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.
Philip Bunn
Ph.D. Candidate: Political Theory
Email | 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
Andrew McWard
Ph.D. Candidate: International Relations
Email | Website | Twitter | CV
Research Interests
International institutions and organizations, domestic politics of international cooperation, nonstate actors in global governance, global Financial Governance, and alliances
Dissertation Title
“The Dynamics of NGO Participation in Global Governance”
Marcy Shieh
Ph.D. Candidate: American Politics
Email | CV
Research Interests
Judicial politics, campaign rhetoric, public opinion, media
Rochelle Snyder
Ph.D. Candidate: American Politics
Email | CV
Research Interests
U.S. Congress, Constituent Service, Representation, Elections, Public Opinion, Political Behavior
Dissertation Title
“Constitutive Voices: Constituent Service and Representation in the United States Congress”
Timothy Tennyson
Ph.D. Candidate: Political Theory | American Politics
Email | 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”
Thomas Worth
Ph.D. Candidate: International Relations | Political Theory
Email | Google Scholar
Research Interests
Feminism, gender, international security
Dissertation
“Spectrum Gender and the Gender Gap in US Public Opinion on the Use of Military Force”
Recent Graduates
Caileigh Glenn
Ph.D. in Political Science (August 2022)
International Relations | Comparative Politics
Email | 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
Devin Judge-Lord
Ph.D. Political Science (August 2021)
American Politics | Political Methodology
Email | Website | Twitter | CV
Research Interests
Bureaucratic Policymaking, Social Movements, Lobbying, Science in Politics, Property Law, Private Authority, Environmental Policy, Text Analysis
Dissertation Title
“Public Pressure Campaigns and Bureaucratic Policymaking”
Advisor
Anton Shirikov
Ph.D. in Political Science (May 2022)
Comparative Politics | Political Methodology
Email | Website | Twitter | CV
Research Interests
Propaganda, Disinformation, Media and Politics, the Politics of Post-Communism, Russia, Experiments
Dissertation Title
“How Propaganda Works: Political Biases and News Credibility in Autocracies”
References
Chagai M. Weiss
Ph.D. in Political Science (August 2022)
Comparative Politics | International Relations
Email | 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