Political Theory: Department of Political Science

Political Theory

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Lauren M. Baker

Dissertation Title: Trash Talk: Sanitizing the politics of garbage at sites of global environmental governance in the MENA

LMarieBaker@u.northwestern.edu

Soho Char

sohochar2025@u.northwestern.edu

Tim Charlebois

Dissertation Title: Attention Between Ethics and Politics: Weil, Arendt, Tronto

charlebois@u.northwestern.edu

Emma Davis

Dissertation Title: International Relations and the Jewish Question: Reconsidering Self-Determination

Office location: Scott Hall 228
emmadavis2025@u.northwestern.edu

Shawn Dean

Dissertation Title: Florence in Crisis: Dictatorship and Democracy in Machiavelli’s Political Thought

Office location: Scott Hall 108
ShawnDean2023@u.northwestern.edu

Jeremi Dolecki

JeremiDolecki2026@u.northwestern.edu

Amanda Ziyi Fu

ziyifu2026@u.northwestern.edu

Jake Goodman-Palmer

jacobpalmer2028@u.northwestern.edu

Kyle Jones

KyleJones2021@u.northwestern.edu

Shai Karp

Dissertation Title: Leasing Democracy: Private Power and Public Policy in American Rental Housing

shaikarp@u.northwestern.edu

Usdin L. Martínez

usdinmartinez2024@u.northwestern.edu

Sam McChesney

Dissertation Title: Political Courage

samuelmcchesney2023@u.northwestern.edu

Charlotte Mencke

Dissertation Title: Echoes of Cassandra: Christa Wolf's Literary Dissent and the Politics of Language, Surveillance, and Nuclearism

cmencke@u.northwestern.edu

Evgeniia Mikriukova

evgeniiamikriukova2020@u.northwestern.edu

Emerson Murray

Dissertation Title: Bordering the Angloworld: Migration Governance Between Empire and Nation

Office location: Scott Hall 111
emurray@u.northwestern.edu

Audrey Nicolaïdes

m7e8h9@u.northwestern.edu

Maya Novak-Herzog

Dissertation Title: Axes of Consent: Public Perception in the Legacy of Title IX

Office location: Scott Hall 229
mayanovak-herzog2024@u.northwestern.edu

Elizabeth (Ely) Orrego Torres

Dissertation Title: Freeing Religion: Deconstructing and Decolonizing Religious Freedom and Secularism in the Americas

eorrego@u.northwestern.edu

Danielle Ortiz

Megha Summer Pappachen

meghapappachen2027@u.northwestern.edu

Dinara Urazova

Dissertation Title: Power and Spectacle in Post-Soviet Russia

dinaraurazova2024@u.northwestern.edu