Ph.D.s on the Market
Here you can find a list of current graduate students and some recent Ph.D.s who are on the job market. If you have any further questions please contact the Director of Placement, Professor Gerald Rosenberg (g-rosenberg@uchicago.edu).
| Lauren Duquette-Rury | Subfield: | Comparative Politics |
| Ph.D. 2011 | Committee Chair: | Steven Wilkinson (Yale) |
| Dissertation Title: |
Making Democracy Work from Abroad: Remittances, Hometown Associations and Migrant-State Coproduction of Public Goods in Mexico
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| Email Address: | duquette@uchicago.edu | |
| Loren Goldman | Subfield: | Political Theory |
| Ph.D. 2010 | Committee Chair: | Patchen Markell |
| Dissertation Title: | The Sources of Political Hope: Will, World, and Democracy | |
| Email Address: | lorengoldman@cca.rutgers.edu | |
| Anne I. Harrington |
Subfield: | International Relations |
| Ph.D. 2010 | Committee Co-Chairs: | Alexander Wendt, Patchen Markell |
| Dissertation Title: | Nuclear Weapons as a Currency of Power: A Theory of Nuclear Fetishism | |
| Email Address: | aih@uchicago.edu | |
| Webpage: | http://nuclearphilosopher.org/ | |
| Kentaro Hirose |
Subfield: | International Relations, Formal Models, Political Methodology |
| A.B.D. | Committee Chair: | Duncan Snidal |
| Dissertation Title: | Bargaining Outside the Shadow of War |
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| Email Address: | hirose1981@uchicago.edu | |
| Webpage: | http://home.uchicago.edu/~hirose1981/ | |
| Sheena Kang | Subfield: | Political Theory |
| A.B.D. | Committee Chair: | Danielle Allen |
| Dissertation Title: | Deliberating Historical Injustice: Conceptual Dilemmas of the Korea-Japan History Disputes | |
| Email Address: | kang@uchicago.edu | |
| Diana Kim | Subfield: | Comparative Politics |
| A.B.D. | Committee Co-Chairs: | Bernard Harcourt, Dan Slater |
| Dissertation Title: | States of Vice | |
| Email Address: | dianasuekim@gmail.com | |
| Yuen-Ching Bellette Lee | Subfield: | Comparative Politics |
| A.B.D. | Committee Chair: | William Sewell |
| Dissertation Title: | Development as Governing Tactics - the Three Gorges Dam and the Reproduction and Transformation of State Power in Dengist China | |
| Email Address: | yblee@uchicago.edu | |
| Jennifer London | Subfield: | Political Theory |
| Ph.D. 2009 | Committee Chair: | Danielle Allen |
| Dissertation Title: | Philosophy and Government in Middle Eastern Political Thought: 757-1406 A.D. | |
| Email Address: | jlondon@uchicago.edu | |
| Benjamin Lynerd | Subfield: | Political Theory |
| Ph.D. 2009 | Committee Chair: | Jean Bethke Elshtain |
| Dissertation Title: |
Evangelicals and the Modern Self, with a Critique of Abolitionism
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| Email Address: | btlynerd@uchicago.edu | |
| Mara Marin | Subfield: | Political Theory |
| Ph.D. 2008 | Committee Co-Chairs: | Charles Larmore, Jacob Levy |
| Dissertation Title: | Taking Commitment Seriously | |
| Email Address: | mara@uchicago.edu | |
| Christopher Meckstroth | Subfield: | Political Theory |
| Ph.D. 2010 | Committee Chair: | Patchen Markell |
| Dissertation Title: | Democratic Progress: Paradox, Struggle, and Constitutional Change | |
| Email Address: | meck@uchicago.edu | |
| Julie Lee Merseth |
Subfield: | American Politics |
| A.B.D. | Committee Chair: | Cathy Cohen |
| Dissertation Title: | Racial Solidarity and the Intragroup Politics of Immigrant Incorporation | |
| Email Address: | jmerseth@uchicago.edu | |
| Webpage: | http://home.uchicago.edu/~jmerseth/ | |
| Sarah Parkinson | Subfield: | Comparative Politics |
| A.B.D. | Committee Chair: | John Padgett |
| Dissertation Title: | Reinventing the Resistance: Order and Violence Among Palestinians in Lebanon | |
| Email Address: | sparkinson@uchicago.edu | |
| Webpage: | http://home.uchicago.edu/~sparkinson/ | |
| Sebastian Schmidt | Subfield: | International Relations |
| A.B.D. | Committee Chair: | Robert Pape |
| Dissertation Title: | Over There: Sovereignty, Foreign Military Presence, and the Pragmatist Roots of Normative Change in International Politics | |
| Email Address: | schmidts@uchicago.edu | |
| Nicholas Rush Smith | Subfield: | Comparative Politics |
| A.B.D. | Committee Chair: | Lisa Wedeen |
| Dissertation Title: | The Rights of Others: Vigilantism and Everyday State Formation in Democratic South Africa | |
| Email Address: | nrsmith@uchicago.edu | |
| John Stevenson | Subfield: | International Relations |
| A.B.D. | Committee Chair: | Robert Pape |
| Dissertation Title: | "Capitol Gains": How Outside Money, Diplomatic Support, and the Elite Quest for International Recognition Causes Mass Killing in New States | |
| Email Address: | hegemon@uchicago.edu | |
| Webpage: | http://chicago.academia.edu/JohnStevenson | |
| Ian Storey | Sub-field: | Political Theory |
| Ph.D. 2012 | Committee Chair: | Patchen Markell |
| Dissertation Title: | The Taste of Politics: Kant and the Position of Judgment | |
| Email Address: | ins@uchicago.edu | |
| Webpage: | http://home.uchicago.edu/~ins/ | |
| Jaeyeon Yim A.B.D. |
Sub-field: | International Relations |
| Committee Chair: | Alexander Wendt | |
| Dissertation Title: | Constitution of Collective Self in Theorizing the Making of National Identity. | |
| Email Address: | jyim@midway.uchicago.edu | |
