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Sabrina Axster
Research Interests: Migration studies; border controls; racial capitalism; post-colonialism; policing and incarceration
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Conor Bean
Research Interests: Political Theory, Marxism, 20th Century French Radical Theory, Security Studies and the War on Terror, Biopolitics, Theories of Materialism
Thesis Title: "Orderly Dispositions: Toward a Theory of Affective Governance"
Main Adviser: William Connolly
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Julieta Casas
Research Interests: Comparative political development; State-building and democratization in the U.S. and Latin America; Patronage and bureaucratic politics; Comparative historical analysis
Thesis Title: "Building Bureaucratic Capacity: The Political Origins of Civil Service Reforms in the Americas"
Main Adviser: Sebastián Mazzuca
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Sheharyar Imran
Research Interests: International Relations; Global Racial Capitalism; Environmental Politics; Postcolonial Theory; Anticolonial Global Politics
Thesis Title: "Political Ecologies of Worldmaking: Territory, Sovereignty, Infrastructure"
Main Adviser: Robbie Shilliam and Jane Bennett
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David Kenneth Johnson
Research Interests: International Relations; Global Political Economy; U. S. Foreign Policy; Empire and Imperialism; Global Development; Political Theory; Historical Methods
Thesis Title: "Empire of Capital: U.S. International Development Policy from the Spanish-American War to the Bretton Woods System "
Main Adviser: Robbie Shilliam
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Stephanie Saxton
Research Interests: American Politics, Race and Ethnic Politics, Urban Politics, Police and Prisons
Thesis Title: "Gold, Coal, and Oysters: Why America Made Police"
Main Adviser: Vesla Weaver and Lester Spence
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Ben Taylor
Research Interests: Political theory, contemporary and modern; continental philosophy; race and racial politics; political economy
Thesis Title: "After Racialization: Neoliberalism and the Limits of Racial Justice"
Main Adviser: Samuel A. Chambers
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Maximiliano Vejares
Research Interests: State building and democratization in Latin America’s late 19th century
Thesis Title: "Varieties of state-building: ecology and capacity in Latin America"
Main Adviser: Sebastian Mazzuca
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Tvrtko Vrdoljak
Research Interests: Philosophy of Power, Political Ecology, Friedrich Nietzsche & Neo-Nietzschean Political Thought, History & Philosophy of Social Sciences
