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.
Levi Bankston
Ph.D. Candidate: American Politics
Email: lbankston@wisc.edu | Website | CV
Research Interests
Campaigns, Elections, Political Behavior, Voter Data, Digital Media, and Political Communication
Dissertation Title
“Campaign Strategy in an Age of Information Abundance: Data-driven Campaigning for the U.S. House”
References
Philip Bunn
Ph.D. Candidate: Political Theory
Email: pbunn@wisc.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
Jiaqi Lu
Ph.D. Candidate: 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
Andrew McWard
Ph.D. Candidate: International Relations
Email: amcward@wisc.edu | Website | CV
Research Interests
International institutions and organizations, the domestic politics of international cooperation, nonstate actors in global governance, American foreign policy, alliance formation, human rights.
Dissertation Title
“Allies of Convenience: How NGOs and the United States Cooperate to Control Intergovernmental Organizations”
References
Lisa Martin (chair), Mark Copelovitch, Tana Johnson, Jon Pevehouse, Jessica Weeks
Yumi Park
Ph.D. Candidate: International Relations
Email: yumi.park@wisc.edu | CV | Website | Google Scholar
Research interests
International Political Economy, Financial Market Development, Politics of Trade and Finance, Bank Lobby, Network Science
Dissertation title
“Varieties of Globalization: Trade Openness, Bank Lobbying, and the Political Economy of Financial Liberalization”
References
Jingyuan (Juan) Qian
Ph.D. Candidate: 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”
Marcy Shieh
Ph.D. Candidate: American Politics
Email: mshieh2@wisc.edu | CV | Website
Research Interests
Judicial elections, judicial selection methods, judicial decision-making, campaigns, text analysis, and survey experiments.
Dissertation Title
“The Impact of Campaigns and Elections on the Behavior of State Supreme Court Justices”
References
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”
Recent Graduates on the Job Market
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
David Greenwood-Sanchez
Ph.D. in Political Science (August 2022)
Comparative Politics | International Relations
Email: greenwoodsan@wisc.edu
Research Interests
David’s dissertation research examines the politics of genetically modified crops in Mexico and Peru, and focuses on the national identity dimensions of regulation.
Dissertation Title
“Biodiversity and Global Agricultural Markets: A Comparative Analysis of GMO Regulation in Mexico and Peru”
Devin Judge-Lord
Ph.D. Political Science (August 2021)
American Politics | Political Methodology
Email: DevinJudgeLord@FAS.Harvard.edu | 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”
References
Susan Yackee, Eleanor Neff Powell, David Weimer, Daniel Carpenter (Harvard), Benjamin Cashore (Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy)
Anton Shirikov
Ph.D. in Political Science (May 2022)
Comparative Politics | Political Methodology
Email: as6859@columbia.edu | 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
Delgerjargal (Degi) Uvsh
Ph.D. in Political Science (October 2020)
Comparative Politics | International Relations | Advanced Statistical Methods
Email: duvsh@CougarNet.UH.edu| Website | CV
Research Interests
Regime transition and persistence, sources of changes in institutions, the political economy of natural resources and the environment, Post-Soviet politics, quantitative and qualitative methods, Mongolian politics
Dissertation Title
“Reversal of the ‘Resource Curse’? Negative Revenue Shocks and Development in Russia and Beyond”
References
Scott Gehlbach, Yoshiko Herrera, Rikhil Bhavnani; Teaching reference: Mark Copelovitch
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