Sabrina Axster

Sabrina Axster

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  • Research Interests:  Migration studies; border controls; racial capitalism; post-colonialism; policing and incarceration
Ronay Bakan

Ronay Bakan

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  • 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
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  • 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
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  • 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
David Kenneth Johnson

David Kenneth Johnson

  • Graduate Student
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  • 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

  • Society of Fellows Postdoctoral Fellow
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  • Mergenthaler 355
  • 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