Graduate students seeking academic positions
Academic Year 2011-2012
| Candidate | Major Field | Dissertation Title | Advisers |
| Barbara Buckinx | Political Theory | Reducing Domination in Global Politics | Charles Beitz, Philip Pettit, Alan Patten, Stephen Macedo |
| Kevin Collins | American Politics | Who Gives? Political Messages, Activist Motivations, and Campaign Donation Behavior | Markus Prior, Larry Bartels, Marty Gilens |
| Rex Douglass | International Relations, Comparative Politics, Security Studies | Why Not Divide and Conquer? Targeted Bargaining and Violence in Civil War | Joanne Gowa, Kristopher Ramsay, Jacob Shapiro |
| Loubna El-Amine | Political Theory | The Confucian Conception of the Political | Charles Beitz, Alan Patten, Willard Peterson |
| Andrea Everett | International Relations | Symbolic Force or Civilians First? Highly Capable Democracies and the Design of Peace Operations | Robert Keohane, Christopher Achen, Jason Lyall |
| Daniel Frost | Public Law, Political Theory | Reasonable Constitutional Decisions | Keith Whittington, Robert George, Stephen Macedo, Paul Frymer |
| Katie Gallagher | Political Theory | Risk as a Distributive Concern | Charles Beitz, Philip Pettit, Alan Patten, Anna Stilz |
| Matteo Giglioli | Political Theory | The Search for Legitimacy in a Society of Masses: Responses to the Social Question in Fin-de-siècle Political Thought | Maurizio Viroli, Tamsin Shaw, Cornel West |
| Nicholas Goedert | American Politics | Exploring Gerrymandering through Electoral Uncertainty and Competing Norms of Representation | Brandice Canes-Wrone, Nolan McCarty, Adam Meirowitz |
| Sarah Goff | Political Theory | Fair Trade as Foreign Policy | Charles Beitz, Stephen Macedo, Anna Stilz |
| Kristin Harkness | Comparative Politics | The Origins of African Civil-Military Relations | Jennifer Widner, Bob Keohane, Evan Lieberman |
| Kasia Hebda | American Political Institutions, Formal Theory, Political Economy, Interest Groups | Interest Groups and Coalition Formation | Adam Meirowitz, Nolan McCarty, Kristopher Ramsay |
| David Hsu | International Relations | Discretion and Constraint in Post-9/11 U.S. Foreign Policy | Helen Milner, Robert Keohane, Christina Davis, Andrew Moravcsik |
| Alex Levitov | Political Theory | Legitimacy as Self-Determination | Charles Beitz, Alan Patten, Stephen Macedo |
| Benjamin McKean | Political Theory | Political Dispositions and Global Justice: Understanding the Duties of Individuals in an Unjust World | Charles Beitz, Jan-Werner Müller, Stephen Macedo, Melissa Lane |
| Michael McKoy | International Relations | After Overthrow: The Dynamics and Decision-Making of Foreign-Imposed Regime Change | John Ikenberry, Thomas Christensen, Amaney Jamal, Christopher Achen |
| Melissa Moschella | Political Theory | Parental Rights in Education | Melissa Lane, Robert George, Anna Stilz |
| Julie Rose | Political Theory | The Politics of Leisure | Charles Beitz, Melissa Lane, Alan Patten |
| Michael Sullivan | American Politics, Public Law, Political Theory |
A Pathway to Citizenship by Contributing in Relationships: Earning the Opportunity to Finally Call America Home
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Keith Whittington, Paul Frymer, Stephen Macedo, Rogers Smith |
| Joshua J. Vandiver | Political Theory |
Ambition and Rebellion: Recognition, Motivation, and the Spirited Passions in the Political Thought of Plato and Xenophon
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Melissa Lane, Nino Luraghi, and Philip Pettit |
| Philip Wallach | American Politics, Public Law, Regulatory Policy | Regulatory Statutes as Constraints: Contesting Executive Interpretation in America's Modern Administrative State | Keith Whittington, R. Douglas Arnold |
| James Lindley Wilson | American Politics, Political Theory, Law | Finding Time for Democracy: A Theory of Political Equality | Charles Beitz, Philip Pettit, Stephen Macedo |