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Sandra Alvarez
Sandra Alvarez
Title:  Doctoral Candidate
Interests:  Politics of Human Rights, Transnational Social Movements, Women of Color and Transnational Feminisms, Cultural Politics and Resistance in Colombia.

Cassie Ambutter
Cassie Ambutter
Title:  Graduate Student
Interests:  Liberalism and its limits, American religious identity, religious liberty, American constitutional law, Mormonism, democracy, polygamy, feminist theories, secularism, religion as a contemporary civilizing practice, practices of unfreedom and unreason.

Steven Araujo
Steven Araujo
Title:  PhD Candidate
Interests:  Egalitarian forms of political organizing, horizontalism in Argentina, social movements, race and ethnicity, intersectional analysis, anarchism, community.

Sara Benson
Sara Benson
Title:  Doctoral Candidate
Interests:  U.S. political history, prison studies and global political economy of prisons, prison labor and the politics of work, feminist theories, feminist critical race studies, International Relations and feminist epistemologies.

Katherine Blakeley
Katherine Blakeley
Title:  Graduate Student
Interests:  Politics of war, nationalisms and violence, discourse analysis, food and environmental politics and policy, political economy.

Christine Bunting
Christine Bunting

Alicia Dolan
Alicia Dolan
Title:  Doctoral Candidate

Theresa Enright
Theresa Enright
Title:  Doctoral Candidate

Benjamin Fribley
Benjamin Fribley

Christine Goffredo
Christine Goffredo
Title:  Graduate Student
Interests:  Indigenous Binational Social Movements, Latin American social movements, Fair Trade, Anti-Globalization, Gentrification/Redevelopment in the United States and its codification, Network Analysis, Relational Sociology.

Wolfgang Grundinger
Wolfgang Grundinger
Title:  Exchange Graduate Student
Interests:  Energy Policy, Environmental Policy, Democracy and Interest Groups Research

Katherine Hamilton
Katherine Hamilton

Sandra Harvey
Sandra Harvey

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Paul Held
Title:  Doctoral Candidate
Interests:  Financial speculation, political theology, monetary and banking policy, reparative justice, theories of rhetoric

Alexander Hirsch
Alexander Hirsch
Interests:  Democratic theory, transitional justice studies and the politics of reconciliation, jurisprudence and sovereignty, political economy, indigenous, and postcolonial politics, history of social and political thought.

Don Kingsbury
Don Kingsbury
Title:  Doctoral Candidate
Interests:  Contemporary European and Latin American Critical Theory; Constituent Power; Politics of the Bolivarian Revolution; Ethics, Violence and Empire.

Jan Kotowski
Jan Kotowski
Title:  Doctoral Candidate
Interests:  Theories of nationalism & patriotism, particularly in the American context. Religious fundamentalism. Middle Eastern studies. International Relations.

Sarah Mak
Sarah Mak
Title:  Graduate Student
Interests:  International relations, Comparative East Asian politics and political thought - particularly in 20th Century China, culture and identity, anti-colonial and postcolonial nationalism.

Corina McKendry
Corina McKendry
Title:  Doctoral Candidate
Interests:  Global political economy, environmental politics, and the politics of urban greening.

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Anais Miodek
Title:  Graduate Student
Interests:  U.S. politics; social welfare programs and policy; liberal ideology and practice; race and gender inequality; the role of the Supreme Court in systemic change.

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Marco Mojica
Title:  Doctoral Candidate
Interests:  Latin American politics, populism and its cultural dimensions, politics of memory, Nicaraguan and Sandinista politics, Transnational migrant politics.

Shawn Nichols
Shawn Nichols
Title:  Graduate Student
Interests:  International Relations, Political†Economy†(especially related to development and†economic†rights), European Union politics, and human rights

Milad Odabaei
Milad Odabaei

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Charles Olney
Title:  Graduate Student

Lydia Osolinsky
Lydia Osolinsky
Title:  Graduate Student

Felicia Peck
Felicia Peck
Interests:  Environmental political theory, political ecology, American environmental politics, the environmental"movement"

Lavar Pope
Lavar Pope
Title:  Doctoral Candidate
Interests:  Urban Politics, Technology, and Modern Political Theory

Courtney Rivard
Courtney Rivard
Title:  Doctoral Candidate

Sarah Romano
Sarah Romano
Title:  Doctoral Candidate
Interests:  Latin American comparative politics, transnational collective action, politics of privatization and water management, participatory democracy.

Andrew Sivak
Andrew Sivak
Title:  Graduate Student
Interests:  Nuclear violence, mondialization and the New International, war, gonzo radicalism, ethics before ontology, absurd in-existentialism or the politics of everyday life, postmodernism after 9/11, and Bob Dylan.

Eric Snickars
Eric Snickars
Interests:  Law and Politics, American Political Development, U.S. Constitutional Law.

Jasmine Syedullah
Jasmine Syedullah
Interests:  Exploring the intersections of theology, performance and politics in social change theory and praxis. Development of social movements as sites of the embodied ritualized production on new knowledge.

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Maureen Turnbull
Title:  PhD
Interests:  Participatory democracy, social movements, Latin American politics, the politics of feminism, and transdisciplinary praxis

Mary Virginia Watson
Mary Virginia Watson
Title:  Doctoral Candidate
Interests:  Culture and identity, race, discourse analysis