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Tolulope Babalola
Dissertation: “Cultural Heterogeneity, Colonialism, and Black Americans’ Political Behavior and Attitudes”
Advisor: Jane Junn
Placement: Visiting Assistant Professor, Loyola Marymount University
Michelle Cornelius
Dissertation: “Partisan Media Bias vs. Structural Media Bias: Which One Dominates in a Polarized Environment?”
Advisor: Ann Crigler
Yuji Idomoto
Dissertation: “China’s Peaceful Rise, After All? The Threat of Rising Powers Reconsidered”
Advisor: David Kang
Placement: Postdoctoral Scholar, University of California, San Diego
Pongkwan Sawasdipakdi
Dissertation: “Hard Feelings: Friendship, Betrayal, and Outrage in International Relations”
Advisor: Brian Rathbun
Placement: Lecturer (Assistant Professor), Thammasat University, Bangkok
Siu Hei “Jackie” Wong
Dissertation: “Of Words and Deeds: A 70-year Analysis of China’s Official Rhetoric and Coercion since 1949”
Advisor: David Kang
Placement: Postdoctoral Research Associate, Princeton University
Alix Ziff
Dissertation: “The Politics of Aid Allocation & Accessibility”
Advisor: Benjamin Graham
Placement: Postdoctoral Teaching Fellow, University of Southern California
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Claire Crawford
Dissertation: “‘Hum So the Devil Doesn’t Hear You’: Rural Black Southern Political Existences as the Otherwise”
Advisor: Ange-Marie Hancock Alfaro
Placement: Assistant Professor of Political Science and International Relations and African American Studies, Wake Forest University
Edward Gonzalez
Dissertation: “Pathways to Nuclear Weapon Reversal: Exploring Mechanisms and Understanding Non-Proliferation Policy”
Advisor: Patrick James
Placement: Visiting Lecturer in Master of Arts in International Relations program, New York University
Whitney Hua
Dissertation: “Signaling Identity: How Race and Gender Shape What Representatives Say Online”
Advisor: Ann Crigler
Placement: Director of Research & Stakeholder Analytics, The Center for Election Science
Nicholas Napolio
Dissertation: “Bureaucratic Politics and Power Building in the Administrative State”
Advisor: Christian Grose
Placement: Assistant Professor of Political Science, University of California, Riverside
Dat Nguyen
Dissertation: “Identity and Regional Integration: Case Studies on Central Asia and Southeast Asia”
Advisor: Robert English
Stefanie Neumeier
Dissertation: “Refugee Protection and Empowerment Joint Venture: Understanding How and Why Public and Private Actors Cooperate to Tackle the Global Refugee Crisis”
Advisor: Wayne Sandholtz
Placement: Senior Clients Insight Analyst, Edward Jones
Kendrick Roberson
Dissertation: “Pernicious Racism And The Impacts Of Intentional Racist In A Color Blind Society”
Advisor: Ange-Marie Hancock Alfaro
Placement: Assistant Professor of Political Science, Pepperdine University
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Miriam Barnum
Dissertation: “Lesser Evils? WMD Pursuit Beyond Nuclear Weapons”
Advisor: Patrick James
Placement: Assistant Professor of Political Science, Purdue University
Ayana Best
Dissertation: “Voices Unheard, Stories Untold: Black Women, Police Violence and Political Participation”
Advisor: Ange-Marie Hancock Alfaro
Placement: Assistant Professor of Political Science, Howard University
Jarred Cuellar
Dissertation: “La Eleccion de la Pandemia: Analyzing the Adverse Effects of Covid-19 on Latinos during the 2020 Presidential Election”
Advisor: Ange-Marie Hancock Alfaro
Placement: Assistant Professor of Political Science, California State Polytechnic University, Pomona
Taylor Dalton
Dissertation: “Things Fall Apart: The Unraveling of International Institutions through Withdrawal”
Advisor: Wayne Sandholtz
Placement: Assistant Professor of Law, Santa Clara University School of Law
Maria Dominguez-Perez
Dissertation: “The Strategy of Firms Towards Political Elites and Consumers in Polarized Western Democracies”
Advisor: Gerardo Munck
Sarah Cueva Egan
Dissertation: “Identity Salience and Political Violence: Centering Social Identity in the Study of Intrastate Violence”
Advisor: Laurie Brand
Placement: Associate Director of Quantitative Research, Anti-Defamation League
Spiros Jason Giannaros
Dissertation: “Are You as Old as You Feel? A Quantitative and Qualitative Analysis of Leader Age and Foreign Policy Decision-Making”
Advisor: Patrick James
Placement: Assistant Professor of Political Science, University of District of Columbia
Eboni “Nola” Haynes
Dissertation: “Valuation of National Security Threats: An Integrative Look at Ideational, Material Threats and Identity”
Advisor: Ange-Marie Hancock Alfaro
Placement: Adjunct Professor in School of Foreign Service, Georgetown University and Research Fellow, Truman National Security Project
Han-Hui Hsieh
Dissertation: “Explaining the Variation in the Extent of China’s Hegemony, 1279-1840 — Multiple Sources of Ideational Power beyond Confucianism”
Advisor: David Kang
Placement: Postdoctoral Teaching Fellow in Political Science and International Relations, University of Southern California
Brian Knafou
Dissertation: “Authoritarian Religion: Explaining When and Why Authoritarian Governments Instrumentalize Religion”
Advisor: Laurie Brand
Placement: Quantitative Program Evaluator, Ripple Effect
Matthew Nelson
Dissertation: “Can Election Reforms Improve Democracy?”
Advisor: Christian Grose
Placement: Quantitative Research Specialist, Purple Strategies
Maria Daniela Maag Pardo
Dissertation: “Politics Behind Appointments: Policy, Patronage, and Party Systems in the Andes”
Advisor: Gerardo Munck
Placement: Assistant Professor of Political Science, Universidad San Francisco de Quito, Ecuador
Paul Orner
Dissertation: “The Logics of Chinese Strategy”
Advisor: David Kang
Placement: Research Analyst, Center of Naval Analysis
Kyuri Park
Dissertation: “Goldilocks’ Signal for Cooperation in East Asia: China’s Rise, Hedging, and Joint Military Exercises”
Advisor: David Kang
Placement: Postdoctoral Fellow at the Global Research Institute, William & Mary
Michael Pfonner
Dissertation: “Organized Intra-Ethnic Conflict and Cooperation in Divided Stateless Nations: The Competitive Dynamics of Rival Ethnonationalist Factions”
Advisor: Patrick James
Kyle Rapp
Dissertation: “By Word, Not Deed: Advancing a Theory of Rhetorical Compliance in International Law”
Advisor: Wayne Sandholtz
Placement: Postdoctoral Fellow at the Berlin-Potsdam Research Group, Freie Universität Berlin
Joseph Saraceno
Dissertation: “The Representation of LGBT Interests in the United States: A Multi-Method Approach”
Advisor: Christian Grose
Placement: Data Scientist, Team Lead, UCLA Luskin School of Public Affairs
Yue “Ada” Li Sarain
Dissertation: “Engaging Together: Exploring the Peer Effects of Civic Engagement”
Advisor: Jefferey Sellers
Placement: Postdoctoral Teaching Fellow in Political Science and International Relations, University of Southern California
Anne van Wijk
Dissertation: “The IO Contestation Project: A Multi-Method Approach Towards Understanding the Different Ways States Contest International Organizations”
Advisor: Wayne Sandholtz
Placement: Mixed-Methods UX Researcher @ Instagram, Meta
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Nicolás Albertoni
Dissertation: “The Risk of Trade Protectionism In An Interconnected and Uncertain Global Economy. A State, Industrial, and Regional Analysis”
Advisor: Carol Wise
Placement: Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs of Uruguay
Cody Brown
Dissertation: “A Theory of Status-Quo Terrorism: Democracies in Conflict and Their Proclivity to Outsource Repression”
Advisor: Patrick James
Placement: Mixed-Methods Research Scientist, University of Southern California
Gabrielle Lai Ting Cheung
Dissertation: “Ambition in World Politics: The Domestic Sources of Global Economic Integration”
Advisor: Saori N. Katada
Placement: Lecturer, Brunel University of London
Victoria Chonn Ching
Dissertation: “Economic Policy-Making in a Changing Environment: The Politics of Success in Peru vis-a-vis China”
Advisor: Carol Wise
Placement: Postdoctoral Teaching Fellow, University of Southern California and Non-resident Fellow, Atlantic Council’s Adrienne Arsht Latin America Center
Timo B. Dahler
Dissertation: “Essays on the International Political Economy of Sovereign Debt”
Advisors: Joshua Aizenman
Placement: Quantitative Analyst, Raiffeisen Switzerland
Fabián Naranjo Gonzalez
Dissertation: “Running for Office? Three Different Models in U.S. Political Campaigns & Elections”
Advisor: Ange-Marie Hancock Alfaro
Placement: Coordinator of Legislative Advocacy, Los Angeles Unified School District
Evgeniia Iakhnis
Dissertation: “Public Opinion and International Affairs. A Multi-Method Approach to Foreign Policy Attitudes”
Advisor: Patrick James & Brian Rathbun
Placement: Senior UX Researcher, Meta
Ellen Kim
Dissertation: “Fear or Greed? The Balance of Relative Interest under the Dual Hierarchical Order in Asia-Pacific”
Advisor: David Kang
Placement: Deputy Director and Senior Fellow, Center for Strategic and International Studies
Alex Yu-Ting Lin
Dissertation: “Challenges from Below: The Origins of Status Competitions in World Politics”
Advisor: David Kang
Placement: Assistant Director and Senior Research Fellow, International Security Center, University of Notre Dame
Susan Mulesky
Dissertation: “Selling Virtue: How Human Rights NGOs and Their Donors Work Together to Create a Better World…For Themselves”
Advisor: Wayne Sandholtz
Placement: Principal Behavioral Scientist, Vanguard
David Somogyi
Dissertation: “The Erosion of Democracy in the Post-Cold War World: Understanding the Phenomenon and its Causes”
Advisor: Gerardo Munck
Mao Suzuki
Dissertation: “Deciding Modalities of Global Health Governance: What Facilitates or Hinders Public-Private Partnerships?”
Advisor: Saori N. Katada
Placement: Assistant Professor of Political Science, Yale-NUS College and National University of Singapore
Joshua Timm
Dissertation: “The Small Dollar Political Donor: Why Regular Folks Give Money to Politics”
Advisor: Christian Grose
Placement: Insights Researcher, Riot Games
Shiming Yang
Dissertation: “A Global South Divided: Developing Countries in International Environmental Politics”
Advisor: Carol Wise
Placement: University Lectureship in Global Political Economy of China, Leiden University
Kelebogile Zvobgo
Dissertation: “Governing Truth: NGOs and the Politics of Transitional Justice”
Advisor: Wayne Sandholtz
Placement: Assistant Professor of Government, William & Mary
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Therese Anders
Dissertation: “Perspectives on State Capacity and the Political Geography of Conflict”
Advisor: Patrick James
Placement: Data Scientist, Apple
Adam Badawy
Dissertation: “Analysis and Prediction of Malicious Users on Online Social Networks: Applications of Machine Learning and Network Analysis in Social”
Advisor: Patrick James
Placement: Senior Machine Learning Engineer, Capital One
Kevin Baron
Dissertation: “California’s Adaptation to Sea Level Rise: Incorporating Environmental Justice Communities Along the State Coastline”
Advisor: Ange-Marie Hancock Alfaro
Kristopher Coombs
Dissertation: “Political Participation, Public Opinion, and the Law”
Advisor: Jane Junn
David Brooks Ebner
Dissertation: “Politics Is Something We Do Together: Identity and Institutions in U.S. Elections”
Advisor: Christian Grose
Placement: Assistant Professor of Political Science, Sweet Briar College
Stephanie Nayoung Kang
Dissertation: “The Origins and Evolution of the US Alliance Network: How Allies Transform and Transact”
Advisor: David Kang
Placement: Research Scientist, PXTCS, Amazon
Jennifer Roglà
Dissertation: “The Role of Local Actors in International Development: How Incentives Types Affect Foreign Aid Effectiveness”
Advisor: Carol Wise
Placement: Director of Monitoring, Evaluation, Research, and Learning, iDE Global
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Youssef Chouhoud
Dissertation: “The Changing State of Tolerance and Tolerance in Changing States”
Advisor: Laurie Brand
Placement: Assistant Professor of Political Science, Christopher Newport University
Ronan Tse-Min Fu
Dissertation: “Perceiving and Coping with Threat: Explaining East Asian Perceptions toward China’s Rise”
Advisor: David Kang
Placement: Assistant Researcher, Academia Sinica
Theodora Giallouri
Dissertation: “‘Neither Purse Nor Sword’: Strategic Minority Opinions and Judicial Policy-Making”
Advisor: Wayne Sandholtz
Placement: Assistant Professor of Political Science, California State University, San Bernardino
Xinru Ma
Dissertation: “Volatile Nationalism: Nationalism and Its Influence on Maritime Disputes”
Advisor: David Kang
Placement: Research Scholar, APARC Stanford Next Asia Policy Lab, Stanford University
Hai-Vu Phan
Dissertation: “Circuit Breakers: How Policy Entrepreneurs Interrupted the Electric Flow with Peru’s First Renewable Energy Legislation for the Grid”
Advisor: Patrick James & Carol Wise
Placement: Government Relations Senior Specialist, Edison International
Sara Sadhwani
Dissertation: “Descriptive Representation in a Multiracial America”
Advisor: Jane Junn
Placement: Assistant Professor of Politics, Pomona College
Jihyun Shin
Dissertation: “Like Father, Like Son?: A Succession-Based Explanation on Conflict Initiation by Authoritarian Regimes”
Advisor: David Kang
Placement: Senior Research Scientist, Amazon
Ming-Min Yang
Dissertation: “Anti-Foreign Boycotts as a Tool of Economic Coercion: The Case of China”
Advisor: Saori N. Katada
Placement: Assistant Research Fellow, Chung-Hua Institution for Economic Research
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Robert Joseph Huddleston
Dissertation: “Legitimizing Self-Determination: Advancing the Sovereignty of Separatist Movements”
Advisor: Patrick James
Placement: Assistant Professor of Diplomacy and International Relations, Seton Hall University
Thomas Jamieson
Dissertation: “Information, Public Opinion, and International Relations”
Advisor: Patrick James
Placement: Lecturer in the School of History, Philosophy, Political Science and International Relations, Te Herenga Waka- Victoria University of Wellington
In Young Min
Dissertation: “Status Seeking in Hierarchy: Korea and Vietnam under Chinese Hegemony in Early Modern Asia”
Advisor: David Kang
Placement: Lecturer, Heidelberg University
Jordan Carr Peterson
Dissertation: “Private Interests in American Government Institutions”
Advisor: Christian Grose
Placement: Assistant Professor of Political Science, University of Tennessee, Knoxville
Mayagüez Salinas
Dissertation: “Code ‘War’ Theorizing: Information and Communication Technology’s Impact on International Relations Theorizing, Negotiation, and Cyber Relations”
Advisor: Patrick James
Placement: Co-Founder and Executive Director, The Law Enforcement Work Inquiry System (LEWIS)
Meredith Shaw
Dissertation: “Forced March to Modernity: State-Imposed Cultural Change and Regime Stability in 20th Century East Asia”
Advisor: David Kang
Placement: Associate Professor at the Institute of Science, University of Tokyo
Phoebe Mengxiao Tang
Dissertation: “The Social Making of Authoritarian Environmentalism: Protest-Litigation Nexus and Policy Changes in China”
Advisor: Jefferey Sellers
Placement: Assistant Teaching Professor of Comparative Politics and Public Health, Drew University
Scott Wilbur
Dissertation: “Creating Destruction: The Political Economy of Zombie Firms”
Advisor: Saori N. Katada
Placement: International Relations Specialist, U.S. Customs and Border Protection
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Adam Feldman
Dissertation: “The Role of Merits Briefs in the Generation of Supreme Court Decisional Language”
Advisor: Wayne Sandholtz
Placement: Founder, Optimized Legal Solutions LLC
Matthew Gratias
Dissertation: “The Paradox of Personalism: Internal Political Constraints on Nuclear Posture in Authoritarian Regimes”
Advisor: Patrick James
Placement: Regional Director, Department of Defense National Security Technology Accelerator (MD5)
Elli Menounou
Dissertation: “Global Judicial Dialogue and the U.S. Courts”
Advisor: Wayne Sandholtz
Placement: Assistant Professor of Political Science, California State Polytechnic University, Pomona
Mariana Rangel Padilla
Dissertation: “Developing Countries in the Digital Era: State and Business Interactions for Industrial Upgrading”
Advisor: Gerardo Munck
Placement: Assistant Professor of Political Science and National Academic Director of Political Science and International Relations, Tecnológico de Monterrey
Keira Stearns
Dissertation: “Women as Political Subjects: Discursive Constructions of Women in Peace Processes at the United Nations”
Advisor: Alison Dundes Renteln
Placement: Deputy Director of Research Strategy, Analyst Institute
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Rod Albuyeh
Dissertation: “Thawing Rivalries and Fading Friendships: A Multi-Method Approach to Rapprochement and Alienation”
Advisor: Patrick James
Placement: Founder, Albell Cloud Lab
Jiun Bang
Dissertation: “The Business of Nationalism: How Commodification Sustains Bilateral Tensions”
Advisor: David Kang
Placement: Assistant Professor of Political Science and Asian Studies, Colorado College
Tyler Bonanno-Curley
Dissertation: “Emergency-War Machine: National Crisis, Democratic Governance, and the Historical Construction of the American State”
Advisor: J. Ann Tickner
Placement: Manager of Government Affairs and Acting Deputy City Manager, City of Long Beach
Benjamin Cohn
Dissertation: “‘Fire Alarms’ Revisited: Limitations for Effectuating Institutional Change and the Promise of ‘Police Patrols”
Advisor: Jane Junn
Nicolas de Zamaróczy
Dissertation: “Taking Orders from Brussels? External Actors and Regional Organizations in the Developing World”
Advisor: Patrick James
Placement: Lead Computational Social Scientist, Interos Inc.
Denise Gonzalez
Dissertation: “Mexican Hometown Associations: Zacatecanos in Los Angeles, Gendered Participation and Mexican State Ties”
Advisor: Ann Crigler
Eunice Kang
Dissertation: “Securitizing Language: Political Elites and Language Policy Securitization in South Korea”
Advisor: Laurie Brand
Placement: Assistant Professor of Political Science, Vanguard University of Southern California
Peter Knaack
Dissertation: “Examining Global Financial Regulatory Reform in the G20 and the FSB”
Advisor: Saori N. Katada
Placement: Adjunct Professorial Lecturer in the School of International Service, American University and consultant to the World Bank
Gloria Koo
Dissertation: “Supply and Demand of Economic Hierarchy: the Northeast Asia Case”
Advisor: David Kang
Placement: Associate Director of the Korean Studies Institute, University of Southern California
Kymberly MacNeal
Dissertation: “When Bullets Are Not Enough: Determinants of Chemical Weapons Usage and Abstention”
Advisor: Patrick James
Placement: Analyst, U.S. Department of Defense
Cyrus Mohammadian
Dissertation: “Forced Migration as a Cause and Consequence of Conflict”
Advisor: Patrick James
Placement: Principal Data Scientist, 605
Mark Paradis
Dissertation: “The Treatable Masses? Experiments, American Public Opinion, and War”
Advisor: Patrick James
Placement: Lecturer in Social Sciences, Champlain College Saint-Lambert and Adjunct Instructor, Concordia University
Simon Radford
Dissertation: “The Political Psychology of Democracy Promotion, or How Democracies Democratically Promote Democracy Promotion”
Advisor: Robert English
Placement: Associate Director of Policy and Content, UK and Europe, Milken Institute and Councillor for London Borough of Barnet
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Juvenal Cortes
Dissertation: “Power to the Masses? The Rise of Direct Democracy in Latin America”
Advisor: Gerardo Munck
Eric Hamilton
Dissertation: “International Politics and Domestic Institutional Change: The Rise of Executive War-Making Autonomy in the United States”
Advisor: Patrick James
Placement: Vice Provost of Research Policies & Governance and Lecturer of Political Science, NYU Abu Dhabi
Míchel Angela Martinez
Dissertation: “Photography in Movement: The Right to Photograph, Ethics in Imaging, and the Art of Making Social Change”
Advisor: Alison Dundes Renteln
Placement: Project Manager, Inner City Law Center
Matthew Mendez-Garcia
Dissertation: “In/Visible Constituents: The Representation of Undocumented Immigrants”
Advisor: Ange-Marie Hancock Alfaro
Placement: Assistant Professor of Political Science, California State University, Long Beach
Seanon Si-Lon Wong
Dissertation: “When Passions Run High: Emotions and the Communication of Intentions in Face-to-face Diplomacy”
Advisor: Patrick James
Placement: Assistant Professor at the Center for Entrepreneurship and Director of International Affairs Centre, Hong Kong Institute of Asia-Pacific Studies, The Chinese University of Hong Kong
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Roozbeh B. Baker
Dissertation: “Towards an Inter-Disciplinary Approach to the Study of Transnational Relations”
Advisors: Robert English & John Barnes
Placement: Lecturer in Law & Political Science, University of Surrey
Justin Berry
Dissertation: “Changing Political Attitudes and Behavior in a Diverse America: Incorporating Individual and Contextual Determinants”
Advisor: Jane Junn
Placement: Associate Professor of Political Science, Kalamazoo College
Mariano E. Bertucci
Dissertation: “Habits and Policy: The Socio-Cognitive Foundations of Foreign Policy Stability”
Advisors: Patrick James & Brian Rathbun
Placement: Resident Assistant Professor of Politics, Occidental College
Fabián A. Borges Herrero
Dissertation: “Social Policy and Presidential Ideology in Latin America: The Political Economy of Social Spending and Anti-poverty Programs”
Advisor: Gerardo Munck
Placement: Associate Professor of Political Science, California State University, San Bernardino
Chin-Hao Huang
Dissertation: “Status, Security, and Socialization: Explaining Change in China’s Compliance in International Institutions”
Advisor: David Kang
Placement: Associate Professor of Political Science and Head of Studies (Global Affairs), Yale-NUS College
Xiangfeng Yang
Dissertation: “The Partial Good Samaritan States: China and Japan in the International Relations of Autocracy and Democracy”
Advisor: Patrick James
Placement: Associate Professor of Government and International Affairs, Lingnan University