Uğur Altundal (Ph.D. Candidate)
Sub-fields:
Comparative Politics,
Political Theory and Methods
Interests:
Contemporary Political Philosophy,
Democracy, Citizenship, Immigration and Open Borders
Andre Anselmo (Ph.D. Student)
Giles David Arceneaux (Ph.D. Candidate)
Sub-fields:
Comparative Politics,
International Relations
Interests:
Nuclear proliferation and strategy; civil-military relations; political analysis.
Whitney Baillie (Ph.D. Candidate)
Jason Blessing (Ph.D. Candidate)
Sub-fields:
International Relations,
Public Administration and Policy
Interests:
Cybersecurity; International Security; Foreign
and Defense Policy; Terrorism and Insurgency; Political Methodology
A. Chanan Brown (JDMA Student)
Farrah Brown (Ph.D. Student)
Vinessa Buckland (Ph.D. Student)
Lindsay Burt (Ph.D. Candidate)
Colleen Dougherty Burton (Ph.D. Candidate)
Sub-fields:
American Politics,
Comparative Politics
Interests:
Political institutions; comparative political economy; social policy; women and politics; female representation
Samantha Call (Ph.D. Student)
Nathan Carrington (Ph.D. Student)
Sub-fields:
American Politics,
Law and Courts
Interests:
Political Psychology,
United States Supreme Court, Freedom of Expression, and Judicial Legitimacy
Sunghee Cho (Ph.D. Candidate)
Sub-fields:
Comparative Politics,
International Relations
Interests:
I am interested in state identities--processes of their formation and modification through interactions among states--and how security issues can be approached from identity perspective, with special regional interests in Northeast Asia
Eduardo Cobian-Aguayo (Ph.D. Student)
Elizabeth Davis (Ph.D. Candidate)
Emily Dean (MA Student)
J. Michael Dedmon (Ph.D. Candidate)
Robert M. Demgenski (Ph.D. Candidate)
Sub-fields:
Comparative Politics,
International Relations
Interests:
International
security and strategic studies
Emma Dreher (Ph.D. Student)
Sub-fields:
American Politics,
Public Administration and Policy
Nneka Eke (Ph.D. Candidate)
Sub-fields:
Comparative Politics,
International Relations
Interests:
African Politics with a focus on oil multinational corporations and indigenous rights in Nigeria; African diaspora communities; Feminism in International relations.
Esra Ekinci (Ph.D. Student)
Sub-fields:
Comparative Politics,
International Relations
Interests:
Political institutions, democratization, electoral systems and political parties
Colin French (Ph.D. Student)
Sub-fields:
American Politics,
Comparative Politics
Interests:
Public
Opinion, Rational Irrationality, Political Ignorance, Experimental Methods,
Unorthodox Ideologies, Risk Orientation.
Daniel Jackson (Ph.D. Student)
Sub-fields:
Comparative Politics,
International Relations
Laura Jenkins (Ph.D. Candidate)
Ana Jones (Ph.D. Student)
Havva Karakas Keles (Ph.D. Candidate)
Sub-fields:
Comparative Politics,
International Relations
Interests:
Foreign Policy Analysis, European Politics and Government, Middle East Politics, Parliamentary Political Systems, Political Leadership and Decision Making, Politics and Government in Turkey, Germany, United Kingdom and Israel.
Joel Kersting (Ph.D. Candidate)
Sub-fields:
American Politics,
Comparative Politics
Interests:
Political Parties; Representation; Public
Opinion; LGBTQ Politics; Race and Politics.
Ranitya Kusumadewi (Ph.D. Candidate)
Sub-fields:
International Relations,
Public Administration and Policy
Interests:
I am interested in the International Political Economy subfield especially on International Trade issues. In specific, I am interested on the interlink between international trade and development.
Evan A. Laksmana (Ph.D. Candidate)
Sub-fields:
Comparative Politics,
International Relations
Interests:
Disciplinary: military change and effectiveness, comparative
civil-military relations, and international security.Regional and country
specialization: Indo-Pacific, Southeast Asia, Indonesia
Aaron Lattanzi (Ph.D. Student)
Tae Hyun Lim (Ph.D. Candidate)
Dongshu Liu (Ph.D. Student)
Sub-fields:
Comparative Politics,
Public Administration and Policy
Interests:
Authoritarianism, democratic development, China politics, political participation
Brianna MacMahon (Ph.D. Student)
Rachel MacMaster (Ph.D. Student)
Sub-fields:
American Politics,
Law and Courts
Interests:
American political development, American constitutional law; civil rights and liberties; public law; constitutional development; race and gender politics; executive-judicial relations; law and society.
Pedram Maghsoud-Nia (Ph.D. Candidate)
Interests:
State and Society Relations, Political Economy of Development, Middle East Politics, Social Theory
Angely Martinez (Ph.D. Student)
Sub-fields:
Comparative Politics,
International Relations
Interests:
De facto states, Civil war outcomes, Blackspots
Sean Miskell (Ph.D. Candidate)
Sub-fields:
International Relations,
Public Administration and Policy
Interests:
In my academic research, I study the policy process with a focus on the dynamic interplay between policy design and organized political behavior as well as the development governance institutions and their interaction with private markets and interests. My ongoing research projects consider the politics of big data in education policy, the role of the submerged state in health policy, and the politics of 'policy drift' in US health and energy policy.In my role as a Research Fellow with the Georgetown University Health Policy Institute, my work focuses on the intersection of public and private coverage programs with an emphasis on Medicaid, the Children's Health Insurance Program, and the Affordable Care Act's insurance exchange and market reforms.
Hanna Noh (Ph.D. Student)
Sub-fields:
Comparative Politics,
International Relations
Interests:
International
Political Economy, Trade Agreements, East Asia
Aykut Ozturk (Ph.D. Candidate)
Interests:
Aykut majors in comparative politics and minors in
international relations. His research interests encompass democratization,
populism, political psychology, and Islamist movements.
Sobia Paracha (Ph.D. Student)
Darci Pauser (Ph.D. Candidate)
Sub-fields:
International Relations,
Public Administration and Policy
Interests:
Transboundary water issues, natural resource policy and
management, international environmental agreements, science and technology
politics and policy, environmental security, Turkey, Israel, the Middle East.
Ivy Raines (Ph.D. Student)
Raza Raja (Ph.D. Student)
Carly Rasiewicz (Ph.D. Candidate)
Sub-fields:
International Relations,
Public Administration and Policy
Interests:
Security Studies; Sex and Gender-Based Violence; Gender Issues in Conflict & Post Conflict Settings
Hengel Reina (Ph.D. Candidate)
Sub-fields:
American Politics,
Public Administration and Policy
Interests:
American political parties, political campaigns, voter mobilization, and organizational theory.
Beatriz Rey (Ph.D. Candidate)
Sub-fields:
Comparative Politics,
Public Administration and Policy
Interests:
Legislative Politics, Policymaking,
Agenda-setting, Framing, Comparative Public Policy, Budgeting, Authoritarian
Politics, Latin America.
Elise Roberts (Ph.D. Candidate)
Sub-fields:
Comparative Politics,
International Relations
Interests:
Civil
war, post-conflict reconstruction, foreign aid, governance
Katharine Russell (Ph.D. Student)
Sefa Secen (Ph.D. Candidate)
Sub-fields:
Comparative Politics,
International Relations
Interests:
Middle East & Ottoman History, Race/Ethnicity and Nationalism, Identity, Human and Minority Rights.
Prakhar Sharma (Ph.D. Candidate)
Claire Sigsworth (Ph.D. Student)
Sub-fields:
Comparative Politics,
Law and Courts
Nilesh Sinha (Ph.D. Student)
Heidi Stallman (Ph.D. Student)
Catriona Standfield (Ph.D. Student)
Sub-fields:
International Relations,
Political Theory and Methods
Interests:
Conflict resolution; feminist international relations theory; gender mainstreaming; deliberative democracy; the Middle East.
Kyungwon Suh (Ph.D. Student)
Sub-fields:
International Relations
Interests:
Nuclear weapons and
crisis bargaining, the nuclear balance of power, extended deterrence, alliance
politics
Honggang Tan (Ph.D. Candidate)
Sub-fields:
Comparative Politics,
Public Administration and Policy
Interests:
My research interests straddle public policy and administration and comparative politics. My area focus is East Asia and Greater China in particular. I am interested in the formation and political participation of civil society and its implications for the improvement of democratic governance and civil rights and liberties.
Charles T. Tuthill (Ph.D. Candidate)
Sub-fields:
Comparative Politics,
International Relations
Interests:
Interests: State building, political economy of development, ethnic politics. Focus on the developing world with a regional interest in sub-Saharan Africa.
Eric van der Vort (Ph.D. Candidate)
Sub-fields:
American Politics,
Law and Courts
Interests:
American constitutional law and development; LGBT politics; public law; emotion, morality and hierarchy; politics and fiction; normative theory
Maria Laura Veramendi Garcia (Ph.D. Student)
Sub-fields:
Comparative Politics,
Public Administration and Policy
Interests:
Welfare
Policies, Comparative Public Policy, Latin America
Lorena Vinuela (Ph.D. Candidate)
Sub-fields:
Comparative Politics,
Public Administration and Policy
Interests:
Lorena Viñuela's research interests center on comparative political economy, public administration and public policies, democratization, decentralization, and party politics with a focus on developing countries. Her primary regions of interest are the Latin American and the Caribbean and Sub-Saharan Africa. Her dissertation examines how changes in the distribution of resources across levels of government have impacted party systems in fiscally decentralized countries in Latin America between 1980 and 2008.
Kari Waters (Ph.D. Student)
Brian Wolfel (Ph.D. Candidate)
Jiayi Zhang (Ph.D. Student)