Graduate Students – Ph.D. Program
Recent Dissertations
Adams, Paul (Ph.D., 2008)
The Europeanization of the Social Partnership: The Future of Neo-Corporatism in Austria and Germany
Advisor: Einhorn
Aksoy, Zuhre (Ph.D., 2005)
The Conservation of Crop Genetic Diversity in Turkey: An Analysis of the Linkages Between Local, National and International Level
Advisor: Haas
Almeida Rodriguez, Manuel (Ph.D., 2006)
Reading the 'Quaderni del carcere': The political project of Antonio Gramsci
Advisor: Xenos
Arnold, Christine (Ph.D., 2002)
How Two-Level Entrepreneurship Works: A Case Study of Ratcheting Up a Europe-wide Employment Strategy
Advisor: Einhorn
Betancourt-Serrano, Alex (Ph.D., 2006)
Living politics by awakening history: A critical approach to Walter Benjamin through Sigmund Freud (Slavoj Zizek, Ernesto Laclau)
Advisor: Xenos
Blanshei, Matthew (Ph.D., 2000)
Laying Down the Law for the Historical Imagination: Kant, Schiller, and Nietzsche
Advisor: Xenos
Cavell, Colin (Ph.D., 2001)
The National Endowment for Democracy and the Export of "Made-In-America" Democracy
Advisor: Mills
DeMary, Michele (Ph.D., 2002)
High Courts in a System of Separated Powers: Conflict or Cooperation? A view from Massachusetts
Advisor: Goldman
Erickson, Christopher (Ph.D., 2006)
The Shield if Achilles and the War on Terror: Ekphrasis as Critique
Advisor: Der Derian
Ewald,
Alec (Ph.D., 2005)
American Voting: The Local Character of Suffrage in the United States
Advisor: Brigham
Fairman, Peter (Ph.D., 2001)
The Politics of Privatization During the Reagan and Clinton Years
Advisor: Mainzer
Gaitenby, Alan (Ph.D., 2000)
Doctrine as Data
Advisor: Brigham
Hatcher, Laura (Ph.D., 2002)
Conservative Cause Advocacy
Advisor: Brigham
Jones, Mary (Ph.D., 2002)
The Priesthood of the Believer in the Public Square: Religious Conviction, Political Choice, and Fundamentalism in the Southern Baptist
Advisor: Sedgwick
Lathrop, Douglas (Ph.D., 2001)
Political Consulting and The Legislative Process
Advisor: Mileur
Lorenz, Aaron (Ph.D., 2006)
Lyrics and the Law: The Constitution of Law in Music
Advisor: Brigham
Marcoux, Christopher (Ph.D., 2008)
Designing Multilateral Environmental Agreements
Advisor: Haas
Marusek, Sarah (Ph.D, 2008)
Politics of the Parking Space: Rights, Property, and Identity
Advisor: Brigham
Mott, Margaret (Ph.D., 2002)
Learning to Confess: The Inquisition in the Age of Reforms
Advisor: Xenos
Moulton, C. Deaun (Ph.D., 2000)
Some Political Implications for American Political Thought of Images of Nature found in Hispanic Literature of the Southwest
Advisor:
King
Mullen Dobson, Laura (Ph.D., 2005)
Cultivating Participatory Democracy at the Grassroots: A Case Study in Middle Belt Nigeria
Advisor: Peterson
O'Connor, Veronica (Ph.D., 2007)
Cosmopolitanism and Abjection in Montesquieu’s Persian Letters
Advisor: Xenos
O'Meara, Robert (Ph.D., 2006)
Myths & Realities of the Role of Officialdom in Economic Development in Ukraine: Two Case Studies in Small Business
Advisor: Sulzner
Perry, Luke (Ph.D., 2007)
Rethinking Democratic Development in the Former Soviet Union
Advisor: Sedgwick
Rampulla, Alicia (Ph.D., 2005)
The State, The Noncitizen, and the Challenge of Bilateral Legitimacy in the United States, Canada and Australia
Advisor: Brigham
Rego, Paul (Ph.D., 2006)
American Ideal: Theodore Roosevelt and the Redefinition of American Individualism
Advisor: Mileur
Root, Rebecca (Ph.D., 2006)
The Sticking Point: Human Rights and Civil-Military Relations in Latin America
Advisor: Wiarda
Sandy-Bailey, Lonce (Ph.D., 2006)
Completing the Progressive Debate: The Anti-Progressives and American Reform
Advisor: Mileur
Sims, Kimberly (Ph.D., 2002)
Political Association and Individual Advantage: Aristotle, Adam Smith and the Problem of Exchange
Advisor:
Xenos
Smith, Stephen (Ph.D., 2003)
Confronting Our Enlightenment Apprehensions: Morally informed action and Our Capacity for Progress in America
Advisor:
Sedgwick
Sokoloff, William (Ph.D., 2002)
Toward a Critical Ethic: Hobbes, Kant, and Nietzsche on Feelings and Foundations
Advisor:
Xenos
Spanakos, Anthony (Ph.D., 2000)
The Privatization of Citizenship: Race and Democracy in the Dominican Republic and Brazil
Advisor:
Wiarda
Spokany-Dagnes, Alison (Ph.D., 2003)
White Noises: The Political Uses of Internet Technology by Right-Wing Extremist Groups
Advisor:
Mileur
Tan, Lena (Ph.D., 2007)
Disengaging from Territory: Identity, the Politics of Contestation and Domestic Political Structures India & Britain (1929-1935), and Indonesia & East Timor (1975-1999)
Advisor: Haas
Thomas, George (Ph.D., 2004)
Contesting Constitutional Meaning: The Political Constitution and the Myth of Judicial Supremacy
Advisor:
Goldman
Vazquez-Arroyo, Antonio (Ph.D., 2004)
Responsibility and Critical Theory: Responding to Suffering After Auschwitz
Advisor: Xenos
Venator-Santiago, Charles (Ph.D., 2002)
Constitutional Interpretation & Nation Building: Race and the Territorial Clause, 1789-1900
Advisor:
Alejandro
Wiltse, David (Ph.D., 2006)
Creating A Culture of Political Giving:
Campaign Finance Reform and the Individual Contributor
Advisor: La Raja
Winstead, William (Ph.D., 2001)
Nietzsche's Imperatives
Advisor: Xenos
Woldemariam, Yohannes (Ph.D., 2006)
Critical Assessment of International Relations Theories for Managing Transboundary Water Resources: The Case of the Nile Basin
Advisor: Brigham
Wylie, Lana (Ph.D., 2003)
Comparing Canadian and American Policies to Cuba
Advisor: Wiarda
Zaino, Jeanne (Ph.D., 2004)
Poll Use and Policy-Making in the White House: 1993-2000
Advisor: Mileur
Zhdanov, Vladimir (Ph.D., 2006)
Asymmetrical Devolution
Advisor: Ryavec
