Hire a PhD Graduate
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: www.maryumnalam.com/
Jungbae An
Subfields: American Politics and Political Methodology
Dissertation Title: Congressional Deliberation
Dissertation Chairs: William Minozzi and Michael Neblo
Website: anjungbae.github.io/
Sinan Anbarcioglu
Subfield: Comparative Politics
Dissertation Title: Concrete Aspirations: Slum Upgrading and State Capacity in Senegal
Dissertation Chair: Jan Pierskalla
Adrian Calmettes
Subfield: International Relations
Dissertation Title: Cyborg Agencies: On the Constitutive Power of Computing Infrastructures
Dissertation Chair: Alexander Wendt
Jack Fernandes
Subfield: Comparative Politics
Dissertation Title: Disaster Governance and Climate Adaptation in Malawi
Dissertation Chair: Amanda Robinson
Website: https://jackfernandes.org/
Zhiqin Gao
Subfield: International Relations
Dissertation Title: Contingency in World Politics
Dissertation Chair: Alexander Wendt
Laurie Georges
Subfields: International Relations and Comparative Politics
Dissertation Title: Erasure and Its Reverberations in the Modern International System
Dissertation Chair: Jennifer Mitzen
Website: https://www.lauriegeorges.com/
Christian Godwin
Subfield: International Relations
Dissertation Title: Libidinal Power Politics
Dissertation Chair: Alexander Wendt
Moshe Goldman
Subfield: International Relations
Dissertation Title: Ontological Security Guarantees
Dissertation Chair: Jennifer Mitzen
Website: https://www.linkedin.com/in/moshe-goldman-4a951490/
Gabriel Gorre
Subfields: International Relations and Political Theory
Dissertation Title: Organizing Transnational Counter-Hegemony: Mobilizing Hope Amidst Hegemonic Rupture
Dissertation Chair: Ben McKean
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: 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
Euchan Jang
Subfields: Comparative Politics and Political Theory
Dissertation Title: Press Here to Deliberate: Rethinking Media's Role in Public Deliberation
Dissertation Chair: Michael Neblo
Website: https://www.euchanjang.com/
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/
Jing Luo
Subfields: International Relations and Political Methodology
Dissertation Title: Foreign Influence in the United States: Lobbying versus Diplomacy
Dissertation Chair: Alexander Thompson
Website: https://nanajing7.github.io/
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/
Jared Rabinowitz
Subfield: International Relations
Dissertation Chair: Jennifer Mitzen
Kaveri Sarkar
Subfields: International Relations and Comparative Politics
Dissertation Title: War as a Laboratory: Race and the Scientization of U.S. War-Making
Dissertation Chair: Jennifer Mitzen
Website: https://kaverisarkar.weebly.com/
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 Chairs: Marcus Kurtz and Jan Pierskalla
Website: www.danssmith.com/
Taís Souza Carareto
Subfields: International Relations and Political Theory
Dissertation Title: A Feminist Theory of the State
Dissertation Chairs: Ben McKean
Pim Trommelen
Subfield: Political Theory
Dissertation Title: Worthy of Freedom: Popular Government in the Early-Modern Dutch Republic
Dissertation Chair: Ben McKean
Website: www.pimtrommelen.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
Non-Academic Job Market
Jungbae An
Subfields: American Politics and Political Methodology
Dissertation Title: Congressional Deliberation
Dissertation Chairs: William Minozzi and Michael Neblo
Website: https://anjungbae.github.io/
Sinan Anbarcioglu
Subfield: Comparative Politics
Dissertation Title: Concrete Aspirations: Slum Upgrading and State Capacity in Senegal
Dissertation Chair: Jan Pierskalla
Katie Gouge
Subfield: American Politics
Dissertation Title: Beyond the Two-Party Frame: How Americans Understand Independent Political Identity
Dissertation Chair: Thomas Wood
Edward Hohe
Subfield: American Politics
Dissertation Title: Partisan Code Switching and Deep Accommodation
Dissertation Chair: Michael Neblo
Taís Souza Carareto
Subfields: International Relations and Political Theory
Dissertation Title: A Feminist Theory of the State
Dissertation Chairs: Ben McKean
Connor Tragesser
Subfield: American Politics
Dissertation Title: Three Essays on The Politics of Economic Evaluations and Phenomena
Dissertation Chair: Thomas Wood
Website: https://cotrag.github.io/
Seamus Wagner
Subfield: Comparative Politics
Dissertation Title: Citizen Claim-Making and Accountability
Dissertation Chair: Amanda Robinson
Website: https://www.seamuswagner.com/