Below is a list of our PhD candidates who are on the academic job market and the non-academic job market.
If you have questions, please contact the candidates directly or our placement director Nicole Yadon.
Academic Job Market
Maryum Alam - Current Postdoctoral Fellow at the Dickey Center for International Understanding, Dartmouth College
Subfields: International Relations and Political Methodology
Dissertation Title: For as Long as it Takes? Time Horizons and Foreign Policy Change
Dissertation Chair: Christopher Gelpi
Website: https://www.maryumnalam.com/
Jungbae An
Subfields: American Politics and Political Methodology
Dissertation Title: Congressional Deliberation
Dissertation Chairs: William Minozzi and Michael Neblo
Website: https://anjungbae.github.io/
Adrian Calmettes
Subfields: International Relations
Dissertation Title: Cyborg Agencies: On the Constitutive Power of Computing Infrastructures
Dissertation Chair: Alexander Wendt
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Laurie Georges
Subfields: International Relations and Comparative Politics
Dissertation Title: Erasure and Its Reverberations in the Modern International System
Dissertation Chair: Jennifer Mitzen
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Moshe Goldman
Subfields: International Relations
Dissertation Title: Ontological Security Guarantees
Dissertation Chair: Jennifer Mitzen
Website: https://www.linkedin.com/in/moshe-goldman-4a951490/
Seobin Han
Subfields: Comparative Politics and Political Methodology
Dissertation Title: The Politics of State Narratives and Mass Mobilization
Dissertation Chair: Erin Lin
Website: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=YkN-TXIAAAAJ&hl=en
Jyhjong Hwang
Subfields: International Relations and Political Methodology
Dissertation Title: Times of Abundance and Scarcity: Trade-offs of Chinese Loans to Africa Across Time
Dissertation Chair: Alexander Thompson
Website: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jyhjong-hwang-a5bb1665/
Emily Ann Israelson
Subfields: American Politics and Political Theory
Dissertation Title: Disrupting Deservingness: How Americans’ Orientations toward Egalitarianism Impact Redistribution Attitudes
Dissertation Chairs: Michael Neblo and Thomas Nelson
Website: eapisraelson.github.io
Jiyoon Kim
Subfields: International Relations and Political Methodology: Status Perceptions, Emotions, and Policy Preferences
Dissertation Title: The Emotional Pulse of Foreign Policy
Dissertation Chair: Christopher Gelpi
Website: https://www.jiyoon-kim.com/
Cameron Macaskill
Subfields: International Relations and Comparative Politics
Dissertation Title: Postcolonial Regionalism and Worldmaking: Construction of Global Imaginaries, Sovereignty, and Identity
Dissertation Chairs: Amanda Robinson and Jennifer Mitzen
Website: https://www.linkedin.com/in/cameron-macaskill-9983a292/
Daniel Naftel - Current Postdoctoral Fellow at Harvard
Subfields: American Politics and Political Methodology
Dissertation Title: Identifying the Effects of Policing on Voter Behavior
Dissertation Chair: Vladimir Kogan
Website: https://dnaftel.github.io/
Dominic Pfister
Subfields: International Relations and Political Theory
Dissertation Title: Governing the Sick World: Health Governance and the Making of Modern International Order
Dissertation Chair: Jennifer Mitzen
Website: https://www.dominicpfister.com/
Mohamed Shedeed
Subfields: Comparative Politics and Political Methodology
Dissertation Title: Decentralization in Unequal Contexts: Kinship Networks and Irrigation Water Governance in the Jordan Valley
Dissertation Chair: Jan Pierskalla
Website: https://shedeemo.github.io/
Daniel Smith
Subfields: Comparative Politics and Political Methodology
Dissertation Title: Storm from the Steppes: Institutional Disruption and Divergence in Pre-modern Eurasia, 1000-1800 CE
Dissertation Chair: Marcus Kurtz and Jan Pierskalla
Website: www.danssmith.com/
Liuya Zhang
Subfields: International Relations and Political Methodology
Dissertation Title: In the Shadows of Imperialism: Postcolonial National Identity and Its Implications for Foreign Policy Orientation
Dissertation Chairs: Christopher Gelpi and Jennifer Mitzen
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Non-Academic Job Market
Charlene Stainfield
Subfields: American Politics and Political Methodology
Dissertation Title: Evolving Dynamics in Public Opinion: Polling Trust, Partisan Cooperation, and Election Skepticism
Dissertation Chair: Thomas Wood
Website: https://charlenejstainfield.squarespace.com/
Seamus Wagner
Subfields: Comparative Politics
Dissertation Title: Citizen Claim-Making and Accountability
Dissertation Chair: Amanda Robinson
Website: https://www.seamuswagner.com/