The Graduate Students
Jorge Alves
Jorge_Alves@Brown.edu
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Jorge is a third year Ph.D. candidate from Salvador, Brazil. He has a B.A. in Political Science and Economics from Amherst College, and an M.A. in Political Science from Brown University. His research interests include comparative politics, political economy of development, state capacity and Latin American and Brazilian politics. Jorge’s dissertation will focus on explaining heterogeneity in institutional capacity horizontally across branches of the Brazilian state, as well as vertically through states and municipalities. He is also working on projects that incorporate spatial and GIS tools from a comparative perspective and the diffusion of participatory institutions in Brazil.
Jacque Amoureux
Jacque_Amoureux@Brown.edu
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Jacque Amoureux is a fourth year Ph.D. candidate from Boise, Idaho. Jacque’s research interests include International Ethics, Theories of International Relations, Critical Theory, Foreign Policy, International Organizations, and Qualitative Methods. Jacque’s dissertation, “’Moral Reflexivity’ as a Practice of International Politics: The Reform of Foreign Policymaking and International Organization Decision-Making,” seeks to develop an ethical practice of international politics that bridges theory and praxis. Jacque has published in Millennium: Journal of International Studies, The Encyclopedia of Campaigns, Elections and Electoral Behavior, and The Encyclopedia of Social Science Research Methods.
Fulya Apaydin
Fulya_Apaydin@Brown.edu
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Fulya Apaydin is a fifth 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 labor movements in developing countries. Fulya's dissertation project explores causes of variation in organized labor responses to economic liberalization policies in the manufacturing sector, with a special focus on automotive production. During the 2007-2008 academic year she will be carrying out her fieldwork in Turkey and Argentina.
Huss Banai
Hussein_Banai@Brown.edu
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Hussein Banai is a second year Ph.D. candidate from Toronto, Ontario, Canada. He earned his B.A. in Political Science from York University in Canada, his M.Sc. in International Relations from the London School of Economics and Political Science in the UK, and has also studied at Georgetown and Harvard universities in the U.S. In 2004-2005 he served as deputy editor of Millennium: Journal of International Studies. His research interests lie at the intersection of international and political theory with particular focus on topics in ethics and foreign policy. His current research considers the strategic uses of enmity in U.S.-Iran relations.
Maria Angelica Bautista
Maria_Bautista@Brown.edu
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Maria Angelica Bautista is a first year graduate student from Bogota, Colombia. She has a B.A. in Economics and an M.A. in Economics from Universidad de los Andes, Bogota. Her main research interests are political economy, development in the long run and Latin American politics.
Kelly Bay
Kelly_Bay@Brown.edu
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Kelly Bay is a third year Ph.D. candidate from Lake Stevens, Washington. She has a B.A. in Foreign Affairs from the University of Virginia, and an M.A. in Political Science from Brown University. Her research interests include the politics of social spending and redistributionin Latin America, as well as the relationship between citizen participation, policy success, and the quality of democracy. Her dissertation will examine these issues using the cases of school-based management in Nicaragua and El Salvador.
Erin Beck
Erin_Beck@Brown.edu
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Erin Beck is a third year Ph.D. candidate from Rochester, NY. She has a B.A. in International Business Studies from Providence College and an M.A. in Political Science from Brown University. Her research interests include women's movements in Central America, civil society in post-conflict settings and the politics of sex and sexuality.
Gavril Bilev
Gavril_Bilev@Brown.edu
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Gavril Bilev is a fourth year Ph.D. candidate from Sofia, Bulgaria. He has a B.A. in Political Science from Whittier College and an M.A. in Political Science from Brown. His primary field is comparative politics. Research interests include federal relations, democratization, sub-national political regimes, religion, quantitative methods, and spatial focus on Eastern Europe/post-communist states. Gavril’s dissertation explores the link between federal centralization and the nature of regional regimes in the Russian Federation using a mixed-method approach of case studies and statistical analysis.
Catherine Corliss
Catherine_Corliss@Brown.edu
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Josip Dasovic
Josip_Dasovic@Brown.edu
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Anthony Dell'Aera
Anthony_Dellaera@Brown.edu
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Mila Dragojevic
Mila_Dragojevic@Brown.edu
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Mila Dragojevic is a third year Ph.D. candidate specializing in comparative politics as her primary field and international relations as the secondary field. She has a B.A. in Economics, Business, and French from Wilson College, an MBA from University of New Hampshire, and an M.A. in Public and International Affairs from Northeastern University. Her general research interests include identity politics, migration, nationalism, civil wars, and post-conflict reconstruction. By studying cases of ethnic return migrations, her dissertation will explore why some immigrants incorporate more easily than others among their co-ethnics, as well as the sources of intra-ethnic competition between the newcomers and the locals. She is planning to conduct her fieldwork in Serbia, where refugees from war-afflicted regions arrived in large numbers following the dissolution of Yugoslavia.
Angelica Duran Martinez
Angelica_Duranmartinez@Brown.edu
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Angelica Duran is a first year graduate student from Bogota, Colombia. She has a B.A. in Political Science from Universidad Nacional de Colombia and an M.A. in Latin American Studies from New York University. Prior to the initiation of her Ph.D., she was a Fulbright Fellow at the United Nations Secretariat in the Department of Political Affairs. Her research interests include Latin American politics, referenda in Latin America, corruption, clientelism, and the relation between organized crime and politics.
Daniel Ehlke
Daniel_Ehlke@Brown.edu
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Daniel Ehlke is a seventh year Ph.D. candidate from Annandale, VA, USA. He has a B.A. in Government and History from The College of William & Mary and an M.A. in Political Science from Brown University. Daniel Ehlke’s research interests are at the nexus of American and Comparative Politics. Incorporating the United States as a case, his dissertation (soon to be completed) focuses on comparative health politics, and contemporary episodes in health care reform. He recently taught a course on the American Presidency at Brandeis University, and is leading a similar course at Stonehill College in Spring 2008. Having assisted with the editing process, Ehlke also wrote a chapter on British health reform in the health policy textbook, Health Politics and Policy.
Emily Farris
Emily_Farris@Brown.edu
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Eli Feiman
Eli_Feiman@Brown.edu
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Eduardo Gomez
Eduardo_Gomez@Brown.edu
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Kimberly Hudson
Kimberly_Hudson@Brown.edu
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Kimberly Hudson is a Ph.D. candidate from Enfield, Connecticut, planning to defend her dissertation in Spring, 2008. She has a B.A. in Political Science from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst and an M.A. in Political Science from Brown University. Kimberly is an Assistant Professor of Political Science at American International College in Springfield, Massachusetts. Her dissertation re-interprets classical just war theory in line with the emerging norm of "sovereignty as responsibility." She is also interested in occupation, justice, forgiveness, and reconciliation in post-conflict societies. She hopes to work on a research question in this area after defending her dissertation.
Ayodele Jegede
Ayodele_Jegede@Brown.edu
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Jeremy Johnson
Jeremy_Johnson@Brown.edu
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Jeremy Johnson is a third 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
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Matthew A. Lieber is a fifth 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
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Rich Maher is a fourth 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.
David McMillan
David_McMillan@Brown.edu
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Eduardo Moncada
Eduardo_Moncada@Brown.edu
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Eduardo Moncada is a third year Ph.D. candidate from Providence, RI. He has a B.A. in Interdisciplinary Studies from Long Island University's Friends World Program, an M.A. in Latin American Studies from the University of Miami, and an M.A. in Political Science from Brown University. Eduardo's research interests include international development, comparative democratization, the rule of law, and the quality of democracy in Latin America. His current research project is a subnational comparative analysis on the role of the private sector in reforms to increase police accountability and access to justice across several major Colombian cities. Eduardo is currently an Editorial Associate at Studies in Comparative International Development (SCID), which is an interdisciplinary journal based at the Watson Institute for International Studies at Brown University.
Feryaz Ocakli
Feryaz_Ocakli@Brown.edu
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Feryaz Ocakli is a fourth year Ph.D. candidate from Kocaeli, Turkey. He has a B.Sc. in Political Science and Public Administration from Middle East Technical University (METU) in Ankara, Turkey. Feryaz’s research focuses on comparative politics, political economy of development, and Turkish politics. His dissertation research is on Islamist and ethnic political change and localized party strategies.
Andrea Owens-Jones
Andrea_Owens-Jones@Brown.edu
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Andrea Owens-Jones is a second year graduate student from Americus, Georgia. She has B.A. in Political Science from Mercer University and an M.A. in Political Science from Georgia State University. Her research interests include urban community and economic development (with a focus on Black historic districts) and African-American political participation. Her recent research examines the politics of economic redevelopment in the Auburn Avenue Historic District (Atlanta, GA). Owens-Jones has presented her graduate research at the Southern Political Science Conference (2005) and the Urban Affairs Conference (2006).
Thomas Parker
Thomas_Parker@Brown.edu
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Cecilia Perla
Cecilia_Perla@Brown.edu
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Cecilia Perla is a third year Ph.D. candidate from Lima, Peru, concentrating on Comparative Politics and International Relations. She has a B.A. in Economics from Universidad Católica del Perú and an M.A. in Development Economics from the Institute of Social Studies in The Netherlands. She has worked in development projects for governmental and private institutions in Peru. Her broad interests include comparative politics and the political economy of natural resource extraction in Latin America. Cecilia is currently working on a dissertation on social investment programs of multinational corporations in the mining sector in Peru.
Ravi Perry
Ravi_Perry@Brown.edu
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Ravi Kumar Perry is a third year Ph.D. candidate from Toledo, Ohio. He has an A.B. from the University of Michigan-Ann Arbor in political science and an M.A. from Brown University in political science. His dissertation on “21st Century Black Mayors, and the Representation of Black Interests” engages the elections and administrations of Black mayors in non-majority Black cities. The key question examined is whether or not Black mayors in such cities actively pursue and promote policies that work to improve the quality of life of Black residents. Ravi’s research interests include urban politics, African American politics, American politics, and political theory.
John Phillips
John_Phillips@Brown.edu
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John Phillips isa fifth 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.
Francisco Resnicoff
Francisco_Resnicoff@Brown.edu
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Francisco Resnicoff is a first year graduate student from Coronel Suarez, Argentina. He has a B.A. in Political Science from University of Buenos Aires, an M.A. in International Relations from Torcuato Di Tella University, and an MA in Law and Diplomacy from The Fletcher School, Tufts University. His areas of interest are comparative politics, political economy, and Latin America.
Heather Silber
Heather_Silber@Brown.edu
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Heather Silber is a second year graduate student from Gainesville, Florida. She has a B.A. in International Relations and Spanish from Tufts University and an M.Sc. in Comparative Politics from the London School of Economics. Heather's two primary areas of study are American Politics and Comparative Politics, with a regional focus on Latin America. She has diverse research interests including social movements, political institutions, education and trade policy. Before coming to Brown, Heather worked for six years in the U.S. Congress.
Christopher Tallent
Christopher_Tallent@Brown.edu
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Chris Tallent is a first year graduate student originally from Norman, OK, and more recently from Baltimore, MD. He has a B.A. in Political Science from The Johns Hopkins University. He is interested in questions of social justice and distribution and how these issues relate to our conceptions of identity, democracy, and the individual. Moreover, he is generally interested in how both ideal and non-ideal considerations inform our approach to questions of social justice, and he is specifically interested in issues of macroeconomic policy-making options in the neoliberal context. Additionally, Chris is interested in how continental theory and analytic approaches may inform our understanding of social movements that relate to these questions.
Molly Wallace
Mary_Wallace@Brown.edu
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Molly Wallace is a fourth 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.
David Western
David_Western@Brown.edu
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David Western is a sixth year Ph.D. candidate from British Columbia, Canada. He has a B.A. in Political Science from the University of Victoria and an M.A. in Political Science from Brown University. His equal interests and training in International Relations and normative Political Theory have converged in a focus on international relations theory, ethics and peace studies. His dissertation, entitled Power, Justice, Empathy: How and Why Empathy Matters to the Question of “How to Achieve Peace?” is his initial step into a fruitful and promising exploration of what role empathy has, could and should play in efforts at attaining social, political and international peace. His argument is that dominant traditions of thought and practice regarding peace have emphasized concerns for power, justice and structural changes, but that these emphases should be modified to incorporate a greater interest in empathy, which can play a crucial role in peacemaking as both a psychological process and as a value embedded within political institutions and international social norms.