Sabrina Axster

Sabrina Axster

  • saxster1@jhu.edu
  • Research Interests:  Migration studies; border controls; racial capitalism; post-colonialism; policing and incarceration
Ronay Bakan

Ronay Bakan

  • rbakan1@jhu.edu
  • Research Interests:  Comparative Politics and International Relations; Politics of Land and Cities, Insurgency and Counterinsurgency, Colonialism, Middle East, Kurdish politics, Turkish politics
  • Thesis Title: "Counterinsurgent Urbanism: Weaponizing Land and Heritage in Northern Kurdistan"
  • Main Adviser: Sarah Parkinson
Conor Bean

Conor Bean

  • Graduate Student
  • cbean6@jhu.edu
  • 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
Julieta Casas

Julieta Casas

  • Graduate Student
  • jcasas2@jhu.edu
  • 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
Sheharyar Imran

Sheharyar Imran

  • Graduate Student
  • shimran@jhu.edu
  • Research Interests:  International Relations; Global Racial Capitalism; Postcolonial Theory; Environmental Politics; Anticolonial Global Politics
  • Thesis Title: "Colonial Worldmaking: Race, Capital, and Abolition in the Indo-Atlantic World"
  • Main Adviser: Robbie Shilliam and Jane Bennett
David Kenneth Johnson

David Kenneth Johnson

  • Graduate Student
  • djohn248@jhu.edu
  • 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
Stephanie Saxton

Stephanie Saxton

  • Graduate Student
  • ssaxton2@jhu.edu
  • 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
Ben Taylor

Ben Taylor

  • Graduate Student
  • btaylo53@jhu.edu
  • 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
Maximiliano Vejares

Maximiliano Vejares

  • Graduate Student
  • maxvejares@jhu.edu
  • 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
Tvrtko Vrdoljak

Tvrtko Vrdoljak

  • Graduate Student
  • Tvrtko.vrdoljak@jhu.edu
  • Research Interests:  Philosophy of Power, Political Ecology, Friedrich Nietzsche & Neo-Nietzschean Political Thought, History & Philosophy of Social Sciences