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Udbhav Agarwal
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- Research Interests: International Relations, Ethnography, Political Sociology, Political Theory, Politics of Urbanism
Shahab ud Din Ahmad
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- Research Interests: Comparative Politics and International Relations, Borderlands, Comparative State Formation, Political Violence, Postcolonialism, Afghanistan and South Asia.
Ilsuk Aum
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- Research Interests: Political Theory, Political History, Ecological Political Thought, Animal Ethics
Stefan Borden
- Research Interests: Foreign Policy Toward China, Civ-Mil Relations
Cécile Cadet
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- Research Interests: Critical Theory, Social Justice, Feminism, Digital Humanities, Social Media Platforms, Methodology and Epistemology
Ga Eun Cho
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- Research Interests: Political Economy of Development, Migration and Citizenship, Borders and Security, Diaspora Politics, East Asia Politics and Society
- Thesis Title: "Rethinking Migration and Development - The Politics of Emigration in South Korea"
- Main Adviser: Professor Erin Chung
Sebastián Cortesi
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- Research Interests: Democratization, Redistributive Politics, Historical Political Economy, Western European and Latin American Politics, Comparative Historical Analysis
- Thesis Title: "Tamed Democracy: Officeholding Requirements and Redistribution during the First Wave"
- Main Adviser: Sebastián Mazzuca / Dawn Teele
David DeBole
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- Research Interests: Political Theory, Democratic Thought, Climate Change, Creativity, and 20th Century Literature
Alexandra Dildine
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- Research Interests: Community organizing, social movements, digital technology, social capital formation and sustainability, American political campaigns and organizational behavior, social networks.
- Thesis Title: "The Promises and Perils of Digital Organizing: Building Community Power in the Age of Surveillance Capitalism"
- Main Adviser: Professor Robert Lieberman
Farah Farid
Marie Fester
- Research Interests: Comparative and American politics, political engagement, political economy, political psychology, behavioural change, preferences for risk and uncertainty, civic duty, candidate emergence
Raychel Gadson
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- Research Interests: American Politics, Racism and Racial Policy, Political Institutions, Social Justice, Residential Segregation and Fair Housing
Kory Gaines
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- Research Interests: Political Theory, American Politics, Black Political Thought, early 20th-century African American Literature, and Black diasporic cultural production
Elijah Garber
- Research Interests: Political theory of land (territory, borders, and barricades), Territorial interstices, statelessness, and the state, Capitalism and land, Social movements and the possibility of dispersing power, Indigenous Political Thought, Latin American[…]
Iona Gitt-Henderson
- Research Interests: Socio-spatial theories, the rural, anti-colonial thought, historical methods, police/prisons/agriculture
Jessica Gover
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- Research Interests: American Politics, American political development
Adriana Mandacaru Guerra
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- Research Interests: Ecological Political Thought, New Materialism, Science & Technology Studies, Environmental Sciences, Cold War Geopolitics, Planetary and Catastrophic Imaginaries, Cosmologies, International Relations Theory
Erin Hallenbeck
- Research Interests: Queer theory, feminist theory, critical theory, cultural studies, social movements
Dhana Hamal
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- Research Interests: Comparative Politics, Law & Politics, Ethnic Politics, Federalism and Democratic Transitions, Gender Politics, and Militarization of Public Safety.
Laura Henao
- Research Interests: Relations between armed organizations (state, criminal organizations and guerillas) and nonviolent movements; peacebuilding and security in Latin America (with gender approach); negotiation processes between states and social movements
- Fields: Comparative Politics
Simon Idelson
- Research Interests: Urban politics, comparative politics (European and Latin American), public policy, politics of infrastructure, political economy
- Fields: American Politics
Felicia Jing
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- Research Interests: politics of AI, utopia and utopianism, science and technology studies (STS), contemporary political theory, history of political and economic thought, revolutionary politics
- Thesis Title: "AI and Revolutionary Desire: Futurity and Political Thought through the Technological Imagination "
- Main Adviser: Sam Chambers
Minah Kang
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- Research Interests: International Influences on Domestic Politics, State-Society Relations, Political Exclusion, Identity and Otherness, Global History of Cold War and East Asia, Korean War
Ankit Kawade
- Research Interests: Indian Political Thought, Continental Philosophy, Caste, Political Ecology and Animal Studies
- Fields: Political Theory
Jiyoung “Ashley” Kim
- Graduate Student
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- Research Interests: Political Theory, Aesthetics, Affect, Ecological Political Thought
- Main Adviser: Jane Bennett
Keely Kriho (she/her/hers)
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- Research Interests: anticolonial & anti-imperial political thought, Marxist dependency theory, world-systems theory, colonialism & capitalism in the Americas
Colin Lahiff
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- Research Interests: International Relations, U.S. Foreign Policy, Grand Strategy, and Diplomatic History
Emily Lerman (she/her)
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- Research Interests: International Relations, Postcolonial Theory, Aesthetics, Ethics of Humanitarianism, Bordering Practices, Political Theory, Biopolitics, Affect Theory
Liming Ma
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- Research Interests: International Relations Theory, International Laws and Norms, Social Construction, Great Power Politics, Political Methodology
April Ma (they/them/theirs)
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- Research Interests: knowledge production, Orientalism, Sinophobia, political psychology, racialized political language
Zuleikha Makhmudova
- Fields: International Relations
Théa Martinache
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- Research Interests: International Relations, War Studies, Military History, Empire and Colonialism, France and the United States Imperial Military Relations
Maryam Nahhal
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- Research Interests: Racialisation, Citizenship, Immigration, Law & Courts, Arab Americans
- Thesis Title: "Inventing the Arab: Law, Race, and the Making of Arab American Identity"
- Main Adviser: Robbie Shilliam
Araceli Irurzun Pérez (they/them)
- Research Interests: Visual politics of war representation, historical IR, emotions and affect in world politics
Matthew Risser (he/him)
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- Research Interests: Republicanism; Political Economy Theory; International Relations Theory; Geopolitics; Technopolitics; Governance
Elena Roe
- Research Interests: critical war studies, gender, political leadership, ontological security, international organizations, civil-military relations
Iván Ruiz-Hernández
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- Research Interests: International Relations, Comparative Politics, Food Politics, Food Sovereignty, Agricultural Development in Low- and Middle-Income States, Forced Displacement, and Latin American Politics.
Sivahn Sapirstein
- Research Interests: comparative politics, contentious politics, social movements, nationalism, diaspora mobilization, and transnational repression
Graham Scarbro
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- Research Interests: Military and society; Civil military relations; International relations; Security studies
Henry Scott
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- Research Interests: Political Theory and International Relations, Technology, History of Ontology, Transhumanism, Anthropocene, Materialism, Realism, Memes and Internet Politics, Eco-Fascism, Gnosticism
Lynsy Smithson-Stanley
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- Research Interests: American Politics, Environmental policy and politics, climate change advocacy, transformational organizing, social movements, analytic activism, organizational behavior (especially US-based environmental nonprofits).
Joseph Stein
- Research Interests: Climate change, ecology, political economy, Marxism, and theories of materialism
- Fields: Political Theory
Eva Leth Sørensen (she/her)
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- Research Interests: IR theory, historical IR, the Arctic, Danish-Greenlandic relations, knowledge production
Alex Torpey (he/him)
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- Research Interests: Democracy, elections, money-in-politics, and the political campaign industry
Aila Trasi
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- Research Interests: International Relations, Comparative Politics, International Organizations, Political Economy, Inequality, Southeast Asia, Processual-Relationalism, International Order
Claire Trilling
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- Research Interests: Comparative Politics, International Relations, civil resistance, contentious politics, and social movements
Jacob Tucker (he/him)
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- Research Interests: Marxism, Critical Theory, 20th Century European Philosophy, Sensuous Materialism, Aesthetics, Psychoanalysis
Leonardo Ventura
- Fields: Political Theory
Yue Zhang (she/her)
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- Research Interests: Comparative politics and political economy
Rachel (Ruixuan) Zhou
- Undergraduate Coordinator
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- Research Interests: Post-structuralism, Post-colonialism, Feminism, Power relations, Social and transnational history, War, the military and soldiering