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.

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

Benjamin Marquez, Katherine Cramer, Eleanor Powell

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

Barry Burden, Eleanor Powell, David Canon

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. KapustMichelle 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 BhavnaniAdeline LoAili M. TrippMarwa 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

Andrew Kydd, Aili Tripp, Yoshiko Herrera, Jessica Weeks

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

Andrew Kydd, Jon Pevehouse, Jessica Weeks, Jonathan Renshon

Xinzhi Zhao

Ph.D. Candidate: 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

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

Richard Avramenko, Dan Kapust, Michelle Schwarze

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

Jon Pevehouse, Mark Copelovitch, Lisa Martin, Jessica Weeks

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