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.
Kennia L. Coronado
Ph.D. Candidate: 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
Joorahm Kim
Ph.D. Candidate: Political Theory
Email: joorahm.kim@wisc.edu | Website | CV
Research Interests
Political theology, Colonialism, History of political thought, International law, Individual rights, Humanitarian intervention.
Dissertation Title
“The Right to Punish Infidels: The Theological Origins of Justifying International Humanitarian Intervention”
References
Daniel Kapust, Howard Schweber, Michelle Schwarze, Richard Avramenko
Dillon Laaker
Ph.D. Candidate: 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
Phillip Pinell
Ph.D. Candidate: Political Theory
Email: pinell@wisc.edu | Website | CV
Research Interests
Research interests: Ancient and Continental Political Thought, Memory in 19th and 20th Century Liberalism, the Politics of Historiographical Methodology, Artificial Intelligence
Dissertation Title
“The Politics of Remembrance: Liberal Responses to Historical Illiberalism in 19th and 20th Century Liberal Political Thought”
References
Richard Avramenko, Joshua Dienstag, Daniel Kapust, Michelle Schwarze
Rochelle Snyder
Ph.D. Candidate: American Politics
Email: rsnyder4@wisc.edu | Website | CV
Research Interests
U.S. Congress, Representation, Political Behavior, Public Opinion, Elections
Dissertation Title
“Constitutive Voices: Constituent Service and Representation in the United States Congress”
References
Noah Stengl
Ph.D. Candidate: Political Theory | American Politics
Email: stengl@wisc.edu | Website | CV
Research Interests
Land, American political thought, environmental political theory, Indigenous political thought, Alexis de Tocqueville
Dissertation Title
“The Meaning of Land in American Political Thought”
References
Daniel J. Kapust, Michelle Schwarze, Richard Avramenko, Adam Nelson
Timothy Tennyson
Ph.D. Candidate: Political Theory | American Politics
Email: ttennyson@wisc.edu | Website | CV
Research Interests
History of Political Thought, Civic Education, Early-Modern Liberalism, Contemporary Liberal Education
Dissertation Title
“Fostering Freedom: Judgment in Early-Modern Liberal Educational and Political Thought”
References
Richard Avramenko, Dan Kapust, Michelle Schwarze, Todd Lundberg
Valeria Umanets
Ph.D. Candidate: Comparative Politics
Email: umanets@wisc.edu | Website | CV | Google Scholar
Research Interests
Women’s representation and political participation, political parties, post-Communist states, and Russian politics.
Dissertation Title
“Political Participation of Women in the Soviet Union and Russia: From State-Sponsored Feminism to Putin’s Machismo”
References
Yoshiko Herrera (chair), Rikhil Bhavnani, Adeline Lo, Aili M. Tripp, Marwa Shalaby
Thomas Worth
Ph.D. Candidate: International Relations | American Politics
Email: tsworth@wisc.edu | CV | Website
Research Interests
Gender and international security, foreign policy, the measurement of gender identity, and the history of international thought
Dissertation Title
“Gender Identity, Public Opinion, and the Use of Military Force in the United States”
References
Hohyun Yoon
Ph.D. Candidate: International Relations
Email: hohyun.yoon@wisc.edu | CV | Website
Research Interests
Elite psychology and international security, political psychology, international cooperation, alliance politics, experimental methods
Dissertation Title
“Emotion and Threat Credibility: The Strategic Role of Anger in International Crises”
References
Recent Graduates on the Job Market
Lotem Bassan-Nygate
Ph.D. in Political Science (August 2023)
International Relations | Comparative Politics
Email: lbassan@hks.harvard.edu | Website | CV
Research Interests
Domestic Politics of International Relations, Political Psychology, Experimental Research Methods, Human Rights, Naming and Shaming, Israel
Dissertation Title
“Who is Watching? The Consequences of Foreign Criticism”
References
Jonathan Renshon, Jessica Weeks, Jon Pevehouse, Nadav Shelef
Philip Bunn
Ph.D. in Political Science (May 2023)
Political Theory
Email: pbunn@clemson.edu | Website | CV
Research Interests
Politics and Technology, Politics and Literature, Liberalism, Adam Smith, Tocqueville, John Stuart Mill
Dissertation Title
“The Heart of a Machine: Technological Threats to Liberty”
References
Caileigh Glenn
Ph.D. in Political Science (August 2022)
International Relations | Comparative Politics
Email: caileigh.glenn@wisc.edu | Website | CV
Research Interests
Economic statecraft, international organizations, and foreign policy
Dissertation Title
“The Financialization of Foreign Policy: Targeted Financial Sanctions and Government Response”
References
Jiaqi Lu
Ph.D. in Political Science (August 2023)
Comparative Politics
Email: jackie.lu@wisc.edu | Website | CV
Research Interests
Energy transition, climate politics, policy network, international climate governance, China and India
Dissertation Title
“Decarbonizing the Dragon: Policy Communities and the Power of Networks”
References
Yoshiko Herrera (co-chair), Gregory Nemet (co-chair), David Weimer, Yuhua Wang
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”
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