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Dr Ackerman is Assistant Professor in Politics and International Relations and has been at NU London since 2019. He is a specialist in modern and contemporary political theory. Dr Ackerman received his PhD in Political Science from Northwestern University and also holds an MA in International Relations from the University of Chicago and a BA in Art History from Williams College. Dr Ackerman’s main research project at present involves an effort in re-historicising Hannah Arendt’s political thought – reading it back into the German and German-Jewish intellectual and political contexts out of which it emerged in order to generate new critical understandings of the arguments advanced throughout Arendt’s writings and their implications for contemporary political theory.

 Political Theory; Modern Political Thought, Imperialism, Colonialism and the Modern State, International Relations, Theory and Practice

 The Politics of Political Theology: Rosenzweig, Schmitt, Arendt ( )

: Honig, Bonnie H (Chair); Crepon, Marc D L (Ecole Normale Superieure); Dietz, Mary G.; Fenves, Peter D. (German)

  Assistant Professor, New College of the Humanities, Politics & International Relations

 Fellow, University of London, Birkbeck, School of Law's Centre for Research in Political Theology

 CEO of ALBERRO & ASOCIADOS and a consejera independiente at Banco Santander, she is a specialist in financial inclusion, the implementation of financial instruments for social development such as social impact contracts and in evaluation. From 2011 to 2023 she was a Socio at Henderson & Alberro, and from 2016 to 2022 she was co directora at LiD Laboratorio de Financiamiento y Pago por Resultados. She has been a professor-researcher at El Colegio de México (2007-2011), as well as a professor at the Ibero-American University, Northwestern University, and visiting professor at the Department of Political Science at the University of Minnesota. Additionally, she's held various positions in the Federal Public Administration, particularly in the Ministry of Finance and the Ministry of Agriculture.

 Comparative Politics; elections, socioeconomic profile of voters, public opinion and public administration.

 Do the poor go to the voting booths? A reevaluation of the socioeconomic model of turnout in established and emerging democracies ( )

: Gibson, Edward L (Chair); Wallerstein, Michael J; McCann, Jay; Page, Benjamin I

 CEO, ALBERRO & ASOCIADOS

 Profesora investigadora, Colegio de Mexico, Centro de Estudios Internacionales

   Dr. Isabella Alcañiz is an Associate Professor of the   and Director of the  , University of Maryland (UMD).

Professor Alcañiz studies the politics of climate change, social inequality, disaster policy, and gender with a focus on Latin America and Latinx residents of the United States. Her research has been published in Global Environmental Politics, Journal of Cleaner Production, Water Policy, Environmental Science & Policy, World Politics, and the Latin American Research Review. Her books,   (2022) and the   (2016), were published by Cambridge University Press. She serves on the Editorial Advisory Board of  and  .

She received a PhD from the   at Northwestern University and a Licenciatura in International Relations from the   (Argentina).

 Comparative Politics; International Law & relations; Environmental Politics, Latin American Politics

 Ideas, epistemic communities and regional integration: Splitting the atom in Argentina and Brazil ( )

: Loriaux, Michael M (Chair); Gibson, Edward L; Abbott, Kenneth W

 Associate Professor, University of Maryland, Department of Government and Politics

 Assistant Professor, University of Houston, Political Science and Africana Studies

Safa Al-Saeedi is an Assistant Professor of Political Science at Marist College. Recently, Al-Saeedi was a Postdoctoral Associate at the Department of Political Science at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Previously, Al-Saeedi was a Predoctoral Research Fellow at the Middle East Initiative Program at the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, Harvard Kennedy School. Al-Saeedi received a Ph.D. in political science from Northwestern University in September 2022. Al-Saeedi is also a Fellow at the Association for Analytic Learning about Islam and Muslim Societies (AALIMS) and a Board Member of the American Institute for Yemeni Studies.

My research interests include political communication, research methodology, Middle East politics, religion and law, economic development, and automated text analysis and machine learning. My work has been supported by the National Science Foundation, the American Political Science Association, the Institute for Humane Studies, the Kellogg School of Management, and the Northwestern Graduate School, among others.

  Political Communication; Research Methods; Middle East politics

  The Quest for Influence: Media Changes and Reform Politics in Saudi Arabia ( )

: Pearlman, Wendy (Chair); Mahoney, James; Bouchat, Sirus; Riedl, Rachel (Cornell University); Kuran, Timur (Duke University)

  Assistant Professor of Political Science, Marist College

Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)

Professor Althaus joined the University of Illinois faculty in 1996 with a joint appointment in the departments of Political Science and Communication. He is currently the Merriam Professor of Political Science, Professor of Communication, and Director of the   at the University of Illinois. He is also a faculty affiliate of the School of Information Sciences, the National Center for Supercomputer Applications, the Center for Social and Behavioral Science, and the Illinois Informatics Institute.

Professor Althaus serves on the editorial boards of   and . His research has appeared in the  , the  ,  ,  ,  ,   and . His book on the political uses of opinion surveys in democratic societies,   (Cambridge University Press, 2003) was awarded a 2004 Goldsmith Book Prize by the Joan Shorenstein Center on the Press, Politics and Public Policy at Harvard University, and a 2004 David Easton Book Prize by the Foundations of Political Theory section of the American Political Science Association. 

American Politics, Methods; Communication and the arts; Social sciences; public opinion

  Who speaks for the people? Political knowledge, representation, and the use of opinion surveys in democratic politics ( )

: Page, Benjamin I. (Chair); Herbst, Susan; Mansbridge, Jane J.

  Merriam Professor of Political Science, Professor of Communication, and Director of the Cline Center for Advanced Social Research, University of Illinois

Assistant Professor, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Department of Communication and Department of Political Science,

: Karen Andes is a broadly trained social scientist with three decades of experience in public health research, training and practice. She has worked extensively on adolescent sexual and reproductive health, positive youth development, health disparities in African-American and Latinx communities, and the social determinants of health. She has worked on public health research and service projects in Paraguay since 2005. As a qualitative methodologist, she has provided qualitative analysis expertise for teams working on a variety of issues, including pediatric oncology, emergency preparedness, COVID vaccine hesitancy, HIV/AIDS, and menstrual hygiene management, among others. She is a certified trainer for MAXQDA qualitative data analysis software and is the author of a three-course specialization on qualitative research methods for public health on the Coursera platform.

: Fertility and farming: A comparative political economy of childbearing in two agricultural communities in the Tunisian interior ( )

: Abu-Lughod, Ibrahim (Chair); Bledsoe, Caroline (Anthropology); Munro, William; Ragin, Charles

: Director of School of Public Health, Associate Professor of Behavioral and Social Sciences, Brown University

: Mellon Post-doctoral Fellow, Indiana University Bloomington, Anthropological Demography

 Crina Archer takes on political theory, radical democracy, American politics, and gender studies to study the concepts that shape our sense of community, our worldviews, and our individual practices.

 Political Theory; NaN

 Time For Democracy: Continuity and Rupture in the Political Thought of Kant, Tocqueville, and Arendt ( )

: Zerilli, Linda (Chair); Dietz, Mary Golden; Farr, James Fulton

 Visiting Faculty , Bennington College

 Research Fellow, DePaul University, Institute for Professional and Business Ethics

  Dr. Mert Arslanalp is Assistant Professor of Political Science at Bogazici University. Before joining Bogazici, he received his PhD in Political Science from Northwestern University and worked as a Visiting Professor at Ozyegin University. His research interests include comparative urban politics, contentious and legal politics, and democratization with a regional focus on Latin America and the Middle East. Mert has conducted research on the politics of urban citizenship in Turkey, Argentina, and Mexico. He has published in South European Society and Politics, Comparative Sociology, and POMEPS Studies.

 Comparative Politics; Contentious Politics and Law, Urban Politics, Democratization and Citizenship, Institutions and Exceptions, Turkish Politics, Latin American Politics

 Claiming Rights, Negotiating Exceptions: Politics of Urban Citizenship in Istanbul and Buenos Aires ( )

: Gibson, Edward L (Chair); Fischer, Brodwyn; Mahoney, James L; Pearlman, Wendy

 Assistant Professor, Bogazici University, Political Science & International Relations

 Visiting Professor, Ozyegin University, Social Sciences

Rhiannon Auriemma is a Lecturer of Political Science at DePaul University and the University of Chicago, specializing in Feminist Theory, Queer Theory, Critical Race Theory, Critical Theory, and Contemporary Political Theory. Auriemma's research focuses on feminist theory, politics, and intersectionality. Her dissertation project, “(Being a) Feminist (is a) Struggle”, explores debates about the meaning of intersectionality within feminist movements such as SlutWalk NYC, The Women’s March, and #MeToo. Auriemma theorizes how these movements deploy the concept of intersectionality and demand particular political sensibilities of participating feminist activists.

  Feminist Theory, Queer Theory, Critical Race Theory, Critical Theory, and Contemporary Political Theory

(Being a) Feminist (is a) Struggle: Intersectional Feminist Politics in the Era of The Women's March

: Dietz, Mary (Chair); Alvin B. Tillery, Jr.; Nash, Jennifer (Duke University)

  Lecturer, DePaul University

  Lecturer, DePaul University

  Ramla Bandele is a writer of plays and short stories. She is Associate Professor Emeritus of Political Science and Africana Studies at Indiana University Purdue University and a long-time supporter and member of Kheprw Institute. Her works include plays: Facing the Rising Sun, Summer Storm, Fan Me Lord and Venom. She is also the author of

  American Politics; Black Politics, African Diaspora, Arts and Politics, Representation

  Diaspora movements in the international political economy: African-Americans and the Black Star Line ( )

:  Page, Benjamin I (Chair); Hanchard, Michael G; Woo-Cumings, Meredith

  Associate Professor Emeritus, Indiana University–Purdue University Indianapolis, Political Science and Africana Studies; Author and Playwright

 Research Fellow, University of Rochester, Frederick Douglass Institute for African and African-American Studies

Dr. Jason Barabas [pronounced Bear-AH-bas] is the Director of the Rockefeller Center for Public Policy and the Social Sciences at Dartmouth College and a Professor in the Government Department. At Dartmouth, Barabas teaches and conducts research on American politics in the areas of political knowledge, deliberation, public policy, and democratic performance. His findings have been published in peer-reviewed academic journals including the  , the  , and the  . Barabas earned his Ph.D. in Political Science from Northwestern University and his undergraduate degree in Government from Dartmouth College. After graduating from college, Barabas was appointed as an economic policy advisor for the Governor of Illinois, which fostered an appreciation for retail politics as well as pragmatic solutions to policy problems. In the years since, he has held postdoctoral fellowships at Harvard and Princeton as well as academic faculty positions in New York, Florida, and Illinois. When he is not teaching or writing, Barabas enjoys a variety of outdoor and cultural activities throughout New Hampshire and beyond.

 American Politics; American Politics, Methodology, Public Policy, Health Policy

 Americans discuss Social Security: How deliberation affects public opinion ( )

: Page, Benjamin I (Chair); Chong, Dennis; Cook, Fay Lomax

 Professor, Dartmouth College, Department of Government; Director, Rockefeller Center for Public Policy and the Social Sciences

 Postdoctoral Fellowship, Princeton University, Woodrow Wilson School of Public Affairs

: Scott Barclay is the Director of the School of Social and Behavioral Sciences in the New College of Interdisciplinary Arts and Sciences. He received his PhD in Political Science from Northwestern University and his BA from the University of Queensland in Australia.

He recently served as a Program Director in the Social Behavioral and Economic Sciences Directorate at the National Science Foundation. He has held positions at Drexel University, UCLA, University at Albany, University of Washington, and UC Santa Cruz.  His ongoing research project explores the interplay of political, demographic, and social movement factors that influence the deployment of law. His research have been published in  , and  . His research findings have been directly referenced in the  ,  , and  .

American Politics, Law and Society, Public Policy, Social Movements, policy effects, sea ice loss, arctic governance

  An appealing act ( )

: Goldman, Jerry (Chair); Casper, Jay

  School Director, Professor, School of Social and Behavioral Sciences, Arizona State University

 Miruna Barnoschi is a Fellow in International Security at IBEI. Before joining IBEI, she finished her PhD in Political Science and an   MS in Statistics at Northwestern University. An interdisciplinary and multidisciplinary scholar, she also holds a MA in Philosophy from the University of Virginia and received a BA in International Relations and a BA in Classics and Philosophy from the University of Southern California. After reaching PhD candidacy, she became a lecturer at Northwestern University, teaching an advanced course in National Security, and a lecturer at DePaul University, teaching an Introduction to International Relations course. Beyond academia, she has experience as an Intelligence Analyst in the private sector, doing global security and political risk analysis.

Miruna’s primary field is International Relations and her research and teaching focuses on the intersection of international security, international organizations, and international law and ethics. Her doctoral dissertation research examined United Nations interventions in conflict, while her research more generally looks at how international security institutions intervene in crises contexts. She recently authored a chapter on international counterterrorism regime complexity for inclusion in  , which is forthcoming.

  Political science; International relations; Peace studies; Armed conflict; Cold War; Interventions; Security; United Nations Security Council

:  The UNeffect: Security Council Interventions in Cold War Armed Conflicts

:  Seawright, Jason W. (Chair); Nelson, Stephen C.; James, Patrick (University of Southern California)

  Fellow in International Security, Institut Barcelona d’Estudis Internacionals (IBEI)

Fellow in International Security, Institut Barcelona d’Estudis Internacionals (IBEI)

  Rodrigo Barrenechea is an Assistant Professor of Political Science at the Universidad Católica del Uruguay. He holds a Ph.D. in Political Science from Northwestern University and a BA in Sociology from the Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú. In the 2019-2020 academic year, he was a Post-Doctoral Fellow in the Weatherhead Center Research Cluster on Challenges to Democracy, at Harvard University, and in 2022/23 Santo Domingo Visiting Scholar at the David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies, also at Harvard University. His research focuses on populism, political parties, and political representation in Latin America.  His work on comparative historical analysis, process tracing, and concept formation has been published in the , , , and .

 Comparative Politics, Methods; populism, political parties, and political representation in Latin America

 Populist Coalitions in Latin America: Polarization, Organization and Identity ( )

: Mahoney, James L (Chair); Gibson, Edward L (Co-Chair); Seawright, Jason W; Levitsky, Steven (Harvard)

 Assistant Professor, Universidad Católica del Uruguay, Department of Social and Political Sciences

 Post-Doctoral Fellow, Harvard University, Weatherhead Center for International Affairs

 Birol Başkan received his PhD in political science from Northwestern University in 2006 and taught at Georgetown University's School of Foreign Service in Qatar from 2010-2018, Qatar University from 2007-2010, and the State University of New York-Fredonia in 2006-2007. His research looks at the roles religion and religious actors play in creating, maintaining, undermining, and destroying political order in the Middle East and in the international politics of the Persian/Arabian Gulf and Turkish foreign policy. Baskan is the author of Turkey and Qatar in the Tangled Geopolitics of the Middle East (Palgrave, 2016) and From Religious Empires to Secular States (Routledge, 2014), and co-editor of State-Society Relations in the Arab Gulf States (Gerlach, 2014).

 Comparative Politics; Contemporary religious movements and ideologies, state-religion relations in Turkey and the broader Middle East, state-building in Turkey and the Gulf, international politics of the Gulf, Turkish foreign policy

 Religious institutions and state building: Incorporation vs. exclusion? ( )

: Reno, William S (Chair); Gibson, Edward L; Deruluguian, Georgi (Sociology)

 Non-resident Scholar, Middle East institute

 Assistant Professor, State University of New York-Fredonia, Department of Political Science

:  Dr. Bayes's research and teaching interests center on the political behavior and political psychology of everyday Americans, and particularly, how they process scientific information in order to form opinions about science-related policy issues. Her scholarly work has been published in a number of academic journals, including  and Current Opinion in Behavioral Sciences. She is affiliated with the Catalysts for Sustainability program at Rowan and is also a research consultant for The Climate Advocacy Lab. She received her Ph.D. in Political Science from Northwestern University.

  American Politics; Experimental Methods; Science communication, climate change communication, public opinion, political communication, political psychology

  The Role of Moral Conviction in Shaping Public Science Attitudes ( )

:  Druckman, James N. (Chair); McGrath, Mary C.; Nisbet, Erik (Communications)

Assistant Professor of Sustainability, Department of Political Science & Economics, Rowan University

Assistant Professor of Sustainability, Department of Political Science & Economics, Rowan University

 Daniel Bergan specializes in public opinion and experimental work on advocacy campaigns. He uses field experimental designs to test the impact of citizen contacts to policymakers on public policy. In recent work, he has also explored the sources of partisan polarization in public opinion. His academic publications have appeared in the Journal of Politics, Public Opinion Quarterly, the Journal of Communication, and other journals.

 American Politics; Pubic Opinion, experimental politics, advocacy campaigns. citizen contact with policy makers, partisan polarization

 Party campaign finance and electoral competition ( )

: Chong, Dennis (Chair); Herron, Michael C.; Austen-Smith, Michael D.

 Associate Professor, Michigan State University, Department of Communication and James Madison College

 Postdoctoral Fellow, Yale University, Institution for Social and Political Studies

 Abdeta’s professional experience begins with his employment at Ethiopia’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs in 1992. This experience included serving as desk officer for Somalia and Ethiopia’s neighboring states, as Political officer at the Ethiopian Embassy in Djibouti, as Head of the Ethiopian Trade office in Hargeisa (April 2002-June 2006), Chief of the Cabinet at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (July 2006-August2008), Ethiopia’s Special Envoy to Somalia (August 2008-March 2009), and Head of the Conflict Early Warning and Response Unit (April 2009-November 2010), and Director General for African Affairs until 2012. He also served as Chief of Staff of the IGAD-led Mediation Team to resolve the crisis in the Republic of South Sudan and briefly for the Joint Monitoring and Evaluation Commission to oversee the implementation of the Agreement to Resolve the Conflict in South Sudan. He is currently the Executive Director of the Centre for Dialogue, Research and Cooperation and holds a PhD from Northwestern University.

 International Relations; Ethiopian Democracy & Development

 Sovereignty Preservation Attenuating it Elsewhere: The Political and Security Dimensions of Buffer Zones ( )

: Reno, William S (Chair); Caverley, Jonathan D; Henke, Marina Elisabeth Philippina

 Executive Director, Centre for Dialogue, Research and Cooperation

 Chief of the Cabinet, Ethiopia’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs

 American Politics; Public Policy; Welfare programs; Drug Treatment

: The Teen Challenge Drug Treatment Program in Comparative Perspective ( )

: Friesema, H. Paul (Chair); Skogan, Wesley; Ragin, Charles; Jacob, Herbert

:  Tutor, Classical Conversations

: German Teacher, North Fayette High School, West Union IA

Florent Blanc, PhD, is in charge of training in negotiation within the IRENÉ team at ESSEC Business School. A doctor in political science and international relations, a graduate of Northwestern University in Chicago and of SciencesPo Paris, Florent Blanc is the author of a thesis on American public security policies in the field of the fight against the terrorist threat. He has taught and conducted several study seminars on security and anti-terrorism issues as well as on issues of social progress and immigration law reforms for Northwestern University. From his American experience, he retains a particular taste for active pedagogy based on the interaction of the knowledge of each participant.

Eclectic, he chose to join, at the end of his double doctorate, a French NGO specialized in the settlement of conflicts within which, for several years, he directed programs in West Africa. In Mali and Senegal, he has designed methods for analyzing sources of conflict and systems for preventing armed conflict and social tensions in conjunction with local and national authorities, but also UNESCO.

 International Relations; international mediation, security, Mali, counterterrorist policies and military ethics; ACLU; Dissent; Guantanamo; Lawyers; Librarians; Security; September 11, 2001; Social movement; State of exception; Terrorism; United States

 Dissent after September 11 mobilization of librarians, ACLU, cities and lawyers ( )

: Bigo, Didier (Chair); Loriaux, Michael M (Co-Chair)Balzacq, Thierry; Chebel d'Appolonia, Arianne; Hurd, Ian; Margulies, Joseph

, ESSEC Business School, IRENE

 Project Manager, Ecole de la paix Grenoble

 Comparative Politics; Elites; France; Germany; Liberalization

 Power of position: French and German elites in the liberalization process ( )

:  Loriaux, Michael M. (Chair); Swenson, Peter A.; Thelen, Kathleen A.

 Founder and Director, Bloom Language Services, LLC

 Principal, Bloom Consulting GmbH

Marco Bocchese has been an Assistant Professor of International Relations at Webster Vienna Private University since August 2021. Prior to joining Webster, he worked as a visiting assistant professor of political science at the University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC), where he taught several undergraduate courses in international relations and international law. Marco Bocchese received his doctorate, M.A., and LL.M. from Northwestern University, and a J.D. from the University of Verona. His research on state relations with international criminal tribunals has been published or is forthcoming in the Michigan State International Law Review, the NYU Journal of International Law and Politics, the Washington International Law Journal, the International Journal of Human Rights, the International Criminal Law Review, the Georgetown Journal of International Affairs, the Journal of Conflict and Security Law, and Global Governance.

 International Relations; International Politics

 Justice Cooperatives: Explaining State Attitudes toward the ICC ( )

: Reno, William S (Chair); Arjona, Ana Maria; Riedl, Rachel Beatty

 Assistant Professor, Webster Vienna Private University, Political Science

 Adjunct Professor, University of Illinois at Chicago, Political Science

  Toby Bolsen is the   in the Department of Political Science at Georgia State University.  His research focuses on political and science communication, public opinion, political behavior, experimental methods, and U.S. energy and climate policy. 

Professor Bolsen received the   from Georgia State University in 2015 for excellence in scholarship, instruction, and service. In 2017, Bolsen was selected as a   and attended the Kavli Frontiers of Science Symposium in Ambon, Indonesia, sponsored by USAID and the U.S. National Academy of Sciences.

Bolsen is the author of over 30 scholarly articles and book chapters. He has published research in numerous high-impact journals such as the   and a number of other outlets. He has received several Best Paper Awards for published work presented at academic conferences. Bolsen is a Faculty Affiliate at the Urban Studies Institute in the Andrew Young School of Public Policy at Georgia State University. He received his Ph.D. in Political Science from Northwestern University in 2010.

 American Politics; Political behavior, public opinion, political communication, experimental methods, U.S. energy policy and climate change

 Private behaviors for the public good: Citizens' actions and U.S. energy conservation ( )

: Druckman, James N (Chair); Chong, Dennis; Cook, Fay Lomax

Zoukis Professor of Politics & Justice, Georgia State University, Department of Political Science

 Assistant Professor, Georgia State University, Department of Political Science

 I am a Postdoctoral Prize Research Fellow in Politics at Nuffield College at the University of Oxford. I defended my PhD thesis in Political Science at Northwestern University in June 2019. I have an M.A. in Political Science from the Graduate Research Institute of the State of Rio de Janeiro (IUPERJ) [current IESP/UERJ] and a B.A. in Law from the University of São Paulo (USP). My general fields of study are comparative politics, Latin American politics, and methodology with expertise in qualitative methods. My current research concerns the effects of culture on a diverse set of topics of democratic functioning, especially political behaviour, elections, the representation of marginalized groups, political parties, corruption, and misinformation, with a focus on Brazil. I mainly employ ethnographic and historical methods in my research, and I also combine them with survey experiments.

 Comparative Politics; political behavior, political communication, political campaigns, political parties in developing democracies, elections, qualitative methods, ethnography

 The Politics of Strength: Elections, Clientelism, and Programmatic Politics in the Backlands of Brazil ( )

: Mahoney, James L. (Chair); Gibson, Edward L.; Pearlman, Wendy R.

 Postdoctoral Prize Research Fellow, University of Oxford, Nuffield College, Department of Politics and International Relations

 Postdoctoral Prize Research Fellow, University of Oxford, Nuffield College, Department of Politics and International Relations

 Before starting doctoral studies, I was a staff director in the California State Senate working with communities affected by HIV/AIDS, one of a handful of out LGBT staffers in the state capitol at the time. This experience inspired my research on politics between global and local, including activism on race, gender, and sexuality, questions of marginalization and citizenship, and processes of community building and participation. I look at these in terms of economic change, in responses to the HIV/AIDS pandemic, in the new politics of food, and in local and transnational organizing against a wave of what I call “state homophobia.” My research and teaching also focus on economic justice, democratic practice, and state violence and human rights – by exploring the ethical in the political. While I pay attention to the key concepts and theories in comparative politics, I ask students and colleagues to think about the moral framework that informs politics and the ethical consequences of choices made within such frameworks.

 Comparative Politics; Social Movements, Moral and Ethical Political Philosophy, Human Rights, economic justice, democratic practice, and state violence and human rights, activism on race, gender, and sexuality, questions of marginalization and citizenship, and processes of community building and participation

 Blood ties: Identity, citizenship, and the politics of AIDS in France and the United States ( )

: Loriaux, Michael M (Chair); Honig, Bonnie H; Page, Benjamin I

 Professor, Saint Michael's College, Department of Political Science

 Visiting Research Scholar, University of Notre Dame, Department of Anthropology

 Michelle Boyd is a scholar, writer, and audio producer who makes text and audio pieces about race, class, immigration, and cities. She is the author of the ethnography   (2008), winner of the 2009 American Political Science Association's Race & Ethnicity Section Best Book Award. Her scholarship has also appeared in  ,  , and   and has received Best Paper awards from the Urban Affairs Association and the National Conference of Black Political Scientists. 

Michelle’s audio and multimedia work have appeared at the Sullivan Galleries at Chicago's School of the Art Institute, on WAMC's The 51%, in  , and several community organizations in Portland, OR. She is a member of  , a network of artists and activists using narrative to support movement building and social change. Her most recent Groundswell project, “ ,” is a 6-minute audio collage produced in collaboration with the  Oral History Project.

 American Politics; race, class, immigration, and cities, ethnography; Urban Renewal; Interest Groups; Ethnic Identity; Claims Making; Social Constructionism; Leadership; Black Americans; Chicago, Illinois

 Reconstructing Bronzeville: Identity and the Construction of Racial Group Interests ( )

: Reed Jr, Adolph (Chair); Herbst, Susan; Binford, Henry (History); Patillo, Mary (Sociology)

 Founder and Writing Coach, Inkwell Academic Writing Retreats

 Faculty Fellow, University of Illinois at Chicago, Institute for the Humanities

Tristan Bradshaw is a political theorist and classicist with a particular focus on Aristotle and his receptions in contemporary critical theories, especially Marx and post-Marxism. After three years at the University of Sydney as lecturer in political theory and then postdoctoral research fellow in the Department of Classics and Ancient History, Bradshaw joined the School of Liberal Arts at the University of Wollongong as Lecturer in 2022. Bradshaw received a PhD in political science from Northwestern University in 2021, where Bradshaw was an Andrew W. Mellon doctoral fellow. Bradshaw also co-directs, with Dr Ben Brown (University of Sydney), the Critical Antiquities Network (CAN) and its monthly online forum, the Critical Antiquities Workshop.

Ancient Greek Political Thought and Practice Aristotle Classical Greek Literature, especially Tragedy History of Modern Political Thought Contemporary Democratic Theory Critical Theory

The Use of Humans: Aristotle, Marx, and the Specters of Indeterminate Utility ( )

: Lars Tønder (Chair); Sara Monoson, Richard Kraut (Philosophy), Samuel Weber (German), Miguel Vatter (Flinders University)

 Lecturer, University of Wollongong, School of Liberal Arts

Lecturer, University of Wollongong, School of Liberal Arts

 Marissa Brookes is Associate Professor of Political Science at the University of California, Riverside. She earned her PhD in political science from Northwestern University in 2013. Her research focuses on international political economy, labor movements, transnational activism, and the politics of work and employment. Her publications appear in , , , , and , among others. Her book, (2019, Cornell University Press), analyzes the causes of success and failure in transnational labor campaigns. Dr. Brookes’ research has been funded by the US Fulbright Program, the Hellman Fellows Fund, the German Research Foundation, the Dispute Resolution Research Center at the Kellogg School of Management, and the UCLA Institute for Research on Labor and Employment. She is also Principle Investigator on the Transnational Labor Alliances Database Project, which documents over 100 transnational labor campaigns from the late 1990s to the present.

 Comparative Politics; International Politics; Globalization; Institutions; Labor transnationalism; Power; Unions

 Transnational Labor Alliances: Why Some Succeed ( )

: Thelen, Kathy A (Chair); Mahoney, James L; Page, Benjamin I

 Associate Professor, University of California, Riverside, Political Science, Faculty Affiliate: Labor Studies Program

 Instructor, Northwestern University School of Continuing Studies, Political Science

I was born in Thibodaux, LA, a town about 50-miles southeast of New Orleans, running right along Bayou Lafourche. My family moved to Seattle when I was nine. Aunts, uncles, cousins, as well as my dad and godmother reside in Thibodaux and although I love Seattle, I admit flying into New Orleans and driving back to Thibodaux a couple of times each year feels like coming home.

In the yoga world, I have over two decades of experience. With two rounds of 200-hour teacher training programs under my belt, completed in 1999 and 2011, I am able to infuse my classes with a wealth of intuitive knowledge about the body and its relationship with poses.

When not in the yoga studio, I am an attorney at a large downtown Seattle firm. I earned my J.D. from Seattle University, after receiving a Ph.D. from Northwestern University. As an undergrad, I attended the University of Washington.

: International Relations; Latin American Politics; International relations; Business to business commerce; Business costs

:  Developing international competitiveness: Multinational corporate subsidiaries in Brazil ( )

: Gibson, Edward (Chair); Woo-Cummings, Meredith; Hanchard, Michael

Julia Brown attained her Ph.D. in Political Science from Northwestern University, Evanston, at the end of 2021. Brown's research focuses on John Locke’s theological and tolerationist writings, particularly those of his later years. While at Northwestern, in addition to researching and writing my dissertation, Brown designed and taught classes, ran weekly workshops, and co-organised a graduate student conference. Before coming to Stanford, Brown taught as part of the University of Chicago's Social Sciences Core program, specifically, the Classics of Social and Political Thought sequence.

  Political Theory; Locke, John; Religious toleration; Scripture

  At Liberty to Obey: Sincerity and the Scriptural Politics of John Locke ( )

:  Farr, James Fulton (Chair); Dietz,Mary G.; Shakman Hurd, Elizabeth

 Lecturer, Stanford University

  Lecturer, Stanford University

:  Owen Brown is Visiting Assistant Professor of Global Politics in the Department of Politics at Scripps College. My work is located at the intersection of international relations and political theory, and focuses on the interconnections between race, colonialism, and international politics.

Brown's research focuses on the politics of (international) ordering and examines the ways in which orders are constituted and contested across a range of contexts. Both Brown's research and teaching are motivated by the importance of approaching the social and political world from a perspective of critical reflexivity in order to better understand the structures and practices that shape and limit political thought and action, and our place in relation to them.

  International Relations; Political Theory; race and colonialism in international relations and political theory, international order, IR theory, international thought, critical theory, post- and decolonial political thought, Black political thought, German colonialism, the politics of memory, migration, aesthetics and politics, and interpretive methods

  Ordering Through Race/Racialising Through Order: Race and the Production of International Order ( )

:  Shakman Hurd, Elizabeth (Chair); Hurd, Ian; Hesse, Barnor (African American Studies); Medina, José (Philosophy)

 Visiting Assistant Professor of Global Politics, Scripps College

Visiting Assistant Professor of Global Politics, Scripps College

Javier Burdman is a Research Fellow in the School for Interdisciplinary Social Studies at the National University of San Martin in Argentina.

 Political Theory; Contemporary political theory, especially Arendt, Lyotard, and Derrida, Kant's moral and political philosophy, Theories of political action and judgment, Knowledge and politics.

 Politics after Totalitarianism: Rethinking Evil, Action, and Judgment in Kant, Arendt, and Lyotard ( )

: Dietz, Mary Golden (Chair); Fenves, Peter D. (Comparative Literary Studies); Menke, Christoph (Department of German)

Research Fellow (Tenured), National University of San Martin

 Postdoctoral Fellowship, Goethe-Uiversität Frankfurt

 Teacher and scholar of political science with particular expertise on the Middle East, international relations, energy, and democracy. An experienced teacher, researcher, and administrator with a newly published book on the Arab Spring, excellent teaching and communication skills, and comfort with many types of administrative and planning work. Considering a move from academia to the policy world.

 Comparative Politics; Comparative Politics, Middle East Politics

 One Hand: Military Structure and Middle East Revolts ( )

: Reno, William S (Chair); Pearlman, Wendy R; Riedl, Rachel Beatty

 Visiting Assistant Professor, College of William and Mary, Political Science

 Lecturer, Northwestern University in Qatar, Political Science

Ethan Busby is an Assistant Professor of Political Science at Brigham Young University, specializing in political psychology, extremism, public opinion, racial and ethnic politics, and quantitative methods. Busby studies extremism in democracies. More specifically, Busby's work explores what extremism is, who people blame for extremism, and what encourages and discourages extremism. Across this work, Busby considers extremism in the public and at the elite level. Busby examines both a general approach to extremism and several specific kinds – including racial extremism, partisan extremism, and populism. Busby's research on extremism relies on various methods, using lab experiments, quasi-experiments, survey experiments, text-as-data, surveys, artificial intelligence, and big data from Google and Twitter.

 American Politics; political psychology, extremism, public opinion, racial and ethnic politics, and quantitative methods

 It's All about Who You Meet: The Political Consequences of Intergroup Experiences with Strangers ( )

: Druckman, James N (Chair); Merseth Cook, Julianne Lee; Rogers, Reuel R

 Assistant Professor, Brigham Young University, Department of Political Science

 Assistant Professor, Clemson University

  Helen Callaghan, previously at the European University Institute (EUI) in Florence, is a professor in the Department of Political Science at the Johannes Gutenberg University, Mainz. Callaghan's research is in the area of comparative political economy. She particularly interested in the tension between politics and markets and by how this battle plays out in the European political arena. At the moment, Callaghan focuses on the politics of corporate governance.

She obtained her Ph.D. in Political Science and MA in Mathematical Methods from Northwestern University, and a BA in Philosophy, Politics and Economics from the University of Oxford. From 2008-2017, she was a Senior Research Fellow at the Max Planck Institute for the Study of Societies in Cologne (Germany), having previously held a post-doctoral Max Weber Fellowship at the European University Institute, and a pre-doctoral Chateaubriand Fellowship at École Normale Superiéure in Paris. 

 Comparative Politics; economic policy developments in Germany, Britain, and France within the context of European integration, corporate governance, economic nationalism, Brexit, business-government relations, wage bargaining systems, and the Eurozone Crisis

 European integration and the clash of capitalisms: British, French and German disagreement over corporate governance, 1970–2003 ( )

: Thelen, Kathy A (Chair); Gourevitch, Peter; Alter-Hanson, Karen

 Professor of Political Economy, Johannes Gutenberg-University, Mainz

 Post-doctoral Fellow, European University Institute, Italy

Dr. Ernesto Calvo is the Director of the   and Professor of Government and Politics at the University of Maryland. His research centers on the study of comparative political institutions, social media, political representation, and social networks. His work lies at the intersection of big data, survey experiments, and institutions. He is the author of a number of books on comparative institutions and social media, including   (Cambridge University Press 2019) with María Victoria Murillo;   (Cambridge University Press 2014); and   (Siglo XXI Editores 2020) with Natalia Aruguete. Professor Calvo has authored over 70 publications in the United States, Latin America and the Caribbean, and Europe. His research has been recognized by the American Political Science Association with the Lawrence Longley Award, the Luebbert Best Article Award, and the Michael Wallerstein Award.

 Comparative Politics; comparative political institutions, political representation, and social networks

 Disconcerted industrialists: The politics of trade reform in Latin America ( )

: Gibson, Edward L. (Chair)

 Professor, University of Maryland College Park, Government and Politics

 Instructor, University of Illinois at Chicago, Political Science

Originally from the UK, I completed my first degree in Philosophy at the University of Sydney in 2008 and worked for a small refugee advocacy organisation in Australia. In 2010 I moved to the US, where I earned an MA and PhD in Political Science from Northwestern University. I taught at several American universities and a prison, and published my first book, before returning to the UK in 2021.

 Political Theory

 Sheldon Wolin and Democracy: Seeing through Loss ( )

: Dietz, Mary Golden (Chair); Farr, James Fulton; Shulman, George (New York University); Tronto, Joan (University of Minnesota)

 Teacher in Politics, London Academy of Excellence Tottenham

 Visiting Assistant Professor, Beloit College, Political Science

American Politics; Law and Politics; Citizenry; Decision-making; Information; Judicial policy-making; United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit

Information mobilization: The citizenry's contribution to policy making by the United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit  ( ) 

 Jacob, Herbert (Chair); Casper, Jonathan D.; Goldman, Jerry; Skogan, Wesley G.

: Executive Director, Chicago Police Board

Adjunct Professor, Loyola University, Chicago Political Science

Teri L. Caraway is Associate Professor of Political Science at the University of Minnesota. Caraway is the author of (2007) and co-editor of (2015). Her research focuses on comparative labor politics, comparative and international political economy, and the Indonesian labor movement.

 Comparative Politics; comparative political economy of labor, transnational labor issues, Southeast Asian politics, gender and comparative politics

 Engendering industrialization: The feminization of factory work in Indonesia ( )

: Winters, Jeffrey A. (Chair); Gibson, Edward L.; Thelen, Kathleen A.

 Professor (Assistant, Associate, and Full), University of Minnesota, Political Science

 Fulbright Senior Scholar Award, Fulbright

Virginia Carlson, Principal Researcher for Data Integration, has more than 25 years of experience in data development, acquisition, and analysis. She has used these skills to deliver technical assistance for community organizations and for researching urban practices. She has worked as Research Director at World Business Chicago, the Chicago Urban League, the Brookings Institution, and as president of the Metro Chicago Information Center. She is a Board member of the Association of Public Data Users and on the editorial board of Economic Development Quarterly. She has a Ph.D. in Political Science from Northwestern University and a Master’s in Urban Planning from the University of Illinois-Chicago.

American Politics; urban politics; Illinois; women workers; data literacy, data and methods, statistics, economic development, urban development

  Labor and Firm Location: A Case Study of the Chicago Suburbs ( )

: Skogan, Wesley G. (Chair)

  Data Strategist, Urban Rubrics; Adjunct Associate Professor, University of Wisconsin Milwaukee, School of Continuing Education

  Assistant Professor, University of Wisconsin Milwaukee

 I am a Research Scientist in the Department of Political Science at Duke University, where prior to my current appointment I was a Postdoctoral Associate (2018-2020). I did my graduate work at Northwestern University (PhD, 2018) and before that I studied at Bates College, where I received a BA degree in Economics and Political Science (2009). While finishing my dissertation, I held temporary teaching appointments at Lake Forest College and the American University in Bulgaria. Broadly speaking, my research interests lie in the fields of history of political thought, moral and political philosophy, and contemporary democratic theory. Within the first two, I take a particular interest in the social and political thought of Kant and Hegel, as well as the tradition of early modern European political thought (esp. Hobbes, Locke, Hume, and Rousseau). In the third field, I take an interest in the normative democratic theories of Dewey, Rawls, Arendt, and Habermas. Secondary research interests include American political thought, international political theory (esp. contemporary philosophical theories of global justice and human rights), philosophy of social science, and ancient Greek political ethics (Plato and Aristotle).

 Political Theory; history of political thought, moral and political philosophy, contemporary democratic theory

 Kant's Libertarianism and Its Aftermath: Rereading The Conflict of the Faculties, Rethinking Hegel, Arendt, and Habermas ( )

: Farr, James Fulton (Chair); Alznauer, Mark Vinzenz; Dietz, Mary Golden;

 Senior Research Scientist, Duke University, Political Science

 Visiting Lecturer, American University in Bulgaria, Political Science

 My early education was in my native Ireland. I completed a BA in politics and philosophy at University College Dublin before leaving for England to complete a Msc in International Relations at the London School of Economics. Following a brief period working in Brussels I travelled to the United States on a Fulbright scholarship and received a doctorate in political science from Northwestern University in 2013 for a dissertation on the politics of enthusiasm in Shaftesbury, Hume, and Burke. From 2009 to 2012 I served as Assistant Editor of Before arriving at Exeter in the autumn of 2015 I spent two years as Visiting Assistant Professor of Government at the College of William and Mary in Virginia.

My teaching and research are primarily in the history of early modern political thought with a particular focus on the writings of Mary Wollstonecraft, Edmund Burke, David Hume, the Third Earl of Shaftesbury, and Alexis de Tocqueville. Thematically my work mainly deals with issues surrounding the passions, ridicule, fanaticism, religious toleration, and censorship.  My first book  was published by Princeton University Press in 2021. 

 Political Theory; history of early modern political thought with a particular focus on the writings of Mary Wollstonecraft, Edmund Burke, David Hume, the Third Earl of Shaftesbury, and Alexis de Tocqueville, passions, ridicule, fanaticism, religious toleration, and censorship

 The Politics of Enthusiasm in Shaftesbury, Hume, and Burke ( )

: Dietz, Mary Golden (Chair); Farr, James; Monoson, S. Sara

 Senior Lecturer, The University of Exeter, Politics

 Visiting Assistant Professor, The College of William & Mary, Government

Isabel Alejandra Castillo Carniglia is an Assistant Professor at the  , Universidad de Chile and an adjunct researcher at the   (COES). Castillo holds a Ph.D. in Political Science from   and B.A.s in History and Political Science from Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile. Castillo's dissertation on women’s suffrage won the best dissertation award from APSA’s Women, Gender, and Politics Section. Castillo also part of  . Castillo's research interests include democratization, gender, and religion and politics, with a focus on historical and contemporary Latin America. 

  Comparative Politics; democratization, gender, and religion and politics, with a focus on historical and contemporary Latin America

  Explaining Female Suffrage Reform in Latin America: Motivation Alignment, Cleavages, and Timing of Reform ( )

: Mahoney, James L (Chair); Riedl, Rachel B.; Orloff, Ann Shola

  Assistant Professor at the Facultad de Gobierno, Universidad de Chilep; adjunct researcher at the Center for Social Conflict and Cohesion Studies (COES)

  Postdoctoral Fellow, Universidad Adolfo Ibáñez, Center for the Study of Political History,

Arturo Chang is an Assistant Professor of Political Theory specializing in Comparative Political Theory, Post-colonial Thought, and Decolonial Politics. His research interests are primarily in the study of Indigenous and Black social movements, revolutionary change, popular politics, and the history of political thought in Latin America. His current project, entitled “Imagining America: International Commiseration and National Revolution in the Modern Post-colony” analyzes the influence of hemispheric discourse in the development of anti-colonial insurgency movements in Mexico, Colombia, Peru, and the United States during the Age of Revolutions. His research has appeared in the , , and . Previously, Arturo was a Gaius Charles Bolin Fellow in the Department of Political Science at Williams College.

 Political Theory; Comparative Political Theory, Post-colonial Thought, and Decolonial Politics; Revolution and Social Movements, the History of Political Thought

 Imagining America: International Commiseration and National Revolution in the Modern Post-Colony

: Farr, James (Chair); Dietz, Mary G.; El Amine, Loubna; Ramirez, Paul (History)

Assistant Professor of Political Theory, University of Toronto, Mississauga

Assistant Professor of Political Theory, University of Toronto, Mississauga

American Politics; Political behavior; Political environments; Voting

How Voters Form Issue Attitudes: The Relationship between Political Environments, Issue Attitudes, and Political Behavior ( )

:  Rogers, Reuel R. (Chair); Druckman, James N.; Janda, Kenneth

  Senior Research Fellow, Institute of Korean Political Studies, Seoul National University

  Research Fellow, Institute of Korean Political Studies, Seoul National University

: Daniel Chomsky teaches political science at the University of Texas Rio Grande Valley. His work focuses on mass media decision-making, political power, and public policy. His research has been published in  ,  ,  ,  , and other journals.

: American Politics; International Relations; Mass media; American history; Journalism; Mass communications; Political Economy; Politics of Inequality & the Welfare State; Public Policy; Economic Policy

Constructing the Cold War: "The New York Times" and the Truman Doctrine ( )

Page, Benjamin I (Chair); Cumings, Bruce (History); Woo-Cummings, Meredith

: Associate Professor, University of Texas, Rio Grande Valley, Political Science

: Lecturer, Temple University, Political Science

 Provide authoritative, nonpartisan research and analysis to Members of Congress, committees, and congressional staff. Write reports and confidential memoranda. Present in-person briefings and seminars on policy issues.

 American Politics; Budget; Budget process; Congress; Party politics

Guarding the Treasury: Party Politics and the Congressional Budgetary Process ( )

: Page, Benjamin I. (Chair); Harbridge-Yong, Laurel; Skogan, Wesley G.

 Analyst, Congressional Research Service, Government Organization & Management

 Adjunct, University of Illinois at Chicago, Political Science

Chaesung Chun is a Professor at the Department of Political Science and International Relations at Seoul National University. He is currently the Chair of the Advisory Committee to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, a member of the Advisory Committee of the Ministry of Defense, ROK Army, and Navy. He is a chair of the National Security Center, the East Asia Institute. He was the President of the Korean Association of International Studies, and a visiting professor at Keio University in Tokyo from 2017-2018, and 2010-2011. He was a Director of the Center for International Studies at Seoul National University and a Vice President of the Institute of Peace and Unification Studies, Seoul National University. He received his BA and MA degree from the Seoul National University and Ph.D degree from Northwestern University in the field of International Relations Theory. Major books include (2020), (2019), (2012), (2011).

: International Relations; 

: Classical realists as skeptics: E. H. Carr, Hans Morgenthau, and Reinhold Niebuhr ( )

: Loriaux, Michael M (Chair); Lynch, Cecelia; Cumings, Bruce

: Chair of the National Security Research Center / Professor at the Department of Political Science and International Relations, Seoul National University

Erin Aeran Chung is the Charles D. Miller Professor of East Asian Politics and Director of Undergraduate Studies in the Department of Political Science at Johns Hopkins University. She previously served as the director of the   and a founding co-director of the  .

Professor Chung specializes in East Asian political economy, comparative citizenship and migration politics, civil society, and comparative racial politics. She is the author of   (Cambridge, 2010, 2014; Japanese translation, Akashi Shoten, 2012) and   (Cambridge, 2020), which received the 2021 ASA Asia and Asian America Section Transnational Asia Book Award, Honorable Mention for the 2021 APSA Migration & Citizenship Section Book Award, and the 2021 Research Excellence Award from the Korea Ministry of Education and the National Research Foundation of Korea. She was awarded a five-year grant (2018-2022) from the Academy of Korean Studies (AKS) to support the completion of her third book project on  .

Professor Chung is currently serving as co-president of the   (2021-2023), co-editor of the  , and co-P.I. for the “ ” at Hopkins. She has been a Mansfield Foundation U.S.-Japan Network for the Future Program Scholar, an SSRC Abe Fellow at the University of Tokyo and Korea University, an advanced research fellow at Harvard University's Weatherhead Center for International Affairs Program on U.S.-Japan Relations, and a Japan Foundation fellow at Saitama University. At Hopkins, Professor Chung teaches undergraduate courses on Japanese, Korean, East Asian, and Asian American politics and graduate courses on civil society, citizenship and immigration politics, the political economy of development, democratization, and comparative racial politics.

 Comparative Politics, Political Economy; East Asian political economy, international migration, civil society, and comparative racial politics, Japan; Citizenship; Identity; Japan; Korean; Nationality

 Guarding the Treasury: Party Politics and the Congressional Budgetary Process ( )

: Hanchard, Michael G (Chair); Honig, Bonnie H; Swenson, Peter A

 Charles D. Miller Professor of East Asian Politics, John Hopkins University, Political Science, East Asian Politics

 Charles D. Miller Assistant Professor of East Asian Politics, John Hopkins University, Political Science

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 Political Theory

 Exercising citizenship: Korean identity and the politics of nationality in Japan ( )

: Stevens, Jacqueline (Chair); Koppelman, Andrew M M; Rogers, Reuel R

 Independent researcher, self-employed

 Staff Attorney, Community Activism Law Alliance

 I talk, teach and write about wine. I'm the author of two books about wine, Wine Politics: How Governments, Environmentalists, Mobsters, and Critics Influence the Wines We Drink (University of California Press) and A Year of Wine: Perfect Pairings, Great Buys, and What to Sip with Each Season (Simon & Schuster). I teach popular wine classes at NYU and lead talks and tastings for corporations and private individuals. I have published the leading wine blog, DrVino.com, since the paleolithic era of blogging, starting in 2002. Some of my stories that have had the most impact include pursuing ethics in wine writing and the carbon footprint of wine.

 International Relations; Wine Politics

 Deportation Law and Political Theory ( )

: Gibson, Edward L (Chair)

Author and Wine Educator, Dr. Vino; Lecturer, New York University

 Lecturer, University of Chicago

 For more than a decade, I have taught Chicago politics, the presidency, parties and elections, the U.S. Congress and campaign finance at DePaul University. At DePaul I have also worked to introduce students to local elected officials and to set students up with opportunities for political internships throughout the city and state. I have worked on a couple of different campaigns at varying levels of Illinois politics, the names of which I will not disclose in an attempt to conceal my biases. At Lake Forest College I will also be offering a course on research methods.

 American Politics; Parties and elections, Public opinion, Presidency

 The Politics of Quality: Institutions and Market Stratification in the Wine Sector ( )

: Page, Benjamin I. (Chair); Burch, Traci R.; Druckman, James N.

 Assistant Professor, Lake Forest College, Politics

 Professor, DePaul College of Liberal Arts and Social Sciences, School for New Learning

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 Political Theory; Political Philosophy, Greek and Roman Political Thought, Democratic Theory, Egalitarianism, History of Political Thought, Theories of Well-Being

 The Youth Gap in American Elections: Ideology, Partisanship, and Voting Choice for Three Generations of Under-Thirty Americans ( )

: Kraut, Richard H (Chair); Monoson-Berns, Susan Sara (Co-Chair); Dietz, Mary Golden; Wynne, John P.F.

 Professional Lecturer, DePaul University, Political Science

 Visiting Assistant Professor, DePaul University, Political Science

  Jennifer Cyr is Associate Professor in the Department of Political Science and International Studies and Director of the Master's and PhD in Political Science. She holds a Ph.D. and an M.A. in Political Science from Northwestern University and an M.A. in Latin American and Caribbean Studies from Florida International University, USA. Cyr's research agenda focuses on political representation, stability and institutional change, and democratization in Latin America. In turn, Cyr writes about qualitative and mixed methods, particularly regarding the use of focus groups in the Social Sciences.

Cyr has written two books:    (2017, Cambridge University Press), and    (2019, Cambridge University Press). Cyr has also published articles in various journals in the United States, Europe, and Latin America, including  ,  and the   .

 Comparative Politics; Comparative Politics, representation, democratization, and institutional stability and change in Latin America; Bolivia; Democracy; Party-system collapse; Peru; Political parties; Venezuela

From Collapse to Comeback? The Fates of Political Parties in Latin America ( )

: Gibson, Edward L. (Chair); Mahoney, James L.; Seawright, Jason N.

 Associate Professor, Universidad Torcuato di Tella, Departamento de Ciencia Política y Estudios Internacionales / Department of Political Science and International Studies

 Assistant Professor, University of Arizona, School of Government and Public Policy and Center for Latin American Studies

 Dr. Amanda Sahar d’Urso is an assistant professor of government at Georgetown University and a Provost’s Distinguished Faculty Fellow of 2023. Her research details how Middle Easterners and North Africans (MENA) have been racialized throughout the 20th and 21st centuries, despite being legally classified as ‘White’.  Her work has been published in the as well as on . Her dissertation research is supported by the and the Rapoport Family Foundation Doctoral Dissertation Grant. Her paper, has won the Midwest Political Science Association’s for best paper in race and ethnic politics for 2022.

  American Politics, Experimental Methods, Methods; Race and Ethnic politics; Mixed-Methods

  In the Shadow of Whiteness: Middle Eastern and North African Identity in the United States

:  Druckman, James N. (chair); Seawright, Jason; Tillery, Alvin B., Jr. ( )

  Assist Professor of Government, Georgetown University

Guarini Dean’s Postdoctoral Fellow in the Politics of Race and Ethnicity, Dartmouth College

 Erin Kimball Damman is a Clinical Assistant Professor for the International Studies Program. Her interests include Africa, security and development, international military assistance and peacekeeping, and qualitative and mixed-method research design.

 International Relations; International Politics, Comparative Politics, African Security, Peacekeeping, Qualitative Research Methods

  Peacekeeping For Approval: The Rise of African-Led Interventions ( )

: Reno, William S (Chair); Alter, Karen J.; Goertz, Gary (University of Notre Dame); Spruyt, Hendrik

  Clinical Assistant Professor, University of Idaho, International Studies Program

 Adjunct Professor, Washington State University

 Andrew Day is an American political theorist currently living in Prague. Day's research explores the interface of religion and politics in the early modern period. Day attained his Ph.D. in Political Science at Northwestern University. Day is an instructor in the humanities at Northwestern University and an instructor of modern political philosophy for Loyola University, Chicago. 

Day's dissertation shows that in light of his own theory of obligation as obedience to the laws, Thomas Hobbes was liberated by the regicide of 1649 to undermine religious authorities that in his earlier writings he had been duty-bound to defend. I have published chapter one as an article in The Historical Journal, entitled “Hobbes’s Changing Ecclesiology.” The subsequent chapters further elaborate the political theoretical implications of my argument for thinking about liberty and authority.

  International Relations, Political Theory Religion and Politics; Early Modern Political Thought; Hermeneutics; and Thomas Hobbes

  Hobbes Unbound ( )

: Farr, James Fulton (Chair); Dietz, Mary G.; El Amine, Loubna

  Foreign Policy Researcher, The Nonzero Foundation

  Instructor, Chicago Field Studies Program, Northwestern University

Christopher Day joined the Department of Political Science at College of Charleston in August 2012. His teaching and research interests are in comparative politics, with a particular emphasis on issues of peace and security in Africa. A former disaster relief worker with Médécins Sans Frontières, he is also interested in humanitarian affairs. He offers courses on the Politics of Africa, the Model African Union, Global Political Thought, and World Politics.

Day earned his Ph.D. in Political Science from Northwestern University in June 2012. He also holds an M.A. from the Johns Hopkins School for Advanced International Studies (SAIS). Day earned a B.A. in Political Science and a B.S. in Anthropology from the College of Charleston. He has published articles in Comparative Politics, Civil Wars, the Journal of Modern African Studies, and has written opinion pieces for Al-Jazeera, The Daily Beast, and the Post & Courier. He is also the author of  (Lynne Rienner, 2019)

  Comparative Politics; Comparative Politics, African politics, political violence, civil wars, humanitarian affairs

Fates of Rebels: The Politics of Insurgency Survival and Demise ( )

:  Reno, William S (Chair); Mahoney, James L; Spruyt, Hendrik

  Associate Professor, College of Charleston, Political Science

  Assistant Professor, College of Charleston, Political Science

Caroline L. Silva is a Lecturer in the discipline of Human Rights at the Institute for the Study of Human Rights and the Department of Political Science, Columbia University. She holds a Ph.D. Degree in Political Science from   and a Ph.D. Degree in Law from the University of Copenhagen, iCourts . Caroline completed a postdoctoral fellowship at the Lichtenberg-Kolleg - The Göttingen Institute for Advanced Study (Georg-August-Universität). She also holds an LL.M from the Kings College University of London and an LL.B from Pontifícia Universidade Católica de São Paulo (Brazil). She is a lawyer registered at the Bar Association in São Paulo, Brazil. 

 International Relations; human rights, judicial institutions

 Fates of Rebels: The Politics of Insurgency Survival and Demise ( )

: Hurd, Ian F (Chair); Dothan, Shai (Copenhagen); Reno, William S

 Lecturer, Columbia University Institute for the Study of Human Rights

 Postdoctoral fellow, Lichtenberg-Kolleg (Georg-August-Universität)

Laura De Olden is the Director of Princeton’s Junior Summer Institute (JSI), and the Associate Director for Graduate Student Life and Diversity Initiatives at the Princeton School of Public and International Affairs. Her strong commitment to advancing diversity and equity goals has marked her career in higher education. Laura takes great pride in helping students from diverse backgrounds to thrive academically and maximize their potential. As a first-generation college student, a Latina, a working mother and an immigrant, Laura has a deep appreciation for the value of diversity, equity and inclusion and can easily relate to students’ strong desire to contribute to something bigger than themselves, to their community and to the public good.

International Relations; Social sciences; Belief systems; Foreign policy; Foreign policy attitudes; Mexico; Public opinion; U.s.-Mexican relations

Purposive Belief Systems in U.S.-Mexican Relations A Mexican Test of Page and Bouton's Theory of Purposive Belief Systems

: Page, Benjamin I (Chair); Galvin, Daniel J; Seawright, Jason W

: Associate Director of Graduate Student Life and Diversity Initiatives, Princeton University, Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, Junior Summer Institute

: Post-Doctoral Fellow, Princeton University, Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs

From Richmond, VA, Dr. Nathan Dial is an Active-Duty Major in the US Air Force. Nathan earned a Bachelor of Science in Economics with a minor in Spanish from the US Air Force Academy in 2010. Over his 12-year Air Force career, Nathan has deployed to Bagram Air Base, Afghanistan, and Ali Al-Salem Air Base, Kuwait, piloting the EC-130H with the 55th Electronic Combat Group (Tucson, AZ). Currently, Nathan serves at Offutt, AFB (Omaha, NE) as an RC-135 Pilot with the 55th Operations Group. Additionally, in 2012, Nathan attained a Master's in Public Policy from the Harvard Kennedy School, where he focused on Political and Economic Development. In 2021, Nathan received his Ph.D. in Political Science from Northwestern University, concentrating on comparative politics and minoring in qualitative and quantitative methods. His dissertation developed a theory on why the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) pursues out-of-area activities in the 21st Century. In his spare time, Nathan enjoys playing golf and pick-up basketball, riding his Peloton, reading biographies, producing sports analytic articles, and playing the piano. Teams, where the collective is greater than the sum of its parts, have inspired Nathan's studies and assignments in the military. The idea of creating groups that elevate their members led him to study economics, public policy, NATO, and sports analytics. Nathan plans to contribute to the Aspen Strategy Group community through his experiences and learn how the various parts of the United States' security apparatus can positively impact its foreign policy and global standing.

International Relations; Methods; Comparative Politics NATO in the 21st Century; Sports Analytics

How NATO Decides: A Theory for How NATO Takes Collective Action in the 21st Century ( )

: Reno, William (Chair); Henke, Marina; Spruyt, Hendrik

Active-Duty Major, RC-135 and EC-130H Pilot, United States Air Force

Active-Duty Major, RC-135 and EC-130H Pilot, United States Air Force

Sean Diament’s research and teaching interests broadly encompass the politics of poverty, political inequality (including class, race, gender, migration, and spatiotemporality), power and conflict, American political development (ideas and institutions), the U.S. Congress, representation, policymaking and public policy (primarily social welfare and health), political geography, social epidemiology, multi-method research, and political science epistemological construction and pedagogy. His dissertation and first book project entitled “Dividing the Poor” explores how poor people were virtually represented by largely non-poor lawmakers during the pathbreaking New Deal period in Congressional history.

 American Politics, political inequality (including class, race, gender, and migration), American political development, Congress, representation, policymaking, political geography, multi-method research, and political science epistemological construction and pedagogy

Dividing the Poor: Elite Representation and Preferential Group Construction in the Policymaking Process, 1933-1946 ( )

: Galvin, Daniel J. (Chair); Chen, Anthony S.; Rogers, Reuel R.; Thurston, Chloe N.

Visiting Assistant Professor, Ponoma College

Visiting Assistant Professor, Swarthmore College

Horia Dijmarescu is a VTeaching Assistant Professor & Advisor at the University of Pittsburgh's   and  . Dijmarescu researches how people invoke rules to justify or contest actions. His work examines wartime use of incendiary munitions, the legitimation of human rights violations through emergency powers, and the normalization of animus against sexual and gender identity minorities. In each of these areas, Dijmarescu traces how invoked rules constitute resources through which the meanings of rules are produced and negotiated. Dijmarescu earned a Ph.D. in Political Science at Northwestern University and a M.A. in International Peace and Conflict Resolution at American University in Washington, D.C. 

  International Relations; Political Theory; Global Rules and Norms, Transnational Political Discourse, Politics of Identity Mass Atrocity, Crimes and Human Rights, Invisible Power, Intervention, Philosophy of Science, Anti-Racist Pedagogy

Prometheus’s Blind Spot: Invoking Rules and Political Histories of Fire ( )

: Hurd, Ian F. (Chair); Spruyt, Hendrik; Jackson, Patrick Thaddeus (American University)

Visiting Lecturer, University of Pittsburgh

Visiting Lecturer, University of Pittsburgh

  I am an Assistant Professor in Global Politics in the Department of Political Science at Trinity College Dublin. My primary areas of research are in international relations and comparative politics, particularly international relations theory and international security. My work has been published or is forthcoming in the European Journal of International Relations and the Journal of Conflict Resolution.

 International Relations; Democratization, States and Militaries

  Patrons, Proxies, and International Relations: Political Survival and the Surrender of Sovereignty ( )

:  Spruyt, Hendrik (Chair); Caverley, Jonathan D.; Deruluguian, Georgi (Sociology); Mahoney, James

  Ussher Assistant Professor, Trinity College Dublin, Political Science

  Post-doctoral fellowship, Columbia University, Harriman Institute

Christopher Dinkel is an Assistant Professor of Legal Studies in the Department of Management at Spears School of Business, Oklahoma State University. Dinkel's work has appeared in the and . Drawing upon his interdisciplinary background, Dinkel conducts empirical research at the intersection of law and politics. His dissertation focuses on why countries strengthen their trade secret rights.

International Relations; Comparative Politics; Methods; law and politics

  The Law and Politics of Trade Secrecy ( )

: Nelson, Stephen C (Chair); Alter, Karen J. (Co-Chair); Nzelibe, Jide Okechuku (Northwestern Law); Dreyfuss, Rochelle (New York University)

Assistant Professor of Legal Studies, Oklahoma State University, Spears School of Business

Assistant Professor of Legal Studies, Oklahoma State University, Spears School of Business

Nick (he/him) joined Wheaton College in 2015, after completing doctoral work at Northwestern University.  His research is diverse in scope, but is guided by an overarching interest in the political consequences of the social sciences as an intellectual and professional practice. Nick has published on topics including the politics of popular culture, the history or the social sciences, democratic theory, feminist pedagogy, and the development of Critical Theory in the American academy in outlets such as  ,  ,  and  .

Nick is passionate teacher, and has developed courses at Wheaton that span the fields of international relations, political theory, and women’s and gender studies.  In each of his classes, Nick seeks to trace the origins of our political present in order to encourage his students to think deeply about who we are, how we got here, and where we can go – both as individuals and as members of larger political communities.

Political Theory; contemporary political theory; democratic theory; Feminist political thought; feminist and critical pedagogy; Politics of popular culture; Foucaultian genealogy; Deweyan pragmatism; History and philosophy of American political science

"The Sights That Hold the Crowd": Political Science and the Politics of Popular Culture ( )

: Farr, James Fulton (Chair); Dietz, Mary Golden; Koopman, Colin (Oregon)

Professor of the Practice of Political Science and Women's and Gender Studies, Wheaton College (Massachusetts)

 Visiting Assistant Professor, Wheaton College (Massachusetts), Department of Political Science and Women and Gender Studies

Elise Dufief is a research fellow in the Sustainable Development Governance Programme. She works on various development-related topics such as the governance of sustainable development, the implementation of sustainable development goals, as well as financing for development issues with a focus on the role of development banks. Elise holds a PhD in political science with a focus on contemporary Africa from the EHESS and Northwestern University. Her work focused on the relations between Ethiopia and international donors such as the EU in the context of governance activities and election monitoring. Before joining IDDRI, Elise worked at the French Ministry for Europe and Foreign Affairs on EU development policy (in the context of the negotiations of the EU development work for 2021-2027 and the post-Cotonou agreement) as well as in Mali on governance issues. Previously, she was also the Research and Monitoring Manager on aid transparency programmes in a London-based NGO.

 International Relations, Comparative Politics; African politics and economic development (focus on the Sahel, the Horn of Africa and West Africa), Development Assistance Sustainable growth Sustainable development International cooperation European Union Development economy Democracy Sub-Saharan Africa Electoral sociology Project evaluation Ethiopia Mali Open data Transparency

The Politics of Election Monitoring: The Case of Ethiopia and the EU ( )

: Reno, William S. (Chair); Ficquet, Eloi (École des hautes études en sciences sociales); Hurd, Ian F.; Quantin, Patrick (Fondation nationale des sciences politiques); Riedl, Rachel B.

Research Fellow, Financing Sustainable Development, IDDRI

 Project Officer, Transparency International

 Gustavo R. Duncan Cruz is Associate Professor (Profesor Titular) in the School of Finance, Economics, and Government at Universidad EAFIT (Medellin). Previously, Duncan was an Assistant Professor at the University of Los Andes (Universidad de Los Andes) (Bogota) and Visiting Professor at EAFIT University. He has been a columnist with El País, a newspaper based in Cali, Colombia. Duncan has acted as a consultant in a large number of projects for various bodies and institutions. Among his most notable assignments are: Consultant for the Human Development Report for Bogota, the Families in Action presidential program in Colombia, and the National Department of Planning. He has also been a researcher with the Security and Democracy Foundation. Duncan is a PhD candidate at Northwestern University in Illinois, United States. He holds a M.Sc. in Global Security from Cranfield University (United Kingdom, 2002-2003), a master’s in Industrial Engineering from the University of Los Andes (1999), an undergraduate degree in Literature from the University of Los Andes (1997), and he did undergraduate studies in Engineering.

  Comparative Politics; Mafias, construction of the State, organized crime.

Drug Trafficking as Politics: Oligopolies of Coercion in Mexico and Colombia ( )

:  Gibson, Edward L (Chair); Reno, William S; Winters, Jeffrey A

  Profesor Titular (Associate Professor), Universidad EAFIT, Government and Political Sciences

  Assistant Professor, University of the Andes

Laura Ephraim teaches political science at Williams College. In  , Ephraim reveals the roots of scientific authority in what she calls "world-building politics": the collection of practices through which scientists and citizens collaborate with and struggle against each other to engage natural things and events and to construct a shared yet heterogeneous world. Through innovative readings of some of the most important thinkers of science and politics of the near and distant past, including René Descartes, Thomas Hobbes, Giambattista Vico, and Hannah Arendt, Ephraim argues that the natural sciences are political because they are crucial sites in which the worldly relationships that bind together the human and nonhuman are inherited, augmented, and reconstructed.

 Political Theory; Political Theory

Recovering the common root of science and politics: Reading Descartes and Hobbes with Vico ( )

: Zerilli, Linda (Chair); Farr, James Fulton; Honig, Bonnie H

 Associate Professor, Williams College, Political Science

 Assistant Professor, Williams College, Political Science

  Muhammad Fajar (Ph.D.) is a research fellow at the Institute for Advanced Research (IFAR), the Atma Jaya Catholic University of Indonesia. Fajar's primary interests mainly rest on Indonesian politics, particularly the politics of healthcare and Indonesian subnational politics. 

 Comparative Politics: Indonesia; Regime transition; Social movements; Student movements

The Path to Preemption: The Politics of Indonesian Student Movements During the Regime Transition (1998-99) ( )

:  Winters, Jeffrey A. (Chair); Pearlman, Wendy R.;  Hurst, William J.

  Research Fellow, Institute for Advanced Research (IFAR), the Atma Jaya Catholic University of Indonesia.

  Equality Development and Globalization Studies (EDGS) Visiting Fellow, Buffett Institute for Global Affairs, Northwestern University

  Tulia Falleti (Ph.D. Political Science, Northwestern University, 2003; B.A. Sociology, University of Buenos Aires, Argentina, 1994) is the Class of 1965 Endowed Term Professor of Political Science, Director of the Latin American and Latinx Studies Program, and Senior Fellow of the Leonard Davis Institute for Health Economics at the University of Pennsylvania. Falleti is the author of  (Cambridge University Press, 2010), which earned the Donna Lee Van Cott Award to the best book on political institutions by the Latin American Studies Association; and, with Santiago Cunial, of   (Elements in the  , Cambridge University Press, 2018).  She is co-editor, with Orfeo Fioretos and Adam Sheingate, of   (Oxford University Press, 2016), and with Emilio Parrado of  (University of Pennsylvania, 2018), among other co-edited volumes. Her articles on decentralization, federalism, authoritarianism, participation, and qualitative methods have appeared in edited volumes and journals such as the  ,  ,  ,  ,  , and   among others. As Principal Investigator of an interdisciplinary team, Falleti has been awarded a  $5 million grant from The Mellon Foundation. Collaborating with partners throughout the Americas, the Penn team is researching “Dispossessions in the Americas: The Extraction of Bodies, Land, and Cultural Heritage from   to the Present.” Among other objectives, Falleti is researching the articulation of indigenous peoples’ demands regarding territorial claims, rights to prior consultation, living well, and plurinationality; and collaborating with two non-governmental health organizations to assess the effectiveness of mobile health care for indigenous women and children in remote rural areas. As of May 2022, Falleti is serving as Tri-Chair of the Penn Faculty Senate. 

 Comparative Politics; Comparative Politics, Latin American Politics, Democratization, Federalism and Decentralization, Community participation, qualitative research methods, Historical institutionalism

 Governing governors: Coalitions and sequences of decentralization in Argentina, Colombia, and Mexico ( )

: Gibson, Edward L. (Chair); Schneider, Ben Ross; Thelen, Kathleen A.

  Class of 1965 Endowed Term Professor of Political Science, University of Pennsylvania, Ronald O. Perelman Center for Political Science and Economics; Director of the Center for Latin American and Latinx Studies; Senior Fellow of the Leonard Davis Institute of Health Economics

 Postdoctoral Fellowship, University of Notre Dame, Helen Kellogg Institute for International Studies

:  Lucien Ferguson attained a   in Political Science at Northwestern University. Ferguson is a 2023-25 Drinan Scholars Visiting Assistant Professor at Boston College School of Law. Ferguson's research and teaching fall at the intersection of political theory, law, and American politics.

Drawing on political theory, American politics, and law, my work brings together African American political thought, jurisprudence, legal and intellectual history, and political economy to explore the development of civil rights in relation to capitalism, racial slavery, colonization and empire, and, especially, caste, in the Atlantic world since the eighteenth century. The unifying aim of this research is to diagnose sources of racial and intersectional injustice—both past and present—and to provide theoretical frameworks for realizing a more just society today.

  Political Theory; American Politics; Law and Politics; American political thought, jurisprudence, legal and intellectual history, and political economy

  The Spirit of Caste: Recasting the History of Civil Rights

:  Dietz, Mary G. (Chair); Delaney, Erin F. (Law); Gowder, Paul A (Law); Tillery, Alvin Bernard, Jr.

Drinan Scholars Visiting Assistant Professor, Boston College, School of Law

Drinan Scholars Visiting Assistant Professor, Boston College, School of Law

 Diego Finchelstein has a BA in Economics (Magna Cum Laude) and a BA in Sociology (Magna Cum Laude) from the University of Buenos Aires and a Ph.D. in Political Science (Northwestern University).

He has taught undergraduate and postgraduate courses at prestigious universities in the country and abroad (including Torcuato Di Tella University, Pontificia Georgetown University-UNSAM, University of Buenos Aires, Javeriana University of Colombia, and Northwestern University-Business Institutions Program). Currently, he teaches undergraduate and postgraduate courses in the areas of strategy and international business at the Business School of the University of San Andrés (Argentina) and is a researcher at CONICET (Argentina). 

His areas of interest and research are linked to the internationalization of Latin American companies, corporate governance, strategy of large economic groups in Argentina and regulation of public services. Results of these investigations have been presented at numerous conferences in Argentina, Chile, Colombia, Peru, Brazil, Canada, and the United States. He has also published in Argentine and foreign magazines (including Journal of World Business, Economic Development, Economic Reality, Apuntes Magazine, and Dissent). He has also developed research and consultancy work for the IDB and the Argentine government's Secretary of Energy.

 Comparative Politics; internationalization of Latin American companies, corporate governance, strategy of large economic groups in Argentina and regulation of public services

 Governing governors: Coalitions and sequences of decentralization in Argentina, Colombia, and Mexico ( )

: Schneider, Ben Ross (Chair); Mahoney, James L; Perkins, Susan (Management & Organizations)

 Assistant Professor, Universidad de San Andrés, School of Business Administration

 Assistant Professor, Universidad de San Andrés , School of Business Administration

D.J. Flynn is Assistant Professor of Political Science in the IE School of Politics, Economics & Global Affairs at IE University. He is also affiliated with IE’s Center for the Governance of Change. Before coming to IE, Flynn was a Postdoctoral Fellow with the Program in Quantitative Social Science at Dartmouth College and received his PhD in political science from Northwestern University. His research focuses on misinformation, public opinion, and survey and experimental methodology. Most of his ongoing research uses survey and field experiments to study how misinformation distorts public opinion and undermines public health. Professor Flynn teaches courses on public opinion, political communication, and quantitative methods. He is also the director of capstone research projects for IE’s Master’s degrees in International Development (MID) and International Relations (MIR).

American Politics; Public opinion, quantitative methods

Misinformation Effects in Public Opinion and Representation ( )

:  Druckman, James N (Chair); Diermeier, Daniel; Page, Benjamin I

:  Assistant Professor, IE University, Madrid

: Postdoctoral Fellow, Dartmouth College, Program in Quantitative Social Science

  Professor Forestal’s research and teaching interests are in the area of political theory. Her research focuses on questions of social media platform design and governance, digital culture, and democratic theory. She has published a book,  (Oxford, 2022), on the role of design in building more democratic social media platforms, and her work has appeared in outlets like the  ,  ,  , and  .

 Political Theory; social media platform design and governance, digital culture, and democratic theory; Communication and the arts; Applied sciences; American culture; Architecture; Arendt, Hannah; Dewey, John

Bringing the Site Back In: Social Media and the Politics of Space ( )

: Farr, James Fulton (Chair); Dietz, Mary Golden; Page, Benjamin I

 Helen Houlahan Rigali Assistant Professor, Loyola University Chicago, Political Science, Theory

 Assistant Professor, Stockton University, Political Science

Joshua Freedman is an assistant professor of politics at Oberlin College, where he teaches courses on global politics, international law, international security, and the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. He also teaches an advanced seminar on genocide and international criminal law.vFreedman’s research interests center around the politics of recognition, identity, and status in international conflict and diplomacy.

Freedman’s book project,  , explores the agency that so often lurks behind these struggles, motivating the question of why recognition, and its perceived absence, is so often made to matter. Substantively, his research draws on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, the Armenian-Turkish genocide dispute, Brexit, and China’s rise.

 International Relations; global politics, international law, international security, and the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, politics of recognition, identity, and status in international conflict and diplomacy

 Bringing the Site Back In: Social Media and the Politics of Space ( )

: Hurd, Ian F (Chair); Alter-Hanson, Karen; Hurd, Elizabeth S

 Assistant Professor, Oberlin College, Politics

 Visiting Assistant Professor, Oberlin College, Politics

  Valerie Freeland is a Policy Analyst with the Government of Manitoba. Previously, Freeland was a researcher, professor, and tutor with Athabasca University's Department of Political Science. In 2020-21, Freeland was a Visiting Assistant Professor in the University of British Columbia - Okanagan's Department of Philosophy, Politics and Economics. Freeland has taught and researched at Simon Fraser University (Vancouver, BC), Loyola University (Chicago, IL), and Wheaton College (Wheaton, IL). 

 International Relations, Comparative Politics; Domestic policies; International norms; self-defeating behavior; autonomy; international attention; patronage; norms

Unconventional Power: Less Powerful States' Strategic Use of International Norms ( )

: Reno, William S (Chair); Hurd, Ian F; Mahoney, James L

Policy Analyst, Government of Manitoba

 Adjunct Professor, Wheaton College

 Carlos Freytes is Director Area de Recursos Naturales at Fundación para el Desarrollo Argentino (Fundar). He attained a Ph.D. Political Science from Northwestern University and Master in Political Science and Sociology from FLACSO-Buenos Aires. His area of ​​specialization is comparative political economy, federalism, the economic determinants of electoral behavior, and the methodology of social research. His work focuses on the distributional conflicts around the regulation of extractive activities and export agriculture, and on the intersection between electoral politics and the politics of interest representation. In his doctoral thesis, he studied how federalism affects the political representation of the agro-export sector in Argentina and Brazil. This work was funded by the Roberta Buffett Center for International and Comparative Studies at Northwestern University, the Social Science Research Council and the MinCyT-Capes exchange program of the governments of Argentina and Brazil. He has been a visiting graduate professor at the Catholic University of Córdoba, the University of Bologna-Buenos Aires Headquarters and is currently a professor of Latin American Politics at the Institute of the Foreign Service of the Nation (ISEN). He is a regular adjunct professor at Torcuato Di Tella University and an adjunct professor at Hurlingham National University. 

 Comparative Politics; Public policy; Latin American studies; Agricultural policy; Argentina; Brazil; Legislative politics; Soy production; Taxation

The Cerrado Is Not the Pampas: Explaining Tax and Regulatory Policies on Agricultural Exports in Argentina and Brazil (2003-2013) ( )

: Schneider, Ben Ross (Chair); Gibson, Edward L. (Co-Chair); Mahoney, James L.; Prasad, Monica

Director, Area de Recursos Naturales, Fundación para el Desarrollo Argentino (Fundar)

 Professor, Universidad Torcuato di Tella, Buenos Aires, Departamento de Ciencia Política y Relaciones Internacionales.

:  Dr. Dara Gaines is a problem solver who wields the double-edged skills of analytic rigor and community integration with a genuine appreciation for connection. She grew up down a red dirt road, dreaming of making a difference. Today, she’s the first to tell you that she’s as comfortable behind a podium as she is at a rodeo or a trail ride! Dara’s rural upbringing and extensive academic training give her unique insights that boost her ability to connect with people from various social and cultural backgrounds. Her life has twisted, turned, and bent around itself since she left that dirt road. Dara graduated from the University of Arkansas in 2017 with a combined B.A. in Political Science and African & African American Studies. From there, she was accepted into Northwestern University’s Political Science Graduate program where she earned both a Master’s (‘19) and a Ph.D. (‘23). While enrolled in college, Dara studied the origins and underpinnings of the significant disconnect between communities and the policymakers who serve them, always wondering, “if people don’t vote, who holds government officials accountable?”. Her research explores how rural African Americans experience political incorporation in the South and asks how access to economic, social, and political capital shapes their political perceptions. She leverages her years in the academy and political field experience in her many roles including research manager, mobilization strategist, and business owner. A detail-oriented investigator, she excels at translating policy and empirics for general and specified audiences. She's most interested in engaging, educating, and empowering voters through innovative integrated methods. Dara's system works because she doesn't assume what people care about. Instead, she prioritizes listening, providing context, and empowering people where they are. This method builds stronger connections and makes lasting changes in perceptions of politics and personal power.

  Political science; African American studies; Blacks; Engagement; Mobilization; Politics; Rural; Voters

  Dirt Road Democracy: How Political Context Shapes Rural Black Mobilization ( )

:  Rogers, Reuel R. (Chair); Tillery, Alvin B. (Co-Chair); Thurston, Chloe N.; Bonilla, Tabitha; Franklin, Sekou (Middle Tennessee State University)

 Founder & CEO, D. Gaines Consulting, LLC

Founder & CEO, D. Gaines Consulting, LLC

Laura Garcia-Montoya is an Assistant Professor at the Munk School of Global Affairs & Public Policy. Prior to joining the Munk School, she was an Assistant Professor of Political Science at the Universidad del Rosario (Bogotá, Colombia). She was a Visiting Fellow at the Kellogg Institute for International Affairs at the University of Notre Dame and a Postdoctoral Researcher in The Mamdouha S. Bobst Center for Peace and Justice and the Politics Department at Princeton University. She received her Ph.D. from the Department of Political Science at Northwestern University, where she also completed an M.S. in Statistics. She has also completed M.A. and B.A. degrees in Economics from the University of Los Andes in Colombia.

Dr. Montoya-Garcia’s research interests are in comparative politics and research methodologies. She investigates the political economy of inequality and development in Latin America and its relationship with violence. Her interests in research methods are in the study of causal inference and measurement frameworks. Her work has been published or is forthcoming in the   and   Currently, she is writing a book entitled,   in which she identifies the causes of economic inequality traps -— i.e., high and persistent levels of economic inequality — in the region and explains why and how some countries manage to escape such traps and embark on paths of diminishing inequality.

  Comparative Politics, Methods;  the political economy of inequality and development in Latin America and its relationship with violence

The Cerrado Is Not the Pampas: Explaining Tax and Regulatory Policies on Agricultural Exports in Argentina and Brazil (2003-2013) ( )

:  Mahoney, James L (Chair); Arjona, Ana Maria; Seawright, Jason W.

 Assistant Professor, the Munk School of Global Affairs & Public Policy, University of Toronto

 Postdoctoral Research Associate, Princeton University, Mamdouha S. Bobst Center for Peace and Justice and the Department of Politics

: Comparative Politics; Agenda setting; Foreign aid; Germany; Social movement

: Swaying the powerful: Social movement agenda-setting at the federal and state levels in Germany ( )

: Janda, Kenneth (Chair)

: Part-Time Faculty, Parkland College, Political Science

 As a consultant Dr. Sylvia Gaylord provides first-class qualitative and quantitative research for government agencies and private organizations seeking to better understand policy outcomes, market conditions, and political and regulatory contexts. Sylvia has Ph.D. in Political Science from Northwestern University and a B.A.-M.A. in International Relations from Johns Hopkins University. For eight years she was a faculty member at the Colorado School of Mines in Golden, CO where she taught Government & Politics, Latin American Development, and Quantitative Methods for the Social Sciences. Prior to her career in academia, Sylvia worked in the energy field pursuing power development projects in Latin America. Her experience in the energy sector includes market research and project due diligence, expertise in regulatory and investment regimes, government and utility relations, and relations with local project teams.

 Comparative Politics; Research; data analysis; impact assessment; public policy; regulation; energy policy; Latin America

The devil is in the details: Delegation and the content of legislation in Brazil ( )

: Schneider, Ben Ross (Chair); Gibson, Edward L; Sean Gailmard

 Consultant, Codex Consulting LLC

 Assistant Professor, Colorado School of Mines, Division of Liberal Arts and International Studies

 Mneesha Gellman is Associate Professor of Political Science in the Institute for Liberal Arts and Interdisciplinary Studies, at Emerson College, Boston, USA. Gellman's research interests include comparative democratization, cultural resilience, memory and violence politics, and education policy in the Global South and the United States. Gellman's second monograph,  , looks at how heritage language learning operates in high schools as a tool for young people to resist culturecide—the intentional killing of culture. She uses collaborative methodology to work with Indigenous community stakeholders in far Northern California and southern Mexico to document, via interviews, focus groups, surveys, and observations, the impact of culturally conscious curricula in formal education.  Gellman's first monograph,   (Routledge 2017) examines how some communities use memories of violence in mobilizations for cultural rights, particularly the right to mother tongue or heritage tongue education.

Gellman is also the founder and Director of the   (EPI), which makes college available to incarcerated students at Massachusetts Correctional Institution (MCI) at Concord, a men's medium security prison. Gellman works with the Massachusetts Department of Correction, Emerson College, and other partners to bring an Emerson College Bachelor of Arts in Media, Literature, and Culture to incarcerated students. She is the editor of   (Brandeis University Press 2022) and co-editor of   (Brandeis University Press 2024, forthcoming). 

 Comparative Politics; Democratization; El salvador; Memory; Mexico; Mobilization; Turkey

Claiming Culture: Ethnic Minority Rights Mobilizations in Mexico, Turkey, and El Salvador ( )

: Gibson, Edward L. (Chair); Mahoney, James L.; Reno, William S.

 Associate Professor, Emerson College, Political Science

 Visiting Lecturer, University of Sierra Leone, Fourah Bay College

Salih Emre Gercek joined the University of Connecticut in Fall 2020 after completing his Ph.D. at Northwestern University. His research and teaching interests are in the history of political thought and democratic theory, with a particular attention to themes of equality, participation, and political economy. His other line of research engages with efforts to rethink democracy and collectivity in continental political thought. His work has appeared in   and  .

He is currently working on a book project that explores how the modern idea of democracy emerged and evolved in nineteenth-century European thought against the background of the “social question” – i.e. the debates over the problems of social disintegration, poverty, and class conflict. More specifically, through an investigation of the thought of Alexis de Tocqueville, John Stuart Mill, Louis Blanc, and Jeanne Deroin this project recovers how democratic egalitarianism and participation were seen as ways of repairing social bonds, improving the conditions of the working classes, and promoting the common good.

  Political Theory; the history of political thought and democratic theory, equality, participation, and political economy.

 Claiming Culture: Ethnic Minority Rights Mobilizations in Mexico, Turkey, and El Salvador ( )

: Dietz, Mary Golden (Chair); Farr, James Fulton; Lafont, Cristina; Spruyt, Hendrik

 Assistant Professor, University of Connecticut, Department of Political Science

 Visiting Assistant Professor, University of Connecticut, Department of Political Science

Gina Giliberti is the Director of Speaker Events at World Affairs Council of Philadelphia, the region’s largest and oldest international affairs nonprofit with a combined 130 years of expertise in connecting Philadelphia to the world.

Giliberti's dissertation examines the politics of religious emotion in the context of British colonial governance in India, contemporary global de-radicalization initiatives, and international and comparative law. My research involves US, European, Middle East, and South Asian regions. Giliberti's research agenda is shaped by two goals: first, to examine how shifting conceptualizations of religious emotion and affect inform religious freedom and blasphemy legislation; and, the dilemmas faced by subjects and communities situated at the margins of these definitions in their pursuit of legal protection and political recognition. 

International Relations, Political Theory; Affect; Emotion; Human rights; International law; Religion

  Religious Passions in International Politics ( )

: Shakman Hurd, Elizabeth (Chair); Dietz, Mary G.; Ingram, Brannon (Religious Studies)

  Director of Speaker Events, World Affairs Council of Philadelphia

Director of Speaker Events, World Affairs Council of Philadelphia

 Mauro Gilli is a Senior Researcher in Military Technology and International Security at the   of ETH-Zurich (Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Zurich) where he does research on military technology, operations and strategy; weapons acquisition and defense policy; weapons development and industrial espionage; innovation, creativity and organizational culture; as well as technological change and technology strategy.

Gilli has a B.A. in Political Science from the University of Turin (summa cum laude), an M.A. in International Relations and International Economics from Johns Hopkins University's Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies ( ), and a Ph.D. in Political Science from  . In 2015-2016, Gilli was a Post-Doctoral Fellow at the   of Dartmouth College.

 International Relations; American power; Arm races; Balance of power; Diffusion; Military technology; Unipolarity

The Struggle For Military-Technological Superiority Complexity, Systems Integration and the Industrial Challenges of Imitation ( )

: Sartori, Anne Elizabeth (Chair); Caverley, Jonathan D. (US Naval War College); Nelson, Stephen C; Spruyt, Hendrik

 Senior Researcher, ETH Zurich, Center for Security Studies, Military Technology and International Security

 Post-Doctoral Fellow, Dartmouth College, Dickey Center

:  Doug Gills, 69, associate professor emeritus of urban planning and policy, died March 31 in Goldsboro, North Carolina. Gills joined the UIC faculty in 1994 as assistant professor of urban planning and policy and was promoted to associate professor in 2002. He retired in 2012. During his career, he taught a variety of courses, including professional planning practice; cultural heritage tourism; race and class issues in planning; history and theory in planning; community development; and urban space, place and institutions. He also teamed with colleagues and others to co-teach courses covering topics involving Chicago, politics, race, planning and social movements.

: American Politics; Black politics; urban politics; Minority & ethnic groups; Professional Planning Practice, Cultural Heritage Tourism, Race and Class Issues in Planning, History and Theory in Planning, Community Development, and Urban Space, Place and Institutions

: Theory and Action in Studies of Urban Black Political Movements: Dynamics of Race, Nationality, and Class in the Case of the Task Force for Black Political Empowerment, 1982-1983 (vol 1 & 2) ( ) 

: Friesema, H. Paul (Chair); Abu-Lughod, Ibrahim; Bailey, Ronald William; Payne, Charles M. (Sociology)

:  Associate Professor Emeritus, University of Illinois at Chicago, Department of Urban Planning and Policy

: Assistant Professor, University of Illinois at Chicago, Department of Urban Planning and Policy

 Rebecca Kolins Givan is an associate professor of Labor Studies and Employment Relations in the School of Management and Labor Relations at Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey. She has published widely on employment relations in health care, comparative welfare states and labor studies in journals such as Social Forces, ILR Review, and British Journal of Industrial Relations. Her recent book The Challenge to Change: Reforming Health Care on the Front Line in the United States and the United Kingdom was published in 2016 by Cornell University Press.

 American Politics; employment relations in health care, comparative welfare states and labor studies

  Hard labor: Employees and healthcare reform in the United Kingdom, 1997–2004  ( )

: Loriaux, Michael M (Chair); Hanchard, Michael G; Thelen, Kathy A; Jenkins, Jeffery

 Associate Professor, Rutgers University, Department of Labor Studies and Employment Relations

 Researcher, London School of Economics and Political Science, Centre for Economic Performance

  Jean-François Godbout is a full professor in the department of political science at the Université de Montréal and director of the   at the Faculty of Arts and Sciences. His research focuses on the different applications of machine learning and artificial intelligence in political science. His publications include the book    and several other articles on parliamentarism and political parties.

 American Politics; Comparative Politics, Elections, Parliaments, Europe, United States; Comparative government; artificial intelligence; Parliamentarism; Political Parties; Elections; Quebec politics, Canadian politics; American politics

Congress, representation, and participation: The influence of voter turnout on legislative behavior in the House of Representatives ( )

: Chong, Dennis (Chair); Canes-Wrone, Brandice; Diermeier, Daniel A.; Jenkins, Jeffery A.

 Full Professor, Université de Montréal, Department of Political Science

 Research Fellow, Duke University, Political Institutions and Public Choice Program

Patricia Goff is a Professor of Political Science at Wilfrid Laurier University. Goff received a PhD in Political Science from Northwestern University in 1999. Goff also holds a Diplôme d’études approfondies in Comparative Politics from the University of Paris, and a Master of Arts degree in French Literature from McMaster University. Prior to joining Laurier, Goff taught in the Political Science Department at the University of Utah (2000-2003). Goff has held visiting positions at School of International Relations at the University of Southern California and at the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies in Geneva.

 International Relations; international political economy, international relations theory, and international organizations; the politics of trade

  Invisible Borders: Economic Liberalization and National Identity ( )

: Loriaux, Michael (Chair); Cumings, Bruce; Schwoch, Jim

  Professor of Political Science at Wilfrid Laurier University

Visiting Assistant Professor, DePaul University

Jael Goldsmith Weil is a researcher at the Center for the Study of Regional Development and Public Policy (CEDER) at the University of Los Lagos, lead researcher for the FONDECYT N 3140116 project. PhD in Political Science from Northwestern University, has published articles in the Bulletin of Latin American Research (BLAR) and Historia Magazine and is currently dedicated to researching the interaction between food regimes and public policies.

  Comparative Politics; comparative politics, welfare regimes, public policies, food policies, comparative-historical analysis, and research methods

  Striving for Services: Citizen-State Relations in Chile's Changing Economic, Political and Welfare Regimes, 1954-2010 ( )

:  Mahoney, James L (Chair); Gibson, Edward L.; Roberts, Andrew L.

  Assistant Professor, Universidad de Los Lagos, Center for the Study of Regional Development and Public Policy (CEDER)

  Post-Doctoral Researcher, Fondo Nacional de Desarrollo Cientifico y Tecnologico, CISPO

  International Relations; African Studies; Military studies; Historicity; Institutional layering; Organizational structure; Post-Conflict; South Sudan; Statebuilding; Sudan People’s Liberation Movement/Army

  Post-Conflict Statebuilding in South Sudan (2005-2013) Institutional Layering, SPLM/A Organizational Structure, and the Historicity of the South Sudanese State ( )

:  Reno, William S (Chair); Riedl, Rachel B.; Roberts, Andrew L.

  Distance Learning Manager, Institut de Relations Internationales et Strategiques (IRIS)

  Conflict Analyst, South Sudan, Norwegian Refugee Council

 Scott L. Greer, Ph.D, a political scientist, is Professor of Health Management and Policy, Global Public Health, and Political Science (by courtesy) at the University of Michigan and is also Senior Expert Advisor on Health Governance for the European Observatory on Health Systems and Policies. He researches the politics of health policies, with a special focus on the politics and policies of the European Union the politics of public health, and the impact of federalism on health care. Before coming to Michigan, he taught at University College London. He has published over a hundred book chapters and articles in journals including the Lancet, British Medical Journal, Milbank Quarterly, American Journal of Public Health, Social Science and Medicine, Journal of European Public Policy, Journal of European Social Policy, and Journal of Health Politics, Policy and Law.

 Comparative Politics; Development of European Union health policy and multi-level health policymaking in the UK; health politics in Britain, Spain, and Canada; comparative politics of Spain, France, Germany and the United Kingdom

Self-government: The politics of regional autonomy in Scotland and Catalonia ( )

: Thelen, Kathy A (Chair)

 Professor, University of Michigan, Health Management and Policy Professor, Global Public Health Professor (by courtesy), Political Science

 Lecturer, University College London, School of Public Policy and the Constitution Unit

 Samuel 'S.R.' Gubitz is an Upper School History Teacher at Kent Denver School. Gubitz received his PhD in Political Science at Northwestern University. Gubitz's fields of study are American politics and political communication. While I am no longer primarily a researcher, my research to date and forthcoming centers media effects, political incivility, and Black politics. More generally, Gubitz's research focuses on the ways in which ordinary Americans are affected by the media they consume, and how social norms within different groups interact with political outcomes. But, nowadays, his focus is primarily on teaching. 

 American Politics; Media effects, Political incivility, Political communication

Political Incivility Is a Feature, Not a Bug: Why Mediated Incivility Is Not Bad for Democracy ( )

: Druckman, James N (Chair); McGrath, Mary C.; Rogers, Reuel R

 History Teacher, Kent Denver School, Upper School

 History Teacher, Kent Denver School, Upper School

Dr. Arda Güçler obtained his B.A. in Political Science from Bates College and completed his Ph.D. degree in the Department of Political Science at Northwestern University in 2015. He then joined the Department of Government at Uppsala University in Sweden as a postdoctoral fellow. He remained in this position until he started his assistant professorship at the Department of International Relations at Özyeğin University in 2017. He is currently adjunct social research and public policy professor in the Division of Social Science at New York University Abu Dhabi (NYUAD). He is also one of the founding faculty of Northwestern University’s online Global Health Master’s program.

His research interests are at the intersection of the history of political thought, politics of representation, contemporary democratic theory, and nationalism. He is currently working on a project that interprets the concept of orientalism from a novel angle by visiting politics in three different contexts (i.e., Iran, Egypt, and Turkey). He has published articles in leading journals such as   and  . He is also the author of numerous book chapters, including his chapters in the  .

Political Theory; Politics of Representation, Democratic Theory, Continental Philosophy; Political Representation; Orientalism; Nationalism

Untimely Representation: Deliberation, Urgency, and Democratic Theory

: Toender, Lars (Chair); Honig, Bonnie H; Stevens, Jacqueline

: Adjunct Professor of Social Research and Public Policy, New York University Abu Dhabi

: Instructor, Northwestern University, Center for Global Health

 Florencia Guerzovich is an independent consultant and has worked for The World Bank, Open Society Foundations, Ford Foundation, among other organizations. She has been innovating, connecting, researching, and problem solving for big, complex governance problems since 2000, when she joined the Department of Transparency Policies of the Argentinean Anti-corruption Office. Florencia also served the Transparency and Accountability Initiative's Program Officer, Impact and Learning. Florencia earned her PhD in political science from Northwestern University. Florencia also has a Master’s degree in International Relations from FLACSO/Argentina and a Bachelor’s of Arts in International Studies from Universidad Torcuato di Tella in Argentina. 

 International Relations; International Law; Accountability; Anticorruption; Argentina; Conflicts of interests in government; Control of corruption and good governance; Council of Europe; Czech Republic; Democracy - Argentina; European Union; Institutional development - Czech Republic; International institutions and law - European Union; Organization of American States; Transnational politics; World Bank

 Untimely Representation: Deliberation, Urgency, and Democratic Theory ( )

:  Alter, Karen J. (Chair); Gibson, Edward L.; Mahoney, James L.

Senior Consultant, Open Government Partnership

  Program Officer, Impact and Learning, Transparency and Accountability Initiative

:  Dr. Lisa Hale is the founder and lead coach, facilitator and lead consultant at  She is passionate about helping visionary people bring about their dreams. Specializing in building leadership capacity, Dr. Hale is a sought after trusted advisor and coach for senior leaders, successful entrepreneurs, and leadership teams. For more than two decades, her focus has been to help leaders re-write the operating system that underpins the most ineffective aspects of their leadership presence and culture to a new, more effective operating system. The results are clarity, alignment and tremendous innovation and focus that show up daily in the results they and their teams achieve.

: Comparative Politics; Capitalist transition; Government; Labor movements; Opposition; Poland; Privatization; Socioeconomic policy; Solidarity; Union; Political Economy, International Relations, Government, Communism and Eastern Europe; Nonproliferation

: Poland's Right Turn: Solidarity as Opposition, Government and Union in the Capitalist Transition 
( )

: Thelen, Kathleen A.; Swenson, Peter A.; Munro, William; Ost, David (Hobart and William Smith Colleges); Bunce, Valerie; Comisso, Ellen (UC San Diego)

:  President, Focused Leadership Consulting, LLC

:  Technical Staff Member, Los Alamos National Laboratory

 Sidra Hamidi's research is in security studies, international law, and global governance. She was previously a Stanton Nuclear Security Postdoctoral Fellow at the Center for International Security and Cooperation at Stanford University. Her articles have been published in   and the  . She is currently working on a book which explores the politics of recognition in Israel, India, and Iran’s nuclear programs.

 International Relations; Nuclear Diplomacy, U.S.-Iran Relations, International Security, International Laws

 Building accountability: The politics of anticorruption ( )

: Hurd, Ian F (Chair); Ganguly, Sumit (Indiana University); Mahoney, James L; Page, Benjamin I

 Assistant Professor of Political Science, Eckerd College

 Postdoctoral Fellow, Stanford University, Center for International Security and Cooperation (CISAC)

Fredrick C. Harris is the Class of 1933 Professor of Political Science and former Dean of Faculty in the Social Sciences. He also serves as Director of the  . Professor Harris’s research interests are primarily in American politics with a focus on race and politics, political participation, social movements, religion and politics, political development, and African-American politics. His publications include  , which was awarded the V.O. Key Book Award by the Southern Political Science Association, the Best Book Award by the Society for the Scientific Study of Religion, and the Best Book Award by the National Conference of Black Political Scientists.

Professor Harris's most recent books are   (Oxford University Press, 2012), and, with Robert Lieberman,   (Russell Sage Foundation Press, 2013).   received the Hurston/Wright Legacy Award for Non-Fiction. His current research explores the history of Black Public Intellectuals and will be published by Oxford University Press under the title  . Professor Harris is co-editor with Cathy Cohen of the  ."

  American Politics, race and politics, political participation, social movements, religion and politics, political development, and African-American politics

 Something within: Religion in African American politics ( )

: Mansbridge, Jane J. (Chair); Morris, Aldon (Sociology); Skogan, Wesley; Page, Benjamin I.

  Dean of Social Science, the Class of 1933 Professor of Political Science, Director of the Center on African American Politics and Society, Columbia University

Assistant Professor, University of Rochester, Department of Political Science

Brian Harrison (PhD Northwestern University) is a political scientist specializing in American politics and public opinion. Brian is currently a lecturer at the University of Minnesota and has served on the faculty at Northwestern University, as a visiting fellow at Yale University, an affiliated scholar at New York University, and a visiting assistant professor at Wesleyan University. Before beginning his academic career, Brian was a White House appointee for the Department of Homeland Security. His research and teaching interests are in American politics, political communication and political behavior, public opinion and attitude change, and LGBT rights. Harrison’s first book, , was published by Oxford University Press in 2017 (with co-author Melissa Michelson). It addresses the intersections of sexuality and race, religion, and partisan identities to explain how individual-level identity affects support for LGBT rights.

 American Politics; the impact of communication and identity on public opinion, political and social behavior

  Red Brain, Blue Brain: How Elite Polarization, Partisan Reasoning, and Information Choice Impact Presidential Communication ( )

:  Druckman, James N. (Chair); Galvin, Daniel J.; Harbridge-Yong, Laurel; Page, Benjamin I.

 Lecturer (Adjunct), Humphrey School of Public Affairs, University of Minnesota

  Visiting Assistant Professor, Wesleyan University, Government Organization & Management

Timothy P. Harrison, Ph.D. is the Principal Deputy Director of the Office of Infectious Disease and HIV/AIDS Policy (OIDP), U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS). Tim has provided dedicated leadership during his 19 years of federal service—all of it in OIDP (formerly the Office of HIV/AIDS and Infectious Disease Policy (OHAIDP) and the Office of HIV/AIDS Policy (OHAP)). 

For more than 20 years, Dr. Harrison has worked to advance the concerns of equity in the social safety net and public health spaces. Prior to joining HHS, he worked as a policy analyst in the areas of low-income housing, welfare, and workforce development. Tim was also previously a Visiting Fellow at the University of Rochester’s Government Department and Frederick Douglass Institute and an Adjunct Professor of Government at Georgetown University. He holds an M.A. and a Ph.D. in Political Science from Northwestern University and a B.A. in Political Science from Swarthmore College.

 American Politics; Welfare Politics; American history; Social Welfare

 From gateway to ghetto: The social and political development of public housing policy, 1935-1965 ( )

: Binford, Henry (Chair); Friesema, Paul; Skogan, Wesley

  Principal Deputy Director, the Office of Infectious Disease and HIV/AIDS Policy (OIDP), U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS)

Adjunct Professor of Government at Georgetown University

 Comparative Politics; Latin American studies; Civil-military relations; Democratization; Transitions

  Marginalization, Accommodation, and Abridgment: New Patterns of Civil-Military Relations in the Southern Cone and Brazil ( )

: Gibson, Edward L. (Chair); Mahoney, James L.; Reno, William S.

 Academic Advisor, Doctoral Specialist, Walden University

 Instructor, St. Louis Park Public Schools

 Professor Hendrickson is a political scientist who specializes in United States economic relations with West African countries. Her interests include US foreign policy, and international political economy. She is the director of the International Studies program at CSI.

 International Relations; United States economic relations with West African countries, US foreign policy, and international political economy; Africa; Hegemony; Investment promotion; Private investment; Sub-Saharan Africa

Promoting investment in Africa: Historical transition in the politics of United States hegemony ( )

: Reno, William S (Chair); Loriaux, Michael M.; Deruluguian, Georgi (Sociology)

 Associate Professor, College of Staten Island, City University of New York, Political Science

 Assistant Professor, College of Staten Island, City University of New York, Political Science

 American Politics; Chicago; City Council; Illinois; Policymaking; Politics; Public opinion

Public Opinion and Policymaking in the Chicago City Council ( )

: Page, Benjamin I (Chair); Rogers, Reuel R (Co-Chair); Galvin, Daniel J; Skogan, Wesley G

  Quality Research Specialist, Virginia Department of Behavioral Health and Developmental Services

 Post-Doctoral Research Associate, Northwestern University, Institute for Policy Research

  Olivier Henripin (2022 - ) completed his BCL/JD at McGill University's Faculty of Law, where he served as group assistant for Professor Poirier's 2022-2023 Constitutional Law course. Before studying law, Olivier was an assistant professor of political science and holder of the Helen H. Rigali Chair at Loyola University Chicago, where he taught international relations and specialized in international security and Chinese foreign policy. He was previously a postdoctoral fellow at the Elliott School of International Affairs at George Washington University in Washington, D.C., and a visiting scholar at National Chengchi University in Taiwan. He holds a PhD in political science from Northwestern University. In 2024, Olivier will clerk at the Quebec Court of Appeal.

  International Relations; Bargaining; China; Indivisibility; Militarized conflict; Nationalism; Territorial disputes

  Intractable Territorial Conflicts and the Strategic Social Construction of Indivisible National Homelands ( )

:  Sartori, Anne Elizabeth (Chair); Caverley, Jonathan D; Shih, Victor C; Spruyt, Hendrik

Research Assistant, Peter MacKell Chair in Federalism, Faculty of Law, McGill University

 Pre-Doctoral Fellow, George Washington University, Institute for Security and Conflict Studies

: Nick Hockens concentrates his practice on the representation of developers, institutions and non-profit organizations before the New York City Planning Commission, Board of Standards and Appeals, and Landmarks Preservation Commission. He represents clients in a variety of New York land use and zoning matters, including re-zonings, special permits, variances, designations and alterations of landmarked buildings, and air rights transactions. Prior to joining Greenberg Traurig, Nick was an associate at Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison, LLP and represented developers, investors, landlords, tenants and other parties in a wide variety of commercial real estate transactions, including sales and acquisitions, developments, financings and leasings of office, luxury residential, retail and mixed-use properties. Nick has worked in Seattle as an urban planner for the Federal Transit Administration  (1996-1999) and the Puget Sound Regional Council of Governments (1994-1996).

On the Importance of Privacy for the Public Sphere: The Politics and Metaphor of Self-Authorship ( )

: Mansbridge, Jane J. (Chair); Johnson, James; Strickland, Donald A.

: Shareholder; Land Use & Real Estate Attorney, Greenberg Traurig, LLP

: Urban Planner, the Puget Sound Regional Council of Governments

 International Relations; Comparative Politics; Corruption; International judicial assistance; Judicial politics; Transnational networks

 Judges Without Borders? Transnational Networks of Anti-Corruption Prosecuting Judges in Europe ( )

: Loriaux, Michael M (Chair); Alter, Karen J.; Reno, William S.

 University Director, Global Education and Initiatives, Office of Academic Affairs, The City University of New York (CUNY), Global Education and Initiative

 Director of Liaison Office New York, UAS7

Comparative Politics, Information Technology and Politics, Political Economy, Industrial Policy, Information Society Policies, E‐Government

 The politics of industrial leapfrogging: The semiconductor industry in Taiwan and South Korea

: Stephens, John D.; Loriaux, Michael; Woo-Cumings, Meredith

  Professor of Public Administration, Department of Public Administration and Public Policy, Kookmin University

  Latin American history; International relations; financial crises

  Explaining regime responses to international financial crises in Latin America: An analysis of austerity policies in Argentina, Chile, and Peru, 1968-1986

: Herring, Ronald J.

 Director, Harris County Department of Education

 Assistant Professor, Bates College

 Adam Howat is a visiting assistant professor of politics and postdoctoral fellow. His research focuses on the politics of identity and polarization. He is particularly interested in the ways in which people’s perceptions of groups’ characteristics and values impact intergroup political conflict and coalition building.

 American Politics; public opinion, political psychology, ideology, and the politics of identit

 Intractable Territorial Conflicts and the Strategic Social Construction of Indivisible National Homelands ( )

: Druckman, James N (Chair); Bodenhausen, Galen V.; Merseth Cook, Julianne Lee

 Visiting Assistant Professo, Oberlin College, Politics

 Visiting Assistant Professo, Oberlin College, Politics

Sarah Hughes has extensive experience as an international project director and survey expert. She is a leader in research and questionnaire design, managing large-scale surveys using computer-assisted personal interviewing and collecting and analyzing qualitative data in international, particularly developing-country, settings. Her expertise spans high-quality and cost-effective data collection using innovative, cutting-edge approaches in developing countries, business development, and direction of large, complex projects.

Hughes joined Mathematica in 2015 from NORC at the University of Chicago, where she directed surveys and evaluations in Africa, Latin America, and the United States for more than a decade. As senior survey director of international projects, she directed international evaluations, conducted data collection and analysis, and designed and managed public policy research projects and surveys for international agencies and governments, foundations, academic organizations, and U.S. entities.

Hughes is a member of the American Evaluation Association and the European Survey Research Association and is the author of many professional papers. She holds a Ph.D. in political science from Northwestern University.

  International law; International relations; Euro-Mediterranean Partnership; European Union; French; Globalization; Migration; Politics; Trade; International Research; Food and Agriculture; Energy

  Migration, Trade, and 'Globalization': French Politics and the Euro-Mediterranean Partnership ( )

: Loriaux, Michael M (Chair)

  Senior Fellow, International Research, Mathematica Policy Research

Visiting Assistant Professor, University of Illinois at Chicago, Political Science

Major Jesse R. Humpal Ph.D. is an Active-Duty Air Force officer assigned to Joint Special Operations Command in their Center for Counterterrorism Studies. Major Humpal earned his Ph.D. from Northwestern University in 2021 where he focused on Meta-Rationality, International Security, and Global Norms.

Jesse’s research focuses on issues related to contemporary modes of warfare, such as the tactical and operational implications of fighting in urban environments. Is the urban environment simply an extension of a conventional battlespace into a new built environment, or do armed groups integrate urban environments into new ways of fighting?  His research provides insights into how new organizational features of armed groups affect how they integrate urban battles into their tactical and ultimately into their strategic repertoires.

  International Relations; Comparative Politics; Insurgents, Terrorism, Failed States, Conflict; Africa; Middle East

Global Insurgents and the Winning Paradox ( )

: Reno, William S (Chair); Spruyt, Hendrik; Blair, David (Georgetown)

  Active-Duty Major, Joint Special Operations Command, United States Air Force

  Assistant Professor of Political Science, United States Air Force Academy

  Kathryn Ibata-Arens is Vincent de Paul Professor, DePaul University. Her scholarly work focuses on innovation and entrepreneurship in Asia, science and technology policy, women’s economic empowerment, and inclusive innovation. Ibata-Arens’ recent research explores technology leadership, innovation and entrepreneurial ecosystem development in biomedical industries in Asia. Her book,   (Stanford University Press 2019) analyzes national policy and firm level strategy in China, India, Japan, and Singapore. From 2012 to 2013 she served on the METI-State Department Japan-US Innovation and Entrepreneurship Council, and serves on the Board of Directors of the Japan-America Society of Chicago, and as a member of the U.S.-Japan Council. Previous policy analysis, utilizing social network analysis and GIS methodologies, examines emerging life science (biotechnology and medical devices) regions in Japan and the United States. In 2012, Ibata-Arens was a visiting researcher at the Research Center for Economy, Trade and Industry (RIETI, Tokyo), Ritsumeikan University Research Center for Innovation Management (Kyoto) (2011-2012), and as a Fulbright Fellow at Kyoto University (2010). In 2008, Ibata-Arens was a Japan Policy Fellow at the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) in Washington, DC and received a Sloan Foundation Industry Studies Grant for her work on national entrepreneurship and innovation policy. Her dissertation research was conducted at the Research Center for Advanced Science and Technology (RCAST) at the University of Tokyo as a Fulbright Doctoral Fellow. Ibata-Arens’ previous book,   (Cambridge University Press, 2005) analyzes leading high technology firms and regional economies in Kyoto, Osaka and Tokyo. She received a BA in international relations from Loyola University Chicago and a PhD in political economy from Northwestern University.

 Comparative Politics; innovation and entrepreneurship in Asia, science and technology policy, women’s economic empowerment, and inclusive innovation in access and benefit sharing of plant genomic resources for medicinals

The politics of innovation: High-technology small and medium-sized enterprises in Japan ( )

: Schneider, Ben Ross (Chair); Loriaux, Michael M.; Silberman, Bernard (University of Chicago); Ziemke, Jen

  Vincent de Paul Professor, DePaul College of Liberal Arts and Social Sciences, Political Science

 Postdoctoral Research Fellowship, University of Tokyo, Japan, Research Center for Advanced Science and Technology

Napon Jatusripitak is a Visiting Fellow with Thailand Studies Programme at ISEAS - Yusof Ishak Institute. Jatusripitak reads, writes and talks about topics in social science and Southeast Asian politics, using both qualitative and quantitative research methods to produce knowledge and insights about the world, his research is situated at the intersection of democratization, elite politics, patronage and clientelism. More specifically, Jatusripitak is interested in how and why politicians compete for power electorally by delivering money, favors and privileged access to government resources, what gives rise to variation in such practices over time, and with what implications for democracy. Focusing on the case of Thailand, I explore these questions in my dissertation entitled “The Politics of Giving: Patterns and Evolution of Patronage and Electoral Networks in Thailand.”

Comparative Politics; Democratization, elite politics, patronage politics, political clientelism, machine learning, text-as-data.

The Politics of Giving: Patterns and Evolution of Patronage and Electoral Networks in Thailand

: Winters, Jeffrey (Chair); Mahoney, James; Gans-Morse, Jordan; Hicken, Allen (University of Michigan)

 Assistant Professor of Political Theory, University of Toronto, Mississauga

 Assistant Professor of Political Theory, University of Toronto, Mississauga

 International Relations; NaN

 The Politics of Innovation: High -technology small and medium -sized enterprises in Japan ( )

: Reno, William S (Chair); Reno, William S; Roberts, Andrew L; Ziemke, Jen

 Assistant Professor, United States Air Force Academy, Department of Military Strategic Studies

 Associate Research Scientist (Post-Doc), University of Wisconsin-Madison, Jahn Research Group

: Robert comes to TMP from serving as Head Learner at Monte del Sol Charter School for seven years, following five years of teaching Spanish, French, and US Government at Monte. Before Monte, Robert was Chair of Liberal Arts and Interdisciplinary Studies at the College of Santa Fe. Robert earned his Ph.D. at Northwestern University, studying land issues among the Tarahumara Indians and Mestizos of the Copper Canyon. He has also taught at Gould Academy in Bethel, Maine, after receiving his BA from Dartmouth College. If you have time, Robert can get carried away talking about the ecology, international development, student engagement, tennis and guitars. Robert grew up in Napa, California, with a Spanish mother and a dad from Tulsa. Robert lives with his wife from Mexico, and a son who has just graduated from Colorado College.

 Comparative Politics; Latin American Politics; 

  Conflict and Cooperation in the Sierra: Differential Responses to Neo-Liberal Policy by Raramuri Indians and Mestizos in Chihuahua, Mexico ( )

:  Friesema, H. Paul (Chair); Safford, Frank (History); Barton, Josef (History); Schneider, Benjamin

  Head of School, The Master's Program (Santa Fe)

Whasun Jho is a full-time member of the policy department of the Korea Academy of Science and Technology and a Professor of Political Science and Diplomacy at Yonsei University.

 Comparative Politics; Political Economy of Information and Communication Technology, Politics of Information Society/e-Government, Governance in the Information Age

Building telecom markets: Evolution of governance in the Korean mobile telecommunication market

( )

: Woo-Cumings, Meredith (Chair); Loriaux, Michael M.; Winters, Jeffrey A.

 Professor, Yonsei University, International Relations/Political Economy/IT Politics

 Assistant Professor, Graduate School of Public Policy and Information Technology, Seoul National University of Technology

 Krista Johnson is an associate professor and director of graduate studies at the Center for African Studies in the College of Arts and Sciences, Howard University.

 Comparative Politics; African Diaspora

  From consensual decision-making to conventional politics: Popular participation in contemporary South Africa ( )

: Reno, William S (Chair); Jane Guyer ; Hanchard, Michael G

 Associate Professor, Howard University, African Studies; Director, Center for African Studies

 Assistant Professor, DePaul University, International Studies

 I am a Senior Political Scientist at the RAND Corporation. Prior to RAND, I was a fellow at the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs at Harvard University's Kennedy School of Government and the Center for International Security and Cooperation at Stanford University. My research interests include insurgency, terrorism, intelligence, threat finance, and development. My research and commentary have been published or are forthcoming in the American Economic Review, American Economic Review: Papers & Proceedings, Civil Wars, Foreign Affairs, Foreign Policy, International Security, International Studies Quarterly, Journal of Development Economics, The New York Times, Security Studies, Studies in Conflict & Terrorism, and other outlets. The content on this site does not represent the views of the RAND Corporation or any other organization.

 International Relations; Insurgency and counterinsurgency, terrorism and counterterrorism, threat finance, intelligence, development, program evaluation

  The treatment of civilians in effective counterinsurgency operations ( )

: Reno, William S (Chair); Mahoney, James L; Spruyt, Hendrik

 Senior Political Scientist, RAND Corporation

 Peace Scholar Dissertation Fellow, United States Institute of Peace

:  Nathalia Justo is a Visiting Instructor in Government in the Department of Government and Legal Studies at Bowdoin College. Justo is a teacher-scholar with expertise in ethics, international law, migration and citizenship, history and international organizations, and international political economy.

With her current interdisciplinary research project, Justo wants to contribute to ongoing debates on the shortcomings of current legal categories of protection for non-citizens by exploring to which extent they owe their potentialities and limits to notions of deservingness that sideline broader articulations of political responsibility. Justo takes an ethnographic approach to the processes of construction of the categories of the stateless, refugee, and temporary protected status (TPS) through UN archival work and fieldwork with communities of rights claimants.

  International Relations; Global politics of citizenship; international law and migration; critical approaches to international relations theory; interpretive methodologies in political science

  The Global Politics of Citizenship: Producing and Protecting the “Deserving” Subject ( )

:  Shakman Hurd, Elizabeth (Chair); Hurd, Ian; Dietz, Mary G.; Inayatullah, Naeem (Ithaca College)

Visiting Instructor in Government, Bowdoin College

Visiting Instructor in Government, Bowdoin College

Dr. KANG Hayun is a research fellow of the Center for ICT Trade and Inter-Korean Cooperation Research at the Korea Information Society Development Institute (KISDI). KISDI is a government-affiliated policy research institute, in Korea, focusing on socio-economic aspects of broadcasting as well as telecommunications, and international cooperation. Dr. KANG Hayun's main research interests are in trade rules of the digital economy, inter-Korean cooperation in ICT matters, ICT policy development of developing countries. Dr. KANG Hayun served as expert adviser and negotiator for the Korean government for various international trade agreements such as the Korea-US FTA, Korea-China FTA as well as participated in WTO trade in services negotiations. Dr. KANG Hayun has shared Korea's experience in trade liberalization and economic growth with developing countries at international events hosted by UNCTAD, APEC-TEL and other international bodies. Currently Dr. KANG Hayun is engaged in research on inter-Korean co-operation in the area of 4th Industrial Revolution. Dr. KANG Hayun is a graduate of the University of British Columbia, Canada, and completed Ph.D. in international relations at Northwestern University, USA. Dr. KANG Hayun has ministerial citations from the Ministry of Information and Communications, Ministry of Finance and Economy and from the Korea Communications Commission, Republic of Korea

 Comparative Politics; Bureaucracy; Collaboration; Collusion; Conflict; Governance; Korean; Political economy; State-business relations Economic policy, capitalism, neoliberal, state power, Korea

Governance and state-business relations: Collaboration, collusion and conflict in the Korean political economy ( )

: Winters, Jeffrey A. (Chair)

  Executive Director, Korea Information Society Development Institute, Department of Multilateral Cooperation Research

  Member of Korean Government WTO Trade Negotiation Delegation

Hye Yun Kang is Assistant Professor in Conflict Analysis and Resolution. She received her Ph.D. in Political Science from Northwestern University and in Philosophy from the École Normale Supérieure (ENS), Paris in 2019. Before joining George Mason Korea, Dr. Kang held a Post-Doctoral Fellow position in the Mershon Center for International Security Studies at the Ohio State University. In 2018-2019, she was a Pre-Doctoral Fellow at the American Bar Foundation. Her research and teaching interests include political violence, human insecurity, and security and law with a focus on critical theory. Currently, Dr. Kang is working on her book project, tentatively titled, “Suicidal Security: Security Performance and Political Violence.

 International Relations; Political Violence, Human Insecurity, and Security and Law

 Unintended Intentions: Security Script and Performative Enactment ( )

: Loriaux, Michael M (Chair); Crepon, Marc D L (Co-Chair); Reno, William S; Hurd, Ian F

 Assistant Professor in Conflict Analysis and Resolution, George Mason University in Korea

 Postdoctoral Fellow, The Ohio State University, Mershon Center for International Security Studies

: Suji Kang will work on the Borders and Boundaries Project at Perry World House. She researches political psychology, political behavior, misinformation, experimental methods, and causal inference, also examining how trusted sources influence people’s political perceptions and behaviors. Her work is forthcoming in the  . She received the Rapoport Family Foundation Doctoral Dissertation Research Grant. Kang completed her PhD in political science at Northwestern University. 

  American Politics; Political Psychology, Political Behavior, Causal Inference, and Text Analysis

: Essays on the Causes and Consequences of Political Misperceptions ( )

:  Druckman, James N. (Chair); Bullock, John; McGrath, Mary

Perry World House Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Pennsylvania

Perry World House Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Pennsylvania

 Alisa joined Reform for Illinois in 2018, drawn to the organization’s long history of fighting for campaign finance reform and against systemic corruption. As Executive Director, she leads RFI’s policy development, advocacy, and educational initiatives and oversees operations. A Yale graduate with a J.D. and Ph.D. in Political Science from Northwestern University, Alisa brings expertise in law and the political process and a background in community organizing, grassroots activism, and nonprofit administration.

 International Relations; Civil liberties; Comparative constitutional law; Counterterrorism; Human rights; International norms; Terrorism

 Governance and state-business relations: Collaboration, collusion and conflict in the Korean political economy ( )

: Alter-Hanson, Karen (Chair); Nzelibe, Jide Okechuku (Law); Page, Benjamin I

 Executive Director, Reform for Illinois

 Northwestern University, School of Continuing Studies

I am the Associate Director of the   at Syracuse University. I work on all aspects of the repository, but am particularly interested in qualitative data management and the development of scholarly workflows. I hold a PhD in political science from Northwestern, where my substantive interests center around the political economy of business/labor relations in the Industrialized world as well as issues of conceptualization and measurement in political economy.

As time permits, I am an active contributor to several scholarly open source software projects, including in particular  , where I help oversee the  , and the  , where I am on the board and co-maintain the  .

 Comparative Politics; Latin American Politics; Argentina; Business; Germany; Labor markets; Political economy; United States

Liberalization, Segmentation, Informalization: Business and the Political Economy of Changing Labor Markets ( )

: Mahoney, James L (Chair); Thelen, Kathy A (Co-Chair); Gibson, Edward L; Schneider, Ben Ross

 Associate Director, Qualitative Data Repository; Research Assistant Professor, Political Science Department, Syracuse University

 Associate Director, Syracuse University, Qualitative Data Repository

  Demetra Kasimis teaches and writes about democracy and its dilemmas in ancient and contemporary contexts. She is interested in what makes a productive engagement with antiquity and specializes in problems of migration and political membership; gender and kinship; democratic instability and conspiracy; and interpretive method. Most of her work combines the insights of classical Greek thought with the critical tradition of continental political thought that examines formations of power and political identity. She holds a B.A. and M.A. from Columbia University, where she studied philosophy and Hellenic Studies, and a Ph.D. in political science from Northwestern.  At Chicago, she is an associated faculty member of the Department of Classics, a member of the affiliated faculty and board of the Center for the Study of Gender and Sexuality, and a fellow of the Chicago Center for Contemporary Theory (3CT).  Her research has been funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities, the American Council for Learned Societies, the Mellon Foundation, and the Fulbright Foundation. She is an editor of the journal Contemporary Political Theory. 

  Political Theory; democratic theory and the history of political thought especially in classical Athens; membership politics and migration; post-war continental political theory; and feminist theory

Drawing the boundaries of democracy: Immigrants and citizens in ancient Greek political thought ( )

:  Monoson, S. Sara (Chair); Dietz, Mary G.; Honig, Bonnie H.

  Associate Professor; Director of Undergraduate Studies, University of Chicago, Political Science

  Mellon Postdoctoral Associate, Yale University, Whitney Humanities Center

Dr. Katrin Fraser Katz is a Scholar-in-Residence in the Master of Arts in International Administration (MAIA) program at the University of Miami. She is also an Adjunct Fellow (Non-resident) in the Office of the Korea Chair at the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) in Washington, DC and the Van Fleet Nonresident Senior Fellow at The Korea Society in New York. Previously, Dr. Katz served as director for Japan, Korea, and oceanic affairs on the staff of the National Security Council from 2007 to 2008. She was also a special assistant to the assistant secretary for international organization affairs at the U.S. Department of State and an analyst at the Central Intelligence Agency. Dr. Katz’s research, which has been supported by grants from the Korea Foundation and the Horowitz Foundation for Social Policy, explores the interplay of cooperation and conflict in East Asia’s political, economic, and security dynamics. She has taught courses at Columbia University and Georgetown University and holds a Ph.D. in political science from Northwestern University; a master’s degree in East Asian and international security studies from the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, where she was awarded the John C. Perry Scholarship for East Asian Studies; and a bachelor’s degree, magna cum laude, in international relations and Japanese from the University of Pennsylvania.

 International Relations; interplay of cooperation and conflict in East Asia’s political, economic, and security dynamics

Domestic Interest Configuration and Island Disputes: Cyclical Surges of Nationalist and Internationalist Influence in Northeast Asia ( )

: Spruyt, Hendrik (Chair); Caverley, Jonathan D; Cha, Victor D.; Spruyt, Hendrik

  Non-resident Fellow, Office of the Korea Chair, Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS); Scholar-in-Residence, Master of Arts in International Administration (MAIA), University of Miami

 Visiting Lecturer (Adjunct Assistant), Georgetown University, Asia Studies Program

 Political Theory

 Domestic Interest Configuration and Island Disputes: Cyclical Surges of Nationalist and Internationalist Influence in Northeast Asia ( )

: Farr, James Fulton (Chair); Alznauer, Mark Vinzenz; Dietz, Mary Golden

 Instructor, Northwestern University, Center for Field Studies

 Instructor, Northwestern University, Center for Field Studies

  Andrew S. Kelly is an assistant professor in the  . Kelly's research investigates the politics of public policy and institutional change, with a particular focus on three critical areas of American public policy: health care, scientific research, and public health. The ultimate goal of Kelly's research agenda is to understand how institutional structures and existing policy systems affect the state’s ability to design, enact, and secure public policies that serve the general interest and improve governance. 

Kelly received his PhD in Political Science from Northwestern University in 2012.  Prior to joining CSUEB, Kelly held post-doctoral fellowships from Johns Hopkins University and the University of California, San Francisco, as well as a two-year position as a Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Health Policy Research Scholar at the University of California, Berkeley.

  Comparative Politics, American Politics; American political development,US public policy, health and science policy; America; Britain; Policymaking; Science; Scientists; United States

  Entering the New Frontier: The Origins and Development of Scientific Capacity in the United States and Great Britain ( )

:  Mahoney, James L. (Chair); Galvin, Daniel J.; Prasad, Monica

  Assistant Professor, California State University, East Bay, Department of Nursing and Health Sciences

  Post-Doctoral Fellow, UC Berkeley/UCSF, Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Scholars in Health Policy Research

 I’m currently Associate Professor of Political Science and African Studies at North Carolina State University, Raleigh NC-USA. I’m a student of politics, not a politician! So, I’ve little interest, if any, in active politics. However, since I was a little boy in secondary school, I’ve always had a keen interest in global current affairs and local sociopolitical developments. Thus, since April 2013, I’ve been writing a weekly current affairs column, first for The Observer (2013-2019) and currently for Daily Monitor (2018-todate), both based in Kampala, Uganda. I also co-founded a political think-tank, Society for Justice and National Unity (SoJNU), with senior colleagues at Makerere University, Kampala, which seeks to provide intellectual input to Ugandan politics. In addition to my limited political activism, I also have been actively involved in community engagement as Vice President (2016-2018) and later Interim President (2018-2019) for the North America Masaba Cultural Association and board member of a university/tertiary education scholarship non-profit organization, CROSO.

 Comparative Politics; Comparative Politics and International Political Economy with a focus on Africa.

  The Institutional Transformation of Africa's Personalist Regimes: A Comparative Analysis of Ethiopia, Ghana, Rwanda, and Uganda ( )

:  Reno, William S. (Chair); Mahoney, James L. (Co-Chair); Otoma, Ato Kwamena (CODESRIA); Riedl, Rachel B.

  Associate Professor, North Carolina State University, Political Science; Inter-disciplinary studies (African Studies)

  Assistant Professor, North Carolina State University, Political Science; Inter-disciplinary studies (African Studies)

Rana (ren ) Khoury is an assistant professor of political science at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Previously, she was a postdoctoral fellow at the Niehaus Center for Globalization and Governance at Princeton University. Khoury studies comparative and international politics, with a focus on contention, displacement, and humanitarianism in the Middle East. Her  explains the relationship between international aid and civilian activism in the Syrian war. Her multi-method research employs data from field-based immersion and interviews, and original survey and social media data.

Comparative Politics, Methods; Middle East, displacement; humanitarianism; contentious politics; methods; Middle East politics; American politics

Aid, Activism, and the Syrian War

: Pearlman, Wendy (Chair); Reno, William (Co-chair), Seawright, Jason; Arjona, Ana

Assistant Professor of Political Science, the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Postdoctoral Research Associate Princeton University, Niehaus Center for Globalization & Governance, Program in Regional Political Economy

Professor Kim received doctoral degree from Northwestern University. His main research and teaching areas include political behavior, public opinion, minority politics, the presidency, political psychology, and methods. He coauthored and published an article in the  .

American Politics, Minority Politics, Political Behavior and Public Opinion; the presidency, political psychology, and methods

Core values and public opinion on foreign policy ( )

Chong, Dennis (Chair); Cook, Fay Lomax; Druckman, James N.

  Associate Professor, Florida Atlantic University, Department of Political Science

  Visiting Assistant Professor, University of Illinois at Chicago, Department of Political Science

: Hyok Kim is Professor of Public Administration at the University of Seoul. Before joining UOS in 2003, Professor Kim served as Associate professor at Hankyong National University. He received an B.A. in Political Science & Diplomacy from Yosei University and his M.A. and Ph.D. in Political Science from the Graduate School, Northwestern University. Professor Kim’s current research interests focus on public policy, with a particular emphasis on the effect of political structure on public policy formulation. He has published on several topics including : citizen-centered e-Governance, presidential leadership and policy agenda setting, representative bureaucracy and Governance institutionalization.

American Politics; Urban Politics; Public Administration; citizen-centered e-Governance, presidential leadership and policy agenda setting, representative bureaucracy and Governance institutionalization.

  Violence, social structure, and municipal policy response ( )

:  Skogan, Wesley G. (Chair); Friesema, H.; Reed, Adolph L., Jr

: Professor, the University of Seoul, Department of Public Administration 

: Instructor, School of Social Science Korean Military Academy

: Manza, Jeffrey L. (Chair)

: Professor, Keimyung University, Department of International Relations

Prof. So Young Kim is the Director of the Korea Policy Center for the Fourth Industrial Revolution and the former Head of the Graduate School of Science and Technology Policy at KAIST, South Korea. She earned her Ph.D. and M.S. from Northwestern University with Fulbright Scholarship specializing in international political economy and mathematical methods in social sciences. Prof. Kim worked as a data archivist for the Social Science Computing Center at the University of Chicago and taught as an assistant professor at Florida Atlantic University before joining KAIST. Her research deals with high-stake issues at the interface of S&T and public policy such as government R&D funding and evaluation, basic science policy, science advising, science & engineering workforce, science-based ODA, and global governance of emerging technologies. Her scholarly work includes publications in International Organization, Journal of Asian Survey, Science and Public Policy, and STI Policy Review as well as the edited volume of Science and Technology Policy: Theories and Issues.

Prof. Kim conducted large-scale science policy projects including the Identification of Strategic Research Areas in Basic Research (funded by the National Research Foundation), Measuring Social Impacts of the Public R&D Programs (funded by the Korea Institute of S&T Evaluation and Planning), and Kenya KAIST Feasibility Study (funded by Korea Eximbank). As a public intellectual, Prof. Kim has served several governmental committees including the National Science & Technology Vision Committee, National R&D Evaluation Review Committee, Advisory Committee for the Science & Engineering Workforce Five-Year Plan (all for the Ministry of Science and ICT), Spent Fuel Policy (Ministry of Trade, Industry and Energy), and University Gender Equality Committee (Ministry of Gender and Family). She is also active in various public organizations, serving as chair for the Long-term Policy Planning Committee of the Korea Federation of Women’s S&T Associations (KOFWST), and the Fourth Industrial Revolution Network of the Korea Federation of S&T Associations (KOFST). She was recently elected to be a co-representative of the Coalition for Citizen Science and Society, South Korea's largest nonprofit organization for public engagement in science. Prof. Kim is also leading the Establishment of Kenya KAIST Project conducted through the intergovernmental loan as a project coordinator.

  International Political Economy, Science, Technology and Public Policy, Quantitative Methodology

A mistaken link, divergent paths: Globalization, economic insecurity and social spending (1950–1999) ( )

: Wallerstein, Michael J (Chair)

 Professor, Korea Advanced Institute of Science & Technology (KAIST), Graduate School of Science & Technology Policy;  Director, Korea Policy Center for the Fourth Industrial Revolution (KPC4IR)

 Assistant Professor, Florida Atlantic University

 Samara Klar is a Professor of Political Science at the , a Melody S. Robidoux Foundation Fund Professor, and a co-Coordinator of the . an Associate Professor at the University of Arizona School of Government and Public Policy. She studies how individuals’ personal identities and social surroundings influence their political attitudes and behavior. Most often, she uses experimental methods (in and outside the lab), surveys, and other statistical tools. Dr. Klar received her PhD in Political Science from Northwestern University and also hold degrees in political science from Columbia University and McGill University.

Her award-winning book,  , (co-authored with Yanna Krupnikov) was published by Cambridge University Press in 2016 and her research appears in top journals including  , ,  and many others. This work has received multiple national awards from the American Political Science Association, the Midwest Political Science Association, and the American Association for Public Opinion Research. 

 Political Theory; Methods; Experimental methods; Identities; Partisanship; Political behavior; Political psychology; Survey analyses

 The Influence of Identities on Political Preferences ( )

: Druckman, James N (Chair); Miller, Peter (Communications); Page, Benjamin I

 Professor of Political Science; Melody S. Robidoux Foundation Fund Professor, University of Arizona, School of Government and Public Policy

 Assistant Professor, University of Arizona, School of Government and Public Policy

 As a multimethod researcher and educator with experience designing and executing multi-year community-based projects, I am passionate about using qualitative and quantitative data to drive evidence-based decision-making and strategy. My experience is focused on designing and conducting research through interviews, focus groups, and original survey data collection, with a priority on elevating and amplifying the voices and experiences of those impacted by research. Additionally, I have 7 years of high school and university teaching experience, as well as a background in designing and collaboratively facilitating teaching-related professional development, workshops, and speaker series.

 Comparative Politics, Methods; armed conflict and politics, microfoundations of order, institutional change, state-building, North Caucasus, mixed methods

 Reconfiguration of Sub-national Governance: Responses to Violence and State Collapse in the North Caucasus ( )

: Reno, William S (Chair); Arjona, Ana Maria; Riedl, Rachel B.

  Manager, Curriculum Equity Initiative (Skyline) Assessments, Chicago Public Schools

 Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Center for Russia, East Europe, and Central Asia (CREECA)

  Power, resources, and consequences of power relations upon foreign policy behavior ( )

:  Park, Tong Whan (Chair); Janda, Kenneth; Anderson, Lee F.

  Associate Professor, Yonsei University

 ​I am an assistant professor of political science at the University of New Mexico. I received my doctorate from Northwestern University where I studied comparative politics, qualitative methods, and international relations. My substantive research interests include organized crime, narcotics trafficking, early twentieth century Eurasian politics, statebuilding, and political economy, I also write about methodology, and my interests there include set theory, fs/QCA, counterfactual analysis, case selection procedures, and mixed methods research. I am currently working on a book manuscript titled  ​. 

Kendra L. Koivu began her career in the UNM Political Science Department in the Fall of 2012 after completing her Ph.D. at Northwestern University. In 2013, just after the birth of her second child, Professor Koivu was diagnosed with metastatic breast cancer. Since then, and in spite of her prognosis, she wrote a book, published several scholarly articles, became an important voice in the methodology of Political Science, mentored many students, and was granted tenure and promotion at UNM in the Spring of 2019. Professor Koivu made a home in Albuquerque with her husband, Tony Aronica. This fall, she was able to see her daughter off to Grinnell College and her son into Kindergarten. Her body finally succumbed to the cancer she endured for five years on the night of September 27, 2019 at the age of 40. She will be dearly missed by her friends, colleagues and students at UNM and she will be remembered for her striking wit, tenacity, and extremely gifted academic mind.

 Comparative Politics; Organized crime; State building

 Organized Crime and the State: State Building, Illicit Markets, and Governance Structures ( )

: Reno, William S (Chair); Mahoney, James L; Thelen, Kathy A

Assistant Professor, University of New Mexico Albuquerque

 Adjunct Professor, Stuart School of Business at Illinois Institute of Technology

:  Ken Kollman is the Frederick G. L. Huetwell Professor and Professor of Political Science at the University of Michigan.  He is also Research Professor at the Center for Political Studies (Institute for Social Research) at the university.

His recent book, coauthored with John Jackson, Dynamic Partisanship: How and Why Voter Loyalties Change, published by University of Chicago Press, includes detailed analysis of data from the United States, Australia, Canada, and the U.K.  His previous book, Perils of Centralization, published by Cambridge University Press, includes research on the European Union, the Roman Catholic Church, General Motors Corporation, and the United States government. Throughout his career he has contributed in diverse fields: computational social science, comparative and American politics, European Union studies, comparative federalism, and comparative political parties and elections. His popular American government textbook with W.W. Norton is now in its third edition. The New York Times and Washington Post have published his essays. He created and administered a new minor and major in international studies at the University of Michigan. The major has grown into one of the largest at the university. He co-founded and is co-principal investigator of the Constituency-Level Election Archive (CLEA), which is the world’s largest repository of elections results data.

American Politics, political parties and organizations, elections, lobbying, federal systems, formal modeling, complexity theory, methods, and comparative politics.

  Outside lobbying: Public appeals by interest groups ( )

:  Page, Benjamin I (Chair); Mansbridge, Jane; Chong, Dennis

  Frederick G. L. Huetwell Professor, University of Michigan, Department of Political Science

Assistant Professor, The University of Michigan, Department of Political Science

Matthew Lacombe is the Alexander P. Lamis Associate Professor in U.S. Politics in the Department of Political Science at Case Western Reserve University. His research and teaching interests are in American politics and engage with a range of topics, including interest groups and parties; gun politics; political identity, ideology, and behavior; inequality and representation; and American political development.

Matt is the author of  , which uses the case of the National Rifle Association to identify and explain how interest groups can shape their members’ behavior in ways that help them advance their policy agendas and gain influence within political parties. Along with Benjamin Page and Jason Seawright, he is a co-author of  , a book that details the political preferences and behavior of U.S. billionaires. His research has appeared (or will appear) in the  , Journal of Politics,  ,  ,  ,  , and the  . It has also been discussed in a wide range of media outlets, including the  ,  , NBC News, NPR,  ,  , Vox, FiveThirtyEight, and  . It was also featured in  , a documentary that premiered at the Tribeca Film Festival.

Before joining CWRU, Matt was an Assistant Professor at Barnard College, Columbia University from (2019 to 2022) and a National Fellow at the University of Virginia’s Jefferson Scholars Foundation (2018-2019). He received his PhD from Northwestern University and BA from Allegheny College.

 American Politics; political power in the United States, interest groups and political parties, social identity and political ideology, inequality and representation, and American political development

 Gunning for the Masses: How the NRA Has Shaped Its Supporters’ Behavior, Advanced Its Political Agenda, and Thwarted the Will of the Majority ( )

: Galvin, Daniel J (Chair); Chen, Anthony S; Page, Benjamin I

 Assistant Professor , Columbia University, Barnard College, Department of Political Science

 National Fellow (Doctoral), University of Virginia, Jefferson Scholars Foundation

Atsi Sheth is Managing Director and Head of Moody’s Credit Strategy and Research group, which provides forecasts, analysis and house views on risk across countries, sectors and asset classes. She also heads Moody’s Global Emerging Markets Initiative, which generates insights on the macro-economic, political, environmental, social and governance (ESG) risks facing emerging markets. In her capacity leading these teams, Atsi also serves as a spokesperson on Moody’s analytic views, engaging with investors, the media and a wide range of public and private sector stakeholders. Atsi is a long-time champion of Moody’s Diversity, Equity & Inclusion (DE&I) and Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) initiatives. She serves as co-chair of the CSR Thought Leadership & Solutions working group, the Senior Advisor to Moody’s Asian Leadership Initiative and as a DE&I Ambassador. Prior to her current role, Atsi was Managing Director in Moody’s Sovereign Risk Group. She has also served as Chief Economist at Reliance Capital and taught courses on International Political Economy and Emerging Markets at Columbia University and Northwestern University. Atsi has a PhD from Northwestern University and a B.A. from Bombay University.

 Emerging market, emerging contradictions: The politics of economic liberalization in India ( )

:  Woo-Cumings, Meredith (Chair)

  Managing Director; Head of Moody’s Credit Strategy, Moody's Investors Service

Credit Policy/Sovereign Risk Moody's Investors Service

Dr. Lavelle’s research explores global governance.  She recently completed a book that traces the history of multilateralism–or the coordination of relations among three or more states according to certain principles—from the nineteenth century to the present.  It pays particular attention to the relationship between domestic and international politics that have helped and hindered the process over time.  Her new project similarly integrates a variety of economic, security, and environmental issues that have come together as the US engages the Arctic region in the twenty-first century.

Dr. Lavelle’s book,  , was released in March 2020 by Yale University Press. Two recent articles look at Arctic policy, available   and 

Her other book on American governing institutions that formulate financial policy titled  , was released by Cambridge University Press in 2013. She derived the analytical framework for this and her book on Congress and the IMF and World Bank from her experience working as a Congressional fellow on the staff of the House Committee on Financial Services for Chairman Barney Frank. Since that time, she has used extensive archival evidence and interviews to provide additional evidence for the policy process in the domestic and international arenas.

International Relations: US Foreign Policy; International Organizations; United Nations; U.S. Congress and International Organizations; Interdisciplinary Arctic issues. International Political Economy: Politics of International Finance; International Monetary Fund; World Bank; Politics of stock markets; Congress and banking policy.

  Invisible hand, invisible continent: Liberalization and African states in the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (1964-1995) ( )

  Ellen and Dixon Long Professor in World Affairs, Ellen and Dixon Long Professor in World Affairs, Department of Political Science

 Visiting Assistant Professor, Cleveland State University, Department of Political Science

 Politics of industrialization: The textile industry in South Korea and the Philippines

: Stephens, Evelyn H. (chair); Stephens, John; Park, Tong-whan; Woo-Cumings, Meredith

 Heajeong Lee is a professor of political science and international relations at Chung-Ang University in Seoul, Korea. His research interests include American foreign policy, international relations theory, and East Asian security. He received his B.A. and M.A. in International Relations from Seoul National University and his Ph.D. in Political Science from Northwestern University. He has been a guest fellow at the Norwegian Nobel Institute and the Mansfield Center of the University of Montana. He is the author of T (2000) and, most recently “ ” (2015, in Korean).

: International Relations; American history; Great Depression; Hegemony; Korean War; Historical Sociology of the International; Ethics of Violence in International Relations; Global Governance and American Hegemony; The Political Economy of the American State; Korean-American Diplomatic Relations

The making of American hegemony from the Great Depression to the Korean War ( )

: Page, Benjamin I.

: Professor of Political Science and International Relations, Chung-Ang University

: Visiting Fellow, Institute for Far Eastern Studies, Kyungnam University

: American Politics; local government; urban governance

Parties, governing regimes, and local policymaking ( )

:  Skogan, Wesley (Chair); Friesema, H. Paul; Lomax Cook, Fay

Professor, The Catholic University of Korea, Department of Public Administration

:  Research Fellow, Seoul Development Institute, Dept. of Urban Management

 Sean Lee is an assistant professor of Political Science at AUC. He received his PhD from the Department of Political Science at Northwestern University. Previously, he was a Doctoral Fellow at the Orient-Institut Beirut and a research affiliate with the Center for Arab and Middle Eastern Studies at the American University of Beirut. His work focuses on minority communities during times of conflict, in particular in Lebanon and Syria. He has conducted fieldwork in Lebanon, Turkey, Tunisia, Germany, and the Democratic Republic of Congo.

 Comparative Politics; comparative politics, research methods, ethnic politics conflict, Middle East

 Minority Communities in Times of Conflict: Civil War in Lebanon and Syria ( )

: Reno, William S (Chair); Pearlman, Wendy R; Spruyt, Hendrik

 Assistant Professor, American University in Cairo, Department of Political Science

 Assistant Professor, American University in Cairo, Department of Political Science

 I am a behavioral scientist and R hacker working on experimental, survey, and computational approaches for understanding social and political phenomena. My research has focused on comparative public opinion, the political psychology of information seeking and attitude change, survey-experimental methodology, and applications of the R statistical programming language. I am currently a Research Scientist with Core Data Science at Facebook, based in London, and a Senior Visiting Fellow in Methodology at the London School of Economics and Political Science. From 2015 to September 2018, I was Assistant Professor then then Associate Professor in Political Behaviour (with tenure) in the Department of Government at LSE. At LSE, I led undergraduate teaching and delivered courses on research design, the use of experimental methods in politics, and public opinion and political psychology. I coordinated the interdisciplinary Political Behaviour Seminar series and served on the school’s Research Ethics Committee.

 American Politics; Experimentation, causal inference, computational social science and politics

 Essays on Political Information and the Dynamics of Public Opinion ( )

: Druckman, James N (Chair); Chong, Dennis; Cook, Fay Lomax; Page, Benjamin I.

 Research Scientist, Facebook, Core Data Science

 Post-Doctoral Fellow, Aarhus University, Political Science and Government

 Natacha Lemasle is a Senior Social Development Specialist at the Work Bank, working primarily in fragile and post-conflict countries in Africa, and managing projects supporting demobilization and reintegration of former combatants, support to local integration of forcibly displaced populations, and on prevention and mitigation of sexual and gender-based violence. Natacha Lemasle is also the coordinator of the World Bank Global Platform on Addressing Sexual and Gender-Based Violence.

 International Relations; International Law; Armed groups; Combatants; Demobilization; Disarmament; Liberia; Patronage; Reintegration; Sierra Leone

 Combatants' Disarmament: Do Command and Control Matter? A Comparison of Sierra Leone and Liberia ( )

: Reno, William S (Chair); Bigo, Didier; Bourmaud, Daniel; Loriaux, Michael; Murphy, William

 Senior Social Development Specialist, World Bank, Fragile States and Social Development Unit

 World Bank, Fragile States and Social Development Unit

 Kevin Levay is NCTR’s Associate Director of Research and Data. Kevin joined NCTR in 2020. In this role, he supports NCTR and partner programs in collecting, analyzing, and reporting data to demonstrate and enhance the effectiveness of teacher residencies. Prior to joining NCTR, Kevin worked as a researcher at the FrameWorks Institute, where he developed communications strategies to support the non-profit sector in building public understanding of social and scientific issues, including informal STEM learning, early math learning, and academic motivation. As a political scientist, he has conducted research on the effects of race, class, and gender on public opinion toward the use of punishment in the U.S. criminal justice and education systems, and has assisted with teaching undergraduate courses on U.S. politics and research methodology at Northwestern University. Kevin received his bachelor’s degree in political science from Temple University and his Ph.D. in political science from Northwestern University.

 American Politics; Intersectionality; Mass incarceration; Political communication; Political inequality; Political representation; Public opinion

 Race, Class, and Gender in the Politics of Incarceration in the United States ( )

: Druckman, James N (Chair); Burch, Traci R; McCall, Leslie J. (Sociology); Rogers, Reuel R.

 Associate Director of Research and Data, National Center For Teacher Residencies

 Researcher, FrameWorks Institute

 Professor Li joined UCI Law in July 2019 as the John S. and Marilyn Long Professor of U.S.-China Business and Law. Prior to the appointment, he was Professor of Law and Zhuang Zhou scholar at Rutgers University and a member of the Associate Faculty of the Division of Global Affairs. Professor Li’s teaching and scholarship explores a broad range of topics including Chinese law and politics, international business transactions, contracts, comparative law, and empirical legal studies. His first book, The Clash of Capitalisms? Chinese Companies in the United States (Cambridge University Press, 2018), explores the adaptation of Chinese companies, including state-owned Chinese companies, to general US institutions and their compliance (or lack of compliance) with US laws governing tax, employment equality, and national security review of foreign investments.

 Comparative Politics; Chinese Law and Politics, International Business Transactions, Comparative Law, Contracts, Empirical Legal Studies

 Suing the State: A Study of Administrative Litigation at the Provincial Level in China ( )

: Alter, Karen J. (Chair); Rose-Ackerman, Susan (Yale University); Shih, Victor C.

 John & Marilyn Long Professor of US-China Business and Law, University of California, Irvine, School of Law

 Lawyer, Sullivan & Cromwell LLP

Steve Light is Professor of Political Science & Public Administration at the University of North Dakota, where he teaches American government, executive leadership strategy, public human resource management, American Indian politics & public affairs, and the senior capstone. Steve’s extensive higher-education leadership portfolio includes serving as interim Dean of Business & Public Administration (2017-18) and Nursing & Professional Disciplines (2013-14), Associate Vice President for Academic Affairs (2011-17), and Associate Provost for Undergraduate Education (2010-11). In these varied roles, Steve led, oversaw, or coordinated myriad strategic initiatives to advance UND’s educational, research, and outreach mission, including institutional strategic planning and reaccreditation; curriculum development and academic program review; faculty promotion, tenure, and evaluation; faculty appointments and personnel management; strategic enrollment management and retention; leadership development; budget implementation; institutional advancement and capital project design; and creating a diverse, welcoming, and inclusive university community.

Steve co-directs the Institute for the Study of Tribal Gaming Law & Policy, and is widely regarded as a leading expert on tribal gaming enterprises and economic development. Steve's roughly 60 publications include three books with Kathryn Rand (Professor and former Dean, UND School of Law), including  , featured on C-SPAN's  , and a solo book on voting rights.

  American Politics; American government, executive leadership strategy, public human resource management, American Indian politics & public affairs

  There's more than meets the eye: Southern cities and minority political empowerment following the 1965 Voting Rights Act

:  Reed, Adolph, Jr. (Chair); Conley, Patricia; Goldman, Jerry; Binford, Henry (History)

  Professor of Political Science & Public Administration, University of North Dakota

 Assistant Professor of Political Science & Public Administration, University of North Dakota

: Boris Litvin received a PhD in Political Science from Northwestern University in 2019. His research extends across modern political thought, focusing especially on the relationship between rhetoric and democratic theory. Specifically, Boris's work investigates how modern political thinkers thematize spectators and spectatorship in their conceptions of "the people," in turn connecting these discussions to authors' efforts to engage their own audiences in new ways. Boris's book manuscript, You the People: Political Theory and the Construction of Popular Audiences, locates these engagements in the theoretic and literary works of Niccolo' Machiavelli, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, and Hannah Arendt.

  Political Theory; Arendt, Hannah; Democratic theory; History of political thought; Machiavelli, Niccolò; Rousseau, Jean-Jacques

  Spectators, Crowds, Citizens, Men in General, and You, Madame: Political Theory and the Politics of Audience ( )

:  Dietz, Mary G. (Chair); Farr, James; Gaonkar, Dilip (Rhetoric and Public Culture); Williams, David Lay (DePaul)

Visiting Instructor, Eckerd College, Department of Ancient Studies and General Education

Visiting Assistant Professor, Stetson University, Department of Political Science

International Relations; Global Governance, Regional Studies, Strategic and Security Studies, Interpretation and Translation; China; Democratization; Mass media; Taiwan

:  Mass media and Taiwan's democratization ( )

:  Page, Benjamin I. (Chair)

Associate Professor, Ming Chuan University, International Affairs; Executive Director, International Education & Exchange Division

: Director, Office of Research and Publishing Office, National Defense University

 Comparative Politics; Policing, National Security, Digital Governance, China Studies

 The Politics of Policing in China: How Frontline Police Shape Order and Security ( )

: Hurst, William James (Chair); Winters, Jeffrey A; Pearlman, Wendy R

Assistant Professor, Peking University, Department of Political Science

 Postdoctoral Researcher, Freie Universität Berlin, Institut für Chinastudien

 I am an assistant professor in the Department of Political Science at the University of California, Irvine. I received my Ph.D. in Political Science from Northwestern University in 2017 and both a B.A. in International Studies and a B.S. in Economics from American University in 2011. My current book project examines the financial market practices through which both the market for over-the-counter derivatives and the authority of private financial actors were constructed. Through an interpretive analysis of regulatory documents, I find that practices like risk modelling, standardized contracts, and collateralization reassured public regulators of the market’s ability to govern itself even as these practices were inadequate and in some cases destabilizing during the 2008 financial crisis. Nonetheless, because these practices were constitutive of the market, and because private market actors were closely involved in the post-crisis regulatory effort, these were the practices public regulators reached for in the aftermath of the crisis, reinscribing private financial authority and the crisis-prone nature of the OTC derivatives market.

 International Relations; International political economy; global financial politics; financial derivatives; regulation; risk and uncertainty; power, authority, and legitimacy in international politics; global inequality

 The Construction of Financial Authority ( )

: Hurd, Ian F (Chair); Nelson, Stephen C (Co-Chair); Carruthers, Bruce Greenhow;

 Assistant Professor, University of California, Irvine, Political Science

 Assistant Professor, University of California, Irvine, Political Science

 Claudia López is the elected Mayor of Bogotá with more than 1,108,000 votes thus achieving the largest vote in the history of the city, for the coalition made up of the Alianza Verde, Polo Democrático and the Activist movement parties. She studied Government and Finance, Public Administration and Political Science at the Externado de Colombia University. In addition, she has a Master's degree in Public Administration and Urban Policy from Columbia University and a PhD in Political Science from Northwestern University in the United States.

 Comparative Politics; Democratization; Regime building; State building; Subnational Politics

 Contemporary Statebuilding Through Democratization Processes: A Comparative, Subnational Perspective ( )

: Mahoney, James L (Chair); Gibson, Edward L; Reno, William S

 Mayor, City of Bogota, Colombia

 City of Bogota, Colombia

 Currently based in Chicago, Christina previously worked at Northwestern University, conducting doctoral research in political theory and gender studies as well as teaching and advising undergraduate students. She earned her doctorate in political science in September 2019. As a political theorist, she believes that accessible higher education can help us to build a more equitable and community-centered world, and is passionately committed to that goal. Christina is also a yoga teacher, and in her spare time enjoys cooking, hiking, and spending time with her husband and cat.

 Political Theory; Capitalism; Culture; Feminist; Oppression

 Arendt, Adorno, and Angela Davis: A Critique of Capitalist Culture ( )

: Dietz, Mary Golden (Chair); Farr, James Fulton; El-Amine, Loubna

Senior Partner Success Operations Manager, Mentor Collective

 Student Success Manager, Mentor Collective

:  Greetings from Colorado, where I am a professional marketer by day and an aspiring wine writer by night. My love of wine took off when I was a student living in France beaucoup de years ago. Now that I’m older and finally realize what I want to do with my life, I know that my destiny lies in writing about wine – from the soil that influences the flavor profile, to the vineyard manager who uses various techniques to produce the highest-quality fruit, to the winemaker who coaxes the grapes into something magical.  

International Relations; Africa; Foreign policy; Franc Zone; France; Hegemony; Monetary policy; North-South relations

:  Loriaux, Michael (Chair)

  The collapse of the Franc Zone: Redefining North-South relations after hegemony (1945-1994) ( )

:  Digital Copywriter, Jackson Family Wines

  Comparative Politics, Political Economy, Elections and Political Parties, Methodology for Social and Political Research

 Capitalist development and democratization in South Korea: A study on the socioeconomic structure and political processes. (Volumes I and II)

  Professor Emeritus, Department of Political Science, Sungkyunkwan University

 Angela Maione is a Lecturer in the Commonwealth Honors College at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. Her work is broadly interdisciplinary and draws on resources in the history of political thought for contemporary debate in radical democratic and feminist theory. She was previously a post-doctoral fellow at the Hannah Arendt Center. She is currently completing a book manuscript titled Revolutionary Rhetoric: Wollstonecraft's Transformative Enactment. 

 Political Theory; democratic practice and political institutions in transnational perspective, eighteenth and nineteenth centuries

 Revolutionary Rhetoric: The Political Thought of Mary Wollstonecraft ( )

: Zerilli, Linda (Chair); Dietz, Mary G.; Orloff, Ann Shola

 Lecturer, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, Commonwealth Honors College

 Post-Doctoral Fellow, Bard College, Hannah Arendt Center

I am an Associate Professor at Radboud University’s Department of Political Science and Centre for International Conflict Analysis and Management (CICAM), in Nijmegen (Netherlands). I hold a PhD in political science from Northwestern University (United States) and Sciences Po Paris (France).

My first book,  , came out with Cornell University Press in December 2019. My   looks at rebel-to-state transition in Afghanistan and beyond and was recently awarded a VIDI grant from the Dutch Research Council (NWO)’. My work has been published in journals such as  ,  ,  ,  , the  , and  , and featured on blogs and mainstreamed media such as  ,  ,  , and  . I also regularly engage with policy-makers and frequently appear in the media (e.g. Al Jazeera, NPR, France 24, France Info, France Culture).

 International Relations; Afghanistan, Somalia, Statebuilding and state making processes, Violence, armed conflicts and armed groups, Failed states, warlordism, and militias, External interventions

 Neo-Chiefs in the International State System Power Strategies and Authority in Afghanistan (1992 to the Present) ( )

: Reno, William S (Chair); Caverley, Jonathan D; Qader, Nasrin (French and Italian); Ramel, Frederic (Sciences Po)

 Assistant Professor, Radboud University Nijmegen, International Conflict Analysis and Management (CICAM)

 Visiting Scholar, Columbia University, Harriman Institute

I am an Assistant Professor in the Department of Political Science at Holy Cross.  My research is focused on the study of political and sexual violence, political parties, ethnic politics, and social movements and contentious politics in sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia. I am also interested in the philosophy of the social sciences and in research ethics, particularly in regards to data-collection practices in conflict and post-conflict settings.  Methodologically, my work combines quantitative and qualitative data to uncover both broad patterns of violence and trace the causal mechanisms that generate conflict. I am currently completing a book manuscript that develops a theoretical and empirical account of the relationship between elites, political parties, and party-based violence. This research is based on a cross-regional comparison of Kenya and India with sub-national comparisons in the two countries.

  Comparative Politics, African Politics, South Asian Politics, political violence

  Playing the Communal Card: Elites, Parties, and Inter-Ethnic Electoral Violence in Kenya and India ( )

: Reno, William (Chair); Arjona, Ana; Riedl, Rachel B.; Srinivasan, Sharath (King's College London)

  Assistant Professor of Political Science, College of the Holy Cross

Postdoctoral Fellow at the Africana Research Center at Penn State University

 American Politics; Business influence; Business interests; Political science; Representation

 Exploring Business Influence: When Does it Matter? ( )

: Druckman, James N (Chair); Chen, Anthony S; Krupnikov, Yanna

 Product and Technical Marketing Operations Manager, Duo Security

 Market Research Analyst, Direct Opinions

: I have a BA in History and an MA and PhD in Political Science from Northwestern University in the United States. I have been a visiting researcher at the Institute for European Studies at Cornell University. My main interests are international political economy and comparative political economy. 

I conduct research on how U.S. political thought, particularly its nationalist and populist strands, affects U.S. relations with the outside world.  I have written on how the United States' sense of having an exceptional mission has shaped U.S. attitudes towards Americans abroad and am now working on publications examining the politics surrounding the U.S. government’s attempts to promote technological competitiveness since the 1970s.

:  International Relations; American Politics; international political economy and comparative political economy

: The Politics of Industrial Policy: the Development of U.S. and German Policies Towards the Semiconductor Industry (vol. 1 & 2) ( )

: Woo-Cummings, Meredith (Chair); Thelen, Kathleen; Page, Benjamin I.; Loriaux, Michael

: Lecturer, University of Leeds, Politics and International Studies

Anna-Maria Marshall, associate professor of sociology and law, joined the faculty of the Department of Sociology in 1999, earning campus-wide recognition for teaching every year. She currently teaches courses in criminology, the criminal justice system, and Law and Society.

A litigator from 1985-90 in the areas of employment and labor law, Professor Marshall published the book,   (Dartmouth Ashgate Publishing, 2005) and is a co-editor, with Scott Barclay and Mary Bernstein, of the book   (New York University Press, 2009). More recently, she is working on a research project about how law and policy shape farmers’ decisions about whether to adopt conservation practices.

She received her J.D. from the University of Virginia School of Law and her Ph.D in Political Science from Northwestern University. Her work has appeared in Law and Society Review, Law and Social Inquiry, Studies in Law, Politics, and Society, and several edited volumes. She is a co-PI in several NSF-funded projects supporting transdisciplinary research and education, including the INFEWS-ER (Innovations at the Nexus of Food-Energy-Water Systems – Educational Resources), EngageINFEWS (Research Coordination Network on Stakeholder Engagement in FEWS), and STEPS (Science and Technologies for Phosphorus Sustainability).

  American Politics; Law; Sexual harassment; Social change

  Mobilizing the Law for Social Change: The Case of Sexual Harassment ( )

: Casper, Jonathan D. (Chair); Mansbridge, Jane J.; Jacob, Herbert; Page, Benjamin I.; Chong, Dennis

  Associate Professor of Sociology and Law, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Assistant Professor of Sociology and Law, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

 Jake Matatyaou is a designer, writer, and educator. Matatyaou is a founding partner of JuneJuly, a design consultancy based in Los Angeles, CA, and Seattle, WA. Established by Matatyaou and Kyle Hovenkotter in 2014, JuneJuly is committed to expanding architecture to more than the design of buildings. Using architecture as a visceral mode of communication, JuneJuly explores the impact of globalization and networked technology on the spaces, places, and people of contemporary cities. Matatyaou’s work draws from interaction design, experience design, film, and music, to offer a renewed interest in the human body and its situation in the world. Before joining UCLA, Matatyaou was the Liberal Arts Coordinator and Design Studio Faculty at SCI-Arc.

 Political Theory; Philosophy, religion and theology; Communication and the arts; Social sciences; Arendt, Hannah; Benjamin, Walter; Judgment; Memorial; Memory; Space

 Memory – space – politics: Public memorial and the problem of political judgment ( )

: Zerilli, Linda (Chair); Honig, Bonnie H; Jarzombek, Mark;

  Research Analyst, The Consilience Project

 Liberal Arts Coordinator, Southern California Institute of Architecture, Design

Lieutenant Colonel Jahara ‘FRANKY’ Matisek, PhD, is an active duty US Air Force Senior Pilot serving as an Associate Professor in the Department of Military and Strategic Studies and as the Research Director for the Strategy and Warfare Center at the US Air Force Academy. He has over 3,600 hours of flight time (with more than 1,300 combat hours), having served as an Instructor Pilot in the C-17, E-11, T-53, and T-6 at the prestigious Euro-NATO Joint Jet Pilot Training (ENJJPT) program. FRANKY has published over 60 articles in peer-reviewed journals and policy relevant outlets on the topic of modern warfare, strategy, and security force assistance. Most recently he was awarded the Bronze Star Medal for his 2020 deployment to Kandahar Airfield, Afghanistan, serving as the Director of Operations and Commander of the 451st Expeditionary Operations Support Squadron. Finally, FRANKY earned his PhD in Political Science at Northwestern University and his forthcoming book, Old and New Battlespaces, describes how sociopolitical-information warfare is leading to the weaponization of everything in society, as every citizen becomes a combatant.

impact of technology on future warfare, security force assistance, hybrid warfare, and the way weak states create effective militaries

Pathways to Military Effectiveness: Armies and Contemporary African States

: Reno, William S.K. (Chair); Henke, Marina E.; Staniland, Paul (UChicago)

Military Professor, U.S. Naval War College, Military & Strategic Studies Department

 Assistant Professor, US Air Force Academy, Military & Strategic Studies Department

Margitta Mätzke completed her PhD in Political Science at Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois, USA, and received her post-doctoral degree in Political Science from the University of Göttingen, Germany. She is currently Professor of Politics and Social Policy at the Johannes Kepler University Linz, Austria.

 Comparative Politics; Comparative political science, focus on welfare state research, Social-political institutions and social political decision-making in comparison

 Man-Made Distinctions in the Welfare State: Political Decisions about Inequality in Major German Social Policy Reforms Vol. I & II ( )

: Thelen, Kathleen A. (Chair); Stinchcombe, Arthur (Sociology); Swenson, Peter A.; Wallerstein, Michael J.

 Professor, Johannes Kepler University Linz, Institute for social and social policy, Department of Politics and Social Policy

 Post-doctoral Fellow, University of Michigan, School of Public Health

Professor Maxwell is Professor of Political Science and Women’s, Gender, & Sexuality Studies. She is the author of  (Oxford UP, 2019),   (Oxford UP, 2015), the co-editor of  (Fordham UP, 2014), and the co-author of  (Verso, 2018). Her articles have appeared in  ,  , and 

 Political Theory; Political Theory; Feminist Theory; Queer Theory; Contemporary Democratic Theory; Environmental Political Theory; Law and Politics

 Between law and lawlessness: Democratizing law in Montesquieu, Burke, and Arendt ( )

: Honig, Bonnie H (Chair); Zerilli, Linda; Monoson, S. Sara 

 Professor, Boston University, Department of Political Science & Women and Gender Studies

 Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow, Cornell University, Department of Government

 Jacqueline R. McAllister joined Kenyon's faculty in 2014. McAllister’s scholarship is aimed at understanding whether, how and when international justice efforts impact ongoing conflicts. Her research has taken her all over the world, from the Balkans to Nigeria. McAllister’s work has appeared in leading scholarly journals and foreign policy magazines, as well as received support from the Fulbright U.S. Scholar Program, the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, National Science Foundation, the American Association of University Women and the American Council of Learned Societies. McAllister has also served as an expert panelist at a U.N.-sponsored conference on the legacy of the Yugoslav Tribunal.

 Comparative Politics; international relations, transitional justice, human rights, war crimes tribunals, international organizations, civil wars and U.S. foreign policy

 On Knife's Edge: The International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia's Impact on Violence Against Civilians ( )

: Alter-Hanson, Karen (Chair); Hagan, John (Sociology); Reno, William; Spruyt, Hendrik

 Associate Professor, Kenyon College, Department of Political Science, International Studies

 Visiting Lecturer, Wellesley College, Political Science

 I am an Award-Winning Change Management Consultant and Social Scientist. For a decade I’ve led Organizational Change and Behaviour Change projects with the Fortune 500 and Governments through: Big 4 Change Management Consulting, Ivy League Research on Psychology and Institutitonal Transformation, Queen's Park Public Sector Transformation. I serve on the Advisory Board of OpenMind, a non-profit based in New York City that equips people with the mindset and skillset to communicate constructively across differences using e-learning anchored in behavioral science. I believe the pursuit of tech should deepen human connection. My POVs and research are published in EY Global, Oxford University Press, Foreign Affairs, Springer Verlag, Toronto Star. I’ve given invited talks at Brown, Columbia, JNU, London School of Economics, NCCU Taipei, Northwestern, NYU, Oxford, Singapore Management University, Waterloo.

International Relations; Foreign policy; Illegal markets; India; International political economy; Pakistan; Trade 

 Globalization in the Shadows: Smuggling and the Foreign Policy Calculus of Enduring Interstate Rivalry ( )

: Mahoney, James L (Chair); Nelson, Stephen C (Co-Chair); Ganguly, Sumit (Indiana University, Bloomington); Spruyt, Hendrik

 Manager, Change Management, Deloitte

 Consultant, Indian Council for Research on International Economic Relations, Multi-Level Dialogue for Trade Normalization between India and Pakistan

 Dr. Metelits joined Marine Corps University in 2018. Prior to that she taught in the School of International Service at American University and Davidson College. She also worked as an advisor to US Army TRADOC and US Africa Command from 2009-2013. Dr. Metelits has conducted research on insurgent groups in Western Sahara, Afghanistan, Iraq, South Sudan, Uganda, Angola, Turkey, and Colombia and has interviewed members of the Taliban, the Kurdish Workers’ Party (PKK), the Sudan People’s Liberation Army (SPLA), and the Polisario Front. She is the author of Inside Insurgency (2010), Security in Africa (2016), and co-editor of Democratic Contestation on the Margins: Regimes in Small African Countries (2015). She has published both scholarly and non-scholarly works. She received her Doctorate in Political Science from Northwestern University. Her research focuses on Africa, non-state armed actors, non-state governance, and gender and conflict.

 International Relations; Non-state armed groups, Non-state Governance, Africa, Critical security studies, Gender Peace and security

 Coercion and collusion: Change in rebel group treatment of civilians ( )

: Reno, William S (Chair); Spruyt, Hendrik; Earle, Timothy (Anthropology)

 Associate Professor, Marine Corp University, Strategic Studies

 Assistant Professor, Washington State University, Department of Political Science

 ​I am an affiliated researcher at the Equality, Development, and Globalization Studies (EDGS), The Buffett Institute, Northwestern University. I am also currently a guest lecturer at the American Studies program, Faculty of Letters, Universitas Gadjah Mada (UGM), Indonesia. My research investigates the logic underpinning government policies on religious issues and its consequences on secularism, democracy and religious liberty. Regionally, I specialize in the study of Indonesian politics.

 Comparative Politics, Political Theory; political economy of secularization in postcolonial Muslim countries utilizing comparative-historical and ethnographic methods with a specific focus on Southeast Asia

Coercion in Search of Legitimacy: The Secular State, Religious Politics, and Religious Coercion in Indonesia Under the New Order, 1967–1998 ( )

: Winters, Jeffrey A (Chair); Hurst, William James; Cherry, Haydon (NU History)

Visiting Lecturer, Universitas Gadjah Mada (UGM), the Center for the Study of Asia and the Pacific (PSAP)

 Postdoctoral Fellow, Universitas Gadjah Mada (UGM), the Center for the Study of Asia and the Pacific (PSAP)

 Dr. Melissa Miller is an expert on American politics with a specific focus on elections and voting behavior, women in American politics, public opinion, and the media. She teaches courses in American Government, Political Parties, Voter Behavior, Women in American Politics, and Research Methods. In 2016 Dr. Miller was named Master Teacher -- the highest teaching award on campus. Dr. Miller is frequently interviewed by local, regional, national, and international media. She has appeared in/on CNN, ABC News, Fox News, Al Jazeera, The New York Times, The Guardian, and The New York Review of Books, among others. In recognition of her extensive commitment to public engagement, Dr. Miller was awarded the 2018 Community Engagement Award by BGSU’s Faculty Senate.

  American Politics; elections and voting behavior, women in American politics, public opinion, and the media

  The joiners: Voluntary organizations and political participation in the United States ( )

:  Chong, Dennis (Chair); Conley, Patricia D; Page, Benjamin I

  Professor, Bowling Green State University, Political Science

  Research Assistant, Council on Competitiveness

Khairunnisa has over ten years’ experience in organisational culture, innovation and human-centred design. A social scientist by training, she uses methodological rigour and a holistic systems approach to lead the design and delivery of experiences that have impact, embed learning, and change behaviours.

After getting her PhD, Khairunnisa worked in innovation, using ethnographic research, deep behavioural insights, and cutting-edge theories to design products, services and experiences for customers and employees, across industries. Curious by nature, collaborative at heart, and interdisciplinary by training, she is a published methodologist, selected as a Woman of the Future, and regularly presents sessions on issues relating to early careers at international conferences of industry experts, most recently at the adidas United HR Global Summit in Germany. Khairunnisa is also a fluent French speaker! When not immersed in the intricacies and paradoxes of human behaviour, Khairunnisa is busy experimenting with making ice cream flavours in her kitchen.

 Comparative Politics; Formal institutions; Informal institutions; Kenya; Political economy; State-building; Uganda

 Negotiating the State: The Development of Informal and Formal State Institutions in Contemporary Uganda and Kenya ( )

: Reno, William S (Chair); Mahoney, James L; Spruyt, Hendrik

 Director & Chief Innovation Officer, The Smarty Train

 Resident Ethnographer, Idea Couture Inc.

  Ivonne Montes Diaz is a Senior Research Specialist at the Center of Research and Data Analysis at the National League of Cities.

  Political Media, Political Campaigns, Elections, Economics, Poverty, Race, Inequality, Labor Market, Education, Climate Change.

:  Essays on the Effects of Gender, Race, and Socioeconomic Factors on Immigration Policy and Public Opinion ( )

:  Druckman, James N. (Chair); Rogers, Reuel R. (Co-chair); McGrath, Mary

  Senior Research Specialist, National League of Cities

Senior Research Specialist, National League of Cities

Dr. Moore serves as the Director of Political Outreach for the  . He teaches a variety of international classes at Pacific. His introductory class to international relations, the U.S. in World Affairs, studies Thucydides'  2,400-year-old  as well as the daily  . Other classes look at the Middle East, international political economy, and U.S. foreign policy and conflict. Professor Moore's other teaching areas include state and local politics and political parties. He has helped place interns with political campaigns, government officials, and businesses all over the Pacific Northwest.

Dr. Moore is writing a biography of Vic Atiyeh, Oregon's governor from 1979-1987. Atiyeh was the country's first Arab-American governor, he laid the ground for Oregon's high tech industry, and he was the last Republican to hold the gubernatorial office. Dr. Moore regularly gives talks on topics ranging from Oregon's tax structure and gubernatorial politics to international economics and the Middle East. You can catch him analyzing the political world on KOPB (91.5 FM) and KXL radio (101.1 FM), all in Portland. He also reads and speaks several languages from around the Mediterranean.

Jim Moore incorporates civic engagement into his teaching, into his roles connecting students with the larger community, and into his political analysis. His biennial classes—timed to general elections—require students to work with campaigns. Moore’s students in these classes have been a part of west coast politics since 1992. His role at the McCall Center for Civic Engagement is to bring decision makers and students together, usually with events on Pacific’s campuses. And in his role as a political analyst, Moore’s teaching stretches far and wide across the Pacific Northwest and often to national and international venues. He has been interviewed for media stories over 6500 times since 1991. Moore grew up in southern Oregon and northern California, and he has degrees from Stanford University, the Monterey (now Middlebury) Institute of International Studies, and his doctorate from Northwestern University.

: International Relations; American politics; Oregon and Pacific Northwest, political parties, US Congress, elections, polling. International politics; Middle East, US foreign policy, international economics, Europe

Collective Security in the Post-Cold War World ( )

: Loriaux, Michael M (Chair); Page, Benjamin I.; Lynch, Cecilia

Associate Professor Pacific University Oregon, Director of Political Outreach - Tom McCall Center for Civic Engagement.

: Assistant Professor, University of Portland

 Rachel Moskowitz is an Assistant Professor in the Public Policy & Law Program. Her research lies at the intersection of public policy, political behavior and public opinion, race politics, and urban politics. In her current projects, she uses survey, experimental, and qualitative methods to study educational issues and political decisions in a variety of local political contexts. Professor Moskowitz pays particular attention to the role of equality, race, and community in the formation of attitudes and vote choices on education policies.

 American politics; public policy, political behavior and public opinion, race politics, and urban politics, survey, experimental, and qualitative methods

 Race, Equality, and Community in Local Education: How Complex Beliefs and Values Shape Educational Attitudes, Votes, and School Policy ( )

: Druckman, James N. (Chair); Cook, Fay L.; Page, Benjamin I.; Rogers, Reuel R.

 Assistant Professor, Trinity College, Public Policy and Law

 Assistant Professor, Trinity College, Public Policy and Law

 Kevin Mullinix is an Associate Professor in the Department of Political Science. His research concentrates on political communication, public opinion, and public policy. Professor Mullinix examines the extent to which political parties and elected officials shape the public’s attitudes toward various policies. More recently, his research has focused on the effects of wrongful convictions for attitudes toward the criminal justice policies and the effects of racial disparities in the justice system for trust in police. ​He has a related research agenda on the generalizability of experiments in the social sciences.

 American Politics; political communication, public opinion, and public policy, American Politics, Political Communication, Public Policy, Public Opinion, Political Behavior, Research Methods, Surveys & Experiments, Criminal Justice

 The Scope of the 'Perceptual Screen': Partisanship and Preference Formation ( )

: Druckman, James N (Chair); Kernell, Georgia C.; Krupnikov, Yanna

Associate Professor, University of Kansas, Department of Political Science

 Assistant Professor, Appalachian State University, Department of Government and Justice Studies

Leading the data and monetization strategy of the advertising branch of CBC/Radio-Canada, Media Solutions, Andre Munro's current focus is on enhancing our first party data, improving our market alignment, and leading the adoption of cookieless solutions such as data clean rooms.

Political Theory; Philosophy, religion and theology; Social sciences; France; People; Political philosophy; Political theory; Republicanism; Sovereignty

 Democratic Excess and Popular Sovereignty ( )

: Dietz, Mary G. (Chair); Farr, James F.; Maza, Sarah (History)

 Director, Radio-Canada, Tech/Data Strategy and Monetization

 Content Manager, PressReader

Passionate about education, Barbara holds a PhD from Northwestern University and a Montessori certificate from CGMS. She is also a recipient of the AMS 2021 Montessori Innovator Award. As the mother of two while living in Milan, Italy, she fell in love with Montessori pedagogy. After moving to Miami, Florida, Barbara founded Montessori Gym, now Montessori Wellness, with the vision of supporting well-being in Montessori.

  International Relations; International organizations; Interorganizational relations; United Nations; World Bank; World Food Programme; UNICEF; UNESCO

  Tell me thy company: Inter-organizational relations in the United Nations system ( )

: Spruyt, Hendrik (Chair); Alter, Karen J.; Hurd, Ian F.

 Founder, Montessori Gym

 Founder, Montessori Gym

Dr. Musifiky Mwanasali is the former Political and Diplomatic Adviser to the Chairperson of the AU Commission, former Senior Political Affairs Officer, United Nations Office in Mali (UNOM) and AU-UN Mission in Darfur (UNAMID)

: Accumulation, Regulation and Development: The Grass-Roots Economy in the Upper Saire Region (1975-1992) ( )

: Abu-Lughod, Ibrahim; Hansen, Karen Tranberg (Anthropology); Munro, William A.

Ella Myers is Associate Professor in the Department of Political Science and the Program in Gender Studies. She is an award-winning teacher of political and feminist theory. Her courses include Intro to Political Theory, Modern Political Theory, Contemporary Political Theory, Economic Inequality & Democracy, Feminist Political Theory, and Gender, Power & Freedom, among others. Her research focuses on contemporary democratic theory. She is especially interested in the distribution of political power and practices of collective resistance through which ordinary citizens strive to shape the conditions of their lives.

Her first major body of research focused on the role played by "ethos" or spirit in encouraging – or discouraging – associative forms of democratic action in the American polity. Her book    engages closely with the writings of Foucault, Levinas, and Arendt to argue against both therapeutic and charitable models of ethics and on behalf of a world-centered ethos, which Myers argues is uniquely suited to the practice of associative democracy. She has also published work on Isaiah Berlin’s pluralism, Jacques Rancière’s account of radical equality, and the workings of neoliberal common sense. Her most recent book  (Oxford University Press, 2022), examines W.E. B. Du Bois’s account of racialized identity in the U.S. Specifically, Myers argues that Du Bois's middle-period work (1920-1940) offers a complex, pluralistic analysis of the workings of American whiteness. T

 Political Theory; Democratic Theory, Critical Race Theory, Feminist Theory, Collective Action and Social Movements, Ethics, Political Institutions, Economic Inequality; Arendt, Hannah; Berlin, Isaiah; Democracy; Ethics; Foucault, Michel; Hannah Arendt; Isaiah Berlin; Michel Foucault

 The turn to ethics and its democratic costs ( )

: Zerilli, Linda (Chair); Honig, Bonnie H.

 Associate Professor, University of Utah, Political Science Department; Gender Studies Program

 Instructor, Northwestern University, Political Science & Gender Studies Program

Dr. Nava-Campos is a Deputy Director of Knowledge Management and leads SCG’s assessment, design, monitoring, evaluation, and learning (ADMEL) for a global portfolio of projects.

Dr. Nava-Campos joined SCG in 2020 as a Senior Program Officer before her promotion to Deputy Director. She developed a comprehensive MEL framework for the International Police Peacekeeping Operations Support (IPPOS) Program and integrated components of that framework into the Department of State Bureau of International Narcotics and Law Enforcement Affairs’ DevResults platform. Dr. Nava-Campos has designed and conducted assessments on Senegal and Ghana’s capacity to train and deploy peacekeepers using instruments and methodologies later employed in Cameroon, Jordan, Rwanda, and Togo. She also developed a gender mainstreaming measuring instrument used to assess Jordan’s efforts to increase the participation of women in peacekeeping. Dr. Nava-Campos’ ADMEL experience spans more than 20 years of work with government agencies, private sector companies, and NGOs on a wide range of projects financed by organizations such as USAID, Inter-American Development Bank (IADB), Open Government Partnership (OGP), Global Development Network (GDN), and World Wildlife Fund (WWF). Her international experience as an evaluator and instructor also includes Colombia, Mexico, Brazil, Argentina, Ecuador, and El Salvador. 

Dr. Nava-Campos has a Ph.D. in Political Science from Northwestern University, a Master in Public Policy Degree from Harvard University Kennedy School, and a B.A. in International Relations from El Colegio de Mexico. She is fluent in Spanish, Portuguese, and French.

  Comparative Politics; human services, conservation, discrimination and violence, social impact assessments, violence prevention, energy distribution, public policy

 Political institutions, power distribution and the resolution of financial crises ( )

: Schneider, Ben Ross (Chair); Gibson, Edward L.; Seawright, Jason N.

  Deputy Director of Knowledge Management, Strategic Capacity Group

 Instructor, Northwestern University, Department of Political Science

 I am a Visiting Assistant Professor of Political Science at Reed College, before which I was a Postdoctoral Fellow and Lecturer at Stanford University. My research and teaching interests are in the history of political thought, contemporary democratic and feminist theory, and the politics of science, technology and the environment (particularly statistics and statecraft, climate science, and contemporary data politics). I am the founder and Project Director of Arendt on Earth: From the Archimedean Point to the Anthropocene, an interdisciplinary, cross-institutional symposium series funded by Humanities Without Walls and the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. I hold a PhD in Political Science and a Graduate Certificate in Science in Human Culture from Northwestern University. I was a Dissertation Fellow at the University of California, Santa Barbara, where I designed workshops on democracy and sincerity online—one on trolling, another on public shaming.

 Political Theory; History of political thought and contemporary democratic theory, with a focus on the politics of science, technology and the environment

 Truth in the Milieu of Politics: Knowledge, Authority, and Democratic Freedom ( )

: Dietz, Mary Golden (Chair); Alder, Ken; Farr, James Fulton

Visiting Assistant Professor, Department of Political Science, Reed College

 Postdoctoral Fellow and Lecturer, Stanford University, Thinking Matters

 I am a Postdoctoral Scholar affiliated with the Department of Political Science and the GenForward Survey at the University of Chicago. I received my Ph.D. in political science from Northwestern University in June of 2020. My work is featured in Perspectives on Politics, Political Behavior, the Journal of Race, Ethnicity, and Politics, the Washington Post, and GenForward’s Race and Place: Young Adults and the Future of Chicago. I study how local-level institutions, especially schools and neighborhoods, act as microcosms of democracy. I find that these institutions can simultaneously serve as sites that exacerbate existing racial inequalities while also holding the potential to foster agency and equal political voice. I investigate these roles and their effects on political participation by leveraging multiple methodological approaches, including experiments, survey data, in-depth interviews, focus groups, and archival research.

 American Politics; civic education, political behavior, race and ethnicity, critical pedagogy, local knowledge, grassroots political action of marginalized groups

 Educating for Empowerment: Race, Socialization, and Reimagining Civic Education ( )

: Druckman, James N (Chair); Burch, Traci R; Cohen, Cathy J. (University of Chicago)

 Assistant Professor, Department of Political Science, University of Miami

 Postdoctoral Scholar, University of Chicago, Department of Political Science and GenForward

​I am a lecturer at the Chair of German Politics at the Freie Universität Berlin and the co-PI of the BUA project Social Cohesion in Times of Crisis: Anti-Asian Racism and the Covid-19 Pandemic

In my work, I investigate how experiences of insecurity and disadvantage shape political attitudes and behaviors such as political efficacy, trust, and responsibility attributions.  More fundamentally, I am interested in the role that emotions, such as anger and anxiety, play in translating general grievances into specific political attitudes. In this, my work seeks to explore prejudice and the rise of populism, as well as the construction of new political identities.  

I am also interested in research methods and research design. In my work I use experimental methods, large-N observational data, but also mixed-method and qualitative research designs.  

 Comparative Politics; Economic Insecurity and Political Attitudes, Affect and Emotion, Populism and Responsibility Attribution, Social Policy, Experimental and Mixed Methods

 Feeling Vulnerable? Affect, Appraisal, and Trust in Times of Economic Insecurity ( )

: Seawright, Jason W (Chair); Behrens, Martin; Mahoney, James L

  Lecturer at the Chair of German Politics, Freie Universitat Berlin, Otto Suhr Institute of Political Science, German Politics

 Wirtschafts und Sozialwissenschaftliches Institut

  Comparative democratization; colonialism and development; post-liberation politics and society; comparative-historical analysis, qualitative and small-N methods, historical experiments.

  The Legacies of Liberation: Revolution, Liberal Reformism, and Political Development in Southern Africa ( )

:  Mahoney, James L. (Chair); Reno, William S. (Co-Chair); Arjona, Ana M.

Collegiate Assistant Professor & Harper-Schmidt Fellow, University of Chicago

Collegiate Assistant Professor & Harper-Schmidt Fellow, University of Chicago

 Social entrepreneur Dr. Maavi Norman, the founder of IRIS International Consulting, bridges the gap by encouraging foreign investment in Africa, while supporting “deep local impact.” Through his affiliation as a mentor with the White House Young African Leaders Initiative, Norman has helped guide a cohort of like-minded entrepreneurs in Africa. For him, it all comes down to this: “Stay laser-focused on solutions but evaluate a myriad of ideas for achieving them. Be open to readjusting, recalibrating and re-launching.”

 Comparative Politics, International Relations; NaN

 The Leadership Factor and the Quest to Reform the African State ( )

: Reno, William S (Chair); Riedl, Rachel Beatty; Roberts, Andrew L

 Founder, Iris International

 Research Coordinator, University of Gothenburg, Varieties of Democracy (V-Dem)

Political Theory, International Relations, and International Political Economy

Political Theory for the Age of Social Movement ( )

: Mary Dietz (Chair); James Farr; Shmuel Nili

 Lecturer, Northwestern University

Lecturer, Northwestern University

 Sally A. Nuamah is an assistant professor of Urban Politics in Human Development, Social Policy and Political Science (by courtesy) at Northwestern University. She completed her Ph.D. in political science at Northwestern University, where she was a National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellow. While at Northwestern, she became the first Excellence Through Diversity Predoctoral Fellow in political science at the University of Pennsylvania. Upon graduating with her Ph.D., she was named a Values and Public Policy Fellow at Princeton University and a Women and Public Policy Fellow at the Harvard Kennedy School. Between 2018 and 2019, she worked as an assistant professor at the Sanford School of Social Policy at Duke University. Professor Nuamah’s research sits at the intersections of race, gender, education policy, and political behavior. In particular, she uses quantitative and qualitative methods to examine the political consequences of public policies across the United States as well as in Ghana and South Africa. Her dissertation, and recently completed book manuscript, examines the political effects of mass public school closure on low-income African Americans. Professor Nuamah’s first book, How Girls Achieve (2019), looks across race and gender and illuminates the unequal costs—school closure, sexual harassment, punishment—that poor black girls in the United States, Ghana and South Africa bear while striving to achieve. It then investigates the specific role of schools to combat these abuses and act as conduits of democratic equity.

 American Politics; race, gender, education policy, and political behavior

 The Political Consequences of Education Reform: How School Closures Shape Citizens ( )

: Rogers, Reuel R (Chair); Burch, Traci R; Tillery, Alvin Bernard

 Assistant Professor, Human Development and Social Policy, Northwestern University, School of Education and Social Policy

 Program Fellow, Women and Public Policy, Harvard University, Harvard Kennedy School of Government

  Experienced leader and manager with a demonstrated history of working in the secondary education industry as well as at the University level. Strong education professional skilled in Leadership, Coaching, Political Science, African Studies, Comparative Politics, and Field Research. Worked at operational and strategic level.

 Comparative Politics; Liberation; Namibian; Path dependency; South West African Peoples' Organization

The patrimonial straitjacket: A study of Namibian liberation and path dependency ( )

: Reno, William S. (Chair); Derluguian, Georgii (Sociology); Shih, Victor C.

  Manager for Digital Learning and Support, Stockholm School of Economics Executive Education

  Vice Principal, Stiftelsen Viktor Rydbergs Skolor

 Comparative Politics; politics of inequality, labor unions, Europe

 Negotiating differences: Developments in wage inequality in Italy, Sweden and across advanced industrial democracies ( )

: Thelen, Kathy A (Chair); Wallerstein, Michael (Co-chair); Swenson, Peter A; McCall, Leslie (Sociology)

 Assistant Professor, Allegheny College, Department of Political Science

  Assistant Professor, Miami University, Department of Political Science

 Comparative Politics; State governments, Comparative Government, Politics and government, Latin America, Public Administration, Comparative Federalism, Public Administration, Subnational Policy, Policy in Latin America, Analysis of good practices in social protection policies for women against COVID-19 in Mexico, Opportunities, needs of young women and education

 (Dis)united They Stand? The Politics of Governors' Coalition Building in Argentina, Brazil and Mexico ( )

: Gibson, Edward L (Chair); Calvo, Ernesto (University of Maryland); Roberts, Andrew L

Profesor Investigador (Research Professor), El Colegio de México, A.C., Centro de Estudios Internacionales

 Profesor de Asignatura, ITAM, Departamento de Ciencia Política

 Ato Kwamena Onoma is an Associate Professor at the University of Toronto, St. George. Ato Kwamena Onoma's research focuses on mobility, identity, belonging and inter communal relations in Africa. He has conducted field research in many countries in West, East and Southern Africa. Ato Kwamena Onoma is the author of (2009) and (2013). His current work examines mobility, belonging, identity and inter-communal relations through the prisms of infrastructure development, epidemics and phobia, and the faith-based segregation of interment spaces.

 Comparative Politics; property rights, identity politics, human rights, forced migration, institutional reform and political economic reform in Africa

Securing property rights: Politics on the land frontier in postcolonial Africa  ( )

: Reno, William S. (Chair); Gibson, Edward L.; Thelen, Kathleen A.; Diagne, Souleymane

  Associate Professor, University of Toronto, St. George, Department of Political Science

 Post-doctoral Fellow, Princeton University, Niehaus Center for Globalization and Governance

Mona Oraby (Ph.D., Northwestern University) is assistant professor of political science at Howard University and editor of (TIF), a digital publication of the Social Science Research Council that advances scholarly debate on secularism, religion, and the public sphere. She is the author of (Princeton University Press, forthcoming March 2024) and coauthor of (Indiana University Press, 2022).

 International Relations; Political Theory; law, religion, and politics with a focus on the legal regulation of religious difference

The Difference That Affiliation Makes: Religious Conversion, Minorities, and the Rule of Law ( )

: Shakman Hurd, Elizabeth (Chair); Agrama, Hussein (University of Chicago); Dietz, Mary G.; Winegar, Jessica (Religious Studies)

 Assistant Professor, Howard University, Political Science

 Jerome Hall Postdoctoral Fellow, Indiana University Maurer School of Law, Center for Law, Society, and Culture

Silvia Otero-Bahamon is an Associate Professor in the School of International, Political, and Urban Studies at Universidad del Rosario, Bogota, Colombia.  Otero-Bahamon earned her Ph.D and M.A in political science from Northwestern University, and my Bz.A from Universidad de los Andes in Colombia. Otero-Bahamon's research interests include social policy, the political economy of inequality, the politics of infrastructure, and state formation. My work has been published in World Development, Latin American Politics and Society, Studies in Comparative International Development, Geoforum, Health Affairs, Revista de Ciencia Política, among other outlets.  

 Comparative Politics; governance, clientelism, politics of transport infrastructure and sexual violence in wartime

 When the State Minds the Gap The Politics of Subnational Inequality in Latin America ( )

: Mahoney, James L. (Chair); Arjona, Ana Maria; Gibson, Edward L

 Associate Professor, Universidad de Rosario, Political Science, Government and International Relations

 Assistant Professor, Universidad de Rosario, Political Science, Government and International Relations

  Dr. Paden is a seasoned leader in academic administration with more than 15 years of experience.  Currently, she is the Deputy Provost at Simmons University in Boston, Mass. At Simmons, she led the implementation of the general education curriculum, the Simmons PLAN, which transformed the student experience. Dr. Paden revamped and redesigned Simmons’s undergraduate advising model and process, and she oversaw the creation and launch of the Center for Student Success -- a $3 million investment that has greatly improved undergraduate and graduate student access to academic services, including the Center for Global Engagement, Accessibility Services, Undergraduate Advising, Career Education, and the Writing and Tutoring Centers. 

Dr. Paden, a tenured faculty member at Simmons, earned her doctoral degree in political science from Northwestern University and received her bachelor’s from Vassar College. Her interests focus on American politics and how underrepresented groups gain political representation. Her recent research includes, work to examine the impact of local civil rights efforts and economic justice on national public policy.

American politics; how underrepresented groups gain political representation; Advocacy; Civil rights organizations; Organizational decision-making; Poor

  National advocacy on behalf of the poor: An analysis of organizational decision-making ( )

: Chong, Dennis (Chair); Rogers, Reuel R.; Page, Benjamin I.

  Provost and Vice President of Academic Affairs, Franklin Pierce University

Assistant Professor, Simmons College, Political Science & International Relations

Ihn-hwi Park is a Professor in the Division of International Studies at Ewha Womans University. Prof. Park’s area of expertise lies in international security, U.S. foreign policy and Northeast Asian regionalism. He was a Research Professor of Asiatic Research Center at Korea University (2001-02), and has been a Non-resident Research Fellow for Korea-US Exchange Council (2001-04). He has also being served as a member of the Internal Performance Evaluation Committee of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade since 2006 and a member of the Advisory Committee of Ministry of Unification since 2009. Dr. Park has written articles on international relations and East Asia in journals including Korea Journal of Defense Analysis, Korea Political Science Review, the Korean Journal of International Relations, National Strategy, Strategic Studies, Korea and World Politics, and etc. Prof. Park receives his Ph. D. from Northwestern University in 1999.

  International law; International relations; Mass media; Journalism; International Security, Korea-US Relations, East Asian International Relations, Inter-Korean Relations, U.S. foreign policy, Northeast Asian regionalism

  Security Discourse and the End of the Cold War: The New York Times Coverage on US National Security

: Page, Benjamin I. ( )

  Associate Professor, Vice President, Division of International Studies, EWHA Women's University

Research Professor, Korea University, Asiatic Research Center

: Comparative Politics, Political Economy, Canada; Czech Republic; Labor market; Regulation; Taylorist production; United States; Federalism and Intergovernmental Relations; Comparative Democratization

The development of alternatives to Taylorist production: The impact of labour market regulation ( )

Thelen, Kathleen (Chair)

: Faculty Lecturer, York University, Glendon College; Associate Professor. American University of Iraq

Dr. Ayodeji Perrin researches and teaches about international law, comparative constitutional law, human rights, and social movement legal mobilization.

He holds a law degree from the University of Pennsylvania, and he holds B.A. and M.A. degrees in political science from Tufts University and Columbia University, respectively. He recently completed his Ph.D. in political science at Northwestern University. His dissertation examined the factors that led gay and lesbian activists in the United States, Northern Ireland, Ireland, Tasmania, and South Africa to use domestic and international courts to overturn criminal prohibitions on adult consensual same-sex sexual conduct between the 1970s and the 1990s. His ongoing research in this area focuses on the role of transnational advocacy networks, transnational judicial dialogue, and comparative constitutional law in decriminalization of homosexual sex in Africa and the English-speaking Caribbean.

Dr. Perrin was previously a judicial law clerk in the Philadelphia Court of Common Pleas, a staff attorney with the City of Philadelphia Board of Ethics, and a postdoctoral fellow and adjunct faculty member at Temple University in the Department of Political Science. At Temple, Dr. Perrin taught courses on indigenous, African, Latin American, and Asian resistance to European and American enslavement, colonization, and racial and national-origin discrimination; on corporate social responsibility and corporate accountability litigation; and on international human rights treaty law and accountability mechanisms, including international courts and UN Treaty Bodies. He has presented his research at the annual meetings for the Law and Society Association, the American Society for International Law, the International Studies Association, and the American Political Science Association, among others.

 International Relations; Human Rights, International Law, International Courts, Legal Mobilization, Social Movements, Pan Africanism, Black Internationalism 

: Alter, Karen J. (Chair); Koppelman, Andrew (Law School); Pearlman, Wendy

  George M. Sharswood Fellow, University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School

Diversity Postdoctoral Fellow in Political Science, Temple University

David Peyton is a Donald R. Beall Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of Defense Analysis at the Naval Postgraduate School. He will begin work in the Office of Foreign Assets Control at the U.S. Treasury Department in the fall of 2021.

 Comparative Politics, International Relations; Africa

 Property Security in the Midst of Insecurity: Wealth Defense, Violence, and Institutional Stasis in the Democratic Republic of Congo ( )

: Reno, William S (Chair); Gans-Morse, Jordan Luc; Riedl, Rachel Beatty; Toender, Lars (Copenhagen)

Civil Servant, U.S. Treasury Department, Office of Foreign Assets Control

 Donald R. Beall Postdoctoral Fellow, Naval Postgraduate School, Department of Defense Analysis

Menaka Philips is an Assistant Professor of Political Science at the University of Toronto Mississauga (UTM). Philips is a political theorist who works on a range of issues in historical and contemporary political thought. She is especially interested in the politics of interpretation; her book,   (forthcoming, Oxford University Press), examines how attention to liberalism shapes interpretive practices in political theory. Her work has been published in outlets like the  ,  , the  , and the  .

 Political Theory; Democratic theory, feminist and postcolonial studies, and American political thought

 Contesting the Liberal Paradigm: The Case of John Stuart Mill ( )

: Dietz, Mary G. (Chair); Beaumont, Elizabeth (UCSC); Farr, James F.; Houdart, Sophie (National Center for Scientific Research, France)

 Assistant Professor, University of Toronto Mississauga (UTM), Department of Political Science

 Professor of Practice, Tulane University, Department of Political Science and Gender and Sexuality Studies Program

 Tri-lingual (English, Russian, French) professional with long experience working with the Finance and Culture sectors and with International Organizations. Focused on sustainable development in the digital age. Tatiana Poddubnykh attained a Ph.D. in Political Science from Northwestern University and a Ph.D. in Sociology from École des hautes études en sciences sociales (EHESS).

 International Relations; International Relations, International Organizations; Sociology; Capital exchange; Cultural capital; Heritage list; UNESCO; World heritage

 Building the World Heritage List at UNESCO: A Socio-political Approach to International Relations within a World Organization ( )

: Loriaux, Michael M (Chair); Rosental, Claude (Co-Chair; Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique); Chiapello, Eve (École des hautes études en sciences sociales); Griswold, Wendy (Sociology) ; Houdart, Sophie (Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique); Hurd, Ian

 Wealth Management, BNP Paribas

 Wealth Management, BNP Paribas

 Lieutenant Colonel Michael Povilus is the Commander, Air Force Reserve Officer Training Corps, Detachment 195, Chair of the Department of Aerospace Studies, and Professor of Aerospace Studies at Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago IL. He is responsible for recruiting, training, and commissioning all AFROTC cadets at IIT and cadets from over 10 other "cross-town" universities in the greater Chicago area.

 International Relations

 Russian Grand Strategy: Cultivating National Will and Military Modernization ( )

: Reno, William S (Chair); Henke, Marina E.; Gans-Morse, Jordan Luc

 Professor, Strategy & Security Studies, Studies School of Advanced Air and Space Studies (SAASS)

Professor of Aerospace Studies, AF ROTC Chicagoland, Illinois Institute of Technology

 Richard J. Powell is Professor of Political Science and Founding Director of the  . In 2020, he was  , UMaine’s most prestigious faculty award.

His research and teaching interests include the U.S. Presidency, Congress, Leadership, Elections, and American Political Thought. He also oversees the UMaine Congressional Internship Program, the Kenneth Palmer Maine State Legislative Internship Program, and UMaine’s  .

Professor Powell is the author of numerous books, journal articles, and book chapters on presidential-congressional relations, presidential communications, presidential and congressional elections, and state politics. He co-authored   (Lexington Books, 2017),   (Rowman & Littlefield, 2013),   (Lexington Books, 2007), and   (Lexington Books, 2004). His current research utilizes advanced computer algorithms to create realistic, simulated congressional districts as a way to study the spatial and demographic aspects of partisan gerrymandering.

  On the road again: Explaining presidential speech-making and travel, 1961-1994 ( )

:  Page, Benjamin I. (Chair); Crotty, William; Conley, Patricia

  Professor & Director of the Cohen Institute for Leadership & Public Service

Assistant Professor, Florida Atlantic University, Department of Political Science

: Lance Pressl, Ph.D., has extensive experience in the public, private, and not-for-profit sectors. He currently serves as Non-Resident Senior Policy Fellow at the Institute for Work and the Economy. He most recently was Managing Director at the Ed Kaplan Family Institute for Innovation and Tech Entrepreneurship at Illinois Institute of Technology. Previously, Pressl served as President of the Chicagoland Chamber of Commerce Foundation where he developed and implemented programs and events promoting long-term economic growth through innovation-based economic development. Highlights of his tenure as Foundation President include Founding and leading “The Territorial Review of the Chicagoland Tri-State Metropolitan Area”, the first of its kind study in the United States conducted by the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD); creating the InnovateNow! Initiative and producing annual Innovation Summits; founding the Illinois Innovation Index; leading the effort to establish the Illinois Innovation Council and re-establishing The Illinois Science Technology Coalition.

:  American Politics; State Legislative Policy; Interest Groups

:  State Ethics Reform: Implications for Legislative Behavior and Policy Outcome ( )

:  Friesema, H. Paul (Chair); Sidlow, Edward; Masotti, Louis; O'Connor, Philip; Anderson, Lee F.

  Senior Policy Fellow (Non-Resident), Institute for Work and the Economy

:  President, The Civic Federation

: Sabina Satriyani Puspita is Deputy Director for the Monash Herb Feith Indonesian Engagement Centre and Assistant Professor for the Monash Indonesia Institute for Advanced Research (MI IFAR). Her research interests include topics about democratization, political institutions, social movements, and gender. While she studies these topics extensively on any regions with her through a historical comparative approach, Sabina’s research focuses primarily on the Southeast and Northeast Asian regions. Sabina is completing her doctoral training in comparative politics and international relations at the Department of Political Science in Northwestern University, Illinois, U.S.A. Sabina had just defended her dissertation entitled “The Butterfly Effect: Stealth Politics by the Reformist Women’s Movement in Indonesia in the Struggle for Gender Equality, 1945-Present.”

  Comparative Politics; Gender studies; Southeast Asian studies; Law; Butterfly effect; Gender equality; Indonesia; Sexual violence law; Social movements; Stealth politics

: The Butterfly Effect: Stealth Politics by the Reformist Women’s Movement in Indonesia in the Struggle for Gender Equality (1945-Present) ( )

:  Winters, Jeffrey A. (Chair); Pearlman, Wendy; Roberts, Andrew

Associate Director for the Monash Herb Feith Indonesian Engagement Centre; Research Fellow for the Monash Indonesia Institute for Advanced Research (MI IFAR), Monash University

Associate Director for the Monash Herb Feith Indonesian Engagement Centre; Research Fellow for the Monash Indonesia Institute for Advanced Research (MI IFAR), Monash University

 Policy researcher with 10 years of experience in evidence-based policy analysis and program development. Lead quantitative and qualitative research projects, program evaluations and policy proposals to support decision-making in public sector, focusing on higher education, and equity and diversity research.

 American Politics; Administrative agencies; Equal Employment Opportunity Commission; Federal Communications Commission; International Trade Commission; Public opinion

 Administrative responsiveness to public opinion ( )

: Page, Benjamin I (Chair) 

 Senior Projects Officer, University of Toronto, Office of the Vice-Provost, Faculty and Academic Life

 Post-doctoral Fellow , University of Toronto, Canada

Francesco Ragazzi is Associate Professor in International Relations. He obtained his PhD in political science from Sciences Po (Paris) and Northwestern University (Chicago). Prior to his appointment at Leiden University, he was a Research Fellow at the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS) in London (2008-2009). His research interests include critical approaches to diaspora politics, migration, citizenship, and security in International Relations.

He serves on the editorial board of the journal   and is a founding member of the  . His current research project—‘Security and the Politics of Belonging: Homegrown terrorism, counter-radicalization and the “end” of multiculturalism?’—explores the effects of security practices on contemporary meanings of community.

 International Relations; International Law; Citizenship; Counterterrorism, Critical Theory, Diaspora Studies, Ethnic and Racial Diversity, Global Security, Radicalisation, Terrorism

 When governments say Diaspora: Transnational practices of citizenship, nationalism and sovereignty in Croatia and former Yugoslavia ( )

: Loriaux, Michael M (Chair); Bigo, Didier (Co-Chair); Hanchard, Michael G; Huysmans, Jozef P.A.; Kastoryano, Riva; Reno, William S.K.

 Associate Professor, Leiden University, Institute of Political Science, Institute of Political Science

 Assistant Professor, Leiden University, Institute of Political Science

  Kumar Ramanathan is the GenForward Postdoctoral Scholar. He received his Ph.D. in political science from Northwestern University in 2023. His research investigates the intersection of political institutions and racial inequality, with emphases on urban politics, public policy, and public law. He has published articles in  ,  ,  , and  . His book project, “Building a Civil Rights Agenda: The Democratic Party and the Origins of Racial Liberalism,” investigates how liberal politicians in the northern Democratic Party contested and constructed a civil rights legislative agenda during the 1930s-60s, and aims to explain the origins and limits of racial liberalism as it emerged among party elites. His other research includes work on the changing dynamics of local politics in Chicago, the development of social welfare policy, the role of party politics in conflict during the Civil War era, and the effects of immigration policy on immigrant political participation. He was previously a Doctoral Fellow at the American Bar Foundation and received his B.A. in political science and philosophy from Tufts University.

  American Politics; Race and Ethnic Politics, Gender and Politics, Law and Public Policy, American Political Development, Comparative Historical Analysis, Asian American politics. 

:  Building a Civil Rights Agenda: The Democratic Party and the Origins of Racial Liberalism ( )

:  Rogers, Reuel R. (Chair); Thurston, Chloe N.; Chen, Anthony S.

  GenForward Postdoctoral Scholar, the University of Chicago

GenForward Postdoctoral Scholar, the University of Chicago

 Political Theory; International Relations; history and theory; political theories and philosophy; Philosophy, religion and theology; Social sciences; Hobbes, Thomas; Leviathan; Mimesis; Natural law; Natural right; Poetics; Theater

 Mimesis in Thomas Hobbes's “Leviathan” (1651): The theater of the modern commonwealth ( )

: Monoson, S. Sara (Chair); Fenves, Peter D.; Toender, Lars

  Partner, Redstone Connected; Realtor, A La Carte Real Estate

 Asistente Ejecutiva de Eventos, Gecamin

Biography: dr Richardt studied administrative science at the University of Konstanz and received his doctorate in political economy from Northwestern University in the USA. She was a professor of comparative politics at the University of Utah and worked on numerous supervisory boards, executive boards and committees. In Germany, she worked on the “Integrated Economy” project of the Hessian Ministry of Economic Affairs. As a mediator, she supports clients in difficult life situations such as divorce, company transfers, structuring of their estate in order to find sustainable solutions.

  Comparative Politics; European Union; Gender; Gender equality laws; Germany; Modes of governance; Policy innovation; United Kingdom; Welfare regimes; Welfare state

Transforming Europe's welfare regimes: Policy innovation through European gender equality laws in the United Kingdom and Germany ( )

: Thelen, Kathleen A. (Chair); Alter, Karen J.; Orloff, Ann Shola

Current:  Koordinatorin, Bildungswerk der Hessischen Wirtschaft e.V. 

Placement: Assistant Professor, University of Utah

Josh Robison is assistant professor at the Institute of Political Science.

His research uses both experimental and survey methods to investigate the role of group identities (e.g. partisanship, social class) and political communications from political parties in affecting the public’s political attitudes and behaviour. Before joining the Institute of Political Science at Leiden, he was a postdoctoral researcher at Aarhus University for four years. He received his Ph.D. from Northwestern University in 2014. His work has been published in  ,  ,  ,  ,  , and the  .

 American Politics, Methods; elite communications, party elites, public opinion formation, elite accountability, and citizen competence

 Why Politics? Understanding the Motives Behind Political Interest ( )

: Druckman, James N (Chair); Burch, Traci R.; Page, Benjamin I.

 Assistant Professor, Universiteit Leiden, Institute of Political Science

 Post-Doctoral Researcher, Aarhus University, Department of Political Science and Government

Diego H. Rossello recently completed his PhD in political science at Northwestern University, where he honed his skills as a researcher of public opinion and political behavior. His methodological toolkit includes survey design, experimental techniques, and the analysis of textual data. Jake has published research on voting, partisanship, and the social dimensions of political attitudes. This work has appeared in academic journals such as Political Behavior and Politics, Groups, and Identities and has been featured in outlets like the LSE Blog on United States Politics and Policy. While at Northwestern, Jake served as the Director of Academic Support Services, and later the Interim Director of Operations for the Northwestern Prison Education Program.

  Political Theory: Philosophy, religion and theology; Social sciences; Language, literature and linguistics; Animality; Humanism; Lycanthropy; Melancholy; Sovereingty

  The Melancholic Sovereign: The Politics of Human-Animal (In)distinction in Modern Sovereignty ( )

:  Honig, Bonnie (Chair); Farr, James; Toender, Lars; Weber, Samuel (German)

Associate Professor, Universidad Adolfo Ibáñez, Department of Philosophy

Assistant Professor, Pontifical Catholic University of Chile, Facultad de Historia, Geografía y Ciencia Política

 Jake completed his Ph.D. in political science at Northwestern University, where he honed his skills as a researcher of public opinion and political behavior. His methodological toolkit includes survey design, experimental techniques, and the analysis of textual data. Jake has published research on voting, partisanship, and the social dimensions of political attitudes. This work has appeared in academic journals such as Political Behavior and Politics, Groups, and Identities and has been featured in outlets like the LSE Blog on United States Politics and Policy. While at Northwestern, Jake served as the Director of Academic Support Services, and later the Interim Director of Operations for the Northwestern Prison Education Program.

 American Politics

 Elites and Identities: The Interactive Effects of Top-Down Cues and Group Memberships on Political Attitudes ( )

: Druckman, James N (Chair); Rogers, Reuel R; Merseth Cook, Julianne Lee

 Senior Data Scientist, Reality Check Insights

 Senior Data Scientist, Reality Check Insights

  Brandon Rottinghaus, a native of Dallas, Texas, holds a Ph.D. in political science from Northwestern University.  His teaching and research interests center on Texas politics, public opinion, and executive and legislative relations.  He is the author of several books, dozens of academic journals, and editor and contributor to multiple edited volumes.  Most recently he the is author of the book  and   (both Oxford University Press).  He has provided commentary on national and Texas politics in hundreds of media outlets.  He is the co-host of  , a podcast and show on PBS/TV8 on Houston Public Media. He has provided commentary on national (New York Times, Washington Post, Politico) and Texas politics (Houston Chronicle, Dallas Morning News, Texas Tribune, Tyler Morning Telegraph, El Paso Times, San Antonio News Express, Lubbock Avalanche Journal) in hundreds of media outlets and is the co-host of  , a digital series on Houston Public Media and Monday Morning Politics on  .

 American Politics; Presidency (leadership, nominations) Texas politics Public opinion Political communication Executive-legislative relations Political scandal

 Measure of the Mind of the Public: Patterns of Presidential Rhetoric and Public Opinion from Dwight D. Eisenhower to Bill Clinton ( )

: Page, Benjamin I (Chair); Chong, Dennis; Canes-Wrone, Brandice 

 Professor, University of Houston, Political Science

 Assistant Professor, University of Idaho

Zhihang Ruan is an Assistant Professor of Political Science at Hunter College, City University of New York. Ruan received a Ph.D. in political science from Northwestern University in the summer of 2023. Ruan's research interests are comparative political economy, international development, labor politics, and land institutions. Ruan's regional foci are China and Vietnam, where Ruan conducted more than 18 months of fieldwork before and during the COVID-19 pandemic. Ruan's work is forthcoming in .

  Comparative Politics; comparative political economy, international development, labor politics, and land institutions; China and Vietnam

  Land Regimes and the Welfare of Migrant Workers: A Comparison of China and Vietnam ( )

:  Hurst, William J. (Chair); Winters, Jeffrey A .; Prasad, Monica (Sociology); Bouchat, Sirus

  Assistant Professor of Political Science, Hunter College, City University of New York

Assistant Professor of Political Science, Hunter College, City University of New York

Nayef H. Samhat, the 11th president of Wofford College, is a native of Detroit, Michigan. He holds a B.A. in international affairs from The George Washington University's School of International and Public Affairs, a master's degree in international affairs from Columbia University and a Ph.D. in political science from Northwestern University.

Samhat came to Wofford in July 2013 after serving as provost and professor of political science and international studies at Kenyon College in Gambier, Ohio. Prior to his time at Kenyon, he was the Frank B. and Virginia B. Hower Associate Professor of Government and International Studies and an associate dean at Centre College in Danville, Kentucky.

  Environmental science; International relations

  Knowledge and discourse: The issue construction of climatic change in international politics ( )

: Loriaux, Michael (Chair); Friesema, Paul; Lynch, Cecelia

President at Wofford College

 Michael Christopher Sardo is a political theorist with research and teaching interests in the history of political thought, contemporary democratic theory, and environmental political theory. Dr. Sardo believes that studying history is valuable not only because it helps us understand where we’ve come from, but also because it requires that we see the world from perspectives beyond our own. Dr. Sardo completed a B.A. in government and philosophy from The College of William and Mary in Virginia, before earning a M.A. and Ph.D. in political science at Northwestern University, where he wrote a dissertation on political responsibility in the history of political thought. He previously taught at Occidental College, UC Irvine, and Northwestern’s Center for Talent Development, and has published scholarly articles and book chapters on the history of political philosophy, responsibility, and global justice. Outside of the classroom, Dr. Sardo spends his time reading, hiking and visiting the beach with his wife and daughter, playing tabletop miniatures games, and cheering for the Buffalo Sabres.

 Political Theory; Ethics; Climate Change; Moral responsibility; Nietzsche, Friedrich; Political responsibility

 From Personal to Political Responsibility: Friedrich Nietzsche and the Politics of Anticipatory Responsibility ( )

: Tønder, Lars (Chair); Alznauer, Mark; Loriaux, Michael; Stevens, Jacqueline

 History Teacher, TVT Community Day Upper School

 Lecturer, University of California, Irvine

  American Politics, Public Opinion and Political Communication, Legislative Process, American Presidency, Campaigns and Elections, Parties and Interest Groups, African Politics, War and Terrorism

  The State of the Union and the State of the President: Elite, Media, and Mass Responses to the President's Annual Message, 1953-1992 ( )

:  Page, Benjamin I. (Chair); Janda, Kenneth; Entman, Robert (Medill); Herbst, Susan

  Professor, Central Washington University, Department of Political Science

Visiting Professor Juniata College

 Lee Seymour is an associate professor at the Université de Montréal and member of the CÉRIUM — Centre d’études et de recherches internationales and of the CEPSI — Centre d’études sur la paix et la sécurité internationale. His research interests include civil wars, international security and violence in politics. He has published in several academic journals, including the Journal of Peace Research, International Security, European Journal of International Relations, Journal of Conflict Resolution, Critical African Studies, Perspectives on Politics and International Peacekeeping. He is currently leading a research project on the politics of foreign military training in fragile states, funded by the Social Science and Humanities Research Council and the Department of National Defence.

  International Relations; Political violence Civil wars Security, international Independence, self-determination, Armed Conflicts, Ethnic conflict, Somalia, South Sudan

 Pathways to secession: The institutional effects of separatist violence ( )

: Reno, William S (Chair); Hurd, Ian F; Spruyt, Hendrik

 Associate Professor, Université de Montréal, Département de science politique

 Doctoral Research and Chateaubriand Fellow, Sciences Po Paris

 Richard Shafranek earned his PhD from the Department of Political Science at Northwestern University, specializing in American politics and quantitative methods. Shafranek applies theories of social psychology to understand American political attitudes and behavior. Shafranek draws on survey and laboratory experiments, field experiments, and large-n data obtained from online sources to advance my research agenda. As HIT’s data scientist, Richard oversees the data pipeline for quantitative research projects: he develops compelling data visualizations and interactive dashboards, automates data processing procedures to allow survey research projects to be executed at speed and scale, conducts rigorous statistical analyses, and brings to bear innovative research methods to access and understand the hardest-to-react voters.

 American Politics, Methods; American political behavior and quantitative research methodology, applied theories of social psychology and drew on surveys, field experiments, and large-n digital trace data to advance our understanding of partisanship and polarization in American politics

Spillover: Partisan Conflict in Nonpolitical Settings ( )

: Druckman, James N (Chair); Bullock, John; Harbridge-Yong, Laurel

 Senior Data Scientist, Nielsen

 Data Scientist, HIT Strategies

Sandy Shan has been organizing grassroots movements in the pan-asian diaspora since 2019. Her work is centered around relationship building, healing, and politicization for BIPOCs and immigrant communities that sets the stage for building and exercising power in public space. Previously, she conducted research into the roots of inequality in the political process. 

 American Politics; Public policy; Public administration; Economic theory; Economics

 An Economic Interest Theory of Congressional Budget Process Reform ( )

: Page, Benjamin I (Chair); Galvin, Daniel J; Yong, Laurel Harbridge

 Co-Director, Justice is Global

 Consultant, Oxfam America

Torrey Shanks is Associate Professor of Political Science specializing in political theory. She is broadly interested in the history of political thought, feminist theory, and language and politics, with particular expertise in early modern political thought and rhetoric. Her current research project, entitled “Improperty,” investigates invocations of property in political action and theory, supported by a Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada Insight grant (2019-2022). She is the author of Authority Figures: Rhetoric and Experience in John Locke’s Political Thought (2014), peer-reviewed journal articles in Political Theory (2011, 2015, 2019) and Theory & Event (2015), in addition to book reviews and essays in edited volumes on consent, feminist writers, equality, materialism, Montaigne, and Wittgenstein. She holds a PhD in Political Science from Northwestern University and a Bachelor’s in Political Science and Women’s Studies from the University of California, Berkeley. She has previously taught at the State University of New York, Albany and the University of British Columbia.

 Political Theory; history of political thought, feminist theory, and language and politics, with particular expertise in early modern political thought and rhetoric

 Political imagination in the thought of John Locke ( )

: Zerilli, Linda (Chair)

 Associate Professor, University of Toronto, Scarborough, Political Science

Assistant Professor, State University of New York, Albany Political Science

A social science scholar & mgmt. consultant with excellent data analytical skills, passionated about the technology, media, and telecom (TMT) sector

 Comparative Politics; Political Economy

 Government, Capital, and Labor: The Political Economy of e-Commerce Development in China ( )

: Hurst, William James (Chair); Mahoney, James L; Winters, Jeffrey A

Senior Pricing Analyst, Affirm

 Associate Consultant (PhD Analyst), L.E.K. Consulting

  Ari Shaw, Ph.D., is a Senior Fellow and the Director of International Programs at the Williams Institute, specializing in international human rights, LGBTI politics, and U.S. foreign policy. He was previously on the senior staff at Columbia World Projects and has worked on human rights, global governance, and LGBTI issues for the Open Society Foundations, the Gill Foundation, the Council on Foreign Relations, and the United Nations Association of the USA, among others. Shaw was a visiting researcher at the Center for Human Rights and Global Justice at the Universidad de los Andes in Bogotá, Colombia, where he was a Fulbright Scholar. He was also a Multirights Fellow at the Norwegian Centre on Human Rights in Oslo. Shaw holds a Ph.D. in political science from Northwestern University, an M.Sc. in international relations from the London School of Economics and Political Science, and a B.A. in government from Harvard College.

 International Relations; international human rights, LGBTI politics, and U.S. foreign policy

  Claiming international rights: Tactical forms of human rights mobilization in Colombia and Kenya ( )

:  Alter, Karen J. (Chair); Riedl, Rachel B.; Winters, Jeffrey A.

Senior Fellow & Director of International Programs, University of California, Los Angeles, Williams Institute, School of Law

  Research Consultant, Academie Diplomatique Internationale

: Dr. Emile C. J. Sheng is the President of LDC Group, a franchise including five brands covering twenty hotels and several restaurants in Taiwan, China, and Italy. Over the years, Dr. Sheng’s career path has taken several unexpected turns, having experiences ranging from business, politics, media, as well as academia. He was Taiwan’s Culture Minister prior to the current job, and also served as Taipei City Government’s Commissioner for the “Research, Development and Evaluation Commission.” He also was CEO of the “Organizing Committee for the 2009 Deaflympics” and “Foundation for the Republic of China Centennial Celebration, ” in charge of two major events in recent years.

Information processing and the evaluation of presidential candidates: Issues, candidates, and partisanship ( )

: Page, Benjamin I. (chair); Chong, Dennis; Conley, Patricia; Fedderson, Timothy

: President, L'Hotel de Chine Group

: Assistant Professor, Soochow University

: I am a Zambian with a BA from the University of Zambia, MA from York University, Canada, and Ph.D. from Northwestern University, USA. My degrees are in political science, specializing in political philosophy. However, several years ago I decided to branch out into ancient history, focusing on historical linguistics.

 Political Theory; Africans; Anglo-American; Equality; Freedom; Liberal; Writers; political philosophy, african politcs, historical linguistics, race

Keywords: Meanings of freedom and equality among Africans and writers in the Anglo-American liberal tradition ( )

: Monoson, S. Sara (Chair); Alter, Karen J.; Reno, William S.

  Independent Researcher

Dr. Subir Sinha studied History at the University of Delhi (BA) and Political Science at Northwestern University (MS, PhD), and has taught at Northwestern University and the University of Vermont. His research interests are institutional change, sustainable development, social movements, state-society relations in development, and South Asian politics, with a current focus on decentralised development in India, early postcolonial planning, and on the global fishworkers' movement.

Comparative Politics; Development Studies, Society and Environment, Sustainable Rural Development, Politics and International Relations, Discourse, Social Movementsm Postcolonial Theory, Political Economics; Institutions; international institutions; social movements; sustainable development; NGOs; South Asian Politics; development interventions.

  Common Property, Community and Collective Action: Social Movements and Sustainable Development in India (vol. 1 & 2) ( )

: Friesema, H. Paul (Chair); Chong, Dennis; Munro, William A.

  Reader in the Theory and Politics of Development, SOAS University of London, Department of Development Studies; Member, SOAS Food Studies Centre

  Assistant Professor, University of Vermont, Environmental Studies

  Christopher Skeaff (PhD, LCSW) is a psychotherapist in private practice. He earned a doctorate in political theory from Northwestern University and has held research and teaching posts in the University of Michigan's Society of Fellows and Department of Political Science. Skeaff trained in clinical social work at Loyola University Chicago and is a graduate of the Chicago Psychoanalytic Institute's "Fundamentals of Psychoanalytic Thought" program. 

As a psychotheraphist, Chris aims to provide a therapeutic setting where clients feel safe, supported, and invited to explore what matters most to them. His areas of specialization include anxiety, depression, relationship difficulties, and life transitions, with a particular expertise in academic-related challenges.

 Political Theory; Philosophy, religion and theology; Social sciences; Affect; Democracy; Freedom of expression; Power; Public reason; Spinoza, Benedictus de

 The politics of expression in Spinoza ( )

: Monoson, S. Sara (Chair); Honig, Bonnie H; Toender, Lars

 Psychotherapist, LSW, Ambre Associates

 Graduate Student, Chicago Psychoanalytic Institute, Fundamentals of Psychoanalytic Thought

 Jinney S. Smith, Ph.D., passed away at the age of 49 on March 24, 2021, after suffering a sudden cardiac arrest. She was born in Seoul on May 3, 1971, and grew up on or near U.S. Army bases in South Korea, West Germany, and the Midwestern United States. She and her husband were high-school sweethearts and debate partners in Libertyville, Illinois. She graduated from the University of Michigan-Ann Arbor (B.A.), Northeastern University (M.A.), and Northwestern University (Ph.D. in political science).

In the summer of 2020, Jinney became the Deputy Director for Statistical Operations at the U.S. Department of Justice’s Bureau of Justice Statistics, leading her to observe that taking a new job is one of the only ways to meet new people during a pandemic, and they all have helpful name tags. Previously, she was the Associate Director of the Maryland Data Analysis Center, University of Maryland, College Park, where she directed criminal-justice research projects that made leading-edge use of administrative data. She was a gubernatorial appointee on Maryland’s Juvenile Justice Reform Council. She taught political science and criminal justice as a Visiting Assistant Professor at Lycoming College in Williamsport, Pennsylvania, and she was the founding director of the Criminology and Criminal Justice Program at the University of Maryland’s Shady Grove campus.

: American Politics; Law and Politics; Anticipatory compliance; Constitutional law; Judicial review; Policymaking; State legislatures; Supreme Court

: The Supreme Court and national policy-making: Influence through anticipatory compliance by state legislatures (ProQuest)

: Chong, Dennis (Chair); Austen-Smith, Michael D.; Page, Benjamin I

: fmr. Deputy Director for Statistical Operations, U.S. Department of Justice, Bureau of Justice Statistics

Placement: Visiting Assistant Professor, Lycoming College, Political Science and Criminal Justice

 International Relations; Transnational Relations, International Civil Societies and NGOs, Policy Making in the EU, Political Violence, Economic Statecraft and International Relations, Eurasian Integration: New Silk Road, Transnational Governance

 Consciousness or co-optation: Ethnic political power and movement outcomes in Ecuador and Australia ( )

: Swenson, Peter A (Chair); Chong, Dennis; Morris, Aldon D.

 Professor, Jacobs University, Bremem International Graduate School of Social Science

 Lecturer, University of Heidelberg, Institute for Political Science

Warren Snead is an Assistant Professor of Political Science at Swarthmore College. He is broadly interested in American politics but his expertise lies in the fields of public law, public policy, and American political development. Warren's book project examines how the Supreme Court affects the development of public policy through statutory interpretation and wrestles with the normative implications of the Court's policymaking role. Currently, he is also working on projects analyzing the Supreme Court and the Voting Rights Act and how interest groups affect party unity in Congress. His writing has been published in the   and the  . Warren received a Ph.D. and MA from Northwestern University and a BA from Sewanee University. 

  American Politics; Methodology; Supreme Court, Congress, Public Law

:  Independent of Heaven Itself: The Supreme Court and Public Policy ( )

: Galvin, Daniel J. (Chair); Thurston, Chloe N.; Zackin, Emily (Johns Hopkins); Harbridge-Yong, Laurel; Page, Benjamin I.

  Assistant Professor of Political Science, Swarthmore College

Assistant Professor of Political Science, Swarthmore College

  Snider has been a fellow at Harvard University’s Edmond J. Safra Center for Ethics (2011-13) and the Harvard Kennedy School of Government’s Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics and Public Policy (2008).  He came to Washington, DC as an American Political Science Association Congressional Fellow in Communications & Public Policy (1999-2000).  He then served as a  .  From 1994-1999 he served as a teaching assistant and fellow in Northwestern University’s Department of Political Science.  He has a Ph.D. in American Government from Northwestern University, an M.B.A. from the Harvard Business School (with a focus on non-profit management), and an undergraduate degree in Social Studies from Harvard College.

 American Politics; political communications, non-profit management; Broadcasters; Low-visibility politics; Media bias; Political power; Television

 Low -visibility politics: How local TV broadcasters exercise political power ( )

: Page, Benjamin I (Chair)

 President, iSolon.org

 Fellow and Research Director, New America Foundation

  Swati Srivastava’s research focuses on International Relations, especially private actors in global governance. She has three ongoing interests. One examines how sovereign power is exercised through nonstate actors such as charter companies, security contractors, business associations, and NGOs. The resulting book, "Hybrid Sovereignty in World Politics," is under contract with Cambridge University Press. A second project explores the global politics of Big Tech and the related challenges of algorithmic governance. For this work, Professor Srivastava founded and directs an undergraduate research lab on Big Tech and Political Responsibility. Finally, she also theorizes relational approaches like constructivism and new kinds of responsibility. Professor Srivastava's research has been funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities, Andrew Mellon Foundation, the American Council of Learned Societies, and the Buffett Institute for Global Studies.

  International Relations; hybrid public and private relations produce power in global politics

  Hybrid Sovereignty in World Politics ( )

:  Hurd, Ian F (Chair); Carruthers, Bruce G.; Dietz, Mary G.; Mahoney, James 

  Associate Professor, Purdue University, Political Science

 Assistant Professor, Humbolt University, Global Politics

:  Kenneth Stehlik-Barry, PhD, joined SPSS as Manager of Training in 1980 after using SPSS for his own research for several years. Working with others at SPSS, including Anthony Babinec, he developed a series of courses related to the use of SPSS and taught these courses to numerous SPSS users. He also managed the technical support and statistics groups at SPSS. Along with Norman Nie, the founder of SPSS and Jane Junn, a political scientist, he co-authored Education and Democratic Citizenship. Dr. Stehlik-Barry has used SPSS extensively to analyze data from SPSS and IBM customers to discover valuable patterns that can be used to address pertinent business issues. He received his PhD in Political Science from Northwestern University and currently teaches in the Masters of Science in Predictive Analytics program there.

  The growth of political tolerance, 1976-1994 ( )

:  Page, Benjamin I. (Chair)

  Managing Consultant, IBM

Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)

:  In her role as Academic Vice President & Provost for Northwood University, Kristin Stehouwer is responsible for student success, strategy development and deployment, and the university’s quality systems and analytics. She joined Northwood University in 2009 from Macomb Community College where she served concurrently as Executive Director of Research and Planning and Vice Provost for Arts and Sciences. Prior to joining Macomb Community College, she served as Director of the Michigan Manufacturing Technology Center and Special Advisor to the President at Northwestern Michigan College. She also worked on special assignment to the U.S. Department of Commerce at the National Institute of Standards and Technology and worked in the area of global manufacturing competitiveness, which included a national speaking tour.

Stehouwer earned her doctorate from Northwestern University in Political Science and International Relations. Her graduate studies include International Law at the University of Strasbourg as a Rotary Foundation Ambassadorial Scholar. Her scholarly work has focused on political and economic cooperation. She also earned her bachelor and master’s degrees from Northwestern University. Stehouwer completed postgraduate work at Harvard University’s Institute for Educational Management.

Stehouwer has extensive experience in facilitating and deploying strategy in many types of organizations, including in the financial services, manufacturing, healthcare, education and service sectors. She has entrepreneurial experience and business management experience with large and small organizations, including family businesses. Having worked with organizations in the United States, Europe, Asia and Africa, Stehouwer speaks six languages. She has specialized in the areas of strategic management, performance excellence, process improvement and organization/leadership development.

: International Relations; International Law

France and German unification: The transition to a new Europe ( )

 Loriaux, Michael M. (Chair); Lynch, Cecelia; Cumings, Bruce

Academic Vice President & Provost, Northwood University

  David A. Steinberg is an associate professor of international political economy. His research focuses on the politics of international money and finance. His book,   (Cornell University Press, 2015), was awarded the Peter Katzenstein Book Prize and received an Honorable Mention for the American Political Science Association’s William H. Riker Book Award. He is the author of articles in  , among other outlets. His research has been supported by a Johns Hopkins Catalyst Award, and by fellowships from the University of Pennsylvania’s Browne Center for International Politics and the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada. In 2017, he was awarded the Max M. Fisher Prize for Teaching Excellence.

 International Relations; Comparative Politics; International Political Economy; Globalization; Emerging Markets; International Finance; Political Economy & Development

 The politics of exchange rate valuation in developing countries ( )

: Spruyt, Hendrik (Chair); Sartori, Anne Elizabeth; Schneider, Ben Ross

 Associate Professor, Johns Hopkins University, School of Advanced International Studies, International Political Economy

 Post-Doctoral Fellow, University of Pennsylvania, Browne Center for International Politics

: Niklaus Steiner is a native of Thun, Switzerland, who moved to Chapel Hill with his family when his father became a professor at Carolina. He earned a bachelor’s degree with highest honors in international studies at UNC and a Ph.D. in political science at Northwestern University. He has had the good fortune of moving between cultures his whole life and because of this experience, his teaching and research interests are around immigration, refugees, nationalism, citizenship, comparative politics and international relations. His textbook, International Migration and Citizenship Today (Routledge, 2009), seeks to facilitate classroom discussions on admission and membership in liberal democracies, and he is looking into writing a 2nd edition. Before joining the political science department in 2020, he enjoyed 22 deeply gratifying years working at UNC’s Center for Global Initiatives, the last 15 as the director. He is especially proud of the work he and many colleagues from across campus did to bring diversity, equity and inclusion into global education at Carolina. When not at work, Niklaus is often cutting or replanting flowers in the garden, walking in the woods with his family or making something up in the kitchen.

: International Relations; humanitarianism and refugee; Europe

: Arguing about asylum: Interests, humanitarianism and refugee debates in Switzerland, Germany and Britain, 1970s-1990s ( )

: Loriaux, Michael (Chair); Lynch, Cecelia; Barton, Josef (History)

: Professor of the Practice, Department of Political Science, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill

: Research Associate, University Center for International Studies, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill

: I am a popular lecturer in American Politics.  My diverse course and lecture offerings include Money in Our Political System, Presidential Misconduct, Presidential and Mid-Term Elections, Recent Supreme Court Decisions, The Media in Politics, and Women in Politics.  I have lectured in a variety of settings, including Oakton Community College, various Jewish Community Centers, North Shore Senior Center, retirement facilities, community groups and at several Road Scholar seminars at the Perlstein resort in Wisconsin.  I bring both academic expertise and real world experience into my lectures.  

I received my Ph.D. in American Politics from Northwestern University.  My dissertation examined the unique role women members of Congress have had on public policy.  Prior to entering graduate school, I spent two years on Capitol Hill working for elected officials.  I received my undergraduate degree in social science from Wesleyan University.  I currently live in a suburb of Chicago with my family.

Women in Congress: The Difference They Make ( )

: Page, Benjamin I. (chair); Chong, Dennis; Conley, Patricia; Fedderson, Timothy

: Speaker on U.S. Politics

: Project Coordinator, Center for Research on Women and Gender

Julieta Suárez-Cao is an Associate Professor at the Institute of Political Science of the Pontifical Catholic University of Chile. She holds a Ph.D. in Political Science from Northwestern University. Her areas of expertise are Latin American politics, subnational politics, intergovernmental relations, political parties, and women’s representation. She has published in the Journal of Comparative Politics, Bulletin of Latin American Research, Regional & Federal Studies, The Hague Journal on the Rule of Law, among other journals. She has co-edited a book on Latin American subnational party systems, and another book on gender and politics in Latin America. She drafted the electoral system that established gender parity for Chile’ Constitutional Convention. She is the coordinator of Red de Politólogas #NoSinMujeres, a project that seeks to promote, make visible, and enhance the work of women dedicated to Latin American political science.

 Comparative Politics; political and government institutions, federalism and subnational politics, political parties, women's representation and electoral systems

 Parties and Party Systems across Territory: Stability and Change in Federalized Party Systems ( )

: Gibson, Edward L. (Chair); Roberts, Andrew L.; Seawright, Jason N.

 Associate Professor, Pontifica Universidad Catolica de Chile, Political Science Institute, Department of Political Science

 Assistant Professor, Pontifica Universidad Catolica de Chile, Political Science Institute

: Paul E. Sum received his PhD in Political Science from Northwestern University in 1996. He came to the University of North Dakota in fall 2000. He teaches courses in Comparative Politics, Democratization, Global Perspectives, Human Rights, and Political Behavior. Sum’s research agenda explores various aspects of political behavior, including cooperation, civil society, inequalities, and democratic citizenship. Here is an example of Sum's recent scholarship which looks at the impact of inequality on collaborative problem-solving skills among youths: 

Sum also is an accomplished international evaluator and consultant. He has worked with the U.S. Agency for International Development, World Bank, Council of Europe, OSCE, National Democratic Institute, International Research & Exchanges Board, and the American Council for Learned Societies. 

Sum maintains a special relationship with Romania. He held the position of Lecturer and Fellow at the Faculty of Political Science and Public Administration at Babes-Bolyai University in Cluj-Napoca, Romania (1996-1998) under a program funded by the U.S. Department of State, Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs. Since 2007, he has held an academic appointment at the same faculty for the Masters in Research Design and Data Analysis Program. In 2009-2010, Sum was the recipient of a Fulbright Scholar Award to Romania where he lectured and conducted research.

 Comparative Politics; Political behavior and attitudes; Democratization & retreats from democracy; Post-communist politics / Romanian politics; Nonprofits in the policy-making process; Social enterprises & the "fourth sector"

 The Origins of Nationalism: An Inquiry into the Determinants of Nationalism in Tudor England ( )

: Stephens, John (Chair); Abu-Lughod, Ibrahim; Ragin, Charles; Lynch, Cecelia

  Head of School, The Master's Program (Santa Fe)

  Xin Sun is Senior Lecturer in Chinese and East Asian Business. He received his PhD in political science from Northwestern University in 2014. Prior to joining King’s, he held academic positions at the University of Oxford and Trinity College Dublin. He obtained a BA in Chemistry and Economics at Peking University and MA in Economics at Chinese Academy of Sciences. Xin’s research interests include political economy and government-business relations in China, as well as research methodology. He is particularly interested in the interplay between formal and informal institutions in authoritarian regimes and how the two types of institutions jointly shape economic and policy outcomes as well as business behaviours.

  Comparative Politics; Economics Politics; International development

  Essays on Informal Institutions and Land Politics in Contemporary China ( )

:  Shih, Victor C (Chair); Hurst, William J.; Kernell, Georgia C.; Reno, William S.

  Senior Lecturer, King's College London, Chinese Business

  Assistant Professor, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland

 C. Mara Suttmann-Lea is an Assistant Professor of American Politics in the   at  . Suttmann-Lea researches and teaches about election laws and administration, political parties and campaigns, and political engagement. Suttmann-Lea is also the host of the podcast . 

Mara Suttmann-Lea hails from the Midwest, growing up in Leland, Michigan, and earning her undergraduate and graduate degrees in Chicago, Illinois. She studies American politics, and is primarily interested in the relationship between election laws, political parties and campaigns, and political participation. Her research aims to develop concrete ways to improve the electoral process and increase access to participation in politics, particularly for vulnerable populations.

 American Politics; election laws and administration, political parties and campaigns, and political engagement

 Convenience at a Cost: The Unintended Consequences of Early Voting ( )

: Galvin, Daniel J (Chair); Burch, Traci R; Druckman, James N; Mahoney, James L.

 Assistant Professor, Connecticut College, Government

 Visiting Assistant Professor, Skidmore College, Political Science Department (American Politics)

 Christopher M. Swarat is the Dean of the College of Professional & Continuing Education (CPaCE) at the California State University, Long Beach. Previously, at Cal State Fullerton he served as associate vice president of Extension and International Programs, director of the B.A. in international business program, and director of global outreach focused on developing globally. aware business leaders.

 International Relations; Political Theory; Philosophy, religion and theology; Social sciences; China; Confucianism; Political discourse

 In Other Words: A Critique of Modernism in International Relations Discourse from the Perspective of Confucian Tradition ( )

:  Spruyt, Hendrik (Chair); Loriaux, Michael M (Co-Chair); Hurd, Ian F; Shih, Victor C

  Dean, College of Professional and Continuing Education, California State University, Long Beach

  Director, California State University-Fullerton, Center for International Business

  Rachel Sweet is assistant professor of politics and global affairs at the   part of the Keough School of Global Affairs at the University of Notre Dame. Sweet is a concurrent faculty member in Notre Dame’s Department of Political Science. Sweet’s research focuses on armed conflict, governance and state capacity in fragile environments, and the methodology and data of studying civil wars and armed violence. Drawing on four years of research in East and Central Africa, she uses armed groups’ original financial and administrative records and in-depth interviews to generate new understandings of the logic of rebel control and state survival amidst insecurity.

Her book manuscript, “Violent Institutions: Rebellion, Bureaucracy, and State Capture in the Congo,” examines the varied relationships that form between armed groups and low-level state administrators during war. It probes how rebels’ use of pre-existing bureaucratic offices for taxation and surveillance reshape state institutions, embed violence networks within the state, and provide rebels legitimation to international audiences.

  International Relations; Armed conflict; Governance and state capacity in fragile environments; Methodology and data of studying civil wars and armed violence

  State-Rebel Relations During Civil War: Institutional Change Behind Frontlines ( )

:  Reno, William S (Chair); Mahoney, James L.; Riedl, Rachel B.; Spruyt, Hendrik

  Assistant Professor, University of Notre Dame, Politics and Global Affairs

  Academy Scholar (Post-Doc), Harvard University, Weatherhead Center for International Affairs

Dr. Daniel E. Szarke is a former Air Force officer with a military career in positions spanning strategic airlift, strategic planning, international and regional affairs, operations, training, and higher education. His assignments included postings in Europe, multiple deployments in the Middle East, and extensive worldwide travel. He completed his Ph.D. in Political Science with an emphasis in Comparative Politics at Northwestern University, Evanston, IL in 2015. A fluent French speaker, his field research focused on strategic and security relationships between elites in the capital and populations at more remote reaches of the state in Mali and Niger. He received a Master's in International Relations from St. Mary's University in San Antonio, and a MAster in the History of International Relations from the University Robert Schuman in Strasbourg, France, with a particular focus on NATO-Russia relations. His research interests include conflict and security, neo-patrimonial relationships, decentralization, and center-periphery relations in weak and failed states.

 Comparative Politics; African Security, Neopartrimonialism, Decentralization, and Weak and Failing States

 Political Reform and Challenges to Order in Weak States: Center-Periphery Relations in the Sahel ( )

: Reno, William S (Chair); Arjona, Ana Maria; Caverley, Jonathan D

Adjunct Instructor, University of Texas at El Paso (UTEP), Intelligence and National Security Studies

 Assistant Professor, US Air Force Academy, International Programs

 Self-motivated research analyst with advanced research, writing, and analytical skills developed through Ph.D. training in the social sciences. Master's degree in applied statistics and proficient with a variety of statistical software packages, including R, SAS, and SPSS.

 Comparative Politics; Chile; Costa rica; Latin America; Liberal democracy; Nineteenth century; State building; Uruguay

 State Building and Political Regimes: The Nineteenth-Century Origins of Liberal Democracy in Latin America ( )

: Mahoney, James L (Chair); Gibson, Edward L; Schneider, Ben Ross

 Statistician, Bureau of Economic Analysis, U.S. Department of Commerce, Bowling Green, Ohio

 Graduate Student, MS Applied Statistics, Bowling Green State University, Applied Statistics

Anna Terwiel is Assistant Professor in the Department of Political Science. Her research lies at the intersection of political theory, feminist theory, critical carceral studies, and medical humanities. In her book project,  , Professor Terwiel examines the resurgence of abolitionist projects in the contemporary United States. In a political moment of rising authoritarianism and democratic impasse, she argues that prison abolition offers a powerful commitment to radical change and democratic freedom that deserves our close attention. Her book aims to clarify abolitionism’s goals and strengthen its outcomes by carefully engaging with its internal tensions and debates.

Before coming to Trinity, Professor Terwiel taught at Northwestern University, the Feinberg School of Medicine, and Stateville Correctional Center. In the classroom, she combines theory with case studies to help students explore the contemporary political stakes of theoretical texts. She encourages students to develop their own interpretations through writing and collaborative class discussion.

 Political Theory; Biopolitics, Feminist political theory, Gender, race, and medicine

 Foucault and the Lateral Body Politics of Prison Hunger Strikes ( )

: Honig, Bonnie H (Chair); Deutscher, Penelope (Philosophy); Toender, Lars

 Assistant Professor, Trinity College-Hartford, Department of Political Science

 Instructor, Prison and Neighborhood Arts Project

Dr. Thompson’s research examines how threat and anxiety shift attitudes about American democracy. Specifically, he explores how racial demographic changes motivate stronger support for anti-democratic practices among the American public. He shows that partisan considerations are central to understanding how Americans process information about the changing U.S. demographic landscape, and how supportive they are of anti-democratic policies. Ultimately, Dr. Thompson shows that as the country diversifies, democratic considerations and overall support for American democracy are bound to shift dramatically among the mass public.

American politics, political psychology, public opinion, race and politics, experimental methods

Fear and Loathing in White America: The Effects of Group Threat on Political Attitudes and Perceptions ( )

: Druckman, James N (Chair); Bullock, John George; Rogers, Reuel R; Spruyt, Hendrik

Assistant Professor George Washington University, Department of Political Science

 Postdoctoral fellow, University of Notre Dame, Political Science Department

Doug Thompson is Associate Professor of Political Science at the University of South Carolina. His research and teaching interests include contemporary democratic theory; theory and practice of political representation; history of ancient, Renaissance, and modern political thought; history of American political thought; politics of race; and metro and urban politics. His first book,  , was published by Oxford University Press in 2018. The book situates Montaigne’s   within the historical context of the French Wars of Religion to recover a forgotten conception of tolerance as an active capacity and practice of political negotiation with adversaries. Thompson’s other research on Montaigne (and Herman Melville) has appeared in   and  .

Thompson’s current research is centered on two projects. The first consists of a series of articles that investigate new possibilities of democracy in an urbanizing world. The first of these, “ ,” was published in   in 2019. It argues that current American municipal and state boundaries actively harm democratic legitimacy and ought to be rescaled to represent the interests of an almost-entirely metropolitanized twenty-first century population.

 Political Theory; Montaigne, Michel de; Negotiation; Realism; Skepticism; Toleration; Contemporary democratic theory; Theory and practice of political representation; History of ancient, Renaissance, and modern political thought; History of American political thought; politics of race; and metro and urban politics

 Beyond the Inner Citadel: Skepticism, Realism, and Toleration in Montaigne's “Essais” ( )

: Honig, Bonnie H (Chair); Dietz, Mary G.; Farr, James F.

  Associate Professor and Director of Undergraduate Studies, University of South Carolina, Political Science

  Assistant Editor, Political Theory: An International Journal of Political Philosophy

M. Lena Trabucco is a Visiting Researcher at the U.S. Naval War College. Trabucco holds a dual PhD degree in political science and law from Northwestern University and the University of Copenhagen respectively. Lena’s current research includes the legal and political operability of multilateral military interventions, foreign policy, military technology, developments in artificial intelligence, international law, and laws of armed conflict.

 International Relations, Methods; international law and international security, laws of war in international politics

 Judges on the Battlefield? Judicial Observer Effects in US and UK National Security Policies ( )

: Alter-Hanson, Karen (Chair); Madsen, Mikael Rask (Copenhagen); Hurd, Ian F

Visiting Researcher, U.S. Naval War College

 Postdoctoral Researcher, University of Copenhagen, Centre for Military Studies

Aili Mari Tripp is Vilas Research Professor of Political Science at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Tripp’s research has focused on gender/women and politics, women’s movements in Africa, transnational feminism, African politics (with particular reference to Uganda and Tanzania), autocracies in Africa, and on the informal economy in Africa. She is presently working on a project on women’s political leadership in African autocracies and on a second project on women’s political citizenship and conflict globally. The latter is funded by the National Science Foundation.

She is author of   (New York and Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2019), which won the 2021 L. Carl Brown Book Prize of the American Institute for Maghrib Studies. Other award-winning books by the author include   (2015),   (2010),   (2009) with Isabel Casimiro, Joy Kwesiga, and Alice Mungwa, and   (2000). Her first book was   (1997), which was recently reissued.  She has edited   (2003), and co-edited (with Ladan Affi and Liv Tønnessen)  (2021), (with Balghis Badri)   (2017), (with Myra Marx Ferree and Christina Ewig)   (2013), (with Myra Marx Ferree)  (with Joy Kwesiga)   (2002) as well as (with Marja-Liisa Swantz)  (1996).

  Comparative Politics, Africa, North Africa, Civil Society, Gender and Politics, Women’s Movements, Global Feminism, Conflict Resolution, Democratization

 The urban informal economy and the state in Tanzania

: Ronald Herring, Evelyne Stephens, and Karen Hansen

  Vilas Research Professor of Political Science, University of Wisconsin-Madison

 Pollster covering public opinion, social movements and elections across Asia. Punk Rocker, Kpopper, Scrambler Rambler, Knowledge Dropper, Coffee Monster

International Relations; Korea; Nationalism; Public opinion; South Korea

 Not Just Nationalism: Values and Goals in South Korean Public Opinion ( )

: Page, Benjamin I. (Chair); Druckman, James N.; Winters, Jeffrey A.

Acting Asia Division Chief, Office of Opinion Research, U.S. Department of State

 Professional Lecturer, George Washington University, Educational Leadership

 Valdes’ research focuses on a phenomenon called private politics, or the targeting of private corporations to accomplish political goals. She broadly studies the interaction between government and private companies, as well as how individual actors can influence the political decisions of both entities. One of her recent projects includes an article forthcoming at the Quarterly Journal of Political Science. In this article, she used a survey experiment with a large sample of state legislators to explore how they react when a constituent threatens to boycott businesses. Her results suggest that private politics can actually undermine representation, as legislators become less likely to take policy action if they believe policy is being made in the marketplace. In her current position as a postdoctoral fellow, Valdes plans to extend her work to explore the impact of regulatory threat on a firm’s policies, examining firm’s reactions to changes to in the minimum wage law. Specifically, she looks at states where at minimum wage laws either passed or at least came up for a vote, and compare that timing to press releases announcing wage hikes. Altogether, my research aims to show how studying public policy requires an understanding of both the public and the private domains.

 American Politics; Civic skills; Political participation

 Private Targets, Public Outcomes: An Examination of Individual-Level Participation in Private Politics and Its Interaction with Public Politics ( )

: Druckman, James N. (Chair); Harbridge-Yong, Laurel; Page, Benjamin I.

 Assistant Professor, Indiana State University

 Visiting Assistant Professor, Lake Forest College, Politics

: Walt Vanderbush teaches classes in Latin American and Latino studies on the topics of US-Latin American relations, Latinos in the United States, and Latin American politics. Walt writes in the areas of US-Latin American relations and Latin American political economy. His current research is on the Caribbean with a focus on regional resistance to external pressures.

Walt's original research was on Mexican political economy, including articles on Mexican labor unions and other popular organizing. He moved next to a focus on US-Latin American Relations, particularly US-Cuba policy. With co-author Pat Haney, he published several articles and book chapters on Cuba policy, as well as the 2005 book,  .

Since then, Walt's work has been on US-Latin American Relations more generally with articles in journals such as  ,  , and  . He has also contributed chapters to the book,   (2014); and   (2017, co-authored with Melanie Ziegler).

Comparative Politics; US-Latin American relations, Latinos in the United States, and Latin American politics, economy, and society

  Independent organizing in Puebla, Mexico, 1961-1992: Social movements, the struggle for autonomy, and democratization ( )

  Associate Professor and Chair, Miami University (Ohio), Political Science; Global and Intercultural Studies; Latin American and Caribbean Studies

Dr. Christa van Wijnbergen studied Public Administration as an undergraduate at Leiden University but moved abroad to pursue graduate studies. She did a Master's at the College of Europe (Bruges, Belgium) and obtained a doctorate in Political Science at Northwestern University (Evanston, USA). She then taught at Ohio State University and the University of Chicago's Graduate School of Business and spent a year as a postdoc at Harvard's Center for European Studies before returning to Europe to become a research fellow at the European Institute at the London School of Economics.

Christa finally made it back to the Netherlands a few years ago, first settling as an independent policy researcher before returning to academia. She sought out the liberal arts and science programmes being pioneered at University Colleges in the Netherlands for their promise of being able to teach courses beyond disciplinary boundaries to an eclectic and motivated student body. As a relatively young and growing programme, Erasmus University College offered the opportunity to think deeply about and contribute to curriculum development, together with a wonderfully diverse and dedicated group of colleagues.

Dr van Wijnbergen's teaching and research interests are in the fields of Comparative & International Political Economy and European Union Politics, and include topics such as Varieties of Capitalism, Comparative Welfare States and Educational Reforms.

 Comparative Politics; Comparative & International Political Economy and European Union Politics, and include topics such as Varieties of Capitalism, Comparative Welfare States and Educational Reforms

 Imposing consensus: State steering of welfare and labor market reforms in continental Europe ( )

: Thelen, Kathleen A. (Chair); Wallerstein, Michael J; Swenson, Peter A.

 Senior Lecturer, Erasmus University College, Economics and Business, Netherlands

 Assistant Professor, Ohio State University

 Salvador's research and professional experience are focused on the study of public opinion and the political behavior of Mexicans. He is a doctor and teacher in political science, and a teacher in mathematics applied to the social sciences, from Northwestern University. He has conducted research on the patterns of accusations of electoral fraud in Mexico and its effect on public opinion and on the culture and political behavior of Mexicans. In addition, he worked as a researcher for fees at the UNAM Institute of Legal Research, where he collaborated in social surveys such as the first National Discrimination Survey. He has given classes on public opinion and political psychology, on quantitative methodology and on United States politics at UNAM, at the Universidad Iberoamericana and at Northwestern. Before joining the LNPP, he worked designing and analyzing surveys at the Office of the President of the Republic, in Buendía & Laredo, and as an independent consultant.

 Comparative Politics; Content analysis; Elections; Electoral fraud; Mexico; Political comunication; Survey experiment

  Elections as Issues: Patterns and Incentives of Accusations of Fraud in Mexico ( )

:  Gibson, Edward L (Chair); Druckman, James N (Co-Chair).; Seawright, Jason N.

  Senior Consultant, EXL

  Lecturer, Universidad Iberoamericana

Akbar Virmani ’80 MA, ’96 PhD, Glenview, Ill., Dec. 1, 2020, at age 64. Virmani was born in Uganda to parents of Indian descent. The family settled in the United States in 1973 after South Asians were forcibly displaced from Uganda. Virmani came to Northwestern for graduate study in political science. As assistant and associate director of Northwestern’s Program of African Studies from 1986 to 2003, Virmani administered research programs and maintained PAS’s alumni and international ties. He also taught and mentored graduate and undergraduate students.

: The resettlement of Ugandan refugees in southern Sudan, 1979-1986: The dynamics of exodus, asylum, and forced repatriation ( )

Munro, William A. (Committee); Rowe, John (History); Abu-Lughod, Ibrahim

 Martin is a specialist in natural resource development and member of the Special Group on Mining, Geothermal Energy and Hydrocarbons of the Infrastructure and Energy Department at the IDB. He is currently based in Santiago, Chile, and is responsible for coordinating and supervising projects in Argentina, Bolivia, Chile and Peru. Since joining the Bank in 2013, he supports countries in strengthening the quality of governance in the mining and energy sector and optimizing benefits and mitigating risks and negative impacts associated with the extractive industries. Prior to joining the IDB, he worked as a researcher at the United Nations Environment Programme (UNDP) and as a consultant on risk and industrial safety issues. He has published extensively on the governance of the extractive sector and natural resources in Latin America and the Caribbean. He holds a PhD in Political Science from the Institut d´Etudes Politiques de Paris (IEP-Sciences Po) and Northwestern University with a specialization in international environmental policies and water management; a Masters in Comparative Politics, specializing in Latin America (IEP-Sciences Po); and a BA in Political Science from the University of San Andres (Argentina).

 International Relations; Comparative Environmental Politics; Health and environmental sciences; Earth sciences; Conflict; Cooperation; Environmental policy; France; Genevois Aquifer; Groundwater; Hueco Aquifer; Mesilla Bolson Aquifer; Mexico; Switzerland; Transboundary waters; United States; Water management

 Explaining the Emergence of Transboundary Groundwater Management: The Cases of Guaraní Aquifer System, the Hueco and Mesilla Bolsón Aquifers, and the Génévois Aquifer ( )

: Spruyt, Hendrik (Chair); Dabene, Olivier (Co-Chair, Sciences Po); Balme, Richard (Sciences Po); Loriaux, Michael M; Massardier, Gilles (Sciences Po); Sindico, Francesco (University of Strathclyde); Stephan, Raya

 Sector Specialist, Extraction, Inter-American Development Bank, Infrastructure and Energy

 Inter-American Development Bank, Strengthening Governance in the Extractive Sector

Dr. Weber’s expertise includes modern and contemporary political theory, with a particular focus on language, discourse and argumentation in political thinking. Her area of specialization is the influence of Ludwig Wittgenstein and other language philosophers on political understanding and judgment. She teaches a variety of political theory courses. She is currently working on a monograph about the role of teaching and learning in Wittgenstein’s biography and later work – and the implications for understanding our capacity to make meaning as well as judgments about meaning. In collaboration with renowned contemporary artist Paul Chan, she has contributed a critical introduction to a new edition of Wittgenstein’s Wörterbuch für Volksschulen [Dictionary for Elementary Schools] which will appear in November 2020.

 Political Theory; Political Pedagogy, Language & Politics, Critical Theory, Philosophy of Social  Inquiry, History of Political Thought, Contemporary Democratic Theory, Philosophy of Language

 Reading Wittgenstein in Politics: Normativity, Judgment, and Political Pedagogy ( )

:  Farr, James F. (Chair); Dietz, Mary G.; Gunnell, John G. (SUNY Albany)

Associate Professor and Department Chair of Political Science; Pre-Law Program, College of Wooster

  Assistant Professor, College of Wooster, Political Science

Dr. Andrene Wright defended her dissertation on September 19, 2022 from   and currently serves as a Presidential Postdoctoral Fellow at the  , specializing in urban politics and political behavior at the intersection of race, gender, and class.  In the fall of 2023, she will join the  as an  , and in 2024, an Assistant Professor of African American Politics. As a scholar, she primarily focuses on producing work that centers the voices of Black women and girls – perspectives that are often pushed to the margins of both race and gendered scholarship. 

Wright is a first-generation American born to Jamaican immigrants. She was a   and earned her Bachelors’s degree from the City University of New York (CUNY) John Jay College of Criminal Justice (2017). Wright was also a Vera Fellow (2016), working for the  . At John Jay College, students are encouraged to be “fierce advocates for justice.” She can proudly say that this mantra is reflected in her academic praxis, teaching, and service. Wright’s research agenda uses innovative methods to unpack the complex lived experiences and behavior of Black people, using Black women as her foci.

  American Politics; urban politics and political behavior at the intersection of race, gender, and class

  When They Enter: Black Women's Politics in U.S Urban Centers ( )

:  Tillery, Alvin Bernard, Jr.; Rogers, Reuel R.; Nash, Jennifer C. (Duke University);  Bonilla, Tabitha (Education and Social Policy)

  Anna Julia Cooper Fellow, University of Wisconsin-Madison

Presidential Postdoctoral Fellow, the Pennsylvania State University

 Xie Tao is professor and dean of the School of International Relations and Diplomacy at Beijing Foreign Studies University. His research interests include Congress, public opinion, and China-U.S. relations. He has published extensively in both Chinese and English.

He holds a PhD in political science from Northwestern University (2007). He is the author of   (Routledge 2009) and   (with Benjamin I. Page, Columbia University Press, 2010). He has also published several articles in the  , including “What Affects China’s National Image? A Cross-national Study of Public Opinion” (September 2013). He is a frequent guest at CCTV News, BBC, CNN, Al Jazeera, and China Radio International.

 International Relations; American politics, China-U.S. relations, and Chinese foreign policy; Capitol Hill; China; Human rights; Taiwan; Trade

 China Policy on Capitol Hill: An Analysis of Trade, Taiwan, and Human Rights ( )

: Page, Benjamin I (Chair)

 Professor/ Associate Dean at the School of English and International Studies, Beijing Foreign Studies University, School of International Relations and Diplomacy, School of English and International Studies

 Assistant Professor, Beijing Foreign Studies University, School of International Relations and Diplomacy

  International politics, international organizations, international institutions, regional cooperation, trade and political economy, global governance, multilateral security

: Capitalism, the new world economy and labor relations: Korean labor politics in comparative perspective ( )

: Woo-Cummings, Meredith Chair); Loriaux,Michael M.; Swenson, Peter A.

  Professor, Kyung Hee University, Department of Political Science and Diplomacy, College of Political Science and Economics

Assistant Professor, Chung-Ang University, Department of Political Science and Diplomacy, College of Political Science and Economics

 Ariel Zellman (Ph.D.) is a lecturer (assistant professor) in the Department of Political Studies at Bar Ilan University. After completing his Ph.D. in political science at Northwestern University (2012), he received a post-doctoral fellowship at New York University's Taub Center for Israeli Studies in 2012-13. From 2013-2015, he was a post-doctoral fellow at both the Harry S. Truman Research Institute for the Advancement of Peace and the Leonard Davis Institute for International Relations at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. He joined the Political Studies Department at Bar Ilan in 2015. His research focuses on linkages between narratives of national identity and international territorial conflict protraction in the Middle East and former Yugoslavia with a methodological focus on comparative historical analysis and survey experimentation.

 International Relations; Comparative Politics; NaN

 Security or Identity? Narratives of State and Nation in International Territorial Conflict Protraction ( )

: Reno, William S (Chair); Seawright, Jason N.; Spruyt, Hendrik

 Assistant Professor (Lecturer), Bar Ilan University, Political Science

 Post-Doctoral Fellow, New York University, Taub Center for Israel Studies

  A director-level quant trader that specializes in equities, after a seven-year stint at Citi, Kai Zeng started with UBS in 2018. As vice president at Citi, Zeng helped manage systematic trading and equity derivatives analytics, according to LinkedIn. Now he’s an equity quant trader that works within UBS’s central risk book – a key role for large banks that are trying to manage extreme market volatility. 

 International Relations; Econometrics, Macroeconomics, Political Economics, Game Theory and Emerging Markets

 Foreign Direct Investment Liberalization and the Political Economy of Authoritarianism ( )

: Austen-Smith, Michael D (Chair); Sartori, Anne Elizabeth; Shih, Victor C

 Director, Equity Quant Trader, UBS

 Citi, Open Market Making & Systematic Trading

  Dong Zhang is an Assistant Professor in the Division of Social Science. He received his doctorate in political science from Northwestern University. He was a Shorenstein Postdoctoral Fellow in contemporary Asia at Stanford University. He holds bachelor's degrees in public policy and economics, and a master's degree in public policy from Peking University, Beijing. His research interests include comparative political economy, international political economy, and authoritarian politics. His work has appeared in , , , , among others.

 Comparative Politics; Comparative Political Economy, Development Economy, Chinese Politics & Economy

 State capitalism and the logic of political survival ( )

: Shih, Victor C (Chair); Black, Bernard (Law); Gans-Morse, Jordan L.; Hurst, William; Winters, Jeffrey

 Assistant Professor, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Political Science

 Assistant Professor, Lingnan University, Hong Kong, Political Science

 Qi Zhang is associate professor at the China Center for Economic Studies under the School of Economics at Fudan University. He specializes in the political economy of authoritarianism generally and how elite politics affects policymaking and economic outcomes in China specifically. He attained a Doctor of Economics from China Center for Economic Research, Peking University, and a Doctor of Political Science from Northwestern University.  He has published dozens of articles in Chinese and foreign academic journals such as Business and Politics, China Economic Review, Urban Studies, Economic Research, World Economy, and Economics (Quarterly).

 Comparative Politics; political economy of development, authoritarian politics, corruption and governance

 The Communist Revolution and the Political Origin of the Private Economy in China: Evidence from Zhejiang Province ( )

: Shih, Victor C. (Chair); Mahoney, James L.; Reno, William S.

 Associate Professor, Fudan University, School of Economics, China Center for Economic Studies

 Shorenstein Postdoctoral Fellow, Stanford University, FSI Institute for International Studies

 Jiangnan Zhu is an Associate Professor in the Department of Politics and Public Administration. She attained a bachelor's degree in International Relations and Economics from Peking University, M.S. in Mathematical Models of Social Sciences, and a Ph. D in Political Science from Northwestern University. Before joining the University of Hong Kong, she was an Assistant Professor at the University of Nevada, Reno. Dr. Zhu’s research interests include comparative political economy in developing and transitional countries, especially Chinese politics, corruption and anticorruption in China, political trust, and media in China.

 Comparative Politics; comparative political economy in developing and transitional countries, especially Chinese politics, corruption and anticorruption in China, political trust, and media in China

 Officials' Promotion Likelihood and Regional Variation of Corruption in China ( )

: Shih, Victor C. (Chair); Austen-Smith, Michael D.; Reno, William S.

 Associate Professor, University of Hong Kong, Department of Politics and Public Administration

 Assistant Professor, University of Nevada, Reno, Department of Political Science

I provide a variety of consulting services to nonprofits, banks, foundations, and public entities involved in poverty alleviation and community economic development. My work focuses especially on issues of strategic planning, program and product development, market analyses, and impact definition, measurement, and evaluation. I have been actively involved in various aspects of the federal New Markets Tax Credit program. I am also involved in broader studies and analyses of mixed-income housing, small business development and finance, and community/neighborhood change.

: American Politics; Urban planning; Area planning & development; Welfare

The art of revitalization: Improving conditions in distressed inner-city neighborhoods ( )

: Skogan, Wesley G.

Financial and Program Analyst, Community Development Financial Institutions Fund (CDFI Fund)

  Justin Zimmerman is an Assistant Professor of American Politics at UAlbany. His area of concentration is Black Politics and Urban Politics. His research aims to understand how Black Chicagoans work with institutions and neighbors they distrust to pursue common policy goals – in this case, to remedy state and community violence. Justin received his Ph.D. from Northwestern University in 2023. He also is a proud alum of the University of Alabama where he received a Bachelor of Arts in political science and philosophy in 2009 and a Master of Public Administration with a concentration in organizational management in 2011. Prior to pursuing a career in academia, Justin resided in Washington, D.C., where he supported the Department of Treasury as an acquisitions consultant with Octo Consulting Group and served in multiple roles with the Department of State.

  American Politics; Black Politics and Urban Politics

  Distrustful Cooperation: A Study of Black Chicagoans Combatting State and Community Violence ( )

:  Burch, Traci R.; Rogers, Reuel R.; Tillery, Alvin Bernard, Jr.;  Nuamah, Sally A. (Education and Social Policy)

  Assistant Professor of Political Science, Rockefeller College of Public Affairs and Policy, The University at Albany, State University of New York

Assistant Professor of Political Science, Rockefeller College of Public Affairs and Policy, The University at Albany, State University of New York