Subfield
Comparative Politics
Dissertation
Gender Attitudes, Nativism, and the Appeal of the Radical Right
Committee Members
Denise Walsh (Chair), Nicholas Winter, David Waldner, Carol Mershon
Subfield
Comparative Politics
Dissertation
State Capacity and the Origins of Authoritarian Multiparty Systems
Committee Members
Carol Mershon (co-chair), David Waldner (co-chair), Anne Meng
Subfield
Comparative Politics
Dissertation
Punishing Corruption: How Powerful Connections Can Short Circuit Corruption Prosecutions
Committee Members
Daniel Gingerich (Chair), John Echeverri-Gent, Brantly Womack, Allen Hicken (Michigan), Sylvia Tidley (Anthropology)
Subfield
Political Theory
Dissertation
Authoring Otherwise: Race, Writing, and Democratic Possibility Under Jim Crow
Committee Members
Lawrie Balfour (chair), Stephen K. White, Jennifer C. Rubinstein, Sandy Shukla (English), Maurice Wallace (Rutgers University)
Subfield
International Relations
Dissertation
Ritualized Hostilities in Territorial Displutes
Committee Members
Philip B.K. Potter (Chair), John M. Owen IV, Leonard Schoppa
Subfield
International Relations
Dissertation
Explaining Backlash Against Globalization: Essays on the Political Economy of Trade and Investment Flows in the United States
Committee Members
Sonal Pandya (Chair), David Leblang, Phil Potter
Subfield
Political Theory
Dissertation
Death Before Birth: Theorizing Pregnant Embodiment, Reproductive Autonomy, and the Politics of Abortion
Committee Members
Lawrie Balfour (Chair), Stephen White, Denise Walsh, Murad Idris and Allison Pugh (Sociology)
Subfield
American Politics
Dissertation
Divided by Place: The Enduring Geographical Fault Lines of American Politics
Committee Members
Nicholas J.G. Winter (co-chair), Paul Freedman (co-chair), Justin Kirkland, Katherine Cramer (Wisconsin-Madison), Gerald Clore (UVa Psychology)
Subfield
International Relations, Political Methodology
Dissertation
Educating the Newcomer: Leadership Turnovers and International Crises
Committee Members
Philip Potter (Chair), Dale Copeland, John Owen
Subfield
Political Theory
Dissertation
Self-Governance as Self-Cultivation: Zhu Xi and Confucian Democracy
Committee Members
Stephen K. White (Chair), Lawrie Balfour, Murad Idris, Charles Mathewes (Religious Studies), Anne Kinney (East Asia), and Cong Ellen Zhang (History)