral Fellow in political science at the University of Pennsylvania. Upon graduating with her Ph.D., she was named a Values and Public Policy Fellow at Princeton University and a Women and Public Policy Fellow at the Harvard Kennedy School. Between 2018 and 2019, she worked as an assistant professor at the Sanford School of Social Policy at Duke University. Professor Nuamah’s research sits at the intersections of race, gender, education policy, and political behavior. In particular, she uses quantitative and qualitative methods to examine the political consequences of public policies across the United States as well as in Ghana and South Africa. Her dissertation, and recently completed book manuscript, examines the political effects of mass public school closure on low-income African Americans. Professor Nuamah’s first book, How Girls Achieve (2019), looks across race and gender and illuminates the unequal costs—school closure, sexual harassment, punishment—that poor black girls in the United States, Ghana and South Africa bear while striving to achieve. It then investigates the specific role of schools to combat these abuses and act as conduits of democratic equity. 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 Bernard Current: Assistant 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 Assistant Professor, Human Development and Social Policy | American Politics | N | |
Professional Website | Twitter: @RebeccaJOliver7 | Academia.edu Biography: NaN Subfield(s): Comparative Politics; NaN Dissertation: Negotiating differences: Developments in wage inequality in Italy, Sweden and across advanced industrial democracies (Ebscohost) Committee: Thelen, Kathy A (Chair); Swenson, Peter A; Leslie McCall Current: Assistant Professor, Allegheny College, Department of Political Science Placement: Post-Doctoral Fellow, Max Planck Institute for the Study of Societies (MPIfG) | 2006 | Allegheny College Assistant Professor | Comparative Politics | O | |
Professional Website | Twitter: @juancolmeda | Academia.edu Biography: NaN 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; Roberts, Andrew L Current: Assistant Professor, College of Mexico, Centro de Estudios Internacionales Placement: Profesor de Asignatura, ITAM, Departamento de Ciencia Política | 2013 | College of Mexico Assistant Professor | Comparative Politics | O | |
Professional Website | Personal Website | Twitter: @OnomaAto | LinkedIn Biography: Ato Kwamena Onoma is a program officer at the Council for the Development of Social Science Research in Africa. Ato Kwamena Onoma's research focuses on mobility, identity, belonging and inter communal relations in Africa. He has conducted field research in many countries in West, East and Southern Africa. He is the author of The Politics of Property Rights Institutions in Africa (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2009) and Anti-refugee Violence and African Politics (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2013). He works in both English and French and has intermediate competence in Portuguese. Subfield(s): Comparative Politics; property rights, identity politics, human rights, forced migration, institutional reform and political economic reform in Africa Dissertation: 0 (Ebscohost) Committee: NaN (Chair); NaN; NaN Current: Senior Program Officer, Researcher, Council for the Development of Social Science Research in Africa Placement: Post-doctoral Fellow, Princeton University, Niehaus Center for Globalization and Governance | 2006 | Council for the Development of Social Science Research in Africa Senior Program Officer, Researcher | Comparative Politics | O | |
Professional Website | Personal Website | Twitter: @MonaOrabee Biography: Mona Oraby’s research sits at the intersection of administrative law, religion, and politics, and focuses on group formation, membership, and belonging. She is currently Assistant Professor of Law, Jurisprudence, and Social Thought at Amherst College. In Fall 2021, she joins Howard University as Assistant Professor of Political Science. Oraby was previously the Jerome Hall Postdoctoral Fellow in the Center for Law, Society, and Culture at Indiana University Maurer School of Law. She holds a PhD in political science from Northwestern University. Subfield(s): NaN; law, religion, and politics with a focus on the legal regulation of religious difference Dissertation: Reading Wittgenstein in Politics: Normativity, Judgment, and Political Pedagogy (Ebscohost) Committee: Farr, James Fulton (Chair); Dietz, Mary Golden; Gunnell, John G 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 | International Relations | O | |
Professional Website | Personal Website | Twitter: @silvia_otero85 | Academia.edu Biography: I am an assistant professor in the School of International, Political, and Urban Studies at Universidad del Rosario, Bogota, Colombia. In the past few years I have been working on several projects. Rebel Roads (with Simón Uribe and Isabel Peñaranda) asks about the hundreds of roads that former rebel group FARC built or sponsored in its areas of operation; Divergent Urban Inequalities, which asks about the causes of divergent trajectories of income inequality in four Colombian cities; and Subnational Policies for the Containment of Covid-19 in Latin America, as part of the Observatory for the Containment of Covid-19 in the Americas of University of Miami. 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 (Ebscohost) Committee: Mahoney, James L (Chair); Arjona, Ana Maria; Gibson, Edward L Current: Assistant 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 Assistant Professor | Comparative Politics | O | |
Biography: Ihn-hwi Park is an Associate Professor of 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 Associate 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) Disseration Committee: Thelen, Kathleen | 1998 | York University, Glendon College Lecturer | 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 | 2021 | 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 ( Current: Donald R. Beall Postdoctoral Fellow, 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 Donald R. Beall Postdoctoral Fellow | 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 (Ebscohost) 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. Subfield(s): International Relations; International Relations, International Organizations Dissertation: Building the World Heritage List at UNESCO: A Socio-political Approach to International Relations within a World Organization (Ebscohost) Committee: Loriaux, Michael M (Chair); Chiapello, Eve; Griswold, Wendy ; Current: Wealth Management, BNP Paribas Placement: Wealth Management, BNP Paribas | 2017 | BNP Paribas Wealth Management | International Relations | P | |
Professional Website | 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 (Ebscohost) Committee: Reno, William S (Chair); Henke, Marina Elisabeth Philippina; Gans-Morse, Jordan Luc Current: Professor of Aerospace Studies, AF ROTC Chicagoland, Illinois Institute of Technology Placement: Professor of Aerospace Studies, AF ROTC Chicagoland, Illinois Institute of Technology | 2020 | Illinois Institute of Technology Professor of Aerospace Studies | International Relations | 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; NaN Dissertation: Administrative responsiveness to public opinion (Ebscohost) Committee: Page, Benjamin I (Chair); NaN; NaN 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 | Academia.edu | 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. PhD supervision Subfield(s): International Relations; Counterterrorism, Critical Theory, Diaspora Studies, Ethnic and Racial Diversity, Global Security, International Relations, Radicalisation, Terrorism Dissertation: When governments say Diaspora: Transnational practices of citizenship, nationalism and sovereignty in Croatia and former Yugoslavia (Ebscohost) Committee: Loriaux, Michael M (Chair); Hanchard, Michael G; Huysmans, Jozef P.A. 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 | |
Biography: NaN Subfield(s): Political Theory; NaN Dissertation: Mimesis in Thomas Hobbes's “Leviathan” (1651): The theater of the modern commonwealth (Ebscohost) Committee: Monoson-Berns, Susan Sara (Chair); Fenves, Peter D.; Toender, Lars Current: Broker Associate, ERA Fleisher Real Estate Placement: Asistente Ejecutiva de Eventos, Gecamin | 2010 | ERA Fleisher Real Estate Broker Associate | Political Theory | R | |
#N/A | 2007 | University of Utah Assistant Professor | R | ||
Professional Website | Personal Website | Twitter: @JRob617 Biography: I am an Assistant Professor in the Institute for Political Science at Leiden University. I was previously a Post-Doctoral Researcher in the Institut for Statskundskab (Department of Political Science) at Aarhus University. My current research focuses on the interaction between elite communications, particularly from party elites, and public opinion formation, elite accountability, and citizen competence. I am also a member of the PERSOS (Perceptions of Social Stratification and Voting) research group at Aarhus, which focuses on the relationship between social class and voting behavior in Denmark and the United States. 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 (Ebscohost) 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 | |
Professional Website | Personal Website | Twitter: @jake_rothschild | Academia.edu | LinkedIn Biography: Jake 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): American Politics; NaN Dissertation: Elites and Identities: The Interactive Effects of Top-Down Cues and and Group Memberships on Political Attitudes (Ebscohost) 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 | 2011 | Pontifical Catholic University of Chile Senior Data Scientist | Political Theory | R | |
Professional Website | Personal Website | Twitter: @jake_rothschild | Academia.edu | LinkedIn Biography: Jake 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): American Politics Dissertation: Elites and Identities: The Interactive Effects of Top-Down Cues and and Group Memberships on Political Attitudes (Ebscohost) 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 Biography: Brandon Rottinghaus holds a Ph.D. in political science from Northwestern University. His teaching and research interests include the presidency and Texas politics. His work on these subjects has appeared in several books and dozens of academic journals and edited volumes. Most recently he is author of the book Inside Texas Politics (Oxford University Press). He is also the co-founding designer of the Presidential Proclamations Project at the University of Houston, an online resource documenting presidential use of unilateral powers through executive proclamation. 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; Brandice Canes-Wrone Current: Professor, University of Houston, Political Science Placement: Assistant Professor, University of Idaho | 2005 | University of Houston Professor | American 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 Committee: Loriaux, Michael (Chair); Friesema, Paul; Lynch, Cecelia Current: President at Wofford College | 1995 | Wofford College President | International Relations | S | |
Personal 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. He is currently a Non-Tenure Track Assistant Professor of Politics at Occidental College where he teaches courses on political theory, environmental political theory, and American politics. Subfield(s): Political theory; political theory, environmental political theory, and American politics, politics of responsibility Dissertation: From Personal to Political Responsibility: Friedrich Nietzsche and the Politics of Anticipatory Responsibility (Ebscohost) Committee: Loriaux, Michael M (Chair); Chiapello, Eve; Griswold, Wendy 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 | |
Professional Website | LinkedIn 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 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): NaN; Political violence Civil wars Security, international Independance, 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 Profesor (untenured), Universite de Montreal Placement: Doctoral Research and Chateaubriand Fellow, Sciences Po Paris | 2008 | Universite de Montreal Associate Profesor (untenured) | S | ||
Personal Website | Twitter: @RShafranek | LinkedIn Biography: I earned my PhD from the Department of Political Science at Northwestern University, specializing in American politics and quantitative methods. I apply theories of social psychology to understand American political attitudes and behavior. I draw 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 (Ebscohost) Committee: Druckman, James N (Chair); Bullock, John; Harbridge-Yong, Laurel Current: Senior Data Scientist, Nielsen Placement: Data Scientist, HIT Strategies | 2020 | Nielsen 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 (Ebscohost) Committee: Page, Benjamin I (Chair); Galvin, Daniel J; Yong, Laurel Harbridge Current: Organizer, Justice is Global Placement: Consultant, Oxfam America | 2019 | Justice is Global Organizer | 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). 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 (Ebscohost) Committee: Zerilli, Linda (Chair); NaN; NaN Current: Associate Professor, University of Toronto, Scarborough, Political Science Placement: Associate Professor, University of Toronto, Scarborough, Political Science | 2006 | University of Toronto, Scarborough Associate Professor | Political Theory | S | |
Professional Website | 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 (Ebscohost) 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 Senior Pricing Analyst | Comparative Politics | S | |
Professional Website | Twitter: @arimshaw | Academia.edu | LinkedIn Biography: Ari Shaw, Ph.D. is a researcher-practitioner with fifteen years of experience in policy, nonprofit, and philanthropy sectors focused on human rights, international law, and LGBTQ politics. He has demonstrated leadership in multi-site project management, qualitative and quantitative analysis, and strategic partnership building between academic and nonprofit institutions. He has research and fieldwork experience in Latin America, Sub-Saharan Africa, Europe, and Asia. His writing has appeared or been cited in The Washington Post Monkey Cage, World Politics Review, Global Post/PRI, and El Espectador, among other publications. 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 (Ebscohost) Committee: Alter, Karen J. (Chair); Riedl, Rachel Beatty; Winters, Jeffrey A Current: 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 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 | |
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Professional Website | LinkedIn Biography: Kimberly Sims was named the Lloyd George Sealy Fellow at John Jay College of Criminal Justice, CUNY, as well as a Balch Institute for Ethnic Studies Fellow for 2007-2008. Subfield(s): NaN; NaN Dissertation: Judges Without Borders? Transnational Networks of Anti-Corruption Prosecuting Judges in Europe (Ebscohost) Committee: Loriaux, Michael M (Chair); Alter-Hanson, Karen; Reno, William S Current: University Director, 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 | S | ||
Professional Website | Personal Website | Twitter: @skeafftheory Biography: 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. Chris earned a master’s degree in Social Work from Loyola University Chicago and a certificate in the Fundamentals of Psychoanalytic Thought from the Chicago Psychoanalytic Institute. He holds doctoral and bachelor’s degrees in Political Science from Northwestern University and the University of Toronto, respectively. Subfield(s): Political Theory; NaN Dissertation: The politics of expression in Spinoza (Ebscohost) Committee: Monoson-Berns, Susan Sara (Chair); Honig, Bonnie H; Toender, Lars Current: Psychotherapist, LSW, Ambre Associates Placement: Graduaate Student, Chicago Psychoanalytic Institute, Fundamentals of Psychoanalytic Thought | 2009 | Ambre Associates Psychotherapist, LSW | Political Theory | S | |
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Professional Website | Personal Website | LinkedIn Biography: NaN 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 (Ebscohost) 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 | |
Personal Website | Twitter: @sniderjh | LinkedIn Biography: NaN Subfield(s): American Politics; NaN Dissertation: Low -visibility politics: How local TV broadcasters exercise political power (Ebscohost) Committee: Page, Benjamin I (Chair); NaN; NaN Current: President, iSolon.org Placement: Fellow and Research Director, New America Foundation | 2004 | iSolon.org President | American Politics | S | |
Professional Website | Personal Website | Twitter: @swatisrivast | LinkedIn Biography: I am an Assistant Professor of Political Science at Purdue University. Previously, I was an Assistant Professor of Global Politics at Humboldt State University and a Andrew Mellon Foundation and American Council of Learned Societies doctoral fellow. I broadly research private actors in global governance. I have three ongoing interests. One is how sovereign power is expressed through nonstate actors such as security contractors, business associations, and NGOs. My second project explores the global politics of Big Tech. Finally, I also theorize relational approaches like constructivism and new kinds of responsibility. Subfield(s): International Relations; hybrid public and private relations produce power in global politics Dissertation: Hybrid Sovereignty in World Politics (Ebscohost) Committee: Hurd, Ian F (Chair); Carruthers, Bruce Greenhow; Dietz, Mary Golden; Shih, Victor C Current: Assistant Professor , Purdue University, Political Science Placement: Assistant Professor, Humbolt University, Global Politics | 2017 | Purdue University Assistant Professor | International Relations | S | |
Professional Website 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. Subfield(s): NaN; International Political Economy Dissertation: The politics of exchange rate valuation in developing countries (Ebscohost) 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 | 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) 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 | |
Professional Website | Twitter: @jujuchi Biography: Associate Professor in the area of Comparative Politics. Doctor (Ph.D.) in Political Science from Northwestern University, United States, with the dissertation entitled "Parties and Party Competition across the Territory: Stability and Change in Federalized Party Systems". She obtained her BA in Political Science from the University of Buenos Aires (UBA) and her Master's from Northwestern University. Her areas of expertise are political and government institutions, federalism and sub-national politics, political parties, women's representation, and electoral systems. 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 (Ebscohost) Committee: Gibson, Edward L (Chair); Roberts, Andrew L; Seawright, Jason W 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 | |
Professional Website | Personal Website | Twitter: @sunx32 | LinkedIn Biography: I am Senior Lecturer in Chinese and East Asian Business at the Lau China Institute and King's Business School at King's College London. My research and teaching focus on the political economy and business of China. I am also interested in authoritarian politics, political economy of development, public opinion, and research methodology. My current research project examines how Chinese political elites use land to serve purposes related to their political interests, and how such politicized land-use behavior shapes the development of property-rights institutions and land and real-estate markets. Subfield(s): Comparative Politics; Economics Politics International development Dissertation: Essays on Informal Institutions and Land Politics in Contemporary China (Ebscohost) Committee: Shih, Victor C (Chair); Hurst, William James; Kernell, Georgia Christine; Mahoney, James Current: Senior Lecturer, King's College London, Chinese Business Placement: Assistant Professor , Trinity College Dublin, Ireland | 2014 | King's College London Senior Lecturer | Comparative Politics | S | |
Professional Website | Personal Website | Twitter: @Mara_Suttmann | LinkedIn Biography: I am an Assistant Professor of American Politics in the Department of Government and International Relations at Connecticut College. I research and teach about election laws and administration, political parties and campaigns, and political engagement. I am also the host of the podcast What Voting Means to Me, and an avid distance runner. I am originally from Northern Lower Michigan (Leelanau County!) but lived in Chicago (Go Cubs!) for over 10 years before moving to Connecticut. Prior to earning my PhD from Northwestern University, I studied at DePaul University (BA in Political Science and Islamic World Studies). 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 (Ebscohost) Committee: Galvin, Daniel J (Chair); Burch, Traci R; Druckman, James N; Current: Assistant Professor, Connecticut College, Government Placement: Visiting Assistant Professor, Skidmore College, Political Science Department (American Politics) | 2017 | Connecticut College Assistant Professor | American Politics | S | |
Professional Website | LinkedIn Biography: Swarat served Cal State Fullerton 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): NaN; NaN Dissertation: In Other Words: A Critique of Modernism in International Relations Discourse from the Perspective of Confucian Tradition (Ebscohost) Committee: Spruyt, Hendrik (Chair); Loriaux, Michael M (Co-Chair); Hurd, Ian F; Shih, Victor C Current: Associate Dean, California State University-Fullerton, External Relations Placement: California State University-Fullerton, Center for International Business | 2011 | California State University-Fullerton Associate Dean | S | ||
Professional Website | Personal Website | LinkedIn Biography: Rachel Sweet is assistant professor of politics and global affairs at the University of Notre Dame. She is a core faculty member of the Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies, part of the Keough School of Global Affairs. She also is a concurrent faculty member in the 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. 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 (Ebscohost) Committee: Reno, William S (Chair); Mahoney, James L; Riedl, Rachel Beatty; 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: NaN Subfield(s): NaN; 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 (Ebscohost) Committee: Reno, William S (Chair); Arjona, Ana Maria; Caverley, Jonathan D Current: Lecturer, 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) Lecturer | 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; NaN Dissertation: State Building and Political Regimes: The Nineteenth-Century Origins of Liberal Democracy in Latin America (Ebscohost) Committee: Mahoney, James L (Chair); Gibson, Edward L; Schneider, Ben Ross Current: Statistician, Bureau of Economic Analysis, Bowling Green, Ohio Placement: Graduate Student, MS Applied Statistics, Bowling Green State University, Applied Statistics | 2014 | Bureau of Economic Analysis Statistician | Comparative Politics | T | |
Professional Website | Academia.edu | 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, and medical humanities. In her book project, Beyond the Prison: The Politics of Abolition, Professor Terwiel examines the resurgence of abolitionist projects in the contemporary United States. Focusing on prisons, she argues that abolition can realize its political commitments to justice, freedom, and equality only if it keeps problematization—the unsettlement of established assumptions—at its core. Subfield(s): Political Theory; Political theory, Biopolitics, Feminist political theory, Gender, race, and medicine Dissertation: Foucault and the Lateral Body Politics of Prison Hunger Strikes (Ebscohost) Committee: Honig, Bonnie H (Chair); Deutscher, Penelope; 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 | |
Professional Website | Personal 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 (Ebscohost) 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 | Academia.edu 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. Subfield(s): Political Theory; Political psychology, political behavior, quantitative methods, race and ethnicity, public opinion Dissertation: Beyond the Inner Citadel: Skepticism, Realism, and Toleration in Montaigne's “Essais” (Ebscohost) Committee: Honig, Bonnie H (Chair); Dietz, Mary Golden; Farr, James Fulton Current: Associate Professor, University of South Carolina, Political Science Placement: Assistant Editor, Political Theory: An International Journal of Political Philosophy | 2012 | University of South Carolina Associate Professor | Political Theory | T | |
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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 (Ebscohost) Committee: Alter-Hanson, Karen (Chair); Madsen, Mikael Rask (Copenhagen); Hurd, Ian F Current: Postdoctoral Researcher, University of Copenhagen, Centre for Military Studies Placement: Postdoctoral Researcher, University of Copenhagen, Centre for Military Studies | 2020 | University of Copenhagen Postdoctoral 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): NaN; NaN Dissertation: Not Just Nationalism: Values and Goals in South Korean Public Opinion (Ebscohost) Committee: Page, Benjamin I (Chair); Druckman, James N; Winters, Jeffrey A Current: Foreign Affairs Research Analyst, U.S. Department of State Placement: Professional Lecturer, George Washington University, Educational Leadership | 2012 | U.S. Department of State Foreign Affairs Research Analyst | T | ||
Professional Website | Academia.edu | 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 Dissertation: Private Targets, Public Outcomes: An Examination of Individual-Level Participation in Private Politics and Its Interaction with Public Politics (Ebscohost) Committee: Druckman, James N (Chair); Yong, Laurel Harbridge; 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 | |
Professional Website | Personal Website | 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. 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, Kathy A (Chair); Wallerstein, Michael J; Swenson, Peter A; Current: Department Head, Senior Lecturer, Erasmus University College, Economics and Business, Netherlands Placement: Assistant Professor, Ohio State University | 2002 | Erasmus University College Department Head, Senior Lecturer | Comparative Politics | v | |
Professional Website | Twitter: @salvador_vma | Academia.edu | LinkedIn Biography: Salvador is a CONACyT professor. His 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; NaN Dissertation: Elections as Issues: Patterns and Incentives of Accusations of Fraud in Mexico (Ebscohost) Committee: Gibson, Edward L (Chair); Druckman, James N (Co-Chair); Druckman, James N; Gibson, Edward L; Massardier, Gilles Current: Conacyt Research Professor, Centro de Investigacion y Docencia Economicas (CIDE-MX), National Laboratory of Public Policy Placement: Lecturer, Universidad Iberoamericana | 2013 | Centro de Investigacion y Docencia Economicas (CIDE-MX) Conacyt Research Professor | Comparative Politics | 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): NaN; NaN Dissertation: Explaining the Emergence of Transboundary Groundwater Management: The Cases of Guaraní Aquifer System, the Hueco and Mesilla Bolsón Aquifers, and the Génévois Aquifer (Ebscohost) Committee: Spruyt, Hendrik (Chair); Balme, Richard; Loriaux, Michael M ; 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 | 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 (Ebscohost) Committee: Farr, James Fulton (Chair); Dietz, Mary Golden; John G. Gunnell Current: Assistant Professor, College of Wooster, Political Science Placement: Assistant Professor, College of Wooster, Political Science | 2016 | College of Wooster Assistant Professor | Political Theory | W | |
Professional Website | Academia.edu | LinkedIn Biography: I am a professor at the School of English and International Studies, Beijing Foreign Studies University. My research interests include U.S. domestic politics (especially Congress and public opinion), Chinese foreign policy, and U.S.-China relations. Subfield(s): International Relations; American politics, China-U.S. relations, and Chinese foreign policy Dissertation: China Policy on Capitol Hill: An Analysis of Trade, Taiwan, and Human Rights (Ebscohost) Committee: Page, Benjamin I (Chair); NaN; NaN 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: Professor/ Associate Dean at the School of English and International Studies, 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 | 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 Current: Professor of Political Science, Kyung Hee University Placement: Professor, Chung-Ang University | 1995 | Kyung Hee University Professor of Political Science & International Relations | International Relations | Y | |
Professional Website | Personal Website | Twitter: @ArielZellman | Academia.edu 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 (Ebscohost) Committee: Reno, William S (Chair); Seawright, Jason W; 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: NaN Subfield(s): NaN; 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 | Z | ||
Professional Website | Personal Website | LinkedIn Biography: Dr. Dong Zhang received his doctorate in political science from Northwestern University in June 2016. He was a Shorenstein Postdoctoral Fellow in contemporary Asia at the Walter H. Shorenstein Asia-Pacific Research Center of Stanford University (2016-2017). He worked as a consultant of the World Bank and the United States Agency for International Development (USAID). 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 political economy of development, authoritarian politics, corruption and governance. Subfield(s): Comparative Politics; Comparative Political Economy, Development Economy, Chinese Politics & Economy Dissertation: State capitalism and the logic of political survival (Ebscohost) Committee: Shih, Victor C (Chair); Black, Bernard; Gans-Morse, Jordan Luc 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 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. 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 (Ebscohost) 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 Biography: Jiangnan Zhu is an Associate Professor of Department of Politics and Public Administration. She got bachelor degrees of International Relations and Economics from Peking University, M.S. of Mathematical Models of Social Sciences and Ph. D of Political Science from Northwestern University. Before joining University of Hong Kong, she was an Assistant Professor at 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 (Ebscohost) 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 | |
Subfields: American Politics; Urban planning; Area planning & development; Welfare Dissertation: The art of revitalization: Improving conditions in distressed inner-city neighborhoods (proquest) Placement: Financial and Program Analyst, Community Development Financial Institutions Fund (CDFI Fund) | 1998 | SZ Consulting, LLC President | American Politics | Z |