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Udbhav Agarwal
Research Interests: International Relations, Ethnography, Political Sociology, Political Theory, Politics of Urbanism
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Shahab ud Din Ahmad
Research Interests: Comparative Politics and International Relations, Borderlands, Comparative State Formation, Political Violence, Postcolonialism, Afghanistan and South Asia.
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George Andrews
Research Interests: Political Theory, Concepts and Concept Formation, and Subject Formation
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Ilsuk Aum
Research Interests: Political Theory, Political History, Ecological Political Thought, Animal Ethics
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Ronay Bakan
Research Interests: Comparative Politics and International Relations; Politics of Land and Cities, Insurgency and Counterinsurgency, Colonialism, Middle East, Kurdish politics, Turkish politics
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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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Cécile Cadet
Research Interests: Critical Theory, Social Justice, Feminism, Digital Humanities, Social Media Platforms, Methodology and Epistemology
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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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Sebastian Cortesi
Research Interests: Comparative Politics. XIX Century Politics and Press in Latin America; Global History of Electoral Systems; Transnational Studies
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Jessica Croteau
Research Interests: Political Theory, New Materialism, Ecological Political Thought, Inhuman Epistemology and Politics, and Feminist and Queer Theory
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David DeBole
Research Interests: Political Theory, Democratic Thought, Climate Change, Creativity, and 20th Century Literature
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Alexandra Dildine
Research Interests: Community organizing, social movements, digital technology, social capital formation and sustainability, American political campaigns and organizational behavior, social networks.
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Cecileu Elliott (she/her)
Research Interests: American constitutional development and its relationship to social and political injustices
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Farah Farid
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Claudio Fiorini
Research Interests: Comparative Politics, Comparative Constitutionalism and Constitutional Crisis , Law and Politics
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Raychel Gadson
Research Interests: American Politics, Racism and Racial Policy, Political Institutions, Social Justice, Residential Segregation and Fair Housing
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Kory Gaines
Research Interests: Political Theory, American Politics, Black Political Thought, early 20th-century African American Literature, and Black diasporic cultural production
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Adriana Mandacaru Guerra
Research Interests: Ecological Political Thought, New Materialism, Science & Technology Studies, Environmental Sciences, Critical War Studies, Cold War Geopolitics, Planetary and Catastrophic Imaginaries, Cosmologies, International Relations Theory
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Dhana Hamal
Research Interests: Comparative Politics, Law & Politics, Ethnic Politics, Federalism and Democratic Transitions, Gender Politics, and Militarization of Public Safety.
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Geoff Henderson
Research Interests: American Politics, Environmental Politics, Climate Politics, Field Experiments, Labor Politics, Organization Theory, Political Participation, Public Opinion and Political Behavior, Representation, and Social Movements
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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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Minah Kang
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
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Jiyoung “Ashley” Kim
Research Interests: Political Theory, Ecological Political Thought, Aesthetics, Affect, New Materialism, Democratic Theory
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Keely Kriho (she/her)
Research Interests: political theory, anticolonial political thought, coloniality/modernity, world-systems theory, historical methods
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Colin Lahiff
Research Interests: International Relations, U.S. Foreign Policy, Grand Strategy, and Diplomatic History
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Emily Lerman (she/her)
Research Interests: International Relations, Postcolonial Theory, Aesthetics, Ethics of Humanitarianism, Bordering Practices, Political Theory, Biopolitics, Affect Theory
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Ruoyu Li
Research Interests: International Relations, Security Studies, Political Theory, Nuclear Colonialism, Indigenous Antinuclear Movements, Pacific Ocean/Islands
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Liming Ma
Research Interests: International Relations Theory, International Laws and Norms, Social Construction, Great Power Politics, Political Methodology
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April Ma (they/them/theirs)
Research Interests: knowledge production, Orientalism, Sinophobia, political psychology, racialized political language
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Thomas Mann
Research Interests: Political Theory & American Politics; Stoicism; Spinoza; German Idealism; 20th-Century Continental Philosophy; Anarcho-Syndicalism; Labor History; Politics of Water.
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Jon Masin-Peters
Research Interests: Political Theory & American Politics; Political Economy; the Macro and Micro-Politics of Domination; Theories of Freedom; Racial Politics; Democratic Theory; Pluralism and Social Movements; Capitalism and Gender; Class and Labor Process Theory; American Political Development.
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Maryam Nahhal
Research Interests: International relations; Race and Racism in World Politics; Nationalism, Borders and Migration; Critical Security Studies
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Matthew Risser (he/him)
Research Interests: Republicanism; Political Economy Theory; International Relations Theory; Geopolitics; Technopolitics; Governance
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Iván Ruiz-Hernández
Research Interests: International Relations, Comparative Politics, Food Politics, Food Sovereignty, Agricultural Development in Low- and Middle-Income States, Forced Displacement, and Latin American Politics.
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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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Graham Scarbro
Research Interests: Military and society; Civil military relations; International relations; Security studies
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Henry Scott
Research Interests: Political Theory and International Relations, Technology, History of Ontology, Transhumanism, Anthropocene, Materialism, Realism, Memes and Internet Politics, Eco-Fascism, Gnosticism
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Lynsy Smithson-Stanley
Research Interests: American Politics, Environmental policy and politics, climate change advocacy, transformational organizing, social movements, analytic activism, organizational behavior (especially US-based environmental nonprofits).
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Eva Leth Sørensen (she/her)
Research Interests: IR theory, historical IR, postcolonial theory, decolonial theory, empire, the Arctic, Danish-Greenlandic relations, knowledge production, critical race theory
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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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Susy Tekunan
Research Interests: Racial politics, nationalism, long-term migration and second class citizenship related to China rise and racial identity in Southeast Asia, particularly in Indonesia
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Alex Torpey (he/him)
Research Interests: Democracy, elections, money-in-politics, and the political campaign industry
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Aila Trasi
Research Interests: International Relations, Comparative Politics, International Organizations, Political Economy, Inequality, Southeast Asia, Processual-Relationalism, International Order
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Claire Trilling
Research Interests: Comparative Politics, International Relations, civil resistance, contentious politics, and social movements
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Jacob Tucker (he/him)
Research Interests: Marxism, Critical Theory, 20th Century European Philosophy, Sensuous Materialism, Aesthetics, Psychoanalysis
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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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Darko Vinketa
Research Interests: Political Theory, Queer Theory, Deconstruction, Value-Form Theory, Performativity, Queer Marxism, Theatricality and Hypochondria, Ethics of Superficiality
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Rachel (Ruixuan) Zhou
Research Interests: Post-structuralism, Post-colonialism, Feminism, Power relations, Social and transnational history, War, the military and soldiering
