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2012 Graduates

Jorge Alves
Dissertation Title: Coordinating Care: State Politics and Intergovernmental Relations in the Brazilian Healthcare Sector (defended August 12, 2011)
Subfield: Comparative Politics
Committee: Richard Snyder (Chair), Pauline Jones Luong, Patrick Heller
Assistant Professor, Department of Political Science, Queeens College

Huss Banai
Dissertation Title: Democracy in Context: Between Universal Ideals and Local Values (defended September 20, 2011)
Subfield: IR Theory
Committee: Corey Brettschneider (Chair), Sharon Krause, James Der Derian, Nina Tannenwald
Assistant Professor of Diplomacy and World Affairs, Occidental College

Erin Beck
Dissertation Title: Transformation through Participation? The Micropolitics of Microcredit in Rural Guatemala
Subfield: Comparative Politics
Committee: Richard Snyder (Chair), Pauline Jones Luong, Jane Jaquette
Assistant Professor of Political Science, University of Oregon

Gavril Bilev
Dissertation Title: Checking the Boss: Legislation Autonomy and Executive Contestation in the Russian Regions 1992-2005
Subfield: Comparative Politics
Committee: Linda Cook (co-Chair), Pauline Jones Luong (co-Chair), Richard Snyder
Assistant Professor of Political Science, Merrimack College

Catherine Corliss
Dissertation Title: Marginal but not Powerless: Local Politics in an Eastern German Village (defended December 14, 2011)
Subfield: Comparative Politics
Committee: Pauline Jones Luong (Chair), Mark Blyth, James Morone, in memoriam Alan Zuckerman (Chair)

Anthony Lopez
Dissertation Title: The Risk Contract of War: Offense and Defense in the Adapted Mind
Subfield: International Relations
Committee: Rose McDermott (Chair), Mark Blyth, Leda Cosmides
Assistant Professor of Political Science, Washington State University Vancouver

Feryaz Ocakli
Dissertation Title: Electing the Pious: Islamist Politics and Local Party Strategies in Turkey (defended December 6, 2011)
Subfield: Comparative Politics
Committee: Melani Cammett (Chair), Pauline Jones Luong, Patrick Heller
Assistant Professor of Government, Skidmore College

Cecilia Perla
Dissertation Title: Extracting from the Extractors: Political and Social Effects of Local Direct Investments of Mining Companies in Peru (defended May 19, 2011)
Subfield: Comparative Politics
Committee: Pauline Jones Luong (Chair), Melani Cammett, Patrick Heller
Copper Analyst, Wood Mackenzie, London, UK

Heather Silber Mohamed
Dissertation Title: Immigration, Protest, and the Politics of Latino/a Identity
Subfield: American / Comparative Politics
Committee: Marion Orr (Chair), Wendy Schiller, James Morone, in memoriam Alan Zuckerman (Chair)
Visiting Lecturer of Political Science, Brown University and Adjunct Lecturer, Clark College

 

2011 Graduates

Jack Amoureux
Dissertation Title: Ethical Reflexivity as a Practice of International Politics
Subfield: IR Theory
Committee: Thomas Biersteker (co-Chair), James Der Derian (co-Chair), Sharon Krause, Nicholas Onuf
Visiting Assisant Professor of Politics and International Affairs, Wake Forest University

Fulya Apaydin
Dissertation Title: Partisan Choices and Post-Fordist Transformations: The Politics of Human Capital Formation in Turkey and Argentina, 1990-2000
Subfield: Comparative Politics
Committee: Melani Cammett (co-Chair), Richard Snyder (co-Chair), Jose Itzigsohn
Postdoctoral Researcher, IBEI

Kelly Bay
Dissertation Title: Does Participatory Governance Deliver? Citizen Participation and Social Service Delivery in Nicaragua
Subfield: Comparative Politics
Committee: Richard Snyder (Chair), Pauline Jones Luong, Melani Cammett, Kenneth Wong
Research and Evaluation Analyst, College Success Foundation

Richard Maher
Dissertation Title: What Kind of Partnership? Interests, Identity, and European Foreign Policy Cooperation
Subfield: International Relations
Committee: P. Terrence Hopmann (Chair), Ulrich Krotz, Nina Tannenwald
Max Weber Fellow 2011-12

Eduardo Moncada
Dissertation Title: The Coalitional Politics of Rule-of-Law Reform in Latin America
Subfield: Comparative Politics
Committee: Richard Snyder (Chair), Pauline Jones Luong, Melani Cammett, Patrick Heller
Assistant Professor, Rutgers, Newark, NJ; for 2011-12 Faculty Fellow, New York University’s Wagner Graduate School of Public Service

 

2010 Graduates

Mila Dragojevic
Dissertation Title: The Politics of Refugee Identity: Newcomers in Serbia from Bosnia and Herzegovina and Croatia, 1992-2009
Subfield: Comparative Politics
Committee: Pauline Jones Luong (Chair), Melani Cammett, Roger Peterson
Assistant Professor of Political Science, Sewanee, the University of the South

Jeremy Johnson
Dissertation Title: Beyond Retrenchment: The Political and Ideological Foundations of the New American Welfare State, 1970-2000
Subfield: American Politics
Committee: James Morone (Chair), Roger Cobb, Chris Howard, Darrell West, Scott Allard
Assistant Professor of Political Science, Carroll College

Matthew Lieber
Dissertation Title: Elections Beyond Borders: Overseas Voting in Mexico and the Dominican Republic, 1994-2008
Subfield: International Relations
Committee: Peter Andreas (Chair), Richard Snyder, Ulrich Krotz
Lecturer, Madison Area Technical College

John Phillips
Dissertation Title: Natural Resources, Opportunity and Global Justice
Subfield: Political Theory
Committee: John Tomasi (Chair), Corey Brettschneider, Pauline Jones Luong
Assitant Professor of Political Theory, Austin Peay State University

Molly Wallace
Dissertation Title: Confronting Wrongs, Affirming Difference: The Limits of Violence, the Power of Nonviolence, and the Case of the Nonviolent Intervention in Sri Lanka
Subfield: International Relations
Committee: Sharon Krause (co-Chair), Thomas Biersteker (co-Chair), Catherine Lutz
Hood House Lecturer, Center for International Education, University of New Hampshire

 

2009 Graduates

Daniel Ehlke
Dissertation Title: Political Health: Assessing Recent Reform Episodes in the Anglo-American Health Arena
Subfield: American Politics
Committee: James Morone (Chair), Darrell West, Linda Cook, Vince Mor
Assistant Professor of the Department of Health Policy and Management, School of Public Health, SUNY Downstate

Ravi Perry
Dissertation Title: 21st Century Black Mayors, Non-Majority Black Cities, and the Representation of Black Interests
Subfield: American Politics
Committee: Marion Orr (Chair), James Morone, Wendy Schiller, Darrell West
Assistant Professor of Political Science, Mississippi State University

David Western
Dissertation Title: Power, Justice, Empathy: How and Why Empathy Matters for Peace
Subfield: IR Theory
Committee: Thomas Biersteker (Chair), Sharon Krause, P. Terrence Hopmann
Assistant Professor of Humanities and Political Thought, Christ College, Valparaiso University

 

2008 Graduates

Anthony Dell'Aera
Dissertation Title: Prescription Drug Regulation and the Art of the Possible: Reconciling Private Interest and Public Good in American Health Care Policy
Subfield: American Politics
Committee: James Morone (Chair), John Tomasi, Darrell West
Visiting Assistant Professor of Political Science, Union College

Eduardo Gomez
Dissertation Title: Responding to Contested Epidemics: Democratization, International Pressures, and the Sources of Institutional Change
Subfield: American Politics
Committee: James Morone (Chair), Marion Orr, James Mahoney
Assistant Professor, Department of Public Policy, Rutgers University, Camden.

Kimberly Hudson
Dissertation Title: Jus Ad Bellum: A Reformulation
Subfield: International Relations
Committee: P. Terrence Hopmann (Chair), John Reeder, John Tomasi
Deputy Director of the AF Negotiation Center of Excellence (NCE) and Assistant Professor of Political Science, US Air War College

Hyun-Wook Kim
Dissertation Title: Critical Junctures and Alliance Cohesion: The Post-Cold War US-South Korea and US-Japan Alliances
Subfield: International Relations
Committee: P. Terrence Hopmann (Chair), Thomas Biersteker, Chung-In Moon
Assistant Professor, Institute of Foreign Affairs and National Security, South Korea

 

2007 Graduates

Carmen Pavel
Dissertation Title: From Moral Conflict to Institutional Pluralism: A new Institutional Approach to International Order
Subfield: Political Theory
Committee: Sharon Krause (Chair), Charles Larmore, William Galston
Associate Director of The Freedom Center and Managing Editor of Social Philosophy and Policy, University of Arizona

 

2006 Graduates

Jennifer Fitzgerald
Dissertation Title: Social Ties and Attitudes Toward Immigration in Europe
Associate Professor, Department of Political Science, University of Colorado, Boulder

Veronica Kitchen
Dissertation Title: Arguing Identity and Security: Out-of-Area Intervention and Change in the Atlantic Community
Assistant Professor of Political Science, University of Waterloo

Melissa Labonte
Dissertation Title: Bringing Influence to Bear: Humanitarian Actors and the Politics of Intervention
Assistant Professor of Political Science, Fordham University

Jermaine McCalpin
Dissertation Title: Justice Under Constraints : The Nature of Transitional Justice in Deeply Divided Societies
Lecturer; Associate Director, Centre for Caribbean Thought, University of the West Indies, Mona, Jamaica

Carrie Nordlund
Dissertation Title: We'll All Have Shoes in Heaven: Church Context and Political Behavior
Assistant Professor of Politics, Lake Forest College

Shankar Prasad
Dissertation Title: Red, Brown, and Blue: The Political Behavior of Asian Indian Americans
Adjunct Assistant Professor, NYU Wagner

Peter Romaniuk
Dissertation Title: Global and local Wars on Terror: Policy Convergence and Counter-Terrorism in South and Southeast Asia
Assistant Professor, Department of Government, John Jay College of Criminal Justice, CUNY