APSA is pleased to include here the names of individuals who have completed their doctoral dissertations at political science departments during the 2024 calendar year. In order to provide the most accurate information possible, this list is based on data reported directly from individuals and departments.

Marcus Johnson, American University: The Ramifications of Racial Competition: Racial Prejudice, White Identity, Policy Conservatism, and Trump Support

Selim Yaman, American University: Essays on Political Text Analysis

Michal Cantrell, Arizona State University: Of Ripple Effects and Reverberations: Disinformation in a Two-Level Game

Netty Herawaty, Arizona State University: Gender, Formal, and Informal Rules in Legislative Candidate Selection across Indonesian Political Parties

Trudy Horsting, Arizona State University: Do Actions Speak Louder than Words? Exploring the Influence of Informal Political Discourse on Twitter During Crisis

Cagla Kilic, Arizona State University: A Role Theoretic Approach to Grand Strategy: Explaining Composition and Change Over Time in China, Russia and the USA

Camila Páez Bernal, Arizona State University: When Women Say ’No More’: Exploring the Green and Purple Tides in Latin America

Jonathan Turner, Arizona State University: Interstate Patronage and Client State Repression: Evidence from 1946-2010

Daniel Casey, Australian National University: The Opinion-Agenda Linkage - How Letters from the Public to the Prime Minister Impact the Policy Agenda

Olivia Britton, Boston University: Unraveling the Threads of Refugee Movement: Navigating Resettlement in Spain, Italy, and Germany

Cyril Bennouna, Brown University: Beyond the Migrant’s Remit: Predatory Rentierism and the Broken Path from Remittances to Sustainable Development in Guatemala

Jeffrey Feldman, Brown University: Re-narrating Revolution: Democracy and the General Strike Tradition

Christopher Garrity, Brown University: Lex ad Astra: Astrojurisprudence and Astropolitics in the Final Frontier

David Herrera, Brown University: Strategies for Political Empowerment and Voice: Fighting Environmental Racism in Minority Communities Across California

Rachel Nusbaum, Brown University: Responsibility in the Political Realm

Christopher Woods, Brown University: The Assumptive Court: Arrogation and Aggrandizement at the Supreme Court

Antonio Salvador Alcazar III, Central European University: Brussels’s Burden: (Un)making The Global Souths in the European Union’s Preferential Trade Policy

Ibrahim Alsuhaibani, Claremont Graduate University: The Impact of US Public Opinion on US Engagement with the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia

Iren Marinova, Colorado State University: The Foreign Policy Ambitions of the European Union: A Relational Theoretical Approach

Jiwon Baik, Cornell University: From Bureaucrats to Financiers—How China’s State Ownership Regimes is Transforming Capital Market

Tessa Devereaux, Cornell University: The Determinants of Insurgent Gender Governance: Power, Authority and Social Change under Rebel Rule

Jordan Ecker, Cornell University: The Politics of Natural Society

Sarah Greenberg, Cornell University: The Law is Not in Heaven: Authority and Covenant in Jewish Political Thought

Eun A Jo, Cornell University: Nations After Democracy: Politics of Storytelling in South Korea and Taiwan

Michael Kriner, Cornell University: Autocrats Keeping Peace? An Analysis of Impact of Autocratic T/PCCs on UN Peace Operations

Shiqi Ma, Cornell University: Pre-emptive Coercion: The Authoritarian Politics of Informal Settlement Governance in China

Tessy Schlosser, Cornell University: Dreaming Power ’Utopian Topoi in the Political Thinking of Sor Juana Ines De La Cruz

Angie Torres-Beltran, Cornell University: Three Essays on Gender, Violence, and the State

Yiying Xiong, Cornell University: Coercive Statecraft in Disguise: China’s Economic Coercion and its Effectiveness

Mateo Villamizar Chaparro, Duke University: Electoral Markets on the Move: Essays about the Political Economy of Migration in Latin America

Kevin Sparrow, Emory University: Viable Candidate Oversupply: Black Voters, Majority-Black Districts, and Primary Vote Choice

Yumin Wang, Emory University: The Autocrat’s Labor Dilemma: Distributional Conflict, Labor law, and the Value of Dependent Courts

Claudia Wiehler, ETH Zurich: In the Shadow of Civil War. The Interdependence of Civil Wars and Conflicts Between Informal Armed Groups

Alexandra Artiles, Florida State University: The Determinants of State and Local Preemption Behavior

Zachary Houser, Florida State University: Buying and Selling Foreign Aid: Donor Motivations and Public Perceptions of Foreign Aid

Giulia Venturini, Florida State University: Strategic Candidate Selection and Minority Representation

Weifang Xu, Florida State University: Pride and Prejudice: The Dual Effect of Wolf-Warrior Diplomacy on Domestic and International Audiences

Teresa Völker, Freie Universität Berlin: Mainstreaming the Far Right: How Far-Right Actors and Ideas Shape Public Debates

Melissa Bejjani, George Mason University: The Emergence and Consolidation of Conflict Economies: The Case of Syria (2011-2017)

Aubrey Grant, George Mason University: Networks and Policy Outcomes: The Case of Refugee Integration

Erica Seng-White, George Mason University: Reading into the Rise of China: Media Effects, Context, Nationalism, & Perceptions of the Other

Jason Scott Smith, George Mason University: Delegate or Abdicate: How Public Opinion Influences Congressional and Executive Behavior

Dersu Ekim Tanca, George Mason University: From ‘Hybrid’ Towards ‘Full’ Authoritarianism? Regime Transitions in Turkey after 2011

Caroline Wesson, George Mason University: Three Essays on Economic Clusters and Their Determinants, Structures, and Transformations

Mark Berlin, George Washington University: Pledging Allegiance to al-Qaeda and the Islamic State: The Causes and Consequences of Rhetorical Cooperation

Tom Garvey, George Washington University: Goals Matter: The Implications of Antisystemic Goals on Civil War Duration

Stas Gorelik, George Washington University: Three Methods of Ostensibly Legal Electoral Manipulation in Authoritarian and Hybrid Regimes

Shahryar Pasandideh, George Washington University: In Search of a Prime Mover: An Investigation into the Relationship Between Technological Change and Shifts in the Fielded Military Capabilities of States

Emily Schraudenbach, George Washington University: Civic Legacies and the Development of Urban Integration Policy in France: Migrant Roma Housing Policy

Sverrir Steinsson, George Washington University: The Politics of Digital Platforms

Bosco Yeung, George Washington University: The Role of Ethnic Origin in Asian American Politics

Ozlem Tuncel, Georgia State University: Pre-Electoral Coalitions in Electoral Authoritarian Regimes

Evelyn Boyden, Harvard University: Swearing Allegiance: Consent and Divine Right in Jacobean Political Thought

Julia Coyoli, Harvard University: How Unions Bring About Policy Implementation: Education Reform, Teachers’ Unions, and Subnational Politics in Mexico

Joshua Freedman, Harvard University: Science as Charisma: Expert Authority and State-Society Relations in Contemporary China

Chelsea Green, Harvard University: The Great Divide between the Wealth of Nonprofits and Their Communities

Sarah Gustafson, Harvard University: Opening the Democratic Heart: Interest, Charity, and Well-Being in the Political Thought of Alexis de Tocqueville

Dimitrios Halikias, Harvard University: Slaves without Masters: The Feudal Imagination and the Critique of Impersonal Domination

Charles Austin Jordan, Harvard University: Private Business under Authoritarianism: Party Organizations, Associations, and Entrepreneurs in China

Liam Klein, Harvard University: Whig Anti-Intellectualism: An Intellectual History

Hansong Li, Harvard University: Common Justice: Interpolitical Thought in Western, Indian, and Chinese Traditions

Brian Palmiter, Harvard University: Gaming the System: A Theory of Institutional Manipulation

Mafalda Pratas Fernandes, Harvard University: Rescuing Rationality? Essays on Voters, Parties, and Accountability in a Polarized World

Reed Rasband, Harvard University: Redirecting Xenophobia: How New Migration Flows Improve Intergroup Relations in Immigration Destinations

Hunter Rendleman, Harvard University: Three Essays on Elite Ethno-Racial Minority Politics

James Rosenberg, Harvard University: Essays on John Rawls and Social Theory

Tyler Simko, Harvard University: Geographic Policy Evaluation in US State and Local Politics

Olivia Woldemikael, Harvard University: The Local Consequences of Migration Policies in Latin America, Africa, and North America

Ye Helen Zhang, Harvard University: The Paradox of Prosperity: State, Innovation and Economic Leadership in Western Europe, 1100-1930

Andi Zhou, Harvard University: The Causes and Consequences of Territorial Nationalism

Alberto Stefanelli, Ku Leuven: Why So Radical? The Nature, Causes, and Consequences of Radical Beliefs Systems

Jesse Ansley, Louisiana State University: Johann Georg Hamann and the Liberal Project

Kevin Bradley, Louisiana State University: Humanitarian Watchdogs: The Impact of Humanitarian Aid on State Behavior

Thomas Cloud, Louisiana State University: Leo Strauss and the Regime of Philosophy: Poetry, Cosmology, and the Degeneration of the West

Jacob Harvey, Louisiana State University: Martial Spirits and Marital Rites: Assessing Rousseau’s Critique of Commerce’s Devaluation of the Military and the Family

Laura Kaehler, Louisiana State University: Splitting Quintiles: Exploring the Relationship Between Income Inequality and Political Participation in the American Electorate

Stacey Terrio, Louisiana State University: The State of the Unions: Labor Unions, Bureaucrats, and Voting in America, 1984–2020

Samantha Costas, Loyola University Chicago: Controlling the Skies: Leveraging Airspace as a Foreign Policy Tool

Haining Du, Michigan State University: A Collection of Essays on the Backlash against Globalization, Automation, and Deindustrialization

Joshua Koss, Michigan State University: Forces of Change: Examining Influencers of Congressional Behavior

Chrissy Scheller, Michigan State University: Choosing Between the Chief and Local Government in Senegal: How People Use Formal and Informal Institutions in Times of Need

Jonathan Spiegler, Michigan State University: Boats Against the Current: Tocqueville on Fatalism and Inequality in a Democratic Age

Tianhong Ying, Michigan State University: The Beginning of John Locke’s Liberalism

Samuel Arthur Boren Reast, New York University: Punishment Amongst Equals: Democracy and Criminal Justice

Jiawei Fu, New York University: Essays on Causal Mechanism and Causal Generalization

Tatsuya Koyama, New York University: Essays on Conflict and Local Politics in the Philippines

Trellace Marie Lawrimore, New York University: Essays on Politics in the Historical US South

Porey Lin, New York University: Three Essays on Gender Gaps in Politics

Alejandro López Peceño, New York University: Essays on the Politics of Rights Extensions: Education and Suffrage in 19th-Century France

Rajeshwari Majumdar, New York University: Essays on Religious Nationalism and Partisan Cues in India

Alexis Palmer, New York University: Essays on Institutional Trust, Narrative Persuasion, and Political Cynicism

Roxanne Rahnama, New York University: Myths and Monuments: Ideological Tools of Dominance and Symbolic Change

Christopher Schwarz, New York University: Materialist Explanations for War

Khawaja Ali Tanveer Ahmed, New York University: Three Essays on Customary Institutions, Democratic Capture, and Violence

Carolina Alejandra Torreblanca Becerra Acosta, New York University: The Political Economy of Crime and Its Punishment: Evidence from Latin America

Francis William Touola Meda, New York University: Essays on the Political Economy of Governance

Mark David Williamson, New York University: The Politics of Historical Injustices and Reconciliation in Canada

Elisa Maria Wirsching, New York University: Essays on the Politics of Local Bureaucracy

Xiangqian Yi, New York University: Essays on Information Manipulation in China: Patterns, Attitudinal Consequences, and Bureaucratic Mechanisms

Eddine Nabil Bouyahi, Northwestern University: Incumbent Populism in Southern Africa: Liberation Movements in Government and Trade Unions in Zimbabwe and Namibia

Lucien Ferguson, Northwestern University: The Spirit of Caste: Recasting the History of Civil Rights

Lamin Keita, Northwestern University: The Politics of Community Resilience to Armed Jihadism in West Africa

Yoes Chandra Kenawas, Northwestern University: Dynasty Inc.: The Emergence and Endurance of Political Dynasties in Indonesia

Bo Won Kim, Northwestern University: The Paradox of Amity: Divergent Paths to Regulating Illicit Economies

Jeremy Michael Levy, Northwestern University: “How Could Anyone Believe That?”: Interacting with Unfamiliar Beliefs Across the US Political Divide

Pilar Manzi Gari, Northwestern University: Poverty, Inequality, and Policy Preferences: Economic Elite Attitudes in Latin America

Evgeniia Mikriukova, Northwestern University: Russia Dreams of Nation: A Study of Russian Peripheral Imperialism

Sarah Elizabeth Moore, Northwestern University: Formalizing Tools for Meta-Analysis and Measurement Validity in the Social Sciences

Jonathan Scott Schulman, Northwestern University: Falling Behind: How Americans’ Anxiety over Decline Affects US Foreign Policy

Maximilian Weylandt, Northwestern University: Three Essays on Democratic Opinions

Michael Burnham, Pennsylvania State University: Natural Language Politics

Megan Kennedy, Pennsylvania State University: Qualifications, Gender, and Identity in Statewide Elections

Nathan Morse, Pennsylvania State University: American Politics in Perspective: The Limitations of State Constitutions and Static Content

Ilayda Onder, Pennsylvania State University: Cooperation, Infighting, and Diffusion in Militant Group Networks

Angel Villegas-Cruz, Pennsylvania State University: Verbal Aggression, Information Warfare, and Career Aspirations: Exploring the Use of Social Media in Public Diplomacy

Scovia Aweko, Purdue University: The Legacy of Violence: Experience with Civil War and Support for Refugees

Chiara Cervini, Purdue University: Food Literacy and Justice in the United States and Italy

Lejla Dervisevic, Purdue University: Long Bitter Enemies No More: IENGO-Corporate Partnerships as a New Pathway to Influence Global Environmental Governance

Owura Kuffuor, Purdue University: Essays on Elections and Processes in Ghana

Sky Kunkel, Purdue University: The Local Effects of UN Peacekeeping

Kayla Young, Purdue University: Effectively Disenfranchised? Framing and the Youth Climate Movement in the United States

Emily Elia, Rice University: Evading Electoral Accountability: How Elites Maintain Voter Support in Contexts of Corruption

Yui Nishimura, Rice University: Institutionalized Cooperation: How NGO Cooperation Shapes Global Governance on Human Rights

Mai Alfarhan, Rutgers University: Authoritarian Bargains: The Politics of Business-Elite Relations in China

Amy Spaulding Funck, Rutgers University: Attachment Style and Political Behavior

Michael Irving, Rutgers University: Born to Run: Motherhood Appeals, Race, and Partisanship in Congressional Campaigns

Katie Krumbholz, Rutgers University: Carceral Identity and its Influence on Political Attitudes and Behaviors

Michael Strawbridge, Rutgers University: In the Thick of It: Operationalizing the Relationship between Black People, Black Spaces, and Black Political Unity

Gregory Zucker, Rutgers University: From the Ethical State to Progressive Income Taxation: The Influence of Ideas on Institutional Change in Germany, Britain, and the United States, 1807–1913

Katherine Clayton, Stanford University: The Public’s Response to Incremental Democratic Backsliding

Carl Gustafson, Stanford University: Essays in Political Economy

Cassandra Handan-Nader, Stanford University: Vector Representations of Conflict in American Political Institutions

Jason Luo, Stanford University: The Rise of Intelligent Authoritarianism? AI-Powered Economic Steerage in China

Nicholas Lyon, Stanford University: Unpacking Urban: City Size and the Political Effects of Urbanization in Africa

Joan O’Bryan, Stanford University: On Patriarchy: Political Origin Stories in Contemporary Feminist Thought

Sean Peters, Stanford University: Navigating Norms and Narratives: Essays on Civil-Military Relations

Theo Serlin, Stanford University: Political Change in Spatial Equilibrium

Daniel Slate, Stanford University: The Law of the Hour: Emergency Powers, the Rule of Law, and Judaic Political Thought

Sarah Thompson, Stanford University: Gender, Traditional Governance, and Political Participation in Pakistan

Daniella Alva, Stony Brook University: How Do We Deal with Inequality? The Role of Compassion, Information, and Merit

Jacob Martin, Stony Brook University: Everything is Political: Finding Political Meaning in (Seemingly) Apolitical Statements?

Joseph Sandor, Stony Brook University: When Veracity Fails: News Sharing as Expressive Partisanship

Zohar Avitan, Tel Aviv University: Engulfing Gaza: Rockets & Perceptions in the Consciousness of the Area Residents

Niamh Farrell, Temple University: China’s Belt and Road Initiative and Public Opinion on Sovereignty: Evidence from the Former Soviet Union

Ethan Fried, Temple University: Frontline Policymaking: The Politics of K-12 Education During COVID-19

Felix Puemape, Temple University: Political Instability and Public Administration Attractiveness in Developing Countries

Can Zengin, Temple University: The Role of Self-Conscious Emotions in Polarized Societies

Yeon Soo Park, Texas A&M University: The Substantive Representation of Marginalized Groups

Gor Mkrtchian, Texas Tech University: The Determinants of Trade: International Union, Domestic Institutions, and Autarkic Capacity

Micah Harris, The Catholic University of America: How Political Action Shapes the Actor: The Political Theory of Martin Luther King Jr.

Sai Hey Samuel Chan, The University of Hong Kong: Can the Good Old Days Restore Trust? A Study in US–China Trust-building

La Li, The University of Hong Kong: The State That Negates Constructing Cognitive Continuity in Political Discontinuity

Li Liao, The University of Hong Kong: How Authoritarian States Manage Courts: Case Studies from Imperial to Contemporary China

Yunchen Zhu, The University of Hong Kong: From Data Silos to Data Pools: Data Integration Challenges in China’s Smart Cities

David Siracuse, University at Albany, SUNY: The Role of Sexual Scandal in Politics & Policy

Zachary Bonner, University of Alabama: Inoculation Against the Pandemic of Misinformation in American Politics

George Orfanos, University of Alabama: Greek Earth, Roman Kingdom: Byzantium as Troubled Platonic Polity

Matthew Thomas, University of Alabama: The Impact of Disasters on Politics: How Resilience Influences Disaster Requests and Voting in Communities

Myles Williamson, University of Alabama: A Global Analysis of Transgender Rights

Ioana Cerasella Chis, University of Birmingham: The Politics of Disablement and Precarious Work in the UK: Prefiguring a Non-Productivist Future

Joshua Weiner, University of British Columbia: Running a Rebellion: Essays on Armed Group Behavior

Katelyn Kelly, University of California, Irvine: The Story of Graffiti: Cultural Practices as a Liminal Space for Political Imagination

Stephen Cucharo, University of California, Los Angeles: Guilty Subjects, Reparative Politics: On Guilt and Political Theory After Freud

Marco Durazo, University of California, Los Angeles: The Few, The Proud, The Deported: Race, Military Service, and the Politics of Immigration Enforcement

Mackenzie Eason, University of California, Los Angeles: International Crime in the 19th Century Social Imaginary: Exploring the Development of the Conceptual Foundations of International Criminal Law and International Criminal Justice

Kevin Grieco, University of California, Los Angeles: Identity, Economy, and Secessionism in Comparative Perspective

Jennifer Hamilton, University of California, Los Angeles: Building Fiscal Capacity in Weak States: Experimental and Qualitative Evidence from Sierra Leone

Cybelle Kappos, University of California, Los Angeles: The Way EU Make Me Feel: Measuring Anxiety in the Brexit Negotiations Using Text and Audio

Julian Michel, University of California, Los Angeles: The Subnational Roots of Democratic Stability

Anthony Norton, University of California, Los Angeles: Beyond Right and Recognition: Toward a History of Collective Self-Determination as the Authorship of Political Personhood

Yana Otlan, University of California, Los Angeles: Essays on State Communications: Diplomatic Signals, Media Narratives, and Propaganda

Chase Privett, University of California, Los Angeles: Age-Old Divisions: How Generational Identities Become Political Groups

Crystal Robertson, University of California, Los Angeles: Marginalization in the Movement: The Effect of Intersectionality on Activist Leadership

Alexander Rossell Hayes, University of California, Los Angeles: Context Clues: How Local Demographics and Language Barriers Shape Group Attitudes

Byerly Shakari, University of California, Los Angeles: Black Public Opinion, Public Policy, and Black Politics: Lessons from California

Ciara Sterbenz, University of California, Los Angeles: Diversionary Diplomacy: Executive Appeals to Historical Memory in Nationalist Standoffs

Bianca Vicuña, University of California, Los Angeles: Intersectional Politics? How Women Negotiate Their Identities and Why It Matters Politically

Fernando David Márquez Duarte, University of California, Riverside: Jawil, Land, and Relationality: The Cucapáh Indigenous Peoples’ Political Thought and Self-Determination

Salah Ben Hammou, University of Central Florida: The Varieties of Civilian Praetorianism & the Politics of Post-Coup Regime Development

Erika Ricci, University of Central Florida: The Militancy Cycle: Exploring Violent Extremism Through the Italian Red Brigades

Barry Smith, University of Central Florida: Public Influence on Small Wars

Arwa Awan, University of Chicago: To Make the World Our Own: The Marxist Critique of Alienation in Anticolonial Thought

Winston Berg, University of Chicago: The Infrastructure of Conspiracy Theories

Bianca DiGiovanni, University of Chicago: Police Union Influence, Slowdowns, and Racial Inequities in Plea Bargaining

Silvia Fedi, University of Chicago: Gynaikokratia: Women, Power, and Regime in Ancient Greece

Anjali Mohan, University of Chicago: Structures of Injustice: Reframing Responsibility for Transnational Harms

LaTerricka Smith, University of Chicago: Weapons of Mass Construction: Liberation Prescience as a Praxis of Freedom

David Yanowski, University of Chicago: The Profitable Truth Versus the Concealed Truth: Hobbes’s Dispute with Dionysius; On the Political Presentation of Thucydides

Yorkow Oppon-Acquah, University of Cincinnati: Marijuana Politics: Elite Racial Discourse, Socio-Economic (In)Justice, and Attitudes Towards Marijuana Legislation

M. Aynal Haque, University of Connecticut: Mitigating Climate Change: Cross-National Variation in Policy Ambitions

Brooks Kirchgassner, University of Connecticut: Enemies of the State: Poor Whites, Black Power, and the Politics of Solidarity

Matthew Parent, University of Connecticut: Shaping the Battlefield: Assessing the Symbolic Role of Military Technologies

Walker Chavatel, University of Florida: Built from Breakdown: Political Insight After Crisis and the Personal Dimension of Political Thought

Ningxin Dong, University of Florida: The NGO Collaborations in Complex Humanitarian Emergencies: Lessons Learned from the Haiti, China, and Japan Earthquakes

Nicholas Dzoba, University of Florida: The Forgotten Executive: An Exploration of the US President as an Agent of Republican Freedom

Graham Gallagher, University of Florida: The Archetypes of Reaction: An Approach to Reaction as Shared Mythopoetic Narrative

Denise Quinlan, University of Florida: The Political Economy of Foreign Direct Investments

Amanzhol Bekmagambetov, University of Georgia: At the Media Crossroads: Authoritarian Resilience in Central Asia

Spencer Hardin, University of Georgia: Access, Influence, and the Amending Process: Examining the Role of Interest Groups in Congressional Lawmaking

Pierre Naoufal, University of Georgia: The Effects of Competitive and Uncompetitive Clientelism on Generalized Trust in Lebanon

Austin Petrie, University of Georgia: The People’s Lawyer: State Attorneys General and the Impact of Selection Systems

Grace Pittman, University of Georgia: Strength in Numbers: Legislative Effectiveness, Procedural Advantage, and Intraparty Factions in the House

Matthew Rains, University of Georgia: Institutionalized Abuse: State Incentivization and Oppressive Human Rights Violation

Brian Starks, University of Georgia: Investigating 21st Century Proliferation Patterns

Gathoni Kimondo, University of Houston: Women’s Political Representation in Africa: Political Violence Targeting Women, Political Parties and Policy Interventions

Sarah Mallams, University of Houston: Senate Prerogatives: A Historical-Institutional Analysis

John McDonald, University of Houston: Relativism and the Threat to Western Liberalism: Perspectives of Strauss, Berlin, and MacIntyre

Rita Naoum, University of Houston: Internationalization of Internal Disputes: A Domestic Strategy

Ting-wei Weng, University of Houston: In Defense of Political Independents: Understanding the Role and Impact of Pure Independents in American Politics

Rebecca Clendenen, University of Illinois at Chicago: Politics of Space and Pathways of Resistance Contested National Identities in Landscapes of Turkey

Jair Moreira, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign: Does the Caged Bird Sing? Outgroup Empathy and the Politics of Cooperation

Tracee Saunders, University of Iowa: Inaccessible by Design? Administrative Burden and the Politics of Medicaid Take-Up

Guan Wang, University of Maryland, College Park: Divided We Stand: Partisan Control and US Foreign Policy

Fatih Ümit Çetin, University of Massachusetts Amherst: Regime Contestation and Racial Enfranchisement in the United States: From the Progressive Era to The Voting Rights Act of 1965

Muhammad Faraz, University of Massachusetts Amherst: Judicial Ideology and Legal Outcomes in Pakistan

Marcelo Mesquita Leal, University of Massachusetts Amherst: Making Sense of Cybersecurity: Cyber Threats and Strategic Narratives in National Security and Foreign Policy

Benjamin Nolan, University of Massachusetts Amherst: The Production of Dignity: Ideological Creativity for and Against Empire

Signe Louise Predmore, University of Massachusetts Amherst: Fearless Girls and Winning Women: The Politics of Inclusion in Finance after 2008

Luz Maria Sanchez Duque, University of Massachusetts Amherst: The Politics of Redress in Violent Democracies: Exile and Transborder Reparations in Colombia

Ricardo Vega León, University of Massachusetts Amherst: Capitalist Abolitionism: Racial Capitalism After the End of Slavery

Susanne Westerhoff-Uprety, University of Massachusetts Amherst: Work in the Digital Era: The Economic, Social, and Political Facets of Popular Computer-Centered Automation Technologies in the US Labor Environment.

Kathryn Butterworth, University of Massachusetts, Boston: Notions of Sovereignty: European Union Involvement in Independence-Seeking Regions

Margaret Gatonye, University of Massachusetts, Boston: Gender, Socioeconomic Marginalization, and Grassroot Organizing in Kenyan Fisheries

Muhammed (Mahdi) Hasan, University of Massachusetts, Boston: Governing Al: Creation of Norms and Delegation of Authority

Linda Holcombe, University of Massachusetts, Boston: Conflicted Resources: Revising the Concept of ‘Conflict’ Resources Through the Case of Central Africa

Dennis Jjuuko, University of Massachusetts, Boston: Engaging Survivors in Transnational Justice Governance: Global, National, and Local Perspectives from Uganda’s Post LRA Insurgency

Ellen Busolo Milimu, University of Massachusetts, Boston: Analysis of Sports in Kenya’s in Playing Offside: An Intersectional Informal Sector

Denise Muro, University of Massachusetts, Boston: Navigating Narratives: Immigrant and Refugee Lived Experiences, Counternarratives, and Social Connections in an Era of Securitization of Migration

Anatole France Pitroipa, University of Massachusetts, Boston: Building Tolerance as a Strategy to Mitigate Violent Extremism: The Contribution of UFC to Social Cohesion in Dori

Elly Rostoum, University of Massachusetts, Boston: Balancing Sino-American Hegemony in the Era of Critical and Emerging Technologies: Economic Statecraft as Grand Strategy and Its Implications on US National Security Anxieties from Chinese FDI and the Instrumentalization of the Firm

Rebecca Yemo, University of Massachusetts, Boston: Advancing Women’s Rights in Sub-Saharan Africa: The Role of The United Nations Universal Periodic Review

Paul Yoo, University of Massachusetts, Boston: Neoliberal Youth Security Governance: South Korean Youth, Governmentality, Power Relations, and Shaping Youth (In)Security

Carl Graefe, University of Minnesota: New Spaces: On Territoriality in an Expansive Era

Hannah Kim, University of Minnesota: Understanding Affective Polarization: The Impact of Political Engagement and Elite Polarization

Hannah McVeigh, University of Minnesota: Who’s Got the Power? Putting Individual and Institutional Power in Their Collective Place

İbrahim Öker, University of Minnesota: The Politics of Authoritarian Social Welfare Provision: Why Do Some Autocracies Develop Generous Welfare States?

Pongsakorn Suwanpong, University of Minnesota: Dollar’s Preeminence: The Political Economy of Exchange Rate Policy in the Twenty-First Century

Mahesh Archaya, University of Mississippi: “Mark My Words”: Measuring Personality of Global Leaders

William Acosta, University of Missouri: From Conflict to Cooperation: Settlements, Alliances, and Lasting Peace

Juhyun Bae, University of Missouri: The Gig Economy and Social Insurance Systems: Public Opinion, Policy Analysis, and Policy Design

John Bonilla, University of Missouri: Peacemaking Referendums in the Global South: Assessing Analytic Narratives on the Strategic Inclusion of Citizens to End Interstate Conflicts in South Africa and Colombia

Intae Choi, University of Missouri: Three Essays on Employee Turnover in Public Service

Jiwoong Jung, University of Missouri: Professionalism in Urban Public Administration: Career Paths, Motivations, and Local Government Preferences for Professional City Managers

Yujin Jung, University of Missouri: Populism and Political Ideologies in Comparative Perspective

Yu Bin Kim, University of Missouri: Reversing Perspectives: Rebel Diplomacy, External Support, and Civil War Outcome

Heather Kopp, University of Missouri: Foreign Policy Issue Ownership, Interstate Conflict, and US Vote Intention

Zachary Lang, University of Missouri: The States Strike Back: An Examination of Multistate Litigation Against the Federal Government

Hang Qi, University of Missouri: Immigration and Social Welfare: Political Institutions and Personal Interactions

Omer Faruk Sen, University of Missouri: Challenges to the American Dollar Hegemony

Victor Shin, University of Missouri: The Party Brand and Economic Voting

Chris Wielga, University of Missouri: State Preemption of Land Use Regulations: The Case of Accessory Dwelling Units

Joseph Maestas, University of Nebraska-Lincoln: What’s Next: How and Why States Strengthen Treaties Through Deepening Commitments

Lukasz Niparko, University of Nebraska-Lincoln: Digital Kallipolis: Being Homo Sentients in a Post-Digital World

Keely Eshenbaugh, University of Nevada, Reno: The Preferences of Trade Unions in the United Kingdom’s 2016 Brexit Referendum: An Evolving Actor

Jordyn Green, University of Nevada, Reno: Improving School Improvement: Examining Coordination, Collaboration, and Learning During State Implementation of the Every Student Succeeds Act

Courtney Blackington, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill: Polarizing Protests: Democratic Backsliding and Mobilization

Colin Case, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill: Candidate Differentiation in Primary Elections

Nicolás de la Cerda Coya, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill: Beyond Partisanship: Political Identities in Comparative Perspective

Tyler Ditmore, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill: Fiscal Politics in an Era of Economic Interdependence: Three Essays on the Domestic Politics of International Taxation

J Ehlinger, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill: Social Networks and Party Identity

Isabel Laterzo, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill: From Campaigns to Policy: Politicians, Law Enforcement, and Citizen Insecurity in Latin America

Martin Naunov, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill: Stereotypes, Subtypes, and Stratification: Unpacking the Influence of Gender and Sexuality in Politics

Silviya Nitsova, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill: Oligarchs, Politicians, and the Public: Examining Oligarchic Networks of Influence and Public Attitudes Towards the Superrich in Post-Euromaidan Ukraine

Emily Ommundsen, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill: Investing in Expertise: The Role of Staff in Strengthening Congressional Capacity

Brian Overington, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill: Arid/Arable? How Climate & Geography Influenced a Political Divergence in Europe and the MENA Region

Philip Warncke, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill: Cohesion, Dimensionality, and Signals—Understanding Mass Ideology in Applied Contexts

Kevin Bustamante, University of Notre Dame: Competition, Collusion, and Inclusion: Racial Equality in Elite International Clubs

Joseph Clarkson, University of Notre Dame: Hermann Heller and the Problem of Political Unity

Jessala Grijalva, University of Notre Dame: From Binary to Multidimensional: Reframing Latino Acculturation in Political Science

Alec Hahus, University of Notre Dame: Capital and Conflict: The Effects of Power Politics on International Finance

Seaver Holter, University of Notre Dame: Plato’s Tragic Politics: Reading the Republic as Tragedy

Shana Scogin, University of Notre Dame: Rebuilding the Foundations: Local Governance and Democratic Citizenship in Post-Earthquake Nepal

Mary Shiraef, University of Notre Dame: The Politics of Identity Transmission in and After Communism

Natan Skigin, University of Notre Dame: Challenging Stigma from Below: How Human Rights Movements Contest Repressive States and Shape Democratic Citizenship

Jacob Turner, University of Notre Dame: War in Words: Law, Order, and Iron Fist Politics in Brazil

Randell Yi, University of Notre Dame: Making US Security Cooperation Work: Organizational Capital in Aid Provision

Sina Azodi, University of South Florida: Iran’s Nuclear Program: A Struggle for Security and Modernity

Shomik Chakrabarti, University of South Florida: The Overheated World: Crisis Politics and Neoliberal Inertia

Arman Mahmoudian, University of South Florida: The Cooperation of Russia and Iran-led Shia Axos; Its Nature and Implications for the US Strategy in the Middle East

Rachel Castellano, University of Washington: Promises and Pitfalls: Civil Society’s Imperfect Efforts to Address Trafficking and Displacement

Rutger Ceballos, University of Washington: Managing Emancipation: Land, Labor, and the Reconstruction of the American Racial Capitalist State

Christopher Colligan, University of Washington: Identity and Legitimacy: Military Innovation from Scurvy to Agent Orange

Megan Erickson, University of Washington: Dynamics of Violence, Governance, and Change: How Violent Non-State Actors Adapt to Shifting Social Orders

Calvin Garner, University of Washington: The Dictator as Discriminating Monopsonist; and the Rally Effect in Wartime Ukraine

Ryan Goehrung, University of Washington: Dynasts or Disruptors: Gender and Representation in the Philippines Legislature

Zhaowen Guo, University of Washington: Under Watchful Eyes: How Surveillance Technologies Collect and Disseminate Information for the State

Sebastian Daniel Ernst Mayer, University of Washington: No More “Sticking to Sports”: Black Athlete Activism and Its Political Consequences

Travis Nelson, University of Washington: The Currency of Crisis: Empathy and Identity in Political Economy

Waleed Salem, University of Washington: Seeing Like a Court: Courts, Transition Politics and Democratization

Hanjie Wang, University of Washington: Determinants of Transportation Electrification Policy at Local, Cross-Municipal, and Cross-National Levels

Nicolas Wittstock, University of Washington: The Political Economy of American Clean Energy Innovation

Dennis Young, University of Washington: Thoughtlessness in the Age of Homeland Security: Race, Bureaucracy, and the Making of Modern Immigration Enforcement

Kennia Coronado, University of Wisconsin-Madison: Latinos and Presidential Elections in the Age of Immigration Surveillance: La Participación Política

Joorahm Kim, University of Wisconsin-Madison: Savagery, Intervention, and the Creation of International Law: Vitoria, Grotius, and Hobbes on the “New World”

Dillon Laaker, University of Wisconsin-Madison: Discrimination in an Era of Globalization: The Politics of Rules of Origin and Preferential Liberalization

Ned Littlefield, University of Wisconsin-Madison: Theorizing the Dynamics of Civilian Control Over Law Enforcement Militarization: A Case Study of the 2018 Federal Intervention in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Rochelle Snyder, University of Wisconsin-Madison: Personal Ends, Partisan Means: Constituent Service and Representation in the United States Congress

Noah Stengl, University of Wisconsin-Madison: The Meaning of Land in Nineteenth-Century American Political Thought

Valeria Umanets, University of Wisconsin-Madison: Political Participation of Women in the Soviet Union and Russia: From State-Sponsored Feminism to Putin’s Machismo

Thomas Worth, University of Wisconsin-Madison: A War of Their Own: Masculinity, Femininity, and the Gender Gap in Support for War

Hohyun Yoon, University of Wisconsin-Madison: Emotion and Coercive Credibility: The Strategic Role of Anger in International Crises

Xinzhi Zhao, University of Wisconsin-Madison: Another Path to Enlightenment: David Hume and Adam Smith on Philosophers and the Public

ChaeEun Cho, Vanderbilt University: Three Essays on Economic Sanctions

Haonon Dong, Vanderbilt University: Essays on Power Shifts, Information Uncertainty, and International Conflict

Meg Frost, Vanderbilt University: Trusting Law Enforcement in Militarized Contexts: Evidence from Mexico

Ryan Hill, Vanderbilt University: Essays Relating to Power Differentials and Policy Alignment between States in the International System

Sara Kirshbaum, Vanderbilt University: Pathways to Participation

Mellissa Meisels, Vanderbilt University: Essays on Money and Campaigns in Congressional Elections

Emily Noh, Vanderbilt University: Civic Effects of Education Models

Mariana Ramirez Bustamante, Vanderbilt University: Public Opinion Dynamics Around the Illegal Co-option of Power by Narco-linked Candidates and Organizations

Julia Pusateri, Washington State University: Domestic Violence Protection Orders in Civil Court: An Examination of Judicial Selection and Court Specialization on Case Management

Sedef Topal, Washington State University: Pathways to Cooperation: A Relational Theory of Rebel Alliance Formation

John Bulat, Wayne State University: The Connection Between Fragmentation and Traffic Stops

Toycia Collins, Wayne State University: Getting Away with Murder? The Problem of Solving Homicides in Jamaica

Stacey Deering, Wayne State University: The Effects of Representation on Student Educational Outcomes in Wayne County, MI

Layton Mandle, Wayne State University: The Fifth Long Cycle: American Deconcentration and the Coming War for Global Leadership?

Jennifer Seech Seramur, Wayne State University: The New American Conspiracism: The Conspiracy Mentality and the Consequences for American Democracy

Da’Von Boyd, Yale University: The Black Spirit: Theorizing Political Theology in the Long Civil Rights Movement

David Froomkin, Yale University: Structuring Democracy

Changwook Ju, Yale University: Essays on Quantitative Studies of International Security

Nishin Nathwani, Yale University: On the Normative Foundations of Territorial Sovereignty: A New Critical Approach

Colin Schumock, Yale University: Three Essays on Electoral Institutions

Shahana Sheikh, Yale University: Party Campaigns in the Digital Age: Theory and Evidence from India

Drew Stommes, Yale University: Armed Political Parties and Their Violence

Dana Stuster, Yale University: Great Powers, Regional Powers, and the Balance of Power in Conflict

Sam Zacher, Yale University: Rich Voters, Left Parties, and Redistribution: The Increasing Democratic Party Allegiance of Affluent Americans ■