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 Haifeng Huang.
Academic Job Market
Jungbae An
Subfields: American Politics and Political Methodology
Dissertation Title: Congressional Deliberation
Dissertation Chairs: William Minozzi and Michael Neblo
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Adrian Calmettes
Subfields: International Relations and Political Methodology
Dissertation Title: Technosocial World Orders: How Information Technologies Assemble World Politics
Dissertation Chairs: 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 Chairs: Jennifer Mitzen
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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 Chairs: Alexander Thompson
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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
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Jiyoon Kim
Subfields: International Relations and Political Methodology
Dissertation Title: The Emotional Pulse of Foreign Policy
Dissertation Chair: Christopher Gelpi
Website: 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 Chair: Amanda Robinson and Jennifer Mitzen
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Steph Pedron
Subfields: American Politics and Political Methodology
Dissertation Title: Negative Public Opinion: How Normalized Out-Group Biases Shape Politics
Dissertation Chair: Thomas Wood
Website: https://stephpedron.com/
Dominic Pfister
Subfields: International Relations
Dissertation Title: The Colonial Origins of Global Health Governance
Dissertation Chair: Jennifer Mitzen
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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/
Haoming Xiong
Subfields: International Relations and Political Methodology
Dissertation Title: The Struggle for Connectivity: Network Embeddedness and Strategic Alignment in Great Power Competition
Dissertation Chair: Randall Schweller and Skyler Cranmer
Website: haomingxiong.info
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 Chair: Christopher Gelpi and Jennifer Mitzen
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