Job Market Candidates

Below is an alphabetical list of Ph.D. students and recent graduates currently on the job market. Please feel free to contact them, their advisors, or the Director of Graduate Studies, Rikhil Bhavnani, for additional information.

Priyadarshi Amar

Ph.D. Candidate: Comparative Politics | Political Methodology

Email: pamar@wisc.edu | Website | CV

Research Interests

Political Representation, Political Economy of Development, Local Governments, Electoral Quotas, Election Rules, Misinformation, Politics of South Asia

Dissertation Title

Institutions and Political Representation in Local Governments

References

Rikhil Bhavnani (co-chair), Laura Schechter (co-chair), Yoshiko HerreraSimon ChauchardReed Lei, and Priya Mukherjee

 

Phillip Pinell

Ph.D. Candidate: Political Theory

Email: pinell@wisc.edu | Website | CV

Research Interests

Iberian and Latin American Political Thought, Memory, Identity, Nationalism, Citizenship Studies, Liberalism/Illiberalism, Phenomenology and Hermeneutics

Dissertation Title

“Memory Politics: The Contested Past as an Aid to Liberty”

References

Richard Avramenko, Joshua Dienstag, Daniel Kapust, Michelle Schwarze

Khasan Redjaboev

Ph.D. Candidate: Comparative Politics | International Relations

Email: redjaboev@wisc.edu | Website | CV

Research Interests

Comparative politics, comparative and historical political economy of development, public administration and governance in authoritarian states, social policy, and redistribution, with an empirical focus on post-communist Eurasia

 

Dissertation Title

Communist Colonialism and Development: Building the State Patriarchy in Eurasia, 1870-2020

References

Rikhil Bhavnani, Yoshiko Herrera, Paul Castañeda Dower, Steven Brooke

 

 

Timothy Tennyson

Ph.D. Candidate: Political Theory | American Politics

Email: ttennyson@wisc.edu | Website | CV

Research Interests

History of Political Thought, Civic Education and Citizenship, Modern and Contemporary Liberalism, Moral and Political Psychology

Dissertation Title

“Fostering Freedom: Judgment in Early-Modern Liberal Educational and Political Thought”

References

Richard Avramenko, Dan Kapust, Michelle Schwarze, Adam Nelson

X (Xunchao) Zhang

Ph.D. Candidate: International Relations

Email: x.zhang@wisc.edu | Website | CV

Research Interests

International Security, Public Opinion, Revenge and Revanchism, Leaders, Intergroup Conflict, US foreign policy, Experimental Method

Dissertation Title

“Cycle Of Suffering, Spiral of Revenge: When Revenge Provokes―and When It Deters”

References

Jessica Weeks,  Jonathan Renshon, Andrew Kydd

Recent Graduates on the Job Market

Kennia L. Coronado

Ph.D. in Political Science (August 2024)

American Politics | Comparative Politics

Email: kennia.coronado@wisc.edu | Website | CV

Research Interests

American politics, race and ethnicity, political behavior, political communication, representation gender politics, Latinx politics, and politics of immigration and immigration enforcement

Dissertation Title

“Latinos and Presidential Elections in the Age of Immigration Surveillance: La Participación Política

References

Benjamin Marquez, Katherine Cramer, Eleanor Powell

Caileigh Glenn

Ph.D. in Political Science (August 2022)

International Relations | Comparative Politics

Email: caileigh.glenn@duke.edu | Website | CV

Research Interests

Sanctions, economic statecraft, international institutions, foreign policy, political economy of international security

Dissertation Title

“The Financialization of Foreign Policy: Targeted Financial Sanctions and Government Retaliation”

References

Jon Pevehouse, Mark Copelovitch, Lisa Martin, Jessica Weeks

Dillon Laaker

Ph.D. in Political Science (August 2024)

International Relations | Political Methodology

Email: laaker@wisc.edu | Website | CV

Research Interests

Political economy, trade, immigration, international organizations, public opinion

Dissertation Title

“The Political Economy of Rules of Origin”

References

Jon Pevehouse (Chair), Mark Copelovitch, Lisa Martin

Jingyuan (Juan) Qian

Ph.D. in Political Science (August 2023)

Comparative Politics | Political Methodology

Email: juan.qian@wisc.edu | Website | CV

Research Interests

Authoritarian Political Institutions, Chinese Politics, Formal Theory

Dissertation Title

“Statebuilding by Campaign: Regime Consolidation, Bureaucratic Compliance, and Political Control in Modern China”

Noah Stengl

Ph.D. in Political Science (August 2024)

Email: stengl@wisc.edu | Website | CV

Research Interests

American Political Thought, Indigenous Political Thought, Environmental Political Thought, Politics of the “Ordinary”

Dissertation Title

“The Meaning of Land in Nineteenth-Century American Political Thought”

References

Daniel J. KapustMichelle Schwarze, Richard Avramenko

Valeria Umanets

Ph.D. in Political Science (August 2024)

Comparative Politics

Email: umanets@wisc.edu | Website | CV | Google Scholar

Research Interests

Gender and politics, representation, authoritarian politics, historical political economy, post-Communist states.

Dissertation Title

“Political Participation of Women in the Soviet Union and Russia: From State-Sponsored Feminism to Putin’s Machismo”

References

Yoshiko Herrera, Aili M. TrippMarwa Shalaby

Chagai M. Weiss

Ph.D. in Political Science (August 2022)

Comparative Politics | International Relations

Email: cmweiss3@wisc.edu | Website | Twitter | CV

Research Interests

Examining how institutions and the people within them shape intergroup relations in divided societies. He is also working on several projects examining the effects of scalable interventions for prejudice reduction, the electoral effects of conflict, the institutional origins of partisan polarization, and experimental methods.

Dissertation Title

“Prejudice Reduction at Scale: How Institutional Inclusion Reduces Social Exclusion”

References

Rikhil Bhavnani, Yoshiko Herrera, Nadav Shelef, Jonathan Renshon

Thomas Worth

Ph.D. in Political Science (August 2024)

International Relations | American Politics

Email: worth3@stolaf.edu | CV | Website | Google Scholar

Research Interests

Gender and US politics; US foreign policy; feminist security studies; International Relations theory; masculinity and International Relations; the measurement of gender identity

Dissertation Title

A War of Their Own: Masculinity, Femininity, and the Gender Gap in Support for War

References

Andrew Kydd, Aili Tripp, Yoshiko Herrera, Jessica Weeks

Awards

2023-2024 UW–Madison College of Letters and Sciences Capstone Teaching Award

Xinzhi Zhao

Ph.D. in Political Science (August 2024)

Political Theory | Comparative Politics

Email: xzhao322@wisc.edu | CV | Website

Research Interests

Modern Western political, social, and economic thought; Enlightenment political thought; political and social epistemology; moral psychology; knowledge and democracy; comparative political thought

Dissertation Title

“Another Path to Enlightenment: David Hume and Adam Smith on Philosophers and the Public”

References

Daniel KapustMichelle Schwarze, Howard Schweber, James Messina