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Hire an OSU PhD

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
Website: 

Laurie Georges
Subfields: International Relations and Comparative Politics
Dissertation Title: Erasure and Its Reverberations in the Modern International System 
Dissertation Chair: Jennifer Mitzen
Website: 

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 

Euchan Jang
Subfields: Comparative Politics and Political Theory
Dissertation Title: Press Here to Deliberate
Dissertation Chair: Michael Neblo
Website: https://www.linkedin.com/in/euchan-jang-9022981a7/?originalSubdomain=kr 

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: The Colonial Origins of Global Health Governance
Dissertation Chair: Jennifer Mitzen
Website: https://www.linkedin.com/in/dominic-pfister-40845097/ 

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
Website: 


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/