PhD Job Candidates
Jacque Amoureux
Jacque_Amoureux@Brown.edu
Curriculum Vitae
Jacque Amoureux is a sixth year Ph.D. candidate working in the fields of International Relations and Political Theory. Jacque’s research interests include International Ethics, International Organizations, Foreign Policy, Security, Theories of International Relations, and Qualitative Methods. Jacque’s dissertation, “’Ethical Reflexivity’ as a Practice of International Politics: The Reform of Foreign Policymaking and International Organization Decision-Making,” inquires into practices of ethics among the actors of international politics and seeks to build an ethical practice that enacts moral agency and critical rationality. Jacque has published in Millennium: Journal of International Studies; Ethics, Authority and War: Non-State Actors in the Just War Tradition; The Encyclopedia of Campaigns, Elections and Electoral Behavior; and The Encyclopedia of Social Science Research Methods. Jacque’s dissertation is advised by Thomas Biersteker, James Der Derian, Sharon Krause and Nicholas Onuf.
Fulya Apaydin
Fulya_Apaydin@Brown.edu
Curriculum Vitae
Fulya Apaydin is a seventh year Ph.D. candidate from Istanbul, Turkey. She has a B.A. (2000) in Political Science and International Relations from Bogazici University, Turkey and an M.A. (2005) in Political Science from Brown University. Her research interests include comparative politics, methodology and political economy with an emphasis on politics of human capital formation in developing countries. Fulya's dissertation explores causes of variation in skill formation policies in the manufacturing sector, with a special focus on automobile production. She recently completed fifteen-months of fieldwork in Turkey and Argentina and is currently writing her dissertation.
Mila Dragojevic
Mila_Dragojevic@Brown.edu
Curriculum Vitae
Mila Dragojevic is a fifth year Ph.D. candidate specializing in comparative politics as her primary field and international relations as the secondary field. Her general research interests include identity politics, migration, nationalism, civil wars, and post-conflict reconstruction. Her dissertation, titled "The Politics of Refugee Identity: Newcomers in Serbia from Bosnia and Herzegovina and Croatia, 1991-2009," examines political, social, and economic incorporation of around 300,000 newcomers who came from Bosnia and Herzegovina and Croatia to Serbia in the early 1990s. By combining the results of a twelve-month ethnographic field research and a large-n sample survey of 1,200 respondents, she shows that on the national level, the newcomers are still doing worse compared to the locals in all three areas of incorporation. However, on a sub-national level, there is a variation in the level of incorporation among the newcomers. While the immigrants who were able to choose settled in more prosperous regions where they had a greater probability of finding employment, the survey results show that they remain socially and politically marginalized in those communities. Mila presented her work at several regional, national, and international conferences. She has been published in Nationalism and Ethnic Politics and Studies in Ethnicity and Nationalism.
Jeremy Johnson
Jeremy_Johnson@Brown.edu
Curriculum Vitae
Jeremy Johnson is a fifth year Ph.D. candidate from Malvern, Pennsylvania. He has a B.A. in history from the University of Pennsylvania, an M.A. in history from Villanova University, an M.P.A. in Public Administration from Villanova University, and an M.A. in Political Science from Brown University. His concentration area is American Politics, especially American Political Development, the Presidency, Public Policy, and the Congress. His dissertation is entitled The Republican Welfare State. He has been published in White House Studies and The Second Term of George W. Bush: Prospects and Perils.
Matthew Lieber
Matthew_Lieber@Brown.edu
Curriculum Vitae
Matthew A. Lieber is a seventh year Ph.D. candidate from New Haven, USA. He has a B.A. in history from Carleton College and an M.A. in international relations from Johns Hopkins University. He is presently writing his dissertation on the effects of migration and economic remittances upon political institutions in Mexico and the Dominican Republic.
Richard Maher
Richard_Maher@Brown.edu
Curriculum Vitae
Rich Maher is a sixth year Ph.D. candidate from Muskegon, Michigan. He holds a B.A. in Political Science from the University of Michigan, an M.Sc. in Political Theory from the London School of Economics, and an M.A. in Political Science from Brown University. Maher’s research interests include international relations theory, American foreign and security policy, and European politics, particularly in the foreign and security policy domains. His dissertation studies European foreign and security policy cooperation, particularly factors and forces either motivating or impeding this process, while also looking at the transformation of the European security context since the end of the Second World War and how this has shaped European states’ interests, identities, and foreign policy behavior.
John Phillips
John_Phillips@Brown.edu
Curriculum Vitae
John Phillips isa seventh year Ph.D. candidate from Paris, France. He has a B.A. in Political Economy and German Studies from Williams College and an M.A.in Political Science from Brown University. He is currently preparing his doctoral dissertation on the role of natural resources in political and economic thought. His thesis is that uncertainty about the future supply of resources andrecognition oftheinnovative powers of entrepreneurship and the subjectivity ofmarket valueought to guide our thinking about scarcity,rather than the prevalentstatist view where the task is to centrally distribute a finite quantity of an objectively valuable resource.His other research interests include questions of political boundaries, civic education, democratic theory, and cultural identity.
Molly Wallace
Mary_Wallace@Brown.edu
Curriculum Vitae
Molly Wallace is a sixth year Ph.D. candidate from Salem, Oregon (USA). She has a B.A. in Peace and Conflict Studies from Mount Holyoke College and an M.A. in Political Science from Brown University. Shehas studied at both the European Peace University in Austria, and the University of Dakar in Senegal. Her sub-fields are International Relations and Political Theory, and her dissertation focuses on the use of nonviolent action in international politics. The dissertation investigates both nonviolent struggle and nonviolent intervention as forms of political action that might fulfill the same purposes served by military action.Before graduate school, she spent four years in Washington, DC, workingin the area ofconflict resolutionat AMIDEAST and the Institute for International Mediation and Conflict Resolution.