Current Graduate Students
| Name | Major/Minor Fields | Research Interests |
| John Ackerman | Political Theory | Political theology, German-Jewish thought, Hegelian and post-Hegelian political thought, theories of action, law and politics, comparative political theory |
| Salma Al-Shami | Comparative Politics/ Methodology | Politics of the Arab Middle East, Single-Party States, Construction of National Identity, Political Influences on Higher Education, Social Movements |
| Emily Alvarez | American Politics | Identity politics, prejudice, voting behavior, public opinion, political networks |
| Crina Archer | Political Theory | Times of Democratic Revolution: Historical Teleology and Political Freedom in Kant, Tocqueville, and Arendt |
| Mert Arslanalp | Comparative Politics/ Political Theory |
Social movements, political economy of informality and globalization of metropolises, particularly on the everyday and contentious politics of the urban poor in the developing countries |
| Abdeta Beyene | Comparative Politics | |
| Mariana Borges | Comparative Politics | |
| Marissa Brookes | Comparative Politics / International Political Economy / American Politics | Political economy of the advanced democracies, labor politics, globalization, institutional analysis, theories of power, labor transnationalism |
| Javier Burdman | Political Theory | |
| Sebastian Burca | Comparative Politics/ International Relations |
Political parties, comparative democratization and comparative democratic institutions, European politics, foreign policy |
| Sean Burns | Comparative Politics/ International Relations |
Revolutionary ideologies and strategies within the changing international environment |
| Lucy Cane | Political Theory | Contemporary political thought; Arendt; Foucault; humor and irony |
| Ross Carroll | Political Theory/International Relations | Dissertation title: 'The Politics of Contagion: Enthusiasm in Shaftesbury, Hume and Burke.' My other interests include history writing as political education in the early modern period, rhetoric, the Scottish Enlightenment, Hobbes and Oakeshott |
| Gent Carrabregu | Political Theory/ International Relations |
Contemporary Democratic Theory, Identity Politics, Early Modern Political Thought, Theories of Representation and Recognition, German Idealism, Contemporary Continental Philosophy, Critiques of Capitalism |
| Laura Cedillo | Comparative Politics | Public Opinion/Foreign Policy |
| Seoyoon Choi | American Politics | Political Behavior, Public Opinion, and Public Policy |
| Charles Clarke | American Politics | |
| Clement Clarke | Continental Philosophy/ Political Theory/ International Political Theory |
Utopias/Dystopias, Utopian Political Thought, Lacanian Political Theory, Theories of Revolution, The Political Imagination and Radical/Alternative Politics |
| Michal Crowder | Comparative Politics/ International Relations |
Latin American politics and the effects of international laws and norms on the domestic politics of authoritarian regimes |
| Giuseppe Cumella | Political Theory | |
| Jennifer Cyr | Comparative Politics | Political parties, democratic institutions, and democratization in the Andean region and the Americas in general |
| Meredith Czaplewski | American Politics | Public opinion, political behavior, political communication, political psychology |
| Chris Day | Comparative Politics/ International Relations |
African politics, insurgent violence and civil wars, humanitarian affairs |
| Brian Dempsey | International Relations | International relations theory, legitimacy and authority across different political contexts, systemic change in international relations |
| Jesse Dillon Savage | International Relations/ Comparative Politics |
Empire, Hierarchy and International Authority Relations, Security Studies, Comparative Historical Analysis, International and Domestic Politics of the Former Soviet Union |
| Nick Dorzweiler | Political Theory | Cultural politics, radical democratic theory, social identity and ideology |
| Elise Dufief | Comparative Politics | |
| Gustavo Duncan | Comparative Politics | Rebel politics, social movements, surgency, counter-insurgency |
| Gözde Erdeniz | Comparative Politics/International Relations |
State-society relations in the Middle East, social cleavages and comparative historical methods |
| D.J. Flynn | American Politics/Quantitative Methods | Public opinion, political knowledge, representation, causal inference, experimental and statistical methods |
| Jennifer Forestal | Political Theory/American Politics | Political potential of social media; theories of the public and practices of citizenship; American political thought, specifically Deweyan pragmatism; Arendtian politics |
| Valerie Freeland | International Relations/Comparative Politics of Weak States | Less powerful states' strategic use of international norms and institutions in sovereignty-building projects |
| Carlos Freytes Frey | Comparative Political Economy/Methodology | Taxation and Fiscal Institution-Building in Developing Countries; Latin American Political Economy |
| Thomas Gary | Comparative Politics/American Politics | National Security policy, regional security policy, European-Middle Eastern-African Affairs; Public Administration, government finance |
| Mneesha Gellman | Comparative Politics/ International Relations |
Ethnic minority social movements and cultural rights in democratizing and post-conflict countries. |
| Mauro Gilli | International Relations/ Methodology |
State Formation, Globalization, Military Recruitment, Diffusion of Military Innovations |
| Jael Goldsmith Weil | Comparative Politics | Latin American social policy |
| Miklos Gosztonyi | Comparative Politics/ International Relations |
Armed conflict, Rebel groups, African politics |
| Joseph Grant | Political Theory | Ancient Greek political thought |
| Arda Gucler | Political Theory | Theories of representation |
| Marion Gutwein | Political Theory/ Comparative Politics |
Contemporary critical theory and feminist theory |
| Brian Harrison | American Politics/methodology | Partisanship and public opinion, selective exposure/motivated reasoning, political communication, the American Presidency, rhetorical effects |
| Richard Hay | Comparative Politics/ International Relations |
Civil-military relations after democratization in Latin America, especially why the military is able to successfully advocate for its interests in some democracies while failing in others |
| Cari Hennessy | American Politics/ Methodology |
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| Olivier Henripin | International Relations | Protracted militarized disputes, nationalism and conflict bargaining, China-U.S.-Taiwan relations, formal modeling |
| Buddhika Jayamaha | Comparative Politics | Violence, conflict and counterinsurgency |
| Hye Yun Kang | International Relations | |
| Alisa Kaplan | Comparative Politics/ International Relations |
Constitutional law, national security and civil rights, global norms in judicial decision-making |
| Sebastian Karcher | Comparative Politics/Political Economy/Political Methodology | The political economy of labor markets in Latin America and the OECD |
| Katrin Katz | International Relations | |
| Mark Kelley | Political Theory | Modern European and Contemporary Political Thought; Democratic Theory; |
| Andrew Kelly | Comparative Politics | Comparative Politics in Western Europe |
| Moses Khisa | Comparative Politics/International Relations | The "African State;" Electoral Politics and Democracy in Africa; Political Economy of Development; Ethnicity and Nationalism |
| Erin Kimball | International Relations/ Comparative Politics |
Regional peacekeeping, especially in Africa; reasons African countries have chosen the African Union and other regional organizations for peacekeeping projects rather than the UN, and domestic consequences for African countries sending troops to such projects |
| Samara Klar | American Politics | The influence of social identities on political preferences; Party identity (or lack thereof) and political engagement; Experimental and survey methods |
| Kendra Koivu | Comparative Politics/ Comparative Political Economy/Qualitative Methods |
Variations in structure of organized criminal groups, the political economy of illicit markets, the development of criminal groups in inter-war Turkey, Finland and Japan, as well as QCA/fuzzy-set analysis and the philosophy of logic |
| Daniel Lawrence | International Relations/ Political Theory |
Theories of power in international relations, hegemony, biopolitics, and international political economy |
| Sean Lee | Comparative Politics | Ethnic and sectarian politics; civil war; militias; Middle Eastern and Central African politics |
| Thomas J. Leeper | American Politics/ Methodology |
Political knowledge, attitude formation, political psychology, and experimental methodology |
| Kevin Levay | American Politics | Personal webpage |
| Ji Li | Comparative Politics/ International Relations |
Chinese politics, authoritarian regimes |
| Erin Lockwood | International Relations | The sovereign, secular, territorial state; maritime piracy; language, narrative, and the construction of identity; border politics; IR theory |
| Claudia Lopez-Hernandez | Comparative Politics | |
| Heather Madonia | American Politics | Political Behavior, Public Opinion, Race and Gender Politics |
| Angela Maione | Political Theory | History of Political Thought, Democratic and Feminist Theory, Global Politics, Cosmopolitanism |
| Aditi Malik | Comparative Politics/ International Relations |
Human Rights, humanitarian intervention, genocide, and transitional justice |
| Romain Malejacq | Comparative Politics/International Relations | Afghan politics (www.afghanopoly.com), State Formation, Civil Wars |
| Jacqueline McAllister | International Relations/ Comparative Politics |
International law, international organizations, and international criminal tribunals in ongoing conflict |
| Rahul Mediratta | Comparative Political Economy/Historical Methods | Public policy, strategy, institutional behaviour, South Asia, economics, conflict |
| Khairunnisa Mohamedali | Comparative Politics | State-building in weakly institutionalized states; namely, the extension of state control over populations and territory with pre-existing networks of goods and service provision. Currently working on East Asian Ugandans and Somali-Kenyans |
| Rachel Moskowitz | American Politics | Education and race politics, inequality, public opinion, and state and local politics |
| Onur Muftugil | Political Theory | History of political thought, moral psychology and politics, Islamic political thought |
| Kevin Mullinix | American Politics | Personal webpage |
| André Munro | Political Theory/ Comparative Politics |
Early modern and contemporary political theory; Metaphysics (and its critics) and conceptions of the people, sovereignty, and the political |
| Alexandra Neame | Political Theory, History of Science, American politics | Representation and the politics of population; the role of statistics in shaping democratic publics; the US census, apportionment, immigration and public opinion polling |
| Christoph Nguyen | Comparative Political Economy/Methodology | Varieties of Capitalism, Institutional Change, Mixed Methods |
| Maavi Norman | Comparative Politics/ Political Economy/ African Politics |
Governance, informal institutions, and democratization in Africa; leadership strategies of conflict management and reform; peace building and post-conflict reconstruction/reconciliation |
| Sally Nuamah | American Politics | |
| Juan Olmeda | Comparative Politics | Comparative Federalism in Latin America, Fiscal Federalism, Intergovernmental bargaining strategies, the politics of governors |
| Mona Oraby | Comparative Politics/ Political Theory | Gender politics of the Middle East, social movements, civil society formation and development |
| Silvia Otero-Bahamon | Comparative Politics | State formation, political violence and patronage politics in Latin America and Africa |
| Menaka Philips | Political Theory/ American Politics |
Late modern political thought, especially John Stuart Mill; theories of gender, culture and postcolonial politics; critical constructions of ‘liberalism’, and the politics of interpretation in contemporary political theory |
| Ayuko Nimura Picot | Comparative Politics/ African Politics |
African politics, women and politics, politics of development |
| Alison Rane | Political Theory/Comparative Politics | Ethics/ethos of citizenship in modern and contemporary democratic theory |
| Rachel Ricci | International Relations/ Democratic Theory |
The construction of sovereignty and (trans)national political subjectivities, postcolonial theory, radical democracy, critiques of liberalism, and religion and politics in the Arab Middle East |
| Joshua Robison | American Politics | Political Participation, the Internet, and deliberation |
| M. Christopher Sardo | Political Theory | |
| Mark Schemper | Political Theory/ International Relations |
Early Modern Political Thought, American Political Thought, and Religion and Politics |
| Wangqing (Sandy) Shan | American Politics | |
| Ari Shaw | International Relations/ Comparative Politics |
International law, human rights, international courts and domestic political change |
| Swati Srivastava | International Relations | |
| Xin Sun | Comparative Politics/ Quantitative Methods |
Elite politics, political economy and public opinion in China |
| Mara Suttman-Lea | American Politics | Muslim-American relations, religion and politics |
| Christopher Swarat | International Relations | A critique of contemporary International Relations (IR) discourse through the “recovery” of an ancient Chinese, specifically Confucian, vocabulary and worldview |
| Larkin Terrie | Comparative Politics | Processes of state formation in Latin America, the political economy of development, and qualitative and quantitative methodology |
| Anna Terwiel | Political Theory | Legal and theoretical conceptions of the body and property rights, feminist theory, history of political thought |
| Douglas Thompson | Political Theory/History of Political Thought | Late Renaissance/Early Modern political thought, ancient/modern constitutionalism, secularism, le libertinage érudit, early Enlightenment, Michel de Montaigne, Thomas Hobbes, Pierre Bayle, and John Locke |
| Mitchell Troup | International Relations/ Comparative Politics |
Transnational social movements, state interactions with nonstate political units, IR theory |
| Rachel Vanderpoel | Comparative Politics/International Relations | Conflict and state-building processes, politics of weak states, post-war transitions and peace-building |
| Salvador Vazquez del Mercado | Public opinion, political psychology, comparative democratization | Attitude formation and political behavior of citizens in consolidating democracies |
| Martin Walter | International Environmental Politics/Management of Water Resources | Governance of transboundary groundwater resources; changing roles of knowledge as a currency of power in international environmental politics and policy-making processes |
| Desiree Weber | Political Theory/ International Relations |
Rhetoric, critical theory and political methods |
| Reymundo Zambrano | Comparative Politics/American Politics |
Latin American Politics, Immigration within Latin America and the developing world in general, Race and Ethnicity, and Latino Politics |
| Ariel Zellman | International Relations/ Comparative Politics |
Ethnonationalism, International territorial conflict, National narratives of historical territorial entitlement |
| Kai Zeng | International Relations, Formal and Quantitative Methods | International and Comparative Political Economy, Politics of Authoritarian Regimes, Chinese and East Asian Politics |
| Dong Zhang | Comparative Politics | Political economy in authoritarian regimes; Chinese elite politics and party system. |
| Qi (Luke) Zhang | Comparative Political Economy/Methodology | Political economy in the developing world, especially how political institutions affect political behaviors, policy making, resource allocations, rent-seeking, economic performance, governance, etc. |
| Agnieszka Zielinska | International Relations/Political Theory | The power of religious actors, secularisms, nationalisms, pluralisms, and transnational activist networks in the politics of United States, Europe, and Africa |