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 ). 

Ahsan Butt
Subfield: International Relations
A.B.D. Committee Chair: John Mearsheimer
  Dissertation Title: Goodbye or See You Later? Why States Fight Some Secessionists but not Others
  Email Address: ahsanib@uchicago.edu
     
John Dobard Subfield: Political Theory
A.B.D. Committee Chair: Patchen Markell
  Dissertation Title: Against Dignity: Toward a New Normative Framework for Human Rights
  Email Address: jdobard@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
  Email Address: duquette@uchicago.edu
  Webpage: http://home.uchicago.edu/~duquette/homepage.html
     
Min Hee Go Subfield: American Politics
A.B.D.  Committee Chair: Eric Oliver
  Dissertation Title: 

Rethinking the Institutional Basis of Urban Development: Hurricane Katrina Recovery Efforts in New Orleans

  Email Address: minniego@uchicago.edu
  CV: click here
     
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
     
Daragh Grant Subfield: Comparative Politics, Political Theory
A.B.D. Committee Chair: Lisa Wedeen
  Dissertation Title: On the "Native Question": Understanding Settler Colonialism's Logics of Domination
  Email Address: djgrant@uchicago.edu
     
Jennie Han Subfield: Political Theory
A.B.D. Committee Chair: Patchen Markell
  Dissertation Title: The Phenomenology of Responsibility: Redefining Individual Moral Responsibility as a Function of Thinking
  Email Address: hanjs@uchicago.edu
     
Anne Harrington de Santana 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
  CV: click here
     
Kentaro Hirose
Subfield: International Relations, Formal Models, Political Methodology
A.B.D.  Committee Chair: Duncan Snidal
  Dissertation Title: Bargaining Outside the Shadow of War
  Email Address: hirose1981@uchicago.edu
  Webpage: http://home.uchicago.edu/~hirose1981/
     
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
  Research Summary: http://home.uchicago.edu/~jlondon/abstractforwebsite.htm
  CV: http://home.uchicago.edu/~jlondon/cvforwebsite.htm
     
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
  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 Participation in the United States
  Email Address: jmerseth@uchicago.edu
     
Jon Rogowski
Subfield: American Politics and Methods
A.B.D. Committee Chair: Eric Oliver
  Dissertation Title: Representation and the Electoral Connection
  Email Address: jrogowski@uchicago.edu
  Webpage: http://home.uchicago.edu/~jrogowski/
     
Jacob Schiff Sub-field: Political Theory
Ph.D. 2010 Committee Chair: Patchen Markell
  Dissertation Title: The Cultivation of Responsiveness
  Email Address:

jschiff@uchicago.edu

     
Ian Storey Sub-field: Political Theory
A.B.D. 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